Reborn in 1977

While passing by Team 6's responsibility field, Chen Fan greeted Captain Yang and invited him to come over for dinner later, along with Supervisor Huang and Accountant Liu, of course.

Soon after returning home, Yang Mei immediately came to lead the horse and take it to the stable behind the house.

Huang Li ran over and asked, "Shall we sit inside or outside?"

Chen Fan turned to look at Xiao Liewen, naturally letting him decide.

Xiao Liewen gestured, "It's too hot inside. You have shade here, so let's sit outside."

Huang Li and Liu Lu immediately moved a table out from the dining room and busied themselves fetching the teapot.

After the tea was served, Chen Fan gestured to Liu Lu, "Bring me the pipe."

Xiao Liewen sat down at the table, looked through the fence at the pandas in the panda enclosure, and asked seriously, "How do you think this matter should be resolved?"

Chen Fan sat down on the other side, exhaled a long breath, "It's simple. We'll talk about it together when Secretary Yang and the others arrive."

Seeing his confidence, Xiao Liewen breathed a sigh of relief.

If possible, he naturally didn't want the cooperation with the Qingshan Commune to fall through.

Building a hydroelectric power station was one aspect, and another was that, in this day and age, anyone who cared about their reputation valued keeping their word. They should try not to go back on their promises.

Of course, if there was really no way, he wouldn't pretend to be capable and take on the burden, trading the interests of Lujiawan for the benefit of others.

That wasn't called having face; that was called being stupid. He had snatched spoils of war with friendly forces in the past, but he wouldn't do something that didn't benefit him.

Liu Lu went upstairs and downstairs, quickly bringing over the long-unused tobacco pipe, and thoughtfully filled most of the tobacco pouch with tobacco.

Chen Fan opened the pouch, pinched out a wad of tobacco and stuffed it into the pipe, lit it with a match, took a couple of puffs, and chatted with Xiao Liewen about everyday matters.

Nearly an hour later, Secretary Yang and the others arrived one after another.

Secretary Yang pushed his bicycle up the slope, first parked it by the woods, wiped the sweat from his face, and walked over, "I'm exhausted. I came from Team 12, went back to the brigade to drop off my things, and ran here without even taking a sip of water."

Chen Fan immediately handed him a bowl of cold tea, "Then please have a drink first."

Secretary Yang didn't stand on ceremony, took it and gulped it down, then picked up the teapot himself to pour water, while looking at the two of them, "What's the situation?"

Chen Fan was about to speak when Captain Zhang and Captain Ye also pushed their bicycles up, followed by Zhang Wenliang.

Zhang Wenliang had a wooden board on the back of his bicycle, with a half-grown wild boar on it.

Seeing Chen Fan, he smiled and shouted, "My patrol team has been wandering around for more than half a month, only managing to catch things like rabbits and badgers. Today, as soon as you came back, we caught several wild boars. They're specially送口粮来送口粮来 bringing you rations."

Chen Fan grinned and chuckled, took the cigarette, walked over, and gave one to Secretary Yang, Captain Zhang, and Captain Ye, then walked up to him and handed him most of the pack of cigarettes.

Then he untied the ropes, picked up the wild boar with one hand, "Hmm, a boar weighing over 90 pounds, the meat quality is not bad."

He turned to Huang Li and waved, "Find a board and carry it to the back. Today, I'll teach you how to butcher meat."

Huang Li and Yang Mei immediately brought out a wooden board. Chen Fan put the boar on it, and the board in the two girls' hands immediately pressed down, and they mustered their strength to carry it to the back.

Secretary Yang drank two bowls of cold tea in a row, and by this time he had recovered his breath. Looking at the two girls who were working hard to carry the pig, he couldn't help but smile and say, "Not bad, they can carry things weighing over a hundred pounds. How old are they?"

Chen Fan looked at their backs, "These three are about the same, 15 or 16 years old this year."

Captain Zhang drank a bowl of tea, lit a cigarette and took two puffs, then continued, "Sixteen years old is the age of half-grown children. If it were a boy, he could carry it alone, but it's not bad for a girl to have this much strength."

Chen Fan smiled, "Huang Li is learning cooking, and Yang Mei is learning brewing. If they don't have strength, they won't be able to hold the iron pot or move the wine jar in the future."

After Zhang Wenliang and the others had caught their breath, Chen Fan gestured, "Go to the back and take a look, or sit here and rest?"

Secretary Yang hummed twice, "Let's go, I can't sit still anyway, I might as well listen to what's going on."

As he spoke, he walked towards the back of the house.

Xiao Liewen walked next to him, looked back at the others, felt that they could all hear, and repeated what Chen Fan had said before to them.

