The Fiery Era of Siheyuan

Chapter 175, Response

After sending Hong Feng away, Li Weiguo didn't think about it any more, and continued to process the documents in his hand with his head down.

At this moment, the newly installed old-fashioned rocker telephone on the table suddenly rang with a beeping sound.

Li Weiguo picked up the microphone and said, "Hi, I'm Li Weiguo."

"Section Chief Li, there are two people here at the West Gate who say they are your junior high school classmates, Zhou Can and Zhao Guobing, who came to see you." The guard on duty at the West Gate was on the other end of the phone.

Fatty and soldiers?
Why did these two boys come to the steel rolling mill to look for him when they were not at work during working hours?
Li Weiguo was puzzled for a moment, didn't think much, and ordered: "Okay, I understand, you let them sit in the duty room first, and I will come right away."

"Okay, Li Ke."

After putting down the phone, Li Weiguo gathered the documents in his hand, put on his police hat and walked towards the west gate.

The west gate is also relatively close to the security department, and it only takes a few minutes to get there.

When we arrived at the west gate, we hadn't even entered the duty room yet. Through the door, we could hear Zhou Can bragging and spanking with the doorman and guard in the room.

"I'm telling you, it's not that you Fat Brother is bragging, just go to the Daokou Supply and Marketing Cooperative. It may not be easy to find someone else, but it will definitely work if you go to Fat Brother. Whatever you want to buy, Fat Brother will definitely help you. We are here. This is what you do."

Li Weiguo heard the sound and took a look into the duty room, "Hey, good guy, Fatty is really able to chat with people wherever he goes. In such a short time, he was flirting with the guard there. He is really a social slut."

Li Weiguo went straight into the duty room, and saw that he was blowing too loudly, so he teased and said, "You fat brother, can you help me buy a wife?"

"Daughter-in-law." Zhou Can shut down at once, turned his head to look at the sound, and then realized that it was Li Weiguo who came, and immediately scolded with a smile: "Hey, I knew it was you who made fun of me."

"Hahaha who told you to play for half an hour every time you meet someone, if you don't make fun of me, who are you going to make fun of?" Zhao Guobing also teased.

"Oh, you are careless in making friends, you two losers, you know how to tear me down." Zhou Can gave the two losers a resentful look.

Li Weiguo rolled his eyes at him with a smile, ignored his pretense, and asked: "Okay, don't be poor. Why are you two free today? Come to the steel rolling mill and don't go to work today?"

At this time, Zhao Guobing took over the conversation and said, "Hey, I need your help with something. Let's find a place to talk."

"Okay, you guys come with me."

Office of the deputy section chief on the second floor of the Security Section.

After Li Weiguo led the two back to the office, he called them to sit down, took out cigarettes from his pockets and smoked one each.

Zhou Can took the cigarette, looked at the office carefully, and said with a smile, "Okay, Wei Guo, you are now the deputy section chief. Your promotion is like a rocket. You have jumped several levels in a row. The office is all equipped."

Zhao Guobing also attacked with a smile: "That is, if we don't come, we don't know. How long are we going to hide from us?"

Zhao Guobing was also shocked. Even with such good family conditions, his father or the deputy director of the food department couldn't be promoted so fast. Li Weiguo's speed really surprised them both.

Li Weiguo chuckled: "I just got promoted yesterday. I haven't had time to tell you. I can't make a special call to your unit to show off my promotion."

Zhou Can and Zhang Guobing rolled their eyes at him when they heard this, but they were still happy for his brother's promotion.

The three of them chatted for a while, and then Li Weiguo asked: "Tell me, you two are not at work, why did you come to my place all the time?"

"Hey, Wei Guo, I'm going to get married this weekend, I'll come here to tell you, and I'll ask you for a favor." Zhao Guobing laughed.

"Get married? So soon?" Li Weiguo was surprised.

"It's not fast, we've been talking for almost a year. If my father-in-law didn't want to observe and observe, we would have gotten married long ago." Zhao Guobing explained.

After Zhao Guobing said this, Li Weiguo remembered that we are no longer in the 21st century. Before getting married, you still have to fall in love for three to five years. Now, it is the age here to meet each other on a blind date. It only takes a few days to feel that there is nothing wrong with it. Just ask for a marriage certificate.

