The days of being a buyer in Siheyuan

"Ah."

Li Huaide picked up a piece of food with chopsticks and started eating. He immediately felt that he was worthy of being a person with family tradition. He could tell the difference after just one taste.

"Master He, I heard that your family is famous for Tan's cuisine, right?"

Li Huaide put down his chopsticks and looked at He Yuzhu and asked.

Speaking of this, He Yuzhu immediately became excited and talked to Li Huaide incessantly about the various dishes of the Tan family cuisine.

"It's just that it's hard to find ingredients now, alas."

“Now I can only rely on Sichuan cuisine.”

After listening to He Yuzhu's description, Li Huaide also felt that such a talent should not be promoted. After all, He Yuzhu's Sichuan cuisine skills were also good. He thought about it carefully and said.

"Master He, I remember you are a level nine chef now, right? I think this is a waste of your talent. I think it's okay to give you a level seven."

Li Huaide's meaning was very clear, which was to promote He Yuzhu to the treatment of a level seven chef. He Yuzhu thanked him repeatedly and blinked at Liu Minghui. He knew that this must be due to Liu Minghui's contribution.

He Yuzhu is the highest-level chef in the steel rolling mill now. There is no doubt that Li Huaide will only ask him to entertain in the future. The previous master chef is still there, and He Yuzhu also cooks for him occasionally, but this time he has not taken the assessment and is about to retire.

This means that from now on the kitchen will basically be He Yuzhu's world.

Liu Minghui was also happy for He Yuzhu, as he felt it was worth all the good things he said to him.

In the afternoon, Liu Minghui was handling work in the purchasing department. The few Russians who had come to the steel rolling mill before had left, and now the purchasing department was back on track. Liu Minghui only needed to supervise the work of the buyers.

"Dong dong dong."

"Please come in."

There was a knock on Liu Minghui's office door, and the person who came was Wang Wen.

"Chief, I received a telegram from Tianjin. It's a serious matter. Please tell me how to handle it."

Wang Wen came in and said anxiously.

"What's the hurry? Show it to me."

Wang Wen was scolded by Liu Minghui for his hurried look, and then he took the telegram and started reading it.

It says that due to seasonal reasons, fish will no longer be available to the steel mill.

"Hey, this is not going to be easy. Didn't they tell us in advance last time we went there?"

Liu Minghui felt a headache after seeing this. You know, the main reason why the steel mill could be so stable was the endless supply of fish meat. If these were missing, the workers in the steel mill would definitely take it out on him, the head of the purchasing department.

Wang Wen quickly replied, "No, our next convoy will depart tomorrow, and they just happened to send a telegram today."

After hearing this, Liu Minghui rubbed his temples and thought carefully.

"Let me talk to the deputy director about this matter. You can leave first."

Liu Minghui waved his hand and let Wang Wen go out, then he called Li Huaide.

Liu Minghui didn't feel relieved until he hung up the phone.

It's not that someone is making things difficult for them, but now everything has to be included in the plan and cannot be sold to the steel mill individually. Li Huaide has no way to deal with this.

After thinking for a while in the office, Liu Minghui walked out of the office and gathered everyone together.

"Today, we have only one thing to say. Our source of fish has been cut off. They can no longer supply us with fish. You guys need to get busy, or the workers will get upset."

Everyone has known about this for a long time. Many people knew about it when the telegram came in before.

I was mentally prepared for what Liu Minghui said.

"Chief, many villages are handing over their New Year pigs right now, why don't we go see if we can buy a few?"

Someone raised a suggestion, and Liu Minghui agreed to it.

"No problem. It's okay if the price is a little higher, just don't exceed the black market price."

Liu Minghui knew that whoever had the supplies was the boss now, and leaving them behind was useless, so as long as he could purchase them back, it didn’t matter if the price was a little higher.

"Li Yue, give them more money, or they will be robbed if they don't bring enough money and supplies."

After giving instructions to the purchasing agent, Liu Minghui reminded Li Yue that there is not only one steel rolling mill in Sijiu City, many factories also need purchasing agents, and now they have to rely on snatching.

"Okay, Chief."

Li Yue replied.

Liu Minghui felt relieved when he saw that everything was arranged. At worst, he would have to take action.

After looking around, Liu Minghui wanted to find his second brother, but unfortunately he didn't find him.

Liu Minghui didn't know what to say about this. If he wasn't the section chief, Liu Dazhuang would have left long ago. He spent much more time in Liujia Village than in the steel rolling mill.

Basically, he only comes a few times a week. Liu Minghui estimated that his second brother's child would be born soon, so he thought about it and decided not to say anything. After the New Year, Liu Minghui planned to have Liu Dazhuang and his wife move to the city. It didn't matter if he was not at home every day.

In the afternoon, Liu Minghui took the No. 11 bus back to the courtyard. Along the way, he saw several pedestrians falling because they walked too fast. After the snow stopped, the road was frozen and very slippery.

Liu Minghui was also cautious about this.

"Uncle, there's no class today?"

As soon as Liu Minghui entered the courtyard, he saw Yan Bugui tending his precious flowers and plants in the yard. It must be said that Yan Bugui's craftsmanship was quite good, and the flowers were all colorful. Liu Minghui thought he would be frozen to death.

"It's Minghui. I came back quite early. Yesterday's snow froze many of my flowers and plants. I have to take a good look at them."

Yan Bugui looked distressed, and if you didn't know, you would think something had happened to him.

"Uncle, what kind of flower is this? It can actually bloom in such a cold weather."

Liu Minghui walked closer and pointed at a plant and said that he was not very clear about these things.

However, Yan Bugui is an experienced gardener, and he immediately told Liu Minghui with a smug smile on his face.

"This is an orchid, a Clivia. It usually blooms in this season. Don't you think it's beautiful?"

This was something Yan Bugui asked the principal of the primary school for. It was his proudest thing.

"Not bad."

Liu Minghui also thought it was beautiful and praised it generously.

"Minghui, do you know the black market in the west?"

Yan Bugui looked around and said to Liu Minghui.

Liu Minghui didn't know why he suddenly said this. Isn't the black market in the west owned by Lao Hu? Did something happen?

So Liu Minghui asked calmly, "Black market, I don't know, I don't usually go there."

"Let me tell you, this black market seems to have been shut down."

Seeing that Liu Minghui didn't know, Yan Bugui immediately whispered the gossip he had heard from somewhere else.

"Ok?"

Liu Minghui was suddenly puzzled. Why was this suddenly investigated? Could it be because of the food?

"It's closed down, so what? I won't go there anyway. How did you know about it, Third Master? Did you see it with your own eyes?"

Liu Minghui teased Yan Bugui with a smile.