HPDBC Chapter 1485: Official Road Smooth and Extensive Procurement
Chapter 1485: Official Road Smooth and Extensive Procurement
Chapter 1485: Official Road Smooth and Extensive Procurement
Director Chu locked the warehouse door. It was almost eleven o'clock.
As it was approaching noon, Chu Anmin refused to let Zhao Jun and Zhou Jianjun leave and insisted on keeping them at home for dinner.
Zhao Jun refused again and again, but Chu Anmin refused to let him go no matter what. Old Mrs. Chu knew that they would go to Zhao's house to eat the pig-killing meal tomorrow, so she helped Chu Anmin drag Zhao Jun into the house.
Seeing the mother and daughter pulling Zhao Jun into the corridor, Zhou Jianjun could only follow.
Chu Anmin's little daughter was not at home today, she went out to play with her classmates. When Liu Hongmei learned that Chu Anmin wanted to keep Zhao Jun and his wife at home for dinner, she hurriedly prepared the meal.
Today is the Little New Year, and every family has to eat something good, so Liu Hongmei naturally made some preparations.
The cold dishes started to be served at 11:30. Chu Anmin called Zhao Jun and Zhou Jianjun to the table. Old Mrs. Chu was helping Liu Hongmei in the kitchen.
Chu Anmin opened a bottle of Xifeng liquor. Knowing that Zhao Jun didn't drink, he also opened a soda for Zhao Jun.
Zhou Jianjun was a little excited to be able to have dinner at the director's house.
"Eat, Zhao Jun." After Chu Anmin and Zhou Jianjun clinked glasses and drank, he called Zhao Jun and said, "I'm not polite when I come to your house, so don't pretend when you come. I know you don't drink, so just eat more."
"Yeah!" Zhao Jun responded, and was really rude. He picked up a piece of pork head and stuffed it into his mouth.
The pork head is fragrant, and it is delicious after being marinated and smoked. The cucumber is mixed with minced garlic. At this time of year, it is really rare to see cucumbers in winter.
At this time, there were fried peanuts, pork elbow dipped in garlic sauce, and stir-fried cabbage with black fungus on the table. There was a burst of fragrance coming from the kitchen, probably indicating that meat was being stewed.
Director Chu definitely doesn't have a stove when he lives in the building. He has a gas tank and an electric frying pan at home.
When Mrs. Chu was carrying a plate of stir-fried meat and garlic sprouts, she heard Liu Hongmei in the kitchen say, "Mom, you should eat too. You are not needed here."
Chu Anmin also invited Old Lady Chu to eat together. When Old Lady Chu sat down, she pointed at the fried pork with garlic sprouts and said to Zhao Jun and Zhou Jianjun, "Xiao, this pork seems hard to chew. You two can pick the garlic sprouts to eat."
Before Zhao Jun and Zhou Jianjun could respond, Chu Anmin asked Old Lady Chu, "Mom, how can you not chew the meat?"
Old Mrs. Chu curled her lips, shook her head, and said, "Hongmei asked me to go to the refrigerator to get some stir-fried vegetables and meat, but I think I got the wrong one."
"Huh?" Chu Anmin was stunned, and then he heard his mother continue, "It's the meat you got from that pig last time."
Chu Anmin: “…”
He went hunting in Yong'an that time and personally shot a 600-jin wild boar. After excitedly transporting the wild boar back to the city, Director Chu distributed most of the wild boar meat to his relatives, friends and trusted subordinates, and kept a small portion for his family.
But if the meat of a wild boar's eggs weighs more than 300 kilograms, it will be inedible, let alone a wild boar weighing 600 kilograms.
On the first day, Liu Hongmei stewed spareribs for four hours, but they were still not cooked through.
Having lived through hard times, Liu Hongmei couldn't bear to throw away the meat, so she stewed it twice more on the second and third days, but it was still not tender.
This made Liu Hongmei angry, and she scolded Chu Anmin. In Liu Hongmei's words, she didn't get to eat the meat, but she still wasted a lot of gas.
