The Fiery Era of Siheyuan

Chapter 60, Feeding

At 11:30 noon, the kitchen had already prepared the meal Li Weiguo wanted.

Forty or fifty steamed buns were placed directly under the basket. A large pot of cabbage and pork was placed on top of the steamed buns, and then covered with a lid.

After getting off work at noon, Li Weiguo went straight to the back kitchen, took the baskets, left the back kitchen, found a corner and put them away, then went back to the office building and rode his car back to the courtyard.

On the way back, Li Weiguo found an alley corner, took out ten lunch boxes with a thought while there was no one around.

Each of the 5 aluminum lunch boxes was packed with 4 steamed buns, and the other 5 lunch boxes were filled with stewed pork with cabbage.

Ten lunch boxes packed the meals, put them in net bags, and rode on the bike to continue walking to their yard.

As soon as Li Weiguo returned to the front yard of the courtyard, he saw several unemployed aunts gathered together, pointing in the direction of his house.

Seeing Li Weiguo coming back, a group of women headed by the Third Aunt and the Second Aunt came over and said, "Weiguo, how do you plan to repair this house? I see that the few masters you brought have almost destroyed you." The house was demolished.”

Li Weiguo naturally knew it, and said with a smile: "Just mess around, the doors and windows of the house have been bitten by insects, so I just dismantle them and replace them with new ones, it's just a big noise."

All the women suddenly realized.

After dismissing the gang of aunts who eat melons, Li Weiguo went straight to his house.

When I got back to the door of the house, the scene was a mess.

All the doors and windows on the front of the house were removed, and the abandoned doors and windows were piled aside, making the whole house look like it was missing one side.

In the house, Hong An was still repainting the walls with the big guys. It was already noon, and he didn't stop to rest, so he was serious and responsible.

Li Weiguo nodded secretly, parked his bicycle, and shouted to several people: "Master Hong, tell everyone to rest, it's noon, wash your hands, you can eat."

Hong An stopped when he heard the sound, and shouted to everyone to stop.

After a while, the four people came out of the room one after another. They all wore newspaper hats on their heads. There were a lot of white spots of paint on their bodies. They patted the dust on their hands and washed their hands with a basin of water.

After cleaning up, they each took the lunch box from Li Weiguo.

After working all morning, they were all hungry. They opened the two lunch boxes in their hands and saw that there were four steamed buns squeezed into one lunch box, and the other was full of stewed pork with cabbage.

This meal is quite high-standard, with four steamed buns as the staple food, which is full of weight.

The lunch box is also full of pork stewed with cabbage. Although there are only five or six pieces of pork, it is all thick fat. Even the cabbage has a lot of oil floating on it. It looks full of oil and water at first glance.

Hong An and the others were very satisfied, secretly praised the host's atmosphere, this meal is better than usual at home.

Although, according to the rules, they go out to work, and the master's family has to provide a meal every day.

But the meal is the meal, so it doesn't matter what to eat, it depends on the mood of the person.

If you meet a generous host, they can give you a meal of steamed buns with two-height noodles and some vegetarian dishes.

If you meet someone who is hungry, just give him two steamed buns or a few steamed sweet potatoes, and a few pickles.

With such a shortage of food recently, it is quite impressive to be able to meet this standard.

Hong An and the others immediately took their lunch boxes to the table moved to the side and started eating.

Before I had even taken a few bites, two chefs closed the lunch box and stopped eating.

Li Weiguo asked suspiciously: "A few masters, are the dishes not to your liking?"

A black and thin chef waved his hand and said: "No, no. It's just that the food is so good. It's rare to eat something so oily and watery for a while. I just want to take it home for my family to eat." She scratched her head sheepishly.

Hearing what he said, Li Weiguo suddenly felt a little heartbroken and didn't know what to say.

No matter what, this is what people want for their families, and you can't stop others.

Li Weiguo was silent for a while and said to Hong An and others: "Originally, I planned to provide you with food every day according to this label, but seeing that you are so reluctant to eat is not a problem. You can't work hungry every day, right? .

How about this, I will give you half a catty of grain per person per day, and 1 tael of fat pork for you. You originally worked for five days, but I will count it for you for 10 days.Directly give each person 5 catties of white flour and 1 catty of fatty pork.You can arrange your own lunch, can you? "

When Hong An and others heard this, they were immediately overjoyed. How could they disagree?

Not to mention white flour, according to the ration of 30 catties of grain for adults, fine grains account for 9%, and only [-] catties are supplied for a month.

Pork is 4 taels per person per month. This is a month, and you can imagine how short of oil and water it is. A catty of pork is enough to feed the whole family for a week or so.

Hong An immediately said: "Then thank you, Chief Li. Don't worry, I will let them bring their own lunch every day, and they will not work hungry. I promise to do a good job for you."

Li Weiguo nodded: "That's fine, you eat first, I will bring you back the things after get off work in the afternoon, and send them to you all at once. Eat everything for today, don't work hungry."

Everyone was a little embarrassed. They didn't talk about eating here but took it home. It would be bad if they still worked hungry and delayed their business.

So they didn't save any more food and started eating obediently.

After explaining to everyone, Li Weiguo pushed the cart and was about to go out.

Just as he was about to cross the second door, Hong An suddenly remembered something, stopped him, and followed quickly.

Li Weiguo turned around curiously, what's the matter?

Hong An followed quickly, and said to Li Weiguo: "Captain Li, didn't you say you wanted to find a whole set of ancient furniture?"

"That's right, you have connections?" Li Weiguo asked doubtfully.

"I have a friend who works in a trust store. When he met me yesterday, he mentioned the furniture. He said that the trust store has a batch of antique furniture, all of which are in good condition. If you are interested, you can go to him to have a look, but It's better to be early, it's hard to say if it's too late, many good things are their own internal priorities." Hong An said with a smile.

Trust stores, also known as "consignment stores and consignment stores", refer to those stores that accept the entrustment of customers and sell used goods on their behalf.

Furniture, home appliances, industrial products and even old objects that are not used by ordinary people will be sent to trust stores for consignment. If you want to buy antique furniture, you really have to find places like trust stores.

Li Weiguo asked: "Okay, thank you for the news. What's your friend's name and which trust store is it? I'll go and have a look."

Although I heard that there are good things in the trust store, but Li Weiguo hasn't been there much, and I don't know if there are any.

Since Hong An mentioned it, let’s go and take a look.

"My name is Tong Dahai, and I work as a buyer at Beixinqiao Trust Store. I used to be a pawnshop keeper, but after liberation, pawnshops stopped working and many of them were converted into trust stores." Hong An introduced his friend's situation to Li Weiguo For a moment.

The pawnbroker?

Hearing Hong An's introduction, Li Weiguo became interested.

I secretly thought in my heart that to be able to be the shopkeeper of a pawn shop, this person must have a lot of knowledge in antiques, and maybe we can cooperate in the future.

So he nodded, thanked him for the news, and prepared to take a trip to see the situation.

After leaving the courtyard, Li Weiguo first went back to the steel rolling mill, asked Dong Hongjun for a half-day leave, and then rode his bicycle all the way to Beixinqiao.

(End of this chapter)