Era: Starting from divorce from female college student

Chapter 117, Harvest and Invitation (asking for monthly ticket)
Zhongguancun South Street, near the Friendship Hotel.

Zhao Mancang returned home. Two wolfhound puppies were wagging their tails vigorously at his feet. They looked so excited and happy.

Lin Huijun brought him the dishes and chopsticks. The little greedy cat was very well-behaved and sensible, but she was just trying to please him. She was mainly eyeing the gift her father brought back.

That was a gift that Alfred had someone help prepare. Zhao Mancang couldn't refuse and had to accept it.

Because the gift was just some cakes and fruits, not something particularly valuable.

Otherwise, Zhao Mancang would never accept these gifts.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome!"

The greedy little cat, like a little adult, pretended to be indifferent, but soon came up again and said that she hadn't eaten malt sugar for several days.

What she meant was that she was greedy and wanted to eat.

"Haha, you still want to eat malt sugar?" Zhao Mancang was very happy, but at this moment, Lin Wan had already come in from the door carrying dishes.

"Lin Huijun, don't eat so much maltose. Look at your own teeth. Do you still want them?"

The kitchen of the house is on the south side of the front yard, and the dining room is next to the kitchen.

In a normal courtyard house, the south-facing house in the front yard usually has four or five rooms, but in Zhao Mancang's courtyard, the south-facing house has seven rooms.

There are three rooms in the north house, and two side rooms on each side, making a total of seven rooms. Together with the three rooms in the east and west wing rooms, there are a total of six rooms. So there are thirteen rooms in the central courtyard.

Then the seven south-facing rooms in the front yard add up to exactly twenty rooms.

Therefore, Lin Wan heated up the dishes before serving them.

Zhao Mancang has a big appetite. He just ate two plates of seafood at Jianguomen and no staple food, so he was not full at all.

So after I get home, I have to eat a little more.

The food in this era was not very oily, and Zhao Mancang was young and his work was not easy, so he naturally needed to eat more food.

"You can bite it, why not?"

The little greedy cat was still making excuses. She even demonstrated to Lin Wan how to "grind her teeth". Her exposed little yellow teeth made both Zhao Mancang and Lin Wan laugh.

"Starting tomorrow, you have to brush your teeth carefully. Look at your teeth, they are so yellow and look really ugly."

After laughing, Zhao Mancang gave some instructions.

Brushing your teeth requires a proper method.

However, Lin Huijun is only four years old and still young, so at this stage she just needs to develop the habit.

As for her little yellow teeth, as long as she maintains the correct brushing habits, they will soon turn into little white teeth.

"Okay, Dad, can you teach me tomorrow?" The little greedy cat nodded immediately and acted coquettishly.

At such a young age, he is very good at acting like a spoiled child to make adults happy. I don’t know who he learned this from.

After dinner, when Zhao Mancang washed up, Lin Wan had already coaxed the little greedy cat to sleep.

Before going to bed, the two practiced water magic again, but afterward, Lin Wan talked about other things with Zhao Mancang.

Lin Wan was talking about the family's housewarming celebration. When would it be held? Also, should she invite her parents over?
"Of course we have to invite them. Let's do it tomorrow, but tell them not to bring any gifts. Just come and enjoy it."

Zhao Mancang immediately said:

"I'll try to get off work early tomorrow. You can also take a day off tomorrow afternoon so we can go home early and get ready."

Since you are inviting people to dinner, you definitely need to prepare the food in advance.

This is the way it is in this era. Most of the time, people still cook at home and rarely go out to eat.

There was no way to have a wedding before, that one had to be organized properly.

But forget about the housewarming party, just invite some relatives and friends, and there will be two tables at most, no more.

"it is good!"

Lin Wan nodded and agreed.

Although it is not easy to ask for leave, it is up to us to do it, and who doesn’t have an emergency?

That was settled, and the couple fell asleep in each other's arms.

The next day, Zhao Mancang held Lin Wan's bowl in his hand. It was really big and heavy.

