Siheyuan: There are three little cats at home

Chapter 494 Quanjude plays host

Hui Dehai never thought in his life that he would be lucky enough to shake hands with a deputy director of the Public Security Bureau after retirement. His heart was filled with honor and his eyes were filled with excitement.

I feel that I am truly lucky to have met such a powerful person as Director Xu. Today, I actually followed Zhan Guang'er and talked to a high-ranking official. My heart, which had been calm for a long time, was indescribably agitated.

"Oh, Director Xu is really young and promising!"

When Hui Dehai saw Xu Qing and the senior official who had just shaken hands enter the office, he secretly sighed in his heart.

For example, he was a pig butcher. Before liberation, he learned the trade by following people on the streets in the city. After liberation, he joined a state-owned meat factory.

In an instant, his hair was all white, but he was still unpopular.

Except for his apprentice, no one has ever taken him seriously.

Before he retired, in the state-owned meat factory, he was shouted at by younger directors and cadres. Although he would call him "Master Hui", in fact, the look of contempt and disgust on his face was because of his In eyes.

I never thought that after I retired, I would meet a capable boss like Xu Qing, and his salary would be about ten yuan more than before he retired.

He was also very courteous to himself.

Hui Dehai put his hands behind his back, raised his head and glanced at the sun with cloudy eyes. He felt that he was so lucky this year, and his whole person was filled with joy from the inside out.

The sun's rays shine in all directions, emitting light and heat, and the temperature slowly rises.

After Xu Qing poured a cup of tea for Yan Guohao in the office, he smoked a cigarette and chatted for a while, then took his former college classmate to visit the factory.

Slaughtering workshop, quarantine workshop, breeding workshop and storage workshop.

In the storage workshop, there are actually only the freezers Xu Qing bought previously.

He just had the freezers moved in from the slaughterhouse two days ago.

As for the cooked meat processing workshop that was not open, Xu Qing also asked Yan Guohao to visit it.

Although there is nothing inside, it at least shows that his meat factory has begun to take shape.

Although there is still a big gap in scale with state-owned meat processing plants.

But the most difficult and arduous first step has been taken. Although the sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs.

Of course, as far as the current situation is concerned, the factory is just a rough framework, like a piece of rough jade. There are still many aspects that need to be improved and require careful polishing and carving.

However, with future development, Xu Qing will continue to improve.

After returning to the office, Xu Qing picked up a bright red plastic thermos and refilled Yan Guohao's white enamel teapot. Yan Guohao sat on the single spring sofa nearby and smoked the flue:

"Xiao Qing, your business is doing well. The grain station is located in a crowded place in the city. The meat factory that was just opened in the suburbs is also running in a stylish way. It's OK, it's really OK!"

Xu Qing turned around and smiled, putting the cork back on the spout of the thermos and saying:

"Brother Yan, I didn't plan to set up a meat joint factory this year. No, at the beginning of this year, a lot of private grain stations opened in the city, plus the state-owned stores, supply and marketing cooperatives, and department stores that were originally opened in the city. Every building sells grain. No matter how many people there are in the city, the number of places selling grain will increase. The grain station business I opened will be hard to be affected. I had no choice but to find another way."

Yan Guohao nodded, feeling that Xu Qing was right.

These days, the price of food has never been high, almost uniform across the country, and profits are not high.

When there are more sellers, there are fewer buyers.

If you want to rely on small profits but quick turnover, how can you sell?

Although Yan Guohao has never been a businessman, he has lived for decades and naturally knows the basic principles.

Xu Qing handed the white enamel tank for refilling water to Yan Guohao, then moved the old-style chair behind the desk in front of him, sat next to Yan Guohao, and said face to face:

"Brother Yan, do you really have nothing else to do when you come to Sijiu City this time?"

Yan Guohao lowered his head and blew on the hot water in the tea vat, took a sip, spit out the tea leaves that slipped into his mouth, put the tea vat on the small coffee table on his left and said:

"Nothing to do, I just made a special trip to see you, Shazhu and Jiefang, and also went to visit my old comrades. I am demobilized and have just reported to the unit assigned to me by the country. I just have a few days to rest. .”

Xu Qing held his own military green enamel jar and nodded his head slightly.

At noon, Xu Qing and Yan Guohao did not go back to the city to eat out, so they had lunch in the canteen of the meat factory.

Hui Dehai fried a plate of pig tails that he had saved over the past few days, and helped his factory director to ceremoniously entertain the high official Yan Guohao.

At the same time, under Xu Qing's arrangement, the master chef in the canteen used five kilograms of pork to stir-fry a large pot of meat and vegetables, adding pork liver, pig lungs, pig heart, etc. to it.

This is the most sumptuous meal that Xuji Meat Factory has had for the first time since its opening.

Lao Wu took the workers in the grain station warehouse and the workers in the meat factory, and they made a profit today.

Not only can’t we eat pork, but we can also eat more pigs than usual at noon.

The two quarantine officers at the quarantine station didn't have much impression of the food, but they sat aside and looked at Yan Guohao next to Xu Qing, their eyes full of admiration and envy.

