Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

I don’t know what kind of magic potion Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu used to feed He Yuzhu.

The next morning, he was like a chicken with its blood pumped up. He had no complaints about the tasks assigned to him by the fat man. He forced himself to complete them seriously despite his tired body, and did not give the fat man any chance to find fault with him or make trouble for him.

At this moment, supplies in the city of Sijiu were most scarce before dawn.

Although the steel mill can buy a lot of prey from the Northeast every month, so that the workers of the steel mill can have a taste of meat.

But the amount of prey is limited after all, and there is no guarantee of long-term supply.

In this case, various edible oils become particularly important for steel rolling mills.

If the lunch provided by the steel mill every day had neither meat nor oil in the dishes, and the workers who had to do high physical exertion could only fill their stomachs with wild vegetable buns and boiled cabbage, they might not be able to last even three hours.

More importantly, the workers are independent for a long time and lack oil and water, which is also a huge consumption of food.

Even if wild vegetables were added to the house, the limited food still showed signs of insufficient supply.

more importantly.

As supplies in the city became increasingly scarce, cooking oil also became less and less.

At the beginning of the year, the daily supply of edible oil to the steel mills was half less than before, and by the middle of the year it was half less than at the beginning of the year.

Although Wang Dong is a very good cook, he cannot make good food without cooking oil.

The workers' dissatisfaction is growing, especially those who do heavy physical labor. They make suggestions to the kitchen every day, asking for more oil and water in the dishes.

But a clever woman cannot make a meal without rice.

The Logistics Department does not supply cooking oil, and the kitchen is unable to produce cooking oil.

As a result, all the pressure from the steel mill workers finally fell into the hands of Deputy Director Li.

Although Director Yang was also very anxious, he was not in charge of the logistics department of the steel rolling mill.

Every day in the conference room, he would use this matter to challenge Deputy Director Li, making fun of him and intending to use it to undermine Deputy Director Li's prestige in the steel rolling mill.

Faced with Director Yang who was waiting to see him make a fool of himself, and faced with more than 10,000 workers in the steel rolling mill who were in urgent need of oil and water, Deputy Director Li's hair was almost turning white with anxiety during this period.

"Leader...are you free? I have something to report to you..." Wang Dong suddenly pushed the door and entered Deputy Director Li's office, reporting with a serious face.

He felt that his chance to make another contribution to the steel mill had come.

After this year, the shortage of materials in the city will be alleviated. As the deputy director of the kitchen, my chances of being promoted to the director of logistics by making meritorious contributions will definitely be very slim.

Therefore, he had to seize the last moment when materials were scarce in the old city and make a great contribution at the steel mill.

Even if I can't be promoted directly to kitchen manager, it would be good to improve my own level.

Deputy Director Li doesn't seem to be in a very good mood right now.

Without even raising his head, he asked directly, "What's the matter?"

"I'm getting annoyed right now, hurry up and tell me."

"I have a way to get cooking oil, and it's lard..." Wang Dong answered seriously.

Deputy Director Li was stunned for a moment and didn't react for a moment. Then a look of shock flashed across his face. He stood up from his chair, clapped his hands on the table at the same time, stared at Wang Dong and asked expectantly.

"What did you just say? Say it again?"

"Reporting to the leader, I said I have an idea to get lard, but I don't know if it will work?"

After confirming that what he heard was correct, Deputy Director Li walked directly to Wang Dong, pulled Wang Dong to sit on the stool, and asked expectantly: "What's your idea..." "Tell me quickly..."

"If this really works, you will have done a great deed."

"Even if you can't be promoted to chef director, I'll definitely give you a raise."

Wang Dong firmly believed in the promise made by Deputy Director Li.

I have been working with Deputy Director Li for almost two years. I have helped him do a lot of things and he has never failed to keep his promise.

Since Deputy Director Li has said that he can raise his salary by one level, he will keep his word.

Now is different from later.

In an era when everyone was paid by the government, and as a cadre, as long as he did not make any mistakes, even if he was not the deputy director of the kitchen in the future, the corresponding salary level would not be reduced, which meant that his salary would go up and would not go down.

I was very satisfied with the result and immediately replied: "Leader... I have a way to make lard from pig bones."

"Ten kilograms of pork bones can produce about one kilogram of bone oil, which is the lard we often eat. It tastes a little worse than lard, but the cooking effect is exactly the same as lard."

"The meat processing plant kills so many pigs every day, but few people want pig bones."

"If the boss trusts me, I can get some pork bones from the meat processing plant."

"Not only can we extract bone oil for cooking, but the remaining soup can also be used to stew radishes, which will definitely taste better than boiled radishes."

Deputy Factory Director Li immediately widened his eyes, stared at Wang Dong with a suspicious look on his face and asked, "Are you sure that ten kilograms of pig bones can really produce one kilogram of bone oil that is similar to lard... and that it is edible?"

Wang Dong answered confidently: "I am sure... ten kilograms of pig bones can produce at least one kilogram of bone oil, but the texture and taste are slightly worse than lard."

"But as long as you pay attention when cooking, the taste of the dish should not be much different, but it will definitely be very oily."

Deputy Director Li waved his hand and replied nonchalantly: "The workers in the workshop are almost too weak to swing the sledgehammers due to lack of oil and water. What does taste matter?"

"As long as it's edible and has oil, and the workers eat it to gain strength, it's better than anything else."

After saying that, he stood up from the chair, put on his coat and prepared to go out, saying as he walked: "I'm going to the meat processing factory now and get you a hundred pounds of pork bones first."

"You can ask a few people to work overtime together at night."

"If you can really make bone oil, and it's edible bone oil, you'll have done me a big favor, and you'll definitely be credited with a great achievement."

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A canteen kitchen.

Wang Dong was directing Huang Longfei and Tang Dashan to deal with the more than 100 kilograms of pork bones that had just been delivered by the Logistics Department.

Looking at the bone soup boiling in the big pot and smelling the fragrance filling the air, Huang Longfei and Tang Dashan kept swallowing their saliva.

If the bone soup in the pot didn't have other uses, the two of them would have loved to drink a big bowl of it right now.

At one o'clock in the morning, the bone soup that had been boiling for five or six hours began to cool down, and the bones floating on the surface of the soup began to slowly solidify over time, and looked about as thick as a human knuckle.

Wang Dong used a colander to separate the already clumped bone oil and put it in a basin. When he weighed it, it weighed thirteen pounds.

Seeing that both of his disciples were looking at him in shock, Wang Dong said directly: "If nothing unexpected happens..."

"In the future, the steel mill will use pig bones to make bone oil every once in a while... In order to avoid leaks, only the three of us can do this, and no one can tell anyone. When the time comes, I will go to the leader to ask for some subsidies, and I guarantee that you won't suffer any loss. Do you understand clearly?" (End of this chapter)