Chapter 340 Blue Water Rooster’s Opportunity!
After greeting the engineering troops, Su Wenchen returned to the site headquarters.
Seeing Ren Dachuan still busy preparing side dishes with others in the cafeteria, he hurried over and shouted.
"Old Ren! Old Ren! You don't need to prepare too much food."
"This time, their troops have dedicated logistics support. We only need to take care of the basic water and electricity supply."
Hearing Su Wenchen say this, Ren Dachuan, who was helping in the kitchen, immediately stood up and walked over.
"Director, do you need us to provide meals?"
“Will this happen?”
Su Wenchen shook his head.
"It's probably not an excuse. Before I came back, I went to the kitchen where they had set up camp. They had everything ready."
"By the way, I see the ingredients brought out are potatoes, sweet potatoes, and rice, which are easier to store and transport."
"How about you arrange for someone to send over some seasonal vegetables? Do we still have enough vegetables in our garden? If so, you can tell them that we can send them a few baskets every day!"
Hearing Su Wenchen say this, Ren Dachuan immediately nodded.
"That's enough! Director, didn't you leave a lot of vegetable fields at that time?"
"Our cucumbers, eggplants, and tomatoes are almost ready for harvest."
"To be honest, the ripening time of these dishes is pretty close. I'm still worried about what to do if I can't finish them all!"
After saying that, he walked straight inside and shouted.
"Old Ma! Old Ma! Stop preparing."
"They have a special cooking team. I can just bring the food over there!"
When Ren Dachuan heard what he said, there was a puzzled voice from inside.
"Director Ren, what should we do with these we just washed and cut?"
"Our staff have all finished their meals long ago!"
Ren Dachuan waved his hand.
"Take care of it yourself! It's fine after washing it out! You can use it in the morning."
"As for the sliced food, the director and I haven't eaten yet, so you can make it into a midnight snack!"
After saying that, he followed a kitchen helper and came out of the back kitchen, carrying a basket of mixed vegetables including eggplants, cucumbers, cowpeas, tomatoes, etc.
"Director, I'll go deliver it to them first!"
Su Wenchen nodded and handed over the flashlight.
"Hold on the flashlight! I think this broken road in our yard will be the first one to be repaired."
Ren Dachuan said with a smile.
"Director, don't talk about you. When we were in the commune, we talked about building roads every year, but we had no money, no food, and no cement."
"All we can do is ask people to pick up some stones every year to cushion the gap. It was manageable before there were hardly any big cars on it."
"With all the traffic lately, this old road is no longer viable."
Su Wenchen also nodded. If their engineering team hadn't come to help this time, we would be in real trouble.
"We need to build roads, treat saline-alkali land, expand aquaculture, and finally build other facilities."
"With the help of these more professional construction workers, our employees can spend more time working in the fields and on the farms."
Ren Dachuan also nodded.
"That's right! So we have to greet them."
"Director, I won't tell you anymore. Otherwise, you'll be late and they'll have already prepared dinner."
Su Wenchen waved his hand.
"Go ahead!"
"By the way, have you eaten yet? We haven't eaten since the meeting!"
Ren Dachuan shook his head.
"Old Hou, Director Chen, and a few others came here just now. When they saw that there was no more food, they each took a cucumber and a tomato and went back."
Su Wenchen looked inside the window.
"Master Ma, do you have any white flour left? If not, please make us a bowl of noodles!"
After hearing Su Wenchen's words, the other party immediately agreed.
"Okay!"
"Director, we just cut a lot of tomatoes earlier, and I was worried that the cut tomatoes would go bad if left overnight."
"It's just right to use tomatoes to make the stew."
Seeing this, Su Wenchen also said to Ren Dachuan.
"When you come back, Lao Ren, call them and those who are willing to move can come and eat."
Ren Dachuan waved his hand.
"Okay, Director, I'll go call them when I get back."
After Ren Dachuan left, Su Wenchen looked through the food window at Master Ma who was carefully pouring flour and said directly.
"Master Ma, I see that a lot of tomatoes have been cut. You can make more. Those of you who were called in to help in the kitchen have been busy for so long that you must be hungry."
Hearing Su Wenchen say this, several ladies who were packing up their things suddenly brightened up, but Master Ma immediately shook his head.
"Director, we've already eaten tonight!"
"Besides, why would we eat white flour? Isn't this a waste?"
"Besides, Director, you guys haven't eaten anything in this meeting yet. You leaders should just eat."
Su Wenchen waved his hand.
"You're talking nonsense! As long as food is eaten, there's no waste. Those of you who were called over by Lao Ren to work overtime will have a snack later!"
