Hongxing Steel Rolling Plant, the first canteen.
Reception room on the second floor.
The leaders of several rolling mills are entertaining guests, and the tables are full of wine and vegetables.
At present, it is not a difficult time. The commune still has plenty of fish and meat, not to mention such a large heavy industry enterprise as the steel rolling mill.
"Well, Factory Director Yang, Deputy Factory Director Li and Deputy Factory Director Nie, your canteen cooks are really good. I haven't eaten such authentic Tanjia cuisine for many years. This grass root steamed chicken is really authentic! Oh, my wife had better eat this dish, but it's hard to find Tanjia cuisine heirs. I didn't expect you to have one here. Factory Director Yang, can you invite the cook out? I want to ask for advice. ”
Zhao Lianze, the engineering director of the 10th Metallurgical Group of the Ministry of Metallurgy, was very satisfied with the food. It seems that this is also an old tie who loves delicious food very much. Otherwise, he would not have made such a request.
Yang Wanli, the director of the rolling mill, laughed and said to Li Huaide, the deputy director, "Deputy director Li is responsible for the logistics and canteen. Deputy director Li, please call the chef to Director Zhao to see him."
Li Huaide smiled and said, "It's easy to talk." Then he said to Wang Zhaoguo, the logistics director, "Go to the canteen and call He Yuzhu."
Then he explained to Director Zhao: "Comrade He Yuzhu, who is a family member of Tan Family, is also proficient in Sichuan cuisine. He is an excellent cook in our canteen, who can make fried sea cucumbers with scallions and Dongpo elbows."
Zhao Lianze was surprised and said, "Since the craftsmanship is so good, how can I be a Grade 8 chef? It's a matter of birth, but the ingredients are not good."
The job title of chef is different from that of worker. The eighth level of worker is the highest, while the chef is the opposite. The first level is the highest, and the eighth level is a minor.
Li Huaide was waiting for this sentence. He smiled: "That's not true. He Yuzhu's three generations of farm labourers have no problem with their composition. It's just that this man is too axial and unreasonable. His father called him Stupid Zhu when he was young. People who knew him almost forgot his name and called him Stupid Zhu. This man can't speak. If he says something wrong later, don't be angry, Director Zhao. Our factory will punish him. "
Zhao Lianze waved his hand and said, "Not to mention, since I know this comrade can't talk, why are you angry? Besides, the craftsmanship of this skilled worker is the first. As long as the composition is correct and the thought is correct, the mouth will stink a little. I don't know about other departments, but there are fewer stinky senior workers under the Metallurgy Department? As long as you are willing to serve the people, please bear with others! "
Everyone laughed, and Yang Wanli said with a smile, "Director Zhao is right. We are all good men when facing the eighth grade working hours in the factory. When people get angry, they should also let it go."
After a while, Silly Column was invited.
He still looks like a careless man. Even if he is quiet, his eyes can wander around, apparently not taking these officials seriously.
Seeing him like this, Li Huaide frowned and shouted, "Silly column, today is the leader from the Ministry. You should pay attention to the key points."
Silly Column said in a high voice, "I can't understand your words. How can I respect you and knock one? I won't do that. How can you teach me?"
Zhao Lianze stopped Li Huaide and said with a smile, "It doesn't matter. Comrade He Yuzhu asked you to come up to express his gratitude. Your craftsmanship is not ordinary, especially the steamed chicken with grass chaff. It's very good. Can you tell me how to make this dish?"
When silly column heard that there was a discerning person, he said happily:.
Put the straw Ru in a bowl with warm water and cover it tightly with a plate. After soaking, take out the straw Ru. Leave the original soup in a bowl for clarification. Wash the straw Ru in warm water to remove the sediment, remove the root and tear off the skin, and then rinse it with clean water. Cut the little hen meat into pieces and add straw. Mix the clarified straw soup with salt, soy sauce, white sugar, cooked chicken oil, wet starch, scallions and ginger slices. Steam on the drawer for 20 minutes and take out the scallions and ginger slices.
However, it is simple to listen to. When it is really done, the temperature and measurement are all based on craftsmanship.
So even if I taught you, you might also... "
He shook his head. Obviously, he didn't think Zhao Lianze could be so smart.
Li Huaide's corner of his eye jumped and warned, "Don't get complacent, silly column. What kind of person can you learn from Director Zhao? Can't you learn from Director Zhao?"
Silly Zhu said in a more serious way: "Damn it! Anyway, I learned it after listening to it. I've seen one person, and the others, all of them stop cooking!"
Zhao Lianze laughed and said, "Can you really learn it after listening to it?"
Silly column said with some sadness, "Really, only our quadrangle courtyard is also a steel rolling mill, and he is a doctor in the workers' hospital. Hey, that guy is the smartest I've ever seen. No matter what dishes, you can remember them once you teach them, and they will be better and better. Even if you cook well, your medical skills will be even better. This man is really a first-class talent!"
