The Fiery Era of Siheyuan

Chapter 260, Meal Replacement

Kuazi drove back to the rolling mill in a "chug-chug" manner. When passing by the duty room at the west gate, Li Weiguo signaled Zheng Shan to stop.

After getting out of the car, he glanced into the duty room through the window, and found that his old man was on duty inside.

The work of a doorman is usually very leisurely. He only needs to check in and out, send and receive letters, or answer a few phone calls. Generally, there is nothing important.

No, when I took a look inside, I saw that the old man was humming a little tune with a tea mug, not to mention how leisurely he was.

"Master, how can you be so leisurely?" Li Weiguo walked in carrying the things he brought back from the grain store.

"Hey, isn't this what this job is all about? I'm free every day. Why do you have time to see me today?"

Seeing his apprentice coming, Wang Zhenhai smiled and pointed him to a stool, letting him do whatever he wanted.

Li Weiguo smiled and said: "Don't sit down anymore, Master, look what I brought you?"

As he said that, Li Weiguo casually put all the gifts he brought back on the old man's table for him to see for himself.

"Hey China, Peony, Xifeng, White Rabbit, and tea?"

The old man passed a bunch of cigarettes, wine, and candies, and finally his eyes fell on the tea bag. He picked up the tea leaves and put it in front of his nose to smell it.

"Longjing?"

"Master, experts, you can smell it."

Li Weiguo gave the old man a thumbs up, anyway, he can't smell it when he's here, any tea he drinks tastes the same, and he's an old man.

Mr. Wang smiled proudly: "Hey, that's right. I usually drink this stuff when I go to my comrades' place. I even rub them a few ounces from time to time. I'm very familiar with it."

"Well, since you know things well, I'll put them here for you."

Li Weiguo put down all his things. He didn't lack any of them. It was troublesome to carry them all the way, so he simply paid homage to his master.

Mr. Wang glanced at the things on the table, and said, "Just keep the tea and wine, forget about the cigarettes and sugar, you can take them away."

The old man likes tea and wine, he is not interested in anything else, and he only smokes a small amount of cigarettes, so he waved his hand to let him take it away.

Li Weiguo shrugged, as if it didn't matter: "Okay, then you drink first, and I'll leave first. I'll bring you some food later, and don't run away."

He raised his hand and looked at the time. It was almost lunch time, so he might as well help the old man bring lunch over on the way to save him from running back and forth.

"Okay, you take my meal ticket and money ticket." The old man said and was about to pay him the ticket.

However, how could Li Weiguo ask for his meal ticket? He just waved his hand, picked up the old man's lunch box and cigarettes and candy, and left.

"No need, Master, I have it here, let's go."

"Hey, kid." The old man shook his head and smiled helplessly.

After returning to the office of the security department, putting down his things, and taking a sip of water, Li Weiguo took his own and the old man's lunch box and called Zheng Shan to a cafeteria together.

When I arrived at the cafeteria, it was still early, only 11:30, and there was no one there, only seven or eight clerical workers from the factory building were queuing up, and they all sneaked out early to eat.

When it was Li Weiguo's turn, Liu Lan, who was in charge of serving food, asked enthusiastically: "Chief Li, what do you want to eat?"

Li Weiguo looked down at the window, tsk. He didn't know how to answer her.

During this period of time, the food in the factory has dropped by more than one grade. The big pot dishes are basically stewed potatoes with cabbage and radish stewed with cabbage, and the meat is basically gone.

The staple food is wild vegetable dumplings and multi-faceted steamed buns, which are mixed with many alternative foods.

What is a food substitute?

Food substitutes are animals, plants, chemical compounds, etc. that people use to satisfy their hunger, but are not used as food in normal years.

Food substitutes fall into four main categories:
The first category is crop food substitutes, which include leaves, stalks, and roots of rice, wheat, corn, and sorghum, as well as corn husks, corn cobs, rice husks, leaves, stems, and roots of potato crops, etc.

The second category is wild food substitutes, which are commonly known as wild vegetables, such as elm leaves, bark, wild amaranth, acacia leaves, etc.

The third category is phytoplankton such as chlorella and Azolla.

The fourth category refers to synthetic food substitutes, such as artificial meat, leaf protein, etc., which are called refined food substitutes.

Since ancient times, people have had the habit of collecting and eating food substitutes during times of famine.

Starting from November 11 this year, in view of the severe situation, superiors and the Academy of Sciences have also issued a call, hoping that the masses will actively collect and make food substitutes to tide over the difficulties together.

As a large factory with [-] people directly under the Ministry of Industry, the rolling mill naturally responded to the country's call and actively participated.

Today, more than a dozen canteens in the rolling mill have gradually replaced some of the staple foods with food substitutes to provide daily supplies to the workers.

These wild vegetable dumplings and multi-faced steamed buns made with meal replacement foods are very filling, but the taste is really not very good.

After all, a meal replacement is just a meal replacement, it can only fool the stomach, it cannot really replace the staple food, nor can it provide any calories and nutrition.

