Rebirth in the leisurely life of the red age

Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill, No. 1 Canteen.

The reception room on the second floor.

The leaders of several steel rolling mills were entertaining guests, and the tables were full of sumptuous food and drinks.

It has not yet reached a difficult period, and the commune still has a lot of money, let alone a heavy industry enterprise as big as the steel rolling mill.

"Well, Director Yang, Deputy Director Li, and Deputy Director Nie, the chefs in your cafeteria are really good at it. I haven't had such authentic Tan family food in many years. This Cao Ru steamed chicken is really authentic. ! Oh, my wife loves this dish the best, but it’s hard to find a successor to Tan’s cuisine. I didn’t expect you have one here. Director Yang, can you please bring out the cook? I’d like to ask for advice.”

Zhao Lianze, director of the Zhongshi Metallurgical Engineering Project of the Ministry of Metallurgy, was very satisfied with the meal. It seems that he is also an old man who loves delicious food very much, otherwise he would not make such a request.

Yang Wanli, the director of the steel rolling mill, laughed and said to deputy director Li Huaide: "Deputy director Li is in charge of logistics and the canteen. Deputy director Li, can you call the chef and let Director Zhao meet?"

Li Huaide smiled hurriedly and said, "It's easy to talk." Then he said to the logistics director Wang Zhaoguo: "Go to the cafeteria and call He Yuzhu."

After speaking, he explained to Director Zhao: "This Comrade He Yuzhu is a Tan family cook. He is also proficient in Sichuan cuisine. He is an expert at making fried sea cucumbers and Dongpo pork elbows. He is an eighth-level chef in our canteen."

Zhao Lianze was surprised and said: "Since your skills are so good, why are you only an eighth-level chef? Is it because of your background or bad ingredients?"

The professional titles of chefs and workers are different. For workers, level 8 is the highest, but for chefs, it is the other way around. Level 1 is the highest, and level 8 is the minions.

Li Huaide was waiting for this sentence. He smiled and said: "That's not true. He Yuzhu's family has three generations of farm laborers, and his background is no problem. It's just that this man is too arrogant and unreasonable. His father called him Silly Zhu when he was a child. People who know him I have almost forgotten his real name, He Yuzhu, and they all call him Silly Zhu. This man can’t speak. If he says something wrong later, Director Zhao, please don’t be angry, our factory will punish him."

Zhao Lianze waved his hands and said: "No, no, since you know that this comrade can't speak, why are you still angry? Besides, for this kind of skilled worker, craftsmanship is the first priority. As long as the ingredients are okay and the ideas are okay, then the words The stinkier it is, the stinkier it is. I don’t know about other departments, but our Metallurgical Department has too few senior engineers with bad tempers? As long as you are willing to serve the people, just put up with the rest!"

Everyone laughed, and Yang Wanli said with a smile: "Director Zhao is so right. When we face the eighth-level workers in the factory, we are all good gentlemen. When others get angry and lose their temper, we have to give in and coax them."

After a while, Shazhu was invited.

He still looked generous, even though he acted quieter, but his eyes were darting back and forth, and it was obvious that he didn't take these officials too seriously.

Seeing him like this, Li Huaide frowned and shouted: "Silly Zhu, today is the leader from the ministry, please be respectful."

Silly Zhu chuckled and said, "I don't understand what you are saying. How can I respect you and kowtow? Then I don't know how. How about you teach me?"

Zhao Lianze stopped Li Huaide and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, Comrade He Yuzhu, I called you up to express my gratitude. Your craftsmanship is extraordinary, especially the steamed chicken with grass, which is quite good. Can you tell me, this How is the dish made?"

When Silly Zhu heard that he knew something, he said happily: "Hey, this leader, you are the one who knows the stuff. Usually they would order chicken stewed with mushrooms and eat that rich aroma. It's so vulgar! This grass-roasted steamed chicken is Tan It's a top-quality home-cooked dish. It's not impossible to tell how it's made.

