The Fiery Era of Siheyuan

Chapter 102, Customs Pay

Soon, it will be the weekend, the 23rd of the lunar calendar, the small year.

Today is the closing day for the entire steel rolling mill, and it is also the last day of work this year.

In the morning, all the workshops were basically shut down. The workers were repairing, cleaning up the machines, or cleaning the workshops. They waited to receive their salaries after lunch. After receiving their salaries, they could go home directly, and they would not start work until the eighth day of the Lunar New Year.

It was around eleven o'clock, just after dinner time, Zheng Shan and Yang Xiaojun came over.

"Chief, it's time for lunch, let's hurry up."

"It's just eating, why are you in such a hurry?"

Zheng Shan scratched his head and said with a smile: "Hey, isn't it that you can get your salary after eating? Go early and get it early."

Li Weiguo gave him a blank look, and said: "Come on, there are tens of thousands of people who want to get it early. Don't worry about it, you still have to queue up when you go. I don't know how long it will take. Why don't you hang out in the office after dinner?" Son, besides, accountants and cashiers can’t run away, so why worry.”

Zheng Shan thought about it, then shrugged his shoulders: "Okay, you still have high concentration."

Li Weiguo smiled frankly. It wasn't that he had high concentration, but that he didn't expect that salary to live at all, so he didn't have the excitement of receiving salary.

45 yuan a month may be a lot for others, but for Li Weiguo, it is a lot, and it is not enough for him to go to the non-staple food store.

He, Li Weiguo, Li Laocai, has an income of tens of thousands a month, do he still need to queue up in a hurry to receive that 45 salary? No way.

"By the way, Shanzi, Xiaojun, what are you going to buy for the new year?"

Zheng Shan thought for a while and said, "Well, for the Chinese New Year, I will pull some fabric to make clothes for my wife and children, and then I will buy some pork and make dumplings for the New Year."

Yang Xiaojun on the side also nodded and said: "I am also similar. I will take off my old lady's clothes and buy some pork. I will have a good meal for the Chinese New Year. I just don't know if it is good to buy it for the Chinese New Year. Pork is in short supply at the end of each year, and I get up all night long to wait in line." No team may be able to buy fat."

The pork supply of the residents of the imperial capital is only four taels per person per month, and only four catties a year. Generally, there is no meat a few times a year. Most of the meat tickets will be saved until the end of the year. During the Chinese New Year, buy some meat for a good year.

But where is the meat at the end of the year so easy to buy? This is more difficult than usual.

Ordinary people buy less meat, and occasionally they can buy some fat meat. At the end of the year, there are too many people buying meat, and they all line up and wave the meat tickets they have saved for more than half a year to consume. If they can buy half fat and thin meat, they are considered lucky. If you are unlucky, you can only buy lean meat, and there is no way to pick it.

"You guys should buy less pork. I have a friend who works in a supply and marketing cooperative and reserved a lot for me. I can't eat much by myself. I will share some with you later."

"This boss, you have helped us so much, how dare we ask for your pork." Zheng Shan said embarrassedly.

Li Weiguo waved his hand and said, "Okay, don't be hypocritical, I don't lack this, just treat it as my New Year's gift to your family."

There are tens of thousands of catties of meat in his space, and it is no problem to take some out to take care of the people around him.

Maybe it's the end of the year holiday, and today's lunch is much richer than usual.

I usually cook rice, either cabbage and radishes, or radishes and potatoes. The staple food is steamed buns, corn tortillas, and occasionally steamed buns with Erhe noodles, meat and so on, and I don’t see them twice a month.

Today's situation is different. I looked at the small blackboard on the window in the cafeteria, hey, good guy, five meat, one vegetable and one soup, full of oil and water.

Stir-fried pork with shredded potatoes, braised lion's head, steamed pork ribs with rice flour, ants climbing a tree, braised rabbit meat, tofu and cabbage, plus a pork offal soup. Even the staple food is the same, steamed buns with Erhe noodles. Employees may not have the ones in the factory during the Chinese New Year. It was a good meal, but the workers who were queuing up to eat were very excited.

Fortunately, Li Huaide got an extra [-] catties of pork from Li Weiguo two days ago, otherwise the rolling mill would not be willing to make such a thing, and it would be considered generous to provide half meat and half vegetarian every other week.

"Give me a braised lion's head, an ant climbing a tree, a braised rabbit meat, and then three steamed buns."

Liu Lan was in charge of cooking, the one who was seized by Li Huaide and threatened to become his lover in the future, but this has not happened yet.

Li Weiguo usually took ingredients to the back kitchen for Shazhu to help process. Every time he finished work, he would leave some meat for the back kitchen. Even Liu Lan and the others got a lot of benefits from these helpers.

When she saw that Li Weiguo was coming, she didn't say a word. She blinked at Li Weiguo ghostly. The two lunch boxes in the house were filled to the brim, almost catching up with the weight of two dishes.