As an old couple who had been married for twenty years, Chu Anmin seldom quarreled with Liu Hongmei, but that day Chu Anmin was extremely emotional.
Some people always feel that the clothes their children spend a lot of money to buy for them are not as good as the tattered ones they buy for a few dollars at the street stalls.
With Chu Anmin's status, he had no shortage of wild boar meat to eat all year round. But he felt that even the yellow-haired meat from the previous year was not as delicious as the cannon eggs he had shot himself.
Chu Anmin said that it was Liu Hongmei who did not stew the meat well, and that the wild boar meat he hunted was wasted. He also asked Liu Hongmei to throw a hawthorn into the meat while stewing it, saying that the meat would easily become rotten if stewed that way.
Liu Hongmei didn't believe him at all. He didn't eat at home every day, making his family suffer!
So Liu Hongmei gave most of the remaining wild boar meat to a colleague of hers who had a dog at home.
But when the large piece of wild boar meat was brought back, Liu Hongmei and Old Lady Chu divided the meat at home. The ribs were kept as ribs, the pork loin was kept as pork loin, and the tenderloin was cut into small pieces and frozen for making dumplings and cooking.
As a result, some small pieces of tenderloin fell off.
Liu Hongmei felt something was wrong when she was cutting the meat just now, but she thought she had cleaned the wild boar meat, so she didn't think about it that way.
It was too late for Liu Hongmei to react until the meat changed color after being put into the pot and she saw the thick meat shreds.
"What about the meat I brought back?" Chu Anmin was a little displeased when he heard this. He picked up a piece of shredded meat with his chopsticks and put it into his mouth.
After just one chew, Chu Anmin's expression changed. He turned back and asked the kitchen, "Hongmei, is the meat not cooked through?"
Liu Hongmei, who was working in the kitchen, pretended not to hear. Old Mrs. Chu said hurriedly, "That's it. The garlic sprouts are already fried and wilted. How can the meat not be cooked?"
Chu Anmin's throat suddenly paused, and he swallowed the shredded meat. Then he looked at Old Lady Chu and said, "Mom, didn't you eat all the meat?"
Old Mrs. Chu's sparse eyebrows wrinkled into a "八" shape and said, "What are you eating? It has to be something you can chew."
As she spoke, Old Lady Chu gestured to the side and said, "When my family was in financial difficulty, I could eat tree bark, but I can't eat this meat."
"What are you talking about?" Chu Anmin's face darkened, and he asked, "Why are you eating tree bark?"
"You were outside the other day, so you didn't know." Old ladies are very talkative. At this time, Old Lady Chu looked at Zhao Jun and Zhou Jianjun and said, "You are young, so you can't know.
A while ago, my family was in trouble. The corn they harvested was not even as long as a finger. We couldn't even eat it ourselves, and we had to give it back to others to feed their famine.
At that time, I saved my food rations and gave them to my eldest son's two grandchildren. When I was too hungry to sleep at night, I would run to the woods with my eldest daughter-in-law and stuff a handful of elm money into my mouth. Later, when the elm money was gone, we would peel the bark of trees.
At this point, Mrs. Chu, who was still reminiscing about the good old days, pointed to the wild boar meat on the table and said, "I've chewed old elm bark and willow bark before, and they're both easier to chew than this."
Zhao Jun, Zhou Jianjun: "..."
"What?" Chu Anmin heard what Old Lady Chu said. Although he felt sorry for his mother's experience, she had never told him about it.
But Chu Anmin didn't care about those things at the moment. He picked up another piece of shredded meat and stuffed it into his mouth, then chewed it twice with his back teeth and swallowed it.
"Isn't this good?" Chu Anmin said this to his mother. After that, he turned to Zhao Jun and Zhou Jianjun and said, "Zhao Jun, Xiao Zhou, your aunt didn't cook the meat well. You two can eat the garlic sprouts. After that, your aunt is stewing ribs in the kitchen. The ribs were brought back from Xiatun."
