It would take some time for Liu Shouyi to be promoted. During this time, he helped to guide Yu Xiangan and help her adapt to the job of an assistant.
Yu Xiangan followed him outside and gradually got to know many other people.
For example, paper mills and purchasing stations.
The purchasing station is responsible for most of the raw materials needed by the food factory.
If a certain type of fruit is famous in a certain place, the higher-ups will assign them a task, telling them to plant a certain number of fruit trees, and then purchase the fruit at a price. When the fruit is purchased, it will be sent to their factory to be produced into various canned products.
There are also some places that are not designated, but those places are suitable for growing certain fruits. If you send them to the purchasing station, they will also buy them because the fruit production here in their factory is quite good.
After all, most fruit trees can be planted on the mountains and will not occupy fertile fields. For example, now is the grapefruit harvest season. Yu Xiangan saw a lot of them in the grocery store and bought a lot to store in the warehouse for preservation. They can be kept fresh for a long time. When it is out of season, she can eat this fruit anytime she wants.
Now she has a lot of fruits stored in her farm. In fact, she thinks that in the future, she can make money by selling fruits in different seasons by relying on the warehouse's ability to preserve fruits.
Just like her apples, which she picked first, they are still fresh now. She is amazed at their ability to keep fresh.
When Yu Xiangan followed Liu Shouyi to the purchasing station to recognize people, the other party insisted on giving them two large grapefruits each, saying that they had just been collected from the countryside and were fresh, and asked them to help taste them to see if they were sweet enough this year.
For many production teams that rely on fruit trees to earn a year's money, food factories and purchasing stations are people who cannot be offended and need to be pleased. The people at the purchasing stations are the first line of purchase, and the food factories are the final recipients of the fruits.
If there were no food factory to support them, the people in charge of this aspect at the purchasing station would not have the power they have today.
It’s okay for fruits like grapefruit that are easy to store, but lychees cannot be stored for a long time and will go bad in a few days.
There was a bumper harvest of grapefruit this year and they weren’t worth much, so he took some out as a favor.
Of course they wanted to send her off, but they wouldn't send her off to everyone they met. If Yu Xiangan had come alone before, they wouldn't have sent her off. But now she came with Liu Shouyi, so it was different.
In addition to these places, we also have exchanges with several factories next door.
If we talk about which factory in Baishi County gets the most thumbs up, it is naturally the pharmaceutical factory. However, they only nod to the people from the pharmaceutical factory when they meet, and they really don't have much business with the pharmaceutical factory.
The pharmaceutical factory is the largest factory in Baishi County and also the pillar of Baishi County. The medicinal oil they produce is famous in several nearby provinces.
If we talk about which factory has the richest employees, it has to be the pharmaceutical factory.
Take houses for example. Their pharmaceutical factory builds the most houses and allocates them to employees.
In a pharmaceutical factory, after working for a certain number of years, the housing allocation is much higher than that of workers in other factories.
Speaking of pharmaceutical factories, Liu Shouyi also expressed some envy in his words, "Wasn't it Mid-Autumn Festival a while ago? Do you know what they distributed? I have a relative who works in a pharmaceutical factory. Even the lowest-level ones got a pound of mooncakes, a pound of sugar, a box of fruit, and enough cloth to make a shirt. If you are at a higher level, it would be amazing. I heard that they also got thermos bottles. Just imagine how rich they are." A thermos bottle cost at least a dozen yuan.
Yu Xiangan nodded frequently as he listened, "As expected of the big brother of Baishi County, the welfare here is incredible. Our factory cannot compare to the pharmaceutical factory, but if compared to the others, our factory is not bad." They took up the word "food" for food, clothing, housing and transportation.
Liu Shouyi nodded in agreement, "Indeed." Not as good as the best, but better than the worst.
As employees of food factories, they have a natural convenience in purchasing their products.
Liu Shouyi dealt with her more and more and recognized her. Liu Shouyi took her to an exchange meeting, which was a small exchange meeting organized by a fixed circle.
For example, the two of them were from the food factory, Gao Yimei was from the fabric factory, Zeng Minjia was from the shoe factory, and Wang Shixiong was from the meat processing factory...
