The educated youth was reborn and wanted to disappear, but he was locked into a military marriage.

Jiang Jiancheng asked from behind: "When making canned food, shouldn't we just cut off the rotten ones? If we don't accept them here, we can't sell the current ones, isn't that a waste?"

At that time, many people were still hungry and were afraid of waste. They had no concept of food safety. Jiang Jiancheng also came from a rural background and valued food even more.

Zhu Xiaomin shook her head and said, "If you cut off the rotten parts, it may seem that the remaining parts are good, but the bacteria that grow in the rotten parts have already affected the entire fruit. If they are mixed with good fruits, the entire can will deteriorate faster, which will cause greater waste. What's worse is that after the fruit is cut, you don't know how many cans it will be mixed into, and you won't be able to pick them out when you want to."

Miao Shiwen added: "The rotten fruits are kept by each brigade for their own disposal and will not be sent to the market."

In other words, even if everyone in the group eats it themselves, there will be no waste.

Tang Xingning listened, looked at Zhu Xiaomin, and said with a smile: "I didn't know that. Secretary Zhu has a wide range of knowledge."

Decades later, this is something that almost everyone understands.

Zhu Xiaomin was just being modest.

At this time, someone from the propaganda team came over and said, "Officer Zhu, leaders, the auspicious time for the ceremony is approaching."

When everyone heard this, they immediately followed him towards the factory gate.

Outside the factory gate, the sound of gongs and drums had already been heard, and members of the propaganda team were singing and dancing while holding colorful silk ribbons.

After a while of giving way to each other, Zhu Xiaomin was pushed out to announce the completion of the Zhulu Food Factory of Cijiaokou Commune.

As the deafening sound of firecrackers rang out, Zhu Xiaomin and Gu Mancang on one side, and Tian Zhimin and Tang Xingning on the other, pulled down the red silk on top, revealing the five big words "Zhulu Food Factory".

Pei Wenyuan and his group stood in front of the gate and applauded. They looked up at the five big red characters and nodded repeatedly: "This name is heroic, competing for the Central Plains. I hope that the products of our food factory can also be sold outside our area and spread across the Central Plains."

Will do!

Zhu Xiaomin looked up at the five big words, her heart full of confidence.

After the simple inauguration ceremony, the big stove in the canning production workshop was announced to be lit. Baskets of washed cans were moved over and put into steamers for high-temperature sterilization.

A reception meal was prepared in the canteen of the food factory, and Gu Mancang came forward and invited everyone to go to the canteen.

This canteen is in the same row as the canning workshop, just on the other side of the big kitchen. It shares the big kitchen with the canning workshop. It was built with forty big stoves arranged in a circle when the factory was first built. When the factory building was constructed, an indoor kitchen and canteen was also built here.

There were not many people here today, so there were only four large stoves in the kitchen for cooking, and the rest were used as large steamers to sterilize cans.

Before dinner, everyone went in to take a look and saw a large stove with a wide workbench in the middle. Everything was clean and everyone nodded in agreement.

Today is the inauguration ceremony of the factory, to bring good luck for continued success. We had fried cakes, a big pot of stew, and a big pot of mutton soup.

There is meat in the stew because the base specially slaughtered a sheep for this important day. It may not be considered extravagant at this time, but it is already considered a high-standard reception.

After dinner, the newly selected group of people have started to work in the workshop. They are all people selected from various teams, mainly sisters-in-law in their thirties and forties. All of them have their hair wrapped with headscarves, wear sleeves and aprons, and work at separate workbenches. Some are washing the fruits, some are peeling the fruits, and some are cutting them into pieces, and then moving them to the big kitchen to steam them.

Jiang Jiancheng saw that the peels of the fruits were too thick, with a layer of flesh still on them, and felt sorry for them: "The peels will be wasted."

Having lived in the village for many years, Zhu Xiaomin also understood his thoughts. She pointed to a workshop where machines were placed and said, "The machine over there is used to squeeze juice. Each type of fruit peel will be separated and transported over there to squeeze juice. Fruit juice is also one of our products. The remaining residue will also be transported back to the base to be used as feed for sheep."

This really is not a waste at all.

Jiang Jiancheng was relieved and nodded repeatedly.

Yang Haozhong was a little surprised: "Use fruit peels to make juice? This is okay?"

Zhu Xiaomin said with a smile: "In fact, the fruit peel has the highest nutritional value, so it is usually not recommended to throw away the peel when eating fruit. It's just that we can't do anything about the peel when we make canned food, so we squeeze it into juice."

Yang Haozhong had learned something new. He glanced at her and said to Pei Wenyuan with a smile, "Why do I feel that putting Xiao Zhu in this position is a waste of talent?"

Zheng Jianye said hurriedly, "Two leaders, this little Zhu has only been transferred to our unit for a few days. She must stay with us for a few years before she can leave, right? Otherwise, others will think that we have treated her unfairly."

Yang Haozhong and Pei Wenyuan couldn't help laughing. Pei Wenyuan smiled and shook his head: "Listen, Xiao Zhu is very popular."

Zhu Xiaomin could only smile and say, "Thank you for your appreciation, leaders."

Liu Zhuangzhi asked, "Xiao Zhu, although the food factory has been built, your health will soon make it inconvenient for you to go to the countryside. I wonder if your work here will be affected?"

Yes, in less than three months, she will give birth to a child, and her husband is not around. She will have to take maternity leave first, and then it will be difficult to go on business trips with the child.

Zhu Xiaomin pointed to Xie Chengzhi and Chen Danqing who were not far away and said, "They are the main force in managing the food factory. I have arranged for them to write detailed reports to me at each stage. They will not be affected."

Pei Wenyuan asked: "When the fruits on the mountain are harvested, how will the production of the food factory be arranged?"

Zhu Xiaomin said: "After the fruits, several of our brigades also grow a lot of nuts, which we plan to process into different flavors."

Yan Yimin interrupted: "The hawthorn cake you made before tasted good, but you didn't think about making more cakes."

Zhu Xiaomin was helpless: "If it's about making cakes, both the variety and the processing procedures are fine, but everyone needs to use grain, and we have limited resources, so it's difficult to do it."

Indeed, when ordinary people cannot even fill their stomachs, how can they use grain to make pastries?

Yan Yimin nodded, but was a little unwilling: "Or, you can think of raw materials other than food."

Zhu Xiaomin thought about it seriously, nodded and said, "Well, the normal staple food grains are not in supply, but if there are large quantities of beans grown somewhere, that would be fine."

Yan Yimin's eyes lit up: "I'll ask later if there are any communes that can grow beans in large quantities."

The two of them were discussing, and Tang Xingning in front said with a smile: "Xiao Zhu's achievements are inseparable from the support of Secretary Yan."

Yes, no matter whether it is fruit or mutton from the base, how can we do it without the support of the supply and marketing cooperatives?