Siheyuan, my new life

In the small canteen of the training base of the Security Department of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill, four large enamel basins were placed on the large dining table, each of which was filled with braised beef, braised beef with scallions, beef stewed with potatoes, and pheasant ginseng soup. In the steamer next to them were steaming white steamed buns.

Lin Yu smiled and invited Deputy Minister Yan, several directors, and four comrades from relevant departments to take their seats, then said with a smile: "Deputy Minister Yan, we have an operation this afternoon, so we won't drink. Come over next time, I'll ask Director He to cook a few more of his signature dishes, and we'll have a few drinks. Today we've only had simple meals, and I'm sorry for neglecting them."

Deputy Minister Yan held a big steamed bun in his hand, pointed at the dishes on the table with his chopsticks, and said with a wry smile: "Advisor Lin, if you say that your meals here are simple and plain, then the meals in our unit must be called pig food. The meat supply is tight now. In the past, our headquarters cafeteria had a supply of 300 kilograms of pork per month, but now it has been reduced to 120 kilograms. If you can see a few pieces of pork in the cabbage every day, it is considered a meat dish. Comrades often need to go on missions, but the nutrition supply is not enough. Now many people are pale and thin. Otherwise, I would not be embarrassed to ask for money from you."

Lin Yu picked up a piece of braised beef and chewed it slowly. He had to admit that He Daqing's cooking skills were indeed outstanding. This dish was soft and slightly spicy, and was really a great dish to go with rice.

After listening to what Deputy Minister Yan said, Lin Yu smiled and said, "Comrades in relevant departments have been fighting on the front line of preventing and combating enemy spies all year round. How can they be lacking in nutrition? Let's put it this way. Starting from the work after the Spring Festival, I will supply relevant departments with 1,000 kilograms of pork, 1,000 kilograms of beef, and 1,000 kilograms of flour every month. In addition, after the medicinal bath, sufficient meat is also needed to ensure the health of the personnel. I will give you an additional 2,000 kilograms of pork and beef every month. If you need flour, please report the quantity to me. This year, the New Year's goods for your relevant departments can also be obtained from me. According to the standards of our action team members, each person will receive 20 kilograms of pork, 20 kilograms of beef, and 50 kilograms of flour."

After hearing this, Vice Minister Yan couldn't help but thank him repeatedly. The four comrades from the relevant departments couldn't help but show excitement on their faces. In previous years, each person would have received only three or two pounds of pork, a few pounds of flour, and some melon seeds, peanuts, and sugar during the Spring Festival. Everyone knew that the meat supply was tight this year, so they didn't hold out much hope. They didn't expect that Consultant Lin would be so generous.

Lin Yu waved his hand nonchalantly: "Okay, let's eat quickly before the food gets cold."

So everyone present waved their chopsticks and started to eat with relish. Even though there was no shortage of meat in the Security Department's training base, there was usually only one meat dish, one vegetable dish, and a bowl of pheasant ginseng soup for each person. Today they could be considered to have indulged themselves.

One has to admit that people nowadays have an astonishing appetite. Four large pots of food and more than twenty large steamed buns were eaten up in no time. Even the enamel basin was wiped clean with the steamed buns.

Lin Yu smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I said, do you really need to do that? Why do you act like you haven't seen meat in your entire life?"

Deputy Minister Yan laughed and said, "This is the most satisfying meal I've had in the past few years. The little meat coupons I get every month are not enough to satisfy my wife and children's cravings. Usually I can only eat a few bites of meat at noon in the company cafeteria. I have to treat myself to a good meal today, right?"

Lin Yu couldn't help but feel sad. You know, senior leaders like Vice Minister Yan have a certain amount of special supplies every month, but maybe this little bit of supply has been given to the families of comrades who are having difficulties in life.

Although his Qinglian Palace warehouse is now filled with several storage bags of various supplies, everything has a limit. He can provide some supplies to relevant departments in the name of taking care of comrades fighting on the front line of anti-espionage, but it is not good to expand the scope, otherwise some people will talk behind his back.

Everyone returned to the secretary's office and had just finished a cup of tea when the troops who were heading to the secret base of the Security Bureau in the mountains in the afternoon arrived.

After Deputy Minister Yan gave a few instructions to the company commander who led the team, Qin Ming, several deputy directors, and Sun Yong got into their respective jeeps. Together with the five trucks that had just been delivered in the morning and all the members of the action team, they drove out of the gate of the training base in a mighty procession.

At this time, Qin Ming was holding a map in his hand, which clearly marked the route and the target area.

In the secretary's office, Lin Yu and Deputy Minister Yan were smoking while looking through the interrogation records of the enemy spies.

Now Lin Yu is checking Li Meng's confession record. He learns from Li Meng that his father Li Youfu is actually one of the two deputy station chiefs of the Beijing branch of the Taiwan Security Bureau.

Li Youfu's real name is Xue Yongli. He was originally a student of the first class in Qingpu. After graduation, he was ordered to lurk in the then Sijiu City. He pretended to be Li Youfu and entered the Lou's Steel Rolling Mill. He bribed the manager at that time and became the custodian of the scrap parts warehouse.

Although the Lou's Steel Rolling Mill had only more than 2,000 workers at the time, it was already considered a relatively large steel rolling mill in the entire North China region. In addition, the then boss Lou Bancheng used various connections and spent huge sums of money to introduce various equipment from overseas that were considered advanced at the time. Therefore, the various steel products produced by the Lou's Steel Rolling Mill were of much higher quality than those of other manufacturers.

Xue Yongli's task at the time was to monitor Lou Bancheng. This guy was very good at networking. Not only did he establish relations with the Japanese Kwantung Army early on, he also maintained a supply relationship with the Fengtian Military Factory of Zhang Zuolin, the King of Northeast China at the time. At the same time, he also supplied steel to Yan Xishan's Taiyuan Arsenal in Shanxi Province. He even had many connections in the then Nationalist government.

On the eve of the peaceful liberation of Peiping, Xue Yongli received an order from his superiors to continue staying here in hiding, and was appointed as the colonel deputy station chief.

In fact, the secret tunnel in the scrap parts warehouse was originally an escape route that Xue Yongli dug for himself.

At that time, the exit of this tunnel was outside the wall of Lou's Steel Mill. However, with the expansion of the steel mill, a simple warehouse was built near the exit by the canteen of the steel mill, which contained some wooden barrels used by the canteen to store泔水.

When the Beijing branch of the Taiwan Security Bureau was preparing to manufacture mortars by itself, in order to obtain special steel, Xue Yongli began to use the tunnel whose exit he had blocked.

First, he paid off the canteen director at that time and arranged two accomplices to work as temporary workers in the canteen. Their main job was to collect the swill from various canteens, collect it and then dump it outside.

In this way, Xue Yongli transported the scrapped special steel parts in the warehouse to a simple warehouse through a tunnel, and then placed them in泔水桶 and transported them out of the steel rolling mill.