They each take what they need.
They didn't even mention the words buy and sell, they just said they were exchanging the excess supplies.
They have a tacit understanding with each other. Yu Xiangan felt pleasantly surprised. She would not mind even if there were more people in this circle.
The first time he came, Yu Xiangan didn’t buy much. He only bought a pig’s trotter, intending to have a braised pig’s trotter with soybeans.
These prices are slightly higher than the normal market price. You need to give a ticket and pay the money. If you don’t give a ticket, the price will be higher.
Yu Xiangan gave it very quickly.
To be honest, she would rather spend a little more money to buy it here than get up in the middle of the night to queue up and not be sure to get it.
Gao Yimei wanted to make friends with Yu Xiangan. After Liu Shouyi introduced her, she took the initiative to approach him with an enthusiastic attitude, "I am the assistant of Director Chen of the fabric factory. I have just taken office for less than half a year, but I am familiar with many things. Sister, if you want to buy fabric, you can find me and I will help you with the consultation."
Yu Xiangan also maintained appropriate enthusiasm, "Thank you very much, Sister Gao. Don't look at me now because my clothes are patchless. I only have these two sets of new factory uniforms. If conditions permit, who wouldn't want to wear something more comfortable?"
Yu Xiangan also wanted to have a good relationship with her. The fabric factory, many of the clothes she was wearing were still patched. It was not that there was no fabric in her farm, but she lacked a reason to use it. The clothes she was wearing now, except for the factory uniforms issued by the factory, were only her underwear, which she had replaced with new ones.
Although others can't see it when you wear it inside, you still have to take pains to cover it up.
If she became friends with her, she would have a reason to take the cloth back from time to time in the future.
When "the man is in love and the woman is willing", they hit it off at first sight.
"Girl, look at these shoes. They are said to be defective, but actually there is just a small hole on the sole. Others can't see it, and it doesn't affect you when you wear it. This kind of shoes costs more than 20 yuan in the supply and marketing cooperative, but now it only costs 15 yuan. I have been looking at this pair of shoes for a long time and asked several times. This time I finally found it."
Liu Shouyi brought a few cans of food and they exchanged them in no time. After the exchange, they agreed to have a meal together at the state-owned restaurant one day as a welcome party for Yu Xiangan.
Gao Yimei and Yu Xiangan said goodbye at the intersection, "Sister, we agreed to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy things on the next day off. I want to buy some vanishing cream."
Yu Xiangan, "Okay, let's go together. My sister-in-law works at the counter of the supply and marketing cooperative. If you happen to want to buy something from her counter, it will be convenient for you."
When Gao Yimei heard that her sister-in-law worked in the supply and marketing cooperative, her smile became even more enthusiastic.
"Your sister-in-law works at the supply and marketing cooperative. It's a respectable job. She works at a counter..."
After entering the house with the pig's trotter, Yu Xiangan asked Yu Xiangju, "Xiaoju, where is Mingjie? Didn't you play together today?"
Yu Xiangju shook his head: "Not today."
"Go and tell your eldest brother and the others to come over for dinner. We'll have stewed pig's trotters tonight." As she spoke, she shook the basket in her hand.
Yu Xiangju cheered, "Fifth sister, I'll go now."
It seems like half a month has passed since I last ate meat during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Now I finally have meat to eat again, and it’s the delicious braised pig’s trotters. Fifth sister is so awesome!
Yu Qingshan and Yu Xianghai always get off work late. Yu Qingshan is the master and usually waits until everyone else has left before leaving, while Yu Xianghai will stay to do some chores.
This resulted in Yu Xiangan returning home earlier than them even though the food factory was far away.
The pig's trotter had been cleaned and the hair had been scraped off. She chopped it into small pieces and started to work.
If you want to make pig's trotters delicious, you must remove all the hair. Otherwise, when you are enjoying the chewy pig skin halfway through, you will eat the hard burrs, which is very unappetizing.
The soybeans need to be soaked in advance. When she bought them, she was thinking that she had soaked soybeans at home, ready to be used to make soy milk, so now she could take them out and use them directly.
