Siheyuan: There are three little cats at home

Chapter 491 Installing a telephone in the meat factory
It's just that as a newly opened factory, Xu Qing, as the factory director, has hired a lot of manpower, but he really hasn't found any dedicated loaders.

It’s not that I can’t find it, and it’s not that I’m reluctant to spend money.

But now, the factory has just started and cannot achieve a steady flow of orders every day.

The reason is not that there is no sales, but that many pigs have been confiscated.

In these days, almost no one in the city raises pigs, and they all rely on the countryside to feed them.

There are a few large-scale pig farms in communes in the suburbs of Sijiu City.

But it didn't work out, and they raised twenty or thirty pigs each to death, and when it was time for the pigs to be slaughtered, they were all turned over to the state.

Received by state-owned meat processing plants.

It is difficult for a private meat factory like Xu Qing to get a share of the pie.

He could only let Er Mazi collect it from the villagers in the countryside.

At this time, the workers in the feeding workshop heard Xu Qing's shout, immediately stopped what they were doing, ran out of the workshop, and looked at the cars of Hongxing Steel Rolling Factory No. [-] and No. [-] parked in the factory yard, which were specially used to purchase ingredients. After a quick glance, he walked into the slaughtering workshop and carried the pork stored in the freezer outside.

In the slaughtering workshop, Hui Dehai, who had been killing pigs with his apprentice early in the morning, asked his two apprentices to help him with his hands behind his back.

Twelve or three minutes later, 3 kilograms of stamped pork that passed the inspection by the quarantine officer were all loaded onto the trucks of the No. [-] and No. [-] factories.

At this time, Xu Qing took the two people from the cafeteria who had been in the office for a while, opened the door curtain and walked out. After counting the weight in person, he was sent out of the factory.

Two orders were completed in less than half an hour.

Xu Qing secretly calculated in his mind: "You can earn 120 cents per catty, and [-] yuan for [-] catties."

The huge profit made him feel happy.

This is much more profitable than selling thousands of kilograms of grain at the grain station.

However, the grain station is a long-term operation, and the demand is multiple times higher than that of pork.

Of course, pork is also in short supply these days.

But it is absolutely impossible to shake the status of food in people's hearts.

It’s okay to skip one meal of pork, but white noodles, stick noodles, and rice, which are staple foods, must be eaten every day.

After two orders were made, Xu Qing felt indescribably refreshed. After raising his hand to let the workers continue to do their own business, he turned back to the office and handed over the two bills he received today with the official seals of Red Star Factory No. [-] and Factory No. [-]. The purchase orders, receipts, etc. were all put away in the desk drawer.

Wait until the next quarter, then he can take it to the third and fifth factories to pay for the goods.

At noon, Xu Qing had lunch with workers No. [-] in the canteen that had just opened in the factory. He didn't take a break at noon. As soon as he finished his meal, he raised his hand to wipe his mouth and hurriedly rode on his motorcycle under the scorching sun. The car headed back to the city.

When setting up a meat joint factory, it is necessary to install a telephone for business contact.

In fact, it is better to buy a delivery car.

But now Xu Qing has no money, and building a meat factory consumes all the money he and Jing Hong have accumulated over the years.

I also borrowed a lot of money, so I had to buy it urgently.

Telephones can’t be installed in meat joint factories, but contacting business is one aspect.

In addition, if Er Mazi encounters anything in the countryside, it is easy to contact him if he has a phone.

Relying on writing letters and sending telegrams is too slow. However, the state has installed many telephone booths in the city this year. They can be seen everywhere on the streets. Some state-owned grocery stores and shops have also installed telephones one after another.

However, Xu Qing set up the meat factory in the suburbs. There were telephones in the commune and the soil management office in the suburbs, but he couldn't go to the commune and borrow the commune's phone.

You can't even go to the land management office to borrow someone else's work phone to use.

Furthermore, the telephone numbers of the commune and the land management office are for office use and cannot be borrowed.

After entering the city, Xu Qing first went to his own grain station, drank two cups of tea, and took a short rest.

The weather was too hot. Riding a motorcycle all the way to the city made him sweat from the sun.

Xu Xiaoya was not busy at the moment. She was fanning her elder brother with a cattail leaf fan that cost a few cents a handful and said:

"Brother, why are you back in the city at noon?"

