Two months after Dapeng returned to the corps, he caught up with the major transfer, and the large convoy and the employed workers of each company were transferred to the third battalion to strengthen the construction of the infrastructure of the three battalions. Zhang Dapeng was arranged in a company, temporarily living in the canteen and the small courtyard of the carpentry room, and only counted the number of blanks for the workers to work every day.

However, Cai Baozhi was assigned to the second company, lived in a brick dormitory, and built a soil and grass house in the south of Sanying Road every day. Here is only five miles away from Yaqin's Jiulian, looking up at almost close at hand, there is not only Zhao Aihua who fell in love five years ago, she has married the educated youth in the countryside of Qi City, and now Yaqin has returned to Jiulian, which has become a place of nostalgia and pain for Dapeng.

The temporary dormitory should be changed to a carpentry room, Dapeng moved into a dormitory with more than a dozen workers, which is a grass house that can accommodate more than one hundred workers, a small corridor at the main entrance in the middle of the house, and the two big long houses opposite the kang, where all kinds of old workers live, there are more people, noisy, and lively. There, an old instructor named Chen Shusen was transferred, and because of his long wide face and large chin, the educated youth nicknamed him "Big Chin". He is not highly educated, but his Marxism-Leninism is high-sounding to the outside world, and his biggest characteristic is that he holds meetings in the evening until the second half of the night, and he talks endlessly. In particular, he is good at holding criticism and fighting meetings, and it is said that he once killed two educated youths in the fifth company. The workers are going to be unlucky again, they are going to hold criticism meetings again, and they are going to engage in the Cultural Revolution movement again.

The three big drunkards who started to fight, Ding Haozi was a Hui citizen, Dou Jun was from Qi City, and then Wang Da Man, as soon as they drank, they made trouble and bowed their heads and were criticized and fighting, others not only accompanied the crime, but anyone who did not raise his hand to speak would be named, and if he didn't get the same thing, he would be questioned. Dapeng only recorded the record without arguing with the world, and used three days of spare time to draw a "three-dimensional map of the production of brick-making machinery" and handed it to Director Wang.

Director Wang Yu's original position as deputy division commander, he is a practical cadre, usually rarely speaks and looks very serious, in the broad daylight blank worker in the shed playing poker, he sees absolutely no care, because he knows that you have completed the task, and he is secretly happy to see those dry blanks. He didn't care when he saw the two of them fighting, so he sat next to him and watched the fight, but if the two of them didn't fight, then he wouldn't let them: "Why don't you fight?" One of them brought me a wooden stick and hit it with a stone. The two of them were tired of begging for mercy before they gave up, and the workers were really in awe of him.

After dinner that day, Dapeng returned to the dormitory and picked up the violin that had been put on the shelf, which was the Xinghai brand violin left by his brother, and ran to the east side of the dormitory, facing the direction of Jiulian, and lifted the piano without playing the "white-haired girl", not to play "Ma Lanhua Blossom", and not to play "Motherland, Nanjiang", but seriously and lowly played "Liang Zhu", and played the "butterfly" that contained memories and contemplation. Although the music is rhythmic, he plays it so slowly, and each note is thin and long. It may be the reason for the soft spot, but the tears are flowing unconsciously... Flowing. Suddenly, I found someone behind me, turned around and looked, and it was Deputy Division Commander Wang -- Director Wang standing in the distance.

Director Wang Yu came over with the drawings, he called Zhang Dapeng aside and asked, and arranged a new task: "I showed the drawings you drew to the workers of the repair factory, and they couldn't understand them." ”

"I know they can't understand the three-dimensional drawings they draw, because we have heavy construction tasks, and the amount of hand-buckled billets in the clay kiln is too backward. ”

"I don't understand the mechanics either, now there is a new task handed over to you, the canteen of the organ needs to be rectified, you go to check the accounts first, the administrator is a Shanghai educated youth, you don't have to be afraid, just say I'll let you check." ”

"Director Wang, it's best if you can say hello to Instructor Chen. ”

Director Wang agreed, and in the evening the instructor held a meeting and announced: "Zhang Dapeng will go to the canteen to manage the accounts." "I dispelled my worries, and after Dapeng went to the canteen to check, there was no account at all in the past. The person in question, Master Liu, is thinner and is from Jiangsu, and he is an employee on behalf of his family, and he looks very honest. He resolutely opposes Dapeng to engage in cost-effective calculations, and even more opposes the establishment of six accounts, he thinks that Zhang Dapeng is a layman who does not understand management. Disputes and contradictions arose from this.