What could be happier than going to bed and waking up with such a bowl of rice every day?

Because he needed to prepare for the housewarming celebration at home today and needed to prepare a lot of ingredients, Zhao Mancang set out to the Pigeon Market in the early morning to exchange some good things.

I definitely can’t go to Xizhimen Pigeon Market today.

Firstly, the place was often inspected by patrol teams, which was too weird. Secondly, he had previously looted six gold rings, two jade rings, a gold bracelet and two jade Guanyin pendants from Li Jiping.

Zhao Mancang would still feel a little guilty if he met Li Jiping again, so in order to avoid feeling guilty, he decided not to go there.

On the Dongzhimen side, Zhao Mancang rode his bicycle to the Pigeon Market.

The capital is not big or small.

Walking into the Dongzhimen Pigeon Market, I found it was quite large, with more than two hundred people here.

Since it's so lively here, there are definitely a lot of good things that can be exchanged.

Zhao Mancang now has quite a bit of money in his hands. In addition to the 1,500 yuan borrowed from Yang Shourong and others, he also has more than 1,800 yuan left from selling imported medicines.

I still have more than 3,000 yuan in my hand.

In fact, even if he had no money, he could still earn a lot of money by spending a few hundred experience points to exchange for some fluorouracil injection.

It's sad to say, but it has been a long time since Zhao Mancang discovered that selling imported medicines is the fastest way to make money.

The system space is indeed awesome, but if you rely on it to buy and sell food and other daily necessities, how many tons of food would you have to sell?

As long as the quantity of food exceeds a certain limit, the danger is much higher than selling imported medicines.

As for other methods, they make money too slowly.

Therefore, imported medicines are the most suitable.

Visiting the Dongzhimen Pigeon Market gives you the feeling of visiting a town market in the 1980s and 1990s. It is very lively and there are many varieties of products.

But most of them are mountain products.

Zhao Mancang saw that everyone had a rather alert look on their faces, and some even looked towards the entrances and exits of Pigeon City from time to time, as if they were ready to run away at any time if there was anything unusual.

It seems that everyone is scared by the patrol.

But due to the pressure of life, there is no other way but to come to Pigeon City to exchange.

"Hello, comrade, do you have any cooking oil?"

Almost immediately, Zhao Mancang gave priority to purchasing cooking oil.

A lot of dishes need to be prepared for the celebration of moving into a new house, and cooking oil must be prioritized. Otherwise, you can only buy more pork to make lard.

It is impossible to sell lard separately in this era.

Lard is sold together with other pork, so its price is 72 cents per pound, which is not cheap.

"I have 1800 kilograms, would you like some?"

When the middleman heard someone wanted to buy cooking oil, he immediately came over and started a conversation.

In this regard, Zhao Mancang naturally accepted everyone who came.

He buys as much cooking oil as possible.

Anyway, his house is now an independent courtyard, so he doesn't have to worry about being discovered even if he cooks delicious food.

First is the independent courtyard, with the south back house where the kitchen is located, and behind the wall is the street in front of the courtyard.

Since it is a street, the space is relatively spacious and open, so even if there is any delicious smell of food, it will soon dissipate.

Secondly, the Friendship Hotel is just a few dozen or a hundred meters away, and you can often smell the delicious aroma of food wafting from that place.

Therefore, there is no need to worry about these things.

After buying 1.8 jin of cooking oil from the middleman, Zhao Mancang didn't walk far and bought a lot more.

More than ten minutes later, he had bought 5.2 jin of cooking oil, of which 3.1 jin was peanut oil and the other 2.1 jin was cauliflower oil.

The cooking oil has been bought, and the next step is to look for other mountain products.

The mountain products such as shiitake mushrooms and black fungus are all top quality, there are even seafood such as river shrimps and snails, and there is even a pair of sisters who actually sell eels.

"Hello comrades, did you catch this eel? It's a little small."