After saying this, he looked at the cut tomatoes and said with some regret.
"It's a pity that there aren't many people raising chickens here."
"Let's ask Lao Hou to build a chicken farm here. We can't eat rabbits now, so at least we can have eggs to eat."
Originally, Su Wenchen wanted to raise meat rabbits, but unfortunately, now that this is the case, every pound of feces produced by the rabbits is extremely precious, and naturally it is impossible to use it for meat.
At least it is absolutely impossible at this stage!
So he could only let Lao Hou go back to his old ways. Meat cannot be eaten on a large scale for the time being, but eggs seem to be okay!
Although Su Wenchen has decided to open another pig farm here, meat is not as timely as eggs.
Eggs can be produced every day, but meat can only be slaughtered when it is ready for slaughter.
After hearing Su Wenchen say that everyone who came to work overtime would get extra meals, an old lady who was pulled over to help in the kitchen explained to Su Wenchen with a smile.
"Director, do you want some eggs? My family raised two this year!"
"Thanks to you, Director, we didn't have wheat bran to feed the chickens before. We kept it and mixed it with the grain for ourselves to eat!"
"Now that we have enough food, no one wants to eat that stuff. Director, wait for me while I go back and get the eggs!"
Su Wenchen quickly reached out to stop him.
"Oh, no need!"
"I'm just saying this casually. Just keep the eggs for yourself or your children to nourish their bodies."
However, Su Wenchen obviously did not convince them.
"Director, don't worry, our chickens can still continue to lay!"
"That's right, Director. If you hadn't built a branch here, how could we live such a good life?"
"The new wheat has come in these days, and my husband used his work points to exchange for 20 kilograms of flour made from the new wheat!"
"In the past, we never dared to think of eating fine grains! Especially freshly harvested fine grains."
"What's wrong with eating a few eggs?"
As they spoke, several ladies who came to help in the kitchen pulled up their aprons and walked out with brisk steps.
Su Wenchen couldn't stop it at all.
Master Ma said with a smile when he saw this.
"Director, please don't stop me. It's just a few eggs. They are a token of our employees' love."
"If you, Director, didn't come over more often, how could we live like this?"
"Not to mention that we have to host a foreign president on behalf of the country."
"Director, I never dreamed that I could cook for a foreign president!"
Su Wenchen shook his head when he heard this.
"The catering arrangements haven't been finalized yet!"
"Whether they will eat at our place, what they will eat, and who will prepare it will all have to be discussed in advance after their security team arrives."
"But the banquet for the accompanying personnel will most likely be provided by our venue!"
Hearing Su Wenchen say this, the other party was not disappointed. He also knew that he might not be able to cook for the president, but it would be the same for him to cook for the entourage.
After all, he was the one who had entertained the president!
However, Su Wenchen thought that the subsequent reception dinner was indeed an aspect that needed attention.
Is it possible to use the other party's mouth to advertise for them?
Su Wenchen thought about it and realized that he had not put much thought into high-end ingredients at the moment. It seemed that the only one was the blue water rooster.
Mainly at this time, most of his goals and directions were actually to solve the problem of having meat to eat. Eating well would be discussed later.
However, Su Wenchen felt that this seemed to be an opportunity for their blue whistling chickens.
After all, chicken is the main meat consumed in the United States, and is the second largest type of meat after beef.
Although fried chicken fast food had begun to slowly rise at this time, it was still a common dish on the tables of middle-class families and had not evolved into the later poor man's set meal.
If we can take this opportunity to get the president to help advertise, then it seems that it will be possible for blue water chickens to enter the American chicken market!
And the value may not be low.
Thinking about it this way, Su Wenchen felt that he really had to think carefully about how to seize this opportunity. It happened that at the beginning of the year, Zhang Zhenhua at the head farm had applied to expand the breeding scale of blue water roosters.
In addition, their farm has already obtained export qualifications, so he thinks this matter is really feasible.
I just sat in the Su Wenchen cafeteria and thought for a while.
Outside, Ren Dachuan walked in with several leading cadres from the farm who were in a meeting earlier.
Su Wenchen looked at it and asked curiously.
"Why doesn't Lao Yang come over? Has he eaten?"
Ren Dachuan nodded.
"Old Yang is a local from Xiaoyanglou. His wife has already prepared it for him at home, so he won't come over."
Seeing this, Su Wenchen looked at Hou Guozhong and the others and said with a smile.
"It seems that those of us whose loved ones are not around are just huddling together for warmth."
Ren Dachuan smiled.
"Director, I don't count!"
