It took seven days and seven nights to put all the manpower and strength into a huge Xiangshan Hall and just get it ready.
Now it is required that, without affecting the dining experience of diners, all the employees can be moved back overnight, and all 300 to 400 employees must be summoned back for another big relocation operation.
So, upstairs and downstairs, various teams were like ants just like seven days ago, going up and down, carrying on their shoulders, carrying by hand, and pulling on ropes. The brightly lit Xiangshan Hall became a noisy big market.
I admire these masters. People of their generation do have a strong sense of obedience, and their physical strength is indeed better than mine. Even though I have a military physique, I am not as good as their endurance and fighting spirit.
In order to have the energy to manage the overall work, I took a break first.
As soon as I lay down in the dormitory at the back, someone knocked on my door hurriedly, obviously with their fists. I opened the door and saw Plum Blossom again. Plum Blossom said, "It's not good." Plum Blossom's face turned pale and she said, "It's not good!"
I said, "What's wrong? Speak slowly!"
Mei Hua is a tomboy, how could she be so nervous?
I said don't be anxious and speak slowly.
Meihua's legs were obviously shaking and she said, "Go quickly, something happened, something big happened, go quickly!"
After she finished speaking, she sat on the ground.
When I arrived at the front building, some female employees in the entire corridor were crying. When they saw me coming, they all called me,
"Go and have a look, Hall Master!"
I arrived at the staple food team in the temporary kitchen room on the first floor. The place was also crowded with people. I pushed through the crowd and found a slave girl, Wang Li, half-stretched inside a machine.
It was a dough kneading machine that was hand-cranked. It was also invented by me. There was no electricity, so it had to be hand-cranked.
This hand-operated machine requires the cooperation of two people. At this time, half of the employee's arm and the entire side of the body were inside the machine. The white surface was stained red by the blood squeezed out by his arm, and there was blood underneath the machine. There was a pile of sweat on the employee's face, his face was blue, and blood was obviously dripping from his arm. The female slaves next to him didn't know how to get started.
I know this is an artificial machine. If you shake the handle forward, the whole female worker's head will be clamped into the machine. If you move backward, it is equivalent to shaking her arm all over again. At this time, I called Yang Yong, Yang Yong is a familiar machine. I asked him to remove the machine from both sides.
However, there was some shaking during the unloading process, which aggravated her pain. The women next to her were still wailing and crying.
I asked Meihua to persuade all these people to leave, and then Yang Yong and Rencheng were on both sides. One of them kept his hand still and the other started to pry the side panel.
And every time I pried it, the female worker screamed, screamed at the top of her lungs, and sometimes said vulgar words and scolded me.
I know that this is the only way at this time. There is no way to use a saw to cut off the side panels first, and then cut off the outer frame.
Time went on like this minute by minute, but fortunately the clamp was finally broken. At the moment when the splint was broken, the female worker also collapsed to the ground.
I asked Yang Yong and Rencheng to quickly find Meihua’s carriage, and then asked the medicine doctor from Xiangshan Hall to give simple treatment to the injured female worker. I also asked the people here to clean up the entire scene and clean up all the blood-stained floors, because dinner will be served soon.
Once the diners know that we have made this sacrifice, the steamed buns steamed with blood and water will have an impact on everyone.
So the employees wiped away their tears and got busy as I said.
Even though everyone had not slept and was still in fear, I still took the time to rush to the Prime Minister's Mansion with Mei Hua to go to the doctor's room. After seeing it, the doctor shook his head and said, "What did you do? Why are you so careless? This person is basically How can she live with one hand? Fortunately, I tied her arm to stop the bleeding, otherwise her life would have been lost!"
At this time, the female employee was sleeping, "Is it really impossible to save this arm?
"It can't be saved."
When it was almost noon, the prime minister came back from the court and learned about the incident. He came to the doctor's room. The doctor briefly explained the situation. The prime minister was obviously a man who had seen the world.
He turned around and pulled me out of the door, "What did you do? You really let me down. Why are you so careless? Although there are some tasks now, you have to organize them carefully, and you can't blindly go to construction fatigue. Homework, do you know who this person is?"
"have no idea?"