Looking at the more than twenty eels in the wooden barrel, Zhao Mancang's eyes lit up, but he said with some disgust.

The eels vary in size. The largest one should weigh about three taels, but there are only about three or four of them. The rest are all one tael or less.

Zhao Mancang felt like he had captured the entire family of eels.

Today is September 2nd. At this point in time, even if there are still eels, they should not be so easy to catch.

Ma Xiaohui and Ma Xiaofen were delighted when they saw Zhao Mancang coming to ask about the eels. However, when they heard that he actually despised the eels they had caught, they couldn't help but snort angrily:
"We caught them. There must be big and small eels in the water. How could they all be big?"

Who doesn’t know that they want to catch big eels?

But you have to catch them, and being able to catch twenty-seven eels in the wooden barrel is already very good.

"Okay, how much are you going to sell it for?"

Zhao Mancang pointed at the wooden barrels, indicating that he could take them all, depending on the price.

After all, it’s a housewarming celebration, and I just bought more than five kilograms of cooking oil, so I don’t have to worry about cooking these oil-intensive seafood such as eels and river shrimps poorly.

"Here are twenty-seven eels, weighing three catties and three ounces. If you want them all, comrade, I'll give you twenty-three cents per catty. Is that okay with you?"

Ma Xiaohui and her sister looked delighted and looked at each other, and then the elder sister Ma Xiaofen made the offer.

You know what, the price is a bit expensive, but not very expensive.

Yellow eel has a strong fishy smell, but it is very nutritious. It is perfect for making porridge and does not require a lot of cooking oil, so the price of two or three cents is not very expensive.

"Okay, no problem."

Zhao Mancang nodded, not bothering about the price.

The two sisters in front of us should be girls from a nearby rural area. Their lives are already very difficult. They secretly catch eels and come to Dongzhimen Pigeon Market to sell them. It must be because their families need money, right?

The total amount was 75.9 cents. Zhao Mancang gave the money directly and asked the two sisters to pour the eels into the cloth bag he had prepared.

After finishing, Zhao Mancang looked at the two sisters with a smile and asked:
"By the way, can you two sisters catch eels in the future? If you can catch eels weighing two or three taels like these, I will take them."

Upon hearing this, Ma Xiaohui and her sister nodded repeatedly in surprise.

However, they are not sure whether they can catch eels again.

But no matter what, three days later, at the same time, still in Pigeon City, they will come again.

"Then you better be careful. The patrols have been stricter recently. If no one is here, you can go to the street outside and wait for me."

After making an agreement with Ma Xiaohui and her sister, Zhao Mancang turned around and continued shopping.

The reason why he wanted more eels was actually because he wanted to nourish Lin Wan.

Eel has the effects of regulating blood sugar, replenishing deficiency and qi, and nourishing the brain and improving intelligence.

Lin Wan was already very thin, and if she got pregnant, she would need to supplement her body even more.

If she doesn't get pregnant, she also needs to be supplemented.

Lesbians have their periods for a few days every month, and they definitely need to replenish their blood and qi.

Of course, Zhao Mancang could also replenish her blood by boiling brown sugar water, but Chinese medicine health care methods are more particular, and she definitely cannot eat a single food.

Even if others don’t have the conditions, Zhao Mancang can definitely create them.

Just when Zhao Mancang was about to take a look to see if there were any other good things, he saw Luo Haidong and Zheng Wanyong coming towards him.

These two tomb raiders actually appeared here?

And they were still selling their antiques, but this time they were selling porcelain.

It's really interesting!

However, Zhao Mancang had no interest in these antiques and even felt that they were a bit unlucky.

Because Luo Haidong and Zheng Wanyong are in the same group as Li Jiping, they are all tomb robbers.

So it goes without saying that the antiques they sell are burial objects stolen from other people's ancient tombs. Isn't this bad luck?
Zhao Mancang did not go forward to join in the fun, but continued to stroll to the side.

In the next half hour, he bought a lot of good things one after another. Someone even brought half a sheep to sell. This operation shocked Zhao Mancang.

