He comforted the aggrieved Ding Qiunan and helped her sit down at the table.
"Here, eat the breakfast I bought for you while it's hot."
"Yeah." Ding Qiunan smiled sweetly.
Li Qinghe touched her head and asked, "By the way, we have to work overtime for fifteen days starting today, right?"
"Yes, I have to be on duty at night to prevent anyone from getting bumped into."
At this time, Liang Ladi rushed in.
"Qinghe, I told you that you must be here. There is a problem with the circuit in our workshop again. Please help me check it out."
"Sister Liang, have you eaten breakfast?" Li Qinghe asked with a smile.
Liang Ladi glared at him secretly, and sat down without being polite. "You know what, I didn't have enough food this morning, so I just happened to follow Qiu Nan and get some benefits."
Ding Qiunan was not a stingy person, and greeted Liang Ladi warmly, "Sister Liang, please eat quickly, Qinghe bought a lot."
"Thank you then." Liang Ladi picked up a fried dough stick and took a bite. She looked at Li Qinghe again and saw that he was sitting there stupidly. She urged him, "Why are you still sitting there? Go and work. I still have something to say to Qiunan in private. Do you want to eavesdrop?"
"Okay, you guys chat slowly." Li Qinghe didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and immediately got up and left.
Ding Qiunan looked at his helpless expression, her eyes curved into crescents, and she almost laughed out loud.
But Li Qinghe felt a little unsatisfied, so he ran over here early in the morning but ended up doing nothing.
I went to the office to get the tools and went straight to Liang Ladi's workshop. It took only ten minutes to fix it. It wasn't a big problem, just aging circuits, which is a common problem in this era.
Then he went directly to Director Liu's office and sat down on the sofa without any hesitation as soon as he entered the door. "Director Liu, I have gathered all the things. Don't forget the lunch."
Director Liu laughed and said, "How can that be possible? I have been thinking about the good things you mentioned. You can't fool me."
"You should be at peace with yourself. I finally invited you here, are you waiting for you to fail?"
"Okay, I'm relieved. With your ability, they must be good stuff." Director Liu changed the subject and asked in a low voice: "Um, the fine grains I told you about before..."
Li Qinghe poured himself a glass of water and said, "Don't worry, I have already made all the contacts. Just let me know and I will arrange it."
"Really? Great, how many?"
What Director Liu is most worried about now is the food problem. There has been some rift in his relationship with Director Xu of the grain station, and he might make a fuss about it.
The factory’s quota was not enough to begin with. Although the unplanned food was not much, it was still some food ration after all.
So, he is in urgent need of food now.
Of course, he is not worried about employees buying food on their own, because the quantity is marked on the food book, and he would not dare to deduct any of the food even if he had ten times the courage.
Li Qinghe looked at the food stored in the space, estimated the output, and said, "I think there are 1,500 kilograms, how about that?"
There is now a little more than thirteen acres of space, nine acres of which are used to grow wheat and rice, half an acre is used to grow the seasonings found by Cui Dake, and the rest of the land is used to raise poultry and livestock such as pigs, cattle, and chickens.
Each harvest can yield 6,300 kilograms of grain, and taking out 1,500 kilograms is just a matter of sprinkling some water.
If he wasn't afraid of taking out too much and scaring Director Liu, he could have reported tens of thousands of kilograms.
Director Liu's face was full of joy. He quickly thought about it in his mind. After a few seconds, he looked up and asked, "Qinghe, these are definitely enough in the short term. Can we get more in the future?"
If it's just this once, it's just for a moment of happiness, but it will be truly valuable if it can be supplied for a long time.
Li Qinghe pretended to be in deep thought, whetting his appetite until the other party was so anxious that he was about to scratch his head, then he smiled and said, "How about this, I'll go and discuss it with them, and send a batch every five days from now on?"
"A batch in five days?! That's great. Don't worry, as long as we can get the food, you won't lose a penny." Director Liu was extremely excited.
A batch of food is produced every five days, which means 9,000 kilograms per month. There are more than 500 people in the factory, so for each person, that's a little over half a kilogram. But in reality, we don't need that much.
Who can eat only fine grains? They must be mixed with coarse grains.
The rest can be used to adjust quotas with other factories. These are all good things, who can refuse?
Then he suppressed his joy and looked at Li Qinghe as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.
Li Qinghe glanced at him, but since the other party didn't say anything, he pretended not to see it.
From the look on Director Liu's face, one could tell he wanted to ask for something, but he couldn't just go up to him. He had to wait for him to speak, otherwise it would be like he was asking for help, and he might end up being the one asking the other person for something.
"Come on, Director, let's have a cigarette." Li Qinghe took out a cigarette, lit it slowly, not in a hurry at all.
Director Liu took the cigarette, struck a match and lit it, hoping that Li Qinghe would see his expression and ask proactively, but when he saw that the other party had no reaction at all, he lost his temper.
"Qinghe, you don't know how hard it is for me to be the factory director. Even though it sounds good, I am actually stuck in the middle and suffer the consequences.
"Not only do some people envy my position, but I also have to consider the mood of the factory workers. If I mess up, the people below me won't give me face and will scold me without me being able to talk back. I also have to take care of the brother units outside, otherwise if they have opinions about me, it will be difficult to carry out my work in the factory.
"The last time I got some pork from you, most of it was given to the workers to improve their food, and the rest was used to build relationships with other units. This meat won't last for a few days. I didn't share the pig Xiaozhuang I got from you last time, so they got dissatisfied."
Having said that, he glanced at Li Qinghe, and seeing that he was listening attentively, he began to complain again.
In a nutshell, I have no one to support me, my work is difficult, I don't have many connections, and it's hard to lead the workers. I want to provide some benefits to make the workers loyal to me.
Then there was the fact that I was incompetent and couldn’t provide the workers with a good life, so they couldn’t even eat meat twice a year.
He opened his mouth and started to spew so much bitterness that it seemed like he was about to drown Li Qinghe, but he received no response, which made him depressed.
In fact, Li Qinghe is the one who is really depressed. If you want meat, just say it directly. Why are you going around in such a big circle?
Moreover, what kind of people are those brother units you mentioned? Are they always looking for small gains?
Last time I got a pig, I didn't share it with them and they got angry? What a stingy person.
A pig weighs more than 200 kilograms, and there are hundreds of people in the factory sharing it. Do they still want to take some?
Even if they were given the soup, how much would they get? Ten kilograms? Who would eat it? The factory workers couldn't even taste the soup, right? Or did they want to keep it for themselves?
Finally, Director Liu couldn't help himself and whispered, "Qinghe, can you get some more of that meat?"
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