These things made Li Weiguo, who came from later generations, feel a little bit pained.

It's not hypocritical, but I have never experienced such hardships, so I am somewhat uncomfortable.

After looking at it for a long time, I felt that everything was the same, so I simply didn't choose, so I passed the two lunch boxes directly to the front.

"Each lunch box has two wild vegetable dumplings and one stewed potato with cabbage, thank you."

"Okay, wait a moment."

Liu Lan's movements were very nimble, and she put the food into the lunch box in two or three strokes, and also helped to close the lid by the way.

After paying the corresponding meal ticket and saying thank you, Li Weiguo took the lunch box and prepared to leave.

At this moment, Silly Zhu stuck his head out from the window inside: "Hey, Wei Guo, wait a minute."

"What's the matter, Brother Zhu?" Li Weiguo asked.

Sha Zhu rubbed his hands, and said embarrassedly: "Then what, it's what we two talked about yesterday."

When Li Weiguo saw what he meant, he suddenly realized, one hundred catties of sweet potatoes, remember.

"You'll finish your work in a while and go to the security department. I'll wait for you there."

"Hey, I'm done. I'll clean up. I'll be there in a minute."

Silly Zhu took off his apron while talking, it seemed that he couldn't wait.

Li Weiguo had prepared the food, and Zheng Shan, who was in line next to him, had also prepared the food. Just as he was about to find a seat and sit down to eat, Li Weiguo stopped him and told him not to eat in a hurry and to follow him.

Zheng Shan was puzzled, but he followed along obediently with his lunch box.

After leaving the cafeteria, the two went straight back to the security department.

After taking Zheng Shan back to his office and closing the door, Li Weiguo relied on the cover of his desk to take out a lunch box from the space static warehouse.

The lunch box is full of a box of stewed pork head meat. Li Weiguo asked Sha Zhu to help stew it when he was free. He didn't finish it, and it has been stored in the warehouse of Space Station. Now there are still five or six boxes.

The lid of the lunch box was opened, and when it was placed on the table, the aroma of the meat was overflowing, rushing towards the face.

"Hey, section chief, you still have this good thing."

"It smells so good. Gulu~"

Zheng Shan smelled the smell of meat, stared at the box of braised pork head meat, couldn't move his eyes, and swallowed wildly.

He almost couldn't remember what the meat tasted like. Anyway, he hadn't bought any fresh meat since the market stopped supplying it in July.

Li Weiguo smiled and said: "Okay, sit down and eat. Let's eat something good today to improve the food."

"Eh."

Zheng Shan was overjoyed, and quickly sat down, opened his lunch box and started.

The two of them each picked up a piece of fat braised pork head with chopsticks, and put it into their mouths happily.

Hey, this taste is indescribably beautiful.
The pork head meat is moderately fat and rich in braised flavor. It melts in the mouth, moist and refreshing. I have to say that Shazhu's craftsmanship is still a little bit good.

After eating a meal for seven or eight minutes, only a small half of the braised pork head meat in the lunch box was eaten.

Most of the lunch boxes were left, no matter how much I persuaded Zheng Shan not to move his chopsticks.

Said that he was afraid that his appetite would be spoiled and he couldn't adapt, so he only ate the cabbage stewed potatoes in his lunch box.

When Li Weiguo saw it, he simply stopped eating. He finished his meal in three times, then directly opened the lunch box of braised pork head and asked him to take it home for his family to improve.

Zheng Shan was so embarrassed that he refused repeatedly, but he couldn't defeat Li Weiguo and finally accepted it.

After eating and sending Zheng Shan away, Li Weiguo took out another box of braised pork head meat from the space, and put it in his master's lunch box.

I filled a small half of the box and stuffed the old man's lunch box full before giving up.

Now the superiors are strongly calling on the masses to actively collect and make meal replacement foods to tide over the difficulties together.

My master is a veteran soldier. He also experienced the Great Famine before liberation. He suffered very hard. He ate whatever others ate without caring at all.

If his meals were replaced, he would never be happy.

So occasionally Li Weiguo would add some meat or eggs to his meals to prevent the old man from malnutrition.

After putting away the meat, covering the lunch box, and taking the remaining half of the box of pork head meat back to the static warehouse, Li Weiguo was ready to deliver the meal to the old man.

Putting on the lunch box, as soon as I got down to the first floor, Sha Zhu came looking for him.

This kid was thinking about the hundred pounds of sweet potatoes, and he probably couldn't wait any longer.

No matter what, I just wanted to deliver food to Master, so I happened to be on my way.

So Li Weiguo took the key from the duty room, got in the car skillfully and lit the ignition, and then called Sha Zhu to get in the car.

After leaving the security department, he went straight to the west gate.

When he arrived at the gate duty room, Li Weiguo greeted the old man, put down his lunch box and left.

I'm afraid that the old man will see the meat in the lunch box and talk to him endlessly.

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