Babaoliang Village. Zhou Family!
Early in the morning, Zhou Yang got up before the whistle sounded for work in the village.
The reason why he got up so early was because Zhou Yang had something on his mind.
Yesterday afternoon he received a call from Liu Yunlong from the capital, saying that he was going back to the village today.
Of course, what Zhou Yang was thinking about was not Liu Yunlong and Li Qian, a new mother who had just given birth, but Li Youwei and her children.
That's right, Li Youwei and the children are coming back!
From the start of school in mid-March to mid-July, Li Youwei has been attending college for four months.
In the past four months, except for a brief meeting with Zhou Yang when he went to the capital for a meeting some time ago, apart from that, he had never met again.
To be honest, Zhou Yang missed Li Youwei and the children very much.
After finally waiting for Li Youwei to come back from vacation, Zhou Yang actually had insomnia last night!
Seeing Zhou Yang getting up so early, Chen Beixuan, who came out of the next room, was also a little surprised.
You must know that Zhou Yang usually gets up after the work whistle sounds in the village. In any case, he gets up later than him. Unexpectedly, he got up earlier than him today!
Seeing the faint redness in Zhou Yang's eyes, Chen Beixuan was surprised and immediately asked: "Do you have any important schedule today? Why did you get up so early?"
"No, I just woke up a little early today!"
While speaking, a trace of uneasiness flashed across Zhou Yang's face. He couldn't say that he had insomnia because he missed his wife!
"Oh, what should we do now? Should we wake up Uncle Zhang?"
"No, let's wash up first and then go to the collective hotel!" Zhou Yang said.
"Why don't we go to the unit canteen for breakfast? Why should we go to the collective hotel?" Chen Beixuan asked curiously.
Although the food in the collective restaurant is indeed more exquisite and tastes better than that in the institute's cafeteria.
But soldiers and scientific researchers like them eat for free in the unit canteen, but eating in the collective canteen costs money, and it's not cheap.
Take meat buns as an example. Each one costs 10 cents. You must know that buying a pound of white flour now only costs 16 cents.
Therefore, the collective canteen in the village is mainly used to receive people from outside, and villagers generally do not go there.
Zhou Yang saw that Chen Beixuan had misunderstood. While fetching water from the washbasin, he explained: "I'm not going there to eat, but to buy meat!"
"Buying meat?"
"Well, your sister-in-law and children are coming back today, and I plan to go to the collective restaurant to see if there is any mutton or beef!" Zhou Yang said with a smile.
In fact, pigs are being killed almost every day at the institute. After all, there are so many people in the institute, how can we do it without some oil and water?
The main reason why Zhou Yang did not go to the canteen to buy meat was because the canteen only had pork.
But at the collective restaurant, pigs and sheep are killed every now and then, and even cows are killed every now and then. The food ingredients are much richer than those at the research institute.
The two of them chatted while washing up, and soon everything was done!
Afterwards, he drove the jeep to the collective hotel!
The collective hotel was built near the entrance of the village, only separated by a road from the brigade headquarters.
Originally, this place was a quagmire. When there was a lot of rain, it would become so muddy that it would be impossible to grow crops.
Therefore, when choosing to build a collective hotel, Zhou Yang directly chose the place here.
Different from ordinary hotels in this era, the collective hotel in Babaoliang Village is very unique!
A large row of houses in the front near the road is used to operate restaurants, and there are three rows of more than 30 houses in the back, which are guest houses for accommodation.
Moreover, there is a row of three large tile-roofed houses next to the collective hotel. This is the branch of the village's supply and marketing cooperative. Basically, everything that can be bought in the county can be bought here!
So this is a small CBD integrating dining, accommodation and shopping!
In addition, the brigade headquarters is opposite, so once it was put into use, it instantly became the gathering center for the villagers of Babaoliang Village.
When everyone has free time or after work in the evening, they will come to the door of the supply and marketing cooperative to brag and spank, which is very lively.
When Zhou Yang and Chen Beixuan came over, they saw two rows of large trucks parked in the temporary parking lot next to the collective hotel.
The license plates of these large trucks vary. Some have license plates from Saibei Province with 03, others have license plates with 01 from Beijing, and even license plates from Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Anhui and other provinces.
These vehicles all come to the village to pull goods. Most of them come to the printing factory to pull various teaching materials, and some come to pull pigs and feed.