That half lamb must have been slaughtered less than two hours ago and was still very fresh.

It looks like he just brought it from nearby to sell. I can only say that this guy is extremely bold!
Needless to say, Zhao Mancang spent a large sum of money to buy this half of the sheep.

After all, if you don’t buy the meat you have finally found, you will definitely lose a lot.

After buying half a sheep, Zhao Mancang felt that it was enough. He could prepare the remaining vegetables and other foods later.

So, Zhao Mancang prepared to go home.

In fact, it is still very early now, after all, the sky is still dark.

He originally planned that if there was no one at Dongzhimen Pigeon Market or things were not going well, he would go to Andingmen or even Jianguomen to take a look.

So we must prepare more time.

Unexpectedly, things went so smoothly that we completed the task ahead of schedule in less than an hour.

After leaving Pigeon City, Zhao Mancang found a deserted place and threw all the harvest in his hands into the system space.

Then he took out his bicycle and rode home.

But before he had ridden more than 500 meters, he encountered two sneaky men carrying a heavy sack into a dark alley.

"Murder?"

Zhao Mancang's eyesight is not bad, and he does not have night blindness, so he can see very clearly.

Looking at the sacks those two people are carrying, there is a high probability that there are people inside, right?
Of course, even if these two people really killed someone, it had nothing to do with Zhao Mancang.

At this time in the 1950s, it was common for a few people to die or go missing.

Not to mention this era, even in the future when Internet information is highly developed, news breaks every day about someone's death, someone's family being wiped out, and so on.

This is just the news that has become a hot search. Many news have not even made it to the hot search. Even many murder cases only appear in the circle of friends in certain places or in an inconspicuous corner of a local website.

What's more, it was not even reported in the news.

Even later generations were like this, let alone the 1950s.

However, just as Zhao Mancang was about to turn around and leave, when he crossed the path next to him, he suddenly felt a sense of crisis.

He reacted immediately, leaning to one side and falling against the wall next to him.

Gunshots rang out, and the bullets whizzed past his previous position.

"Fuck, this guy is trying to kill me to silence me. Who the hell did I offend?"

Zhao Mancang was stunned and could not believe his eyes.

But he didn't have time to think about these questions at the moment, and they were not important.

Originally, he didn't want to bother with these people. After all, it was none of his business, so he just kept out of it. But now these people actually wanted to kill him and even shot him directly. What were they thinking?
Besides, aren't you afraid of attracting the patrol by firing so blatantly?
Too embarrassing!

Zhao Mancang, who had no time to curse, lay on the ground with a Walther P38 pistol in his hand.
This pistol was a trophy he had taken from the enemy spy Sun Jinjiang. It still had two full magazines, for a total of sixteen bullets.

Since he got this pistol, Zhao Mancang has never used it once, but he didn't expect it to come in handy today.

Bang bang bang!
With the support of the seventh-level shooting skill, Zhao Mancang fired three shots in a row. Two of them hit the two people in front, and the other one was dodged by the other party.

In just over ten seconds, Zhao Mancang had already realized that a murder must have occurred in the place ahead, and there were probably five suspects.

In other words, when Zhao Mancang came from the distant street and was about to pass by here, four of the five of them should have been cleaning up the scene, and one was on guard.

The first person to fire the gun was the one who was on guard just now.

Now Zhao Mancang has shot and killed two people, and there are three left. They are either hiding behind the wall or in the dark alley, making it difficult for Zhao Mancang to shoot them.

"Fuck, who did I offend? Every time I go to Pigeon Market, something happens three out of ten times. This luck is really terrible."

Zhao Mancang cursed loudly and didn't care about anything else. He moved his position and walked forward.

As long as the other party dared to show his head, he would shoot without hesitation and send the other party to see the King of Hell.

"Want to kill me? It depends on whether your life is tougher or mine is tougher!"

At this time, Zhao Mancang was completely enraged and was determined to kill these five people.

