Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

The third aunt was still a little unwilling in her heart, and struggled to ask back: "Old man, is there really no chance at all..."

Yan Fugui shook his head: "Don't even think about the position of Third Master."

"As long as Chen Degui is around, his prestige in Siheyuan will always be higher than mine, and he will get more votes than me."

"The reason why I was chosen in the last election for the headmaster of our courtyard was that he was an officer in the security department of the steel rolling mill and usually had no time to take care of the affairs of the courtyard, so I was able to take advantage of the opportunity."

"If anyone is to blame for this, blame Lao Yi and Lao Liu."

"I have figured out that the rumors that suddenly appeared in the yard at today's general meeting were spread by the two of them."

"Old Liu wants to use Wang Dong to attack Yi Zhonghai and take the position of the boss of the courtyard."

"Old Yi wants to use voting to undermine Wang Dong's prestige in the courtyard and rebuild his own prestige in the courtyard."

"In the end, Wang Dong refused to take the opportunity and directly pushed Chen Dehui to run for the title of uncle."

"Not only did we defeat their plan, but we also made them lose both their wife and their troops."

"I, the third uncle, am the one who feels the most wronged."

"I didn't participate in anything, and I lost my position as the third uncle for no reason."

“There is no place to complain if there is grievance.”

"If Lao Liu and Lao Yi didn't have so many messy thoughts, didn't spread rumors in the yard, and didn't re-elect the uncle, no one could take away my position as the third uncle."

"From now on, everyone in our family should try not to deal with Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong. They have too many bad intentions and we might be tricked by them at any time."

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In the blink of an eye, it was less than half a month away from the second New Year after Wang Dong’s time travel.

Deputy Director Li has been very irritable recently.

He frowned wherever he went.

As a rule, steel mills must prepare welfare benefits for each worker before the Chinese New Year.

Before, every worker could get two kilograms of pork and some other supplies before the New Year.

Last year, due to the shortage of supplies in the old city, the amount of pork each worker received was reduced by half.

I thought that supplies in the city would become more and more abundant this year, and the steel rolling mill would definitely have a good year.

Unexpectedly, the shortage of supplies in the city not only did not ease, but became worse.

These days he has been visiting several meat processing factories in the old city, trying to find connections and get more pork for the workers, hoping to get half a pound of pork to each worker before the New Year.

But the shortage of supplies in the city was far beyond his expectations.

After several days of hard work, the total amount of pork that Deputy Director Li had secured from several meat processing plants was only over 1,000 kilograms, and there was not even a kilogram of pork outside the plan.

This little bit of meat could only give each worker one or two pounds. No matter how scarce the supplies were in the old city, Deputy Director Li couldn't afford to give any.

After racking his brains to find no solution, Deputy Director Li could only gather several of his subordinates together to brainstorm in the hope of making a breakthrough.

Otherwise, his prestige among the workers as the deputy factory director in charge of logistics would definitely be greatly affected.

Wang Dong was the canteen monitor and a close confidant of Deputy Director Li. Although he was not a cadre, he was also invited.

Seeing that everyone frowned and lowered their heads in silence in response to the question raised by Deputy Director Li, Wang Dong stood up carefully and asked, "Director..."

“Does the steel mill have to include pork in the welfare benefits it distributes during the Chinese New Year?”

Director Zhou's eyes lit up and he said, "Yes..." "Director..."

"As far as I know, many factories around us did not distribute pork as a welfare benefit during the Spring Festival last year due to a shortage of supplies. This year, the shortage of supplies is much greater than last year, so there must be more factories that do not distribute pork as a welfare benefit."

"Even if we don't give workers pork as welfare, I believe the workers will understand."

Deputy Director Li shook his head and replied: "The problem now is not only that we can't solve the problem of pork, but we can't find enough of other welfare benefits."

"In order to cope with the increasingly scarce supplies in the city, the steel mill has already reduced the amount of meat and vegetables to once every three days. It is estimated that the amount will continue to decrease next year. It is possible that we won't get one meal of meat and vegetables in ten days."

"It's not just the workers down there who are short of oil and water, their families are even more short of oil and water."

"If we can give each worker half a pound of pork as a welfare benefit before the New Year, our steel mill will be famous in Beijing, and the workers will remember our kindness from the bottom of their hearts..."

"If the pork we distribute every year is gone and other benefits are also reduced, I, the deputy director in charge of logistics, will definitely lose face in front of all the workers in the factory."

"Director Yang will also take the opportunity to suppress me, thinking that I haven't done my best in this matter and am not qualified to be the deputy director."

Seeing Director Zhou of Logistics frowning and sitting back in his seat, Wang Dong continued, "Director..."

"You just said that the workers are short of oil and water. Does that mean it doesn't matter whether it's pork or not, as long as it can provide the workers with oil and water?"

Although Deputy Director Li did not understand what Wang Dong was going to say next, he could feel that what Wang Dong said was definitely not aimless. Maybe this kid could really come up with a trick for him to solve the problem of meat shortage in the steel mill.

His eyes lit up, and he immediately replied: "As long as we can provide the workers with some extra oil and water, and let everyone have a good meal during the New Year, even if we don't share the pork..."

After he finished speaking, he became excited and stared at Wang Dong and asked, "Comrade Wang Dong..."

"Do you have any idea?"

Wang Dong did not hide his thoughts.

If nothing unexpected happens, Deputy Director Li will take over from Director Yang and officially become the boss of the steel rolling mill next year.

Deputy Director Li is a man of affection and righteousness.

As long as you help him do something, he will treat you as his own.

The more Wang Dong helps Deputy Director Li now, the more rewards he will get when he officially takes over from Director Yang as the boss of the steel mill, and the less affected he will be in the future.

Because no matter what time, providing timely assistance is more meaningful than adding icing on the cake.

Facing Deputy Director Li's expectant gaze, he replied: "Director..."

"Do you still remember the special benefit you prepared for the logistics department during last year's New Year?"

Deputy Director Li was stunned for a moment, but soon reacted and looked at Wang Dong and asked, "Are you talking about the pig offal I prepared for the logistics department?"

Wang Dong nodded and asked, "It's pig offal... All the leaders present here should have eaten it. I wonder how it tastes and whether it has any oil or water..."

Deputy Director Li did not respond, and seemed to be recalling the pig offal that Wang Dong specially sent to him during the Chinese New Year last year.

He didn't want to eat it at first, but his wife liked to eat pig offal, so he took it home and tasted a few bites.

But I have to admit that the pig offal made by Wang Dong is very delicious and oily.

A lunch box of pork offal and a large pot of radish and cabbage, with enough oil and water.

He nodded immediately: "It's delicious. I don't usually eat pig offal, but I ate several pieces of the pig offal you made...it's also very juicy."

"A lunch box of pig offal feels like it has more oil and water than half a pound of pork." (End of this chapter)