After Yu Xiangan cut the pig's trotters, he put them into a pot with cold water, added cooking wine, boiled out the blood foam, scooped them out, poured out the water, washed the pot again, then added some rock sugar and fried it until it turned a reddish color. He then put the pig's trotters in and stir-fried them, and added ginger, onions, cinnamon, dried chilies, soybean paste, etc. until fragrant.
When the fragrance filled the air, Zhao Qiaoniang came back.
She smelled the aroma and came in, "What are you doing, it smells so good."
“Pig’s trotter.”
"Pig's trotters? Where did you buy them? There's no meat today."
"I took a chance and traded it with a man from a meat processing factory."
Zhao Qiaoniang said "oh" and didn't ask any more questions. She squatted down and helped to light the fire.
Yu Xiangan saw that the food was almost done, so he added water, the soaked soybeans, salt, and covered the pot.
It takes some time to stew the pig's trotters, but the wait is worth it.
Listening to the gurgling sound in the pot through the lid and smelling the increasingly diffuse aroma, my anticipation grew little by little.
Ye Qijiajia waited until she became anxious, pacing back and forth at the kitchen door. Her endurance was not so bad before, but after getting pregnant and going through the morning sickness period, she was now greedy. Now, smelling the fragrance, her soul almost flew into the pot.
Seeing her so anxious, Yu Xianghai also became anxious and kept asking, "Is it ready? Can I eat it? Is it ready? It smells delicious."
Yu Manchang: “…”
He didn't say anything because he was afraid that he would not be able to hold back his saliva if he spoke.
Yu Xiangju and Yu Mingjie said they were playing with pebbles, but their hearts had already flown away early, and they would look back at the kitchen after playing with the pebbles.
Only Yu Qingshan behaved relatively calmly. He sat steadily at the table, sipping chrysanthemum tea. This was the chrysanthemum tea that Yu Xiangan and Yu Xiangju picked. After it was dried, Yu Qingshan liked to brew a few chrysanthemums and drink it slowly whenever he had nothing to do.
Normally, Zhao Qiaoniang was relatively calm when making delicious food, but today she was a little distracted.
Because she received a message from Zhou Boyang today.
It is said that Minsu will be back next month. She is finally coming back. I wonder how big her belly is now? Is it difficult to be pregnant?
She can eat meat here, what about her?
Logically speaking, she should be well taken care of while she is pregnant, but now she has to be in a remote countryside without anyone familiar around her. Can she eat such good food?
Zhao Qiaoniang just wanted to smile bitterly.
She didn't know if she regretted it now. If she did...
Thinking of this, she became even more absent-minded.
If there is still a possibility of repair, she will be very happy...
The wait was worth it. Yu Xiangan took the pot out and put it on the table. Yu Qingshan immediately put down the cup and straightened his back calmly.
Yu Xianghai was also ready to start.
Yu Xiangan: "Sorry for the long wait, let's eat." As soon as he finished speaking, everyone started eating with their chopsticks.
They pick up all the meat. Pig's trotters have a lot of fat, so they only pick that kind. Yu Xiangan likes the kind with more lean meat and a little fat, and he also likes pig skin.
She usually doesn't eat the pig skin when she eats pork, but when she eats pig's trotters, she must eat the pig skin.
Fatty but not greasy, and chewy.
It feels like it is a different species from other parts of the pig skin.
After eating one piece, I want to eat a second piece.
Seeing that he only picked the lean ones to eat, Yu Qingshan specially picked a piece with a lot of fat for her. She then handed it to Yu Xiangju's bowl next to her, "Give it to Xiaoju, grow up quickly. Dad, you don't have to worry about me. I have changed my taste now. I think lean meat is more fragrant. If you want to serve me some food, serve this kind."
Yu Manchang: “…”
There are actually people who don’t like to eat fatty meat.
Fatty meat is so good, it’s full of oil and water. Today’s pig’s trotter is fat, it would be hard to find a piece of meat with so much fat if it wasn’t fat, and she doesn’t like it.
Yu Qingshan didn't understand, but he still picked up a piece of lean meat for her and said, "Thank you for your hard work."
