Siheyuan: Happy life of veteran drivers

Chapter 313 The New Year's atmosphere is gradually rising

Fortunately, Li Huaide usually maintains a good relationship with them, so doesn’t this come in handy?

Don't say rationing supplies is what they should do.

These days, there are more people than supplies. If you want to get enough supplies, you have to use connections and other external tricks.

Li Huaide has been building up relationships for a whole year, isn't it just for this end-of-year shiver?

On the way back, Li Huaide leaned against the back seat of the jeep and let out a long sigh: "Finally, everything is settled."

"Xiao Wang, you have been following me around all the time this week. It's been hard work."

Wang Hongtao smiled and said, "Isn't that the way it should be? But compared to you, Director Li, it's still far behind. Director Li, you really went all out to make sure the workers have a good New Year."

Wang Hongtao has been following Li Huaide these days and has seen all his efforts.

In seven days of a week, he organized six drinking parties. Li Huaide was really willing to give it his all for supplies.

What impressed him most was the one the day before yesterday, when Director Niu of the meat processing plant poured ten and a half cups of liquor and lined them up, and said proudly: "Now, don't say that I, Old Niu, don't give you a chance. One cup of liquor is ten percent. How much quota you can get from the steel mill depends on you, Old Li!"

Just when Director Zhang of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative and his friends were accusing Director Niu of making things difficult for them, Li Huaide picked up his glass without saying a word: one glass, two glasses, three glasses, four glasses...

Everyone thought he was dying, so Li Huaide grabbed another handful of peanuts, chewed them dry and swallowed them, then picked up the fifth and sixth cups...

When he wanted to take the seventh cup, he was stopped. Even Director Niu praised Li Huaide for being generous and admirable.

At this point, in those years when supplies were tight, the steel mill’s year-end benefits were basically fully paid.

When drinking in a bar, the more you eat and the slower you drink, the slower you get drunk and the less drunk you will be. It is not so comfortable to quickly drink half a pound of liquor on an empty stomach like Li Huaide.

As soon as Li Huaide walked out of the banquet hall, he vomited all over the place. After that, he picked up the cup of water to rinse his mouth. He didn't dare to go home until there was no obvious odor left on his body.

After finalizing the material rations, Li Huaide did not think that everything was fine. Today he organized another party and invited several old acquaintances to have a drink. However, this time the party seemed much more cordial. Everyone complained about their work difficulties, life troubles and so on. It was just like chatting with old friends.

After reading this, Wang Hongtao was deeply touched.

Li Huaide has many shortcomings, but his ability to handle affairs and his social skills are indeed quite good, and he is able to bravely face difficulties when they really come across them. No wonder he can sit firmly in the position of factory leader.

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After returning to the courtyard, Wang Hongtao closed the door, took out all his savings from the space, and put them on the table to count them.

There are 6482 perspective points remaining, which is displayed by the system. As for cash, it is estimated to be more than . He is too lazy to count it. Most of it is the reward for breaking the defense and Lou Xiaoe's private money. Compared with his usual salary and the money he cheated from his neighbors, it is not worth mentioning.

As for the small yellow croakers, he counted them and there were sixty-seven in total. The system rewarded him thirty-seven, and Lou Xiao'e gave him thirty more.

Small yellow croaker costs one liang each, and if you buy things through the system, one is equivalent to two hundred yuan.

If all these are counted, it would amount to more than 20,000 yuan.

I have saved so much money without realizing it? Wang Hongtao exclaimed.

He has a lot of money now, and he will have more in the future.

A salary of around 100 yuan is just enough to cover daily expenses.

Director Li's monthly fixed income is 1,800 yuan, and the system's defense-breaking reward is guaranteed to be around 1,800 yuan per month. If he does something big, it will be even more.

If this much money was used to buy supplies in the system mall, it would be enough to support the entire courtyard.

But Wang Hongtao never thought about helping his neighbors.

Even though No. 95 Courtyard is known as the most advanced courtyard house in Nanluoguxiang for many years, the people living there are all beasts. They have done few good things, but have caused endless troubles.

The more precious perspective points can be exchanged for a lot of good things, but it is easy to cause problems if you take out things that are not in line with the times. You must know that people's vigilance is extremely high nowadays. Otherwise, what do you think was the original intention of the uncle in the Siheyuan to set up the place?

As for the helping countries….

Wang Hongtao said that it was fine as it is now. He had little talent and ambition, and that matters like family, country and the world were not something a small citizen like him should get involved in. He should just live his own life in peace.

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Seeing that it was still early, Wang put the money back into the space, poked the fire in the kang a few times, and planned to take a walk in the yard to strengthen his relationship with the beasts... no, with the neighbors.

It gets dark quickly in winter, and the sun has already set now, but due to the effect of the accumulated snow, there is still some light in the yard.

The neighbors who got up early have already finished their meal and are resting, while others are still busy preparing dinner.

Due to the lack of oil and water, there was only smoke from cooking but no aroma of food.

This is the general environment and there is nothing we can do about it.

Speaking of which, the situation in Sijiu City is much better than other places.

There were many factories in the old city, so there were naturally many jobs. Most of the city residents had quotas. People like Jia Zhangshi and Qin Jingru, who were not registered in the city but lived in the city, were a minority. No matter how difficult life was for the residents in the courtyard, at least they could still eat cornmeal steamed buns, so everyone's face was filled with happiness.

We are not worried about poverty but about inequality. Knowing that we live better than people in other places, the steamed corn bread in our hands will no longer be difficult to swallow.

As the Chinese New Year approaches, although supplies are more expensive than usual, we are finally more well-off.

Families with better conditions are already planning on buying winter clothing such as cotton coats and trousers for their family members; those with less financial resources are trying to mend old clothes so that they can wear them more presentably.

There were not so many requirements at that time. In many poorer places, not even everyone could afford a set of thick clothes, and they had to take turns wearing them when going out.

The situation in the city was a little better in 1949, but it was normal to wear worn-out, patched clothes. They were new for three years, old for three years, and patched for another three years. This was still considered a good thing.

Walking out of the house, Wang Hongtao could finally smell the aroma of neighbors’ food.

The old man next door was frying eggs again. Wang Hongtao sniffed and quickly figured out that they were frying eggs with sanitary oil.

Hygienic oil is also known as defatted cottonseed oil. Although it is not as fragrant as lard, it is still oil after all and can meet people's nutritional needs.

The edible oil at that time was like this. Each person in the city was supplied with 0.75 taels of oil per month, and the supply increased to 0.8 taels during the Spring Festival. There were sanitary oil, soybean oil, sesame oil, etc. Sanitary oil was 0.95 yuan per catty, soybean oil was yuan per catty, and sesame oil was yuan per catty.

Because three ounces of oil were not enough, people who got meat coupons would try to pick fatty meat, use the fat to squeeze oil, and then put the remaining oil residue into cooking to eat as meat.

If a child could get some oil residue as a snack, he would probably show off to other kids for several days.

Walking in the yard, the sounds of children playing and fighting, adults chatting eagerly, and the clattering of pots and pans intertwined together, filling the yard with the smell of fireworks.

"Hello, Third Uncle."

"Have you eaten yet, uncle?"

"Where's Shazhu at home? When will Yushui have her day off?"

"You don't know? You don't even know when your sister will have the holiday?"

"Abin, have you had dinner yet? Do you have enough food? If there is anything missing, ask me. I have some here."

"What? Liu Yuhua gave you her own hostage? Is the progress so fast?"

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After walking around the yard, Wang Hongtao finally arrived at Xu Damao's house.

Brother Damao is still the one I can get along with the most!