Courtyard House: Drunk and tipsy, the whole courtyard exposed at the start.

In the end, Qin Jingru stayed, spending the night at He Yushui's house.

The wild boar was divided up. Liu Guangqi's friend came with a butcher, and in no time at all, the wild boar was divided up.

The factory kept 120 jin, the street office kept 100 jin, and Zhang Dabiao kept 20 jin for himself to taste.

They were all purchased at 1.2 yuan per kilogram. Zhang Dabiao bought the wild boar for 240 yuan and sold it for 264 yuan, which means he inexplicably made a profit of 24 yuan and kept 20 kilograms of meat.

This made all the beasts in the yard extremely envious—

Yan Bugui could see that blisters were forming on the corners of his mouth.

Liu Guangtian and Yan Jiecheng helped Director Wang transport the meat back to the street office. She didn't have any cash on her and was waiting for Zhang Dabiao to pick it up the next day.

I was supposed to go to the neighborhood office for a chat today, but I had too many things to do and it got delayed.

Moreover, I was planning to go to the street office and women's federation this afternoon to deal with Yi Zhonghai and Sha Zhu's matter. Well, let them gloat for another day. I really don't want to bother with anything today.

Liu Guangqi's buddy is named Tian Baocheng. He is the logistics director of the Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill and its affiliated comprehensive utilization plant. The title sounds impressive, but the plant actually uses scrap iron sheets to make furnaces and chimneys, iron filings to make blocks, and short iron wires to make nails.

In the 60s, under specific historical conditions, my country responded to the national policy of "comprehensive utilization" and established a type of factory to solve resource shortages, employment pressure, and "turn waste into treasure".

To put it bluntly, it's a waste recycling plant. The profits are so-so, there are few people, and the head office doesn't really treat them well. He's supposed to be a logistics director, but he's only at the deputy section chief level.

Their factory director is only a section chief.

As for Liu Guangqi, although he graduated from a vocational school and is now a cadre, he is only a level 6 clerk with a monthly salary of 43 yuan.

The rank is higher than that of a vocational school graduate becoming a permanent employee, but lower than that of a college graduate starting work.

The main problem is that even if you work your way up in this factory, you'll only reach the level of a section chief, and you'd have to assassinate the king and seize the factory director's position. There's not much of a future in it.

That's why he wanted to marry into the family and go to a third-tier city for development. The benefits there were that he would be promoted immediately and officially enter the cadre ranks. After two years of seniority, he might be able to get the position of deputy section chief.

Firstly, it allows one to escape their family of origin, and secondly, it allows one to be promoted in administrative rank.

But now there's no way out, I can't run away, I can only take it one day at a time.

Tian Baocheng was in a hurry to transport the wild boar back, so he said a few words to Liu Guangqi and Zhang Dabiao and then left.

I told Zhang Dabiao to work hard. The factory will start work on the seventh day of the first lunar month. I'll come to the factory to familiarize myself with it later.

Zhang Dabiao was encouraged to take as many supplies as he could; the factory wouldn't treat him unfairly.

Putting everything else aside, this guy was really generous with the money, not bad!

Everyone was gone, and Zhang Dabiao was left holding a wild boar hind leg...

Sha Zhu cleared his throat for a long time, making "uh-huh" sounds, as if to say, "The chef is right here. Beg me and I'll cook for you!"

Actually, it was Yi Zhonghai, Qin Huairu, and the old deaf man who wanted to eat meat.

Zhang Dabiao rolled his eyes. Without Butcher Zhang, we won't eat hairy pork!

"Da Mao, Guang Qi, let's head to the backyard!"

"Let's have barbecue today!"

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In the end, Xu Xiaoling, Yan Jiecheng, He Yushui, Qin Jingru, and Guang Tianguangfu were invited.

Wild boar meat isn't very convenient for making braised pork, but it's great for grilling.

We'll just have to make do with what we have.

The backyard was not only spacious, but there was also a shed against the wall of Sha Zhu's house. It used to be where everyone stored firewood and miscellaneous items, and a lantern hung next to it.

Now it has basically become a place for the young people in the compound—mainly Zhang Dabiao—to have meals, and right across from it is the main entrance of the deaf old lady's house.

