Wan Tongsheng saw that Li Ping'an was about to leave with his things, and wanted to stop Li Ping'an and let him leave a coconut to honor himself, but thinking that Li Ping'an's order had come down, he was not considered his subordinate, so he just opened his mouth and did not make a sound.

Regarding the meaning of Wan Tongsheng's words just now, Li Ping'an naturally heard it, saying that only he had it, and no one else had it, and the meaning of the words was to let Li Ping'an leave a coconut for him.

If it's something else, it's okay to say, the main thing is that the coconut is too rare, and you may not be able to find out how much in the city, the two places are too far apart, if it weren't for the convoy coming back from a business trip, this thing really can't be found in the city.

Such a rare thing, how could it be left because of Wan Tongsheng's words, if Chen Youfu is here, he can still consider it, Lao Wan still forget it.

Riding a bicycle, Li Ping'an didn't feel cold, that is, it was snowing today, and the road was a little slippery, or Li Ping'an would definitely be able to kick the chain out of Mars.

Slowly and leisurely back to the courtyard, at this time the neighbor had already slept, Li Ping'an lightly pushed the bicycle into the courtyard.

Seeing that the lights were still on in Yi Zhonghai's house, Li Ping'an knew that this was Yi Zhonghai and his wife worried about their safety, and they could only sleep when they came back.

Li Ping walked into Yi Zhonghai's room with New Year's goods, and the old couple at this time were warming up around the coal stove, and when they saw Li Ping'an coming in with a bag, they hurriedly took out the prepared hot water and handed it to Li Ping'an to warm up.

"This is the New Year's goods sent by the factory, right? What's in there?" Yi Zhonghai picked up the bag with one hand and weighed it briefly, this thing is quite heavy, at least more than thirty pounds.

Li Ping'an, who had drunk hot water, put down the enamel jar in his hand with a smile and said: "The most valuable thing is five catties of pork and ten catties of white flour, and there are nothing good in the other, but when the factory team came back from Hainan a few days ago, they brought some coconuts back, and the factory gave me two."

"Where is Hainan? What is a coconut?" An aunt grew up in Sijiu City since she was a child, and she never went to school or studied geography, so she naturally didn't know that Hainan was at the southernmost tip of the motherland, and it was the first time she had heard of coconut as a tropical product.

Yi Zhonghai opened the bag and didn't look at the pork and white noodles inside, these two things are precious food in ordinary people's homes, but in Yi Zhonghai's eyes, they are really nothing. An eighth-level fitter in a rolling mill earns 100 yuan a month, and what can he eat that he can't buy on the black market? Even if you eat white flour pork every day, you can afford to eat it.

Compared with white flour and pork, coconut is more attractive to Lao Yi's attention.

Coconuts are indeed rare in Sijiu City, and they can be called well-informed Lao Yi, and today is the first time I have heard of such a thing as coconut.

Lao Yi took the coconut out of the bag, looked it up and down in his hand, left and right, and an aunt also came over to see the rarity.

"This coconut is supposed to be the fruit of the South, right? Such a big thing is similar to a watermelon, but the shell is a little hard, so it shouldn't be easy to cut" Yi Zhonghai observed the coconut for a while, checked the coconut with the method of inspecting the watermelon, and finally came to such a conclusion.

After listening to her wife's analysis, Aunt Yi nodded thoughtfully, feeling that what her wife said was very reasonable.

After listening to Lao Yi's analysis, Li Ping'an almost laughed, got up from the stool, took the coconut from Lao Yi's hand, and said to the second elder with a smile: "Coconut This is a tropical specialty, this is different from watermelon, it is not cut to eat the flesh inside, it is hollow, filled with coconut water, after opening it, the main thing is to drink the juice inside."

"Then this thing is not as good as watermelon, watermelon has pulp and juice in it, this coconut is not real, it has grown so big, it is full of water" After listening to Li Ping'an's explanation, an aunt shook her head in disgust, thinking that this coconut is not as cost-effective as watermelon.

Yi Zhonghai was very interested in the fact that there was water in the coconut, so he took the coconut out of Li Ping'an's hand, put it next to his ear and shook it, wanting to see if he could hear the sound of water.

Seeing Yi Zhonghai's movements, Li Ping'an smiled, took out another coconut from the bag, and said with a smile: "Okay, it's too late, you guys should go to bed early, I took this coconut away, you have it in your hands."

