Siheyuan: Cooking journey

This is equivalent to adding a new mouth from the countryside to the family - Qin Jingru.

Nowadays, household registration management is strict, and there is a clear distinction between urban and rural residents. People from different places have to stay in their own territory.

The food coupons and various tickets issued by each city are different and cannot be used interchangeably.

Even the movement of people between cities is difficult.

If you move to another place and have no relatives or friends, you won’t be able to buy food even if you have enough money.

Only the unit can issue a certificate, and you can go to the grain store to apply for national grain coupons, so that you won't go hungry when you go out on business. Otherwise, you can only starve when you go on a long journey.

Life is so difficult for city dwellers, let alone others who don’t have medical coupons.

Once they leave the land, they can't even get enough food to eat, let alone work outside to make a living.

Even if you go to visit relatives in the city, they may not welcome you, let alone provide you with food.

Food is distributed to each family according to their budget, and they budget carefully every month to barely have enough to eat. If one more person eats out, their family will go hungry.

Unless the families have high salaries and have meat and vegetables for every meal, they may be able to spare some of their rations.

Qin Jingru was a country girl, with no ration or food source, and was extremely poor.

If Qin Huairu took her in, the already tight situation of the family would undoubtedly be made even worse.

Of course, it is Qin Huairu's freedom to decide who to support, and no one else can interfere.

What really surprised He Yuzhu was that Qin Huairu sent away two ungrateful guys, but she worked so hard to raise another "ungrateful wolf".

This operation is really confusing.

However, if they are happy, outsiders have no right to interfere.

Despite this, He Yuzhu remained vigilant, thinking that Qin Huairu's life was even more difficult and she would definitely come again to pretend to be pitiful and gain sympathy.

Lou Xiao'e and He Yushui, who lived next door, became her targets.

But after a few days, seeing that Qin Huairu went to and from get off work safely and behaved normally when she got home without causing any trouble, He Yuzhu no longer bothered to pay attention to her.

He was busy on his own side and spent several days drawing the blueprints, which he handed over to Director Yang, but he encountered a new problem.

The next day after Director Yang received the drawings, he came to me with a worried look on his face.

"Xiao He, this is a bit troublesome."

He Yuzhu looked at him and asked in confusion: "What's the problem? Can't you understand the blueprint?"

"The drawings are fine."

Director Yang shook his head, sighed and said, "It's a material problem. There are not enough refractory bricks and refractory clay."

"not enough?"

He Yuzhu was worried.

With so many steel mills across the country, how could there be a shortage of this stuff?

Whether it is a steelmaking furnace or a heating furnace, the inner wall must be made of refractory bricks and the outside must be covered with steel. The only difference is the furnace shape and the design of the air inlet.

Without refractory bricks, how can the furnace withstand high temperatures?

As for refractory clay, it is more basic. Its function is similar to that of cement. It is used to fill the gaps between refractory bricks to prevent fire leakage from affecting heating efficiency and to prevent the outer layer from being burned through.

"Yes, it's just not enough."

Director Yang explained: "Our factory has a very small quota of refractory bricks and refractory clay, which are mainly used for daily repairs of heating furnaces. This time, the refractory bricks of the heating furnaces have to be replaced, and the material gap is too large."

"..."

He Yuzhu rubbed his brows, feeling so tired and as if his neck was stuck again.

First, stainless steel was difficult to deal with. We finally set up an innovation team and got approval. But then the heating furnace of the steel rolling mill encountered new problems.

Okay, we upgraded the heating furnace, put on the vests, and drew the blueprints, but we’re short of materials again.

Right now,

He Yuzhu really wanted to quit. In today's stable and almost rigid market environment, it was really difficult to do anything.

But now that it has come to this, giving up would be even more cowardly.

After thinking for a while, He Yuzhu asked, "Didn't you say before that the steel mill was building a steelmaking furnace? There shouldn't be a shortage of materials, right? Can you find a way to transfer some over?"

"Hey, there are so many steel mills in the country, but only so much material. There are too many people and too little porridge. It's difficult for them too."

Director Yang sighed and continued:

"Although there are quota restrictions there, the steelmaking furnace project has been approved and the supply of materials is relatively abundant. If we squeeze out some, it should be enough for us."

As he said this, Director Yang rubbed his hands, his eyes flickering with anticipation.

Seeing his hesitant expression, He Yuzhu understood.

The plan was to use the Lou family's influence in the steel plant to get a batch of materials.

Although the matter is not big, the operation is not complicated.

However, if the case is really investigated, the unauthorized misappropriation of special funds and materials is no small matter.

Especially since the Lou family is a public-private partnership, the negative impact will be even greater if this happens. It is tantamount to looking for trouble and causing trouble for yourself and others.

If I didn't know that Director Yang had no ill intentions,

He Yuzhu really felt that this was a deliberate trap set for the Lou family in an attempt to harm them.

"I can't help you with the steel mill."

He Yuzhu shook his head and said seriously: "I have only been to Lou's house once after I got married, but we were not familiar with each other and could not even talk."

"Oh, I expected that."

Director Yang sighed, but he didn't show any disappointment. He said with an expectant expression:

"Or you can talk to the old professor and we can set up a heating furnace innovation team here, report to the higher-ups, and apply for a batch of materials."

"..."

He Yuzhu was speechless.

Furnace Improvement Team?

He Yuzhu's eyebrows were slightly twisted together.

When I handed the design drawings to Director Yang at that time, I told him several times that the old professor didn't like to be ostentatious.

This design drawing of the heating furnace will be regarded as the result of the steel rolling mill's own exploration and research in the future.

The core figures are Director Yang, together with Uncle Yi Zhonghai, an eighth-level fitter, and a few less famous helpers.

This is different from tinkering with a dough mixer. That thing is inconspicuous and can be easily approved for innovation review.

But the design drawing of this heating furnace, although not cutting-edge technology, is much more complicated to submit for approval.

Once it is submitted, we must invite some experts to review it.

Director Yang couldn't stand the detailed questioning. He didn't know some of the details, and that would expose the old professor.

There is no such thing as an old professor.

In the end, you will have to ask me, the chef, about it.

Even though in the end they couldn't find the clue to me, a chef who didn't even graduate from elementary school, this is just looking for trouble and asking for trouble.

So, if we upgrade the heating furnace in the steel mill for fun, it's fine as long as Director Yang is in charge, but if we report it, it will definitely not work because it's too troublesome.

After thinking for a while, He Yuzhu's expression became serious and solemn: "We had a good talk before;

“I also promised the old professor that he just likes the prosperity of the new era and wants to retire to his country to spend his old age. He doesn’t want to get involved in these things.

"Besides, his identity is a bit sensitive. You know, it's not good for us to get involved with him. The design must be kept confidential.

“We can’t even set up any innovation group to report;

“No matter who asks, we have to say that the steel mill has figured it out slowly through more than ten years of maintenance experience;

"Otherwise, you and I will both get into trouble."