"My wife is also a local. If she hadn't come to help in the cafeteria, I would have gone back and finished eating."
Seeing this, Su Wenchen replied with a smile.
"Alright! But the staff building for our branch field needs to be built as soon as possible."
"At the very least, we can't keep people separated. If we do, we'll have nowhere to live even if we want to bring our family over!"
"I had originally planned to wait until Lao Guo was familiar with the work here, and then I could leave and go back!"
"Now it seems that we won't be able to go back before the end of the year."
"It's not even certain whether I can go back for the Lunar New Year."
After hearing what Su Wenchen said, Chen Guodong, who came in later, also spoke directly.
"Director Su, I heard your child was just born. You can definitely bring your family over!"
"With your current level, you can apply for an ordinary job for your lover!"
Su Wenchen nodded.
"Of course, I can, but my wife is the director of the commune over there, so it's not convenient for her to be transferred here."
"Actually, if I hadn't taken on this foreign guest reception job all of a sudden, it wouldn't be a big deal for me to run back and forth so often."
"That's why I asked my superiors to send a deputy here."
Seeing Su Wenchen say this, Guo Xiangyang said it in a joking manner.
"Director, you want to go back and reunite with your family, so you let me come over and do the work for you!"
Su Wenchen said directly in a bad mood.
"Why? Didn't you want to come here? If you don't want to, how about I ask the higher-ups to replace you?"
Hearing this, Guo Xiangyang naturally couldn't agree and quickly said.
"Forget it. I'm here to help you guys solve problems. How can I just replace you?"
For Guo Xiangyang, it was a stroke of luck that he encountered such a thing, so how could he possibly go back?
After a few jokes, Su Wenchen also asked Chen Guodong.
"Director Chen, how are we going to arrange meals for our foreign guests?"
"Is it arranged by our field, or is it someone above us who is in charge?"
Chen Guodong said directly.
"Generally speaking, if foreign guests visit a local area, it is generally the local government that takes the lead."
"But in the past, we only received leaders from countries like Asia, Africa, and Latin America."
"So, the specific arrangements for the catering reception this time had not yet been decided by our company when I arrived."
"Right now, we are mainly busy with the preliminary preparations for the international image we want to present."
"But I feel it should be similar to before. Their team is basically responsible for controlling food safety."
"We're in charge of the banquet design and the supply of local ingredients!"
"So, I think this aspect should ultimately be jointly managed by you and the Su Province. Basically, you should prepare some of the more famous local dishes."
When Su Wenchen heard this, he nodded thoughtfully.
In this way, the basic ingredients will be provided by them, and as long as the dishes are prepared well enough, maybe his idea of asking the president to help with advertising will really work.
So he said directly.
"Director Chen, what do you think of using our farm's blue moorhens for entertainment?"
Hearing this, Chen Guodong was stunned at first, then thought for a while and said.
"Director Su, I've heard of your blue moorhen, but I've never eaten it."
"Are you trying to use this opportunity to boost the reputation of your blue moorhen?"
"I don't think so, because your blue moorhen is quite famous now!"
Su Wenchen shook his head.
"It's quite famous in China, but almost no one knows it abroad."
"If we just export them as ordinary roosters, we naturally don't want to!"
Hearing Su Wenchen say this, Chen Guodong immediately understood what he meant.
After thinking for a while, he replied.
"I think this is a difficult matter. After all, we can't decide whether the president thinks it's a good idea or not."
Just as they were talking, a loud sound came from the kitchen.
"The noodles are here!"
As Master Ma spoke, he came out from the back kitchen carrying a large bowl full of hand-rolled noodles.
Following behind was a kitchen helper who also brought out a pot of tomato and egg stew.
Seeing this, Su Wenchen also walked over with Chen Guodong and others, holding bowls, and talked as he walked.
"So my idea is to use our blue water chicken as the raw material and make a dish based on their American fried chicken."
"Director Chen, do you think there's a chance given the quality of our chicken, plus the bonus of eating home-cooked food in a foreign country?"
After saying this, Su Wenchen saw Lao Ma trying to help him with the noodles and he politely declined.
"Old Ma, you guys in the cafeteria can go get your own bowls, we can just do it ourselves."
When Chen Guodong heard Su Wenchen's words, he thought about it for a moment and nodded in response.
"I think it's fine. They probably won't be preparing fried chicken at the banquet in Jing City anyway!"
"You might actually get a pleasant surprise if you prepare this!"
Su Wenchen knew that their dishes could never compare to the exquisite dishes served at the state banquet in Beijing!
So we can only think of solutions from some small details.
So he said it directly.
