Siheyuan: Walking the Path of Qin Huairu

The Great Leap Forward in Steel Production was still in full swing, but the reports in the newspapers about grain yields of several thousand kilograms per mu gradually disappeared.

He Yuzhu knew from his dream that the next few years would be a difficult period. On this day, he came to the office of Director Li of Logistics, closed the door, and said to Li Huaide mysteriously: "Director, there is something I don't know whether I should tell you. This matter is closely related to your supervisor's work."

Li Huaide: "If you have something to say, say it now. If you have to fart, fart now. I don't have time to argue with you." After two years of working together, Li Huaide is very satisfied with He Yuzhu's work ability, and the two get along very casually.

He Yuzhu: "After I tell you this, you can't tell anyone else. You must keep it a secret. Anyway, I won't admit that I said it after we leave this room."

Li Huaide: "Okay, okay, just tell me now, don't waste time."

He Yuzhu: "Have you heard about the incident some time ago when food appeared out of thin air in the Daqianmen neighborhood committee and the police station?"

Li Huaide: "I did listen to it. Don't listen to some people's nonsense. How could it appear out of thin air? We are the proletariat and atheists."

He Yuzhu: "My wife is also the deputy director of the Daqianmen neighborhood committee. She witnessed it with her own eyes."

Li Huaide couldn't stand He Yuzhu's smug look of praising his wife all day long, and said, "Don't mention your wife all the time, as if you've never had one in your eight generations."

Seeing that Director Li didn't believe him, He Yuzhu became anxious and continued, "It's true! There was a letter on the grain. The letter said that next year would be a year of disaster and grain production would be reduced across the country. Let us prepare in advance. The higher-ups were afraid of disturbing the people and didn't allow it to be spread."

Li Huaide: "Maybe it was an enemy agent sabotaging and deliberately disrupting social order."

He Yuzhu: "My dear director, those grains are said to be of high-quality varieties, with a particularly high yield. Could the enemy agents be so kind as to give us high-quality seeds?"

Li Huaide: "Then what do you mean by telling me this? To let me prepare early and store some food?"

He Yuzhu: "Of course. You are the logistics director of our steel mill, in charge of everyone's food problem. If a disaster comes and food supply is insufficient, it will be your responsibility. On the contrary, if we can store some food in advance, when other units are hungry, our factory will have food to eat. Then you will have done a great deed. With this merit, it will be a sure thing for you to be promoted to deputy factory director. When the time comes, I will also benefit from it, hehe."

Director Li narrowed his eyes and looked at He Yuzhu: "I find that you are becoming more and more cunning, but you are right! Even if there is no drought, it is not a loss to store more food. You can sell it in minutes."

He Yuzhu nodded repeatedly and continued, "The letter also said that the newspaper reports of yields of several thousand or tens of thousands of kilograms per mu were all bragging. If you think about it carefully, one mu of land in the countryside can only produce 500 kilograms at most. There have been so many lies that many people believe them to be true, believing that the country has more food than it can eat, which has led to a lot of unnecessary waste. Therefore, all signs indicate that food will definitely be in short supply next year or the year after. Of course, we know this in our hearts and must not spread it outside, lest we be arrested as enemy agents, which would be troublesome."

Li Huaide pondered for a while and said, "You said that food is rationed now, how can we buy food?"

He Yuzhu scratched his head. "Now everyone is making steel, and we are running to achieve 1070. We are a steel rolling mill, and the labor intensity is high. We must ensure that the workers are well fed so that they can work better. Let's use this as an excuse to go to the Commerce Bureau to ask for grain. Of course, it would be better if someone from above can speak up. As the saying goes, the crying child gets the milk. We can ask for as much as we can. In addition, do you have any connections in the Northeast? I heard that there is a bumper harvest of grain in the Northeast this year. We can use the same reason to ask the purchasing department of the factory to go to the Northeast to buy grain, whether it is corn, sorghum, rice, or soybeans. As long as it is edible, we will send a car to bring it back. There are also some ingredients that do not require tickets, such as large vermicelli, dried kelp, etc., which can be stored. In short, there are always more solutions than problems. Think about it and there will always be a way."

Li Huaide nodded: "I didn't expect you to have so many ideas. Let me think about it first." Li Huaide planned to go to his father-in-law tonight to listen to his opinion.

He Yuzhu finished what he had to say and wanted to get up and leave. Li Huaide said, "By the way, our factory has recently expanded its production scale and needs to recruit a group of workers. I will reserve three recruitment quotas for you."

He Yuzhu said happily: "Thank you Director Li, I know that following Director Li is not a loss. Then I'll leave first." After leaving the office, he couldn't hide the smile on his face. If the three recruitment quotas were sold, they could be sold for about 1500 yuan. Director Li is really nice. It seems that this trip is right and worthwhile.

Since Xu Huizhen gave birth to KunKun, she has been distracted by this little kid and there is no elder at home to help. Fortunately, Hu Yingzi helps her take care of him.

Li'er is 4 years old this year, which is the age when people hate dogs. Her pet dog has grown up and is not as cute as it was when it was a child. Coincidentally, her mother gave her a younger brother, and she treated him as a toy, often coming over to rub and poke him when the adults were not paying attention.

Kun Kun was happily chewing his finger by himself, but his sister hurt him without any care, and then he burst into tears, which made Xu Huizhen very worried. She secretly sighed that it is not easy to raise a child.

After He Yuzhu returned home, he told Xu Huizhen about the three recruitment quotas and asked if there was anyone who needed to be arranged. Xu Huizhen thought for a while and said, "How about giving one quota to Da Shuanzi from Secretary Feng's family in Xikou Village? It will be convenient for us to eat seafood in the future." Now that people's communes have been established in rural areas, village heads have been renamed secretaries.

He Yuzhu said, "Okay. The third uncle in the yard had asked me a long time ago to find a job for his eldest son Yan Jiecheng. Sell him a job. There is one left that cannot be sold. I'll sell it to whoever pays more."

Xu Huizhen: "Sell it to the secretary of Xu Jianmei Village. Ever since Xu Jianmu came to the city, he has been eagerly hoping that I can find a job for his son. But the quota cannot be given to them for free. Don't let them think it's easy to get a job quota. They will come to me in the future and you won't be able to get rid of them."

He Yuzhu asked: "Let's take 300 yuan symbolically. We don't need that little money. Just say it's for building relationships."

After the matter was settled, Xu Huizhen wrote a letter to Secretary Feng, stating that there was a job vacancy at the steel rolling mill that would cost 300 yuan, and asked for their opinions and whether they wanted to give her a reply.