Everyone set up the tables and chairs, and Zhang Dabiao brought out the meat and seasonings, but everyone told him to keep more for himself, saying that taking out three to five catties was already a luxury.

Zhang Dabiao waved his hand and said, "At least 10 jin!"

With so many people, it's only a little over a pound per person, and there's not much else to eat, plus they're all young people who naturally have big appetites.

Xu Damao provided wine, garlic, mushrooms, and Chinese cabbage. Liu Guangqi sent Guangtian out to buy some cooked food and cigarettes, and also asked his mother to steam a lot of cornbread, which had to be made with a mixture of flour and water, since Dabiao didn't eat cornbread.

Yan Jiecheng... had nothing, but he gritted his teeth and brought some firewood and bamboo skewers from home, saying that he would grill them and I could do the work, right?

The girls, of course, drank hot fruit juice and waited to eat, but He Yushui took the lead in helping to cut the meat and marinate it.

The seasonings Zhang Dabiao brought out included Golden Dragon non-GMO soybean oil, cooking wine, oyster sauce, chicken bouillon, Haitian light soy sauce, Orleans roasted chicken seasoning, Wang Shouyi barbecue seasoning, Wang Shouyi thirteen-spice powder, salt, Wang Po chili powder, black pepper...

(In the late 50s, Wang Shouyi, who lived in Tongxu County, Henan Province, developed Thirteen Spices based on the secret recipe of Xinglongtang in the ancient capital of Kaifeng, and thus brought it out of Xiaowo. Chicken essence and oyster sauce had not yet been invented at that time, but the production method was not difficult. With 60 years of technology, it was possible to produce them, and Zhang Dabiao brought them out of Xiaowo.)

The most extravagant thing was that Zhang Dabiao even brought out a small bowl of honey!

He's going to make honey-glazed roasted pork!

Guys can handle spicy food, but girls should stick to sweet and salty flavors, especially He Yushui, who shouldn't eat spicy food and hurt her stomach.

Everyone's mouths watered as they looked at the bowl of honey.

The abundance of ingredients astonished He Yushui, who came from a family of chefs: "Da Biao, Grandpa Zhang's cooking is usually very simple. Where did you get so many seasonings?"

"Some of them I've never even seen before—"

What she actually meant was, you're not a professional chef, how come you have these things?

Zhang Dabiao said dismissively, "If your cooking skills aren't good enough, you can make up for it with seasonings."

"This is nothing!"

"They were all given to me by my dad's friends; they're just sitting there unused."

"To be honest, your brother's cooking skills are pretty good; most people can't compare."

"But with these seasonings, any chef could easily surpass your brother. He just relies on his knife skills and secret seasonings."

"Look at this, this is Wang Shouyi Thirteen Spices, a family-inherited seasoning from Henan."

"I can't really comment on stir-fries, but back then, adding a little of this to large pots of vegetables made them incredibly delicious!"

"This is oyster sauce, a seasoning made from fresh oysters from the seaside. It's incredibly flavorful!"

"This is chicken bouillon. You can only get a tiny amount from boiling a whole chicken."

"I'm not bragging, but with all this stuff, and just a tiny bit of salt, even a fool could cook better than your brother!"

He wasn't exaggerating; Yan Jiecheng was grilling skewers of hind leg meat over there, and the smell was amazing—

In an instant, the smell filled the entire backyard!

The old deaf man was so hungry, his mouth was watering so much he didn't even have time to wipe it away, and his stomach started to feel acid reflux!

She muttered curses under her breath as she ate the cornbread that Liu Cuilan had brought her, savoring the aroma, feeling utterly wronged!

If it were someone else's house, she would have the nerve to shamelessly ask for some to try, but she wouldn't dare go to a gathering organized by Zhang Dabiao.

On the other side of the wall, Sha Zhu was pressed against the wall, listening and smelling—because there were small holes in the wall, the fragrance wafted in directly, completely unstoppable!

Sha Zhu wanted to go and take a look, but he didn't have the face to do so.

When I heard about Wang Shouyi Thirteen Spices, oyster sauce, chicken essence...

He panicked!