"It's okay, Chief Chu." Zhao Jun stretched out his chopsticks, picked up two pieces of meat and stuffed them into his mouth, saying, "It's edible. Grandma is old and her teeth are not good."
As he said this, Zhao Jun moved his legs to the side and bumped into Zhou Jianjun. Zhou Jianjun quickly picked up a few pieces of shredded meat and said it was edible while chewing.
After hearing what Zhao Jun and Zhou Jianjun said, Chu Anmin's expression eased a lot, and he said to his mother, "Mom, your teeth are damaged because you suffered so much in the past. I'll take you to get your teeth fixed someday."
Old Mrs. Chu curled her lips when she heard this, and glanced at Zhao Jun and Zhou Jianjun opposite her. She thought to herself that it was no wonder that her son had given pork to more than 80 families, and no one had told him that the meat was not edible.
After the pork incident, Chu Anmin became more enthusiastic towards Zhao Jun and Zhou Jianjun. After clinking glasses with Zhou Jianjun, Chu Anmin put down his glass and said to Zhao Jun: "Hey Zhao Jun."
"Director Chu," Zhao Jun responded, and then he heard Chu Anmin say, "Have you finished planning the spring hunt?"
"Don't worry, Director Chu." Zhao Jun said with a smile, "Secretary Zhou and the others have already studied it, and we'll start working on it after the 15th."
Zhao Jun didn't know whether all the plans had been completed, but Zhou Jianjun was listening here and he would go and inform Zhou Chunming when he got home.
"That's great." Chu Anmin said, "I'll go over there when the time comes to see how you guys are doing. If it works out, you'll be busy next year, Zhao Jun."
"Ah?" Zhao Jun was startled, and then he heard Chu Anmin say: "If it works this year, next year you can go to the forest farms below us and give them guidance."
Chu Anmin pointed at the table and said, "A while ago, there was a big incident with the redwood, and several people died. If there is a spring hunt or something, and the animals are cleared, the workers will be much safer when they work, right?"
"Yes." Zhao Jun nodded and said, "Then Director Chu, let's try it in our forest area this year. If it works, we can try it in all forest areas next year."
It must be hard to travel around. But Zhao Jun didn't just go there by himself, he also brought the Chamber of Commerce with him. The forest farm started spring hunting, and the Chamber of Commerce bought the skins and bear gallbladders they hunted.
It's a win-win!
"Then you will have to work hard." Chu Anmin said so. Zhao Jun hurriedly shook his head and said, "It's okay, Director Chu, you assign me to the camp forest protection, and I will have to bear the responsibility."
"Hey! That's a good point!" Chu Anmin smiled and asked Zhao Jun, "You haven't fallen behind in your studies recently, have you?"
"Huh?" Zhao Jun was stunned, thinking that he didn't study when he was in school, so why should he study now?
Seeing Zhao Jun in a daze, Chu Anmin asked, "Didn't you read the newspaper I brought you?"
"I've seen it, I've seen it." Zhao Jun said hurriedly, "I've seen it every day, and I've learned a lot."
Zhao Jun was lying, but he had to lie. He couldn't just say how he took those newspapers home and how he put them now, right?
"You have to read it." Chu Anmin said, "I brought back a lot of Reference News from work yesterday. It's a good opportunity for you to take them all back later."
"I..." Zhao Jun thought for a moment, then smiled at Chu Anmin and said, "Thank you, Director Chu. If I learn this way, I can make progress."
"That's great!" Chu Anmin tapped the table lightly, quite satisfied with his own actions.
Then, Chu Anmin raised his finger and pointed at Zhao Jun, then turned to Old Lady Chu and said, "Mom, this child has made great progress. Didn't you read the newspaper I brought back that day?"
"Yeah!" Old Mrs. Chu nodded heavily, thinking of what was in the Shanhe Daily that day, and thought to herself, "This kid is not only a fake leader, he is also a good person."
At this time, Liu Hongmei came out of the kitchen carrying scrambled eggs with bean sprouts and vermicelli.