Let's eat it tomorrow."

After speaking, Li Ping'an was about to turn around and go back, stopped at the door of the room, turned his head and said, "Uncle, aunt, this bag of New Year's goods must be hidden, there are many people working in the rolling mill in our yard, if they know about this matter, it will not have a good impact."

"Don't worry, I've lived with your aunt for so many years, what can and can't be said, I still know in my heart, and I will never let people know that these things are your New Year's goods."

After hearing Yi Zhonghai's assurance, Li Ping'an returned to his room with the coconut in his arms.

In Li Ping'an's room, the light in the back room was still on, Ding Qiunan should still be reviewing at this time, Li Ping'an hid the coconut behind him, and prepared to go over to surprise Ding Qiunan.

"What are you taking, why are you still hiding it from me to see" Ding Qiunan, who was lying on the bed reading a book, saw Li Ping'an enter the room with one hand behind him, so he put down the book in his hand and looked at Li Ping'an curiously.

When he came to the bedside, Li Ping'an showed Ding Qiunan the coconut hidden behind him as if he were offering a treasure, and said mysteriously, "What do you look at this?"

"Coconut, where did this come from, we don't have this thing in the north" Ding Qiunan was very excited after seeing the coconut, and quickly sat up from the bed and took the coconut from Li Ping'an's hand to check it.

"It's given by the factory, but you have to remember to keep it secret, it's inconvenient for people to know, by the way, how do you know it's a coconut? Have you eaten it before?" Li Ping'an is still a little curious about Ding Qiunan's ability to recognize a coconut, not many people in the north can recognize this thing.

Snack seller Ding Qiunan glanced at Li Ping'an, and said angrily: "Look at what you said, I haven't seen pork or pigs, my dad once ate coconut when he was in college in Yunnan, and he took a photo at that time, I have seen a photo of coconut."

Coconut is not a specialty of Hainan, and it is also planted in some places in southern Yunnan, but the planting area is very small, and it has not formed a large area of cultivation like Hainan Island.

Ding Rushan is an undergraduate student at Tongji University School of Medicine, why Ding Qiunan would say that his father studied in Yunnan is because after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, many universities have moved to Yunnan to build schools, and the famous Southwest Associated University was established in this era.

Southwest Associated University is jointly run by National BJ University, National Tsinghua University, and private Nankai University in Yunnan, bringing together a large number of national pillars, such as Hua Luogeng, Chen Xingshu, Liang Sicheng, Zhu Ziqing and others, all of whom have worked and taught at Southwest Associated University. z.br>

Tongji University also studied in Yunnan, when Ding Rushan was a student of Tongji University Medical School, who had studied in Yunnan and only studied abroad after graduation.

"In this way, our dad is really experienced, there are two in this coconut factory, this one is specially for you to eat, when you want to eat, just open it and eat it" Li Ping'an touched Miss Xiaoding's head and said dotingly.

After the greedy Ding Qiunan heard that this coconut was specially for himself, his eyes lit up instantly, and he had an urge to open the coconut and eat it now.

But look at the time, it's a little late now, and a coconut will definitely not be able to be eaten, so Miss Xiaoding resisted the urge to eat the coconut, and reluctantly put the coconut on the bedside table, ready to keep it for the New Year.

Li Ping'an came back from washing and saw the coconut on the cabinet, Miss Xiaoding didn't even bother to read the book, she sat on the head of the bed, blinked a pair of big watery eyes, and stared at the coconut on the cabinet.

Seeing the appearance of Miss Xiaoding, Li Ping'an shook his head with a smile and didn't say anything, and turned off the lights in the room before going to bed.

"Alas" After Li Ping'an went to bed, Miss Ding sighed deeply, squeezed hard into Li Ping'an's arms, found a comfortable position, and fell asleep with Li Ping'an in her arms.

Now that the New Year is approaching, the workers in the rolling mill have no heart to work, and they are also grinding foreign workers at work, waiting for tomorrow's New Year's goods, and from time to time discussing with the workers next to them what will be sent this year, and their faces are full of expectations.

I hope that this year, one person in the factory can give a pound of fat meat, so that the family can eat a fragrant dumpling at the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner on the Chinese New Year's Eve.

In the afternoon, Li Ping'an, who was idle and bored in the office, was caught by the busy Chen Youfu, and the pork pulled from the meat factory needed to be put into storage, and Li Ping'an was responsible for coordinating the work.

