50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 125 Lao Zhang Comes to the Door
Sun Zhiwei asked him to sit down and drink tea and wait for a while. He went to the basement and took a bag to fill with 20 kilograms of rice and 2 kilograms of mung beans.

After thinking for a while, he put another can of meat into the rice bag before coming up.

Apart from him, Nannan and Tong Jiajia don’t like to eat rice at home. Now the rice stock is much more than white flour.

As for beans, they only like soybeans and black beans, and the three bags of 150 kilograms of mung beans were hardly touched.

I only cooked mung bean soup a few times in the summer, but it required too much sugar, so Tong Jiajia refused to eat it later.

My daughter didn’t like it very much, so we stopped making mung bean soup at home. As a result, we still have more than 140 kilograms of mung beans left.

Now giving these two items to Lao Zhang will just be enough to use up the inventory.

His whole family is from the south, and they probably like to eat rice; theoretically, the nutritional value of mung beans is even higher than that of soybeans, which is also impressive.

"Uncle Zhang, here are 20 kilograms of rice and two kilograms of mung beans. Go back quickly and feed the three children a full meal. You should also eat yourself. If you starve for a long time, you will get sick, which is not worth it."

"Zhiwei, thank you."

"Uncle Zhang, I remember that some restaurants are starting to sell expensive meals. You can take the children there once a month to have a good meal."

"It's a bit expensive, a meal costs dozens of yuan, but it's full of oil and you don't need a ticket."

"Really?"

"It's true. I heard it's just started, so many people don't know about it. You should be able to find out if you ask around."

"If you hadn't told me, I really wouldn't have known. I don't have time to go shopping every day."

"You also know who the children of our garden are. You are more informed than you. You should return quickly. Your stomach cannot wait."

After sending Lao Zhang away and returning to the yard, Tong Jiajia came out to speak. She had also seen Lao Zhang just now and roughly knew what he was here for.

Tong Jiajia was not very familiar with Lao Zhang, and was afraid that he would feel embarrassed to speak in her presence, so she just said hello and took her daughter into the bedroom.

"Uncle Zhang is such a high-ranking official, how come his family is in such a mess?"

"Why else? It's because the family is in turmoil. The two little ones are probably useless. Only their eldest daughter seems to be okay. The two old people and the two children are not easy to deal with."

"Just wait and see. These 20 kilograms of rice and two kilograms of beans won't last a week. There are still about 24 days until the salary and food coupons are paid on the 10th. I think his family is in trouble."

"Then you won't give them food anymore, will you?"

"I won't go there on my own initiative. If Lao Zhang comes over with a serious expression, you still have to give him some rice. If I'm not at home, you can pack 10 kilograms of rice for him. You don't like rice anyway."

"I see."

"I guess Lao Zhang won't come again this month. He also wants to save face."

"Whether he comes or not, I'll prepare the things and put them there first."

"Okay, you make the decision while I'm not home."

After the two of them discussed the matter, they never mentioned it again. However, Nannan could hardly stand eating urine-smelling food at school every day.

Sun Zhiwei promised him to find a solution, and there were actually many solutions.

One is to report to the bureau, one is to make it public to the media, and one is to privately report the situation to Principal Yuan. Finally, Sun Ailai can be allowed to go home for dinner.

If the first two methods are used, the entire Lingdao team of the school will be in trouble. There is no need to be so cruel.

That was my alma mater. Principal Yuan had introduced me to T and even introduced me to my godmother's family. My daughter was well taken care of at school, so I still had some ties to my family. But coming home to eat there wouldn't be very sociable and would easily lead to criticism. It would be best if I could contact Principal Yuan.

He took some time to borrow the phone in Principal Wang's office to call Principal Yuan.

In fact, it is also an idea to let Nannan go directly to Principal Yuan. He doesn't know whether the principal knows about this situation or not.

Nannan is still studying at school. If the news gets out, such an offensive thing will definitely affect Nannan's studies at school.

Therefore, as a parent, it would be more appropriate for him to say it, because parents care about their children.

After the call was connected, he first introduced himself politely. Principal Yuan still remembered him, and after chatting about past experiences for a while, he turned the topic to the school cafeteria.

"I heard that the canteen uses urine directly to cook food. The food smells of urine, but the canteen chefs cook separately. The students are very resentful."

Having said that, he stopped talking and just pointed out that the matter had spread outside the school, and it was impossible for Principal Yuan not to take it seriously.

"Comrade Zhiwei, I will immediately look into the situation you mentioned. Thank you for explaining it to me."

"You're welcome. This is also my alma mater. My whole family is from Yucai. I also hope that the school can do better."

After finishing the conversation, he hung up the phone after chatting for a few more words.

Director Wang, who was standing next to him, was also a little angry after listening to the whole thing.

"What is going on at Yucai? It's such a big thing, how could Old Yuan not know about it? If he really doesn't know, then his control over the school is too lax."

"Director, how would I know that? But now that I've pointed it out, the problem should be resolved."

"Humph, he's only treating the symptoms. Sooner or later, he'll regret it."

What could Sun Zhiwei say? In a few years, he was afraid that what Director Wang said would happen.

As expected, Sun Ailai talked about school matters when she returned home on the weekend.

Because the effect of chlorella was not obvious, Principal Yuan stopped adding chlorella directly to the food in the cafeteria and instead used chlorella to feed poultry.

The food in the cafeteria has returned to its former state. Although it is still coarse grains with little oil in it, at least there is no urine smell anymore.

No one was punished and the problems raised by the students were solved. Principal Yuan's prestige among teachers and students soared, which was something they had not expected.

It seems that he and Principal Wang still underestimated this old principal who has been in charge of Yucai for nearly ten years.

In the blink of an eye, it was summer and Sun Ailai graduated from junior high school. She and Sun Zhiwei had different ideas about her next move.

According to Sun Zhiwei's idea, he would definitely continue his studies and go out to work directly after graduating from high school, avoiding subsequent activities and going to the countryside to work.

However, it seems that the students in their school are contacting each other and want to cause trouble.

When he was at home on weekends, several groups of classmates came to see Sun Ailai. Sun Zhiwei secretly overheard and found out what they were going to do.

A few years ago, a group of high school and junior high school graduates could not find jobs after graduation, so they simply applied to go to the Great Northern Wilderness to open up wasteland and farm.

This action was encouraged from above, with the highest instruction being: the countryside is a vast world where one can achieve great things.

The story was reported in the newspaper and the higher authorities were very supportive. The first batch of 50 young people formed a youth volunteer reclamation team and went to the Great Northern Wilderness to reclaim wasteland and cultivate land.

They went there at the end of August and reclaimed 8 acres of wasteland that year. The following year, they produced 1500 kilograms of grain and 13.5 kilograms of vegetables, and also built dormitories and canteens.

(End of this chapter)