Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

In the west wing of the central courtyard, Yi Zhonghai was asking He Yuzhu about Wang Dong's promotion to deputy director of the kitchen.

Seeing He Yuzhu's heavy face and drooping head, he looked like he had lost his edge and had no fighting spirit at all. It was obvious that he was frustrated by Wang Dong's continuous progress. He couldn't help but encourage him.

"Pillar……"

“Don’t be discouraged…”

"This afternoon, Director Yang called me to his office and told me to tell you a few things: work hard in the kitchen and try to pass the ninth-level chef certificate again this year."

"He also promised me that as long as I passed the ninth-level chef certificate, he would let me be the monitor of a canteen in the back kitchen."

"If you can pass the eighth-level chef certificate, I will definitely find a way to make you the deputy head of the kitchen. At the very least, you can become a canteen monitor in charge of the steel mill kitchen."

"Also let me remind you..."

"Team Leader Lin and Chef Zhang from Canteen 1 are both Director Yang's people."

"If you encounter any problems that you can't solve, you can go directly to them for help."

"While working in the kitchen of a canteen, in addition to completing my own duties, I also had to find ways to keep an eye on Wang Dong and find more faults with him."

"Director Yang particularly doesn't want Wang Dong to be the deputy director of the kitchen."

"But standing behind Wang Dong is Deputy Director Li."

"If you want to remove him from the position of deputy director of the kitchen, you must have evidence that Wang Dong made a mistake in the kitchen..."

"It's up to you to collect them..."

"The head of the steel mill is Director Yang, and Deputy Director Li is just Director Yang's deputy. It is definitely better to work with Director Yang than with Deputy Director Li's Wang Dong. The future development will be better and better, so we should not be discouraged."

"With Director Yang's support behind you, Zhuzi, you will be able to trample Wang Dong under your feet sooner or later..."

The solemn expression on He Yuzhu's face was instantly replaced by excitement. He looked at Yi Zhonghai with shining eyes and asked, "Godfather?"

"Director Yang really intends to support me in becoming the deputy director of the kitchen?"

Yi Zhonghai answered confidently: "How could it be false?"

"Director Yang is such a big boss, and you are just a cook in the kitchen. It is impossible for him to deceive you with such a small matter. Otherwise, how can he be a good director of the steel rolling mill?"

He Yuzhu immediately responded: "Don't worry, godfather..."

"I used to be a level 8 chef, so I will definitely have no problem getting a level 9 chef certificate this year."

"As long as Director Yang supports me as the canteen monitor, I will definitely follow his instructions."

"I'm being controlled in the kitchen every day. I'm almost driven crazy."

"No one dares to control me after I become the canteen monitor."

He Yuzhu had something in his mind that he hadn't said: once he becomes the canteen monitor, he would have the final say on which canteen it was in the steel mill.

From now on, if someone looks down on me again, I will shake the spoon hard when serving him.

If Sister Qin comes to the cafeteria that she is responsible for to get food, it’s no problem even if she doesn’t pay.

In this way, I can help Sister Qin again.

Yi Zhonghai didn't know what He Yuzhu was thinking. Seeing that he had regained his fighting spirit and was in a good mood, he reminded him again: "Don't forget to contact Team Leader Lin and Master Zhang in your cafeteria. They are all Director Yang's people."

"Watch your mouth and be polite to others. It will only benefit you when you become a squad leader in the future."

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Time flies and more than half a month has passed.

Wang Dong had just finished inspecting the canteens when he was called to the office by Deputy Director Li.

Seeing his smiling face, and thinking about the dried wild vegetables used in making wild vegetable steamed bread in the kitchen this morning, I immediately thought of Deputy Director Li's trip to his hometown in Northeast China to purchase wild vegetables. I quickly asked, "Leader, did the buyer in Northeast China bring back good news?"

"You are worthy of being my lucky star... You have helped me a lot again..." Deputy Director Li nodded and praised.

"The wild vegetables in the mountains have not grown yet, but every household in the area stored a large amount of dried vegetables made from wild vegetables last year."

"In less than ten days, we purchased ten truckloads of dried wild vegetables."

“We also cooperate with local communes to organize hunters to hunt, and the steel mill purchases all the captured prey.”

"In total, we sent back more than 600 kilograms of fresh pork, rabbit meat, donkey meat, and pheasant meat."

"Nearly 2,000 kilograms of various bacon that were smoked temporarily because they were afraid they would go bad."

"Those buyers who went deep into the Northeast said so."

"As long as the steel mill provides them with sufficient funds, they can purchase ten carts of dried wild vegetables and two thousand kilograms of fresh meat and bacon every month in Northeast China..."

"Now our steel mill no longer needs to worry about food shortages."

"Although 2,000 kilograms of bacon and fresh meat each month is not much, it can allow the workers to have a meal of meat every few days and replenish their energy."

"Tell me quickly..."

"What reward do you want, kid?"

"I will help you do whatever I can."

In fact, Deputy Director Li gained much more benefits from this incident.

After confirming that prey could be obtained in the Northeast, several trusted members of the purchasing department were specially transferred to the Northeast.

In addition to purchasing dried wild vegetables and pork for the steel rolling mill, we can also purchase at least 500 kilograms of fresh wild boar meat and venison for Deputy Director Li personally every month.

In the city of Sijiu where supplies were in short supply, these pork and venison could earn Deputy Director Li at least 7,000 to 8,000 yuan.

And this is just one month’s harvest.

That’s nearly 100,000 yuan a year in income.

For no reason, you get such a big piece of cake that can bring you continuous profits.

As the person who provided this information, Deputy Director Li had to seriously injure Wang Dong for both moral and legal reasons.

"Leader...if you really want to reward me, can you think of a way to convert our worker status into cadre status?"

Deputy Director Li answered readily: "That's no problem."

"I promised you at that time that if you could help the steel mill solve the problem of wild vegetable raw materials, I would help you become a cadre."

"But there is one thing I must remind you of."

“After you are promoted to deputy kitchen director, because you are a worker, your salary can only be calculated according to the standard for section officers.

"In order to give you a little more salary, I spent a long time negotiating with Director Yang to position you at the highest level of clerk."

"After you change your worker status to cadre status, your rank will be deputy section chief, but you can only move up one level, and you will definitely not get the highest level of deputy section chief."

Wang Dong immediately replied: "Leader..."

"As long as I can change my worker status to cadre status, I have no problem with not getting a salary increase."

Deputy Director Li was very satisfied with Wang Dong's modesty and continued, "Salaries will definitely increase, but not too much."

"There are still a few days left in this month. I will try to help you change your worker status to cadre in these few days, and you will get the salary of deputy section chief level 20 next month."

"Besides this, what other rewards do you need? Just tell me, don't be shy." (End of this chapter)