Listen to what he said, but all the people here are old Jianghu people who have experienced many things. When he said silly words, Yang Wanli smiled "yo" and said, "Do we still have such talent in our factory?"
Silly Column smiled and looked at Deputy Factory Director Nie Yuanchao, who had been smiling and reticent all the time, and said mysteriously, "Deputy Factory Director Nie must have heard of it."
Nie Yuanchao's face did not change. He smiled and said, "Oh? How do you say that?"
"Deputy director Nie, don't you know? Go home and ask your daughter. My brother Li Yuan is famous among the unmarried female comrades in our steel rolling plant. How many people deliberately went to the Chinese medicine department to see him, but your daughter drove them away! Today, there are..."
"Silly column!"
Wang Zhaoguo, the logistics director, turned black and scolded, "What nonsense are you talking about? Comrade Nie Yu is trying to let irrelevant people not disturb the normal order of the TCM department. What's so much chaos?"
Silly Zhu, who had never looked up to the logistics director, said with a sidelong sneer, "I'm talking nonsense? If you don't believe me, go out and ask about it. Let's see whether it's my nonsense or someone's lying with their eyes open."
"All right, silly column, there's nothing for you here. Go out."
Li Huaide is a top dog. If he didn't have a good cooking skill, he would have managed to send the grandson to the workshop.
One mouth is all he has to do all day.
Nie Yuanchao is low-key and usually doesn't show mountains or dew, but Li Huaide learned from his high ranking father-in-law that Nie Yuanchao's roots are hard.
It's just that people are used to not fighting, not grabbing, and low-key duty.
It really brings disaster to the reputation of other girls. No matter how good your temper is, you must be angry.
Zhao Lianze was also curious. He obviously knew something. He 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 more, but said: "She is determined to be a glorious working class, and it's good here."
After a deep smile, Zhao Lianze stopped mentioning the matter and said to Yang Wanli: "It seems that the strength of the steel rolling mill cannot be underestimated. Crouching tigers hide dragons! Director Yang has done a good job..."
Another round of cup changing starts, but I don't know what impact it will have on Li Yuan.
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East of Jingshan, Sanyanjing Hutong.
"Daddy is back?"
In the carpeted living room, Nie Yu, who was reading on the sofa, heard the movement at the door, looked up and shouted cheerfully.
Siheyuan is different from Dazayuan. Dazayuan is Dazayuan, and Siheyuan is Siheyuan.
In quadrangles, there are also high and low levels.
For example, the Nie Family's second entrance courtyard, although it doesn't show mountains or dew outside, actually there is something else inside.
The biggest difference is that the courtyard has water supply and drainage, and the bedroom has a bathroom.
This is the only point that ordinary quadrangles can hardly reach.
Nie Yuanchao looked at his little daughter and said with a smile, "Xiaoyu, why are you here? Are you waiting for your father?"
In the past, we could not see such a lovely daughter waiting for him to come home.
Nie Yu smiled and turned into a flower. She wore a white cashmere sweater and came up to her and said, "It's OK. I think Dad is not good enough."
Nie Yuanchao smiled. He had four children in all. Nie Yu was the youngest and the only daughter. Naturally, he doted on her.
The other three are in the army.
After Nie Yuanchao sat down on the sofa, Nie Yu went to his back with a smile, squeezed his shoulder for his father, and said, "Dad, there are waiters in the factory today? Why don't you come back for dinner? Mother cooked soup. She was angry when you didn't come back for dinner."
Nie Yuanchao asked, "Where is your mother?"
Nie Yu smiled: "In the small study, she is the editor in chief of Children's Publishing House. She has many tasks."
Nie Yuanchao said, "Could you please ask Comrade Nie Yu to invite Comrade Li Cuiyun to have a family meeting?"
Nie Yu felt faint and asked, "Dad, why did you suddenly have a family meeting? Did you hear any rumors..."
Nie Yuanchao smiled and said, "It's nothing important, just to discuss some small things. Why, are you hiding something from me?"
Nie Yu hurriedly said, "No, no... Well, I'll invite Comrade Li Cuiyun now."
After saying that, he crept out of the door.
Looking at his daughter's back, Nie Yuan Nanmu shook his head slightly, and his eyes showed helplessness.
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, editor in chief of China Children's Publishing House.
"Nie is back? We haven't had enough meetings in the rolling mill yet. Go home and continue?"
Li Cuiyun joked that he poured Nie Yuanchao a cup of tea.
In fact, in terms of rank, she is no lower than Nie Yuanchao, even more influential.
After all, Children's Publishing House is a national publishing unit.
The rolling mill, which was originally a product of public-private partnership, is far less important than Shougang even though it has expanded a lot.