Li Weiguo grinned, gave him a thankful look, then silently covered the lunch box and left. There were a lot of people behind him, and he didn't dare to let others see him, otherwise he would have to make a fuss.

After lunch, Li Weiguo didn't rush to line up in the finance department, and went directly to the security department to find his master Wang Zhenhai.

As soon as he entered the office of the security unit, he saw his master sitting there drinking tea leisurely, waiting for the salary to be paid for the holiday.

"Master, why are you so leisurely?"

"Hehe, it's okay, why don't you go to collect your salary, but come here instead?" Wang Zhenhai said with a smile.

"Hey, the accountant can't run away, so why worry. I have something to ask you."

Li Weiguo smiled and put the half catty of "West Lake Longjing" on the old man's table, then took out a bag of Daqianmen from his pocket, pulled it out and handed it to Wang Zhenhai.

"Master, this is West Lake Longjing. Someone gave it to me. I'll bring it here for you to taste."

Wang Zhenhai took the cigarette and clipped it to his ear, then picked up the tea bag and put it in front of his nose to smell it: "Well, it's a good thing, not bad, so I'll keep it?"

"You keep it. I don't know how to taste it. I always drink tea. It's a waste to put it here."

"Okay, we master and apprentice will not give way to you."

Speaking of which, the old man happily put away the tea leaves, and then asked: "By the way, you came here specially to deliver the tea leaves, right?"

"Well, I can't hide anything from you. Isn't it the New Year's Eve? I'm thinking that it will be lively when you spend time with me, and the chef Shazhu of the canteen is from my courtyard. I'll make some When the good things come back, let him help to make them, and the New Year's Eve dinner will be very happy."

Li Weiguo took out a match and explained while lighting a cigarette for Wang Zhenhai.

When Wang Zhenhai heard this, he was quite moved. In the past, he celebrated the New Year by himself, and it was deserted, and he didn't feel like eating a meal.

Now that I have apprentices, wouldn't it be nice to have New Year's Eve dinner together, so I won't be alone in the future.

After thinking about it, Wang Zhenhai nodded readily and said, "Okay, come and pick me up on New Year's Eve."

"Alright, I'll pick you up on time on New Year's Eve."

At four o'clock in the afternoon, everyone had almost left, and Li Weiguo and others went to line up to receive their wages.

The accounting efficiency of the finance department is still very high, and soon it was the turn of Li Weiguo and the others.

"Zheng Shan, a 12th-level security guard in the picket unit of the Security Division, has a salary of 25 yuan and [-] cents, a mission bonus of [-] yuan and [-] cents, and a year-end welfare pork of [-] taels. You can get the meat with money if you sign here."

"Yang Xiaojun, a level 12 security officer in the picket unit of the Security Division, has a salary of 25 yuan and [-] cents, a mission bonus of [-] yuan and [-] cents, and pork [-] taels. Sign here, and then go to the cashier to get the things."

The four people Liu Degui were arrested before, and those who participated in the task of the picket unit were all given a bonus, and the amount was not small, five yuan and fifty cents, enough for one person's living expenses for a month.

However, Li Weiguo did not expect that at the end of the year, Li Huaide was really willing to give each of them two taels of meat. The total of more than 1 employees added up to almost two thousand catties.

"Chief Li, you are a security officer, a 24th-level cadre, with a salary of 45 yuan, a task bonus of 50 yuan, and a bonus of [-] yuan from the police station. The total is [-] yuan, and half a catty of pork. You can sign here become."

"Wow, Chief, what did you do today to earn so much bonus?"

Both Zheng Shan and Yang Xiaojun were shocked, it was the first time they saw so many bonuses.

Good guy, Li Weiguo didn't expect the police station to be so powerful and give out so many bonuses. It is estimated that Fan Jiuzhi, Dao Scarhui and his son, and Liu Degui's gang have all credited him, otherwise there would be so many.

"Low-key, low-key."

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After receiving the wages and pork, everyone didn't have the mood to stay in the factory anymore, and walked directly to the west gate of the factory.

"I will bring the pork to the small courtyard in Dongzhimen tomorrow morning, remember to come and pick it up tomorrow."

"Okay, thank you, Chief."

After leaving the rolling mill, the three of them separated and went back to their homes.

When Li Weiguo returned home, many of the neighbors in the courtyard had already returned. At the moment, the whole courtyard was being cleaned under the leadership of the three uncles, and the whole courtyard was full of joy and activity.

"Third Master, it's cleaning. Wait a moment. I'll help you as soon as I put down my things."

"Weiguo is back, don't be too busy, it's almost finished cleaning, we'll just finish it."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work."

"Hey, what a big deal. By the way, Weiguo, there will be a general meeting after dinner, don't forget, I won't call you when the time comes."

"A meeting? What's the content, third master?"

"What else could it be? It's just the matter of queuing up to buy food in the next few days."

grocery shopping?Need a meeting to buy groceries?
(End of this chapter)