The Prosperous Years of Siheyuan

Chapter 12 A small business
Chen Jisheng took his meal and sat down at the Eight Immortals Table. Before he even finished his meal, he was overwhelmed by the arrogance of the canteen of the steel rolling mill.

The cafeteria uses the Eight Immortals table for eating. I didn’t pay attention when I first came in. I sat down and took a closer look at the brown eyes. This table is amazing, made of mahogany!

Looking around, there are about two to three hundred Eight Immortals tables like this. There are quite a lot of them stacked against the wall. I haven’t seen the materials. I guess they are mostly hardwoods from the north. It’s unrealistic that they are all mahogany.

Although the stools under the seat are not made of mahogany, they are of good craftsmanship and have thick patina. They must have been there in the 80s. There are more of them in the canteen, and one table is equipped with four of them.

These things in the canteen are good, you have to find a way to get them. Now these things are more expensive than burning materials, so you can't spend a lot of money. Maybe in a few years, these things will really be used as burning materials. Wouldn't that be a pity?

I ate the meal in a daze. The steamed buns with noodles were really good, with the sweetness of grains. The spicy stir-fried cabbage was a bit disappointing, too salty and watery, and it didn't taste like a vegetable.

After finding the faucet to clean the lunch box, Chen Jisheng simply went to the canteen to get food without waiting any longer.

"Brother Zhu..." Sha Zhu in the cafeteria is always on call. With the new contact and Sha Zhu's knowledge, many people looked at Chen Jisheng with envy.

"Brother? What's the matter?" Shazhu was a little confused by Chen Jisheng. Why did he come here after he had just touched him?Are we going to have noodles again tonight?

"Brother Zhu, is your director here? I want to see him." Silly Zhu is not stingy. There are some things that need to be explained in detail, otherwise the entanglement will be endless and a waste of time.

"What can happen to that thing? I'm sleeping in the cabin. I'll call..."

Silly Zhu was at odds with the canteen director, and most people knew about it. He was a bastard, but he didn't have any superficial skills. Just like that, he would be the canteen monitor until he died.

"Brother Zhu, don't bother me. Can you take me there?"

Chen Jisheng didn't dare to let Silly Zhu do it for him. If this guy is gone, good things will turn into bad things. Why bother?
"Okay, you go in through the side door. The cabin is just two steps inside. I'll go over and wait for you."

Silly Zhu left after finishing speaking, without pointing to Chen Jisheng the direction of the side door. Looking at the side doors on both sides, Chen Jisheng was a little speechless.

"Over there." Fortunately, Liu Lan was more reliable than Sha Zhu and pointed the direction to Chen Jisheng.

The side door was unlocked, so I pushed it open and entered the canteen. Silly Zhu also just came over. Without saying "bang, bang", he banged the door of the small room loudly. There is no need to do this when announcing a funeral.

"Silly Zhu, what the hell are you..."

Silly Zhu doesn't want to see the director, and the director doesn't want to see Silly Zhu either. Silly Zhu is the only one in the cafeteria who dares to knock on the door like this.

"Director Fan, I am Chen Jisheng from the Purchasing Department. I have something to do with you. I don't know where you are, so I asked Master He to take care of you."

Chen Ji was afraid that the two of them would start fighting, so he helped Sha Zhu stop him. He just glanced at the canteen rules on the wall and knew that the director's surname was Fan.

"Hey... From the Purchasing Department, you are a rare visitor! Come on, come on!"

The door was opened by Director Fan as soon as he saw it. Looking at the chubby round face, this person seemed to match the position.

"Sit down, what's the good thing?" Director Fan was happy to be approached by the Purchasing Department. Only the canteen asked the Purchasing Department, and no Purchasing Department came to ask for the canteen.

"As for the meat, I just had a meal in the cafeteria and I felt like I had a taste for food in my mouth."

Seeing that Director Fan was a slippery man, Chen Jisheng didn't hug him and just spoke quickly.

"Can you handle meat? I don't know what to call it?"

Meat, it's not that Director Fan can't get it, it's just that the steel rolling mill can't get it. Whether it's planned or unplanned, everything has a price, business to business, either exchange or buy and sell at a fair price.

No matter what kind of meat is sold in the pigeon market, it is at least double the price, and the quantity of this stuff is not large. The communes below also have a plan to raise pigs. Unplanned pigs are expensive and big things, and they are not in short supply. Things cannot be exchanged.

"The newly arrived procurement department member, Chen Jisheng."

Chen Jisheng also knows that there are things in meat, but there is too much meat in his reserve. Thousands of tons of whole pigs, whole sheep, and whole cattle. The canteen of the steel rolling mill is a bit like a drop in the bucket, and some things can only be ignored. up.

"Just here? How much meat can you cut?"

As soon as he heard that he had just arrived, Director Fan lost his interest. This thing was nonsense!

"One pig a day, head and tail removed, gutted and whole pig, sometimes whole cow."

Too little, and Chen Jisheng doesn't want to take it out. Too much, and he doesn't dare to take it out. Three to four hundred pigs a year, for a large factory with thousands of people, it's not too much, not too little, without causing trouble.

"So many? From the army?"

After thinking for a while, Director Fan also had a clue. The only people who killed pigs and cows in this way were the troops, but this way was too wild, and it was hard to lose their heads!