Xu Qing smoked a cigarette, pushed Xiao Bai away from his trouser legs and said, "Wait a minute and go to the post office to install a phone for the meat factory."

After Xu Qing finished speaking, he looked up at his sister and said:

"Xiaoya, are any of your college classmates out of work recently? Are you idle at home? I haven't found an accountant at Big Brother's meat factory yet."

Xu Xiaoya frowned slightly and said, "Brother, I have to ask you this. When I graduated, all my classmates were assigned jobs by the state. I am afraid they will no longer work after they get married."

Xu Qing smoked the cigarette and said, "It's okay, don't worry. When will there be any news, please tell my sister-in-law."

Xu Xiaoya nodded her head. Seeing her elder brother drink up all the tea in the cup, she put down the fan in her hand and quickly picked up the teapot to add tea.

Seeing that his sister was the only one at the grain station, Xu Qing asked, "Xiaoya, where did your sister-in-law, Sister Wang, and Xiuying go?"

Xu Xiaoya grinned and said: "My sister-in-law and the others went to the vegetable market. There was no one there at noon. They all went to buy vegetables."

Xu Qing made a sound, took the tea cup from his sister, drank the tea, stood up and said:
"Xiaoya, then you keep an eye on the grain station alone. Brother, I'm going to the post office."

Xu Qing walked out of the grain station, got up on his motorcycle, started it, chatted a few more words with his sister standing next to him, and then walked along the street towards the post office.

Three days later, people from the post office came to the outskirts and helped Xu Qing install a phone in his office at the meat factory.

But Xu Xiaoya, the accountant in the factory, still didn't believe her.

Xu Qing didn't rush his sister, and he didn't rush to tell his wife Jinghong when he got home at night.

After all, the meat joint factory has just opened and there is not much business. We will talk about it when Xiaoya finds it for him.

Accountants these days are hard to find, let alone recruit.

First of all, as soon as accounting students in college graduate, the state will assign them jobs, and they can have an iron rice bowl.

Secondly, it was changed again. Like Xu Qing, those who choose to go into business will need an accountant as long as they set up a factory.

It is common for some retired accountants to be reemployed to their own factories.

However, Xu Qing did not get any news from his sister Xiaoya. Instead, he turned around and received a call from Er Mazi using the country commune.

"Qingzi, your cousin Jianguo and I have harvested [-] kilograms of wheat, [-] kilograms of corn, and eight black pigs in the past few days. You can arrange a car tomorrow and come down quickly to pull them."

Xu Qing heard Er Mazi's words, held the black receiver and said:
"Okay, Brother Mazi, you will wait early tomorrow morning."

Putting down the phone, Xu Qing returned to the city from the meat factory in the afternoon, found a familiar driver, and asked him to come tomorrow

As soon as daybreak, he hurried to the countryside to collect food.

He couldn't supply the car to the factory right now, but if he hired it, there would be no problem.

Anyway, if you take one trip, the price will be calculated.

At noon the next day, a cart full of wheat was delivered to the grain station warehouse.

"Third uncle, there is another car coming this afternoon."

Yan Bugui stood outside the warehouse, listening to Xu Qing who came from the meat factory, he hummed, looked at the truck full of wheat, and said with surprise:

"Xiao Qing, don't you get a lot of money from collecting this cart of food?"

Xu Qing was smoking a cigarette, and while calling to Lao Wu to ask the workers to be careful when unloading grain, he said to Yan Bugui, who was standing in the shade:

"Third uncle, that's right. New grain has arrived this year. It's impossible not to collect it. If the grain station in my city only earns the little money it sells to the state, it won't even be able to pay workers' wages."

Yan Bugui adjusted his glasses on the bridge of his nose out of habit, rolled his eyes, thought for a while, and nodded.

I think so. Selling grain for the country on behalf of the country, the profit is as thin as paper.

Without grain harvesting and processing, we simply cannot survive.

Looking at the sun that was scorching the earth, Yan Bugui wiped his forehead with a handkerchief and said:
"Xiao Qing, it's August 22 today. At the beginning of next month, I have to go back to school to teach. In your warehouse, I won't be able to come back."

Xu Qing immediately understood the meaning of Yan Bugui's words. This was asking for wages.

"Third uncle, it's okay. After you finish your work this month, you can rest in our hospital. I will send your salary directly to your home."

