The courtyard was only more than ten minutes away from the steel rolling mill, so he arrived quickly. To his surprise, Uncle Wang was waiting at the door.
"Uncle Wang, morning."
"Just in time, come here quickly, I'm waiting for you." He said hello to the security personnel: "Xiao Zhou, I brought you in. This is the new comrade in our department."
"Thank you, Uncle Wang." Uncle Wang came to the door early in the morning to wait for him, presumably because he was afraid that someone would embarrass him.
Following Uncle Wang, I first submitted the file and stamped it, and then I found out my salary.
For some reasons, he skipped the temporary job, level 12 and level 11 clerks, and joined the job as a level 10 clerk with a monthly salary of 27.5.
Seeing that he had been staring at the salary table, Uncle Wang smiled and patted his shoulder and said: "Work hard, some people in our department will be promoted to administrative levels every year, and their salaries will also increase accordingly."
Then he took himself to the logistics department, clapped his hands and said, "Let's get to know each other, this is our new comrade in the logistics department." After that, he pushed Zhang Yu in front of him.
Everyone present glanced at him and looked at him. Zhang Yu swallowed his saliva and said, "Hello, seniors! My name is Zhang Yu. It's my first day on the job today..."
"Wu Chuan, the little comrade is new here. Please guide him and let him learn with you."
"Okay! Don't worry if Director Wang leaves it to me."
After Director Wang left, Wu Chuan began to introduce him, "Xiaoyu, just call me Brother Wu. There happens to be an empty seat next to me. Just sit here."
I went to the warehouse to move tables and chairs. Since the logistics department is in charge of the warehouse, I picked the latest ones, arranged the tables and chairs, and wiped them with a rag.
Wu Chuan said: "Xiaoyu, in fact, the work of our logistics department is simple and easy, and difficult and difficult. Our second department is mainly responsible for the procurement of the factory canteens and is responsible for supplying 1-4 canteens. As long as we can follow the factory's requirements every month
According to the regulations, if enough supplies are purchased, the work will be very leisurely. But if there are not many channels, sometimes it will be very troublesome."
After taking a sip of water, he continued to introduce: "Those who can do this job will do it quickly, and those who can't do it will usually be transferred away through connections."
"You have just arrived. There is no required purchase quota this month. Study hard and you will be able to learn the same thing in two days..."
After the work content was almost introduced, Wu Chuan raised his hand and looked at his watch. "It's almost lunch time. I'll take you to exchange for tickets. We need meal tickets to eat in the canteen of our factory. There are several canteens closer to the logistics department.
The best place to eat is Canteen No. 4.”
After Wu Chuan exchanged meal tickets and vegetable tickets, it was already lunch time, and a large number of workers poured out of various workshops and rushed to the canteen.
"Xiaoyu, have you brought a lunch box? If not, use mine first."
"Take it with you, Angkor." He took out the lunch box that his sister-in-law put for him in the morning from his bag.
"Because our Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill requires heavy physical labor, the materials allocated to us by the higher authorities will be more than those of ordinary mills. The meals will naturally have more oil and water, the portions will be larger, and the price will be cheaper.
So many employees will order an extra portion and save it for the family to eat when they go home at night." Wu Chuan was very proud of this. After all, in this era, eating and drinking are the most important things.
At this time, Zhang Yu discovered that the leader Uncle Wang had found for him was very good. He kept secrets about his work and was familiar with all aspects of the factory.
The two of them started queuing up, and when he looked up, he saw He Yuzhu, the leading actor from the Qingmansiheyuan next door, serving food at the window.
The play begins in 1965, when He Yuzhu was 29. Calculating this, he has just turned 22 this year, not long after he entered the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill.
He Yuzhu thought that at this time, He Yuzhu was not the head chef in the kitchen, because he saw a senior chef sitting behind everyone, giving instructions to everyone.
And after thinking about it, he recognized himself and raised his hand to say hello: "Brother Xiaoyu, what are you?"
"After I join today, I will be a regular employee of the factory."
"Congratulations. It was me who caused you to get hurt last time." He Yuzhu felt very guilty about Zhang Yu's last injury. Because what happened last time had nothing to do with Zhang Yu, but it was
I suffered the unreasonable disaster of their fight.
"It's over. Besides, am I already well now?" He also understood the incident of He Yuzhu and the others accidentally injuring his original body during the fight. How to put this matter into perspective, if you have to argue about it, it's a mess.
