Cold chain for 20 years

Chapter 1 Hu Shutong

In the late summer of 2000, Hu Shutong graduated from junior year.

When the school season starts in September, it will be a whole year of senior internship.He hasn't made a decision on the three internship units, and he plans to use the summer vacation of more than a month to think again.

Hu Shutong's hometown, Mozi County, is a busy and prosperous county, where most of the people live by growing vegetables.Under the scorching sun in August, people are full of enthusiasm. This is the tail end of the peak vegetable season. When vegetable prices are high, the so-called "one crop at the beginning and one crop at the end is better than the big crop in the middle".

Get off the bus and walk out of the station, take a bus to the end, and then walk for more than a mile to get home.

On the way, Hu Shutong saw many tractors with empty buckets, women wearing green headscarves sitting on the iron "co-driver", and men smoking cigarettes, chatting and laughing.He didn't need to think about it, he just came back from Qujiaying, and all the vegetables in the cart were sold, and the price was satisfactory.

Qujiaying Wholesale Market is located at the intersection of three counties, more than 20 kilometers away from Mozi County. It is both a wholesale market and a distribution center. If you want to sell at a good price, you have to go there.

Hu Shutong's home is in the outskirts of the county. There are rows of dense one-story houses, with a path more than five meters wide in the middle. Walking seven or eight miles outside is the irrigated land for every household.

Walking on the path, the neighbors greeted each other with Hu Shutong, some called him "Shutong" affectionately, and those who were a little older called him "Hu's boy". One by one, but the scenery is tight.

The Hu family also mainly grows vegetables. In the small yard, old melons and beans are bred in the sun.His father, Hu Wankui, was wearing a red vest and was sitting on a long wooden bench, rubbing the dried skin of chili peppers and putting the seeds in a cloth pocket.

Hu Wankui seems to be a very stubborn person, with a height of more than 1.8 meters, he is famous for his ability in this area.The Hu family has no foundation, and it is Hu Wankui's hard work to make it possible for people in this generation to live a fairly prosperous life.

"I'm back." Hu Wankui said lightly, stood up and came to the table.

It is said to be a table, but it is actually a millstone used to grind millet in the old years. It was no longer used, and a stone pier was built from the bottom to the top. In the hot season, it became a dining table for the family to eat dinner.

As soon as Hu Shutong sat down, he saw his father slapping a piece of paper on the table with a serious look on his face.At first glance, it was exactly the three internship places mentioned on the phone.

Hu Wankui pointed and said, "These two are food companies. Farmers say they are two ridges, and the other is a logistics company. Boy, are you sure?"

The three options that seemed to be juxtaposed could not be hidden from my father's eyes, "Dad, I still need to discuss things with you, they are just options."

"Then why is running a big car an option?"

"Run big car?"

"Isn't logistics just a big cart? You're a freshman!"

"Dad, where do you want to go? Even if you choose me, you won't be driving. Logistics and warehousing need to be managed by someone."

Hu Wankui frowned, "According to what you mean, brother Qingfeng still has to hire a college student?"

Hu Shutong scratched his head. At this moment, his mother came out with the dishes, first gave Hu Wankui a blank look, and then stared at his son, "Don't pay attention to him, let's eat first when we come back."

Spread eggs, stir-fried cauliflower, mixed lettuce, with hot white rice, the appetite is particularly good.The heat has just disappeared and there is a slight cool breeze. The rattling tractor is turned off, and the neighbors are chatting loudly about today's vegetable prices.Hearing that someone sold an extra penny, he was not very happy and sent the boy to the front shop to buy wine. After a tired day, he drank a few taels, and didn't think about it too much.

"Mom, is Yuntong coming back tomorrow?" Hu Yuntong, his brother, is eight years younger than himself. He is promoted to the third grade in autumn, and the summer vacation is two weeks later than other grades.

Mother Hu nodded, "I'll be back tomorrow. I ate something bad at school a few days ago, and I'm going to cook something delicious for my second son when I come back."

"Bad stomach? What's going on?"

Hu Wankui answered, "It's nothing serious, but the food is not fresh, and it's because the son of the factory director, Xiao, also has diarrhea and is making a fuss."

Director Xiao runs a fruit juice factory in the county and is known as the richest man in the county.

At this time, Mother Hu sighed again, "But once this happened, you, brother Qingfeng, were out of luck. If you said that he could have any problems with the delivery, it must be because the wholesale market didn't give good goods. Those The guy is so vicious, all the good ones are given to carts from other places, and the vegetables grown at home are not eaten well by the children, it's really unreasonable!"

"Then is this matter resolved?"

"It's dragging on. Qingfeng and the wholesale market are throwing blame on both sides. The health department is investigating. In my opinion, it's a matter of how to appease Director Xiao."

Hu Shutong was silent. He knew the whole process of the matter well, and thought about it impartially, and there might be problems in any link.The school purchases from the wholesale market uniformly, but the wholesale market has no transportation capacity, so it reached an agreement with Qingfeng Cold Storage.And the school's orders are not exactly the same every time. In order to avoid trouble, the wholesale market simply stocked up a wave of vegetables in the Qingfeng cold storage. The cold storage sent what the school wanted directly, and replenished what was missing.

Therefore, once there is a problem, first of all, it depends on whether the pre-cooling in the wholesale market is sufficient, followed by the refrigerated trucks of Qingfeng Cold Storage, and then whether there is any problem with the storage of Qingfeng Cold Storage. School transportation.

This process is the meaning of a new word called "cold chain" in academic journals the year before last.

At nightfall, Hu Shutong rode his bicycle to look for Shi Qingfeng.

Shi Qingfeng is Hu Shutong's cousin, and Hu Shutong is ten years old.

Under the 15-watt tungsten lamp, the food on the table seemed to have been cold for a long time, and the TV played a quiet Quyuan Zatan.Shi Qingfeng drank the bulk liquor poured into a can. He was so addicted to smoking that his fingers were smoky.The whole person is dark and dark, with locks of hair, and he looks down and sweeps his face, full of frustration.

"Situong, I knew you were back, and I wanted to find you, but I didn't get away from all this nonsense."

The sister-in-law brought the bowls and chopsticks, looking teary-eyed, and greeted Hu Shutong with a forced smile. It was not difficult to see that this was a quarrel just now.

"Brother Qingfeng, I've heard everything."

"Ah! The fleeting time is not good, there is no place to reason." Shi Qingfeng wanted to pour Hu Shutong a glass of wine, but found something wrong when he picked it up, and then pushed the peanuts towards him. Hu Shutong saw it, Shi Qingfeng His mental state was extremely poor.

"It's different. In the past few years, there was no problem with ice cubes wrapped in quilts. Now there are refrigerators blowing. How could the food be broken by me? Besides, this order has been done a hundred times. Curry's operation It’s never changed, so why is this batch of diarrhea!”

"What did the health department say?"

Immediately, Shi Qingfeng lost his temper and tapped his fingers on the table, "Those old oily guys in Qujiaying bully the market and bully people, they twisted into a rope and let me take the blame. Pull to drink, who knows what to do!"

At this point, Shi Qingfeng suddenly moved his buttocks and came forward, "Shutong, didn't you learn that food hygiene project? Do you think there is any way? Actually, it's not a big deal. I think those guys are Come back and explain."

"Brother Qingfeng, are there still any leftovers from the batch of vegetables at that time?"

Shi Qingfeng nodded hurriedly, "Yes, yes."

"Take me to see."

Shi Qingfeng drank the one-two-five wine glass in one gulp, and took Hu Shutong to the cold storage on a motorcycle without saying a word.

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(End of this chapter)