Hearing this, Yan Bugui felt confident and said with a smile:

"Hey, I'm not in a hurry with my salary. I'm just worried. If I leave, no one will keep an eye on your warehouse. Er Mazi, who works with you, is helping you go to the countryside to collect grain, and he can't help you take care of this place. , let me tell you in advance that if you want to hire someone again, you can find them now."

Xu Qing grinned in response and said: "Third uncle, it's okay. I don't want to stay in the meat factory all day now. This place is not far from my meat factory. I will take care of both sides."

Yan Bugui nodded and said, "That's true. If you want to hire another person, you have to pay a salary. Now you collect pigs and grain, which are all spent on money. You can save whatever you can."

Xu Qing smiled and nodded. He glanced at a worker and saw a worker carrying two bags of wheat at once. He stopped chatting with Yan Bugui and walked to the truck. He stopped the worker and said:
"Don't do it like this. You can unload slowly and take a rest when you are tired. Don't be in a hurry."

The man smiled innocently, "It's okay, shopkeeper, I can carry two bags."

Xu Qing hurriedly waved his hand to put it down quickly and said:

"I'm not worried that you can't carry it. It's mainly a truck. You'll get tired after just a few trips like this. Let's take it slow and carry one sack at a time to save some energy."

Seeing this, the man listened to Xu Qing's instructions and asked the two people next to him to carry away a sack on his shoulders.

Then he carried a sack of wheat, lowered his head, and sent it into the warehouse.

Xu Qing then left the truck and returned to Yan Bugui.

Don’t take wheat lightly, but a sack can hold 180 kilograms, so it’s not light.

Adults can carry one bag no problem, and those with strong strength can carry two bags on their shoulders for a few runs.

It seems to be more efficient than carrying a bag.

In fact, speaking of it, it is no better than carrying a bag.

Xu Qing has worked before and knows that even though it takes a lot of trips to carry a bag, it is not tiring.

And with two bags, I would be out of breath after ten or so trips.

Not to mention that people are extremely tired, and even if they rest for a while, it would be easier to carry a bag.

In more than two hours, all the grain in the truck was unloaded, and the driver was busy driving towards the commune in the countryside.

Xu Qing reached out and took out a bag of large Qianmen, and threw it to Yan Bugui. He looked at the workers who were giving them a break, and he walked to Lao Wu and told him:
"Old Wu, you can unload the next car with the third uncle of our hospital. Don't let anyone show off. It doesn't matter if the car is unloaded slower, but people must be safe."

Lao Wu hurriedly said: "Shopkeeper, don't worry, with Lao Yan and me here, nothing will go wrong."

Xu Qing nodded and warned again:

"By the way, Lao Wu, starting from tomorrow, you and your workers will come directly to the canteen of the Meat Factory for lunch. I will ask the canteen to cook more every day, and you should stop going to my aunt's house." Lao Wu knew that Xu The aunt in Qing's mouth refers to Sanhuzi's mother, and he responded:
"Okay, shopkeeper, we have no problem with whatever arrangements you make."

Xu Qing smiled, took out another pack of cigarettes, threw it to Lao Wu, turned around, got up, and headed back to the meat factory on his motorcycle.

The next morning, in more than a day, Er Mazi had brought back all the tens of thousands of catties of grain and eight black pigs that he had harvested in the countryside.

In the warehouse, there were two big piles of grain, one pile of wheat and one pile of corn.

In the breeding workshop of the meat joint factory, the eight black pigs brought in today lowered their heads and ate the bran in the trough.

Xu Qing stood in the breeding workshop, not feeling happy at all. He frowned and smoked, feeling very worried.

There is not much food, but the pig harvest is too little.

Hongxing Steel Rolling Plant No. [-] and No. [-] require [-] kilograms of pork every day.

Except for weekends, I need [-] pounds a week.

Even though Xu Qing used his ability to portion the pork every night, he could only barely serve it.

If he were to supply pork to the other branches, he would not be able to collect pigs at this speed.

How could he not worry.

After leaving the breeding workshop, Xu Qing returned to the office, sat behind his desk, thought for a moment, and looked at the radar watch on his wrist.

Seeing that it was almost noon, I called the commune in my hometown.

Call the post office first and ask the operator to transfer you there.

