The booming era begins with the director of the Propaganda Department!

Chapter 179 Becoming a secretary? ?
Seeing Zhang Chenfei and Xu Damao's obviously empty canvas bags, Yang Baili asked curiously: "Why don't you buy a smaller luggage bag?"

If you make such a big deal and can't accommodate me, won't you cause trouble for yourself?

Zhang Chenfei and Xu Damao looked at each other, then looked at Yang Baili: "Why don't you say that you, Gao G, don't want to live in the world? The reason Baokong is so big is because he has to bring things to others when he comes back."

It’s not easy to go on a business trip in this day and age, so most people help relatives and neighbors to carry things.

Bring something? ? Yang Baili obviously couldn't understand this kind of behavior, but in order to show that he was not an unworldly person, he bit the bullet and said that I understand, I understand everything.

This business trip was organized by the Ministry of Metallurgy. After seeing that the time was about the same, Zhang Chenfei and the other three walked towards the meeting point set by the Ministry of Metallurgy.

When we got to the place, we waited for a while.

He saw Deputy Director Li talking anxiously to Lou Zhenhua and walking towards this side. When he saw Zhang Chenfei and the other three, his eyes immediately lit up and he hurriedly walked to Zhang Chenfei.

"Comrade Zhang Chenfei, we originally arranged for Director Lou's secretary to go on a business trip with us, but he was hit by a carriage on the way here just now. He is now in the hospital.
I just discussed it with Director Lou and I think it’s best for you to serve as Director Lou’s temporary secretary. "

Zhang Chenfei frowned: "If I were a secretary, wouldn't I have to follow the leader all the time? But I still have to take pictures."

Xu Damao also said hurriedly: "Yes, Director Zhang is here with a mission and it is not easy to leave his post. How about I be Director Lou's secretary?"
To be honest, Director Lou and I are semi-acquaintances. "

His mother has been working as a maid in the Lou family since before liberation. When he was a child, he even went to the Lou family's big villa to play! ! !
From that time on, he was full of yearning for the life of a wealthy family.

After hearing what he said, Deputy Director Li's eyes immediately became strange. After thinking about it for a while, he said:

"Comrade Xu Damao is like this. Director Lou specially chose Comrade Zhang Chenfei because he has a relatively high level of education and is more convenient for taking records."

In fact, on the way here, Director Lou said that Yang Baili had some mental problems and Xu Damao was too ugly, so he appointed Zhang Chenfei. But of course he couldn't say these words directly.

"Let's do this, Comrade Zhang Chenfei, teach Xu Damao and Yang Baili how to use the camera on the train. When they arrive at the place, they will take over the task of taking pictures."

After some discussion, Lou Zhenhua and Deputy Director Li started chatting with acquaintances from several other factories.

This time, in addition to their factory, there were also several other steel mills, rolling mills, rebar mills, and cadres from the Metallurgical Department who went to Anshan outside Guanwai from Sijiucheng. There were fifty or sixty people in total.

Zhang Chenfei took advantage of the chat between the leaders and handed his luggage to Xu Damao to carry, and then inquired to find the leader of the Metallurgical Department responsible for issuing train tickets.

The two of them looked at each other and immediately smiled.

"Director Wen!!"

"Comrade Zhang Chenfei, are you going outside the customs this time too??"

Zhang Chenfei raised his lips and smiled, his eyes turned to Director Wen, and then said: "Isn't it true? Are you leading the team this time??"

"Well, there are many people going this time, and the burden on my shoulders is also very heavy!!" Director Wen said.

After the two chatted for a while, Zhang Chenfei asked for the train ticket.

Director Wen handed over a stack: "How about you? Until now, no one in the nine factories has thought of picking up the tickets except you."

"Hey, isn't it true that I have nothing to do?" Zhang Chenfei said modestly.

From the pile of sleeper berth tickets, he selected two lower berths, two middle berths, and one upper berth. Five tickets are in one carriage.

Director Wen saw this and looked at him deeply: "Why don't everyone choose the lower berth??"

This batch of tickets are all sleeper berths. It is very simple to choose five lower berths from them.

Zhang Chenfei put the ticket close to his body and said: "Hey, you have to leave some for your brother's unit, right? I just saw it. There are several factory leaders who are fat and older. I'll put it down." The shops have been taken away, what will they do??”

We are all brothers. If we look too ugly, we will be hated by others.

Director Wen glanced at him appreciatively: "You're done, kid."

After Zhang Chenfei returned after collecting the tickets, he handed a middle berth and an upper berth to Xu Damao.

"Da Mao, this is your ticket with Director Yang."

Xu Damao looked at the ticket and handed the middle ticket to Yang Baili: "Brother Yang, here you go."