Just last month, the big leaders came forward to negotiate with the Ministry of Food, and separately issued a batch of articles for the rolling mill, and this year the workers in the factory each had three catties of white flour, one catty of pork, and some other food materials.

The white noodles promised by the ministry have been in place in the morning, and now the pork is on the way to come, and Chen Youfu should be in charge of the work of receiving the meat factory, but Chen Youfu really can't get out of the way, so he can only seconded Li Ping'an, who has nothing to do.

In the afternoon, the news of the arrival of pork in the factory spread throughout the rolling mill, and workers continued to sneak out of the workshop and come to the gate, ready to welcome the transport convoy of the meat factory into the factory.

Li Ping'an, who was wearing an overcoat, stood alone at the door like a fool blowing the cold wind, quietly waiting for the convoy of the meat factory.

Three trucks slowly drove in the distance, and the personnel of the security department of the factory set up machine guns, rode side three wheels to open the road in front, and soon the convoy drove to the gate of the rolling mill and stopped.

After Li Ping'an stepped forward to greet the comrades of the meat factory, he sat on the side three wheels prepared in advance and guided the convoy to the warehouse in the factory.

Along the way, the workers who secretly came out to see the excitement suddenly became excited when they saw the car of the meat factory pulling three truckloads of pork into the factory, and they ran after the car in groups, and their mouths kept shouting excitedly.

Coming to the material warehouse that had been prepared long ago, Li Ping'an got down from the side three wheels, came to the car of the meat factory, and after checking the documents with the person in charge of the meat factory, he began the handover of the materials.

So much pork is not a trivial matter, naturally it is not enough to pull the pork over, Li Ping'an arranged for someone to inspect the goods, and he led the comrades of the meat factory to the office to drink tea and roast the fire.

It didn't take long for the excited Liu Dabao to push the door from the outside and walk in, nodded happily at Li Ping'an, and shouted loudly: "The number of pork is a lot, and it has all been unloaded."

"Comrade Li, don't worry about it now, the scale of our meat factory is accurate, and the pork that goes out of our meat factory is always a lot more," the person in charge of the meat factory put down the teacup and said to Li Ping'an with a smile.

Li Ping'an nodded, gave a thumbs up to the people in the meat factory, and said with a smile: "The meat factory is worthy of being a meat factory, and your factory is this." Speaking of this, Li Ping'an paused, and then added: "Of course I don't suspect that the meat factory will be short of catties and two, isn't it the duty, check it out in advance, it's good for both of us."

"Well, what you said makes sense, it's all for the country, and the handover of materials is checked in advance, so as not to rip off in the future, you have also checked it, Comrade Li, or you sign the documents, our factory is very busy now, and we still need our transport team to deliver it next."

"Okay, okay, give me the paper, I'll sign it now."

Politely sent off the people from the meat factory, Li Ping'an commanded the seconded people to start sorting the pork in advance according to the number of people in the workshop, so as not to be in a hurry when distributing the materials tomorrow.

The annual gifts are not uniformly issued, but all the annual gifts of each workshop are stored separately and transported directly to the workshop tomorrow for unified distribution by the workshop director.

By the time all this was done, the workers in the rolling mill had already gone home from work, and after working in the factory for so long, Li Ping'an worked overtime for the first time today.

After the count, just wanted to go home from work, Li Ping'an was called by Chen Youfu, so many leaders in the factory are busy today, naturally they can't let the leaders go home hungry, Li Huaide let the canteen prepare a working meal, so that these overtime leaders have dinner and then go home.

Li Ping'an naturally will not refuse to be able to have dinner in the factory, the factory has received so many materials today, it must be a good meal, why don't you keep so many materials?

Sure enough, today's working meals in the factory are indeed rich, chicken, duck and fish are available, braised pork, chicken stewed mushrooms, lion head, etc., all of which are hard dishes, and they can't even be seen as vegetarian.

There are no staple steamed buns, and all the white flour and big meat buns are stacked in piles in the basin, and today's working meal is called a luxury.

After a busy afternoon, Li Ping'an was really hungry, and Li Ping'an was not polite to these foods, so he threw off his cheeks and stuffed them into his mouth.

After Li Ping'an was full, he borrowed a few lunch boxes from Wan Tongsheng, filled three lunch boxes full of meat and vegetables, took six or seven large meat buns, put them on a net bag, tied them to the bicycle, and turned around and left in a chic manner.