The prosperous era of courtyard houses

Chapter 102, rates

Soon, it’s the weekend, the 23rd day of the lunar calendar, the Little New Year.

Today is the closing day for the entire steel rolling mill, and it is also the last day of work this year.

In the morning, all workshops have basically stopped working. Workers are renovating, cleaning machines or cleaning the workshop. They are waiting to receive their salary after lunch. After receiving their salary, they can go home directly. Work will not start until the eighth day of the Lunar New Year.

It was around eleven o'clock, just after dinner time, Zheng Shan and Yang Xiaojun came over.

"Captain, it's time for lunch, let's go as soon as possible."

"It's just eating, why are you in such a hurry?"

Zheng Shan scratched his head and said with a smile: "Hey, don't you get your salary after eating? You should go and get it early."

Li Weiguo rolled his eyes at him and said, "Come on, there are tens of thousands of people who want to get it early. Don't think about it. You still have to queue up if you go. I don't know how long it will take. After dinner, it's better to hang out in the office." Son, besides, the accountant and cashier don’t know how to run away, so there’s no need to worry.”

Zheng Shan thought so and shrugged: "Well, you still have high concentration."

Li Weiguo smiled calmly. It was not that he had high determination, but that he did not expect to live on that salary at all, so he did not have the excitement of receiving a salary.

Forty-five yuan a month may be a lot to others, but to Li Weiguo it is nothing, and it is not enough to pay for a trip to a grocery store.

Li Weiguo and Li Laocai earn tens of thousands a month. Do they still need to queue up in a hurry to receive the forty-five salary? No.

"By the way, Shanzi, Xiaojun, what are you going to buy for the New Year?"

Zheng Shan thought for a moment and said, "Well, during the Chinese New Year, I'll just pull some fabric to make clothes for my wife and children. Then I'll buy some pork and make dumplings for the Chinese New Year."

Yang Xiaojun on the side also nodded and said: "I'm about the same. I'll undress my wife and buy some pork to have a good meal during the New Year. I just don't know if it's good to buy during the New Year. The pork at the end of every year is in short supply. I get up all night long to wait in line. The team may not be able to buy fat."

The pork supply for the residents of the imperial capital is only 4 taels per person per month, and only 4 jins and 8 taels per year. Generally, they don’t see meat meat a few times a year. Most of the meat tickets will be saved until the end of the year, so they can buy some meat during the Chinese New Year to have a good year.

But where is the meat at the end of the year so easy to buy? This is more difficult than usual.

Normally, people don’t buy much meat, and occasionally they can buy some fat meat. At the end of the year, there are too many people buying meat. They all line up and wave the meat tickets they have saved for more than half a year to consume. If you can buy half fat or thin meat, you are considered lucky. , those who are unlucky can only buy lean meat, and there is no way to choose.

"You should buy less pork. I have a friend who works at a supply and marketing cooperative and has reserved a lot for me. I can't eat much by myself. I'll share some with you later."

"Chief, you have helped us so much, how can we have the nerve to ask for your pork." Zheng Shan said sheepishly.

Li Weiguo waved his hand and said, "Okay, don't be pretentious, I don't lack this, just think of it as a New Year gift to your family."

There are tens of thousands of kilograms of meat in his space, so it’s okay to use some of it to take care of the people around him.

Maybe it's the end of the year holiday soon, and today's lunch is much richer than usual.

I usually make rice with either cabbage, radish, or radish and potatoes. The staple food is steamed buns, corn tortillas, and occasionally steamed buns with steamed noodles, which are meaty and fishy. I don’t see them twice a month.

Today's situation is different. I looked at the small blackboard on the canteen's food window and saw, hey, good guy, five meat dishes, one vegetable dish and one soup, plenty of oil and water.

Stir-fried pork with shredded potatoes, braised lion's head, steamed pork ribs with rice flour, ants climbing a tree, braised rabbit meat, tofu and cabbage, plus a pork offal soup. Even the staple food is the same, steamed buns with Erhe noodles. Employees may not have the ones in the factory during the Chinese New Year. It was a good meal, but the workers who were queuing up to eat were very excited.

Fortunately, Li Huaide got an extra 20,000 kilograms of pork from Li Weiguo two days ago. Otherwise, the steel rolling mill would not be willing to make it like this. It would be generous to provide one half meat and half vegetarian every other week.

"Bring me a braised lion's head, an ant on a tree, a braised rabbit, and then three steamed buns."

The person in charge of serving food was Liu Lan, the one who would later be seized upon by Li Huaide and threatened to become his lover. This has not happened yet.

Li Weiguo usually took ingredients to the kitchen and asked Sha Zhu to help process them. Every time he was done, he would leave some meat for the kitchen. Liu Lan and the other helpers also received a lot of benefits.

When she saw that Li Weiguo was coming, she didn't say anything. She blinked at Li Weiguo in a ghostly manner. She first gave him three steamed buns, then scooped three tablespoons of vegetables from the pot and put them on the table. The two lunch boxes were filled to the brim, almost equal to the amount of two dishes.