Yang Baili took a look at the tickets and was dissatisfied: "Da Fei, why don't you get the lower bunk?"

How inconvenient it is to climb up and down the middle berth! ! !
Zhang Chenfei glanced at him sideways: "Didn't you say that as long as you can leave Sijiu City, you are willing to crawl?? Now I just let you sleep in the middle bunk, and you are here to do nothing."

Yes, Yang Baili was so squeezed by him that he became silent.

quickly,

When it was time to check in, everyone headed to the check-in area noisily, led by Director Wen and others.

Xu Damao jogged a few steps and walked to Zhang Chenfei. Taking advantage of the chaos around him, he said, "Brother Da Fei, you can't talk to Brother Yang like that. There's someone above him!!!"

What an unpleasant thing to say!
"Oh." Zhang Chenfei said.

Seeing this, Xu Damao became even more anxious: "No, what do you mean by 'oh'?"

Zhang Chenfei glanced at him: "Oh, I got it, okay, stop talking and get on the train quickly."

Xu Damao sighed, feeling like he couldn't bring his teammates with him.

At the same time, he decided to curry favor with Yang Baili and not let Zhang Chenfei get him involved.

Under the leadership of Director Wen, the group got on the train and noisily searched for carriages and beds.

The train they took was a Type 21 steam locomotive made by Jiapanji, and the seats were all made of wood. There is no heating and air leaks everywhere.

But there is nothing we can do. Who told our country not to be able to manufacture motorcycles at this time?

Today's locomotives are all imported, and our country's railways were once ridiculed as the "Steam Locomotive Expo of All Nations." If you fall behind, you will be beaten and laughed at. This is an eternal truth.

Zhang Chenfei carried his and Lou Zhenhua's luggage and looked at the dilapidated carriage along the way, sighing.

When we got to the carriage, we first arranged Lou Zhenhua's luggage. Then he gave a helping hand to Deputy Director Li.

The current deputy director Li has only been here for less than half a year, and he seems very humble and polite.

After everything was done, they found that there was a lot of noise outside, so the three of them listened attentively.

Only then did I know that there were a total of nine factories going to AN Mountain this time, with two leaders in each factory, plus Director Wen and another from the Metallurgical Department, a total of twenty leaders.

But among the fifty tickets, only thirteen were for lower berths. The steel rolling mill is the only one where both leaders have lower bunks.

This also leads to the fact that one-third of the leaders do not have bunks to sleep on.

At this moment, many secretaries were running around in various carriages because of this, trying to find ways to exchange lower berth tickets with other passengers.

When Zhang Chenfei went to find Director Wen, Lou Zhenhua and Li Huaide both saw it. Now they saw other factories worrying about getting a lower berth ticket. The two looked at each other and nodded involuntarily.

After Zhang Chenfei settled the two leaders, he first put his luggage on his own middle bunk, then carried a thermos to fetch water, and when he was done, he made tea for the leaders.

Xu Damao was also very attentive in helping to spread the mattress and quilt. Only Yang Baili climbed into his bed after getting in the car. Just as the bus was about to start, the sound of ticket exchange outside finally stopped.

It was a long way from Sijiucheng to Anshan outside Guanwai, so when the car started to move steadily, people from various factories began to chat and play cards in the car lively.

In this way, the whole morning passed by.

lunch time,

Many people in the carriage began to leave their rooms and go to the dining car to eat.

Dining cars are still a new thing at the end of this year. In the early years, there were no dining cars on the trains. The conductors would carry a big basket with steamed buns, salted duck eggs, steamed buns and the like for sale in each carriage.

Although there is a special dining truck now, the food types sold are still very simple. The main items served are rice bowls, which cost 15 to 50 cents a serving.

The staple food is rice, the 15 cents are pure vegetarian dishes, the 30 cents are minced meat, and the 50 cents are meat slices as side dishes.

At this time, people were accustomed to bringing their own food when traveling, and being able to eat in a dining car, even if it was a 15 cent vegan rice bowl, was enviable.

Hearing the sound of people getting up to eat in the brother factory from the next car, Lou Zhenhua and Deputy Director Li also planned to go to eat, but suddenly they smelled a faint fragrance.

"What does this smell like?" Lou Zhenhua asked.

"It seems like the rice smells good. Is the food cooked on the train so good now?" Deputy Director Li sniffed.

He remembered that the last time he was on a business trip, the meal he ate on the train was unpalatable.

The two of them looked over in search of the scent, only to find that Zhang Chenfei had opened a small jar. It seemed that the jar contained food.

At this moment, Xu Damao poked his head over and smelled intoxicatedly.

"Brother Da Fei, is this the stewed vegetable you asked Shazhu to make yesterday? It smells pretty good."