Furthermore, he discovered a detail from the depths of some memories of the original owner. It seemed that the person who pushed him down was not He Yuzhu, but another person in the courtyard next door.
Moreover, in his vague memory, the man was fighting, and when he saw him passing by, he pushed He Yuzhu. There was a pair of eyes that seemed to have a bad smile.
It's a pity that I have no specific memory, and I don't know much about the people in the courtyard next door. I don't know who I had a feud with. I can't describe who the person is.
However, since he took over the body of the original owner, he must avenge the original owner. Another day when he is resting, find a few people who fought that day and ask them about their specific memories.
The most important point is to find out what was the reason for the fight that day? Because until now, the specific reason for the fight is still unclear. Several children he knew in the yard also said that they started fighting in a daze at the time. Afterwards,
I don't know who shook it first.
He turned his attention away from the memories and smiled at He Yuzhu.
"Brother, you are awesome! If you have anything to do in the future, come to me and I will definitely help you." After saying this, he served nearly two portions of the food for the other person with one spoonful. Then he took the spoon from the person making the soup next to him and slowly slid it away from the side.
At the end, I fished it gently, slowly got up, and brought up a spoon full of dry goods.
The people behind were waiting, and the two of them didn't say much, but they looked at Wu Chuan's lunch box and then at his own.
He has great admiration for the kitchen staff. The soup in the kitchen is free. Basically, if you put five or six eggs in a whole pot of soup, most people will get it out of the water, but his bowl has the least amount of water in it.
There must be an egg.
Wu Chuan also looked at his lunch box and then at his own: "Let me go, Xiaoyu, do you know the cook in the cafeteria?"
"They are our neighbors in the next courtyard. Let's eat with Angkor." He put the lunch box with vegetables in the middle: "I can't eat alone."
Seeing that he didn't seem to be telling lies, Wu Chuan stopped being polite. With just one steamed bun, a bowl of soup, and less than half of the food, Zhang Yu was full.
Seeing that he didn't eat, Wu Chuan was a little confused, "Xiaoyu, why don't you eat?"
"I'm stuffed."
"Are you full now?" Wu Chuan didn't believe it. He was a poor boy at half a young age. He remembered that when he was this old, five steamed buns a meal were not enough.
"I'm full, I'm full. I'm not in good health, so I can't eat too much."
Seeing that he was full now, Wu Chuan emptied the remaining food in three strokes.
When I get home from get off work in the evening, after a day of lying in bed with my thoughts racing around and unable to fall asleep, I simply get ready to take inventory of my belongings and prepare myself for the difficult times.
It’s not easy to make white noodles. Fortunately, Xiaoyu brought back some white noodles. Otherwise, just relying on
"Xiaoyu, do you still have any dignity? I remember you didn't steam buns last time?" Zhang Guifang asked with the idea of giving it a try.
"I really forgot to keep the steamed buns last time." Zhang Yu replied.
In fact, the last time he steamed the buns, he didn't use dough, but used yeast powder obtained from signing in to make the dough.
The current situation was obviously not suitable for taking out the yeast powder, because he didn't know if there was any yeast powder in this era. If there was, it would be easy to say. If not, there would be no reason.
After watching Zhang Guifang search everywhere to no avail, Zhao Xiaoping said: "Mom, stop looking for her. You've already looked for her several times."
"Forget it, I won't look for it anymore." Zhang Guifang threw the dough bag in her hand on the table and walked out angrily.
"What are you going to do?" Zhao Wenzhuo asked after him, don't go out to sulk.
"What else can I do? I'll borrow some hair from my sister-in-law in the front yard." Zhang Guifang said angrily as her husband chased her out.
"Oh, then you go, then you go." Knowing that he had misunderstood, Zhao Wenzhuo's ears turned red, and then he slowly walked backwards back into the house.
When he returned to a place where Zhang Guifang couldn't see him, he let out a deep breath. He was so frightened that he almost hit the muzzle of the gun.
Then he looked at the picture of children who were watching a good show, waved his hands, and said loudly: "What are you looking at, what are you looking at, what's there to see? Why don't you go back and do your things."
The children covered their mouths and laughed, then slipped away.
At this time, Zhang Guifang knocked on the door of a neighbor in the front yard and shouted inside: "Sister-in-law, is sister-in-law at home?"
