area51novel Chapter 313 Dinner
Chapter 313 Dinner
At the end of the meeting, Li Huaide announced the decision to organize a dinner for the entire factory and watch a movie in the evening, which once again caused excitement among the workers in the factory.
In order to organize this banquet, Li Huaide put a lot of thought into it. He distributed the 3,000 kilograms of meat specially approved by the meat processing plant, and also took out some logistics stocks, canned meat and the like. Even He Lai was called in and asked to get a wild boar.
All canteens are busy early in the morning so that the workers can have a good meal.
Each worker also has a meal ticket. With the ticket, they can order two meat dishes and two vegetable dishes, but they are both full of oil and fat.
The meat dishes include braised pork, ants climbing trees, braised lion's head, shredded pork with fish flavor, braised hairtail, etc.; the vegetarian dishes include spicy and sour shredded potatoes, braised eggplant, stir-fried cabbage with lard, etc.; of course there are also tomato and egg soup and tofu and kelp soup.
In this era, kelp and hairtail have become indispensable dishes in the mainland, especially kelp, which has supported the people in times of food and clothing shortage.
Li Huaide is particularly concerned about such things that can gather people's hearts. He knows that only by serving the workers' stomachs well can he improve his status in the workers' hearts, so he must make this dinner a success.
The new canteen where Sha Zhu works is also the place with the largest flow of people. After all, everyone in the entire steel rolling mill knows that Sha Zhu's cooking skills are the best. As for an old hand like He Daqing, he will not come to cook for the big pot. He would rather everyone go to Sha Zhu's place.
There is a wild boar from He Lai in Shazhu’s canteen, and the dishes are of a higher grade.
When He Lai came to the cafeteria, he found Liang Ladi was also there, looking at the menu. She must have come as a representative of the employees of the machine repair factory. After all, Liang Ladi was a model worker in their factory.
He Lai walked up and patted Liang Ladi on the shoulder, which scared Liang Ladi.
"He Lai, it's you." Liang Ladi turned around and found it was He Lai, and immediately greeted him.
"It's not me, who is it? Sister Liang, how is it? The food at the steel mill is good, right?"
"Yeah, I don't know which one to choose after seeing all these dishes." Liang Ladi said with a wry smile. She was indeed struggling with the dilemma. After all, one meal ticket could only allow her to order two meat dishes.
"How's it going? Do you want me to help you make some delicious food?"
He Lai said with a smile.
"No, no, I can go by myself." Liang Ladi was afraid that she would affect He Lai, so she refused.
"Well, I'll give you my meal ticket. I won't need it. You should eat more yourself, don't leave it all for the child."
He Lai gave the dinner ticket to Liang Ladi, not wanting to see her humiliating herself for a meal ticket.
"Thank you." Liang Ladi took it with a smile. During the oath-taking ceremony just now, she knew that He Lai had become the section chief, so he should not be short of meal tickets.
"Then I'll leave. You can go back to your colleague." He said and went into the kitchen.
"Liang Ladi, isn't this Engineer He who came to our factory before? Do you know him? He is really capable. I think I saw him on stage just now. I didn't expect that he would become a cadre at such a young age."
An old master in the machine repair shop asked.
"He is my younger brother and is very good to me." Liang Ladi explained with a smile. With two dinner tickets, she could bring back a lot of dishes.
He Lai entered the kitchen, called Ma Hua over, and pointed at Liang Ladi and said.
"See, that woman, be more careful when serving food, okay?"
"I understand, uncle-master, leave it to me." Ma Hua patted his chest and promised.
"Okay, do your best, and I'll ask your master to teach you more."
"Thank you, uncle."
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He Lai was eating and chatting with Sha Zhu in Sha Zhu's lounge.
"Xiao Laizi, what's going on? Do you know that woman?" Sha Zhu asked puzzledly.
"Yes, she's from the machine repair factory. I met her the last time I went there. She's a widow raising four children, it's not easy, so I took care of her."
He Lai didn't hide it from Sha Zhu and told him directly.
"Really? That's really not easy! Do you want to get some more food for her?"
Sha Zhu had a natural sympathy for such widows and immediately agreed with He Lai's idea.
"Forget it. There are so many people watching us in the factory. Giving her extra food would be a bit ostentatious. I've already given her the dinner ticket. Just ignore it. Be careful or my sister-in-law will skin you alive."
He Lai smiled helplessly.
"Okay, I'll listen to you, but Xiao Laizi, your wild boar meat is really good. It tastes great."
"That's because Brother Zhuzi has great skills!"
"Hehe, that's right. I do it every day now, and my master says my skills have improved a lot."
Few workers eat in the cafeteria because there is a mobilization meeting today, so they will not go to work, have lunch at noon, and watch a movie in the evening.
So they basically take the food home and eat it with their families, after all, it is a rare opportunity to have a big meal of meat.
There were not many people who stayed in the canteen to eat. Most of them were bachelors who lived in the factory dormitories. If anyone who was married or had parents at home dared to stay in the canteen to eat, he would be criticized.
The line of workers in front of the lunch window, holding a row of net bags filled with aluminum lunch boxes, seems to have become a rare landscape.
Everyone had a happy face and was waiting to get the food and rush home.
In the conference room, Deputy Minister Yu and his men were standing at the window watching the lively scene, including Director Yang, Li Huaide, Secretary Feng, several deputy directors and other persons in charge of important positions at the steel rolling mill.
"You organized this swearing-in ceremony very well! Comrade Li Huaide, this banquet was well organized. Look how happy the workers are eating! This shows that you have done a good job in logistics!"
Deputy Minister Yu said with a smile.
"Thank you Minister Yu for the compliment. This is what I should do. Only when workers have good food can they work harder for the factory. I will do my best to serve the workers."
Li Huaide quickly replied respectfully that there was no other way, the steel mill was under the direct jurisdiction of Vice Minister Yu, and he had to please him.
He couldn't be like that useless Director Yang, who only cared about production all day long and didn't care about the lives of the workers. Now Li Huaide increasingly realized the importance of workers. Only if he could gain a foothold in the hearts of the workers could he climb up better.
"Well, you have a good understanding. Aren't we here to serve the working class? You guys, don't put yourself in such a high position. You should pay more attention to the workers below you."
Vice Minister Yu nodded in response.
Director Yang and others nodded quickly in agreement.
Soon all the workers in the cafeteria left. Seeing this, Li Huaide spoke.
"Minister Yu, the workers have already prepared their food. Let's go eat something too. Public servants need to eat, too."
"Okay, you arrange it. Let's try the dishes at this banquet to see if they are as good as they look!"
Deputy Minister Yu said with a smile.
Soon Li Huaide took everyone to a private room, where Sha Zhu personally took charge of the cooking and prepared a table full of dishes. Of course, they were mainly Sichuan cuisine, because our leader liked to eat it.
Sha Zhu's cooking skills were very much to Vice Minister Yu's taste. All the leaders watched him eat, ordering as much as they could, and listened to Vice Minister Yu's speech.
After the meal, more than half of the dishes were still left, but the few people hardly touched them. It was only Deputy Minister Yu who was eating, while the others watched and drank a lot of wine.