"Hmm! Retired cadre, here from the General Logistics Department." Director Fan wanted to ask for directions, but Chen Jisheng could only use the tiger's skin as a banner. Anyway, there was Director Chen of the Machinery Department at the factory department who endorsed the General Logistics Department Lao Zhong. , this is not unexpected.

Moreover, his contact with the canteen is almost point-to-point. As long as the canteen does not open the cover, he will not be exposed.

For the people in the cafeteria, taking off the lid would be a pain in the ass. Most people wouldn't lift it up, and they couldn't lift it up. Who can lift it up when it involves all kinds of unplanned supplies?I just happened to be in the dark under the lamp.

"The price can only be the market price, with a maximum of five cents and ten cents added, and it's best not to add any extra. The quantity is too large, and the canteen can't keep accounts."

Director Fan whispered as he closed the door and shut Silly Zhu out. This guy is easy to ruin and can ruin even good things.

"If you have a lot of goods here, Director Ma from the supply and marketing cooperative is very familiar with ours, and he has more goods that are in short supply. If you have this intention, we can contact you tonight. Let's go to Donglaishun together?"

Director Fan is obviously at the forefront of the small circle and firmly believes in Chen Jisheng's words. Moreover, he has his own small circle, otherwise the position of director of the cafeteria would not be secure.

Not to mention anything else, just making a small stove with a stupid column requires delicacies from the mountains and seas, and all kinds of fine wines, which are not available to ordinary people now.

"Yes! But in a few days, the Purchasing Section has a yard outside the east gate. I just wanted to come here today, and I haven't gone to see it yet. I can only start when things in the yard are cleared up."

These Director Fans are also well-educated. Such exchange of materials directly in the factory would be courting death. Let alone a pig. A bag of stick noodles in private is enough to be sentenced to ten or eight years.

With public endorsement, you still have to be cautious about some things. If something goes wrong, it’s not just one person who will be implicated, but most of the people on the same line and on the same network.

"Okay! That yard is nice, and there is a phone line. You can call us when the goods arrive, and we won't touch each other.

Does Section Chief Zhang know about this? "

Chen Jisheng leisurely drank the tea made by Director Fan. The jasmine tea had good leaves and a strong floral fragrance, which was a bit refreshing.

Director Fan is racking his brains, but he can't afford to start early if there is no profit. The amount of at least four hundred pigs a year is huge, and he is really sorry for not using his brain.

"The section chief hasn't said anything yet. There's no way around it. How about we collide now?"

The steel rolling mill cannot have in or out. Whether it is exchanging or taking money, the purchasing department cannot be bypassed, but it can only be limited to the purchasing department. The relationship is too complicated and difficult to maintain.

"I'm not busy. Anyway, your yard hasn't been finished yet. I think Deputy Director Li also needs to know about this. Why don't you meet with Director Li tonight?"

Director Fan brought out Deputy Factory Director Li. This was something Chen Jisheng had not thought of beforehand, but thinking about it carefully, this matter was not only beneficial but also meritorious, so he still had to do it well.

Obviously Director Fan is on the line of Deputy Director Li. For Chen Jisheng, the role of this line is more than that. Director Fan's reminder also made him think through a lot of things.

"Director Fan, thank you very much! I was overthinking this matter before. I'm going to pay a visit to Director Li tonight, and then I'll let the director make the decision. You see..."

Chen Jisheng had this idea when he entered the factory, but he didn't expect that he would get a stepping stone so soon.

"I'll say hello to the factory director in the afternoon. Will you come over from 07:30 to [-] o'clock tonight?"

As Director Fan spoke, he wrote a note to Chen Jisheng. It was of course the address of Deputy Factory Director Li. Through Director Fan's words and deeds, Chen Jisheng also roughly understood some of Deputy Factory Director Li's attitude towards him.

"That's OK! I'm new here and I don't know some of the rules. I hope Director Fan will give you more guidance in the future."

Chen Jisheng stretched out his hand, and Director Fan was very cooperative. He shook it tightly twice, and the small deal was considered completed.

"Don't dare, don't dare! We will help each other from now on. It's disrespectful to the lazy people in the factory to have some tea here."

Director Fan did not expect that Chen Jisheng chose to shake hands. In their small circle, this scene was mostly fist-clasping and bowing. Chen Jisheng was accustomed to making judgments with this hand, and his attitude towards Chen Jisheng was a little more flattering.

"Thank you very much, Director Fan."

Chen Jisheng shook his head slightly as he suppressed Director Fan who was about to stand up to say goodbye. He was just a small section clerk. Director Fan was a formal section-level cadre. He could be seen as a cadre regardless of size in the house, but not in the factory.

After leaving Director Fan's hut, Silly Zhu leaned leisurely against the wall and hummed a little tune. This little life was also nourishing, except for the fact that he was often sucked by the widow.

"Brother Zhu, you are busy. I have to go to the street to make connections, so I won't talk to you."

In order to prevent Silly Zhu from asking questions and leaking the news in advance, Chen Jisheng immediately shut him down. It's no wonder that Director Fan blocked him from the door. This guy is really a thing that is easy to expose, and it has been a bumpy journey.

"Okay! If you have something to say, I'm busy."

Seeing that Silly Zhu left in a hurry, Chen Jisheng took a look inside the cafeteria. Except for light bulbs, there was no electrical equipment at all. It seemed that Director Fan's place was going to be prosperous in the future.

(End of this chapter)