Put the caoru in a bowl, add warm water and cover it tightly with a plate. After the caoru is soaked, take it out and leave the original soup in the bowl for clarification. Put the caoru in warm water to wash away the sediment, remove the roots and tear off the skin, and then rinse with clean water. Cut the hen meat into pieces and add caoru. Mix the clear caoru soup with salt, soy sauce, sugar, cooked chicken oil, wet starch, green onions, and ginger slices. Mix well. Steam over high heat for 20 minutes. Take it out. , pick out the green onions and ginger slices, and put them into a plate.

However, it sounds simple, but when it comes to making it, the cooking techniques and cooking techniques are all taken into consideration.

So even if I teach you, you will probably..."

He shook his head, obviously not thinking that Zhao Lianze was so smart.

The corners of Li Huaide's eyes twitched and he warned: "Silly Zhu, don't get carried away. What kind of person Director Zhao is, you can learn from him, but can Director Zhao learn from him?"

Silly Zhu said seriously: "That's ridiculous! Anyway, you can learn it after listening to it once. I've only seen one person, and the others should just stop eating!"

Zhao Lianze chuckled and said, "Is it true that you can learn it just by listening to it once?"

Silly Zhu said a little depressed: "It's true. The one from our courtyard is also from the steel rolling mill and works as a doctor in the workers' hospital. Hey, that guy is the smartest I have ever seen. No matter what dish it is, you can remember it after being taught it once. The more he does, the better he gets. It doesn’t matter if he is good at cooking, but his medical skills are above average. This person is truly a first-rate talent!"

He was very lively when he heard what he said, but the people present here were all veterans who had experienced many things. They just thought he was talking nonsense. Yang Wanli smiled and said "yo" and said: "We still have such a factory. genius?"

Silly Zhu chuckled, looked at the always smiling and taciturn Deputy Director Nie Yuanchao and said enigmatically: "Deputy Director Nie must have heard of it."

Nie Yuanchao's expression remained unchanged and he smiled and said, "Oh? How do you say this?"

Silly Zhu said happily: "Deputy Director Nie, you don't know? Go home and ask your daughter. My brother Li Yuan is very famous among the unmarried lesbians in our steel rolling mill. How many people deliberately go to the Traditional Chinese Medicine Department? Look at him, he was chased away by your daughter! Everyone in the cafeteria today..."

"Silly pillar!"

Logistics director Wang Zhaoguo's face turned dark and he scolded: "What nonsense are you talking about? Comrade Nie Yu is trying to prevent irrelevant people from disrupting the normal order of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Why are there so many messy things?"

Silly Zhu had always looked down on the logistics director. He squinted and sneered: "Am I talking nonsense? If you don't believe me, go out and ask around to find out whether it's me who is talking nonsense or someone who is telling lies with their eyes open."

"Okay, okay, Silly Zhu, you have nothing to do here. You can go out."

Li Huaide said with a big head, if this kid didn't have really good cooking skills, he would have found a way to send his grandson to the workshop.

He just opens his mouth and keeps talking nonsense all day long.

Nie Yuanchao was a low-key person who usually remained quiet, but Li Huaide learned from his father-in-law who was in a high position that Nie Yuanchao had a strong backbone.

It's just that people are used to not fighting or grabbing, and keeping a low profile.

It really ruined the daughter's reputation. No matter how good-tempered she was, she would still get angry.

Zhao Lianze was also a little curious. He obviously knew some basics and asked Nie Yuanchao: "Old Nie, why didn't your girl go to 301?"

Nie Yuanchao shook his head, as if he didn't want to say anything more, and just said: "She is determined to be an honorable working class person, and it is good to be here."

Zhao Lianze smiled deeply and stopped mentioning the matter. He only said to Yang Wanli: "It seems that the strength of the steel rolling mill cannot be underestimated. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon! Director Yang has done a good job..."

Another round of pushing cups and changing cups begins, but I don't know what impact it will have on Li Yuan.

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On the east side of Jingshan, there is Sanyanjing Hutong.

"Dad is back?"

In the carpeted living room, Nie Yu, who was sitting on the sofa reading, heard the movement at the door, looked up, and immediately shouted happily.

There is a difference between a siheyuan and a large courtyard. A large courtyard is a large courtyard and a siheyuan is a siheyuan.

