"Secretary Li, are you smoking to relieve your worries again?"
As soon as he walked into Li Neng's office, the smoke inside was almost suffocating.
"Chef Su, why are you here at work today?"
"Look what you said, why don't I come to work if I'm a chef?" Su Xiaoqiang said with a smile.
"Sigh... No one is coming to the restaurant now. If you rest at home, no one will say anything to you. I don't know if our restaurant can continue to open." What Li Neng said about no one eating, that was with Compared to the past, there were not many people chatting.
"Actually, I think this is normal. The business of other state-owned restaurants is also average. After all, the ingredients are suddenly reduced by one-third, and no matter how good the chef is, he can't make delicious food."
Originally, this store was under the care of Deputy Factory Director Li, so the supply of food and ingredients was not affected. After all, Deputy Factory Director Li often came to eat.
It's just back to normal now, but Li Neng can't accept it all of a sudden.
"Let's not talk about this anymore. I'm just dawdling around every day." Li Neng took a long puff of cigarette, then put out the cigarette butt, opened the window, and the air suddenly became better.
"Don't worry, look what I brought. This is a specialty from the countryside. You are in for a treat today. How about we have a drink later?" Su Xiaoqiang put two kilograms of lobster tails on the table and said.
"Yo~~~" Li Neng jumped up from his chair in fright, "What is this, it looks so scary, a bug?"
"This is a lobster. Do you think it looks like the tail of a big lobster?"
Li Neng took a closer look, smelled it, and licked it, "Well, it looks pretty good, so let's take a few sips."
At noon.
There were more people in front of the Xizhimen State-owned Hotel. This time they were attracted by the overbearing fragrance.
Su Xiaoqiang lightly oiled the lobster tail and divided it into two portions, one for garlic paste and one for spicy.
Of course, there are no hot pot ingredients now, but this is not a problem for Su Xiaoqiang, who has cooking skills. He mixed various spices into it and added the unique fragrance of lobster.
It immediately brought back some of the popularity of the Xizhimen State-owned Hotel, which was the center of the rumors.
The impact of the last incident was so great that many people did not dare to eat it for fear of being implicated, but the taste was so delicious, and there had been no incidents in the past two days, people gradually gathered around it, so I stopped eating and smelling it. It's okay.
"It's time to eat. Eat quickly, it will open later."
Every day, lunch is eaten half an hour in advance, and the restaurant opens for business only after finishing the meal. This is the case in all state-owned hotels.
"Then drink less. Let's all sit down and eat together. We can't finish eating so much." Li Neng also had a great appetite, or else he could only live up to the delicious food.
Having delicious food makes me feel better all of a sudden.
I originally wanted to drink beer, but unfortunately I didn't have any, but white wine and lobster are also a perfect pairing.
"Huh? Why are you eating so fast? Wait for me! Damn, what kind of hand speed is this!" Su Xiaoqiang just took two sips and saw that everyone was eating faster and faster.
"Can't stop, can't stop at all!"
"I want more, I want more!"
“It’s cool~~~”
Note that this is a serious modal particle.
"This stuff is so delicious. The more you eat it, the more addictive it becomes!" Li Neng licked his fingers after finishing the meal, still not satisfied.
"I'll get some more later, but it's not good to give them away for no reason. This stuff isn't edible, so it's embarrassing to always give it away..." Su Xiaoqiang said intentionally or unintentionally.
"Oh? There's a lot of this stuff?" Li Neng is indeed a smart man. He will immediately realize it when Su Xiaoqiang says this, but this thing is really interesting to eat.
Maybe we can regain our popularity. It would be better if we could return to a week ago. There is limited room for improvement here, but if we achieve results, we can improve somewhere else.
"If it's not a famine year, then you can say that there's as much food as you want. Of course, it's the most delicious in the three or four months. Now, I guess there will be some as long as there's not a complete drought, but it won't be much."
Lobsters have a very strong reproductive capacity, but now water resources are tight, and Lu Hongjun said that their village has been eating them for a month, so they must have almost enough to eat now.
Thinking of the name Lu Hongjun, Su Xiaoqiang easily identified with the child Lin Hongjun. Most of the names in this era were Red Army, Red Soldier, Jianguo, etc. Don't have too many names with the same name.
It was probably a crayfish that was only eaten as a last resort. After all, the first person to eat a crab ate it with the determination to die.
And what worries Su Xiaoqiang the most is that the situation may be more serious than he thought. At this time, when people go out to work or travel far away to bring dry food, they usually bring wowotou, grain cakes, wild vegetable cakes and the like.
Lu Jianshu and the others actually brought lobster tails...
"Just take as much as you can, just 5 cents...30 cents...20 cents per catty." Li Neng originally thought about asking for 50 cents, but then he thought that no one would say I was taking kickbacks, and finally decided on 10 cents.
But even if it's only two cents per catty, Lu Jianshu and the others would probably be very happy.
Lujiazhuang, on the square.
They are happily dividing sweet potatoes. The four hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes and three and a half kilograms of rice that can be divided into each household looks like a lot, but in fact it is very little. Now every household has a population of about ten, so there is still a need for various wild vegetables and other things. Eating can only ensure that you don't starve to death.
"Red Army, go and do some statistics. We still have this one called..." Lu Jianshu couldn't remember what this insect was called.
"I'll weigh the crayfish. It's easy." When they discovered that this thing was edible, the whole village went out and caught most of the crayfish in the river mud. It won't rain much.
Lu Hongjun came to the pig house at the brigade headquarters. Of course, there were no pigs to raise, so he used it to raise crayfish. Lobsters are easy to live, but not easy to raise. Fortunately, they have to be eaten every day, so the dead lobsters are all eaten. It was cooked and eaten that day.
"Goudan, how many red worms do we have?"
"There are still 1,300 kilograms left. More than a hundred kilograms died yesterday. This morning we went downstream to catch two hundred kilograms. Now there is almost no more in the river." Goudan said with a frown. Don't look at it, but it sounds like a lot. There are more than 600 people in the village.
He was very distressed. He was the one who discovered this lobster. Having grown up eating hundreds of meals, he was very grateful to the village, so he told Lu Jianshu as soon as he found out that this thing was edible.
Three days ago, there were still more than 2,000 kilograms. What is eaten and caught can be balanced. In the past few days, the catch has become less and less, and this ration is almost finished.
"It's already very good. At least we can survive for a month. Otherwise, we won't be able to wait for today's food rescue. These crayfish are better raised. I will transport them to Sijiu City tomorrow. I will bring back some food depending on the situation!" Lu Hongjun touched Goudan's head and said with a smile, this child is so sensible that it makes people feel distressed.
"Really, this can be exchanged for food?" Goudan asked expectantly.
"Okay! Let's go see if there are any crayfish today and catch some more." Lu Hongjun agreed with a smile.
Looking at these crayfish, Lu Hongjun seemed to see food, so he went back to the Pigeon Market in Sijiu City to see if there was any food.
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"Actually, they would be happier if we exchanged it for food." Su Xiaoqiang said with a smile in the restaurant.
"Food... is easier said than done. I can decide with money, but food is difficult." Li Neng took a sip of wine and said. Now every unit is cutting back on food and clothing, and there is a shortage of food everywhere.
"There is no other way but to let them find someone to buy food on their own..."
Bang! ~~Suddenly the store door was pushed open and a group of people came in.
"There is something so fragrant but it is not open for business. I think I don't have money to eat!"