Yu Xianghai also picked up a piece for her, "Thank you for your hard work, little sister. Next time if you see it, buy some for me." He took out some money and gave it to Yu Xiangan.
My wife is pregnant now, so she should eat more good food to nourish her body.
Yu Xiangan nodded and agreed, "Everyone eat it, these soybeans are also delicious."
Every soybean was soaked in the aroma of meat. Under everyone's siege, the pig's trotters were soon gone, but there were still a lot of soybeans left. At the end of the meal, everyone put them into their mouths one by one, so that they could eat slower.
At this point, everyone slowed down their movements in unison until every soybean was eaten, and the remaining soup was mixed and eaten up, bringing the meal to a perfect end.
I started chatting while touching my satisfied belly.
Yu Qingshan, "Today's pig's trotters are quite good, with lots of fat. Where did they come from?"
Yu Xiangan: "My colleague introduced me to a few friends, one of whom worked in a meat processing plant, so we exchanged positions."
Yu Qingshan understood, "So that's how it is. It takes some effort to maintain a relationship."
Yu Xiangan nodded, "I know."
Yu Xianghai remembered: "Has your job not given you a definite answer yet? When will you be transferred to another position? And what will happen to the vacant position after you are transferred? Do you know?"
Yu Xiangan shook his head: "Not yet, no rush. I heard from Deputy Director Wang that the position will be transferred to one of the director's nieces."
Hearing her words, Yu Manchang sighed.
People who are related are just different.
The others didn't react much, as that was expected.
It is said that everyone is standing at the same starting point, but how is it possible that we are actually at the same starting point?
Yu Qingshan asked Yu Manchang: "How are you doing with your master now?"
Speaking of this, Yu Manchang became excited: "He taught me some tricks, but didn't tell me some key points, which is normal. Now I am very satisfied with this. I will continue to learn. I have the confidence to try to make it myself. My master also told me that if I can't make it, I can come to him at any time and he will tell me the reason."
Obviously this person is a good person, otherwise he wouldn't say such things.
Yu Xianghai: "What does your master like to eat? If we have any, we can send some over."
"During the Mid-Autumn Festival, I gave him a package of mountain products, and he liked it very much..."
Listening to their conversation, Yu Xiangan thought that it was time for her to reveal a little about her abilities to them.
Let’s make paper first.
The raw materials for making paper are very common, such as bamboo bark.
She used the old books she found in the recycling station as an excuse to rummage around the house.
Homemade paper?
Towards her actions, the attitude of others was to wait and see, neither opposing nor supporting. Only Yu Xiangju and Yu Mingjie were extremely happy, jumping up and down, running around, more active and proactive than Yu Xiangan herself.
This is so new to them. Can they also make paper?
If it's really possible, that would be great.
There is no doubt that the paper she made the first time was not very good, but no matter what, it was still a piece of paper, albeit a rough, somewhat uneven, and uneven piece of paper.
But if it is improved, the paper will definitely become smoother.
When Xiang'an's results came out, Yu Qingshan started to pay attention to her. When he saw her trying it for the second time, he would help her and find out how it was made.
With him joining, Yu Xiangan no longer had to worry about the most laborious tasks of pounding and curtaining.
When copying paper, this job was also contracted to Yu Qingshan. He was strong and had steady hands, and the results he produced were much better than before.
Yu Qingshan was very happy, "We can continue to improve!"
Now this can be used for going to the toilet.
But it is still a long way from being able to write.
Yu Qingshan: "Xiao An, what do you remember? How can you improve it?"
Yu Xiangan felt a little guilty and coughed twice: "I just looked at it vaguely, not very carefully."
Well, she also forgot a lot of details.
Yu Xianghai is also very interested in paper making, and if he had time, he would also like to try it.
Yu Xiangan accompanied Ye Qijia to the county hospital.
Her belly showed up too early; it was still early in the pregnancy, so logically, it shouldn't be that big.
Yao Cuifen took a look and asked her to find time to go for a check-up.
Her youngest daughter was pregnant with twins, but there were problems during the birth and she died.
Have to be cautious.
Originally, Yu Xianghai was supposed to accompany Ye Qijiajia, but he couldn't get away, so Yu Xiangan came with her.