In the courtyard house, there are also high and low levels.

For example, the second-entry courtyard of the Nie family, although it doesn't look like a mountain from the outside, actually there is something else going on inside.

The biggest difference is that this courtyard house has water supply and drainage, and there is a bathroom in the bedroom.

This point alone is beyond the reach of ordinary courtyard houses.

Nie Yuanchao looked at his little daughter and said with a smile: "Xiaoyu, why are you staying here? Are you waiting for daddy?"

In the past, I would never see such a well-behaved daughter waiting for him to come home.

Nie Yu's smile turned into a flower. She was wearing a white cashmere sweater. She came forward to please her and said, "It's okay. I miss my dad, okay?"

Nie Yuanchao chuckled. He had four children in total. Nie Yu was the youngest and the only daughter, so naturally he doted on her a lot.

The other three big ones are all in the army.

After Nie Yuanchao sat down on the sofa, Nie Yu walked behind with a smile, squeezed his father's shoulders, and said: "Dad, there is a reception in the factory today? Why don't you come back for dinner? Mom made soup, you She was angry when she didn’t come back to eat.”

Nie Yuanchao asked: "Where is your mother?"

Nie Yu smiled and said: "She is in the small study room. She is the editor-in-chief of a children's publishing house. She has a lot of tasks."

Nie Yuanchao said: "Then can you trouble Comrade Nie Yu to invite Comrade Li Cuiyun, and let's have a small family meeting?"

Feeling faintly guilty, Nie Yu asked, "Father, why do you want to have a family meeting all of a sudden? Did you hear any rumors..."

Nie Yuanchao smiled and said: "No big deal, just discuss some small things. Why, do you have something to hide from me?"

Nie Yu hurriedly said, "No...well, I'll go invite Comrade Li Cuiyun now."

After that, he tiptoed out the door.

Looking at his daughter's back, Nie Yuanchao shook his head slightly, with a helpless expression in his eyes.

After a while, Nie Yu and a middle-aged woman with outstanding temperament and fashionable clothes entered the door. This person was Nie Yuanchao's wife, Nie Yu's mother, and Li Cuiyun, the editor-in-chief of China Children's Publishing House.

"Lao Nie is back? You haven't had enough meetings at the rolling mill, so go home and continue?"

Li Cuiyun joked and poured Nie Yuanchao a cup of tea.

In fact, in terms of rank, she is no lower than Nie Yuanchao, and even has a greater influence.

After all, Children's Publishing House is a national publishing unit.

The rolling mill was originally a product of a public-private partnership. Even though it has expanded a lot now, it is far from the status of Shougang.

Nie Yuanchao smiled and said: "The rolling mill will be business affairs, and the family affairs will be family affairs. They cannot be confused."

Li Cuiyun seemed to appreciate her husband's stability, and sat down with a smile, "Okay, let's talk about family affairs. What's wrong with Xiaoyu?"

Nie Yu said guiltily, "What's wrong with me? Comrade Li Cuiyun made a mistake of idealism!"

Li Cuiyun rolled her eyes and looked at Nie Yuanchao.

Nie Yuanchao didn't care about his daughter's pleading eyes, but decided to tell his wife: "Today I got the news that in order to compete for her sweetheart, your daughter made a big fuss in the workers' hospital, preventing other female employees from approaching, and hiding people behind her as if she were protecting food. Today, as a In front of Lao Zhao from the Ministry of Metallurgy, he still joked about it."

The smile on Li Cuiyun's face disappeared in an instant, and he stared at his daughter and said seriously: "When did we talk to each other? Comrade Nie Yu, you actually do something secretly?"

Nie Yuanchao said speechlessly: "Is she still sneaking around?"

Nie Yu nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, I'm not sneaking around at all."

Li Cuiyun rolled her eyes at her, looked at Nie Yuanchao and said, "Be serious! Is she looking for a doctor? Chinese medicine? The workers' hospital in your steel rolling mill is very ordinary. Can she practice good medical skills?"

Nie Yu hurriedly said: "Mom, Li Yuan's medical skills are very good, he has become famous today!"