Although free love is advocated these days, in the end arranged marriages are still the mainstay, and even Zhao Guobing's situation has been around for a long time.

Zhao Guobing's target, Yuan Manxia, ​​was recruited by his family, and the other party's family is not simple. His father-in-law is his immediate boss's immediate boss, the first brother of the Jiaodaokou Sub-district Office, Director Yuan, and the two families are well matched.

Li Weiguo nodded and said: "Okay, I see. Zhou Can and I will go to help you at that time, but you don't need to go to my work unit to inform you about this?" Li Weiguo looked at them curiously. .

Zhou Can chuckled: "Sure enough, I still can't hide it from our Chief Li. Isn't it because the ingredients for the national soldiers' wedding banquet are missing? I came to you to ask about the connection. You can't bear to ask us to eat vegetables and radishes then."

Hearing this, Li Weiguo looked at Zhao Guobing in surprise, and asked, "Isn't our Uncle Zhao the deputy director of the Grain Department? Isn't this little thing easy to grab, and you need to search around?"

Zhao Guobing smiled wryly, and explained: "Hey, don't mention it, in this special period, my father is not easy to owe favors everywhere, and my father-in-law has spoken, he wants to see my ability, let me solve it by myself, it is a test.

Vegetables, side dishes and other ingredients, I don’t have a problem, and our capital is not short of these. In addition, the family has saved some dry goods and canned food over the years. Now the main shortage is meat and eggs and other ingredients. This time, we will set up six tables. For the main course, you have to get a few hard dishes, it can't be too shabby, right?

For this reason, I went to the pigeon market in Deshengmen and Jianguomen in the past two days, but I couldn't buy any hair, which made me anxious to death. "

Li Weiguo nodded to express his understanding. It is indeed difficult to hold banquets these days. In the past, if you had money, you could go to the pigeon market and find a way to buy some high-priced meat.

However, supplies are indeed scarce this year. Many people doing business in the pigeon market have stopped doing business. It's not that they don't want to sell, but they don't have enough food at home, so they are willing to spend money elsewhere.

Some time ago, the "tackling" people raided the ghost market and arrested many people. Now the four major pigeon markets in the imperial capital are still in a state of turmoil, with even fewer people coming out to do business. Even he has suspended selling to Lao Fu and As for the supply of hamsters, we will wait until the news passes.

"How much do you want?" Li Weiguo asked.

Zhao Guobing made a guess and said, "Six tables of banquets, each table can have a catty of meat. I also saved some canned meat at home. It will be enough to gather two or three meat dishes at once. The best eggs can be obtained." , if you can’t get it, forget it.”

He originally wanted to ask for two catties of meat per table, but considering the current market situation, he didn't feel ashamed to ask. Instead, he said that each table would cost one catty, and a few dishes with a few slices of meat, dipped in oil and water would count as meat dishes .

As for eggs, he has no hope. Eggs are now more in demand than meat, and most people can't afford them.

Li Weiguo rubbed his chin, but he didn't pay much attention to this matter. Tens of thousands of catties of meat can be produced in his space every month, and the unsalable meat is piled up in the static warehouse. It's a trivial matter to take out some.

So he nodded in agreement: "Okay, I'll help you with the meat. I'll give you ten kilograms of meat when the time comes. I'll bring it to you at the weekend. By the way, have you found the cook?"

"Uh, I haven't looked for it yet. I'm busy looking for ingredients. I haven't had time yet." Zhao Guobing scratched his head in embarrassment. For a while, he couldn't care less about his head than his buttocks.

Li Weiguo gave him a blank look, and said: "How about this, let Sha Zhu take the spoon for you at that time, he often cooks banquets, and his craftsmanship is not bad. When the weekend comes, he and I will bring the ingredients to your house and be at your command." .”

After hearing this, Zhao Guobing was immediately convinced that his brothers would definitely not cheat him. Since Li Weiguo agreed, there must be channels to get the ingredients.

After a trip, the ingredients and the cook were done, and I finally let go of a worry.

"Okay, that's great, thank you Weiguo." Zhao Guobing said happily.

"Hey thanks shit, what a big deal."

(End of this chapter)