People in several surrounding provinces and cities now know that the scale of pig breeding in Saibei Province is very large, and the large white pigs they raise here are fatter and stronger, and taste much better than the black pigs and spotted pigs in this province.
Although restricted by the policy of unified purchasing and marketing of agricultural products, large-scale trading is not possible.
However, some special units will privately contact the production teams of various banners and counties in Saibei Province to purchase live pigs.
Since the prices offered by units in these other provinces are generally higher, counties and communes often turn a blind eye and do not pursue these issues too closely.
Anyway, the meat is still in the pot when it is rotten, so there is no need to take it too seriously.
Yunshan County is located at the junction of the three provinces of Saibei, Western Shanxi and Northern Hebei. Since ancient times, it has been said that the crow of chickens can be heard from the three provinces. Therefore, it has become a habit for military and political units from Western Shanxi and Northern Hebei provinces to come to Yunshan County to purchase live pigs.
As far as the entire Yunshan County is concerned, Babaoliang Lianhe Village has the largest pig raising scale and the best conditions, so convoys come here every now and then to purchase pigs.
It was time for breakfast now. When Zhou Yang and Chen Beixuan walked into the collective restaurant, they saw many people eating in the store.
Zhou Yang glanced at the people eating and did not see the village members or educated youth, but he saw many radar factory employees.
Since airborne radar, artillery reconnaissance radar, and printing factories are operated separately, the employees of these factories do not eat at the Xipo Research Institute, but have canteens in their respective factories.
But unlike Xipo, where soldiers and scientific researchers eat for free, workers in the factory need to spend money to eat.
In addition, many employees now live in the yard of the brigade headquarters, so many people like to have breakfast in the collective restaurant opposite for convenience.
Anyway, two big meat buns and a bowl of porridge only cost 22 cents, which is completely affordable for their average salary of 50 to 60 yuan.
Seeing Zhou Yang coming, Huang Chunmei, the person in charge of the collective restaurant, immediately came over and said cheerfully: "Director Zhou, why are you here? Do you want to have breakfast?"
Huang Chunmei is the wife of Ding Can, the deputy director of the printing factory. She is 42 years old. She had worked in a state-owned hotel in Qingcheng for more than ten years before coming to Babaoliang Village last year.
After Zhou Yang knew that she had this experience, he invited her to serve as the store manager after the collective hotel in the village was built, with full responsibility for the operation of the hotel.
"Sister-in-law, I'm not going to eat anymore. I want to ask what kind of meat is available in the store. I want to buy some back!" Zhou Yang said with a smile.
"I just killed a pig and two sheep this morning, and more than 20 chickens that don't lay eggs were sent from the chicken farm. What do you want..."
Before she finished speaking, Huang Chunmei said again: "Forget it, Lao Chen is deboning pigs and sheep in the back kitchen. I will take you there. Let Lao Chen give you whatever you like to eat!"
"Okay, then trouble sister-in-law!"
Later, under the leadership of Huang Chunmei, several people quickly came to the kitchen.
Sure enough, as soon as Zhou Yang entered the door, he saw the old butcher Chen Wanhe holding a sharp pig-killing knife with a cold light, handling half a fan of pork, and a pile of picked out bones beside it.
Looking at the white pig bones in front of him, Zhou Yang couldn't help but sigh that Lao Chen's deboning skills were really incredible. Dogs would cry when they saw the bones he picked out. They were so clean!
When Zhou Yang saw that the knife in Lao Chen's hand had been pointed at the remaining half of the fan of pork, he hurriedly said: "Uncle Chen, leave the meat under the knife!"
Chen Wanhe, who was concentrating on deboning, was startled when Zhou Yang shouted.
When he looked up and saw Zhou Yang, he immediately smiled and said, "Who was I at that time? I was shocked!"
At this time Huang Chunmei said hurriedly: "Old Chen, Director Zhou wants to get some meat from our restaurant, please give it to me!"
"Okay! Do you want bones?"
"Well, let's get 10 kilograms of pork ribs. If the meat is bigger, we can get five kilograms of pork belly and half a lamb!" Zhou Yang said.
"okay!"
As he spoke, Lao Chen moved the knife on the pork on the chopping board.
Taking advantage of Lao Chen's opportunity, Zhou Yang immediately asked about the business at Huang Chunmei's collective hotel...
PS: The first chapter has been delivered!
Yesterday I just sped up the plot as usual. I just felt that without the heroine, there was a lot of warmth missing. I wanted the heroine to come back as soon as possible. It is not the end as everyone thought.