Nie Yuanchao rubbed his eyebrows and said, "That's not the problem..."

Seeing her husband like this, Li Cuiyun asked curiously: "Then what's the problem? This...Li Yuan? Is he a bad character? Or is his composition bad?"

She didn't ask about looks because she believed her daughter would find someone good-looking.

Nie Yuanchao smiled bitterly and said: "No, the problem is, people don't like our girl, they avoid her like a tiger!"

"Um?!"

Li Cuiyun looked at his daughter in disbelief and said in confusion: "She's not that ugly..."

Perhaps because I work in a children's publishing house, my childlike innocence is still intact, and I lack a lot of the seriousness that should be expected in this era.

Nie Yu's face turned red with anger and she stamped her feet: "Mom, what are you talking about?"

Li Cuiyun chuckled: "Can your father tell lies? Tell me, why does that man named Li Yuan look down on you?"

After listening to her mother's words, Nie Yu suddenly felt aggrieved for some reason. Tears fell down and she said, "He said, he said that we are not in the same world, and we are not from the same place. We can be friends, but we cannot be..."

Seeing his daughter so sad, Nie Yuanchao said distressedly: "How can such a sensitive and inferior man be worthy of my daughter?"

Nie Yu cried while shaking his head and said: "He is insensitive and has low self-esteem. Anyone can joke with him, and he is never angry. Sometimes when I run out of food stamps at the end of the month, I will ask people to borrow them and lend them generously." , he repaid generously and never took advantage of others. We wouldn't let him pay it back, but he smiled and said, a gentleman is poor, but a villain is so poor. He is willing to let us give him food..."

Li Cuiyun and her husband looked at each other and said in surprise: "Since he doesn't care about the difference between rich and poor and is generous, why did he reject you because of family reasons? Don't say one thing and do another, and do it deliberately..."

Nie Yu was so sad that he shook his head and said: "Today he told me that high-ranking people are full of right and wrong. He just wants to live an ordinary life and study medicine in a down-to-earth manner. I hope I won't disturb him, otherwise his friends won't be able to do it." Oh. Mom, I hope he can say one thing and do another..."

Looking at their daughter who was sobbing, Nie Yuanchao and Li Cuiyun were heartbroken, but what else could they do if they were talking about this?

It would be a joke if you rush to repost it, and you have no dignity.

Li Cuiyun stepped forward and held her daughter in his arms, comforting him: "Every time a girl likes you, it is precious, especially when you first fall in love. But only when you like someone who is in love with you can you get true happiness. As the old saying goes, , It’s not unreasonable that a melon that is too strong is not sweet.”

This is something that most ordinary people in this era cannot say. Only people like them can be exposed to books, movies, and music from the outside world and cultivate ideas that are ahead of the current era.

Nie Yu didn't want to believe it, and said with tears in her eyes: "I think it's not that Li Yuan doesn't like me, but he just dislikes my family background..."

Comrade Li Yuan, who was far away at No. 95 Nanluogu Lane, suddenly received a total of 250 negative emotions from Nie Yuanchao and Li Cuiyun.

Li Cuiyun is a cultural person after all, and she did not deny it outright or suppress it forcefully. She smiled and said: "Since you have this confidence, why not let nature take its course and let time witness it? True love will not fade with time, but will Just like wine, it becomes more mellow and sweet. Don't force it for a while, otherwise it may be counterproductive."

After comforting Nie Yu and returning to his room to rest, Li Cuiyun asked Nie Yuanchao, "Do you want me to go meet this young man?"

Nie Yuanchao shook his head and said: "I'd better do as you say and let nature take its course. But I would like to see if this person really has noble ambitions, really despises the elegance of the minister, or is he just a person who is just trying to gain fame!"

But no matter what, even though neither of them said it openly, they had a consensus in their hearts.

It is impossible for their daughter to marry an ordinary Chinese medicine doctor from a small workers' hospital...

It's not that I look down on them, but objectively speaking, it's really difficult for people with different levels of family background to move on, and it will only make their lives a mess.

They couldn't bear it.

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