After all, he had just stumbled upon the scene where they were destroying the bodies. He was about to turn around and leave, but he didn't expect to be attacked.

Zhao Mancang couldn't stand it.

These people are forcing him to be a good person!
Bang bang bang!
He fired three shots in succession, but this time only one bullet killed one person, and the other two bullets only hit the other person's gun muzzle.

Level 7 shooting skills were impressive, but I wasn't sure if level 10 or higher would allow the bullet to arc and hit enemies hiding behind walls. But Zhao Mancang wasn't going to waste his experience points.

He had to continue accumulating experience points. He wanted to see if there would be any difference if he accumulated 10,000.

Maybe there will be more and more powerful products, maybe the system space will be expanded, or there may be other unexpected system functions.

In short, Zhao Mancang just wanted to see what was different.

Time was running out, and Zhao Mancang was worried that the patrol would arrive soon, so he chose to press forward step by step and fight quickly.

One against five, the advantage is not on Zhao Mancang's side, but he is fearless.

His level 10 combat power value gave him a reaction ability far superior to that of ordinary people. Combined with his level 7 shooting skill, it should be enough to deal with the five people in front of him.

Bang!
Zhao Mancang moved forward quickly, took out a wooden board from the space, placed it on the ground, and then pushed it out.

He simply lay on the wooden board and slid out, just in time for him to appear at the entrance of the alley.

Since his entire body was on the ground, he was able to react immediately.

The remaining two suspects hiding in the alley had no time to react before they were shot dead by Zhao Mancang.

After killing these five people, Zhao Mancang immediately checked the surrounding area. After confirming that there was no one else, he returned to collect the spoils.

Yes, it’s touching the corpse!
Thanks to these five people, Zhao Mancang directly emptied a magazine. In other words, he now only has one magazine left.

So I have to add something.

Otherwise, next time you encounter danger, will you use experience points to redeem them from the system mall?

That’s too luxurious!

There are guns and ammunition right in front of us, so we must collect them.

There are five suspects in total, and three of them are dead.

By touching the corpses, Yu Wen told Zhao Mancang that these people had died not long ago.

It seemed to be a confrontation between two different interest groups, but the three-person group was obviously no match for the five-person group, so when Zhao Mancang arrived, the three had already been killed.

Moreover, there was no sound of gunfire during the entire process of killing him. It seems that they must have used other methods.

Zhao Mancang didn't care too much about these things. He collected the guns and ammunition. There were seven guns in total, two of which were rifles, and the remaining five were pistols.

Two Makarov pistols and three Tokarev pistols.

In other words, these five pistols are actually produced in Moscow.

"Moscow?"

Surprised for a moment, Zhao Mancang took a closer look at some of the bodies and found that they were indeed foreigners.

In this case, Zhao Mancang felt even less guilty.

It was just right that these people died, so that no more people would be killed.

In addition to guns and ammunition, there were also foreign currencies such as US dollars, British pounds and rubles, which added up to about two thousand yuan. Zhao Mancang did not count them carefully.

There were not many RMB and various bills, totaling less than 100 yuan. Instead, there were quite a few merchandise coupons that could only be used in Friendship Stores.

Zhao Mancang had heard of these foreign exchange coupons, but had never seen them.

There is no Friendship Store in Beijing yet. Currently, only Baiyun City has such a foreign-related store.

The reason is very simple. After all, Beijing is different. It is the capital and the management is stricter.

According to the history of the original time and space, the Friendship Store only existed in the 1960s. Now it is 1958, so of course it doesn't exist.

Baiyun City is located in the south, and the Canton Fair has been held since the spring of 1957.

In this era, even in the years when the Siberian cold wind passed through, there was no delay.

Many foreign businessmen from Hong Kong and Southeast Asia almost always attend the Canton Fair.

Therefore, in this era, there are many foreign businessmen in Baiyun City, while in the capital, there are more people from Moscow.