First of all, he is a soldier of this era and is highly respected.

Yan Guohao was not only a soldier, but also carried a gun on the battlefield.

Secondly, they and others heard from Hui Dehai that after Yan Guohao was demobilized, he became a high official and was the deputy bureau of a certain city's public security bureau.

I feel more respect.

After all, the position of deputy bureau of a city is not something that ordinary people can hold.

This is attributed to Yan Guohao's bravery and meritorious service in killing the enemy on the battlefield.

The two quarantine officers wanted to ask Yan Guohao about his heroic deeds.

But when he saw Xu Qingzheng chatting with Yan Guohao, he didn't dare to ask.

Because they respect their factory director more.

Xu Qing had appeared in newspapers twice in the city and appeared on TV once. He had revitalized the fifth mill of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill from a mess.

Although the last thing, the two quarantine officers learned from the workers in the breeding workshop.

But they had seen Xu Qing's newspaper appearance and the news about his interview with foreign guests on TV, and they had also heard it from the director of the quarantine station.

Furthermore, as the factory manager, Xu Qing did not set up a small stove and ate the same meals as them in the cafeteria on weekdays, even today was no exception.

The most important thing is that the salary earned here is five yuan more than at the quarantine station or temporarily transferred to a state-owned meat factory.

An extra five yuan a month will earn you an extra month's salary in a year.

The two quarantine officers already like this place.

However, while Xu Qing was eating and talking to Yan Guohao, he had no idea what the quality inspectors sitting around him were thinking.After lunch, Xu Qing and Yan Guohao took a midday break in the office and went to the grain station warehouse at around five o'clock in the afternoon.

Yan Guohao heard Xu Qing tell him in the morning that the warehouse was nearby. He stood in the yard of the meat factory and saw the towering warehouse ceiling in the distance.

But when I got there, I realized that Xu Qing's warehouse was not as big as it was built.

Not only is it big, it is big, tall, and very spacious.

Lao Wu, shirtless and wearing a vest with holes, was instructing the workers to process grain.

Seeing Xu Qing bringing Yan Guohao over, he hurriedly walked to the door of the warehouse, wiped his sweat with the towel around his neck and said:

"Shopkeeper, we are busy inside. Are you?"

"Bring Brother Yan over here and take a look." After Xu Qing finished speaking, he looked at the vest on Lao Wu and said:

"Old Wu, is this vest old?"

Old Wu grinned, and his dark and lean body began to tremble slightly. His calloused hands twisted the sweat on the towel and said:
"Shopkeeper, to tell you the truth, it's been eight years."

Xu Qing nodded and said with a smile: "Why don't you buy a new one? If you let my brother Yan see you like this, he will think that I have become the boss and the landlord Huang Shiren."

Lao Wu hurriedly said: "Shopkeeper, how do you treat us all? We all know in our hearts. Let's just say lunch. I have been working for most of my life. I really don't see many shopkeepers who can be like you." Benevolence and righteousness.

The vest I am wearing is not something I am reluctant to replace, but my two boys are getting married. As the father, I have a heavy burden on my shoulders. I am worried that the money I earn from working early in the morning and working late in the day must be saved for them to start a family. "

Yan Guohao stood aside and did not interrupt, but after hearing what Lao Wu said, he expressed deep sympathy.

Raising a son is not just like this. All the money you earned in the first half of your life was for your son to watch him get married and get a wife.

For the rest of their lives, if their son and daughter-in-law are filial, they can live a comfortable life for a few years. If they are not filial, they will spend their whole lives working hard!
More than 20 minutes later, Xu Qing drove Yan Guohao back to the city on his motorcycle under the afterglow of the setting sun. He went to the private room on the second floor of Quanjude, ordered three roast ducks, four bottles of liquor, and some appetizers, and waited for Shazhu and Ma to arrive. Jiefang came over after get off work.

This was what he had agreed with Shazhu last night.

But Xu Qing lowered his head and glanced at the radar watch on his wrist. Seeing that it was not yet time for the third factory to get off work, he and Yan Guohao started to drink the snacks brought in by the waiter.

After the two of them finished half a bottle of liquor, Shazhu and Ma Jiefang hurried over.

"Brother Yan, I haven't seen you for many years. I heard from Brother Shazhu that you are the head of the demobilized government. Congratulations."

As soon as Ma Jiefang entered the private room, he gave Yan Guohao a hug and kept talking at the same time.

Yan Guohao laughed and said:
"Jiefang, I heard last night that you have become the section chief. Are you doing well?"

Ma Jiefang said with a smile: "Hey, Brother Yan, you don't know that after I graduated from university, in accordance with the national instructions, as soon as I returned to our No. [-] Red Star Steel Rolling Plant, I was promoted to a full-time major within a short time. However, in the past few years, I have stayed in the same place. Step by step, one, two, three."

Yan Guohao said cheerfully: "Zhengke is pretty good. Xiaoqing said you are lucky to have a son recently. You have two sons, not bad!"

