"They're so out of control! They're just telling me now what they're going to make for tomorrow, but there's not even a hint of a rabbit. Where am I supposed to find one for them?"
Manager Huang came in hurriedly from outside, cursing under his breath as he walked.
He just received a call from the municipal government office, saying that leaders from the Sichuan and Chongqing regions were leading a team to come for friendly exchanges and learning, and asked him to prepare Sichuan and Chongqing specialties tomorrow, especially the spicy rabbit head dish.
Even though he is not a chef, he knows that making spicy rabbit head is not that simple. An authentic spicy rabbit head has to be soaked in brine for six hours.
But he couldn't refuse, so he could only nod and agree with a sad smile.
He'd just gone to the vegetable market and the grocery store, but couldn't find any rabbits. They said they wouldn't be available until nine tomorrow morning at the latest. This worried him deeply. Should he buy them on the black market? Being caught with the red armbands would be the end of his career as a manager.
If it really doesn't work, let Zheng Daqian go!
Zheng Daqian sneezed loudly in the kitchen.
Chen Qiangwei has very sensitive ears and immediately grasped the key point: spicy rabbit head, rabbit!
She closed the book and followed Manager Huang up to the second floor.
Manager Huang was in a bad mood, and his tone was a bit stiff. "Xiao Chen, it's almost time for dinner, and some guests will be coming to eat soon. Why don't you come up here instead of busying yourself downstairs?"
Chen Qiangwei was not affected by him at all. She asked tentatively, "Manager, you just said you wanted to make spicy rabbit head? This dish takes quite a while to make. I wonder if you have the ingredients ready?"
Manager Huang had an idea. Chen Qiangwei was an educated youth who had gone to the countryside. He heard that Huaihua Brigade was surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the villagers depended on the mountains for their livelihood. Maybe there was some wild game in the mountains.
"Not yet. I'm worried about this. I heard that Huaihua Brigade has a lot of mountains. I wonder?"
Chen Qiangwei continued, "Huaihua Brigade does have a mountain, but there isn't much game in the front mountain, so you can only try your luck, and nine times out of ten you'll come back empty-handed. There's plenty of game in the back mountain, but it's too dangerous and few people dare to go in."
Manager Huang understood that if people could eat wild game in the countryside whenever they wanted, there wouldn't be so many suffering people.
Well, very few doesn't mean none.
"Can you please go back and have someone try their luck in the back hills? Our restaurant is buying twelve rabbits, each for three dollars and fifty cents."
Manager Huang originally wanted to order eight, but after some thought, he decided to have a few more to be on the safe side. As for risks, they were nothing compared to absolute profit.
Three yuan and fifty cents each, twelve of them would be forty-two yuan, which is almost one and a half months' salary for a regular worker. In the countryside, money is only distributed once before the Chinese New Year, and a family of six or seven people usually only earns a few dozen yuan after working hard for a year.
Sure enough, Manager Huang noticed that Chen Qiangwei's eyes lit up after he finished speaking.
"Really? Manager Huang, you're not lying?"
Manager Huang nodded a bit arrogantly. "Of course. As the manager of a state-owned restaurant, I'm a stickler for promises. As soon as the rabbits are delivered, I'll pay you right away."
Chen Qiangwei gritted her teeth and said, "Manager, I'll go back now, but I can't guarantee that I can catch the rabbit."
Manager Huang smiled when he heard this and said, "Okay, go back right away and I'll tell Xiao Su. If we catch him, that would be great, but if we don't, that's fine too."
It's half past ten in the morning now. I hope we can catch it quickly. If we can't catch the rabbit, we can only ask someone to look for it in the black market early tomorrow morning.
Chen Qiangwei pushed her bicycle and rushed to Huaihua Brigade. During the National Day, Wang Xiaomai mentioned that a batch of rabbits were ready to be released from the cage.
Ever since she became a waitress at a state-owned restaurant, she no longer delivered things to the textile factory, for fear that too many people would talk and she would lose her job.
After returning to Huaihua Brigade, before Wang Xiaomai had time to drink a sip of water, Chen Qiangwei told her the good news and asked her to tie up the twelve rabbits and put them in the backpack basket before going to work in the afternoon.
When Wang Xiaomai learned that Sister Weiwei had found a new sales channel, and it was a legitimate sales channel, and she sold twelve rabbits at once, she smiled so hard that her teeth were visible.
She quickly and skillfully tied up the rabbit, and then started to cook. Chen Qiangwei quickly took out a piece of meat, which was given by Manager Huang. It was top-quality pork belly as a reward for her hard work.
After dinner, Chen Qiangwei slept in soundly. Catching rabbits in the mountains took time, so she couldn't go back too early. She had to leave Manager Huang with the impression that catching rabbits was hard work and time-consuming, otherwise he would think the money wasn't worth it.
At six o'clock in the afternoon, Chen Qiangwei rode her bicycle slowly back to Nanshi. A shoulder pole was tied horizontally to the back seat of the bicycle, and on each side of the shoulder pole was tied a large basket, each containing six rabbits.
Wang Xiaomai reminded from behind, "Sister Weiwei, please ride slowly."
It has been raining a lot recently, and the road is slippery and difficult to walk on.
Chen Qiangwei nodded and said, "Okay, you can go back. I'll bring the money back next time."
It was already seven o'clock when they returned to the state-owned hotel. Manager Huang was waiting anxiously. When he saw Chen Qiangwei coming back, he quickly asked Zheng Daqian and Yang Huangui to help unload the basket.
Looking at the lively rabbits in the basket, each weighing more than four pounds, Manager Huang praised Chen Qiangwei with a smile, and then asked her to go upstairs to check out.
Manager Huang counted the money and handed it to Chen Qiangwei. "Xiao Chen, you've worked hard today. You'll go downstairs and rest soon. You don't need to help here."
Chen Qiangwei put the money in her pocket and thanked Manager Huang with emotion, "It's not hard at all. I'm very happy to be able to do something within my ability for the hotel.
Thank you, Manager Huang. It's not easy for ordinary people like us to earn a little income. You've really helped us a lot. The members of the Huaihua Brigade are so happy. They all say we are so lucky to have a good leader like you."
Manager Huang felt very comfortable after hearing the flattery. "Nothing, the Huaihua Brigade members are just simple and honest people."
He thought that if such a thing happened again in the future, he would give the opportunity to these simple people and help them generate income.
Chen Qiangwei went downstairs happily. The kitchen was already busy. Some were boiling water to kill the rabbits, and Chef Pang started to make the braising liquid.
Although his family's unique cooking skills are not Sichuan and Chongqing cuisine, as a knowledgeable chef, he can still cook Sichuan and Chongqing's specialties.
Chen Qiangwei, who had solved the big problem of the state-owned restaurant, happily rode her bicycle back home with a huge sum of 36 yuan and the lunch box packed by Pang Xiaoyun.
Today is a day for fun fishing.
When she returned to the small courtyard, she remembered that she had asked Wang Xiaomai to catch an extra rabbit for her. After she went out, she put the rabbit in a space. She planned to give this rabbit to Shi Hanquan.
I didn't have time to thank someone for helping me find such a good job, but now that I finally get off work early and have a ready-made gift in hand, it would be a bit unreasonable not to thank him.
So, Chen Qiangwei took the rabbit out of the space, put it in a backpack, packed a lot of vegetables, and rode out on her bicycle.
She had never been to Shi Han's family, so she could only try her luck at the cannery.
Unexpectedly, she was so lucky that she ran into Shi Hanquan who was going home from get off work as soon as she arrived at the cannery.
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