Chapter 729 Night Talk, Night Drink 2

Chapter 729 Night Talk, Night Drink 2

Li Botao also looked at the complacent Fang Dahu with some envy. Unfortunately, he and his wife were both regular employees of the Meat Processing Plant, and their children were still young. At that time, one of the temporary worker positions in the canteen of the training base of the Security Department of the Red Star Steel Rolling Plant was given to Fang Dahu's family. Although the combined salary income of his and his wife far exceeded that of Fang Dahu and his wife, after all, the basic salary of temporary workers in the canteen of the training base was less than 20 yuan per month. This was a national unified regulation. But weren't their welfare benefits too good?

In the past, there was a certain quota for purchasing pork and beef every month. Don't forget that even now when supply is tight, the canteen of the training base of the Security Department of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill supplies at the national unified retail price, which means that pork is 70 cents per pound and beef is more than 60 cents per pound.

Li Botao works in a meat processing factory, so he pays special attention to the current market situation of meat. At a time when you can hardly buy much meat at the supply and marketing cooperatives, first-grade pork in the pigeon market costs one yuan and seventy to eighty cents per catty, second-grade pork costs about one yuan and fifty cents, and third-grade pork costs more than one yuan, and it is definitely in short supply.

As for pork on the black market, the price is more than two yuan, and there are only two or three stalls selling meat.

Fang Dahu asked anxiously, "Lao He, how much will the braised beef and pork in your cafeteria cost from now on?"

He Daqing said with a smile: "Braised beef is one dollar per pound, braised pork is one dollar and two cents, and braised pig's head and pig's trotters are probably less than one dollar."

After taking a look at Fang Dahu's expression, He Daqing continued, "Old Fang, you may not know that for braised meat, one pound of raw meat can only yield 70% to 60% of the braised meat, plus seasonings, charcoal fire and other miscellaneous things. The accountant from the Finance Department and I have calculated again and again, and this price is already close to a loss, and this does not include labor. To be honest, if it weren't for the secretary's instructions, do you think our canteen would be willing to work hard all day long?"

Li Botao also smiled and said, "If we add our Lao He's cooking skills, the price of this braised meat will be at least 40% to 50% higher. In fact, even if it is 40% to 50% higher, it is only about the same as the price of Yueshengzhai. Don't forget, Yueshengzhai still needs meat tickets."

Fang Dahu waved his hands and said, "I don't think it's expensive, but I'm wondering why you guys have to go to so much trouble to make braised meat from raw meat? Why bother?"

He Daqing glared at him and said, "If your brain is useless, just throw it into the ditch. Don't you think that every time you cook meat at home, the children in our courtyard will smell the smell and come to the window of your small kitchen. Do you think those people in our courtyard who are always irritating and laughing at others can stop talking behind your back?"

At this point he sighed softly and continued, "In fact, this is not just the case in our courtyard. From what the secretary said, there are many courtyards and compound houses where quarrels have occurred. That's why the secretary gave instructions to our canteen to work harder and make all the raw meat into braised meat. This way, after the cadres and staff of the Security Department buy it home, they can just heat it up in the pot and eat it directly. This avoids the smell of the meat attracting attention. In addition, the secretary also instructed all the cadres and staff of the Security Department to remind their families not to tell outsiders about the braised meat when they go home, so as to avoid unnecessary trouble."

Li Botao certainly understood in his heart. Just from He Daqing's few short sentences, he had guessed that it must have happened in some other courtyards or tenements, because the cadres and employees of the Security Department of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill were cooking meat at home, and a conflict or even a clash had occurred between them and other residents.

What I said just now, "What is worrying is not the lack of meat but the imbalance of distribution of meat," is absolutely correct. Someone must have been jealous when he saw the employees of the security department of the steel rolling mill eating meat at home. Moreover, Secretary Lin had already made strict regulations that absolutely no one was allowed to resell the pork and beef purchased from the canteen of the security department's training base. Once discovered, no matter who it was, they would be fired.

With this order, who would dare to knowingly violate the order unless they were stupid? You have to know that their immediate superior was a ruthless person who had arrested two deputy directors of the Red Star Steel Mill and the former boss of the Lou's Steel Mill, Lou Zhenhua. Who would dare to do it if they lost their jobs because of selling a little pork and beef to others?

Li Botao could fully imagine that these cadres and workers of the Security Department of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill would probably have conflicts with some neighbors at home just because of pork and beef.

When I meet a reasonable family, I can only secretly envy them for being able to eat meat. However, as the saying goes, a dragon has nine sons, and each son is different. There are always some people like the unscrupulous ones in every courtyard and slum.

What Li Botao didn't know was that Lin Yu had recently received more than a dozen related case reports. It was not that the cadres and staff of the Security Department complained to him, but that the police station and branch where the case occurred took the initiative to send the relevant case reports to him.

You have to know that Lin Yu is also the deputy secretary of the Municipal Bureau, deputy director and secretary of the Security Department of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill. He is definitely one of the main leaders of each police station and branch. Moreover, the cases that occurred were related to the cadres and employees of the Security Department of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill. Therefore, these case reports were also sent to him.

After reading all the case reports, Lin Yu couldn't help but sneer inwardly. He still underestimated the greed of human nature. There were actually two serious cases in which neighbors openly gathered together to snatch pork and beat up the family members of the cadres and employees of the Security Department of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill. The cause was very simple, that is, someone proposed to buy some pork from these employees.

But as staff members of the Security Department of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill, how could they openly disobey the secretary's instructions? Therefore, these cadres and employees immediately rejected the other party's request and clearly informed them that Secretary Lin Yu of the Security Department of the Steel Rolling Mill had clearly instructed that anyone who resold pork and beef purchased from the canteen of the Security Department's training base would be fired if discovered.

Under normal circumstances, since the Security Department of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill has clear regulations, the matter should have ended like this. However, there were a few smart people who suggested on the spot that since your unit leaders have regulations prohibiting reselling, your family should distribute the purchased pork to your neighbors free of charge. What is even more speechless is that such an absurd proposal actually received support from quite a few people.