Chapter 724 Deng Jiaxian’s Questions (Part 1)

"Reporting to the factory director, according to the news from many branch venues, most branch venues have completed three rounds of serving food."

"Even the 12th branch with the largest number of people and the slowest progress has now completed two rounds of food supply."

Hear the report from his assistant Zhou Cai.

Li Jue pondered for a moment and continued to ask:

"What about the food supply? Is there any problem?"

Zhou Cai quickly shook his head and opened a page of the telegram in front of him:

"The main factory has been maintaining contact with the head chef. At present, both the fillings and the already made dumplings are enough to meet the needs of the comrades."

"For example, we have prepared more than 24,000 kilograms of beef. As of the time I received the telegram, there is still about 60% of the inventory remaining."

"According to our expectations, most comrades can only survive the fifth round - some people may not even survive the fourth round."

Li Jue nodded with satisfaction.

At this time, more than fifty minutes have passed since the official start of the meal. Li Jue almost every once in a while wants to know the information of other branch venues.

After all, despite the orderliness at the main factory, this is mainly because there are few people in the main factory - there are only more than 80 tables in total.

In later generations, many villages held a village banquet, and the number of tables could easily exceed 100.

The other branch venues are different.

For example, the branch venue in Factory 12 has 532 tables and a total of more than 5,500 people.

If there is a problem in any link, the impact will be hard to say.

If the comrade responsible for delivering the food fell down or bumped into someone during the serving process, then it would be fine, but if the employees as a whole ate faster than the base originally planned, one end would finish the dumplings at the other end. If it hasn’t been harvested yet, it may have a certain impact on everyone’s enthusiasm.

The base has prepared so much meat, not just to spoil everyone's enjoyment.

Fortunately, the base preparations are sufficient, and it seems that nothing major will happen now.

After all, the entire expected rounds of the base are four to five, but anyone who has ever had a banquet knows that the most stressful time of serving food at a banquet is not at the end, but in the middle.

Now that the middle stage has been successfully passed, the remaining pressure will naturally be much less.

Think of this.

Li Jue finally breathed a sigh of relief, pointed to an empty seat next to him and said to Zhou Cai:

"Xiao Zhou, thank you for your hard work. Can you sit down and have something to eat?"

Zhou Cai shook his head gently, and rarely rejected Li Jue:

"Forget it, director, this New Year's Eve dinner is really important to the base, I'll just keep watching."

Seeing Zhou Cai's resolute attitude, Li Jue thought for a while, picked up an iron lunch box from the side, and put some dumplings into the lunch box:

"Then bring these dumplings with you. They have just been served and are still warm."

Zhou Cai subconsciously rubbed his empty belly and took the lunch box with a naive smile.

After Zhou Cai left.

Li Jue sighed slightly, picked up the chopsticks, picked up the dumplings and ate them.

Although Zhou Cai was standing and sitting, in fact, Li Jue had just come back for a while - as the general person in charge of the base, he didn't have much chance to rest on this occasion today.

For example, they have to call the capital to report the situation, confirm the party arrangements at each venue with the person in charge of each branch venue, and also go to each table in person to express condolences to the comrades.

After finishing one thing, he was actually more tired than Zhou Cai.

After picking up a dozen dumplings in one go, Li Jue just burped with a strong meaty aroma, and then looked at Xu Yun who was sitting beside him:

"Xiao Xu, how was your meal?"

Xu Yun just saw Li Jue enjoying his meal and didn't bother him. Now he heard this and pointed to the plate in front of him:

"It's very enjoyable. I've eaten more than 20 of them."

Under normal conditions, Xu Yun can eat about thirty-five dumplings in one breath. However, the fire in the dungeon still had a relatively large impact on his body. Now he still has some problems with his lungs and stomach, so after a meal Twenty or so dumplings are enough for rice.

Li Jue nodded when he saw this, and then looked around:

"By the way, where is Professor Yang?"

Xu Yun pointed to the three empty seats opposite him and explained:

"Professor Yang's appetite is not very good. He is full after eating a dozen or so."

"Although we were indoors, the temperature was a bit low at night, so Teacher Yuan and Teacher Zhou sent him back to the hospital first."

Li Jue snorted and nodded in understanding.

