"Is Brother Damao's office building over here?" Su Wenji didn't know the location of the office building.
"We are on a building. Come with me. Once you enter the gate, go straight to the right."
Su Wen came to the Purchasing Department office on the second floor of the office building. The door of the section chief's office was still locked, while the door of the other Purchasing Department office was open. Su Wen walked in, and there was a young girl cleaning inside.
"Who are you, comrade? What are you doing here?"
"I'm a new employee in the Purchasing Department. I was hired yesterday and came to work today." Su Wen took out his work ID and showed it to the little girl.
"I am Lu Wenxiu, the deputy section chief of the Purchasing Department. I am responsible for the internal affairs of the department. I will count, weigh and arrange for the materials you purchase to be stored in the warehouse. You are Su Wen. I heard about you yesterday. As soon as I joined the job, I I completed a month’s purchasing task and handed over 52.7 kilograms of bacon, which is really impressive.”
"What a great thing. It took my father and I more than a year to save these bacon. I am a hunter in the mountains. Hunting in the mountains is a life-threatening job."
"By the way, the section chief told me yesterday that if you come to work these two days, he asked you to go to Logistics Director Li's office."
"Where is Director Li's office?"
"Don't worry, the director must not be here yet. I'll call you over after nine o'clock."
"OK, thanks."
Lu Wenxiu pointed to the innermost tables and said: "There are no people in these seats. You can choose one to sit down. Our department usually doesn't need to take calls. As long as we can complete the task, we have free time."
Su Wen was about to walk to the seat by the window and sit down when his shoulder was suddenly tapped. He turned around and saw a young man wearing glasses standing behind him.
"Are you new? What's your name? I'm from the Publicity Department. My name is Lu Wenqiang. I'm Lu Wenxiu's twin brother."
"Hello, my name is Su Wen. I am a new buyer apprentice from the Purchasing Department."
"Are you married or have a partner? What do you think of my sister?"
"Ah, please be gentle." Lu Wenqiang was dragged away by Lu Wenxiu's ears.
No one came from the purchasing department until 9:30. Seeing that Lu Wenxiu had not come back, Su Wen left the office and stopped a person in the corridor to ask where the logistics director's office was. Su Wen went upstairs to find Li Huaide. On the door of the logistics director's office upstairs, General Tie locked the door and hung a big lock on the nose. Li Huaide was not there.
Su Wen planned to go to the factory hospital to find Section Chief Liu. This Lu Wenxiu didn't look very reliable. I also want to go back to Sujiazhuang to talk to my family about the situation of entering the factory.
After asking around, Su Wen came to the factory hospital. In the ward, Liu Dashan was sitting on the bed, holding a newspaper in his hand, covering his upper body.
"Director Liu, how is your recovery? I will come to report to you today."
"It's okay, just a little skin injury. Once the inflammation goes away, it'll be fine. It's not like it was stained with bacon. It's been recuperating here for two days. Is Xiaosu still adapting to life in the city? Sit here and talk to me." Director Liu patted the hospital bed and asked Su Wen to sit down.
"It's very good. The house is very good. The stove is very warm and there is no air leakage. The people in the compound are also very welcoming. Section Chief, I want to go home and tell my parents about the situation here. If I don't go back, they will Always worried.”
"It's time to go home and explain. You haven't gone to the office yet. Go to the office later to find Lu Wenxiu and ask her to take you to see Director Li. When you meet Director Li, be careful. Don't agree to anything casually. Talk more about hard work and don't make promises. After you're done, have lunch in the cafeteria before going back. There will be bacon stew for lunch today, and you can ask Lu Wenxiu for the farm tools prepared for you."
"Thank you, section chief."
"Can you ride a bicycle? You asked Lu Wenxiu to arrange a bicycle for you. This is provided by the steel rolling mill to the purchaser. They are all second-hand bicycles, but they are very sturdy and will not delay riding."
"I can ride. Our village committee has a bicycle and I have learned how to ride it."
When I returned to the office, besides Lu Wenxiu, there was also a tall man with a beard. "Xiao Su, where did you go just now?"
"Chief Lu, I went to the hospital to see Chief Liu."
"How is Lao Liu recovering?"
"Recovering very well, I was reading the newspaper when I went there."
"I knew he wasn't seriously injured and was hiding in the hospital to be lazy."
"This is Zheng Rentao, an old man from the Purchasing Department. He is very knowledgeable and can easily complete the tasks every month."
"Hello, Brother Zheng, I am Su Wen, the new buyer apprentice. Please take good care of me in the future."
"Su Wen welcomes you to join our Procurement Department. I came here a few years before you, and I'm not as good as Section Chief Lu said. If you have anything you don't understand, feel free to come to me in the future."
"If you come to Brother Zheng to ask for something in the future, don't think it's troublesome for me."
"Will not."
Lu Wenxiu: "Su Wen, let's go. I'll take you to see Logistics Director Li. Be careful what you say when you get there. We are in the purchasing business. No matter what Director Li says, you must consider it carefully and don't agree to everything."
Su Wen followed Lu Xiuwen and met Li Huaide in a conference room.
"Director Li, this is Su Wen, the new intern buyer from the Purchasing Department. I sent it to you." Lu Wenxiu turned and left. Su Wen was a little confused when he heard this. He didn't know what Li Huaide wanted to do with him.
"Hello, Director Li."
"Xiao Su, right? I heard that your ancestors were all hunters?"
“My family has been a hunter since my grandfather, and I don’t know what goes on.”
"Do you still have bacon at home?"
"No, I brought them all in order to smoothly join the steel rolling mill."
"New Year's Day is less than twenty days away. The steel rolling mill's production tasks for this year have not been completed. The main reason is that the food cannot keep up, meat cannot be bought, and everyone has no food to eat. Can you give me more before New Year's Day? The steel rolling mill gets 100 kilograms of meat?”
"Director Li, you are making things so difficult for me. Even if I die in the mountains, I can't get 100 kilograms of meat. The bacon I brought is the prey that my father and I have saved for nearly two years. It took less than a month to It’s simply impossible to get 100 pounds of meat.”
"Aren't there large animals like bears and wild boars in the mountains? Isn't it enough to catch just one?"
"Large animals are too dangerous. It's not hunting, it's risking your life. Hunters encounter wild boars a hundred times in the mountains. If they don't fight to the death, the hunter will die ninety-nine times."
"Is it that dangerous?"
"My grandfather and three brothers are all gone now. They are all buried in the mountains. My father, the second oldest, one older brother and two younger brothers are gone. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, every household in our village hunted, but now we are the only hunters in our village. We are a family. People say that hunters can eat meat and drink alcohol, but why don’t they do it anymore? Isn’t it because it’s too dangerous? How many of the hunters have a good death?”
"You also know the hunters in other villages. Go and see if they have any inventory. As long as there is something, the price is not a problem. The factory can't give you a high price, but I can personally make up for it."
"I know some hunters. You can ask. There is no guarantee that I can buy it. Director, is the supply of supplies so tight now? You are willing to pay a high price, can't you buy it on the black market?"
"You can't buy it, and it's not available on the black market. If you could buy it on the black market, I wouldn't be so embarrassed."
