Chapter 7

“Sister, this is your first time at the machinery factory. How do you know the location of the cafeteria?” Du Yidonggang asked puzzledly.

“Are you stupid? Everyone is walking this way, so of course the cafeteria is here.” Du Yimeng said this and entered the cafeteria the next second.

Du Yidong: That makes sense…

Du Yimeng was a little confused when he just walked into the cafeteria. The entire cafeteria had no tables or benches. It was empty.

If it weren’t for the smell of food in the air, she would have thought she had come to the wrong place.

What is going on?

She remembered that the cafeteria in school was not like this…

“Sister, why are you standing here like an idiot? Go get your food!” Du Yidonggang walked into the cafeteria and saw his sister staring at everything in the cafeteria like an idiot.

He glanced around curiously and found it normal and empty.

“Aren’t there any tables and benches in the cafeteria?” Du Yimeng came back to his senses and asked Du Yidonggang as he walked towards the food window.

“I heard that there used to be one, but later all the benches were stolen and the tables were removed,” Du Yidonggang replied.

Du Yimeng: Isn’t it said that people don’t lock their doors at night in this era?

“The benches are not valuable, so the factory didn’t pursue the matter. Besides, everyone likes to squat while eating, so it doesn’t matter whether there are benches or not,” Du Yidong explained.

The original monthly ration was 37.5 kilograms of staple food, then it became 32 kilograms, and now it is only 27 kilograms, which is not enough for those who do heavy manual labor.

This may not be a big problem for female workers who have smaller appetites, but for them, it means that they are only six-tenths full for a long time.

If you want to eat your fill, you can pay for the ticket, but everyone has a family to support.

Therefore, many workers summarized a set of eating experience. First, they take the food home after getting it, so as not to want to buy more food when they are not full. Second, they squat while eating, using the pressure on the stomach to increase the feeling of fullness.

Over time, no one sat on the stools anymore. You took one and I took one, and just like that, all the stools were gone.

After listening to Du Yidong’s explanation, Du Yimeng fell silent.

In later generations, some people might regard this dining experience as a joke, but in that era, the workers had experienced it personally.

This is true for workers who have a stable job that everyone envies, not to mention others.

The staple food is steamed buns made of two kinds of flour, with less flour and more cornmeal. Each person has four, each as big as a fist. The dishes are boiled cabbage and fried potatoes. There is no oil in both dishes, and each person only has one spoonful of each dish.

Originally, the aunt who was serving the food wanted to shake the spoon when she saw that Du Yimeng was a stranger, but Du Yimeng just said “thank you”, and she felt embarrassed to use her special skills.

Du Yidonggang watched the whole scene from the side and silently gave his sister a thumbs up.

Why didn’t he think of it?

He had wanted to ask the aunt who served him more food, and he also thought of using the beauty trap. Fortunately, he still had some dignity and was afraid of being beaten by his father, so he didn’t dare to do it.

Du Weihai arrived late after the brother and sister had finished preparing their meal.

He wanted to give a lecture, after all, in this era, production comes first, not eating first. It would leave a bad impression on the leader and make other workers look down on him.

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Du Yimeng.

“Dad, one steamed bun is enough for me. The other three will be given to you and Xiaodong!” Du Yimeng said to Du Weihai. The steamed bun was quite big, and she had a small appetite, so one was enough.

In this era, everyone’s stomach was short of oil and water, and their appetite was huge. The fixed amount was four steamed buns weighing eight taels, but in fact some people could eat two or three kilograms in one meal.

She had stored a lot of food in her space, so she really had no shortage of it.

She knew what her father wanted to say, but even if he said it, she wouldn’t listen. She wasn’t active in eating and had problems with her thinking.

After living a new life, she knows very well what the most important thing for a person is, which is to have a healthy body. She will never compromise herself because of work.

From the moment she opened her eyes and came to this era, she told herself to eat well, sleep well, and never ruin her body for other reasons.

This is what a person cares about the most when he has lost something.

“Xiaodong and I have enough to eat.” Du Weihai refused, and Du Yidong nodded.

The father and son squatted at the entrance of the cafeteria to eat, but Du Yimeng planned to take his meal back to the technical department to eat.

As a result, she had just taken a few steps when she ran into Section Chief Song and others. They had originally had gloomy faces, but for some reason they suddenly smiled and smiled at her. What was going on?

“Xiao Du, are you eating?” Song Zhi tried hard to force a friendly smile, but because he always liked to keep a stern face, the smile on his face looked a little hideous.

It turned out to be a meal, as long as he didn’t run away, he also reflected on himself and tried to swear less in front of her in the future. Of course, the premise is that she must be capable.

“Yes, Chief Song! The body is the capital of revolution. Only with a healthy body can we make more contributions to the country and the people.” Du Yimeng always felt that Chief Song was a little weird. Shouldn’t she eat?

Or was it because she just ran to the front?

Regardless of whether this is the reason or not, she should still explain it first!

There’s nothing wrong with her saying that, right?

“Xiao Du is right!” Song Zhi nodded. As for what he was thinking, only he knew.

He could see that he didn’t know how capable Du Yimeng was, but she was the best at eating!

On his first day at work, Du Yimeng was nicknamed a “glutton”.

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When the people from the technical department came back from lunch, Du Yimeng had already finished her meal and came to a workshop. She only ate one steamed bun and left the remaining three in the lunch box to take back.

Song Zhi, who had just walked into a workshop, saw Du Yimeng working and nodded secretly. It was okay to be the first to eat, as long as he was the first to work.

He likes comrades who work hard the most, they are very good.

Thanks to everyone’s efforts, the machine tool was repaired in just two hours. When the machine tool started running, everyone looked nervous.

When he heard that the machine tool had been repaired, Yu Hongru rushed to the workshop immediately. When he learned the reason for the machine tool’s failure, he almost bit his teeth.

Li Mingcai personally placed a blank part on the machine tool and started processing it. When a complete part was processed, he measured it with a caliper and the result was qualified.

He didn’t know if it was his illusion, but he felt that this machine tool was not only easy to use, but also much faster.

“How is it?” Yu Hongru asked anxiously.

“It’s qualified, exactly as it should be…” Li Mingcai’s voice was trembling with excitement. It was finally repaired. If it wasn’t repaired, he might have been dismissed as the director.