Yu Xiangan reassured her: "Sister-in-law, don't look at me because I'm younger than you. I can handle things properly."
Ye Qijia smiled, "Of course."
If not, how could she be appreciated by her leaders?
There are neither too many nor too few people in the county hospital.
Those who don’t come here generally have decent family conditions and are mostly city dwellers.
Yu Xiangan appears calm on the surface, but he is not. Having twins means the joy of having two children, but also double the danger.
And there are precedents to learn from.
If it were in later times, one would still have to be cautious when discovering twins. Even though medical science has developed so much in later times, there are still people who die in the delivery room.
Yu Xiangan decided that if the test showed that it was twins today, she would focus the spiritual spring water on her eldest sister-in-law.
In addition, she needs to ask about the doctor at this time.
Many intellectuals were innocently implicated and demoted. The capable people in the county hospital should be okay, right?
Those who want to cause trouble cannot guarantee that they or their families will not get sick.
She didn't know many people before, but now it's different. She should pay attention.
The person who examined Ye Qijia was an old Chinese doctor. He examined Ye Qijia and then said with certainty: "You are pregnant with twins. You must pay attention to nutrition in the future, but you can't eat too much. It will be difficult to give birth if the baby is too big. Is this your second baby?"
Ye Qijia had a smile on her face. She had two little ones in her belly. "Yes, this is my second baby. My first one is already five years old."
"Don't worry too much. You have experience, and the time is spaced out. Your physical condition is also okay. Just be careful. When the month comes, if you have the conditions, come to the hospital to give birth."
Yu Xiangan immediately followed up, "Okay, doctor, we'll come to the hospital to give birth. Do we need to take medicine to protect the fetus now? Also, we need to be more cautious with twins. What should we pay attention to? How often should we come to the hospital for a checkup?"
Her series of words made the old doctor not know where to start answering for a moment, and he smiled and said, "Is this your sister?"
Ye Qijia also smiled, "This is my sister-in-law."
"You have a good relationship."
Ordinary sisters-in-law can't do this.
Ye Qijiajia smiled and nodded: "Yes, we have a good relationship." How could the relationship with such a sister-in-law be bad?
"Here, there's a booklet. Take it and have a look. I'll write you a list later. With this list, you can go buy some supplements without being restricted by tickets."
Yu Xiangan responded loudly: "Hey, thank you, doctor!"
"Sister-in-law, please sit here for a while. I'll go buy it."
There is brown sugar malted milk here to nourish the body for pregnant women, she can't miss it.
She walked out of the room, asked someone, and went to the pharmacy.
At this time, in the pharmacy, Lin Chuanbai was opening envelopes and packages.
The letter was sent from the city, from a former "friend" of the original owner.
The package was sent from Shanghai. As soon as I saw the address, I knew who sent it.
This is from my eldest brother.
Xin Linchuanbai opened it, took a glance at it and put it aside. It was too hypocritical and he didn't want to take a closer look.
The package contained clothes suitable for him and his grandfather, as well as two packs of White Rabbit milk candies. The most valuable item was a carefully wrapped watch.
Watches and other valuables, the cheapest ones cost more than 100 yuan, and you also need a ticket.
Tickets are more valuable than money.
This was sent by his eldest brother to celebrate his finding a job.
At the same time, it is also comforting.
Although he didn't say a word about the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University.
Lin Chuanbai suddenly smiled, and the person next to him happened to see this smile. He was stunned for a moment and thought he was hallucinating. The person who had a calm face suddenly smiled. Was it real?
Why does it feel so good-looking?
She looked at this new colleague with a completely new perspective. Although he was a little introverted and not talkative, he was still a nice guy.
Lin Chuanbai didn't notice the looks of others. He was immersed in the care of his family. He felt as if he had just come out of a hot spring. He was warm all over and wanted to go back to enjoy it lazily.
This is family.
It’s not impossible for him to buy a watch if he wants to, but it’s different from the one his family gave him.
At this time, someone came over with a note. Seeing that he was still reading the letter, the person next to him walked to the counter.
It was a young female voice: "Comrade, please help me, I need these to nourish the pregnant woman."
"No trouble, serve the people..."
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