After several children entered the back room, Li Donglai poured a cup of tea for Shazhu, and the two chatted while drinking tea.

Because Li Donglai is busy in the laboratory every day, he rarely cares about things in the steel rolling mill and society, so sometimes he often chats with Shazhu to understand the current situation.

“How is the purchase of the canteen of the steel rolling mill recently?”

"Don't mention it, brother Donglai, there is a shortage of both food and meat in the market now."

When he mentioned this, Shazhu became very angry and patted the table and said: "In the past, Fuqiang powder and fine white noodles were often not available at the grain station, but you can buy stick noodles at will. Now even the stick noodles are scarce. If you go

If you arrive late, you won’t be able to buy it at all. And there are purchase restrictions at each time. Even the buyer in our canteen, with a letter of introduction from the steel rolling mill, can only buy a few hundred kilograms at a time. Usually there are so many people in the canteen at noon.

What are you going to do with hundreds of kilograms of noodles to eat here?”

"The workers didn't have enough to eat, and they all started arguing, thinking that we, the cooks, had hidden the food. Isn't that very irritating?"

Li Donglai looked at Sha Zhu who looked angry and wanted to laugh in his heart. In the past, Sha Zhu had a history of bringing in food, so he was suspected by the workers.

Silly Zhu continued: "Forget about food. If there is less food, we can cook more porridge. As long as we let the workers drink enough, they won't make trouble. But now you can't even buy fat in the market. You know,

The workers in the steel rolling mill do heavy physical work, and if there is no oil or water in the food, they will not be able to withstand it at all."

It seems that supplies are becoming increasingly scarce now.

Li Donglai asked curiously: "Then the leaders of the steel rolling mill didn't find a way to solve this problem?"

"Why didn't you think about it?" Silly Zhu said helplessly: "Director Yang personally ordered and allocated a sum of funds to allow the purchasers of the steel rolling mill to purchase grain from all over the capital. But now there is a shortage of grain everywhere, and the result is natural

It’s not good anymore.”

Li Donglai frowned. It seemed that the situation in the capital was as expected. The laboratory now had supplies from ministries and commissions, so there would be no food shortage for the time being.

but.

If the food shortage situation is not alleviated, the laboratory's food supply will be cut off sooner or later.

Li Donglai felt that he should contact the branch secretary of Qinjiagou and establish a cooperative relationship.

There is a large mountain behind Qinjiagou. There are many ferocious beasts such as wild boars and wolves on the mountain. Villagers often go to the mountain to hunt on weekdays. However, because the beasts are too ferocious and the muskets of the militia are relatively worn out, there are many

Sometimes, not only can't catch the prey, but they will also be injured by the prey.

However, the rolling mill is different.

The steel rolling mill is now short of food and meat, but it is not short of weapons.

The steel rolling mill is a large state-owned factory with an armed department, which is fully equipped with various guns and ammunition, and even has two cannons.

If the comrades from the security department of the steel rolling mill are allowed to go hunting in the mountains behind Qinjiagou, there will definitely be huge profits.

Of course.

The mountains in Qinjiagou are collective property and belong to all Qinjiagou villagers.

Rolling mills may have to pay a price to take the beast away.

Compared with the city, what the countryside lacks these days are cloth, light industrial products, such as flashlights, radios, and thermos bottles.

These rolling mills can provide it.

Li Donglai pondered for a moment and decided to pay attention.

Since Nan Yi came to the steel rolling mill, in order to compete with his old rivals, Sha Zhu has studied hard and practiced hard, and his skills have improved a lot.

In almost a moment, a large table of dishes was prepared.

Braised carp, fried pork intestines with green onions, braised chicken with mushrooms.

Li Donglai also opened the Maotai liquor Liu Haizhong brought.

This kind of commemorative wine seemed worthless to Li Dong.

As a time traveler, it is really embarrassing to have to hide wine to leave a legacy to future generations.

After eating, Li Donglai took out a piece of tissue paper and wrote on it, "August 4, 2023 AD, the Shuangse ball numbers are 01,08,09,21,23,33 08."

Look, this set of numbers is worth five million.

Comparable to several bottles of Maotai.

Of course, in order to avoid being discovered, Li Donglai thought for a moment and threw the toilet paper into the coal stove.

A curl of green smoke rises.

Li Donglai yawned, washed himself briefly, and went to the next room to see that Wei Dong and Wei Guo were already asleep.

With a smile on his lips, he returned to the room, closed the door, looked at Ding Qiunan and shouted: "Madam."

Ding Qiunan blushed with embarrassment and got into the quilt.
Chapter completed!