Nie Yuanchao said with a smile, "The steel rolling mill will be a business, and the family will be a family affair, so they can't be confused."
Li Cuiyun seemed to appreciate her husband's steadiness, smiled and sat down and said, "OK, let's talk about family affairs. What's wrong with Xiaoyu?"
Nie Yu felt guilty and said, "What's wrong with me? Comrade Li Cuiyun made an idealist mistake!"
Li Cuiyun gives her a white look and looks at Nie Yuanchao.
Nie Yuanchao did not scruple about his daughter's praying eyes, but decided to tell his wife: "Today I got the news that your daughter, in order to fight for her sweetheart, made a big noise in the workers' hospital, and kept other female workers away from her. She hid people behind like protecting food. Today, in front of Lao Zhao of the Ministry of Metallurgy, the family still made a joke about it."
The smile on Li Cuiyun's face disappeared instantly, and he stared at his daughter and said seriously, "When did you talk about the object? Comrade Nie Yu, how dare you secretly make small moves?"
Nie Yuanchao said silently, "Is she still sneaking around?"
Nie Yu nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, I'm not sneaking around."
Li Cuiyun looked at Nie Yuanchao and said, "Seriously! Is she looking for a doctor? Chinese medicine? The workers' hospital in your steel mill is very ordinary. Can you practice good medicine?"
Nie Yu hurriedly said: "Mom, Li Yuan's medical skill is very good, and today she will be famous!"
Nie Yuanchao rubbed his eyebrows and said, "That's not the problem..."
When Li Cuiyun saw her husband's appearance, he said curiously, "What's the problem? This... Li Yuan? Is he bad? Or is his composition bad?"
She didn't ask about her appearance, because she believed her daughter would find a good one.
Nie Yuanchao said with a wry smile, "None of them. The problem is that they don't like our girl, so they avoid it like tigers!"
"Hmm?!"
Li Cuiyun looked at his daughter strangely, puzzled and said, "It's not that ugly..."
Maybe because of working in the Children's Publishing House, I still have a childlike mind and am less serious than I should be in this era.
Nie Yu's pretty face turned red and stamped his feet, "Mom, what are you talking about?"
Li Cuiyun said: "Can your father still tell lies? Tell me about it. Why does the man named Li Yuan look down on you?"
Nie Yu listened to his mother's words. Somehow, he suddenly felt aggrieved, and his tears began to drip down, saying, "He said that we are not in the same world, not the same people. We can be friends, not..."
Seeing his daughter so sad, Nie Yuanchao said painfully, "How can such a sensitive and inferiority complex man deserve my daughter?"
Nie Yu shook his head as he shed tears and said, "He is not sensitive and inferiority complex. Everyone can joke with him, and he never gets angry. Sometimes when there is no food stamp at the end of the month, he will ask someone to borrow it. We will not let him return it, but he said with a smile that a gentleman is poor and a villain is too poor. He is willing to let us cook for him..."
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 he is generous, why does he refuse you for family reasons? Don't say one thing and do another, deliberately..."
Nie Yu was so sad that he shook his head and said, "Today he told me that Gao Men is full of right and wrong. He only wants to live an ordinary life and study medicine in a down-to-earth way. I hope I don't disturb him, or his friends will have no choice. Mom, I hope he can do what he says..."
Looking at their sobbing daughter, Nie Yuanchao and Li Cuiyun are very distressed. But what else can they do when people talk about it?
It's not a joke and has no dignity.
Li Cuiyun held her daughter in her arms and comforted her, "Every time a girl likes her, she is very precious, especially when she is in the beginning of love. But only when she likes people who are in love with each other, can she get real happiness. As an old saying goes, it is not unreasonable to make a change."
This is something that most ordinary people in this era can't say, and only they can have access to books, movies, and music in the outside world, and cultivate ideas that are superior to those in the current era.
Nie Yu didn't want to believe it. Tears welled up in his eyes and said, "I think Li Yuan doesn't dislike me, but hates 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. She doesn't categorically deny or forcefully suppress it. She smiles: "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 become more mellow and sweet like wine. Don't try to force it for a while, or it may backfire."
After pacifying Nie Yu and returning to his room to rest, Li Cuiyun asked Nie Yuanchao, "Do you want me to meet this guy?"
Nie Yuanchao shook his head and said, "It's better to do as you say and let nature take its course. However, I would like to see if this man is really ambitious, really scornful of Gongqing, an elegant scholar, and also a person who seeks fame and reputation!"
In any case, though neither of them declared it, they had a consensus in their hearts.
Their daughter can't marry a common Chinese doctor in a small worker's hospital
Not to look down on it, but objectively speaking, it is really difficult to go on with different levels of family background, and it will only lead a messy life.
They are reluctant.
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