"What braised vegetables? This is called road vegetables." Zhang Chenfei said.

"Lucai?? What the hell???" Yang Baili also jumped out of bed.

He had been sleeping since he got in the car and did not participate in everyone's activities at all.

Seeing that several people were curious, Zhang Chenfei explained to them that as the name suggests, street food is food eaten on the way.

Because the journey is long, all road dishes need to meet the three characteristics of being delicious, easy to carry, and durable in storage.

In the past, carriages and horses were slow, and it would take months to travel far away. Sometimes if you were lucky, you could meet in a town for lunch. If you were unlucky, you couldn't find a village or a shop, so you could only hope for food on the road.

“Actually, if you really think about it, the boiled eggs, salted duck eggs, and pancake steamed buns that everyone usually brings when going out are also considered street vegetables in a broad sense.

But what I brought today is different. This is the kind that the ancient dignitaries would have their chefs make specially for them when they go out. It tastes particularly delicious.

Moreover, the method has almost been lost, and there are not many cooks in the entire Sijiu City who know how to cook it. "

Xu Damao raised his eyebrows, looking in disbelief: "That grandson of Silly Zhu, who can do this???"

Didn’t Brother Da Fei always say that the child was out of school? ?

"Si Zhu didn't know how to do it. This is the method I saw in the book. I asked him to do it according to the gourd's example." Zhang Chenfei explained.

In fact, he learned how to make these three dishes from a later TV series called "Chef", but of course he couldn't tell these people.

Yesterday afternoon, he told Shazhu how to make these dishes in his memory and asked him to reproduce them.

Xu Damao snorted coldly when he heard this: "I knew who Silly Zhu was? How could he do this? You have to look at my brother Da Fei at the critical moment."

Yang Baili gave a thumbs up to Zhang Chenfei: "How about Dafei, you are more considerate? You know that the food on the train is unpalatable, so you prepared it specially for everyone."

Deputy Director Li also said: "Si Zhu's cooking skills are much higher than the box lunches sold on the train. Plus Zhang Chenfei, your menu is absolutely delicious."

Lou Zhenhua swallowed his saliva: "Who is Silly Zhu? You all know him???"

"Director Lou, Shazhu is the chef in our factory. He used to be a helper, but later passed the assessment and became a chef." Deputy Director Li explained, "Although he is young, his cooking skills are very good. Ah, yes Yes. He and Comrade Zhang Chenfei are good friends."

Lou Zhenhua didn't particularly want to talk about this. All his attention was now attracted by the food. He barely listened to Deputy Director Li's words and said impatiently: "Then why don't we eat now?"

"Then I'll take Xu Damao to buy some rice." Zhang Chenfei stood up after saying that. Seeing Yang Baili about to open another small jar, he hurriedly stopped him: "Don't open it!!"

"I have marked the vegetables in these three jars with numbers based on how long they can be stored. Do not open them in advance."

Yang Baili curled his lips and stopped.

After Zhang Chenfei and the others came back with five lunch boxes, everyone stretched out their chopsticks and eagerly picked up vegetables from the small jars and placed them on their rice.

"What, what is this???"

Lou Zhenhua looked down at the vegetables he took out, studied them carefully, and then chewed them in his mouth: "They are all diced, maybe radish. But the smell doesn't look like it."

Radish is a common dish, but no matter how it is cooked, it always tastes astringent.

But this dish tastes like the sweetness of radish, but without the unique astringency.

Deputy Director Li is a foodie. After tasting it carefully, he said: "This is white radish, yes. But how can it be made so delicious? I have no idea."

Zhang Chenfei also nodded: "This is indeed a radish, and its name is roasted diced radish."

"If you want to make this dish delicious, you need to use meat oil and Qin pepper, which is a specialty of Qin."

Zhang Chenfei planned to briefly explain how to make the dish, but halfway through, he saw that everyone was immersed in eating and did not respond at all.

He immediately swallowed back the rest of his words and started to feast along with everyone else.

Deputy Director Li is a good eater. Not only did he pick up diced radish, he also picked up a jar and poured some soup into his own lunch box.

The hot rice immediately becomes appetizing when it hits the fat. He took big bites and nodded from time to time.

When the others saw this, they immediately followed suit, and a stronger and more seductive fragrance filled the small carriage.

It didn't take long for people from other workshops and factories to gather around.

"Lao Li, what are you eating???"

“It smells so good, did you buy it at the food truck??”

“Why is this dish more delicious than the one I just ate???”

"Dr. Lou, do you sell this vegetable?"

A group of people surrounded Zhang Chenfei, some of them chattering.

After Deputy Director Li finished picking up the rice in the lunch box, he took out the handkerchief he brought with him and wiped his mouth before speaking leisurely.

(End of this chapter)