"She, she was introduced by Queen Mother Renxian. I originally asked Meihua to do lighter work at your place. She has only been here for less than a month."
ah! I suddenly remembered that he was indeed a newcomer. If he were an old employee or chef, it would be impossible for him to have such a big problem. The newbie didn't listen to the management and found someone to test the machine on his own. Everyone was busy moving, but the two of them didn't. I tried to learn how to use machinery on my own, but something went wrong. I knew the problem was here.
"Then what should we do? Then I have to go with you to report to the Queen Mother Renxian!"
"No, I have already reported this for you! You should save this person's life first."
In the evening, the prime minister came to the Xiangshan Hall again and announced three more decisions in front of everyone, "First, from today on, our chief historian, Lin Zongren, will be responsible for supervising all the work of the Xiangshan Hall. Liu Bancheng will continue to be in charge. Master, but a lot of the construction and management is done by Lin Changshi, who is responsible for the cleanup and finishing."
Lin Zongren, the impression this person left on me was too deep in my mind. He and the tall Gao Hu were the first two people I met in Liang Kingdom. That Gao Hu gave me two feet back on the Jialing River embankment in Liang State is still vivid in my mind when I think about it.
But today, he is responsible for the security task of Xiangshantang. I feel that the environment I am in now seems to be changing, why is it so uncomfortable.
Meihua saw my heart and whispered in my ear,
"We just do our own thing and ignore them. We have done everything they want us to do, so he doesn't have much supervision. It's good that they can take some responsibility if something happens."
At this time, the Prime Minister issued a second order, "Second, your Majesty officially declares: It is forbidden for any yamen or county to build buildings and halls by taking advantage of the renovation. Anyone who goes against the trend will be killed."
The third order is, "From today on, the imperial court will no longer approve all expenses of the Xiangshan Hall. Not only will the Xiangshan Hall not be paid, but other yamen canteens will also have to find their own solutions. If they can, they will do it, and if they can't, they will do it." Disbanded.”
It's good now that the Xiangshan Hall of the Prime Minister's Mansion will not be built. Everyone thinks it is a good thing. But for me, everything I have done before has been in vain, and I almost lost a life. I feel a little regretful in my heart.
The most important thing is to restore the kitchen that was demolished and built in the back, without affecting the normal opening of the restaurant on the two floors of the front building.
Everything on the first floor that was occupied and damaged by the temporary kitchen room must be restored to its original state. And use a lot of money. Now let’s give a clear answer, how can we continue to provide guarantees if Xiangshantang won’t pay me in the future?
Mei Hua said softly, "The Prime Minister has his own solution! We don't have to worry too much!"
In this case, the construction team no longer needs to provide security, but they still have to do the evacuation work and have someone to organize it on site.
For several more days and nights, I led these employees to work hard day and night. During the relocation process, due to the large size of the cast iron stove in the kitchen, an employee's foot was injured during the transportation process. , the hands were broken, the discs in the waist were broken due to fatigue, and the people who could not get up were everywhere, causing many employees to suffer from flesh and blood and labor.
Think about it, it’s really crushing for a high-ranking official to make a hasty and immature decision, leaving the poor people below to complete it and work hard to complete it. These hard-working employees are simply the property of the official family. They didn't want to take advantage of the situation, try to take advantage of the situation, or try to go against the wind. After being discovered, they were criticized on the surface and simply blushed, but in fact it was the people at the bottom who suffered.
Poor these workers.
I have developed a kind of hatred and injustice towards this environment in my heart.
But now, after all, as the owner of Xiangshan Hall, it is my responsibility to ensure that the meals are served and the customers are well served. I don't have the qualifications and rights to confront and fight with my superiors, and I have to retreat. I can only obey at the moment.
So I led everyone to spend another six or seven days restoring the back stove and the private rooms on the first floor of the front building to their original state, and experienced all the suffering and fatigue of the world.
Since Lin Zongren took office here, he has not been quiet for a day. He often shuttles among the employees, like a ghost.
He was short and fat, with a sullen face. He never said a word or criticized anything, just walking around the front and back yards.
Until one day, Yang Yong came over and said, "There is a big bag of carp in the front hall. I don't know who put it there, and I don't know whether I should put it away. It's almost too late."
"Did you ask the buyer Ren Cheng?"
"I asked, he didn't put it there!"
"I released it!" Lin Zongren and the big man Gao Hu walked in from the door.