Ma Jiefang pulled out the chair next to him, sat down with Silly Zhu, and shook his head, "Brother Yan, my wife and I actually want a daughter. Our two sons are not good at all. I have to watch over marrying them a wife in the future." .”

Silly Zhu sat down next to Ma Jiefang and continued:
"Liberation, brother, I'm still single and haven't spoken. You have two sons. Why are you complaining? If you don't want your second son, just forget it."

Ma Jiefang knew that Shazhu didn't mean what he said, and he also understood that he was joking, and he laughed and said:
"Brother Silly Zhu, I don't mind, but I'm afraid that my wife will know about it and she won't be done with you!"

Silly Zhu grinned in amusement, stopped teasing Menzi, stood up, held the half-drunk bottle of liquor in his hands, poured wine into the cups that Yan Guohao and Xu Qing had finished, and said:

"Guohao, how are you going with Qingzi's grain loading station, suburban meat factory and warehouse today? Is Qingzi doing well now?"

Yan Guohao laughed and said, "Xiaoqing can do it now. He has set up a factory and runs a grain station. He is the boss of both sides, which is quite good!"

Ma Jiefang took out the peony cigarette he was carrying and handed it to Yan Guohao:

"Brother Yan, that's of course. Brother Qingzi is still my brother-in-law. He and my fifth sister are both capable people. It's hard to live a good life."

Yan Guohao nodded in agreement.

Xu Qing's conduct and deeds were something he admired the most when he was in college.

After Si Zhu poured the wine, he grabbed Xu Qing's lighter and lit the flue:

"Qingzi and Jinghong are famous for their hard work in our hospital. They leave early and come back late every day. No one can compare with them!"

Xu Qing smiled and said nothing. He raised his wine cup and picked up one. He clinked glasses with Yan Guohao, Shazhu and Ma Jiefang. As soon as the four of them finished drinking, the door of the private room was pushed open, and two waiters grilled three chickens and sliced ​​them. The good duck was brought in, along with lotus leaf pancakes, shredded green onions, cucumber strips, sesame sauce, sweet noodle sauce and other dishes.

As soon as the waiter left, Xu Qing, as the host, said to Yan Guohao:
"Brother Yan, you haven't tasted Quanjude's roast duck in many years. Try it now."

Yan Guohao was not polite. He picked up a piece of lotus leaf cake with chopsticks and spread it out in his left hand. He also picked up four pieces of duck meat, dipped it in the sweet flour sauce, put it on the lotus leaf cake in his hand, rolled it up, and stuffed it into his mouth.

Quanjude, a century-old restaurant, is also well-known throughout the country in this era. He has really missed it since he left Sijiu City.

Silly Zhu also picked up the lotus leaf cake with chopsticks, rolled up the cucumber strips and shredded green onions and ate it, but while eating, he muttered to Xu Qing:
"Qingzi, there is good news that I have to tell you."

"What's the matter?" Xu Qing asked without moving his chopsticks.

Silly Zhu swallowed the lotus leaf cake in his mouth and smiled mysteriously:

"Qingzi, today the factory director called me to his office alone and told me to arrange for people to purchase twenty kilograms more pork every day this month than before. From tomorrow on, people from the main factory will be stationed in the factory for inspections. For a month, I have to entertain you in the evening.”

Xu Qing was delighted when he heard this and thought it was indeed good news.

If the third factory purchases more pork, then for its own meat factory, it can sell an extra twenty kilograms every day.

Good thing.

But then I thought about it, there are only more than 30 black pigs in the breeding workshop of the meat factory. Ermazi is going to the countryside tomorrow, and he doesn't know how many he will receive in the future.

In one month, an extra twenty kilograms came out every day, but it was an extra six hundred kilograms.

Xu Qing just felt a little relieved last night, but suddenly he raised his eyebrows again, and his brows were subconsciously frowning.

Seeing this, Shazhu pinched half of the lotus leaf cake and opened his mouth and said:

"Qingzi, are you worried about collecting pigs? At noon today, Er Mazi ran to the factory to see his wife Chen Xiaojuan and your master. I met him and heard him say that he went to the countryside to collect pigs. I almost died from exhaustion in the past few days. .”

Xu Qing hummed and did not refute.

There were all good friends in the private room at this time, and there was nothing that couldn't be said.

When Yan Guohao heard what Sha Zhu said, he turned to look at Xu Qing's frowning expression, and instantly understood that what Sha Zhu said was true.

Xu Qing encountered difficulties.

Yan Guohao stopped eating roast duck, took out his handkerchief and wiped the oil stains on his hands, lit the Peony cigarette that Ma Jiefang handed him, took a few sips, and said thoughtfully:
"Xiaoqing, if you are worried about the pig harvesting problem, my old comrade-in-arms works at the Ministry of Agriculture in your [-]th City. He changed his job last year. I will go to his place tomorrow and tell him about the situation you encountered. Mention it and ask him to help think of a way to see if it can be solved."

(End of this chapter)