Gao Shujing replied, "I'm up, just a moment, it'll be ready soon." After quickly washing and putting away the dishes, he opened the door to let Captain Huang in, saying, "I'll go get the bicycle."
When the two arrived at the power supply station, the staff had just started their shift.
Upon seeing them, the heavily armed guards at the gate had a leader among them step forward: "Comrades, what can I do for you?"
Gao Shujing: "Comrade, we are members of Shangfen Brigade. I am Gao Shujing, an educated youth, and this is our brigade leader, Huang Hongbing."
"Here's the thing, we went into the mountains yesterday and hunted some game. We still have some meat left over, and we were wondering if you wanted some?"
"Oh, there's still more meat than we can eat!" Shen Yan asked, intrigued. "As long as it's good meat, we'll definitely take it. How much did you get?"
Gao Shujing: "There is still a wild boar, a sheep, a deer, and five wolves that haven't been eaten yet. If you want them, we can send them over."
A hint of surprise flashed in Shen Yan's eyes: "And wolves? How many did you encounter? Was anyone injured?"
Gao Shujing: "Our Shangfen Brigade has veterans who have returned from retirement, and militiamen who are clearing the way with guns. There are only a few minor injuries, they will recover with rest, it's nothing serious. Do you want some meat?"
Upon hearing that it was militiamen who had gone up the mountain to hunt with guns, Shen Yan did not ask any further questions: "Wait a moment, I will call our Chief Yu right away."
Upon hearing that there was meat, Director Yu felt as if he had heard someone mention Shangfen Brigade a few days ago, but he couldn't quite place it, so he stopped thinking about it. The most important thing now was to get the meat back.
The city was short of supplies. Although there were few of them, their treatment was better than that of many factories. However, eating meat was not a regular occurrence; they were lucky to eat it once every few days.
When meat is delivered to his door, how could he refuse it?
Director Yu: "Bring them in."
With the help of meat, Gao Shujing and Captain Huang met Director Yu without any trouble.
Director Yu warmly shook hands with Gao Shujing and Captain Huang: "Oh my, the villagers are really capable. Even during the busy farming season, they don't forget to go hunting in the mountains to nourish our fellow villagers."
"The old commander said that health is the foundation of revolution; only with good health can one do more. I admire Captain Huang's dedication to the people. Come, come, let's sit down and talk."
At Director Yu's invitation, Gao Shujing and Captain Huang sat down.
Captain Huang: "Director Yu, you flatter me. The power supply station has only a little over a hundred people, yet it can maintain the power supply for the entire town. Our power supply station is a place where great things are done."
"I admire capable people like you. You've already gotten a little meat and you're eagerly sending it to our power supply station. I hope Director Yu won't laugh at us for being so short-sighted."
Director Yu: "It's a good thing that you thought of coming here when you had meat. I'm overjoyed and wouldn't laugh at you. As for the price of the meat, does Captain Huang have an explanation?"
Captain Huang: "We country folk have enough to eat and drink, but receipts are hard to come by. Even if we get money, it's difficult to spend it. We want to exchange it with Director Yu for something else."
As soon as the words "exchange things" came out, Director Yu remembered the phone call from Director Liu a few days ago. He had mentioned that the Shangfen Brigade wanted to replace the wires. He thought that by refusing them, the matter would be settled. He didn't expect that this person would come to him on his own.
Furthermore, they informed the security department about the meat, which meant that everyone in the power supply station knew.
Director Yu was in a bit of a predicament. It was one thing if there was no meat normally, but if he knew there was meat and let it escape, his subordinates would be furious with him.
Director Yu cursed inwardly that Captain Huang was a cunning and unscrupulous old fox.
Director Yu feigned ignorance and laughed, "I didn't expect there were places where money couldn't be spent. What do you want to exchange? Is it a coupon? We can raise that. We know that cloth coupons are hard to come by. How about we exchange them with you?"
Captain Huang: "We country folk don't have so many fuss. We just want to get electricity installed. Of course, we know our power supply station is busy, so we never thought of asking them to help with the installation."
"We just want to exchange some wires and related parts from your power supply station. We don't need many wires. Director Yu, just exchange as many as you can. We'll take them back and do it ourselves, so as not to bother the power supply station. What do you think, Director Yu?"
"Not so good," was Director Yu's first reaction. "To be honest, although we are a power supply station, the number of power lines allocated from above is limited. Before they are allocated, it is decided where they will be used. Exchanging power lines is indeed difficult."
Gao Shujing: "We believe what Director Yu said. The country is in a time of great need for reconstruction and resources are scarce everywhere. We shouldn't be causing trouble for Director Yu, but the country is vigorously building new rural areas and even calling on educated youth to go to the countryside to help with rural construction."
“Our Shangfen Brigade actively responded to the leader’s call to solve problems on our own and not hold the country back. That’s why we came to our power supply station to replace some wires.”
"Director Yu, there's no need to worry. We'll replace as many as we have, even if it's just a little bit. We won't mind. We can take these wires and familiarize ourselves with them first. When the power supply company sends their own wires, we can come back and replace them. Is that alright?"
The country is indeed advocating for rural development, and their power supply station has even received instructions from higher authorities to prepare for installing power lines in rural areas. However, the power lines have not yet been installed, which has delayed their preparations.
They have a shortage of electrical wires, but they always prepare some spare wires when they come down; and in accordance with the principle of not wasting, they reuse many of the usable wires after inspection.
This resulted in not only a loss, but even the wires that were originally pulled off were not used up.
However, the power supply station didn't have many wires left, and if they were used in any unplanned location, it would invite complaints from other units, so they were stored in the warehouse.
Now that the Shangfen Brigade has come to us, they've provided this portion of the wire for their use, which is indeed feasible.
Let Shangfen Brigade arrange the power supply themselves. After the official notice for power supply installation in the countryside comes out, they will have to deal with one less brigade, which will reduce their workload.
After all, their work is indeed arduous. With just over a hundred people, they have to manage the power supply for tens of thousands of people in the town. Working overtime is already commonplace for the people at their power supply station.
With this in mind, Director Yu agreed to the suggestion of exchanging the meat for the wires and related parts.
Director Yu: "You two are both so good at talking, I can't argue with you anymore. How about this, we have some old electrical wires that we collected a while ago. Go take a look, and if they're usable, we'll replace them, okay?"
Gao Shujing: "Can we go see it now?"
Many old electrical wires that are not damaged can indeed be used, but we need to see them to know for sure.
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