Siheyuan: Struggle Begins in the 1950s

In one morning, Wang Jianjun followed Zhao Fei to several houses.

By noon, their bamboo baskets were almost full.

Zhao Fei called Wang Jianjun and found a shady place to eat.

When I took out the packed food, it was already cold, but I didn’t care in such a hot day, as long as it wasn’t spoiled.

Wang Jianjun tried the big pot dish cooked by Sha Zhu, and the taste was just okay.

After all, if there is a lack of oil and seasoning, no matter how good your cooking skills are, the food will not taste very good.

If you want to test out Sha Zhu’s cooking skills, you have to rely on Xiao Zao.

But it’s not my turn to eat from the small kitchen.

After finishing the meal in a few bites, Zhao Fei asked Wang Jianjun about his plans for the afternoon.

With Wang Jianjun's help, Zhao Fei has almost completed today's purchasing task. He plans to visit each household in the afternoon.

He would greet the villagers in advance and ask them to save the good things for him to purchase next time. He could even help bring the things to his relatives who needed to go to the city to purchase but it was inconvenient for them to do so next time.

The buyers need to build good relationships with the villagers so that they will be willing to sell to you. After all, there are more than one steel mill going to the countryside to purchase, and the prices are similar, so it doesn't matter who you sell to.

Wang Jianjun directly suggested that he wanted to go to the back mountain alone in the afternoon. In the morning, he saw dried mushrooms and bamboo shoots among the ingredients collected by Zhao Fei, which meant that there should be bamboo in the back mountain.

He wanted to see if he could get some bamboo to plant in the space.

Bamboo is a very good building material.

He can't buy a bed now, but he can make a bamboo bed himself.

Bamboo shoots are also a good ingredient.

After dinner, Wang Jianjun said goodbye to Zhao Fei. As for the bicycle, he temporarily parked it at the home of one of his relatives.

Following the direction Zhao Fei pointed, we arrived at the back mountain.

Normally, the climate in Sijiu City is not suitable for bamboo growth, but there is a small river passing by the back mountain of Zhaojiazhuang, and bamboo can grow if there is sufficient water.

The weather is hot now, but the bamboo forest in the back mountain makes it much cooler.

Wang Jianjun looked around and saw that there was no one around, so he took out a hatchet and a hoe from the space.

He bought this yesterday after visiting several supply and marketing cooperatives.

Then he turned on the human excavator mode and started digging at the plants on the ground.

We mainly dug some grasses that we had never seen before and some small shrubs and saplings.

There are still so many places in his own space that have not been planted. The Chinese people's talent for farming makes him unable to see the land left empty, especially those with fertile soil.

After digging up the saplings, Wang Jianjun turned his attention to the bamboos.

Forget about bamboo shoots.

It is not Qingming Festival now, and the bamboo shoots don’t taste good.

He found a piece of soft soil in an area with dense bamboos and dug down for a while. Soon, he dug out a thick bamboo whip.

Grass like bamboo generally reproduces asexually. As long as you dig up bamboo rhizomes with roots, you can grow a new bamboo forest in a few years.

In order to improve efficiency, Wang Jianjun dug up more than a dozen bamboo shoots at one time and directly stored them in the space and planted them on the mountain.

These bamboo shoots are evenly buried in several hills in the space. Don’t expect them to grow much in the first four years. This magical grass usually takes root in the ground for three or four years before it starts to grow wildly.

When the growth is fast, it is normal to grow several dozen centimeters a day, which is a typical case of gradual growth.

In addition to the bamboo whips, Wang Jianjun also cut down a lot of mature bamboos and stored them in the space.

He planned to dry these in the shade and then use them to make bamboo beds and chairs.

After finishing all these, Wang Jianjun looked at the time and saw that it was almost time, so he packed up and walked towards the village.

When Zhao Fei saw Wang Jianjun coming back, he smiled and said:

"How is it, did you gain anything?"

Wang Jianjun waved his hands, "I didn't even see a bamboo shoot."

"There is a skill to digging bamboo shoots, but the bamboo shoots in this season are bitter and not tasty. There is no point in digging them. I will take you to buy some chicks first."

As he said that, he took Wang Jianjun to find Zhao Laosi's house.

With Zhao Fei's presence, Zhao Laosi directly sold all the extra chicks to him, and also sold a few ducklings.

This can be considered an unexpected gain.

As for the goose that is the bully in the village, Wang Jianjun asked around and found out that no one in the village raises geese.

The main reason is that the geese eat a lot but lay few eggs, so the villagers think it is not cost-effective to raise them, so they don't raise them.

This time, I bought a total of thirteen chicks and six ducklings.

There are five hens and two ducks.

Wang Jianjun didn't mind either.

All the females are kept to lay eggs and expand the population. The males can be killed and eaten for meat after breeding. When the females can no longer lay eggs, they can be sold to steel mills.

I am simply the Zhou Baopi of the poultry world.

Wang Jianjun, in a good mood, generously paid Zhao Laosi the price of a broiler chicken.

Zhao Laosi felt a little embarrassed. After all, chicks and broiler chickens cannot have the same price.

Finally, he gave Wang Jianjun two bamboo cages that he had woven himself.

After buying the chicks and ducklings, Wang Jianjun followed Zhao Fei towards the steel mill.

Your colleagues in logistics will not wait for you to go back before leaving get off work.

After rushing all the way, the two finally arrived at the steel mill half an hour before the end of get off work.

Go to the logistics department to find the weigher to weigh and reconcile the accounts. After confirmation, the ingredients are transported to the logistics warehouse. The accountant will write a receipt according to the purchased items, and Zhao Fei can take the receipt to the finance office to collect the money.

Zhao Fei took Wang Jianjun to familiarize himself with the process, then said goodbye to Wang Jianjun and went to collect the money with the note.

Wang Jianjun found a deserted place, put the chickens and ducklings into the space, and then went to return the bicycle and the pistol.

If these things are lost, he will have to pay for them.

There is still some time before the end of get off work, but people in the purchasing department do not need to abide by working hours, Zhao Fei also told him this.

As long as you have a good relationship with your colleagues in the security department, it’s no problem to be late or leave early.

The answer is that I went to do the shopping.

This is what Wang Jianjun is most satisfied with. Wasn't it for this reason that he chose to be a purchasing agent?

Serious people who like to work.

Not wanting to eat dinner in the cafeteria, and looking at the limited space left for his food and meat coupons, Wang Jianjun decided to splurge once more today and go to Quanjude in the evening to try the delicacies of that era.

In the workshop on the other side, Yi Zhonghai, who had been busy all day, held his waist and prepared to stretch his muscles.

Being a fitter is a technical job as well as a physical job. You can't do this job without some strength.

On the other side, Dongxu was sitting at his workstation and slacking off for a while.

The phenomenon of workers slacking off at work in this era was much more serious than in later generations.

Not everyone can be selfless.

Only things that no one wants to do will be used as slogans for promotion.

Jia Dongxu knows very well that his work belongs to the factory, but his body belongs to himself.

If I work too hard during the day, I won’t have the energy to discuss the origin of life with my wife at night.

He is a typical lazy guy in the workshop, but he has a good master and everyone turns a blind eye to him.

At this moment, he was looking at the time on the clock in the workshop and thinking about how to take revenge on Wang Jianjun.

He glanced at his master and asked in a low voice:

"Master, did the workshop director say when Wang Jianjun will be transferred here?"