However, Zhao Mancang was still confused. Why did these Moscow people have foreign exchange coupons?

Forget it, regardless of all this, let’s just put it away first and leave this place of trouble as soon as possible.

Zhao Mancang didn't delay much. He quickly put the spoils into the space, checked the scene, picked up the bicycle, and left at the speed of light.

Less than two and a half minutes after he left, the patrol showed up.

"Captain Wang, the thieves have already escaped. There are only eight bodies at the scene, and they have all been looted."

Hu Yanming stood up and reported to Wang Dingwenhui.

Their patrol team patrols around the capital almost every night, and sometimes they also conduct surprise inspections of the nearby Pigeon Market.

The Pigeon Market is just a product of the ticket era. Not only is the higher-ups very clear about this, but even patrol teams like Hu Yanming are very aware of it.

They did not patrol the pigeon markets today and thought it would be a boring night, but unexpectedly, they heard gunshots at dawn.

The most crucial thing is that when they arrived at the scene, the crime scene had already been cleaned up.

It's a naked provocation to their patrol team.

"Investigate this thoroughly for me, notify other nearby teams, and take care of this matter immediately!"

Wang Dingwen's face suddenly changed and he gave orders in a stern voice.

Upon hearing this, Hu Yanming, Qiu Liangsheng and others immediately did as they were told.

At this time, Zhao Mancang, who was pedaling his bicycle so hard that it was almost smoking, had already left the place of trouble.

He left the city as quickly as possible, and then chose to go around from Dongzhimen, anyway, he was going in a circle.

In addition, he also has to keep his ears open and his eyes on all sides, just to avoid being targeted.

Fortunately, his bad luck seemed to have just run out, and now he was full of good luck. He returned to his home near the Friendship Hotel smoothly without any accidents.

Fortunately!

At this time, the sky in the east was already turning pale and was about to brighten.

Zhao Mancang quickly took out all the eels, river shrimps, cooking oil, etc. in the system space, and then pushed the door in.

"Hey, Wan'er hasn't gotten up yet?"

After entering the yard, Zhao Mancang did not see anyone in the kitchen, and the light in the bathroom was not on, so Lin Wan should not have gotten up yet.

According to her personality, if she got up, she would probably go to the kitchen to make breakfast.

After putting everything in the kitchen, Zhao Mancang returned to the backyard.

In the room, Lin Wan had just gotten up.

"Wan'er, I just went out and bought some ingredients. I put them in the kitchen."

Lin Wan didn't care too much when she heard this, but just nodded to show that she understood.

She also knew that Zhao Mancang had most likely gone to Pigeon Market, because there were restrictions on the items sold in places like the supply and marketing cooperatives, and Zhao Mancang was quite picky and always liked to eat something different.

Not to mention three meals a day, even for daily fruits, he wants to eat different varieties.

For example, the lychees and longans that Zhao Mancang brought back from outside are all tropical fruits and are relatively rare in Beijing.

They are not sold in the supply and marketing cooperatives, and even bananas are not very common.

Even if they were available in department stores, they were quickly sold out.

Lin Wan had tried to persuade him, but to no avail, so she just let him be.

Zhao Mancang is not a fool, he must know his limits.

Besides, Zhao Mancang didn't go out every day. In addition, over the past month, Lin Wan also noticed that he was able to return safely every time he went out, so she became even more lazy to care about him.

Soon, Lin Wan went to the kitchen in the front yard. When she saw the table and the table legs were piled with ingredients, she opened her mouth in surprise.

Zhao Mancang in the room was happily counting money. The experience point receipt information that popped up from the system made him feel even better.

Judging from the experience points Lin Wan contributed, we can tell that she must be very surprised.

Zhao Mancang shook his head and stopped paying attention to this matter. Instead, he immersed himself in counting money.

The total amount of US dollars, British pounds and other foreign currencies is 2,352 US dollars. If it is converted into RMB, based on the exchange rate of one US dollar to 2.46 RMB, then this money can be exchanged for 5,785.92 RMB.

