Chapter 728 Night Talk, Night Drink 1

Chapter 728 Night Talk, Night Drink 1

In the living room of the main house in the middle courtyard of Siheyuan No. 95, a plate of braised beef, a plate of fried peanuts, a plate of braised pork head and a plate of mixed cabbage hearts were placed on the eight-immortal table.

Li Botao looked at the four dishes that had just been served on the eight-immortal table and couldn't help but sigh, "I always heard people say that even in times of famine, a cook would not starve to death. Today is really an eye-opener. Old He, your living standard now is so high that even Director Jiao of our meat processing plant would have to admire you."

Li Botao was not exaggerating. After the three of them walked into the He family, He Daqing asked him and Fang Dahu to smoke and drink tea first, and then he went straight into the kitchen next door. Soon, the sound of cutting vegetables and the aroma of fried peanuts came from the kitchen. A few minutes later, He Daqing brought out the four dishes on the eight-immortal table.

He Daqing gently placed the bottle of Fenjiu in his hand on the Eight Immortals Table and said with a smile: "Old Li, even a good cook cannot cook without rice. If it weren't for our Secretary Lin who was able to get a lot of meat, it would not be easy for me to get some meat at this time. Come on, let's have a drink first and comment on the pig head meat that was just braised in the cafeteria today."

The three of them drank and tasted the dishes. Li Botao swallowed the pig head in his mouth and asked with some doubt: "Lao He, this pig head seems to taste different from the one I bought in Yueshengzhai before. I remember that the pig head you braised before tasted almost exactly the same as Yueshengzhai's."

A few months ago, Li Botao obtained a portion of pork offal from the meat processing factory and gave it to He Daqing for braising.

He Daqing smiled proudly and said, "I won't hide it from you two. The recipe for braised pork head meat comes from Yueshengzhai. I exchanged it with the shopkeeper of Yueshengzhai by using the method of making soup stock with Tan's dishes. As for the different taste of the braised pork head meat tonight, it is because of the raw materials. That is, the pig head used today is not the black pig we have in China, but the white pig from Europe and the United States, called Yorkshire pig. Secretary Lin said that this kind of pig has a higher lean meat rate, and its growth cycle is much shorter than that of the black pig in our country. Generally, it takes nearly a year for a black pig to be raised in rural areas of our country, but it only takes three to four months for this Yorkshire pig to be slaughtered."

Li Botao's eyes widened in surprise, and he couldn't help but say, "If we can also breed this kind of Yorkshire pigs in our country, not to mention four batches a year, even two or three batches can greatly alleviate the current tight pork supply situation."

He Daqing smiled bitterly and shook his head. "Director Qin Ming also said so at the time. However, Secretary Lin said that in order to achieve such a short time to market, Yorkshire pigs are fed with specially formulated mixed feed, which not only contains corn, bean cake, bran and other things, but also bone meal and some other substances. In our country, pigs are generally fed with pig grass in rural areas. Some places with better conditions will add a little cornmeal. Nowadays, the food supply is tight, and there is not enough food for people. How can we provide such high-quality feed for pigs?"

Fang Dahu said cheerfully, "After listening to what Lao He said just now, I finally understood why the pork my wife brought back was only one finger thick. I thought that temporary workers were treated differently from regular workers, and the fat pork was divided up by regular workers. It turns out that foreign pork is much leaner than our domestic black pork. I guess even if we raise a large number of Yorkshire pigs in China, ordinary people still prefer to buy domestic black pork. Just think about the fat fat that is three or four fingers thick. How delicious it is."

What Fang Dahu said was not wrong. Nowadays, since ordinary people are short of oil and water, when they buy meat, they all want the kind of thick and fatty pork, which is the so-called first-class meat. As for lean meat, in the eyes of ordinary people, it is really not as attractive as fat meat. Unfortunately, even lean meat is hard to buy nowadays.

Li Botao glared at the man and said, "You are a full man who doesn't know the hunger of a hungry man. If you think the pork is too thin, sell your wife's share to me. I don't mind the pork being too thin."

Fang Dahu smiled complacently and said, "What are you dreaming about? Our family has finally been able to eat a few meals of braised pork in the past few months. Even my mother-in-law's family only gives them half a pound of pork every month."

He Daqing picked up the wine glass and took a sip of white wine, then smiled and said, "Lao Fang, my sister-in-law probably hasn't had time to tell you yet, but starting next month, our Security Department will stop supplying pork and beef to our cadres and employees."

Fang Dahu and Li Botao both looked at He Daqing in surprise, but Li Botao couldn't help asking, "Old He, is the meat supply in the Security Department of your Red Star Steel Mill also starting to get tight?"

He Daqing smiled and shook his head. "Don't worry, listen to me slowly. Everyone knows a saying, that is, it is not the lack of wealth that is worrying, but the inequality of wealth. Every cadre and employee of the Security Department of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill can get some quotas every month to buy pork and beef from the canteen. In normal times, we are envied at most. But in units like textile factories and enamel factories, can't cadres and employees also buy the so-called defective products of their own factories at very low prices first?"

Fang Dahu and Li Botao both nodded. This is also the invisible benefit of each factory. Just like the meat processing factory where Li Botao works, although the workers in the factory cannot directly buy pork, every cadre and employee has to purchase a certain amount of pork offal, pig heads, pig trotters, etc. every month.

He Daqing continued, "The current situation is that not only is the pork supply tight, but even the grain supply share has begun to decline. If we still blatantly assign purchase quotas for pork and beef to cadres and employees as before, the outside world will definitely be very dissatisfied. You don't know that almost every day, people call and use their connections to find our steel mill security department to buy some pork and beef, but they are all directly rejected by Secretary Lin."

Glancing at Fang Dahu and Li Botao, who were looking serious, He Daqing continued, "In order to reduce the attention of the outside world, Secretary Lin has instructed that from now on, only braised pork, beef, and various offal products will be supplied to the cadres and staff of the Security Department."

Fang Dahu was relieved immediately after hearing this. He picked up the wine glass and drank a glass of white wine, and said with some anger: "You, Old He, don't say anything directly. I was so nervous just now. I finally managed to let my family eat more meat. I can see that my son has gained a lot of weight than before."