Stewed gourd for dinner, Master Wang reported 200 catties of gourd for 2 yuan, 5 catties of oil for 4 yuan, and 150 bowls of gourd, not counting 4 cents for a bowl of firewood. In order not to lose money, Dapeng decided to sell a bowl for 5 cents, and this time it was a frying pot, from the dormitory workers to the educated youths shouted: "I have never eaten a bowl of wo melon for 5 cents." "What's going on? Dapeng gathered seven people in the canteen for a meeting, and Zhang Jincheng, who was originally pulling water at the regiment headquarters, now asked as a fireman: "Master Wang, let me ask you, how much oil is put in?"

Master Wang replied: "Then don't I report 5 catties." ”

Zhang Jincheng said: "The problem is this, there is no need to put oil in the stewed melon. ”

Dapeng suddenly realized, ordered Master Wang to immediately hand over the key to the canteen warehouse, and insisted that if the cost was cost-effective, it was necessary to keep accounts, and if you don't keep accounts, there is no basis for compensation and earning. And Master Wang always insisted: "As long as you keep accounts, you are guaranteed to lose money." The contradiction is gradually escalating.

It is not simply a chaotic management of the canteen, but a serious phenomenon of eating, drinking, and taking, and there are intricate and complicated phenomena such as car drivers, technicians, educated youth cadres, family members of battalion and company cadres, upper-level leaders of the Forestry Bureau, and external guests, and they have to face them almost every day, and many problems cannot be solved by Dapeng, and they can only be dealt with with with the support of the leaders.

Director Wang read the report written by Zhang Dapeng, and not only announced the dismissal of the original administrator at the cadre meeting, and refunded 110 yuan for private occupation, but also held an emergency meeting in the canteen to resolutely put an end to the phenomenon of anyone eating, drinking, taking, and asking for it in the canteen, and strictly strengthened the operation and management of the canteen. Master Wang of the cafeteria agreed in person, but he held a grudge in his heart.

The car driver used to eat and drink for free at noon, since the canteen has a new regulation, Director Wang and Instructor Tian's son does not come to the canteen, and Xiaoma and Master Zhang of the regiment department still come to the canteen to eat and drink. If there is a problem, the only way to turn it in is to turn it in, Director Wang found the driver Pony and scolded him in front of everyone. In order to prevent the problem from happening, the canteen sent a young intellectual, Wang Zhihe, who is from Beijing, and the young people nicknamed him "stinky tofu". He doesn't work in the cafeteria, he walks around every day, and comes and goes around when the meal is served.

Although Dapeng lowered the price of vegetables, the financial settlement earned 1,100 yuan in the first month, of course, it was the result of strict management. Dapeng records six accounts of purchase, delivery, expenditure, income, company rest, and foreign guests, and the expenses of foreign guests are reimbursed by the battalion headquarters separately. Whenever the company came to the battalion headquarters for a meeting, it had to bring something to the canteen of the organ, some were whole pieces of pork, some were soybean oil or vermicelli, and so on, and the surplus assets they ate and drank could be used as bad fillings, and since there were no loopholes, it was not surprising that there were profits.

The canteen is not allowed to make money, and Dapeng arranges a general meal every Sunday, with no charge for wine, meat, and vegetables, and only charges money for staple food. The staple food and recipes of the day are announced to the public, and the staple food is steamed buns, flower rolls, scones, sugar triangles, and bean buns. When the food went up, Instructor Chen came to give soybean oil on credit, and the soybean oil room was under his control, so why did he come to the canteen on credit? Do you dare not give credit to such a cadre? Wang Zhihe, a young intellectual, also gave oil and meat to Director Jiang on credit, so he only had to keep accounts, and he would have an explanation at that time, perhaps because of this, he caused the trouble.

See Chapter 38: The Storm of Li Xiangqian's Suicide.