Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

After listening to the problem raised by the purchasing section chief, a solution suddenly came to mind: "Director..."

“We can go dig wild vegetables ourselves…”

"With so many workers in the steel mill, there must be a lot of apprentices sitting idle in the workshop."

"If one person digs 10 kilograms of wild vegetables a day, a hundred people can dig 1,000 kilograms of wild vegetables."

Deputy Factory Manager Li nodded repeatedly after hearing this, glared at the purchasing manager and replied: "Look at Team Leader Wang, then look at yourself..."

"If you have any problems, find a way to solve them yourself, don't ask me everything."

"Otherwise, what do I need you as the purchasing manager for?"

"Just do as Wang Dong said. If the juice isn't squeezed long enough and we really need a lot of wild vegetables, we can directly organize the factory apprentices to go out of town to collect them."

After that, he turned his attention to Wang Dong again: "Captain Wang did a good job..."

"If you have any ideas in the kitchen in the future, feel free to come to me. As long as they are good for the steel mill and the ideas are adopted, the steel mill will definitely not let you make suggestions in vain, and I, the deputy director, will not let you suffer any grievances in the factory."

"Hurry up and make some steamed bread..."

"All the leaders of the steel mill will eat the wild vegetable steamed bread you made at noon today. Please don't let us down."

Wang Dong clearly felt that the head of the purchasing department glared at him fiercely when he left, but he didn't take it to heart.

Both of them are Deputy Director Li's men. As long as they have Deputy Director Li's support, they have to keep it to themselves even if the purchasing section chief has any opinions about them.

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In the back kitchen of a canteen, Wang Dong walked in and said to Huang Longfei and Tang Dashan who were busy, "You two take this receipt and go to the warehouse to get 50 kilograms of noodles..."

"The purchasing department will deliver 20 kilograms of wild vegetables in a while, and I'll wash them for him."

"The three of us have a very important mission this afternoon."

"It's done. I promise to make you two permanent employees tomorrow..."

Hearing the word "permanent employment", Tang Dashan and Huang Longfei were immediately excited. They took the receipt handed over by Wang Dong and rushed out of the kitchen like the wind.

The fifty kilograms of flour on their backs seemed to weigh nothing. They trotted back to the kitchen and began to wash the twenty kilograms of wild vegetables that the purchasing department had brought back from somewhere.

In order to remove the bitterness from the wild vegetables, the two people followed the steps introduced by Wang Dong to blanch them, squeeze out most of the water from the wild vegetables, and then chop them into pieces...

After the blanched chopped wild vegetables had completely cooled down, Wang Dong began to add flour, yeast and water into them.

He divided twenty kilograms of wild vegetables into four parts.

Five catties of wild vegetables plus five catties of two hectograms of flour, five catties of wild vegetables plus ten catties of two hectograms of flour, five catties of wild vegetables plus fifteen catties of two hectograms of flour, and five catties of wild vegetables plus twenty catties of two hectograms of flour.

After mixing the dough, knead it into the shape of steamed bread, and then steam it in a steamer over high heat.

Just after 12:30 noon, Deputy Director Li, Director Yang and a group of factory leaders appeared in the kitchen of a cafeteria.

Wang Dong hurried over and said, "Hello, leader..."

"The wild vegetable steamed bread is ready. In order to facilitate future operations, we have made four ratios in total: one to one, one to two, one to three, one to four..."

"Please have a taste later, leaders, to see which flavor of wild vegetable steamed bread is most suitable for our steel mill..."

Deputy Factory Director Li immediately pointed at Wang Dong and said, "Old Yang..."

"Wang Dong, the team leader of the first canteen, you haven't forgotten, right..." "Before the New Year, he was the one who came up with a solution for me to replace pork with pig offal as a New Year's benefit for the workers. This is how more than 10,000 workers in the steel mill were able to eat meat..."

“He was also the one who came up with the idea of ​​wild vegetable steamed bread.”

"As long as this method is feasible... in the future, the steel mill only needs to send one or two hundred apprentices to the mountains outside the city to dig wild vegetables every day, and our steel mill's food shortage problem will be solved. We can ensure that the workers in the steel mill have enough to eat and will not go to the production line hungry."

Director Yang looked at Wang Dong deeply.

His expression did not improve even though Deputy Director Li solved the food shortage problem at the steel mill. Instead, he frowned.

Because he had suffered several losses in front of Wang Dong.

Although Wang Dong was only the one giving advice behind the scenes and did not actually take action against him, Director Yang still held some dissatisfaction with him.

In this situation, it would be a miracle if Wang Dong was treated well.

He snorted coldly and replied, "Team Leader Wang of the First Canteen, the youngest chef in the entire steel mill, the youngest team leader, and your confidant, Lao Li... How could I forget him?"

Deputy Director Li heard the anger and envy in Director Yang's words, and was very happy. He immediately replied: "The idea of ​​wild vegetable steamed bread was proposed by Comrade Wang Dong."

"If it works, it can not only reduce the food consumption of the steel mill, but also keep the workers well fed. It can not only solve the food shortage crisis of the guard, but we can also promote this method to other factories in the city... It will definitely be a great achievement."

"Based on the contributions Wang Dong has made to the steel mill, he should have been promoted a long time ago."

"But he is too young. He will not be eighteen until this year, which is far from meeting the requirements for promotion."

"But we have to reward them for their contributions, otherwise all the workers will doubt the credibility of our steel mill."

"To avoid such accidents, I suggest that after the wild vegetable steamed bread issue is completed, Comrade Wang Dong should be promoted to deputy director of the steel mill kitchen and team leader of the first canteen.

“Get two salaries.”

"One is the salary of a deputy kitchen director, and the other is the salary of a canteen monitor and eighth-level chef."

"We cannot let Wang Dong's salary decrease instead of increase because of his promotion after he was hired as a worker just because he made great contributions. That would be too unfair to our meritorious official."

Deputy Director Li had already asked me for three deputy section-level positions in the morning's regular meeting, and now he wanted to promote Wang Dong to be deputy section chief. How was this possible? Did he really think I was a sick cat?

He immediately retorted: "You are still too young."

"If he had been over twelve years old, I would have immediately agreed to have him serve as deputy kitchen manager of the steel mill and monitor of the first canteen."

As soon as Deputy Director Li saw Director Yang's reaction, he knew that his idea of ​​asking him for an additional deputy section-level position had been seen through.

But when he thought about all the help Wang Dong had given him, plus the promise he had made to Wang Dong just now, it would be too embarrassing if he couldn't help him get the position of deputy director.

He spoke again: "Didn't you give me three deputy section-level positions? ... and one for Wang Dong..."

"As for his young age..."

"We are not promoting him directly to be the kitchen manager of the steel mill and making him take charge of everything right away."

"It's just a concurrent deputy director position, which allows him to get a little more salary every month. His main work is still centered around the canteen. The deputy director of the kitchen is just a figurehead, so that the workers in the steel mill can see our determination to reward those who have made contributions."

"And if the wild vegetable steamed bread thing is successful, not only our steel mill will benefit, but all the factories in the entire city will also benefit."

"The superiors will definitely commend us when the time comes."

"As factory leaders, we all received benefits, but Wang Dong, as the one who proposed this matter, did not receive any reward. If this matter gets out, our superiors will accuse us of burying talent." (End of this chapter)