Siheyuan: Bringing Warehouses to 1959

The work of the Propaganda Department is basically the same every day.

Zeng Wangcai took Lin Huyang for a walk around the office, then went next door with a stack of papers and the outline he had written yesterday. There was no one next door so early in the morning.

"You still need to write articles?" Lin Huyang looked at the materials in the office with boredom.

"I didn't write these." Zeng Wangcai raised the notebook in his hand, "I want to write here. I won't have time to talk to you after I finish my work today. I have to write my article well."

"What a shitty article." Lin Huyang recalled, "When we were in school, your grades were better than mine, but you were never good at writing essays."

"That's just me hiding my abilities. I won't talk to you anymore. Just play by yourself." Zeng Wangcai began to make drafts on the material paper.

It is due on Friday and the essay must be completed before then.

Zeng Wangcai wrote and revised, and spent more than half an hour to complete the first paragraph of the essay, which was the summary paragraph. At this time, Zhou Hongbo came over.

Zhou Hongbo finished his work and didn't see Zeng Wangcai in the office. When he learned that Zeng Wangcai was here, he thought someone had assigned him some copying work, so he came to see him.

"Xiao Zeng, how is the writing going? This young comrade is..." Zhou Hongbo naturally didn't know Lin Huyang.

Zeng Wangcai, who was immersed in writing, was awakened and introduced: "His name is Lin Huyang. Deputy Director Li asked me to bring him to meet Director Wu of the Administration Department. Lin Huyang has connections and can purchase fish and pork. Come and talk about purchasing."

He knew that Zhou Hongbo didn't like to ask too many questions, so in order to avoid misunderstanding, he just said it directly.

"Oh? You are a talented young comrade to be able to purchase these things at this time." Zhou Hongbo did not talk much about this matter, but asked, "How is your article going? I thought someone assigned you to copy it."

"No, they were arguing over there, so I came here to write." Zeng Wangcai did not hide his progress. "Yesterday afternoon I thought about the core of the article and drafted the central idea. I just wrote the first paragraph."

Central idea, what a familiar word.

When I was a kid, I was afraid that most of my classmates had a headache with this in Chinese class, because the Chinese teacher would always ask: What is the central idea of ​​this article? What does the author want to express? What does the author describe and praise, etc.

Zeng Wangcai was young at that time and didn’t understand this. He also had a headache. He always thought, how the hell do I know what the author is thinking? I would just give a random answer, and if it was not right, he would then wonder, how do you know that the author is thinking this?

Later, after engaging in amateur writing, Zeng Wangcai was glad that the education he received was useful. If the author does not know what he wants to say, then there is no point in writing.

When Zhou Hongbo heard that Zeng Wangcai had written the outline, he nodded with satisfaction and asked Zeng Wangcai to show it to him.

"Resolutely eliminate the enemies of the people?" Zhou Hongbo was shocked when he saw this title.

The reason is simple: this topic is too big and it provokes conflict.

Zhou Hongbo continued to read on and finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Not bad, not bad, this is a good idea, but you need to write it in more depth and not just on the surface."

When Zhou Hongbo first saw the title, he thought Zeng Wangcai was going to write about people. Only after reading the outline did he realize that Zeng Wangcai was going to write about beasts, and the topic was extended to the difficulties the country is facing today.

Zhou Hongbo was worried that Zeng Wangcai would go off topic, so he reminded him, after all, this is a steel rolling mill.

"Okay, Chief, I'll write in more depth." Zeng Wangcai understood Zhou Hongbo's reminder, "I'll write more about our factory."

"That's right!" Zhou Hongbo nodded again and went out.

In fact, Zeng Wangcai racked his brain for a long time to figure out how he could have gone off topic. He didn't want to write about the steel mill at all. The core content of the document was to unite as one to overcome the current difficulties.

What is the current difficulty?

It's about wearing clothes and eating food, not about smelting iron and steel.

But since Zhou Hongbo has spoken, Zeng Wangcai also has a solution.

"Let's go and find Wu Youwei." Zeng Wangcai said as he put away the materials.

"he came?"

"He should be here. I've been at work for almost an hour."

The two of them went out one after another, went up to the third floor, turned right, and found the office of the director of the administrative department.

Wu Youwei was a skinny man in his fifties. When he met Zeng Wangcai, he was very friendly and did not have any airs of a cadre.

Zeng Wangcai immediately understood that Wu Youwei was Li Huaide's most trusted confidant and knew that he knew Old Man Liu.

So far, Zeng Wangcai has met many people in the factory. Except for Li Huaide, Section Chief Yu and Wu Youwei in front of him, every cadre, even a small section chief, has airs.

After the greetings, Wu Youwei asked, "Xiao Zeng, Xiao Lin, I already know what happened in the cafeteria yesterday. You also saw Director Li's statement at the time. There is no problem with the recruitment quota, but we have to convince people. Leaders must be fair."

"We understand, Director Wu." Lin Huyang said immediately, "Comrade Zeng Wangcai has told me what Director Li said. I think Director Li is right. My power is limited. I should be down-to-earth. How about this? Today is Tuesday. Not counting today, give me five days. By next Monday, I will find at least 300 kilograms of fish and 50 kilograms of meat for the factory."

Zeng Wangcai had no idea where Hu Guangyong, whom he had never met, got the resources, but he felt that three hundred kilograms of fish and fifty kilograms of meat should be able to impress Li Huaide.

If it’s not enough, let’s talk about it again.

Wu Youwei nodded immediately: "That's fine, you can come to me directly on Monday."

"Okay, thank you Director Wu!"

The matter was finalized. Zeng Wangcai led Lin Huyang downstairs and sent him out of the factory.

On the way, Lin Huyang was a little worried: "Wangcai, why don't I go with you on Sunday? Yu also said that wild boars are not easy to fight, and more people mean more strength..."

"No, just stay at home." Zeng Wangcai didn't want to walk or take the bus. It would be much better to ride Yadi alone. "There are a lot of people in the village. Our business is bigger this time. You have things to do too. You don't need to talk about the purchasing station. You have to go to Peking University to see Fatty Zheng and tell him that we have wild boar meat and pheasant and so on this time, and urge him to get a bicycle ticket.

"If he can't get it, we'll sell the meat to someone else."

Fat Zheng will definitely ask for meat, and the price won’t be low.

Lin Huyang said: "Are you sure you can catch the wild boar? What if we fail to catch it and we brag about it, it will be embarrassing if we can't fulfill it."

"Don't worry, we can definitely hit it."

There are plenty of them in the warehouse, how can you run away?

Zeng Wangcai plans to do both this time, using the same method as last time.

As for pheasants, Zhang Xiuzhi had already brought back the corresponding materials needed for Zeng Youhuo to make traps when he returned. He believed that with his second uncle's ability, he should have harvested some by now, maybe even rabbits, badgers or something else.

After seeing Lin Huyang off, Zeng Wangcai spent the whole day writing a short composition, writing and revising it, but he still couldn't finish it after all the effort. When it was time to get off work, he went home.

After dinner, Zeng Wangcai did not go out as usual, but went back to his room to continue writing under the lamp.