Chapter 591 Engagement Banquet
In the next two days, apart from handling various official duties every day, Lin Yu never asked about the follow-up matters of the black market case. The leading cadres involved have now been taken away by the relevant departments for isolation and investigation. Others may still hope to continue to be arranged to work in other positions, but Dongcheng District Mayor Zhao Yunfei estimates that the outcome will not be too good. After all, his son Zhao Shaoqing colluded with Japanese enemy spies. Not only did he set up a black market, but he also provided a lot of intelligence to the Japanese enemy spies. What awaits Zhao Shaoqing is not eating peanuts, but also lifelong labor reform.
Lin Yu had asked Zhou Tian to arrange people to deliver some urgently needed supplies to the extremely poor families within the jurisdiction of Jiaodaokou Sub-district Office. However, the people who delivered the supplies did not show up. They just put the supplies in the houses of these extremely poor families in the dark and left.
As long as these extremely poor families were not mentally ill, they would never tell this matter to anyone. Indeed, things turned out to be just as Lin Yu had expected. These families did not make any statement at all. However, according to Zhou Hong's report, the people of these extremely poor families knelt on the ground at home and kowtowed to thank the kind people who sent life-saving supplies to their homes.
Lin Yu also felt extremely complicated after hearing this.
Today is the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month. Starting tomorrow afternoon, the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill will officially be closed for holiday and will resume work on the third day of the first lunar month.
But for the Security Department of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill, even when the workers in the factory are on holiday, they have to take turns on duty to protect the safety of the steel rolling mill.
Lin Yu didn't have to worry about the specific work arrangements, as everything was left to Qin Ming and the others.
In the evening, the courtyard of No. 98 Nanluoguxiang was very lively. He Daqing and his son were busy preparing tonight's dishes in the kitchen.
In the living room of the main house, Zhou Xiu was having a cordial conversation with Su Yu's mother Jiang Sufen.
Su Yu was dragged by Lin Nan and Huang Ying to the backyard to talk in private.
Lin Yu and Qin Ming sat at the coffee table, drinking tea and smoking cigars, talking in low voices from time to time.
Today Zhou Xiu invited Jiang Sufen and Su Yu, mother and daughter, to her home as guests. In fact, it was a formal meeting between the two families to discuss the child's wedding date.
As a matchmaker, Qin Ming certainly could not be absent, but he only introduced Zhou Xiu and Jiang Sufen to each other and then withdrew from the party. As for Sun Yong, he had already gone to the kitchen to help He Daqing and his son.
He Daqing performed well tonight. You know, this is actually Secretary Lin's engagement banquet. He Daqing knows that he owes Secretary Lin too many favors, but it is not easy to repay these favors. With Secretary Lin's current power and status, what can a cook like him help with? Therefore, he can only try his best to make a few delicious dishes to express his feelings.
Tonight He Daqing showed off his best skills. He is good at cooking Shandong cuisine and is also familiar with the family's inherited Tan cuisine. He had discussed the menu with Sun Yong in advance, mainly because cooking Tan cuisine requires preparing the broth in advance, and some ingredients need to be processed.
Nowadays, if you want to cook Tan family dishes, the ingredients needed are difficult to buy on the market. Therefore, when He Daqing discussed with Sun Yong that he wanted to make a few Tan family dishes, Sun Yong asked He Daqing to make a list of the ingredients needed, and then took it directly to his brother-in-law.
Lin Yu glanced at the list of ingredients and nodded casually, asking him to bring it to the training base when he went to work tomorrow morning and give it directly to He Daqing for advance distribution.
You must know that when Zhou Hong and Zhou Huang looted all the military bases of the Bald Eagle in East Asia, and plundered the Philippines and the Sakura Kingdom, they also got a large amount of various supplies by the way, including various precious seafood ingredients. The ingredients on He Daqing's list were stored in a lot in the storage bags in his Qinglian Palace warehouse. Now that He Daqing is good at cooking Tan family cuisine, he simply invites his family to taste this famous official cuisine. Although he often went to high-end hotels in his previous life and tasted many delicious dishes, he had never eaten Tan family cuisine.
So the next day, Sun Yong brought two large bags of necessary food to the small canteen of the training base and gave them to He Daqing to distribute in advance.
So in addition to six famous Shandong dishes, there are four classic dishes of Tan family cuisine on the table tonight.
He Daqing cooked the famous Shandong cuisine such as nine-turn large intestine, scallion-fried sea cucumber, sweet and sour carp, braised prawns, four-happiness meatballs, and Kung Pao chicken; while the Tan family cuisine includes braised shark's fin, bird's nest in clear soup, braised abalone, and steamed mandarin fish.
Seeing the delicious dishes on the table, Jiang Sufen and Su Yu widened their eyes in surprise. Although both mother and daughter had a lot of salary now, their daily life was really quite ordinary. Su Yu could eat all kinds of meat every day in the small canteen of the training base. After all, with the supply of materials becoming increasingly tight, even if you have money you can't buy much, not to mention these delicacies that are not available in the market.
Although Zhou Xiu was also very surprised, as the host, she quickly invited everyone to taste various delicious dishes.
There was only one table arranged in the restaurant tonight. Apart from Jiang Sufen, Su Yu and her daughter, and the matchmaker Qin Ming, the rest were family members.
As for He Daqing and his son, after they had cooked all the dishes, they insisted on going home despite Sun Yong's repeated requests to keep them there. However, Lin Yu had already thought about this. He provided a lot of ingredients, so he asked Sun Yong to tell He Daqing in advance to cook all the ingredients tonight. In addition to serving them on the table tonight, each guest would also take a portion home.
Of course, He Daqing and his son must have a share of it, so after finishing their work, the father and son rejected Sun Yong's invitation, carried two full food boxes and a cloth bag filled with cigarettes and alcohol, and staggered out of Courtyard No. 98.
As soon as He Daqing and his son walked into the courtyard of No. 95, they were blocked by the third uncle Li Botao and the second uncle Fang Dahu.
In fact, this was all He Yuzhu's own fault. Just now when he was cooking, Sun Yong asked He Yuzhu to go back and tell the old lady and Xiao Yushui at home not to rush to eat dinner, and that the food would be delivered to them when it was ready.
As a result, this guy ran back to Courtyard No. 95 and happened to see Aunt Niu preparing dinner for the old lady's family. He quickly told her not to bother, because Secretary Lin was getting engaged tonight and he would bring the food back later.
The second uncle Fang Dahu, who lived in the backyard, heard what He Yuzhu said. After hurriedly finishing his dinner, he ran to the front yard to find the third uncle Li Botao. The two of them blocked the place early, ready to extort money.