The Siheyuan of the Young Educated Youth

Li Guiying: "I can go for a walk and cut some vegetables for pig food, and then exchange them for meat. It's really nice."

Old Man Zheng: "Okay, but you have to be able to persist. If you can't do it for two or three days, you can't cut the meat."

Qi Feifei: "That's right, I can hold on. I'll come to see you tomorrow, okay?"

Old Man Zheng: "Okay, tomorrow you cut some pig food and carry it back, and it will be recorded if it passes. They usually carry three centimeters a day. That means two large backpacks. Each backpack must hold twenty kilograms."

Qi Feifei: "Okay, thank you, sir."

Old man Zheng looked at Qi Feifei with a smile. The little girl was skinny.

Li Guiying: "Uncle, she is really good. Don't look at her thinness. She picks mushrooms every day. She carries a large basket of mushrooms. It's not much easier to cut vegetables for pigs than that."

Old Man Zheng: "I really didn't realize it. Not bad, girl."

Qi Feifei smiled embarrassedly.

We chatted along the way and time passed quickly.

I arrived at the powder room at around ten o'clock.

When they arrived, someone had already arrived before them.

A round-faced girl, wearing a plaid dress and two big braids, with her back straight and her chin slightly raised, was negotiating with the accountant in the powder room.

"We will start by moving 500 kilograms today, and then 2000 kilograms a week. The total will be kilograms before the Mid-Autumn Festival."

The accountant was a middle-aged man with a slightly hunched back. "Comrade Xiao Jiang, we ship out goods on a first-come, first-served basis. You just arrived, and there are many people ahead of you who haven't received the goods yet. Look..."

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by the girl.

"We are a third-line factory, contributing to national construction. Thousands of employees are waiting for us. Can we be like them?"

The man patiently explained, "Little comrade, the vermicelli is limited. Others have agreed to come to pick it up on that day. It would be a shame to let them travel so far for nothing. How about I schedule it for you? Come back in three or four days. You see... It's really not a big deal. Can you wait patiently?"

Comrade Xiao Jiang: "They are all villagers and are not in a hurry to eat. What's the harm if they come earlier or later?"

The accountant's smile faded. "No, they are not in a hurry to eat, but many people take several hours to catch the bus. It's not easy. We don't want to let them go for nothing."

Comrade Xiao Jiang was still a little hesitant. She had just arrived at the Logistics Department and wanted to show off her abilities. She originally thought that since she was in the Logistics Department of a large factory, she would have to be respected and looked up to everywhere.

She didn't expect that in this era, whoever has the goods is the most powerful. She was also at a disadvantage when she asked others to buy things. They didn't give her a cold shoulder, which was because they were well-educated.

I have always been pampered since I was a child. I feel a little uncomfortable now. I can't bring myself to ask for help, but I also want to get the goods and leave immediately.

The factory had to distribute gifts for the Mid-Autumn Festival. In a large factory with thousands of employees, if each worker was given half a pound of vermicelli, at least 2,000 pounds of vermicelli must be delivered. Five hundred pounds must be delivered in a week. If you don't rush to deliver, you won't be able to get a number.

Now is the vermicelli exchange season. Many villagers only exchange a few kilograms of vermicelli, and it is not convenient to ask people to come from far away to get it again.

So it was not easy to save several hundred kilograms of vermicelli. This was the truth, and it was not that people were deliberately making things difficult for her.

Seeing that the new comrade Jiang was having trouble reaching an agreement, the driver, Xiao Sun, advised: "We have already ordered the goods, and it will be three days later, which is fast. There are still people coming in. If you don't hurry up and order, you will be even later in the queue."

He has been working here for several years and knows the situation well. How much flour can be produced depends on how many potatoes the farmers can exchange for flour.

The town and the county will definitely take away most of the vermicelli, and maybe they will even send some to the province.

No matter how much, the main thing is to get the order as soon as possible.

"This Comrade"

The driver handed a big front door to the accountant.

"Our comrade Xiao Jiang has just been transferred from the provincial capital and doesn't know the situation here yet.

It's not easy for the young girl who has just arrived and left her hometown.

Please take a look and give as much as you can. It’s okay if it’s a few days late. Please help me, help me.”

The driver follows the car every day and is already familiar with all the tricks, so he speaks and does things in a smooth manner.

As he spoke, he casually placed the Daqianmen cigarette box, with only one cigarette taken out, on the desk.

He leaned over and whispered something in the accountant's ear.

The accountant softened his tone, "You see, the amount of vermicelli produced every day is limited. There's really nothing we can do about it. How about this? Come back in a week and I'll pack you 700 kilograms directly. Comrade Xiao Jiang, do you agree?"

The driver quickly signaled to Comrade Xiao Jiang.

Comrade Xiao Jiang pursed his lips and said, "Okay, then it's settled. Today is the 14th, and we'll come at this time on the 21st."

The driver said quickly, "Thank you, thank you, Accountant Deng, thank you so much. We will come on the 21st, you go ahead and do your work, we won't bother you. Goodbye."

The driver followed Comrade Xiao Jiang out and whispered:

"This is really great. You ordered 700 kilograms of vermicelli right after you arrived. I'm sure everyone will be very happy when you go back.

You have been here for a short time, so I don’t know. It’s hard to order this vermicelli.

I didn’t book it last year.

They are under the jurisdiction of the government, the town, and the county, so they must be given priority. If any targets are given, they must be completed.

We will discuss the next batch after we get this one.”

Comrade Xiao Jiang is confused. She just graduated from school and has no experience in society.

The reason she was able to work in the logistics and purchasing department of the factory was because her uncle was the factory director. In order to avoid going to the countryside, she came to the mountain valley and worked in the factory.

After watching the car from the Third Line Machinery Factory drive away, Zheng Dazhu pulled the carriage over and prepared to unload the car.

There is a big scale at the gate of the yard, where the food is unloaded according to the household.

When a family's potatoes are moved over, the people in the flour mill will look at the potatoes and give different flour to those who find them good or bad.

One hundred catties of medium-quality potatoes could be exchanged for eight catties of vermicelli, and one hundred catties of inferior potatoes could be exchanged for six catties of vermicelli. There were basically no high-quality potatoes, and everyone kept the good potatoes for winter.

Qi Feifei was very active and helped carry the small bags of potatoes.

After the potatoes are inspected and weighed, they have to be sent to the warehouse.

It's quite tiring to go through all this.

The accountant issued invoices for each household, and wrote down how many kilograms of potatoes each household bought and how many vermicelli they exchanged for. There were three copies, one for the accountant, one for the villagers, and one for the warehouse.

Generally, if it is three to five kilograms, you can take it back on the same day. If it is more, you may have to wait a few days before picking it up.

Because there is a factory ahead that needs goods today, we have to wait ten days to pick up the vermicelli from the Toudaogou Brigade.

No one is in a hurry, as they all want to save the food for the New Year and other festivals.

We don’t have to load vermicelli today. After unloading the truck, we have to feed the horses before heading back.

During this time, Qi Feifei went into the factory where the powder was leaking and took a look around.

There was a well in the backyard, and there was a man who was always drawing water, and the water flowed into the house from the sink.

Several women were washing and peeling potatoes not far away.

On the other side of the yard, closer to the house, there was a large stone mill. The donkey, with its eyes covered, kept turning it, grinding the potatoes into pulp.