Chapter 135

Shimen Village

At 2:30 in the afternoon, Cao Weiguo led a donkey cart fully loaded into the village, followed by two militiamen carrying weapons.

"Director Cao is here!"

"Yo, isn't this Li Sanguo from Daniu Village!"

"Daniu Village isn't good; they don't have as many things as our village."

"Director Cao!"

Village Chief Chu welcomed him with a face full of smiles: "The horse carts are all ready, just waiting for your word."

Cao Weiguo said with a smile: "Sorry to trouble you, fellow villagers."

Arriving at the temporary warehouse, three horse carts and six villagers were already parked in the courtyard.

"Fellow villagers, you'll have to work hard today!"

Cao Weiguo took out Da Qianmen cigarettes from his pocket and gave one to each person.

"Not hard at all!"

"Director Cao is too polite!"

"What's hard about moving things."

The villagers happily took the cigarettes, but the village chief said with a straight face: "Smoke them later, move the things onto the carts first."

"Alright!"

"Listen to the village chief!"

Tucking the cigarettes behind their ears, the villagers nimbly rushed into the room.

They carried out sack after sack in a flurry of activity, stacking them neatly onto the large carts.

The warehouse now contained dried goods collected from two villages, fully loading three large carts.

Once the carts were loaded, Village Chief Chu led three villagers driving the carts and two militiamen to escort them personally.

Adding the donkey cart from Daniu Village, four large carts lined up and left Shimen Village.

Cao Weiguo looked at the four militiamen with loaded guns and couldn't help but feel a bit nervous.

Anyone who didn't know would think they were escorting some important supplies.

Along the way, their team attracted plenty of attention.

At a little past four in the afternoon, the four large carts arrived at the rolling mill.

"Hello, Director Cao!"

"Director Cao, do you need help!"

"Director Cao, what good things are on these carts!"

Workers along the way gathered around curiously, their eyes fixed tightly on the sacks on the carts.

Cao Weiguo smiled: "They are all good things collected from the village; you'll have a treat tomorrow."

Soon, the procurement director brought a group of people over.

The procurement director said with a face full of joy: "Director Cao has worked hard."

Cao Weiguo smiled: "Director Feng, hurry up and count them into storage."

"Alright, alright!"

"Didn't you hear Director Cao's words? Move nimbly."

The procurement director happily directed the people from the procurement section to weigh and register them.

Cao Weiguo had people from the kitchen brew tea and brought out a large plate of mung bean cakes.

"Fellow villagers, you've worked hard on the journey, drink some water and eat something before going back."

"Thank you, Director Cao!"

The villagers happily took the tea mugs and picked up a piece of mung bean cake.

"Delicious!"

"This mung bean cake is really sweet."

They sighed in their hearts that this Director Cao was a good person who knew how to handle things.

They had delivered goods to many other units, but those people all had their noses in the air.

There wasn't one as enthusiastic and kind as Cao Weiguo.

After the villagers drank tea and ate the pastries,

and after the procurement section finished unloading the carts, Cao Weiguo personally saw them out of the factory.

"760 catties of dried sweet potatoes!"

"80 catties of frozen tofu!"

"70 catties of dried wood ear mushrooms!"

"50 catties of dried radishes!"

"80 catties of mushrooms!"

"200 catties of vermicelli!"

"800 catties of flour!"

"270 catties of wild boar meat!"

"70 catties of pork bones!"

"200 catties of smoked pork!"

"420 eggs!"

Hearing the shouts of the procurement clerk during registration, the workers watching the excitement had their eyes widened.

"Pork!"

"Did I hear that right? Pork!"

"Over two hundred catties of pork!"

"Is it real or fake!"

"Director Cao is truly capable!"

"We really have a treat in store!"

In this day and age, supplies were scarce, and even the rolling mill's cafeteria rarely got to taste meat.

Looking at the smoked pork brought out by the procurement clerk, the workers' eyes turned green.

Even when the bell for the end of the workday rang, these workers were reluctant to leave.

As if afraid that if they blinked, the pork would fly away.

Cao Weiguo walked back and said with a smile: "Everyone, don't be impatient. Go home if you should go home. Tomorrow I will make pork stewed with vermicelli for everyone, and boil a pot of pork bone soup."

"Director Cao is too amazing!"

"With Director Cao here, we have a treat in store!"

"Director Cao is too capable."

The workers cheered happily, drooling before they had even eaten.

Pork stewed with vermicelli!

This was a hearty dish that one could usually only encounter during the New Year or at a banquet!

Outside was so lively that Factory Director Yang and Deputy Factory Director Li, hearing the commotion, also gathered around.

Looking at the piles of ingredients and the large chunks of pork and smoked pork, both of them also widened their eyes in unison.

Factory Director Yang pointed at the pork and asked in surprise: "Weiguo, did you collect these from the countryside?"

Cao Weiguo smiled: "Yes."

Factory Director Yang patted Cao Weiguo's shoulder happily: "Good, Comrade Weiguo, letting you concurrently serve as procurement clerk was indeed the correct decision."

Deputy Factory Director Li smiled: "Weiguo, well done, now our workers' enthusiasm for production will be even higher."

Pork was a scarce resource, and even they found it difficult to get.

But Cao Weiguo could get it, and that was ability!

This ability made both Factory Director Yang and Deputy Factory Director Li very envious.

Factory Director Yang was thinking about bringing Cao Weiguo into his fold. ===== CHAPTER 137 =====