Finally, he said, "Frankly speaking, I think what Xiao Chen said makes some sense. For example, in our production team, when we didn't have money before, didn't we dare not buy this and dare not buy that?

The situation in the city is similar. Although workers have guaranteed income whether there is drought or flood, their wages are also fixed. Eating meat once or twice a month to improve their diet is about the same. As for fixed purchases of large quantities of poultry and meat by factories like the machinery factory and the cotton mill, I don't think it's very likely."

Secretary Yang had been frowning tightly all along. After he finished speaking, it took a while before he exhaled a long breath, "I've been thinking about this for the past two days. Even if we try harder and find other units, or go a step further and get in touch with the food company to become their supply base and absorb the increased portion of the Qingshan Commune.

What about later?"

He turned his head and looked around, "There are nearly 20 communes in Gufeng County. Although we have the excuse of building a hydroelectric power station, we agreed to take the goods from the Qingshan Commune. Will the other communes have any ideas?"

At this time, everyone had reached the bottom of the slope. Huang Li and the other two were busy making preparations, while Chen Fan took out a box from the mezzanine of the shed in the livestock pen.

He opened the box and took out a set of knives from it.

These knives were all made by him personally, the blades were gleaming coldly, and all the knives were inserted into a leather knife sheath, looking very professional.

Next to him, Captain Zhang continued Secretary Yang's words, "Will they have ideas? Many of those people who came to visit and learn a few days ago wanted to hitch a ride on our bandwagon."

Captain Ye also nodded slightly, with a few points of pride and helplessness in his smile, "Raising chickens, ducks, and geese is nothing more than two things: one is feed, and the other is disease prevention. But as long as you are willing to use your brains, there are always ways to solve these two things. Learning from us to raise earthworms and asking the commune's veterinary station for help are all solutions.

But there is only one thing: how to sell the grown chickens, ducks, and geese. No one dares to say anything about this.

Learning from us to open cooked food stores, but they can't open cooked food stores whenever they want. At least they can't get into places like the passenger terminal and the long-distance bus station. Leaving the terminal, how many chickens can a cooked food store sell?

A stable sales channel is Lujiawan's biggest trump card."

Xiao Liewen dropped his cigarette butt, stomped it out with his foot, and looked up at Chen Fan, "Xiao Chen, you just said that the solution is very simple. Now that everyone is here, you can say it, right?"

Open a canteen.

At this moment, Chen Fan was explaining the usage of various knives to Huang Li. "This slender one is the bleeding knife used for slaughtering pigs. This one is the skinning knife, this largest one is the bone-splitting knife, this small one is the boning knife, this one is the meat-separating knife, this one is the meat-slicing knife..."

This pig was just killed, and the blood hasn't been completely drained yet. Here, you hold the knife and stab it from here."

Huang Li's small face was full of tension, and her hand holding the knife trembled slightly, but she still mustered her courage and asked, "Lao... Teacher, I saw them shaving the pig's throat when slaughtering pigs. Should we shave it first?"

Chen Fan shook his head, "Shaving is to clean the blade and avoid dirtying the pig's blood. This pig blood is useless now, just bleed it directly."

Huang Li mustered her courage, held the knife handle with both hands, and shouted 'Ya' before stabbing the knife in and then pulling it out sharply. A thick stream of pig blood slowly flowed out.

Chen Fan said, "Wait, this blood needs to drain for a while."

Then he turned to Zhang Wenliang and shouted, "I think you all need to learn how to slaughter pigs, so that if you hunt prey, you won't know how to bleed it, and the taste of the meat will be reduced by half."

Zhang Wenliang rolled his eyes, too lazy to pay attention to him.

It's not like they were professional pig slaughters, yet he was so particular. Having something to eat was good enough, what was there to pick about?!

Chen Fan walked over, lit another pot of tobacco, blew out a puff of smoke, dispersing the smoke exhaled by the several old smokers in front of him, and then said with a smile, "Originally, I felt that Lujiawan was developing too fast, and the foundation was not solid enough, so I wanted to wait a year or two before talking about this matter.

Now that an agreement has been reached with Qingshan Commune to include the 5 production teams of their commune in the cooperation, I can only bring the plan forward."

In the expectant gazes of 5 pairs of eyes, Chen Fan smiled and said, "The method is very simple. Open a food factory and make the meat into canned or vacuum-packed cooked food, so that you don't have to worry about too much poultry and livestock being backlogged, and at the same time, you can enrich the products and facilitate external sales."

Secretary Yang and the others looked at each other. Everyone knew what canned food was, but vacuum packaging? What was that?

If you don't understand, just ask.