Li Weiguo grinned, gave him a thank you look, then silently closed the lunch box and left. There were a lot of people behind him, but he didn't dare to let others see him, otherwise there would be a commotion.

After lunch, Li Weiguo did not rush to line up in the finance department and went directly to the security department to find his master Wang Zhenhai.

As soon as he entered the security unit's office, he saw his master sitting there leisurely drinking tea, waiting for his salary to be paid and on vacation.

"Master, how can you be so leisurely?"

"Haha, it's okay. Why didn't you go get your salary instead of coming here?" Wang Zhenhai said with a smile.

"Hey, the accountant can't run away, so why worry. I have something to ask you."

Li Weiguo smiled and put half a catty of "West Lake Longjing" in his hand on the old man's table, then took out a bag of large Qianmen from his pocket, pulled it out and handed it to Wang Zhenhai.

"Master, this is West Lake Longjing. It was given to you by someone else. I will bring it to you to try."

Wang Zhenhai took the cigarette and clamped it to his ear, then picked up the tea bag and put it in front of his nose and smelled: "Yeah, good stuff, not bad, then I'll keep it?"

"You can keep it. I don't know how to taste it. I always drink tea in large quantities. It would be a waste to leave it here."

"Okay, master and apprentice, we won't give in to you."

As he spoke, the old man put the tea away happily, and then asked: "By the way, you came here specifically to deliver tea, right?"

"Yes, I can't hide anything from you. Isn't it the Chinese New Year soon? I'm thinking that you can spend it with me then. It will look lively. Moreover, the chef of the canteen, Shazhu, is from my hospital. I will prepare some by then. When the good things come back and let him help prepare them, won’t the New Year’s Eve dinner be delicious?”

Li Weiguo took out a match, lit a cigarette for Wang Zhenhai, and explained.

When Wang Zhenhai heard this, he felt quite moved. In previous years, he would celebrate the New Year alone, and it would be deserted and he would not even feel like eating.

Now that we have an apprentice, wouldn't it be nice to have a New Year's Eve dinner together during the Chinese New Year? We will no longer be alone in the future.

After thinking about it, Wang Zhenhai nodded readily and said, "Okay, come and pick me up on New Year's Eve."

"Okay, I'll pick you up on time on New Year's Eve."

By four o'clock in the afternoon, everyone was almost gone, and Li Weiguo and others went to line up to collect their wages.

The accounting efficiency of the Finance Department is still very high, and it was soon the turn of Li Weiguo and others.

"Zheng Shan, a level 12 security guard of the Security Section Picket Unit, has a salary of yuan and cents, a mission bonus of yuan and cents, and a bonus of taels of pork at the end of the year. If you sign here, you can get the money."

"Yang Xiaojun, level 12 security officer of the Security Section Picket Unit, salary is twenty-five yuan and fifty cents, mission bonus is five yuan and fifty cents, and pork is twenty taels. Sign here, and then go to the cashier to get your things."

Previously, four people from Liu Degui were arrested, and those who participated in the task of the picket unit were given a bonus. The amount was not small, five yuan and fifty cents, which was enough for one person's living expenses for a month.

However, Li Weiguo didn't expect the year-end benefits. Li Huaide was really willing to give out two taels of meat to each person. The total of more than 10,000 employees was almost two thousand catties.

"Captain Li, you are a security officer, a 24th-level cadre, with a salary of yuan, a mission bonus of yuan, and a bonus of yuan from the police station, totaling yuan, and half a catty of pork. Are you here? Just sign here."

"Wow, Chief, what did you do to disturb the ground today and get such a big bonus?"

Zheng Shan and Yang Xiaojun were both shocked. It was the first time they saw someone get such a large bonus.

Good guy, Li Weiguo didn't expect that the police station would be so powerful and give out so many bonuses. It's probably because the contributions of Fan Jiuzhi, Dao Scarhui and his son, and Liu Degui's gang were all credited to him, otherwise there wouldn't be so many.

"Hey, low-key, low-key."

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After receiving their wages and pork, everyone had no intention of staying in the factory and walked directly to the west gate of the factory.

"I will take the pork to the small courtyard in Dongzhimen tomorrow morning. Remember to come and get it tomorrow."

"Okay, thank you, Chief."

After leaving the steel rolling mill, the three of them parted ways and went back to their homes.

By the time Li Weiguo returned home, many of the neighbors in the courtyard had already returned. At this moment, they were cleaning the entire courtyard under the leadership of three uncles. The entire courtyard was busy and joyful.

"Third uncle, we are cleaning. Please wait a moment. I will put down my things and come to help you."

"Weiguo is back. No need to work anymore. The cleaning is almost done. Let's finish it."

"Okay, thank you for the hard work."

"Hey, what a big deal. By the way, Weiguo, there will be a hospital-wide meeting after dinner. Don't forget it. I won't call you then."

"Meeting? What's the content, Mr. Third?"

"What else could it be, just lining up to buy groceries in the next few days?"

Buying groceries? Do you need to have a meeting to buy groceries?