Of course, this is an approximate exchange rate, and the price on the black market is definitely much higher.

The reason is very simple. Those who want to leave the country and go to Hong Kong or overseas want to exchange US dollars.

But in fact, the black market is also short of US dollars.

Therefore, in a market where supply exceeds demand, the US dollar will naturally be more expensive and the RMB will be less valuable.

However, there is a high probability that these foreign currencies cannot be used directly and can only be converted into RMB.

"That's good. If I need money in the future, I won't have to waste experience points exchanging for imported medicine. It also saves me from being constantly targeted by patrols."

Zhao Mancang grinned happily, then took the foreign currencies back.

In addition to these foreign currencies, there are RMB worth less than 100 yuan, various bills, and foreign exchange coupons.

These foreign exchange coupons cannot be used directly, so it is better to take them to Pigeon City to sell them to avoid being targeted.

Zhao Mancang doesn't want things like air conditioners and televisions.

Even if he moved to the Friendship Hotel now, he would not think about these things.

The reason is very simple. Air conditioners and other home appliances are very power-consuming. Even if Zhao Mancang can afford to buy them, he may not be able to use them.

Do you really think those people in the Housing Authority are made of paper?

In any case, Zhao Mancang would definitely not buy these things for his home casually.

"Wow, there are shrimps, mom, what are these? Oh, eels."

When Zhao Mancang came to the front yard, he happened to see Lin Huijun with two puppies squatting in front of a wooden barrel, staring at the eels.

Lin Huijun had never seen eels before, which made Zhao Mancang feel sorry for the child.

A four-year-old kid understands a lot of things.

It turned out that they didn't recognize the eel, which also shows that there was indeed a shortage of supplies in that era.

If the Lin family had cooked this dish before, or had taken her to the supply and marketing cooperative or department store outside, she would not be unaware of it.

"I definitely won't do this to my own children in the future!"

Zhao Mancang said secretly in his heart.

After breakfast, Zhao Mancang went back to the steel plant to work.

When I came to work today, I had a few things to do. The first was to return the house at No. 18, Huguo Temple, after all, he didn't need it now.

He wanted to cancel the house yesterday, but yesterday was Monday and the labor and personnel department was very busy, so Zhao Mancang had no choice but to come today.

It is September now, and the steel plant is still expanding its recruitment. Every once in a while, there will be a few hundred more people in the factory.

The Labor and Personnel Department is naturally very busy.

In fact, the health center is also quite busy, but this has little to do with Zhao Mancang.

The physical examination was handed over to Zhang Zongxi, Yang Qingshan, Guan Changchun and others, while Zhao Mancang was usually responsible for part of the reception work.

There's no way, who made him receive two salaries?
Two salaries mean two jobs, so of course there will be more work to do.

The second thing is to ask for leave because I still have to prepare dinner in the afternoon. After all, it is quite troublesome to prepare the ingredients for two tables of food.

Checking out was actually very simple. The Labor and Personnel Department was a little surprised, but they soon thought of Zhao Mancang's salary and the previous rumors that he had borrowed money, and they felt relieved.

However, when I asked for leave, I didn't see Yang Shourong.

Zhao Mancang had no choice but to go back to the clinic to see the patient first.

"Wow, today is a good day, just three people?"

As soon as he walked into the clinic, Zhao Mancang saw that there were only three patients waiting in the waiting room, and he was immediately surprised.

In the office, Mei Xiye was already seeing patients. Judging from her appearance, it seemed like she had a minor illness.

Since there were not many patients, Zhao Mancang and Mei Xiye only took about ten minutes to finish the job.

Zhang Zongxi and others were not here because they were busy with physical examinations.

"Xiaomei, you can read here. I'm going to ask my boss for leave."

After answering Mei Xiye's questions about medical skills, Zhao Mancang made an excuse to go out.

Mei Xiye nodded, not curious about why Zhao Mancang wanted to ask for leave.

