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Name: Wang Ping.

Age: Seventeen.

Education: Junior high school graduate.

Political status: League member.

Occupation: Sijiucheng Steel Rolling Mill - a rookie buyer in the third section of the purchasing department (just became a regular employee).

Home address: No. 95, Nanluoguxiang - west wing of the front yard (two wing rooms).

family member:

My mother, Li Xiu'e, passed away due to illness three years ago.

My father, Wang Dayong, was a level 4 fitter in a steel rolling mill. In a production accident six months ago, he was crushed to death by a collapsed steel billet while trying to save the precious machine tools in the factory.

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This is the basic information about Wang Ping’s life.

Wang Ping, a 21st century office worker, was too tired from playing games all night and fell asleep.

Afterwards, he was accidentally reincarnated into Wang Ping, a man with the same name and surname, who was extremely sad after his father passed away in 1961.

Wang Dayong died in the line of duty, and he also saved important equipment in the factory, so the steel rolling mill provided the Wang family with the highest standard of compensation.

Not only did the Wang family's only member, Wang Ping, come into the factory to take over his father's job, but he was also given a job that was relatively easier than that of a workshop worker - a buyer in the third purchasing section of the steel rolling mill's purchasing department!

Even the pension was increased on top of the maximum amount, making it a total of 1,000 yuan.

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When Wang Ping first came through, he felt very uncomfortable.

There is no heating or air conditioning in the house; if you want to keep warm, you can only make a fire yourself.

You can’t order takeout; if you want to eat, you have to cook it yourself.

Although there were restaurants in the old city in 1961, he couldn't eat every meal in a restaurant!

One reason is that they can’t afford to eat. Another reason is that they need food stamps to eat in restaurants.

He gathered the food coupons in his home together and counted them.

If he ate every meal in a restaurant, all the food coupons in the house would only be enough for him to eat for twenty days.

Twenty days later, there were no food coupons to buy food from the grain store.

He only has two or three pieces of clothes, and the colors and styles are so tacky!

The worst thing is that there are patches on the clothes and pants.

The only decent piece of clothing he had was a navy blue shirt with a small patch under the armpit.

He wanted to make a set of clothes.

As a result, all the cloth coupons in the house were enough to buy only enough for him to make one pair of trousers.

The food and clothes mentioned above are pretty good.

Just be patient and it will pass.

What he couldn't stand the most was going to the toilet.

Especially every morning, you have to queue up to use the toilet.

After waiting for a long time for your turn in line, as soon as you squat down in the queue, the people behind you start urging you to get on.

Not only do you have to endure the strong fragrance in the toilet, but you also have to be thick-skinned and able to withstand other people's urging.

What's even funnier is that when you are blushing and trying to release your emotions, the lovely neighbors will greet you enthusiastically...

"Hirako, did you have breakfast? ...What did you eat?"

"Pingzi, you came a little late today?"

"Pingzi, have you heard about that guy in our factory's accounting department? He was beaten up by his wife the day before yesterday... He was beaten so hard! His eyes were all black!... Oh! By the way... You just came to our steel mill... You don't know her yet!...

That's who! ...The one with the big braids who pays us...

You may not have paid attention when you received your salary last month!

Next month, when you get your salary, take a look and you will know..."

Whenever this happened, Wang Ping felt embarrassed and helpless!

Big brother!

This is the place, this is the taste, why are there so many things to say hello to? Why are there so many things to talk about?

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As a time traveler, Wang Ping still carries some benefits with him.

A small storage space and a food purchasing system.

The storage space was not large, only about five cubic meters. He could store and take out items within ten meters of him as long as he thought about it.

As for the food procurement system, it is not only simple but also very expensive.

It is said to be simple because there are only a dozen or so commodities available for purchase in this system.

However, the prices are several times, or even dozens of times, higher than those in the real supply and marketing cooperatives outside.

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Fenjiu (one pound package) is priced at 9 yuan.

Milk powder (one pound package) is priced at 11 yuan.

White Rabbit Milk Candy (one-pound bag), priced at 8 yuan.

Milk biscuits (one-pound bag), priced at 6 yuan.

Peach cake (one pound bag), priced at 5 yuan.

Canned oranges, priced at 6 yuan.

Canned peaches, priced at 6 yuan.

Canned apples, priced at 6 yuan.

Eggs, each priced at 0.2 yuan.