"Okay then, Old Hou, ask the farm to transfer a batch of blue moorhens over so we can raise some here as well."
"I'll also call and see if I can ask my friends at the Foreign Trade Bureau to help me keep an eye out for the American fried chicken recipe."
"After all, recipes are probably easier to find on the market!"
Hearing Su Wenchen say this, Hou Guozhong immediately agreed.
"Okay, Director, but if you really want to make experimental dishes, you must remember to call me!"
"I've never tried American food before! Deep-frying a whole chicken—what a waste of oil! Most people can't afford it."
Hearing Hou Guozhong say this, Chen Guodong said directly.
“Really not!”
"I've heard of this fried chicken before when I was in the European and American department of the company. It's said that it's coated in flour before being fried. After frying, it's crispy on the outside and tender on the inside."
“It’s a dish that many middle-class and ordinary people like.”
Hearing Chen Guodong say this, the others in the cafeteria immediately sighed.
"Oh my god, chicken coated in flour and fried in oil! How can this not be delicious?"
"That's right, Americans are just wasteful. They can fry anything that tastes good."
Even Guo Xiangyang joined in the fun.
"If you ask me, I think it would be delicious even if I used it to fry rocks!"
When Su Wenchen heard this, he rolled his eyes.
"You want to eat fried rocks? I'll ask Master Ma to fry some rocks for you?"
Hearing Su Wenchen say this, Guo Xiangyang suddenly said helplessly.
"Director, I'm using a metaphor!"
"Frying rocks in oil—isn't that a waste of food? This is a punishment from heaven!"
"But when we do the fried chicken experiment on the field, you have to call me!"
Su Wenchen waved his hand.
"You haven't even started yet! What good things are you dreaming of?"
"Besides, if everyone works hard, maybe in ten or twenty years, we'll all be able to eat fried chicken every day."
"Just don't all start complaining about being unhealthy when the time comes."
Su Wenchen felt that in another twenty or thirty years, their generation would gradually grow old.
It seems that it was from that time that fried chicken, which is now an absolute luxury food, slowly became junk food.
Hearing Su Wenchen say this, Guo Xiangyang was speechless.
"Director, what you said is not realistic at all. How can something like fried chicken be unhealthy?"
"If I really had to choose, I would eat it every day!"
"It's still unhealthy! Is it the chicken, the oil, or the noodles?"
"They're all good things, how can they be unhealthy?"
"But I think in 20 or 30 years, we won't have to eat fried chicken every day. I'll be satisfied if we can just eat white flour every day."
Su Wenchen smiled when he heard what Guo Xiangyang said.
"Why, you didn't eat well in the ministry cafeteria?"
Guo Xiangyang was speechless.
"Director, do you have a misunderstanding about government agencies?"
"Ask Director Chen, can they eat white flour every meal in the cafeteria?"
"It's good enough to eat all-white flour once a month. Most of the time, it's a mixture of white flour and cornmeal."
"Most of the time we pay for it ourselves and go out to improve our meals occasionally."
"Except for bachelors who don't even have wives, who can afford to spend their wages on fine food every day?"
After saying that, he scooped himself a big bowl of noodles with chopsticks.
Su Wenchen was speechless upon seeing this.
"You're the reincarnation of a starving ghost! Even if you pour the gravy on you, it will spill out."
Guo Xiangyang shook his head.
"Director, I'm very accurate!"
As he said that, he poured a spoonful of tomato and egg sauce on it, and it immediately reached the edge of the bowl.
Guo Xiangyang first took a sip of the soup to prevent it from spilling, then picked it up and walked towards his seat.
Still talking.
"It tastes really good. I never knew Chef Ma's cooking skills were so authentic!"
Su Wenchen rolled his eyes when he heard this.
"Have you ever eaten the food here? Just put it here!"
"I heard there are no roads in Beijing, and the whole way is tunnels."
When Guo Xiangyang heard this, he immediately muttered.
"Director, I'm just praising you. I mean, it's authentic and delicious!"
"It's not the same thing as the tunnel you mentioned."
Su Wenchen waved his hand.
"Alright, eat now! Eating can't stop your mouth."
After the meal, Su Wenchen did not discuss anything else with the others.
The general direction has basically been decided, and all that’s left is to roll up our sleeves and get to work.
On the way back, Su Wenchen wanted to go to the office to call Jiang Li.
But then I thought about it and felt that my wife had just given birth, so it would definitely not be convenient for her to answer the phone.
It’s better to write a letter than to ask someone else to deliver the message!
So after he returned to the dormitory, he could only express his longing and guilt for his wife and children through letters.
(End of this chapter)
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