60s: I have a store

Chapter 153 Cooking Green Bean Soup
Director Hu took the opportunity to leave for a moment, but soon returned with an expression of joy that was hard to conceal on his face.

"Old Hu, how is it?" The factory committee knew what Director Hu was going to do, and seeing his expression, they could almost guess the result, but he still wanted to confirm it.

Director Hu smiled and said, "Four or five years ago, a company in Xiaorizi invented the rice cooker, which was indeed a hot-selling product. However, the rice cooker with the heat preservation function was only launched this year.

In other words, the rice cooker invented by our comrade Zhou Yimin has reached the international advanced level. "

When the factory committee and other leaders heard this, they all applauded and everyone looked at Zhou Yimin.

Zhou Yimin paused for a moment and asked, "They only have rice cookers with a keep-warm function this year?"

"Yes! I have confirmed it with the comrades in the Foreign Trade Department, and there will be no mistakes."

Zhou Yimin went on to say: "So, what we need to do is to optimize the appearance of this rice cooker. Under the condition of equal performance, if we want to gain an advantage, we must work hard on the appearance and quality.

Of course, price is also a factor.”

"Comrade Zhou Yimin is right! Our comrades still need to work harder." The factory committee encouraged.

Next, they will build a dedicated production line and production workshop.

Many people have seen the production process of the rice cooker just now. It is indeed not a very complicated product. Their steel plant is fully capable of independently designing the relevant production machines, setting up production lines, and establishing production workshops.

"Right now, the most important thing is to make a batch of finished products and take them out for testing," said Director Hu.

As for the place to test the waters, they have already decided, it must be Hong Kong Island! Currently, the place closest to the international market in our country is Hong Kong Island.

Zhou Yimin did not participate in the subsequent events.

Section Chief Wang took him to get diesel.

With the note from Director Ding, Zhou Yimin didn't even have to pay for it himself and easily got two barrels of diesel from the logistics warehouse.

"If it's not enough, ask Dazhong to come back and tell me." Section Chief Wang said to Zhou Yimin.

In his heart, he was still very grateful to Zhou Yimin, because he knew that if it weren't for Zhou Yimin, he would have no chance of winning the competition for the position of section chief.

In terms of qualifications, some people are older than him; in terms of ability, some people are stronger than him; in terms of background, connections, and personal connections, some people are more experienced than him.

And his biggest advantage is Zhou Yimin.

The factory leaders wanted to promote Zhou Yimin, so he had to vacate his position. Otherwise, it would be impossible for him to jump directly to the position of section chief, right? It's not that there are no such special cases, special talents, special treatment! But it's better to take it step by step.

"Okay!" Zhou Yimin didn't bother to be polite with Section Chief Wang.

He took the two barrels of oil and returned to Zhoujiazhuang, without even going back to his own courtyard.

When Zhou Yimin returned to Zhoujiazhuang, he saw the villagers working hard to widen the road. In some places, they even occupied some arable land, but it did not harm the wheat that was about to be harvested.

In order to compact the road surface, they got a large stone roller from somewhere and used an old ox to pull the roller back and forth on the road surface.

Everyone was very happy when they saw the diesel that Zhou Yimin brought back.

This means that there are tractors behind to help pull the coal slag to pave the road. In this way, the rural roads in their village are much better than those outside.

"So many?" The old branch secretary was slightly surprised.

How could he buy so much with the little money he gave Zhou Yimin? He suspected that Zhou Yimin had paid for it.

Zhou Yimin: "If you can't use it up, send it to my house."

This made the old branch secretary feel relieved and he nodded: "No problem!"

Soon, a tractor pulled a full truck of coal slag into the village. The road was built from the inside to the outside, so the tractor pulled the coal slag to the end of the rural road and unloaded it. "Master Chen, come and have a cigarette." The team leader greeted.

The tractor driver laughed and said, "Your village is really courageous! Pulling coal slag to pave the road."

Coal slag doesn't cost much. Just give the people in the brick factory some local specialties and some benefits and they can take it away.

Zhou Zhiming was familiar with the people at the brick factory. He brought two bags of potatoes and two bags of sweet potatoes from the village to negotiate and easily got their permission.

"We can't help it! The roads in our village are too bad. If we don't repair them, it will be difficult to ride a bicycle in the future."

The tractor driver smiled and didn't point it out. To say that it's difficult to ride a bicycle is too exaggerated and underestimates bicycles.

After smoking a cigarette, he began to add oil and water to his tractor, and then continued to pull coal slag. Although the rural road in Zhoujiazhuang is not long, it requires a lot of coal slag.

Fortunately, there was a lot of coal slag in the brick factory, which had been piled up for some time without being processed. Otherwise, it would probably not be enough.

Zhou Yimin also came over carrying farm tools to help.

The old branch secretary and others immediately stopped him: "Yimin, don't come. If you have time, go to the mushroom house and see if there are any problems. We can solve them here."

If Zhou Yimin really did it, and accidentally made a bubble, wouldn't they be scolded by Zhou Yimin's grandfather? By then, even the old branch secretary would not be spared.

There is no doubt that Zhou Yimin's grandfather can really scold everyone in the village.

People like Zhou Yimin who are not used to doing heavy work will easily get blisters. But unlike them, his hands have long been covered with thick calluses and he is not afraid at all.

Just look at Zhou Yimin's hands and you will know that he is not able to do heavy work. His hands are even more tender than those of the girls in their village.

Besides, Zhou Yimin had already gotten the diesel for them, and it was very wrong to ask them to work.

"Okay!" Zhou Yimin had no choice but to change direction and walk towards the mushroom house.

Seeing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

When Zhou Yimin came to the mushroom house and saw the women working quickly and well, he suddenly felt that his presence was a bit unnecessary.

Forget it, let’s go back!

He returned home and planned to cook a pot of mung bean soup. He missed the mung bean soup in his previous life.

Zhou Yimin had bought mung beans for 1 yuan before, and he washed them clean.

Lai Cai continued to be his fire-burning boy.

After washing, add clean water and cook on high heat until the mung beans are 60% cooked. After cooling slightly, pour into a bamboo sieve and wipe off the skin. Put it back into the pot, add water and cook on low heat until the mung beans are cooked. Then filter out the bean juice with a gauze bag, boil it, and finally add sugar to finish.

Mung bean paste is light green in color, pleasant in appearance, soft and sweet in taste, and has a refreshing feeling, making it especially suitable for cold drinks.

Unfortunately, you can't just take out ice cubes for no reason.

This is quite uncomfortable. The taste of mung bean soup will be very different without ice.

At this time, although there were refrigerators and freezers in the country, and there were several in the steel mills, it was a bit difficult for private individuals to own refrigerators and freezers.

It seems that next time I want to use ice, I will have to bring it back from the city.

Or, you can learn from the ancients and store ice in the winter.

(End of this chapter)