"Here, it's Guifang, come in and sit down, come in and sit down."
"Sister-in-law, what are you doing?"
"Isn't it almost the Chinese New Year? The new clothes we just made yesterday, several children refused to take them off even after trying them on. I don't know where they went this morning. Isn't this the new clothes we just made?
I just made a big hole." He held up the clothes in his hand to show her.
"Children are inevitably a little restless." Zhang Guifang advised.
After persuading me for a long time, my sister-in-law calmed down and said, "Sister, I didn't delay your business. I said too much when I was angry."
"Without my sister-in-law, I have nothing to do today. Isn't it the Chinese New Year? I'm going to make some steamed buns to visit relatives then. I searched for a long time at home but couldn't find the noodles. Maybe I forgot about the noodles last time.
You’re here, by the way, does your family still have some respect?”
"Yes, yes, yes, it's in the tank. Sit here and wait while I look for it." After saying that, he quickly got out of bed, opened the lid on the tank, turned around and said, "Aren't you cleaning the house these two days?
, I’m afraid that the dust will fall on it and contaminate the food, so I just put it all in the tank.”
As he spoke, he took out half of the contents of the jar and found the noodles among the pile of things. "Let me just say, I remember putting the noodles in the jar when I was cleaning yesterday."
After saying that, he handed the noodles to Zhang Guifang. After she took the noodles, she said, "Sister-in-law, I will go and make the noodles first, and I will bring them back to you later."
"No need to worry, no need to worry, just use it. I'm going to steam it in two days. There are a bunch of naughty boys at home. I'm afraid that if I steam it too early, they'll finish it secretly for me while I'm not around."
"Sister-in-law, I'll go over first."
"Sit down for a while." My sister-in-law begged me to stay.
"No, it's not possible. I'll go back and do it quickly. I'll come back when it's done."
"Then I'll help you." After saying that, he packed up his things and went out with Zhang Guifang.
"Sister-in-law, you should rest first. The father and several children are at home. They are all grown up, so we cannot let them wait for their free time. I will let them knead the dough for me later. The kids are very energetic."
"Okay, I'll definitely come another day."
After returning home, Zhang Guifang cooked several basins of noodles, then placed the basins on the kang, covered them with a cage cloth, then put a pot lid on top, and finally covered the basins with a thick quilt.
Zhang Yu had nothing to do, so he turned on the stove to boil water. After boiling the water, he guarded the stove, placed an iron plate on the stove, found a steamed bun, cut it into several slices with a knife, and baked it on it.
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In a short while, the steamed buns were baked. The baked buns were charred and brown, and the thick layer of crunch looked very attractive.
I didn't care about burning my mouth, so I picked up the steamed bun slices and put it in my mouth. I took a bite and it was so loud that my mouth was so hot that I didn't want to spit it out.
After the dough is ready, the whole family starts to work together. The men are responsible for kneading the dough. The harder the dough is kneaded, the more delicious it will be.
The women will divide the kneaded dough into equal-sized pieces and roll them into round buns.
Now my sister-in-law's house has been re-planned, and she hired a master to build a stove at the door.
As soon as you enter the house, you should see a large stove with a large pot on it, which is perfect for steaming steamed buns.
I put the prepared steamed buns into the pot. In order to steam more at once, I asked someone to borrow a steamer. I steamed two steamers in one pot and sealed them with a towel to prevent air leakage and make the steamed buns cook faster.
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As usual, the job of watching the fire belongs to Zhang Yu. He stays in front of the stove and adds a piece of firewood to it.
When I was adding firewood, I accidentally pushed my hand a little deeper, and my fingers got black.
At this time, my nose happened to be a little itchy, so I scratched it with my hand. The whole tip of my nose was covered with black ash, and several people who looked at it couldn't stop laughing.
Zhang Yu looked at everyone laughing in confusion. Some of them were confused and rubbed their heads with their hands, which caused several people to laugh even louder.
In the end, Zhang Guifang couldn't stand it anymore, so she took out a towel, dipped it in some water, and wiped him clean.
Zhang Yu likes the moment when the steamed buns just come out of the pot. When he lifts the lid, what comes out along with the water vapor is the alluring scent of the steamed buns. It is the smell of sunshine and wheat mixed together: dry, warm, and sweet.
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Even though I was already half full from the steamed buns I just ate, I still couldn’t help but eat three large steamed buns in a row.