Siheyuan: The Qing Dynasty is back

In the evening, He Daqing prepared a sumptuous seafood dinner for everyone with his superb cooking skills.

And most of them are seafood that Village Chief Wu and his people usually don’t care about.

For example, fried clams, steamed crabs, salt and pepper shrimps, garlic scallops, etc. These things are usually fed to chickens and ducks or thrown away by fishermen. Now they are made into delicacies by He Daqing.

Everyone has to admire his craftsmanship, which is simply turning decay into magic.

With this seafood feast, Li Huaide and his group no longer had to worry about purchasing issues.

The next day, the neighboring village also sent a lot of seafood. The fish from the two villages finally filled up the truck. Li Huaide and his group also planned to go home.

When we left, the chiefs of the two villages gave everyone a lot of high-end seafood, including dried fish, kelp, dried shrimp and the like.

Li Huaide declined it for a while but then accepted it directly.

At around eight or nine in the morning, the group drove back.

This mission was a complete success. In the future, the purchasing department and the fleet will be able to do it themselves. And as long as the channels are established, there will be more and more good seafood in the future.

It took us five or six hours to get here, and on the way back, we were carrying a truckload of seafood, and we were afraid that if we were too slow, the seafood would not be fresh. So we didn’t take a break and just kept going. At two o’clock in the afternoon, we returned to the steel mill.

For this reason, when Director Yang heard that they had returned, he ran to the canteen's cold storage to greet them.

When he saw baskets of fish being sent to the cold storage, Director Yang said happily: "Director Li, thank you for your hard work this time. It seems that the results are good!"

Li Huaide also said happily: "This time, thanks to Master He, some of the seafood there is so cheap that we can't even imagine. We really got a great bargain this time."

Director Yang nodded and said, "Okay, I will remember all your contributions this time. Especially Master He, don't worry, the factory will not treat you unfairly."

"You have worked hard these past few days. Go back and have a rest after the handover today. Tomorrow we will have to rely on your cooking skills, Master He, so that everyone can have a good meal."

He Daqing replied: "Don't worry, Director Yang, I will personally take care of it tomorrow and make sure everyone has a good meal."

With He Daqing's assurance, Director Yang felt relieved. Facts have proved that He Daqing was not bragging about his cooking skills.

After all the seafood was stored in the warehouse, Li Huaide said hello to He Daqing and went back. He also wanted to deliver the seafood he brought to his father-in-law's house. His biggest supporter was his father-in-law, otherwise he would not be in his current position.

Director Huang watched as the leaders left, so he came up to He Daqing and said, "Master He, you haven't forgotten what I said, have you?"

He Daqing looked at Director Huang, who was smiling coquettishly, and said helplessly, "What is our relationship? How can I forget what you said? It's all over there, come with me."

As he said that, he brought Director Huang to the place where Village Chief Wu and others gave the seafood to Li Huaide and He Daqing.

The seafood that was delivered had already been divided up by Li Huaide and his men. As the second in command this time, He Daqing of course got a lot, a full basket.

He Daqing has more and better seafood to eat in his own space, so he really doesn't like these gifts. Since Director Huang needs it, he will give him some as a favor.

Director Huang stared at the basket full of seafood with wide eyes. There were various marine fish weighing more than ten kilograms, as well as kelp, dried fish, etc. He wanted all of them.

But I thought that the other person brought back so many things in one go, and he certainly couldn't give them all to me, so I started to pick from the basket with difficulty.

He Daqing didn't say anything and just let him choose for himself.

In the end, Director Huang took a big fish, several hairtails, and some kelp and other things.

He took out five yuan and gave it to He Daqing, saying, "Master He, thank you for this time. This is the money for buying fish, please accept it!"

These fish were all given to him by others, so how could He Daqing accept money? He declined, "Okay, Director Huang. Given our relationship, do we need to be so polite? I don't want the money, just treat me to a drink some other day."

"That's no problem. I'll bring you a bottle of good wine some other day."

Director Huang chuckled and agreed.

Watching Director Huang leave with the things, He Daqing thought for a moment and then carried most of the remaining basket to the office.

Then he went around the canteens and saw that everyone was busy cleaning up the dishes after lunch. He Daqing nodded with satisfaction.

Now the hygiene conditions in the canteens have been improved. The next step is to improve their cooking skills.

Thinking of this, He Daqing notified the monitors of each class and asked them to bring their chefs to the second canteen for a meeting tomorrow morning to learn how to cook some seafood.

The squad leaders and chefs who received the notice were all very excited.

After eating coarse grain steamed bread and boiled cabbage and radish every day, they finally had a better diet. And they could learn cooking from He Daqing. So after He Daqing left, everyone was smiling and waiting to study hard tomorrow.

After notifying canteens one, three and four, He Daqing came to canteen two.

When Sha Zhu and Yu Li saw He Daqing, they said happily, "Dad, you're back! Did everything go well this time?"

He Daqing nodded and said, "It's going well. Zhuzi, I left half a basket of seafood in the office. When you get off work later, you and Yu Li can deliver some to your master and Yu Li's home respectively."

"I won't go. I'm too tired from the bumpy ride these days. I'm going to go back and have a rest."

Sha Zhu immediately said happily: "Don't worry, Dad, I will send it to them after get off work. Then you can go back and have a rest."

When Yu Li heard that her father-in-law went out and brought something back to her home, she was very touched.

Nowadays, every family would bring home any delicious food they found. Many families even sent their daughters-in-law back to their parents’ home to borrow food.

Ever since she married into Sha Zhu's family, whenever there were good things at home, He Daqing and Chen Xueru would think of sending some to her family.

With such good parents-in-law, Sha Zhu also listened to her very much. Yu Li felt that she had really fallen into a blessed nest.

She said to He Daqing: "Dad, thank you!"

He Daqing waved his hand.

"Okay, you two should come back early after sending them off. I will cook for you in the evening and make you a real seafood meal."

When he heard that He Daqing was going to cook for him, Sha Zhu hurriedly said, "Dad, wait until I come back and I'll help you."

There are not many opportunities for He Daqing to cook personally now, and Sha Zhu will not miss any opportunity.

He knew that his father's cooking skills were enough for him to study for a lifetime. If he didn't study hard, what if the skills were lost?

He Daqing was moved by Sha Zhu's words and thought to himself that this silly son finally got his way.

If he knew what Sha Zhu was thinking now, he would probably be so angry that he would kick him twice. What do you mean by "what if it is lost"? Isn't this just cursing yourself?

After notifying Sha Zhu, He Daqing rode his bike home.