When she came to the table, Chu Anmin waved his hand and said to Liu Hongmei, "The other day, this kid said a few words and moved the editor-in-chief enough."
"I read the newspaper." Liu Hongmei put down the plate, looked up at Zhao Jun and said, "My colleagues in the room also said that this young man is so nice!"
"Haha..." Zhao Jun smiled and nodded, then said to Liu Hongmei: "Aunt, don't bother, there is enough food."
"The ribs will be ready after they are stewed." Liu Hongmei said to Zhao Jun with a smile, "Eat more. This place is just like home!"
Liu Hongmei went back to the kitchen after she finished speaking, and Chu Anmin said to Zhao Jun: "After your spring hunt is over, I will hold a meeting, and then you can go on stage to speak."
"What?" Zhao Jun was shocked by Chu Anmin's words. It would be fine if you asked him to say a few words, but if he said too much, he would be exposed.
"Tell me about your spring hunting experience." Chu Anmin said, "Then the bureau will commend you."
"What are you commending me for?" Zhao Jun frowned, and then he heard Chu Anmin say, "Didn't you get the title of advanced worker in the county? Isn't this bringing honor to our bureau?"
"I... am I like this?" Zhao Jun was a little confused, because this was never what he wanted.
Zhou Jianjun, who was standing aside, looked at his brother-in-law with a look of happiness, approval and envy in his eyes.
I want to be promoted, but my boss doesn't think highly of me. My brother-in-law doesn't want to be promoted, but he is favored by his boss.
But this thought flashed through Zhou Jianjun's mind, and he remembered that their farm secretary valued him the most.
"Yeah." Just as Zhou Jianjun was daydreaming, Chu Anmin continued to say to Zhao Jun: "You still have to go to the county for a meeting at the end of the year, and the county will commend you."
Zhao Jun pursed his lips, feeling that this matter was getting more and more out of hand.
"Xiao Zhou." At this time, Chu Anmin raised his glass again and invited Zhou Jianjun to drink.
……
At two o'clock in the afternoon, Zhao Jun walked out of Chu Anmin's apartment holding a stack of newspapers.
Zhou Jianjun, whose face was red from drinking, followed behind with four net bags in his hands.
There are four net bags, two of which are filled with Guoguang apples and two of which are filled with oranges.
These days, apples and oranges are not big, nor are they shiny. They are not even sweet, but the taste is unforgettable.
Zhao Jun got in the car and pulled Zhou Jianjun towards the department store.
When they arrived at the department store, Zhao Jun got off the car to do some shopping.
Men are efficient in shopping. Zhao Jun went straight to the point when he entered the house. He went to the fruit stall and directly asked for two baskets of apples and two baskets of oranges.
When people heard Zhao Jun say he needed so many, they said that he must be from a shop in some remote place and came here to buy goods.
Then, Zhao Jun went to the place where vegetables were sold and bought a basket of cucumbers, a basket of celery, and a basket of garlic sprouts.
Seeing him buying like this, people around the vegetable stall also talked about how he came to purchase goods.
After buying the vegetables, Zhao Jun set his eyes on the plastic bags used to sell the vegetables and immediately asked to buy two stacks.
Zhao Jun wanted to buy plastic bags because he wanted to use them to pack some vegetables for each family after the pig slaughtering ceremony tomorrow.
The more you cook the pig-killing dish, the better it tastes.
When people around saw Zhao Jun buying plastic bags, they were sure that he was here to purchase goods. Otherwise, why would he sell plastic bags?
The vegetable seller was also principled. Since this was a public business, he just waved his hand and sent Zhao Jun upstairs.
No more updates today, I will update more tomorrow. After I turn off the computer, I will go to the chimney. The stove cover has been smoking these past two days. My stove is connected to the fire wall, and then I go through the chimney.
The fire wall I took out yesterday, the stove cover is still smoking. I wanted to put a firecracker in the chimney but I didn't dare. Because I saw that they were so messed up, the kang in the room exploded. My old house, if the fire wall collapsed, it would be fucking terrible.
(End of this chapter)