It's a bit troublesome, but there's nothing I can do about it. It's like this these days. To make a call, you have to find an operator to help connect the switch.

After a while, there was a sound from the opposite side, and at this time, the canteen of the meat factory also opened for dinner.

Xu Qing didn't go to eat. He sat in the office, held the receiver and said to the opposite side:

"Is it Secretary Wang?"

"It's me, where are you?"

"I, Xiaoqing, it's not until noon. You should be in the commune. Let me tell you. If Er Mazi is not in the commune now, could you please tell him tonight so that in addition to collecting pigs, he can also collect sheep."

A voice came from the other end of the phone: "Oh, I know about this. Just wait. Comrade Diao didn't leave my place after watching the pigs being loaded into the car in the morning. I asked him to pick up."

Within ten seconds, Er Mazi's voice reached Xu Qing's ears along the receiver.

"Qingzi, you said you would still collect sheep, right?"

Xu Qing raised his voice and said: "Yes, we collect pigs, sheep, and grain. We collect them all. The third and fifth factories need three hundred kilograms of pork every day. Our speed is too slow."

The signal was not good, so Xu Qing had to raise his voice.

The same thing happened to Er Mazi on the other end. He said loudly: "Okay, Qingzi, I understand. I will think of a way to visit more communes in the past two days."

Xu Qing did not exchange greetings. Hearing Er Mazi's words, he put down the phone as soon as he finished talking about the business.

The fee is too high, no one dares to chat. It costs just a few cents per minute, which is equivalent to smoking a pack of big Qianmen.

Fortunately, it is in the city. If it is outside the city, province or abroad, the price will be higher.

After making the call, Xu Qing walked out of the office and went to the canteen to eat with the workers.

There were many people in the cafeteria today, and the workers from the grain station warehouse followed Lao Wu and Yan Bugui. There were nearly NO. 20 people there, and it was noisy.

However, eating Xu Qing doesn't cost much. The food is taken directly from the warehouse at a cost price. There is no meat, and it is not enough for external supply, so how can it be eaten.

But lard is used for cooking. If you add a little bit of pork liver and lungs to the stir-fried dishes, the taste will be quite good.

As for most of the pig offal, Xu Qing used his ability to buy them all to small vendors who make fried liver and braised pork.

Although the price is not as good as pork, it is still profitable to sell it.

For Xu Qing, who is short of money, every point he can sell is worth one point.

At present, he not only has to maintain the normal operation of the grain station warehouse, but also runs the meat factory. Not to mention anything else, the workers' wages alone are a lot of money.

What's more, Er Mazi still needs capital to collect grain, pigs and sheep in the countryside.

Not long after, most of Xu Qing's several thousand yuan had already gone out.

There is no shortage of grain, but the pigs in the breeding workshop can still be counted at a glance.

Hui Dehai took advantage of the meal time to say to Xu Qing:

"Director Xu, please hurry up and collect the pigs in our factory. You can only kill a few pigs a day, which is similar to the half-day shift I used to work in a state-owned factory. This is not acceptable!"

Xu Qing chewed the steamed bun mixed with stick noodles in his mouth, swallowed it and said:
"Master Hui, I know the situation you are talking about. It was only before the end of the year before last year that the country changed its policy. There were not many households raising pigs in the countryside. I just had a phone call with Er Mazi in the office. He will be there in a few days. Get some pigs.”

Hui Dehai said oh and said nothing more.

He lowered his head and sat next to Xu Qing with his disciples, eating quietly.

When it comes to being anxious, Xu Qing is more anxious than anyone else when he is the director of the factory.

Now he runs his own factory and is responsible for his own profits and losses.

This is no different than when he was the director of the No.[-] Red Star Steel Rolling Factory after graduating from college a few years ago.

The fifth factory had the government to protect it. During the changing times, it suffered a huge loss but did not close down.

But for the factory run by Xu Qing himself, the state, in addition to providing policy support to the restructured individual factory, had to decide whether the factory was running well or not.

The country doesn't care.

It all depends on personal ability.

As the head of a factory, Xu Qing has to worry about all aspects.

The most important thing for meat processing plants is the pig issue.

How can we slaughter and buy meat without pigs?

How the factory operates.

Xu Qing is already one of the top two.

Just after the reform, it was difficult to go to the countryside to collect pigs. The farms in the suburbs of Sijiu City did not raise many pigs, and they were unwilling to open their mouths and sell them to outsiders.

