Huang Qinqin never expected that her first day's work would involve moving and arranging goods!
Fortunately, there were more male colleagues at the department store, so the female colleagues only carried some fabrics and then simply arranged the merchandise in the sales area.
Thanks to the combined efforts of all the department store staff, all the merchandise was finally put on the shelves by around 11:00 AM.
Huang Qinqin noticed that many of the goods in the department store were items that the supply and marketing cooperative usually had a shortage of.
For example, there were radios, bicycles, fans, and even a whole clothing section in the department store, with many styles that Huang Qinqin had never seen before.
She had her eye on several items when she hung them up. The prices were a bit high, though, and she wasn't sure if she needed fabric ration coupons. If not, she might consider buying them.
Xiao Mo checked everything and found that there were basically no problems, so he gathered everyone together.
"Everyone has worked hard! Since the department store is not officially open yet today, and we have already completed our morning tasks, you can go home early."
"But everyone should remember to come back for a meeting this afternoon. We will divide up the work areas and tell you the start time."
"Now everyone can disperse and go back to get some rest."
Huang Qinqin found Huang Jiancai and the others and asked, "Cousin, are you going to the food factory for lunch now?"
"Yes, the person who took us to the dormitory yesterday told us that we can eat with the food factory workers in the factory canteen from now on."
What Huang Jiancai didn't mention was that although they could eat at the food factory canteen, they had been eating dry rations yesterday. This was because the canteen required not only money but also food coupons and cash.
They all carried money with them, knowing they wouldn't receive their wages until a month later. However, none of them had any food coupons...
When they went to the canteen yesterday, they found it particularly awkward that they needed food coupons in addition to paying money.
Even Huang Jianmin, who had never eaten in the cafeteria during his high school years, knew nothing about the cafeteria requiring tickets.
But Huang Qinqin knew that her family occasionally ate at the steel factory canteen. So she asked directly, "Did you bring any food coupons?"
Huang Jiancai touched his nose and said softly, "No."
Huang Qinqin had guessed this would happen. She hadn't thought of it yesterday, but it suddenly came to mind when she went out this morning.
Huang Qinqin took out a stack of grain coupons and a few meat coupons from her handbag. She handed them to Huang Jiancai and the others, saying, "Take these coupons for now."
Seeing that Huang Jiancai and the others were about to refuse, Huang Qinqin continued, "Don't be in such a hurry to refuse. These tickets are not for you; they are a loan."
"You won't get paid until next month, and all the receipts will be given out with your paychecks. If you don't want them, what will you eat this month?"
Hearing this, Huang Jiancai took the grain coupons and said gratefully, "Okay, we'll take them first. Thank you, Qinqin."
Huang Guiming, seeing Huang Jiancai accept the ticket, breathed a sigh of relief. Huang Jiancai had suffered terribly eating dry rations yesterday. If he had to eat them for another two days, he would have gone crazy.
Now that the food coupon problem was solved, they went back to their dormitories to get their lunchboxes and then went to the cafeteria to eat.
Huang Qinqin also went to the food factory with them because she had made an appointment with Xu Junhui to wait for him to come and pick her up.
Now that she's off work early, to avoid Xu Junhui making a wasted trip, she might as well go directly to the food factory to find him.
Because Huang Jiancai and the others needed to go back to their dormitory to get their lunchboxes, Huang Qinqin and they parted ways halfway. When they arrived at the food factory, it just so happened that Uncle Wang was on duty again.
When security guard Uncle Wang saw her name, he paused for a moment, then said, "Hey, hey, aren't you that girl who found our factory's stuff?"
Huang Qinqin was surprised that the security guard remembered her. She smiled and nodded, "Yes, it's me. Uncle, you have a good memory. You still remember me."
"Of course I remember! How could I not remember! You're such a sweet and lovely girl, of course I remember you! By the way, do you have a boyfriend?"
Of course, it wasn't because Huang Qinqin was cute that Uncle Wang remembered her so vividly. The main reason was that he had taken Huang Qinqin on so many fruitless trips that day without finding her, and he felt somewhat embarrassed, hence the particularly deep impression.
"Yes, I'm already married."
"Oh? You're married? I was just saying I'd introduce you to someone. So what brings you here today?"
Huang Qinqin then remembered that she hadn't come to catch up with the security guard; she was going to find Xu Junhui.
“I came here to see my boyfriend, who also works in a food factory.”
"Oh, okay, then please register and come in. By the way, who's your partner?"
While registering her information, Huang Qinqin replied, "My boyfriend's name is Xu Junhui. You should know him, right, Uncle?"
"I know you! Did you know each other before? Or did you meet because of that incident? By the way, you can just call me Uncle Wang."
Uncle Wang remembered that Xu Junhui had suddenly announced his marriage a while ago and even gave him some wedding candy. He wondered how Xu had suddenly found a partner. Turns out, it was all a sudden stroke of fate!
"We only met after last time, Uncle Wang. I've registered, let's chat again next time. I'm going in now."
"Okay, the cafeteria is over there. You can just go there with the others."
"Okay, thank you, Uncle Wang~"
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Because she chatted with Uncle Wang for a while at the entrance, when Huang Qinqin arrived at the cafeteria, she happened to run into Xu Junhui coming out of his office.
Xu Junhui asked in surprise, "Honey, what brings you here? Did you leave work early?"
"Well, we finished our work this morning and left early. I was worried you'd make a wasted trip to the department store, so I came to find you instead."
Xu Junhui pulled Huang Qinqin to the side and asked, "Would you like to take a look at the food in our cafeteria? If there's anything you want to eat, you can get a portion to take home."
Huang Qinqin hadn't seen the food at the food factory's canteen yet, but she thought it would be good to take a look and also find out about Huang Jiancai and the others' meals.
She went with Xu Junhui. Huang Qinqin originally thought that when he said "take a look," he meant just looking around from the outside like the others.
As a result, Xu Junhui actually took her directly into the kitchen. Huang Qinqin looked at the kitchen environment and found it to be quite clean and hygienic.
I looked at the menu again: scrambled eggs with tomatoes, cucumber salad, hot and sour shredded potatoes, and fried fish pieces.
The food seemed similar to what you'd find at the steel mill, but the tomato and egg stir-fry at the food factory had noticeably more eggs. After looking around, Huang Qinqin finally ordered a plate of fried fish pieces.
We buy fish regularly, but we mostly steam it, make soup, or braise it. We rarely fry it because it uses too much oil.
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