Zhao Mancang still didn't see anyone in Director Yang's office, so he had no choice but to stroll over to the breeding room.

There was nothing wrong in the breeding room. Lin Kai, his brother-in-law, worked very hard, so Zhao Mancang felt a lot more relieved.

Of course, I still have to notify my brother-in-law and ask him to come home for dinner tonight.

As a result, after Zhao Mancang finished talking to his brother-in-law, the temporary worker Tan Fujun next to him asked: Doctor Zhao, have you moved to a new house?

Good man, his words were immediately known to the entire breeding room.

Wu Huamin also came out of the office and asked with a smile when Zhao Mancang would hold his housewarming party. He also wanted to have a couple of drinks!

"Director, if you want to drink, isn't it easy? We can drink together some other day." Zhao Mancang smiled and continued:

"Forget about the housewarming banquet. Tonight I'm just having dinner with my wife and her family."

"I just had my wedding in July, and now I'm having a housewarming party. My eating manners are so ugly, I don't want to be criticized."

Hearing him say this, Wu Huamin laughed out loud:

"Are you too lazy to cook?"

A joke resolved the embarrassment.

How to say it, Wu Huamin would definitely not directly complain about Zhao Mancang's fear of losing money.

Because Chen Guohua entertained guests at a high standard at the last wedding, the amount of red envelopes he received was only the largest from people like Xing Shuqi and Shen Zhongxin.

Moreover, the reason why Xing Shuqi and others gave such a large amount of red envelopes was actually to serve as compensation.

After all, Zhao Mancang had helped Shen Zhongxin and Yang Shourong before, and even Wu Huamin was very grateful to Zhao Mancang for the dairy cow improvement project.

So of course their red envelopes will be bigger.

After all, it was just a housewarming celebration, and the interval was just over a month. For Zhao Mancang's friends, it was indeed an "ugly meal".

Whose family holds weddings and funerals one after another without interruption?

After chatting for a while, Zhao Mancang strolled over to the security department.

He reminded Han Xiaochuan and the others not to tell anyone about their visit to his house tonight.

"I didn't invite anyone else, I just invited you guys, just for a drink. If you guys leak the news, haha..."

After hearing what Zhao Mancang said, Li Baoguo, Han Xiaochuan, Xiao Shutie, Zhang Jianyong and others patted their chests and agreed.

This was originally a private gathering, not a housewarming celebration.

Zhao Mancang also told them not to bring any gifts, just come.

"I just received your red envelopes in July, so it's not appropriate for me to receive them again now. You should keep the money for yourself."

Zhao Mancang is not a poor and generous person, so he doesn't have to be so nice to people like Li Baoguo.

It's just a matter of a meal, but people like Li Baoguo can still help at the critical moment.

In addition to calling Li Baoguo, Zhao Mancang went to the Finance Department and called Su Wanzhen out.

The other party is my matchmaker, and she is also an accountant in the Finance Department. It is reasonable and moral to invite her.

Similarly, Zhao Mancang still reminded the other party not to bring gifts or red envelopes, otherwise he would return them the same way and would not call her next time if there was anything.

Su Wanzhen smiled and didn't take it to heart.

Anyone who really believed Zhao Mancang’s lies would be a fool.

Interpersonal relationships have never been so simple. There must be a give and take, and this must be made clear.

After receiving the notification, Zhao Mancang returned to the clinic. Seeing that nothing was wrong, he strolled out again.

This time, I finally met Yang Shourong in the office.

And it wasn't just Yang Shourong, even Xing Shuqi and Shen Zhongxin, who hadn't been seen for many days, were there.

That's just perfect!
"Hey, Mancang, you're here. I was just chatting with the two leaders about you. Come in and sit down."

When Yang Shourong saw Zhao Mancang standing at the door, his eyes suddenly lit up and he waved to him quickly.

At this time, Zhao Mancang's eyes were cast on the big pears on the table.

In September, the pears in the capital are ripe.

(End of this chapter)