Pork, 5 yuan per catty.

White flour, 1 yuan per catty.

Rice, 1 yuan per catty.

Soybean oil, 2 yuan per catty.

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Even at this price, it is almost the same as the price around 2000 in the previous life.

The only advantage of buying things from this procurement system is that you don't need the various receipts unique to this era.

This is where the procurement system is slightly useful.

When he first came here, even though his family only had a little over 1,300 yuan in savings and pensions, they still lived a luxurious life for a while.

There was no way; he simply couldn't swallow the coarse cornmeal at home.

During that time, he only ate rice, flour, pork and eggs bought from the procurement system.

There was never a shortage of snacks such as sugar, milk powder, canned food, etc.

Although it is quite extravagant, the money is not wasted.

As his eating habits improved, his mood also became happier, and he gradually began to adapt to this era.

However, he had just arrived, and some things were not done properly.

For example, when he saw the children in the alley who couldn't even get enough food to eat, he was kind enough to buy them some White Rabbit milk candies.

His feat caused a sensation in the entire Nanluoxiang area at that time.

For example, he cooked meat dishes at home without any regard for his neighbors in the yard, and the smell of meat spread throughout the yard.

Those who were thick-skinned, like the Jia family and Yan Fugui, even came directly to ask for the money, causing him a lot of trouble.

For example, he bought 15 kilograms of pork at one time and handed it over to the factory as his performance as a purchasing agent.

However, he did the right thing in this matter.

It was precisely because of these 15 kilograms of pork that the factory actually gave him a regular job ahead of schedule.

The market price of fifteen kilograms of pork is actually only about ten yuan plus fifteen kilograms of meat coupons.

In normal years, 15 kilograms of pork is nothing for a large factory like a steel mill that employs tens of thousands of people.

As an apprentice purchasing agent in a steel rolling mill, even 150 kilograms of pork might not be enough for him to be converted to a regular employee early.

But what is the situation now?

1961 was the third and final year of the three-year famine.

But this last year, as the darkness before dawn, is also the most difficult year.

For ordinary people, even having enough food to eat is a luxury, let alone meat.

In fact, most ordinary people at this time had pale faces due to long-term malnutrition.

Although the steel rolling mill is a production unit that is key protected by the state, it also guarantees production materials and basic living materials.

For side dishes like meat, they need to figure out how to get them themselves.

In the environment of tight supply, where can their steel mills find large quantities of meat?

But for a large factory like a steel rolling mill with tens of thousands of employees, even if they can't find a large amount of meat, they must have a small amount.

The reason is simple. In such large and key factories, there are always some tasks of welcoming and seeing off guests.

Or to welcome the inspection from the superior unit, or to receive the exchange visit from the sister unit!

No matter if they are from a higher-level unit or a sister unit, you have to arrange a meal for them when they come!

Even in a year of great disaster, you always have to prepare a few meat dishes at a banquet so that people can have some meat.

The Purchasing Section 3, which has been established for more than two years, is dedicated to ensuring the safety of the small canteen that specializes in serving reception meals in years of major disasters.

Normally, several buyers from the third purchasing department would search around the city and the countryside outside the city, so the canteen was not without meat.

But the month of March 1961 was a time of bad luck.

No matter how hard the buyers in the third purchasing department tried, they just couldn't get any meat.

Finally, it was Deputy Director Li, who was in charge of logistics, who found some connections outside and got a few pounds of meat, so that the small canteen could handle the reception task.

But we have dealt with it this time, but what should we do next time?

Six days later, the factory will be preparing for an inspection by higher-level authorities!

We can't ask Deputy Director Li to find connections again, can we?

The deputy director of a large factory with 10,000 employees, is trying to find connections and beg for help all day long just to get a few pounds of meat?

If this matter gets out, it will become a real joke for the steel mill.

But if you can't get meat, you have to serve a table of vegetarian dishes when entertaining guests.

By then, the leaders of the steel rolling mill who were accompanying the guests would be so embarrassed that their faces would drop to the ground.

When the head of the third purchasing department, Li Guangwen, was getting anxious, Wang Ping handed over 15 kilograms of meat.

The fifteen pounds of meat, which seemed insignificant at normal times, helped the factory solve a big problem at a critical moment.

The factory leaders reciprocated the favor by promoting Wang Ping, a small purchasing agent, to a regular position ahead of schedule.