Lin Tian and Li Wenhua were really shocked by the current situation of supplies in the store.
Condiments like soy sauce, peppercorns, and aniseed are almost gone.
There may be some salt, sugar and the like left, but they probably won't last for a few days.
As for other pastries, they haven’t been here for two months.
Normally there should be a lot of vegetables in this season, but looking at the current situation, there is almost nothing, and I don’t know where the harvested vegetables have gone.
As for the meat products, fortunately Wang Mingyu used his connections to get some.
In the past, there was some supply of beef and mutton because of some ethnic minorities, but recently it has completely disappeared.
After clearing and adjusting the supplies, the two men returned to the office and sat for a while.
Lin Tian remembered that the accounting office should be the one who knows the material situation best, so he said to Li Wenhua: "I'll go to the inner room and ask, they should know."
The accounting office has to reconcile accounts with the front desk every day, so they should be quite familiar with the situation.
Originally, Lin Tian and his department were also involved, but due to the recent large-scale steel-making campaign, they did not do this work and simply handed it over to the accountants.
"Let's go together. I want to listen too." After Li Wenhua said this, he made tea before getting up.
This reminded Lin Tian of the results of his previous investigation. There were only some tea leaves left in the store!
Lin Tian and Li Wenhua entered the accounting office, and Lin Tian said, "Sister Yu, I want to know something from you."
"What's wrong? Why are you two here?" Yu Meili asked curiously.
"Weren't you too busy recently? So you didn't pay attention to the supplies in the store. Today, when we checked, we found that there were too few goods in the store. Many things were gone, or there was nothing left in the warehouse." Lin Tian explained the situation to Yu Meili in detail.
"What you're talking about is indeed quite serious recently, but this is not a one- or two-day thing. It has been going on for two or three months. It seems that the supply has been decreasing, or the delivery is not in time." Yu Meili thought for a while and then flipped through the materials at hand and said to Lin Tian and Li Wenhua.
After listening to Yu Meili's statement, it was similar to what the two had guessed. This kind of thing definitely did not happen suddenly.
"Okay..." Lin Tian said hesitantly, indicating that he already knew.
"What's wrong? Why did you two suddenly think of asking this?" Yu Meili asked curiously.
Although it is the purchasing job to urge for supplies when there is a shortage, whether the store can be replenished is not something Lin Tian can control.
"Didn't Xie Shushu say this morning that the store was out of soy sauce? So I asked Lin Tian to go there, but they didn't give me a reply at all, and they didn't even send me a visit." Li Wenhua said.
"Then we saw that the store leaders were very concerned about the supply situation, so we went to check the front and back and the warehouse.
"I found that the things we have now in the store are limited to what is displayed on the counter. I guess they won't last for two or three days." Li Wenhua talked about this with some concern. It would be a lot of fun if there was nothing in the store by then.
"This is indeed a very troublesome matter. What are you two going to do?" Yu Meili said.
"Tomorrow we will go to all these supply places and take a look first. If there is really no supply, we will have to report it. There is nothing we can do." Li Wenhua said.
"I guess this may not be just our family's business." Lin Tian felt that the precursor to the difficult period might have begun. It is already like this now. Lin Tian has no idea what the next three years will be like.
"Let's wait until we finish looking at it tomorrow. Okay, thank you Sister Yu, we're leaving." Li Wenhua said hello, and Lin Tian and the other person walked out of the accounting office.
The next day, Li Wenhua and Lin Tian ran around all day and only returned to the grocery store when it was almost time to get off work. The situation was indeed not optimistic.
Before returning, they went to other stores and asked people they knew about the situation. It was pretty much the same. Everyone was running low on supplies, and whether they had many things was up to luck.
"It seems like we have lived a day in vain today. I guess there won't be any results at all." Lin Tian said tiredly while sitting in a chair and drinking tea.
"That's right. Every time we went to these stores, they were hesitant and wouldn't give us a definite time. Especially for these daily necessities, they said a long time ago that they must be delivered on time. Now it seems we have to ask our superiors to urge them." Li Wenhua was a little helpless.
"Don't think about these things for now. We've been running all day. Let's take a break!" Lin Tian was really tired today, so he wanted to take a good rest.
"You take a rest first. I'll go to Xie Shushu. I think we need to report the situation as soon as possible!" Li Wenhua said.
"Then you go, I'll take a break." Lin Tian slumped in the chair, not even wanting to open his eyes.
The end result was that Lin Tian, who had been busy all day, fell asleep in his chair without realizing it.
It was unknown how long it took before Li Wenhua returned from Secretary Xie.
"Lin Tian, Lin Tian." Lin Tian heard someone calling him in a daze.
"It's time to get off work, let's go!"
Lin Tian rubbed his eyes and looked at Li Wenhua, who had already packed his things and was talking to him.
"Oh!" Lin Tian stretched and stood up and said.
Although he was groggy from waking up, Lin Tian still remembered what he wanted to ask: "You went to report, what did you say? What did the leader mean?"
"What do you mean by 'can'? Let's do our best and get as much as we can."
"There's no way. Xie Tian has no way either. Xie Shushu said that he can only report it to the higher authorities recently. We can't let others come to buy things and we have nothing." Li Wenhua said helplessly.
"It seems that the higher-ups are aware of the general situation. Since the leader has said so, let's do our best." Lin Tian yawned again, looking like he had not woken up yet.
"It seems that you are really tired today. You can even fall asleep while sitting on the chair." Li Wenhua said.
"How can I not be tired? I've been riding a bike all day. My waist and legs are a little sore." Lin Tian stretched again to loosen his stiff body.
"Let's go, it's time to get off work, go home and have a good rest!" Li Wenhua said to Lin Tian.
In fact, he was also very tired. After all, he had run a lot that day and traveled around most of the capital.
"Okay, you should go back and rest early. As for work, let's talk about it when we go to work tomorrow." Lin Tian said finally.
If it really is a sign of hard times, then there is nothing anyone can do.
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