Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

The security guard's eyes widened when he saw Lin Geng carrying such a big bag of fish. You have to know that we had just gone through the three difficult years, and many people could hardly get enough food to eat during the past three years, let alone meat. Many people could only see a little meat in the factory during the past three years, and the meat in the dishes was pitifully little.

As for eating fish, although it is not as difficult as eating meat, after all, there are still fish in rivers and lakes, but in recent years, in order to improve life, there are almost more people fishing than fish. It is considered good luck to catch one or two small fish. If anyone can catch a fish weighing one or two kilograms, it is considered lucky. Who has seen so many big fish weighing at least two or three kilograms these days?

Even though fish is not as fragrant as pork, chicken or duck, no one can deny that it is also meat. In recent years, I haven't seen anyone in the purchasing department bring back so much fish for the factory.

But today, Lin Geng actually brought such a big bag of fish on his bicycle, which looked to weigh at least 180 kilograms. The workers who were entering the factory to work and the security guards were all stunned. They surrounded Lin Geng and asked him where he got the fish.

Sha Zhu and Xu Damao followed Lin Geng, both with proud expressions, pointing at Lin Geng with their thumbs up and saying, "This is our brother, he just joined our factory's Purchasing Department 4!

His fishing skills are really good. These fish were caught by him in Qianhai these past two days! He sent them to our factory! Hehe!"

When everyone heard that Lin Geng was from the fourth purchasing department of their factory and that these fish were caught by him from the former sea, they couldn't help but give Lin Geng a thumbs up and said enviously that Lin Geng was a great man and that the purchasing department should recruit more capable people like Lin Geng, so that their workers would have the pleasure of eating meat in the future.

In fact, during the past two difficult years, the steel rolling mill had thought of many ways and sought help from everyone to get some meat for the workers in the factory. For this purpose, a purchasing department was specially established to purchase unplanned materials for the factory. A group of people were specially recruited to run around the countryside around the old city to purchase some grain, vegetables, meat, eggs and other foods for the factory.

In order to ensure that the workers in the factory have sufficient nutrition, the factory leaders have actually done their best, especially Deputy Director Li Huaide. As the deputy director in charge of logistics, he has indeed been running around for the factory in recent years, using a lot of connections, thinking of many ways, asking a lot of people for help, which has really expended a lot of time and energy.

Regardless of Li Huaide's personal morality, he is still very dedicated to his work. It can be said that he has put in all his effort. In recent years, he has been able to ensure that the factory canteen can provide workers with meat dishes twice a month, which is very rare during the three difficult years.

However, even so, the meat supply in the factory has been seriously insufficient in recent years, and the workers have very few opportunities to eat meat. As a result, there have been many work accidents in the factory in the past two years due to severe malnutrition among the workers.

Even though the food supply has been alleviated to a certain extent this year and the workers can basically have enough food to eat, the supply of non-staple food, especially meat, is still impossible to improve quickly.

After all, raising pigs and chickens must first meet human needs before surplus grain can be allocated for breeding and raising. It is impossible to restore the meat supply level to the level before the difficult period without two or three years.

Therefore, if anyone could bring back some meat or fish for the factory, he would be a great hero in the steel rolling mill. In recent years, no purchasing agent has ever been able to bring so many big fish to the factory at once like Lin Geng did. Therefore, the big net bag of fish that Lin Geng brought naturally became a scene that attracted the attention of the workers.

Lin Geng brought the fish to the place where the Fourth Purchasing Department was located, which immediately caused a sensation. A man in his thirties saw the fish Lin Geng brought and immediately widened his eyes and asked him, "Little brother, are you here to sell fish? Who asked you to deliver these fish?"

Lin Geng laughed when he heard this, knowing that the man had misunderstood him, so he smiled and took the fish down from the back seat of the car with one hand, and said, "I'm not here to deliver fish to anyone, I'm here to work! This is my task for this month! I just don't know how many tasks it can equal!"

When the man heard what Lin Geng said, he knew that he had misunderstood Lin Geng, so he looked at Lin Geng curiously and asked, "So you are the new buyer? Where did you get so many fish? Can you tell me? If it's inconvenient to tell me, then forget it! Haha!"

Lin Geng glanced at the man, smiled and said, "There's nothing inconvenient to say. I caught all of these myself! It should be okay to use them to fulfill the mission, right?"

The man had an expression of envy and jealousy on his face, but he didn't quite believe what Lin Geng said, and said, "Little brother, you are being disrespectful! If you don't want to say it, then don't say it. You even caught it yourself. Do you think I believe it? Tsk! How can I not believe that you can catch so many fish in two days? Do you think the reservoir is yours? You can catch as many as you want?"

Lin Geng was too lazy to argue with him, so he shrugged and said, "Haha! If you don't believe me, then I can't do anything! Anyway, just tell me, can this fish be used to complete the task?"

The man had no choice but to nod and say, "Of course I can! With so many fish, you're a newcomer here, and your mission for this month is almost complete! Stop bragging, and quickly deliver them to the logistics warehouse! They won't be fresh if they're left for too long!"

Lin Geng asked, "Isn't today Monday? Isn't our department going to have a meeting? If I go and hand it in now, will it delay my time?"

As they were talking, Section 4 Chief Wu Tieshan came out with a large teacup, blowing the tea foam out of it. He asked as he walked, "Who's here? What are you talking about? Hey... where did all these fish come from?"

As soon as Wu Tieshan went out, he saw a large net bag of fish that Lin Geng had placed at the door. He was startled and almost spilled the hot water. He immediately widened his eyes and asked in surprise.

"Hello, Chief Wu, it's me, Xiaolin! I brought you here!" Lin Geng hurriedly said to Wu Tieshan.

Wu Tieshan then focused his attention on Lin Geng, and immediately laughed, nodded and said: "Not bad, not bad! It seems that I underestimated you! You actually got so many fish in a short time! Now your probationary period mission is almost completed!

What's wrong? I just heard you say you caught this yourself? Do you have the ability to do this? "

The man in his thirties next to him pouted and said, "Chief, do you believe everything he says? He said he caught it, so it's him? I think he just doesn't want to tell the brothers where the fish came from!"

Wu Tieshan glanced at the man, grinned and said, "What's the matter, Lao Zhou, why are you so jealous? Are you willing to tell others where you got those chickens last time? Stop talking nonsense here! Go away, go away! I want to see when you can complete this month's task! Don't do what you did last month, bringing back a bag of potatoes to hand in, and then bring your potatoes here, I want to see what you will let your family eat this winter!"

It turned out that the man's surname was Zhou. After hearing what Old Wu said, his face fell and he rolled his eyes and said, "Meat is really hard to get! My legs are so thin from riding a bike, and I have traveled to so many villages, but I still can't get it! Oh! It's really difficult!"

How many villages within a hundred miles outside the city of Sijiu now have pigs? There are only a few families raising chickens. It's really hard to do! The tasks assigned by the factory are really too much to ask! Alas! "

Wu Tieshan waved his hands with a look of disdain and said, "Come on! Stop complaining to me here. The factory pays us wages just to make us do this difficult job, right? If it were easy, what would they want us to do? We would have gone to the workshop to move steel ingots a long time ago!"

Come on, don't just stand there, Xiaolin, go deliver these fish to the logistics warehouse first, bring the receipt back, and go to the finance department to get the money after the meeting!"

Lin Geng quickly nodded in agreement, picked up a basket of fish with one hand, turned around and left, but after a few steps he turned back, scratched his head and asked with an embarrassed look: "Um... Chief, where is the logistics warehouse?"