Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

Yi Zhonghai's brows had been wrinkled into a big "川" shape without him noticing.

After Qin Huairu finished speaking, he said, "This Wang Dong... he really can't stand any loss."

"First, find a way to move the pillar away from the food window, and then join forces with the kitchen helpers to deal with us."

"So, we can't expect to have a full meal at the steel mill?"

Qin Huairu was anxious.

With Jia Zhang's support at home, even if there were any good things, they would be kept at the bottom. It would be good if there was some soup left when it was her turn. She was counting on the lunch at the steel mill to help her make up for it.

If I can't even have a full lunch, then I can forget about having a full stomach at home at night.

He quickly asked: "Master..."

"Then what should we do? We can't let Wang Dong target us like this, right?"

"Why don't we go to other cafeterias?"

"Although the food in other canteens is not as good as the one in the first canteen, as long as it can fill our stomachs, it doesn't matter if the food is a little worse."

Yi Zhonghai saw this very clearly and shook his head and replied, "It's useless."

"Wang Dong is now the deputy head of the kitchen, not just a canteen monitor."

"He is in charge of all the canteens in the steel mill. Do you think anyone in the kitchen dares to disobey his orders and give us more food?"

Qin Huairu became even more anxious, but before she could open her mouth, she heard Yi Zhonghai change the subject and speak again: "But Wang Dong underestimated me, an eighth-level fitter..."

"As long as the two of us don't come to the cafeteria to get food, Wang Dong won't be able to use this method against us again."

"Starting tomorrow at noon, the two of us will wait at the entrance of a canteen and ask the workers to serve us food."

"This way, Wang Dong can't do anything to us."

"As for Bang Geng and the others..."

"I'll ask Second Aunt to prepare ten pounds of flour tonight. After you help Zhuzi clean the room, go to the cellar and wait. I'll personally deliver it to you."

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The next afternoon, Huang Longfei suddenly found Wang Dong with a mysterious look on his face: "Master..."

"We didn't see Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huai Tathagata eating in the cafeteria this afternoon..."

"I also asked in other canteens, but I didn't see Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu... I suspect they asked the workers in the workshop to help them get food..."

"Because we don't know who is helping Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu get their meals, there is no way to target them when they are getting their meals?"

Wang Dong thought for a while and made a decision: "This problem is easy to solve..."

"There is a shortage of supplies in the city right now. The food that our steel mill gets is not enough. If we hadn't developed wild vegetable steamed bread, the limited food wouldn't be enough for us to eat, let alone bring food and vegetables to our families..."

"I have heard a lot of reports from the canteen these days: because some people in the steel mill took an extra meal at noon and took it home to eat at night, many workers went to the canteen too late and had no food to eat."

"As the deputy director of the steel mill kitchen, I must first consider the food problem of the steel mill workers, and then their families."

"I will give a notice in the kitchen later. Starting from tomorrow noon, each worker in the steel mill can only get food for one person. If a worker cannot come to the canteen and needs someone else to get food for him, he must inform the kitchen.

"If workers want to bring food back to their families, they must come to the canteen after 1:00 p.m."

"If there is food in the cafeteria, we can get it. If not, then our kitchen staff can't do anything."…………

At a canteen food window, Huang Longfei was standing at the window helping the workers get their meals as usual.

Seeing that the other person was holding two lunch boxes, he immediately reminded: "Comrade..."

"A comrade just left the kitchen. In order to ensure that every worker in the steel mill can have lunch, each person can only get one meal. If you want to bring food and vegetables for your family, you must come to the canteen later."

"If there is food left in the cafeteria, you can play. If there is no leftover food, you cannot play."

The worker standing at the window was stunned for a moment, then explained: "Comrade, you misunderstood..."

"I only want to get one meal. This lunch box belongs to a co-worker. He has something to do and can't come to the canteen, so he asked me to help take a meal back."

Huang Longfei continued: "In order to prevent someone from taking food home under the pretext of bringing food to co-workers, you must tell us who you are bringing food for. The kitchen needs to make a registration..."

The other party didn't expect that bringing meals to coworkers would be so troublesome, but he didn't say much. After all, the kitchen did this for everyone's good, to ensure that all workers in the steel rolling mill could have meals.

Quickly answer: "This lunch box is mine..."

"I want a meat dish and a steamed bread that reminds me of the bitter past and the sweet past..."

"This lunch box is for Chef Yi Zhonghai from the canteen. He wants one meat dish, one vegetable dish, and a steamed bread..."

This was exactly what Huang Longfei wanted to hear. He took the money and the bill, confirmed that there was no problem, and started to serve the other party food.

As for the meal for Yi Zhonghai, there is no doubt that it was specially prepared for him by Huang Longfei.

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A workshop in a steel rolling mill.

Looking at the food in the lunch box with more soup and less vegetables, Qin Huairu's brows were furrowed into a big "川" shape.

He walked quickly to Yi Zhonghai and reminded him: "Master..."

"I just heard from my co-worker who helps get lunch that the canteen has issued a notice that before 1 p.m., each worker in the steel mill can only get one meal. If you want to bring food and vegetables to your family, you must go to the canteen after 1 p.m. They say this is to ensure that all workers in the steel mill can have meals..."

"I always feel that this notice is specifically aimed at the two of us."

"Although workers can help each other bring food and vegetables, they must explain the situation to the kitchen staff and register who they are bringing food to."

"This way the kitchen staff will know which lunch box is ours."

"Today's lunch was exactly the same as what we got from the canteen two days ago. There was more soup and less vegetables. The steamed bread was filled with wild vegetables. It was inedible."

After swallowing a vegetable steamed bread with the soup, Yi Zhonghai sighed and replied, "I know this notice is aimed at the two of us, but they have reasons and they are also standing on the righteous side. In order to let all the workers in the steel mill have lunch, it is useless even if we two oppose it."

"It seems that if we want to eat our fill at the steel mill, the only way left is to apologize."

"But Wang Dong is a man who won't show his hand until he gets the rabbit. If we want to win his forgiveness and stop targeting us at the steel mill, an apology alone won't work. We must give him some compensation...

After saying that, he stared at Qin Huairu with a serious face and said, "It seems..."

"It was you who proposed the plan to plot against Wang Dong. You can't just not contribute a penny..."

"You take out fifty yuan, and I'll take out a hundred yuan. Let's go apologize to Wang Dong tonight..."

"Also, we must not let Zhuzi know about this. He is too impulsive. Don't let him come out and cause trouble right after we apologize, and offend Wang Dong again." (End of this chapter)