Siheyuan, my new life

Li Huaide had put in some thought today. In fact, when he notified a canteen to prepare meals for an extra 400 people, it was already a little late. After all, the five canteens of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill had a basic number of meals to prepare every day. In particular, since Canteen 1 was relatively close to the office building, it mainly supplied the various departments and units working in the office building, and only prepared meals for nearly a thousand people every day.

As for the small canteen where the leaders eat, it is of course placed here in Canteen 1, on the second floor of Canteen 1. However, under normal circumstances, the normal lunch standard for leaders is two dishes and one soup every day, unless there are special invitations.

In order to ensure the food supply for the special brigade and public security personnel at noon today, Li Huaide personally came to a canteen. When he made his request, Zheng Sanhu, the team leader of the canteen's chefs, shook his head and refused. Even Li Huaide could not refute the reason he gave. The dishes were easy, as everyone could just get pork and vegetables from the warehouse and fry them immediately. However, there was no way to get the staple food for four hundred people, which was steamed buns. Even if the dough was fermented now, it would not be fermented well at mealtime, and it would be too late to make noodles.

How could Li Huaide be willing to mess up today's lunch? He frowned and thought for a moment, then waved his hand and asked the logistics warehouse keeper to move out 200 kilograms of rice. This was one of the few stocks in the warehouse, and it was originally only for the leaders in the small canteen.

Since one canteen did not have enough big pots to cook so much rice, the three nearby canteens were asked to each cook 50 kilograms of rice. Li Huaide even specially approved 100 kilograms of pork, 20 chickens and 20 kilograms of eggs for today's lunch. After the chefs from the four canteens worked overtime, lunch was finally ready before 11:30.

Li Huaide would not let his men work in vain. He directly gave each chef a pound of fine grain coupons, and Zheng Sanhu, the canteen squad leader, also received an extra pound of meat coupons.

The chefs who were originally full of complaints suddenly smiled. You know, these people only have 35 catties of food rations per month, of which fine grains only account for 20%, only 7 catties. Almost every household is reluctant to eat fine grains on weekdays, saving them for making dumplings during the New Year and other festivals. They usually eat two-cow flour. Some families with poor conditions can only rely on corn flour to fill their stomachs.

As for the meat coupons, let alone, each household only had three taels of meat coupons per month. If you wanted to eat more, you could only go to the pigeon market to buy expensive meat. If you had meat coupons, pork would cost 79 cents per catty, while the pigeon market would sell pork for at least one yuan per catty, and the quantity was very small. Almost as soon as it was put on the shelves, it was quickly snapped up. The price on the black market was even higher, and it was said that the starting price was one yuan and fifty cents. How could ordinary people afford such expensive meat? Only those wealthy old men and big capitalists didn't care about these little things.

Li Huaide looked at the prepared meals and did not return to the office, but waited in the cafeteria. Knowing that the meals were prepared for the soldiers and public security personnel outside, the cafeteria director also accompanied Li Huaide carefully. Today, he also heard that these soldiers and public security personnel had arrested many people from the factory. Although Li Huaide had said on the radio before that it was the army and public security personnel who jointly arrested the saboteurs, everyone was still discussing it privately, guessing the truth of the matter.

Just now, Qin Ming, deputy director of the Security Department, personally drove Lin Yu's Willys Jeep to a cafeteria and took away meals for more than 50 people. Many cafeteria employees looked at the brand new jeep with envy.

At 11:30 am, when the bell for the end of work at the steel rolling mill rang on time, Li Huaide finally saw Lin Yu and his group. Lin Yu, Chu Jianguo and others were walking in the front with their heads held high, followed closely by four columns marching in neat steps.

Normally, when the bell for the end of get off work rings, the workers in the workshop and the office staff will quicken their pace and rush to the cafeteria, but today, everyone's feet seemed to be covered with glue, and they walked out of the workshop and office slowly.

Li Huaide greeted them with a big smile on his face, and said loudly: "Welcome soldiers and police comrades to the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill to have a meal in the canteen."

Lin Yu smiled and shook hands with Li Huaide to express his gratitude, and then everyone walked into the cafeteria together. The workers who were curiously looking at the place from a distance couldn't help but whispered, especially when there were dozens of fully armed female soldiers in the queue, which attracted everyone's attention.

Li Huaide prepared two dishes and a soup for lunch today, a pork stewed with vermicelli, a chicken stewed with mushrooms and an egg soup.

