Chapter 199: No Money, Wild Ginseng
Lin Sanqi slowly closed the warehouse door and locked it.
Then he stood outside the door, holding an iron rod in his hand, pretending to guard the door very loyally and responsibly, as if he was very nervous.
In fact, it is just an act for the leaders of the unit to see how serious and responsible I am in doing things for the unit. After all, the crying child gets the milk in the workplace.
You have to know that the warehouse that Dean Shen assigned to Lin Sanqi is in the far corner of the train station. Usually, few people pass by. How could a thief dare to come to the train station to steal things? There are garrisons guarding this place, and next door is the warehouse of the Digital Hospital.
Half an hour later, the rumbling sound of trucks came from far away. A small jeep rushed out first, drove in front of Lin Sanqi at the speed of a 100-meter sprint, and braked suddenly.
Before the car came to a complete stop, Dean Shen was the first to rush down and grabbed Lin Sanqi's hand: "Are the supplies all there?"
Lin Sanqi felt that the scene before him was like a spy drama in the Republic of China, where a group of military intelligence officers came to capture Japanese spies, and Dean Shen was the acting boss of the military intelligence chief.
Lin Sanqi also got carried away by the drama and said softly:
"Don't worry, Director. I've locked them all up in the room. Not a single one can escape!"
Dean Shen was stunned for a moment, then slapped Lin Sanqi on the head: "What director or section chief? I'm the dean. Hurry up and open the warehouse door."
The four large trucks behind also arrived in time, and more than 30 young workers got off the trucks, many of them holding sticks and shovels.
Seeing that everyone was present, Lin Sanqi took out the key and opened the heavy warehouse door amid everyone's expectant eyes.
"Wow~~~"
Before anyone even entered, they heard exclamations of surprise because a wall of pork had been piled up in front of them. Now everyone knew that the Chinese Medicine Hospital was going to have a big harvest today.
Lin Sanqi, like a tour guide, led more than 30 people to show off:
"President Shen, Section Chief Quan, Section Chief Kong, and all colleagues, there are 24 pigs here, weighing approximately 2,500 kilograms. On average, each employee can get 5 kilograms of pork. How is it? Are you satisfied?"
Dean Shen was not afraid of straining his waist. He personally carried a piece of pork and checked the quality of the pork himself.
"Good, good, good, good, it's fat enough. Look at this fat layer, it's five fingers thick, haha. And it's not war-prepared pork, it's all fresh. Lin Sanqi, you're amazing."
Everyone in the warehouse burst into laughter when they heard this. Big fat meat is always the favorite thing of ordinary people in this era.
These 24 pieces of fat meat actually took Lin Sanqi a lot of thought.
In 2013, people preferred to buy lean pork, and fatty pork was not popular in the market because it was considered unhealthy.
The market likes lean meat, so farms naturally have ways to make pork mainly lean meat. It is so magical that farmers hold the "clenbuterol" and smile without saying a word.
If you want to buy fat meat, you can't buy it from professional farms, so Lin Sanqi drove to Qingyuan specifically to purchase "domestic pigs".
The domestic pigs were fat enough, but Lin Sanqi didn't know whether they were fed with feed or not. He only knew that the fatter the pork, the better.
The 2,500 kilograms of pork cost him more than 50,000 yuan in total because the wholesale price of domestic pork is higher.
Lin Sanqi pointed to the sack next to him and said:
"It's filled with rice, a total of 4,500 kilograms. The plan is that each employee can get 10 kilograms of rice. Unfortunately, I didn't get any flour."
It’s not that flour is hard to get, but flour bags are not suitable for burlap bags. If all bags are made of cloth, it will arouse suspicion. So Lin Sanqi simply purchased only rice. Anyway, people in the north like to make rice porridge.
Section Chief Quan couldn't wait to open a sack, revealing the white rice inside. He held it in his palm and was extremely excited:
"It's really rice! Wow, it's new rice from Northeast China. Look, Dean."
Dean Shen was also excited. He put down the pork and picked up the rice, laughing excitedly:
"Alright, alright, we've got pork and rice! This year, the staff at our Chinese Medicine Hospital can have a great New Year! I'm asking, in the entire capital, or even the entire country, which organization is as generous as us?"
Dean Shen was so excited that his hand shook and he accidentally spilled a handful of rice.
"Oh, damn it, damn it."
Dean Shen quickly squatted down and picked up the rice grains on the ground one by one. Section Chief Quan next to him also squatted down immediately when he saw it.
Lin Sanqi thought that if some grain fell from his rice shop, he would never care about it. He would usually wait until night to sweep it up and throw it into the trash can.
Now I see the section chief of Changtang compound still searching carefully for a few grains of rice on the ground with his butt sticking out and his head down, wishing he could find every grain of rice in the cracks. I feel quite emotional.
Only those who have experienced famine can truly understand food.
What's the point of just shaking your head and memorizing "Song of Pity the Peasants"? It would be more meaningful to send all the students to the countryside to farm.
When all the rice was picked up, Dean Shen wiped his hands on his cotton coat with relief and looked to the side again:
"Xiao Qi, what else is here?"