Zhang Wenliang looked at Chen Fan in confusion, "What is vacuum packaging?"

Chen Fan gestured, "It's using a plastic bag to pack it, and then using a machine to pump out all the air inside, creating an anaerobic environment, so that the packaged food can be preserved for a long time."

Before he could finish speaking, Zhang Wenliang widened his eyes and said, "Using plastic bags for packaging? How expensive would that be?!"

Our current plastic production is still very low, and it mainly supplies the industrial and agricultural sectors. If it is used for daily necessities, the price is very touching.

For example, when Zhang Wenliang went to Shanghai to buy seedlings before, he brought back a plastic bag as a souvenir for his wife, which cost 10 yuan.

Things that later generations would嫌弃 even if they were given away for free were also luxury goods in this era.

It was not until the mid-1980s that several large-scale projects were launched and put into production, and this kind of daily necessities, which had long been popularized in the West, gradually entered the daily lives of ordinary people and became commonplace.

Hearing this, Chen Fan smiled and said, "Of course I know this, and the problem of plastic bags is not unsolvable..."

After a pause, he suddenly stopped, and then changed the subject, "Okay, anyway, Qingshan Commune's development of the breeding industry is not a matter of a day or two. The fastest time to market will be about half a year.

Then, use this time to get the procedures for the food processing factory done first, and at the same time, investigate the production process before making a decision."

In fact, it is very simple to solve the problem of plastic bags. Plastics are in short supply in China, but they are already popular in foreign countries.

As long as he makes a phone call to his old uncle, let alone plastic bags, even if he takes over all the cooked food produced in Lujiawan, there will be no problem.

And at that time, the general direction has also been determined, they can just be introduced as the first batch of foreign-funded companies, and can also play a role model, maybe they can leave a mark in history books in the future.

On the other hand, in addition to plastic bags, using tin foil packaging is also a solution. The production process of tin foil is not complicated, as long as it is slightly improved, tin foil bags suitable for food use can be produced.

In either case, it will not hinder Lujiawan from running a food factory.

It's just that Chen Fan doesn't want to do everything for them.

Let them participate more, so that they can experience the hardships of entrepreneurship, so that they will cherish the hard-won results even more.

Secretary Yang and the others breathed a sigh of relief when they got the solution from Chen Fan.

Although they were not sure how to run the factory, or even whether they could run the factory, they could overcome difficulties as long as there was a direction.

Wasn't that how they had come step by step when they were engaged in breeding in the first place?

Next, Chen Fan guided Huang Li to dismantle the wild boar bit by bit, while chatting with Secretary Yang and the others.

"If you ask me, Lujiawan now has so many ingredients, and so many people come to visit and learn, why not open a cafeteria."

Secretary Yang became interested as soon as he heard this, "How do you say that?"

Zhang Wenliang also joined in the fun, "Should it be a restaurant?"

Chen Fan, "It's not appropriate to call it a restaurant directly. Restaurants are managed by the food company, and you have to listen to their instructions. But it's different to open a cafeteria. The village used to have a cafeteria before, and now it can be said to be a restart.

It's just that the previous cafeteria served the members of the commune and was internal, while the current cafeteria is specifically for guests from outside.

Moreover, the previous cafeteria was free, while the current cafeteria charges. When guests come, we give them a few set meals, and then charge according to the set meals, with different prices depending on the meal. It also saves them the trouble of going to the commune for dinner."

Team Leader Zhang pondered for two seconds and asked, "Won't the state-owned restaurant in the commune have any objections?"

Chen Fan chuckled, "What objections? Do they嫌弃 that we are helping them share the trouble?"

He turned to look at Zhang Wenliang, "If you don't believe me, go ask Chef Zhu from the restaurant tomorrow and see if he has any objections? He must be wishing for it!"

In this era, from chefs to waiters, restaurants are paid fixed wages, without any commissions or bonuses.

Oh, no, it can't be said that there are no bonuses at all.

At the end of each year, an extra 10 yuan bonus is given, which is basically a guaranteed benefit. Even if the restaurant doesn't have many guests throughout the year, this 10 yuan is still indispensable.

Therefore, the employees in the commune restaurant should be the happiest group of people when Lujiawan runs a cafeteria.

Have objections? Absolutely impossible!

Zhang Wenliang didn't intend to ask at all. He wasn't stupid. After Chen Fan explained it a little, he understood the reason.

But he also had a question, "What about the chef? You can't invite Liu Jujiang from your team over, right?"

Chen Fan turned the tobacco pipe and pointed at Huang Li, who was silently skinning and boning the wild boar, "Wouldn't it be fine to let her go?"

Huang Li raised her head blankly. Go do what?