Even though Xu Qing usually looked calm and calm, he was actually very anxious inside.

This is like a clever woman who cannot make a meal without rice.

If there are not enough pigs to be harvested, the factory operation will be in trouble.

After lunch, Xu Qing returned to the office alone, sat on a chair, crossed his hands, took a nap, closed his eyes, and thought about whether to buy some piglets and put them in the breeding workshop for the workers to raise.

We can't just set up a factory and just sit there and wait for death.

Several pig houses in the breeding workshop are still empty, and the progress of pig collection in the countryside is slow. It is now August, and it will be more than September when the breeding pigs are giving birth. I bought a few and let the workers feed them.

There is so much bran in the warehouse of my own grain station that there is no place to store it. I have no idea of ​​setting up a pig farm, but there is no problem in raising a few pigs.

As long as there are not too many, in a year or two, there will be more people raising pigs in the countryside, and there will be no fear of not being able to harvest pigs by then.

After making up his mind, Xu Qing opened his eyes, stood up, walked to the door of the office, and opened the door completely.

It was hot and Xu Qing didn't bring the electric fan from home. It was hot and stuffy in the office at this time.

There is no way for people to stay in the factory yard at this time, so this is the only way.

Just after noon, the sky suddenly darkened, and large dark clouds covered the sky and the sun.

In no time, the wind started blowing, and thunder and lightning exploded in the sky, followed by heavy rain.

The raindrops were as big as beans, crackling, like scattering beans, hard and fast.

However, within half an hour, the rain stopped and the wind stopped, and the sun appeared in the sky again.

Xu Qing opened the window, walked out of the office, breathed in the clean air, pushed the motorcycle under the eaves that had not come before, and found a rag to wipe the motorcycle that was wet by the rain.

When Xu Qing returned to the compound in the evening, he heard Si Zhu saying in the front yard:

"Qingzi, there is a letter from Yan Guohao. He said that he had just demobilized this year and was planning to come to Sijiu City to meet our brothers and Jiefang."

Xu Qing pushed his bicycle and stood in front of Shazhu with Yan Bugui and said:
"Brother Silly Zhu, when did Brother Yan say he would come?"

"The specific date was not written in the letter. He said that he would come directly after finishing his work and buying the train ticket. Oh, by the way, he said that he would call your home first before coming."

Silly Zhu finished speaking with excitement on his face, and then said: "Qingzi, please remember to ask your grandparents and your Aunt Feng not to have Yan Guohao call your house and no one answers."

Xu Qing smiled and said, "Okay."

Back in the backyard, Xu Qing parked his motorcycle at the door of the house, opened the door curtain and entered the house. After saying hello to his grandparents, he pulled his daughter Qiaoxin, who was trying to hug him, toward the nanny who was busy in the kitchen. road:
"Aunt Feng, my college classmates may call home in the past two days. Please pay attention. My grandparents are old and hard of hearing, so they may not be able to hear clearly."

Aunt Feng, who was about to cook the dishes in the kitchen, quickly put down the lid of the pot she was about to open, turned to face Xu Qing, rubbed her blue cloth apron with her hands, and said with a smile:
"Okay, leave it to me!"

After Xu Qing finished talking about the matter, he took his daughter and sat on the edge of the Kang to chat with his grandparents.

Ai Guo and Ai Qian were not there. Last night Ai Qian said that she wanted to go back to her parents' home today. As soon as they returned to the courtyard in the afternoon, they took Hongfu and the family of three left.

Xu Qing didn't see him when he came back just now, but the third aunt told him when he was in the front yard.

Even the aunt said she had a falling out with Jia Zhang this afternoon because of two things.

Xu Qing smiled and said nothing. He was busy enough collecting grain from the grain station warehouse and collecting pigs from the meat factory.

He didn't bother to pay attention to such trivial matters in the courtyard.

Besides, Silly Zhu had even finished telling him about Yan Guohao's coming to Sijiucheng, and he didn't want to listen to the third aunt talking about sesame matters.

On the last day of the month, Xu Qinggang and Er Mazi, who had returned to the city, unloaded the [-] black pigs and five sheep that had been brought back to the city from the car under the dark night with the workers in the breeding workshop, and put them into the breeding workshop. .

The phone in his office rang.

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