The more than 80 tables at the main factory are divided into indoor and outdoor parts. The outdoor part has a greenhouse to block the wind, while the indoor part mainly houses some seats that cannot be packed outside.

Among them, the classification of whether to sit indoors or outdoors is not based on the position, but based on the individual's physical condition - gay women with sick patients and children sit indoors, and gay men with normal health sit outdoors.

At the same time, the quality of the dishes on each table is also the same. Although some tables have several bottles of wine, these drinks are all brought by the employees themselves.

However, although the indoor conditions are better than those outside, there is neither air conditioning nor floor heating these days, so the so-called "better" is really just a little.

Yang Kaiqu's physical condition at this time was not able to sit for a long time in this situation, so after Yang Kaiqu had eaten enough, Yuan Guoliang and Zhou Kaida sent him back to the hospital.

Then Li Jue stuffed two more dumplings into his mouth, drank a big mouthful of hot dumpling soup, and wiped his mouth when he was done:

"Xiao Xu, I'll leave first."

"Leave?"

Xu Yun was stunned for two seconds, pointing to the stage that had been prepared in advance outside and said:

"Director, where are you going? The party is about to start. I heard that there will be a crosstalk called "I am really a technical leader" tonight."

Li Jue patted the iron lunch boxes beside him and said:

"Of course I'm going to deliver food."

Xu Yun blinked:

"Deliver food?"

"Yes."

Li Jue's expression seemed very calm, and he said as if nothing was wrong:

"Deliver dumplings to the comrades in Guangda and Lao Guo's group, and some comrades who are on duty openly or secretly, but they haven't eaten yet."

Xu Yun was stunned for a moment.

But soon, a look of realization appeared on his face.

Yes.

It was mentioned earlier.

There are a total of 18,234 employees in the base now, 17,283 of whom should be present today, but 17,275 actually showed up due to various problems.

If there are people who should be there, there are also people who "should not" be there.

The more than 1,000 employees who "should not" be there are mainly the R&D team led by Lu Guangda and his team, as well as several absolutely core production areas, plus the comrades who are on guard.

However, although these comrades are not there, they still have to eat the meals they should eat.

Therefore, the base has planned several groups of meal delivery personnel in advance, and each group is led by the base management to personally deliver meals to those comrades who are not at the New Year's Eve dinner site.

In terms of his position, Xu Yun is actually a management member who should lead the team, but it is not convenient for him to move around as a sick person, so the organization did not notify him of this matter.

However, the organization's failure to notify is one thing, and what Xu Yun thinks is another.

Seeing Li Jue getting ready to leave, Xu Yun hurriedly called him:

"Director, wait a moment, I'll go with you!"

"You?"

Li Jue raised his eyebrows and said puzzledly:

"Xiao Xu, it's windy and snowy outside, and you're sitting in a wheelchair and it's inconvenient for you to move around, why are you running over to join in the fun?"

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Xu Yun sighed, glanced at the other people eating dumplings at the table, and said faintly:

"Director, if I don't go with you today, I'll never have the chance to join in the fun in my life."

Li Jue was stunned when he heard this, and then he fell into silence for the first time.

Yes

If I, or everyone in the base, is the owner of a house, then Xu Yun is undoubtedly a guest from afar.

Although this guest brought many gifts to the host that were enough to change his living standards, a guest is a guest, and there will be a day when he has to leave.

So although it is a bit rude for a guest to help wash vegetables in the kitchen, it is much better than leaving regrets no matter how rude it is.

Think about it.

Li Jue suddenly exhaled a breath of turbid air and patted the armrest of Xu Yun's wheelchair:

"In that case, Xiao Xu, you come too."

Xu Yun rubbed his hands when he saw this, and then left the table with Li Jue with the help of Mou Fangdong.

There were not many people delivering meals with Li Jue this time. In addition to Li Jue, Xu Yun and Mou Fangdong, there were only four people, namely Peng Huanwu, the deputy director of the base, and three accompanying guards.

The other group of people who went to deliver meals to the sentinel was led by another deputy director Cheng Kaijia. In addition to leading the scientific research team at the base, he also had a part-time job in the military defense system.

In order to facilitate Xu Yun's consulting tasks, the base specially modified a 212 jeep for him, that is, the co-pilot seat was removed, and a piece of iron plate that could be pulled out horizontally to form a small slope with the ground was placed on the back floor, so that Xu Yun could be pushed into the back row of the jeep along the small slope with the wheelchair, without having to lie on a stretcher and cover it with a white cloth as before.