In a cafeteria, there are tables for ten people, and on each table there are three large bowls filled with dishes and an iron bucket filled with white rice.

Li Huaide rejected the canteen director's suggestion to prepare a separate reception meal for leaders like Lin Yu. After all, he was also a military man, and in the army, officers and soldiers ate and lived together, and no one would be treated specially. However, today's lunch was definitely sumptuous. The steel mill improved the food once a week, and the dishes served only had a few more pieces of meat than usual.

Under the command of their respective team leaders, the soldiers sat upright at the table, ten people at a time, with their spears neatly placed beside them.

Lin Yu asked Sun Shengnan to lead the female soldiers to the second floor, while he and Chu Jianguo and others found a table and sat down, and pulled Li Huaide to sit next to him.

Glancing at the soldiers sitting upright, Lin Yu said loudly: "Let's eat."

As soon as Lin Yu finished speaking, the soldiers picked up the big bowls filled with rice, picked up the dishes and started to eat with relish.

Lin Yu glanced at the people at the same table and greeted them with a smile: "Everyone has been busy all morning and must be hungry, especially Director Hu. If you are hungry any longer, you will probably have to lie down. Eat quickly." After saying that, he picked up the chopsticks, picked up a piece of chicken and put it directly into his mouth.

Lin Yu knew very well that if he didn't start eating first, the others would have to wait no matter how hungry they were. According to the rules at the table, only the most distinguished person could start eating first before the others could eat. Although Director Hu Dahai, who was sitting at the same table, was also at the deputy bureau level, and was even Lin Yu's immediate superior at the Dongcheng District Branch, in the minds of everyone present, Director Hu Dahai really couldn't compare with Lin Yu. Although the two were at the same level, one was the rising sun, and the other was already the afterglow of the setting sun. Even Hu Dahai himself had the same idea deep in his heart. He understood that with Lin Yu's background and ability, it was only a matter of time before he surpassed himself. Therefore, when everyone at the same table saw that Lin Yu had already started eating, everyone started eating too.

Tasting the dishes on the table, Lin Yu could only say that they were barely edible. He had been living in the SJ Mountain Sanatorium for the past two years. You know, it was a place for military leaders above the division level to recuperate. The cooking skills of the chefs in the restaurant were all at the level of the chefs in the Eighth Floor. There was no rating yet, otherwise the chefs there would have to be at least three or four level chefs, and even the best of them would have the strength of one or two level.

Having become accustomed to the cooking skills of those top chefs, and recently all Lin Yu had been eating were monster meat, top-grade spiritual herbs, spiritual rice and spiritual fruits from the paradise. Now the food on the table in front of him was simply tasteless. Lin Yu couldn't help but sigh that it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but difficult to go from luxury to frugality. Think about the original owner on the battlefield of the Northern Dynasty, eating cold steamed buns with pickled cabbage every day, and even felt particularly satisfied when having a hot meal. In the worst times, he could only eat fried noodles with snow, and sometimes the logistic supply was cut off, and everyone could only endure hunger and fight off the attacks of the Bald Eagle Coalition.

Lin Yu had no appetite at all. He barely finished the rice in his bowl and put down his chopsticks. Seeing his action, the people at the same table also stopped eating. Lin Yu couldn't let others go hungry because of him, so he smiled and said, "Don't look at me, everyone. You continue to eat. I follow the doctor's advice and eat small meals frequently every day. According to the doctor's instructions, each meal should not exceed one bowl. But the bowl the doctor mentioned is not as big as today's. In fact, I have exceeded the amount. In addition, due to the lack of exercise in the past two years, my appetite has also decreased a lot. When I was in the Northern Dynasty, I would have to eat at least three bowls of such a big bowl in one meal."

After hearing Lin Yu's words, everyone realized that the person in front of them was still a seriously injured patient. No one knew how to speak at this time, and they could only continue to eat in silence.

Lin Yu also understood that if he sat here, everyone would not be able to eat happily. You know, everyone at this time had a surprisingly large appetite. Due to the lack of oil and water in their stomachs, almost everyone could eat two bowls of rice like the big bowls served today. Especially today, Li Huaide specially prepared two meat dishes, and he couldn't delay everyone's feasting.

So Lin Yu whispered a few words in Li Huaide's ear, then stood up and said, "You guys continue eating, I'll go back to the office first. After dinner, everyone take a rest, and we'll meet in the Security Department meeting room at 1 pm." After that, he waved to the people who were about to stand up to see him off, and walked straight out of the cafeteria.