People in the Siheyuan: I am a Buddhist who is in a mess

The main reason is still the old idea of ​​He Yuzhu's chef that taking leftovers is not stealing.

Once, the guesthouse asked He Yuzhu to stew a chicken of the chopped kind. However, due to a picky guest, the weight of the chicken was wrong.

I roughly pieced together the remaining chicken bones, and found that except for the head, wings and legs, the rest were all missing pieces.

Huang Yang naturally couldn't tolerate this, so he went to confront He Yuzhu. Unfortunately, the chicken that He Yuzhu had touched was never found, otherwise he would have been caught red-handed.

He Yuzhu naturally would not admit it, and both sides had a bitter argument at the time.

Mainly because it was quite embarrassing, so it wasn't made a big deal.

Because of this incident, Huang Yang naturally had some opinions about He Yuzhu. He Yuzhu also got angry and threatened that he would never cook for the guesthouse again.

The guesthouse also has its own small canteen with chefs. The chefs in the guesthouse can prepare most common dishes.

Moreover, important guests were usually received by factory leaders, and they were served in the small kitchen in the canteen.

But this time, the distinguished guest stayed in the guesthouse and ordered the sauerkraut fish that Yang Aiguo had just served him. The guesthouse’s chef didn’t know how to make it, so Huang Yang went to find his brother-in-law Yang Aiguo and learned that the fish was Lin Yi’s and the cook was He Yuzhu’s.

Yang Aiguo naturally praised Lin Yi's fish.

So Huang Yang became concerned about it, and knowing that Lin Yi and He Yuzhu were neighbors, he came to Lin Yi for help.

Lin Yi did not doubt the truth of what Huang Yang said. He Yuzhu's trick of plucking the food ingredients was indeed true.

The half chicken in the lunch box that He Yuzhu brought at the beginning of the story was taken away from the hospitality kitchen.

"Director Huang, this matter is easy to resolve. When the time comes, you will never mention the chicken incident again. Let's just treat this matter as a deal."

"Shazhu is just a cook, right? Cooking requires people to be willing, right? After all, Shazhu is the chef of the cafeteria. He came here today and has to cook for the guesthouse. It's extra work, so he must be unhappy."

"Director Huang, please don't misunderstand me. It was definitely Sha Zhu who did something wrong. He secretly took away the ingredients without the owner's consent. This is no different from stealing."

"As for me, I'll put myself in his shoes. I mean, Shazhu is unhappy. He's a cook, and he's doing some tricks. We're all outsiders, so we can't see it, right?"

"Just like the stewed chicken, if the customer hadn't left the bones, how could we tell that the chicken was missing?"

"Let's talk about something dirty. If the cook spits in the food, who would know?"

Although Lin Yi's words were unpleasant to hear, they were indeed reasonable. Huang Yang nodded repeatedly and said, "That's right. Brother, now that you put it this way, I know where the problem lies."

"If you let the horse run, you have to let it eat grass, right? Shazhu is not an employee of the guesthouse. He comes to help cook. This is a favor."

Huang Yang said with some embarrassment: "Brother, you said 20 cents for a big dish and 10 cents for a small stir-fry, is this a reasonable wage?"

"This is the most reasonable price I can offer. The guesthouse is financially independent. Although the factory subsidizes part of it, the entire guesthouse relies on this income to pay salaries. I really can't afford any more."

When Lin Yi heard that the wage was 20 cents for a big dish and 10 cents for a small stir-fry, he knew that this thing would definitely be successful. This price was already very high.

However, what Lin Yi was more interested in was that Huang Yang said that the finances of the guesthouse were independent, so was the procurement of food also independent?

"I will talk to Sha Zhu about this later. I will definitely ask him to cook at the guesthouse today."

"Director Huang, you just said that the guesthouse's finances are independent, so does the factory also provide you with the purchase of food?"

When Director Huang heard someone talking about the food procurement, he seemed to have found someone to pour out his grievances to, and said, "It's really hard to work in this guesthouse."

It turns out that the guesthouse was open to and served the internal staff of the steel rolling mill, and was used to receive relatives, family members, guests, friends, VIPs of the unit and its employees, as well as bosses and businessmen with business contacts.

There is a difference between this and the kind of place in later generations that has the sign of a guesthouse but is actually a hotel.

The issue of entertainment expenses is a huge expense.

The families of ordinary workers are the easiest, and on the contrary, the least loss-making. Meal tickets and the like can be directly taken to the canteen. Generally, they will not go to the guesthouse to buy them, but will directly ask people to bring them to the canteen.

But it is difficult to deal with those who come to the steel mill on business trips or those who are salesmen from other factories.

The shortage of supplies was not only in Sijiu City, but also in other places. Relatively speaking, Sijiu City was still good, at least everyone could have enough food, and occasionally, they could even have a meal of meat.

At the current Materials Bureau, basically they only issue invoices based on how much inventory there is, and there is no over-issuance.

According to the rules, each person is allocated that many votes.

But in business dealings like this, how can one be stingy? So the meat and vegetables bought with this ticket are naturally not enough.

What's more, Huang Yang didn't mention that there were also cases of fleecing the families of factory leaders and taking advantage of the situation.

Just like this time, the distinguished guest who needed to be entertained specifically asked for pickled fish, so the guesthouse had to serve him well.

The extra pickled fish is an unplanned expense, and it is this expense that gives Huang Yang a headache.

If the problem can be solved with money, it would be much easier. Most of the people who come to the guesthouse, except for the families of ordinary workers, are not short of money.

But like Huang Yang, they all lacked votes.

"Brother, I heard that you are a good fisherman. If you have any fish that you can't finish eating, send them to me. The canteen can only give you a good price. They can only cook for a few senior leaders in the factory. It's nothing like here. All the guests staying in this guesthouse are distinguished guests. Such good things can naturally be sold at a high price."

Huang Yang didn't lie to Lin Yi. Their guesthouse was relatively free in terms of pricing. After all, if you want to eat well, you have to be willing to pay for it.

After seeing Huang Yang off, Lin Yi looked at his watch and found that it was not yet three o'clock. He Yuzhu was in the cafeteria at this time.

The watch on his wrist was bought with the watch ticket rewarded by the Lou family.

Calendar watch produced by Shanghai Watch Factory, produced in March 1962.

One hundred and twenty dollars.

At this time, this watch was also called the Prime Minister's watch, and it was the same model that the Prime Minister wore.

The stainless steel watch strap is already the top-notch one among domestic watches.

The watch ticket given by the Lou family was not this style, but an imported Plum watch.

Lin Yi took the watch ticket to the department store and said he wanted a domestic watch. The salesperson immediately agreed to help him exchange the watch ticket.

The main reason is that I think the Plum watch is too flashy. It costs nearly 400 yuan to buy one, and even this calendar watch can be bought three.

Usually, Lin Yi only brought it with him when he went to work, and put it away when he got home.