"Dean Shen, this pile of radishes is from a certain source. I bought 20 jin per person. There are also melon seeds and peanuts, each person gets 5 jin. These are red dates, each person gets 2 jin. Oh, and there are also two cans of canned yellow peaches per person."
"And canned yellow peaches?"
More than thirty people exclaimed in unison, as if they had seen ginseng fruit, and ran towards the canned food area shouting.
Lin Sanqi was a little stunned. "No, why are you so excited? It's just a can of fruit, right?"
Lin Sanqi checked on his computer in 2013 and found that people in the north particularly like to eat canned fruits, and canned yellow peaches are the best among them. Many friends in the north even use canned yellow peaches as a panacea.
Eat a can when you have a fever, eat a can when you have no appetite, eat a can when you have diarrhea, all diseases can be cured with the yellow peach can.
So in order to cater to the preferences of northern workers, Lin Sanqi went to a township canning factory to order 2,000 bottles of canned yellow peaches, and asked them not to put labels on them.
1,000 bottles of it were given to the hospital, and 1,000 bottles were kept for myself to give as gifts.
Normally, people in the north love canned food, and canned fruit should be nothing new to them, right? But why are people now more excited about canned yellow peaches than pork?
In fact, this is the era when Lin Sanqi checked for errors.
He was researching in the 1980s and 1990s. With the increasing abundance of materials after the reform and opening up, the domestic canned food production value reached the first place in the world, so ordinary people could also enjoy canned fruits, and they would bring a few with them when visiting relatives, friends and patients.
But in 1960, canned fruit was a rare and high-end product, even rarer than canned beef and canned grass carp.
In the northern dialect, it is very prestigious to take it out, which caused everyone to exclaim in surprise, like monkeys seeing the Flower-Fruit Mountain.
Dean Shen also happily patted Lin Sanqi's shoulder:
"Okay, okay, kid, you did a great job. You can get so many supplies with 30,000 yuan. I didn't misjudge you, hahahaha."
These supplies would have been more than enough to be purchased with 30,000 yuan in 1959. After all, pork was only 73 cents per pound with a coupon, and 5 pounds of pork theoretically cost only 4 yuan.
Canned yellow peaches are more expensive. If you buy them in a department store, one can costs only 50 cents, and two cans cost 1 dollar.
30,000 yuan, 442 employees, and the average budget per employee reaches 68 yuan, which is enough to buy dozens of kilograms of pork and dozens of canned food.
But the money is not calculated like this. The above is the white market price, while here at Lin Sanyi, the black market price is used. The black market price of pork is 10 yuan per catty, and canned food is as high as 15 yuan each.
This budget has been completely spent.
In addition, there are 10 kilograms of rice, 5 kilograms of melon seeds, 5 kilograms of peanuts, 2 kilograms of red dates, and 20 kilograms of radishes. These scarce supplies are also not cheap and difficult to buy with money.
Lin Sanqi didn't know whether Dean Shen's words were meant to test him, but he obviously couldn't just take the credit. He shouldn't have the intention to harm others, but he must be on guard against others.
Otherwise, Dean Shen would suspect that he had such a "smuggling" channel, and who knows how much trouble he would cause in the future, wondering how much money he had embezzled from it.
Although he did embezzle a lot of cash and ginseng, he would never admit it even if he was beaten to death.
The crying child gets the milk, so Lin Sanqi plans to "cry" for a while.
"Dean Shen, Uncle Shen, I worked really hard to get these supplies this time. I used up almost all my connections and traveled all over Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, and Inner Mongolia. Not only did it cost me my reputation, but the 30,000 yuan you approved wasn't enough."
Dean Shen raised his eyebrows, thinking that it seemed that his test had failed.
The price of this batch of supplies is actually transparent. Not to mention the store price, ordinary people also know the price on the black market.
So while Dean Shen was excited, he had already been secretly evaluating the prices of these supplies.
First, I wanted to see if Lin Sanqi had taken advantage of the situation to make money, and second, I wanted to know how powerful Lin Sanqi was.
If Lin Sanqi assumed that so many supplies could be purchased for 30,000 yuan, and could get large quantities of goods at extremely low prices, this would mean that Lin Sanqi's black market power far exceeded Shen Guoming's imagination.
So what does this mean? It means that Lin Sanqi is either acquainted with a certain big shot, and has a close relationship with him, so he can get the goods in large quantities at a low price.
Either he has overseas connections and this batch of supplies was smuggled in. Then the people who provided him with financial and material support behind the scenes are obvious, and the most likely people are the people on the island.
This can indirectly test that Lin Sanqi might really be a hidden spy, at least there is this possibility.
Now that Lin Sanqi suddenly complained, Dean Shen felt relieved. It seemed that Lin Sanqi only had connections, and the price still had to be based on the market price, so this energy was also limited.
After the test, Dean Shen remained calm and said with a smile:
"Alright, alright. Just tell me how much you're still short of. I'll make it up to you. I won't let you suffer any loss."
Lin Sanqi whispered, "My friends said they don't want money, they just want wild ginseng..."
(End of this chapter)
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