So it was very fast.

With the help of Mou Fangdong, Xu Yun got on the jeep and drove to the second branch with the transport vehicle that Li Jue and others were riding in.

Fifteen minutes later.

With the slight vibration from the car, the jeep stopped steadily:

"Chief, we have arrived at the second branch."

Xu Yun got off the car again with the help of Mou Fangdong and looked up at the factory area in front of him.

In the past period of time, Xu Yun actually came to the second branch quite often.

However, he came to the second branch basically in the morning. Although he might leave at night, most of the time the second branch had night shifts, so the whole factory area was relatively bright.

But today was different.

Today, most of the workers went to eat the New Year's Eve dinner. Due to the simple concept of saving, it was naturally impossible for the lights to be turned on everywhere in the entire factory area.

So this was the first time Xu Yun saw the "bare face" of the second branch.

At this moment.

Xu Yun had only one thought in his mind:

"It's so damn dark."

I don't know if he heard Xu Yun's complaints, Li Jue smiled and clapped his hands:

"Okay, it's so cold outside, let's not just stand there, turn on the flashlights, and go to the sixth workshop!"

Click--

As soon as the voice fell, several flashlights appeared around Xu Yun.

Then the group of people led by flashlights and walked straight to the location of a workshop.

When it comes to the second branch, many people may think that this is really a small factory, but the internal structure of the second branch is actually far from as simple as an ordinary brick and tile factory.

To give the most straightforward example, the number of employees.

There are more than 4,000 employees in the second branch responsible for production. Let's not talk about the classification of functions. How big is the area of ​​a middle school with 4,000 to 5,000 people in the future?

When Xu Yun was in high school, the high school department of the school had a total of more than 3,000 people, and the area of ​​the campus was almost 100 acres - this was just a county-level middle school with no special buildings.

In addition, it was not easy to recognize the road at night, so Xu Yun and his team walked for more than ten minutes before they found their target workshop.

Well. Or to be precise, this should be a production park with an iron gate and a wall.

Then Peng Hengwu personally went forward and knocked on the iron gate, and someone in the guard room soon came out.

Peng Hengwu went forward and mumbled a few words to the other party, and the other party went forward to open the iron gate.

Li Jue and his entourage walked into the door one by one. When approaching, Xu Yun found through the light that today's "guard" was still an acquaintance - the old Zhou who grabbed Xu Yun's face and lifted his pants when he first went to the theory department.

Li Jue and Lao Zhou were obviously old acquaintances. After entering, Li Jue patted Lao Zhou on the shoulder:

"Comrade Anding, you have worked hard."

Lao Zhou just nodded to Li Jue expressionlessly, and waited until the last person entered before carefully locking the iron door.

"Comrade Anding."

After entering, Li Jue glanced at Lao Zhou and asked:

"Which furnace are Lao Lu and his team in now?"

"Number seven."

Lao Zhou made a very hoarse voice, and just by listening to this voice, you can tell that he must be a man with a story:

"Director, I will take you there."

Li Jue nodded:

"Then thank you for your help."

Then, under the leadership of Lao Zhou, the group quickly came to a building more than four meters high - according to the cognition of later generations, this building actually meets the definition of a "workshop".

Lao Zhou took out a key from his body and opened the door neatly.

The moment the door opened, a beam of light came out accompanied by the roar of some machines.

Old Zhou, Li Jue and others were not surprised and walked into the door.

The No. 7 furnace mentioned by Old Zhou covers a large area, and it looks like about 300 to 400 square meters at a glance.

When Xu Yun and others entered the door, there were probably dozens of workers busy working in the building.

Various tools were hung on the walls of the building, some metal pieces were scattered on the ground, and the air was filled with a slight smell of welding (actually the smell of metal shavings).

In addition, at the back of the building, there was a cylindrical device about two meters high.

There were three or five people around the equipment operating something, among whom was Lu Guangda, who had just parted with Yang Zhenning yesterday and hurried back from Tianjin.

Note:

The family affairs have finally been dealt with, and it should be over for the time being. I am exhausted and I am going to sleep now. I will really start to update tomorrow.