After a good night's sleep, they actually fell asleep quite late. The two close friends were woken up by the alarm clock.
Feng Xiaomei scolded him and opened Ye Zhiqiu's pig's trotter. The two of them got up and went to wash up.
Chen Yuqing got up even earlier. She was already heating up steamed buns and leftovers. She had specially fried extra vegetables last night so that she could heat them up and have breakfast in the morning.
After breakfast, the three of them went out together, but Ye Zhiqiu separated from them at the gate. The route they took on their bicycles was different from the direction they took the bus.
Time was still quite tight, so Ye Zhiqiu didn't say much. After saying hello and goodbye, he rode his bike to the brewery.
When he arrived at the factory, he found that the main road had been cleared. It turned out that the security personnel on duty had been clearing the snow for the past few days to make it easier for people returning to work to enter the factory!
Ye Zhiqiu parked his bicycle and came to the office of the transport brigade. No one had returned yet, but the boiler in the factory was burning, and the temperature in the office had risen a little.
As time passed, more and more people came back. Ye Zhiqiu took the notebook and ticked the boxes for those who came back until all the people were present. It was already 8:20.
There were quite a few people who were late, but there was no need to say anything because it was normal to be delayed and late in such bad weather and road conditions.
Ye Zhiqiu was talking with two team leaders about the next work arrangements. They were more experienced, but he had no idea. At this time, the factory's radio loudspeaker sounded.
"Hello, hello, I'm Liao Yegu. I'd like to invite all the leaders and cadres from the factory to come to the office building for a meeting..."
The same words were repeated three times, and Ye Zhiqiu and the other two nodded and said, "Okay, I'm going to the meeting first. I guess I need to arrange the work."
"Captain, go get busy. I think we should arrange snow removal and material transportation."
Ye Zhiqiu instructed the two of them to arrange for people to clear the snow and icicles outside the transport team first, and take turns going out to work so that they could come back indoors to warm up.
When he got outside, Ye Zhiqiu happened to meet Wu Shengli and his group walking in front, and he hurriedly chased after them.
Ye Zhiqiu greeted everyone before smiling and asking, "Old leader, what is the topic of today's meeting?"
Wu Shengli replied, "Well, what else can I say? I guess it's just snow removal and machine maintenance to get production back on track! According to the information I've received, the temperature will gradually rise to -7 or -8 degrees Celsius in the next few days, which will no longer affect normal production."
Come to think of it, everyone is being called upon to resume production with all their strength, so isn't this the only thing worth holding a meeting for?
When he arrived at the conference room, Ye Zhiqiu found that there were quite a lot of people there. He saw his master Wang Lei and hurried over there.
"Master, your family hasn't been affected these days, right?"
"Well, my house is fine. After all, I spent money to reinforce it last year. But several houses in my compound have collapsed. Now there is no way to rebuild them, so they have all been arranged to live in temporary accommodations at the street office."
"I'm glad you're okay. In Sanlitun, there were also many roofs that collapsed, and several people were killed."
After chatting for a while, Liao Yegu went to the podium, asked everyone to be quiet, and then started the meeting.
Just as Wu Shengli had said, the transport team's work schedule had been released. They would clear snow with the entire factory staff in the morning, inspect vehicles in the afternoon, and begin transporting materials tomorrow, officially resuming production.
After Secretary Liao Yegu finished speaking, Factory Director Chen Yimin went up to give some encouraging words, and then another deputy factory director went up to say similar words, and the meeting was over.
The logistics department was assigned to the warehouse area, so after Ye Zhiqiu returned, he asked Guan Yougui from the second team to lead the team members to continue dealing with the accumulated snow in the transport team area.
He led the rest of the people to the warehouse to clear the snow.
Wu Shengli took the lead and led everyone to clear out an area first, then arranged for people to carry firewood and light a big fire.
Then everyone took turns to work, and after a while they would go back to warm themselves by the fire, and so on. The work progressed very smoothly, and by half past ten, the snow had been piled aside and the entire site had been cleaned.
Wu Shengli was so happy that he held a simple meeting on the spot, praised all the logistics staff, affirmed everyone's work, and then announced that everyone should return to the office area and clean up.
Ye Zhiqiu was happily preparing to go back to the office of the transport brigade, but was stopped by Wu Shengli's secretary Zou Langtao.
"Captain Ye, wait a moment. Don't leave in such a hurry."
Ye Zhiqiu turned around and saw that the people around him were all workers returning to the logistics office area. He saw Zou Langtao squeezing towards him.
After standing there and waiting for a moment, he asked with a smile, "Hey, Brother Zou, why are you calling me Captain? I almost didn't react. It's better to call me Xiao Ye. I'm more used to you calling me that! What's the matter, Brother Zou? Does the old leader have any instructions?"
Zou Langtao explained with a smile, "Then I won't be polite and will call you Xiaoye. Come with me and move a little before we talk. This matter is indeed related to the old leader."
Ye Zhiqiu nodded and followed Zou Langtao to the side. Then he explained in a low voice: "The leader's eldest son is getting married, and now he is having a headache about the ingredients!
I thought you'd worked in purchasing before, so you know a lot of people. Could you help me get the ingredients? This is just my personal opinion, not something my boss asked me to ask you.
Ye Zhiqiu was surprised and said, "No, doesn't the old leader have only one daughter? I think she was only seventeen years old. How come there's suddenly a son?"
Zou Langtao explained: "How should I put it? He's not my biological son, but he's better than my biological son. This child is the orphan of a fallen comrade of the leader. Although he's not registered in the leader's household registration, the leader treats him as his own son."
After hearing this, Ye Zhiqiu understood that this was not surprising. There were many such things happening in China.
The War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea prevented many of our ancestors from returning home, but many of their surviving comrades took on the responsibility of taking care of their families.
People like Wu Shengli, who treat their comrades as their own children, are not uncommon in this era.
Ye Zhiqiu nodded, looked at the crowd returning, and whispered, "Brother Zou, this is a big deal for the old leader, there's no problem, we must help him solve his problems.
I know those people who deal in supplies are still here, and I helped an old friend with some ingredients a few days ago.
Just tell your boss to relax and make a list of whatever he wants. I will get him everything I can.
But in my case, my boss will have to assign me a task to go out and work. After all, it takes a lot of time to find these people and discuss things with them."
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