Chapter 381 The canteen of the steel mill was contracted out
Li Shengli's business is slowly getting back on track. It has been a while since Banggeng returned to Siheyuan, and these people have been very honest in recent times.

Li Shengli heard that the steel mill had undergone major changes recently. After Director Yang retired, the new director also began to carry out a series of reforms in the steel mill. In terms of production, they mainly purchased some new production equipment from abroad, and the changes in other areas were relatively large.

The most important aspect is logistics, especially the canteen. The new director of the steel rolling mill contracted the canteen to his relatives. You have to know that there are quite a few people in the steel rolling mill, and earning a few cents from each person in a day is not a small amount.

Therefore, the canteen contract is very popular, and it is difficult to get this job without any connections.

When the canteen was restructured, the factory sent someone to find Li Shengli to see if he wanted to contract the steel rolling mill's canteen.

How could Li Shengli agree to these things? Although contracting a canteen has a fixed customer base, the profit is too little. Besides, a job like this can just be done by finding a chef who cooks for the big pot, and Li Shengli has no shortage of this. He doesn't even want to cook in his own restaurant now, let alone serve people in the factory kitchen like before.

The most important thing is that if a canteen like this is not managed well, the workers will make a fuss and it will be difficult to resolve. Or if you run a restaurant outside and want to show off your skills, you can go to the kitchen occasionally to cook. This can not only satisfy your urge to cook, but also allow your new apprentices to learn more.

After the canteen was contracted out, except for a few law-abiding chefs, all others were laid off by the factory, including Li Shengli's senior apprentice Liu Xikui and Liu Lan, who had a good relationship with Sha Zhu.

Liu Xikui had lived a comfortable life for a while since he separated from Li Shengli due to political differences in 1966 and 1967. However, his life became difficult after 1976, just like Liu Haizhong's second son Liu Guangtian. Although he has not been completely liquidated, he is now a transparent person in the cafeteria and does odd jobs there all day long.

After finally spending two days of peace at home, Liu Xikui's wife couldn't help but get angry with him when she saw that Liu Xikui was still idle all day.

It is said that people of the same family tend to be similar. Liu Xikui met his wife at his previous work, and she has a slightly bad temper. Now that Liu Xikui has been fired, he has no money to be tough in front of his wife.

Originally, according to what Liu Xikui had thought, it should be easy for him to find a job, but he didn't expect that almost all factories were undergoing reforms recently. In places like the back kitchen, people usually look for people they are familiar with. Even if they are not familiar with the people, the chefs have apprentices and kitchen helpers. People like Liu Xikui who do not have the skills of a master and are not good enough to be a chef are basically not wanted by anyone.

Liu Xikui first bought a bunch of things and prepared to go to Li Shengli to find Li Shengli and see if he could accept him as his disciple. However, what Liu Xikui did not expect was that when he arrived at the courtyard and knocked on the door, it was not Li Shengli and his wife but a strange young couple inside the door.

"Who are you?" Seeing that the person knocking on the door was a stranger, the couple looked at Liu Xikui in confusion.

"Isn't this Li Shengli's house?" Liu Xikui looked at the young couple walking out of the room in confusion. If he remembered correctly, this should be the home of his master Li Shengli.

"You go look for Boss Li. He moved out a while ago and I'm the one living here now." The husband of the young couple looked at Liu Xikui and then told him the news.

In his opinion, Liu Xikui was not an important person to Li Shengli. If he was an important person, why wouldn't he tell him his new address?

"Then do you know where he moved to?" Liu Xikui thought that since these two people rented his master's house, they should know where his master moved to. "Sorry, we really don't know about this." Li Shengli had been prepared for this. He did not tell these people his detailed address, but only told them that he moved to Shichahai.

When Liu Xikui brought in these two people, they didn't know where Li Shengli had moved to. He then began to inquire in the compound. The people in the compound only knew the approximate location of Li Shengli's residence, and they didn't know the specific house number.

Liu Xikui had no choice but to pick up something and leave, leaving behind the people in the courtyard who were looking at Liu Xikui's figure and the things in his hands and envious of Li Shengli.

"Shu Lin, I came to you because I really had no other choice." After Liu Xikui returned home, he thought for a long time and realized that the only one who could help him was his junior fellow apprentice. There was no other way, he really couldn't find Li Shengli now, so he planned to come to Tian Shulin first to help him find out what Li Shengli was thinking.

"Xikui, this matter is not easy to handle. You have threatened the master before, saying that you would go your own way and ignore the master's single-plank bridge. It is not appropriate to go to the master now." After listening to Liu Xikui's story, Tian Shulin expressed his sympathy for Liu Xikui's experience.

But as Liu Xikui said, he had severed the master-disciple relationship with his master before, so if he goes to Li Shengli now, it will be no problem for him to drive him out with a stick.

"I know that, too." Liu Xikui shamelessly tried to build a relationship with Tian Shulin. He had no choice but to build a relationship with Tian Shulin. He couldn't just sit back and do nothing. Now his wife was the only one who earned a salary in his family. "Shulin, you are my junior brother after all. Please help me."

Tian Shulin is also a kind person, but there are some things that he cannot decide, especially Liu Xikui, who is not satisfied with a new job but wants Li Shengli to take him in again.

"Xikui, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but your idea is too naive. I've never seen anyone who left his master and then became his disciple again." Tian Shulin was also shocked by Liu Xikui's shamelessness. He didn't expect Liu Xikui to think this way.

"Shu Lin, please help me. Tell Master about this for me." Liu Xikui brought a lot of things to Tian Shu Lin this time.

"This is difficult for me. I can only tell Master about it. As for what Master thinks, I have no say on that." Tian Shulin didn't really want to help Liu Xikui, but they were brothers after all, and Liu Xikui had never been considered to have betrayed his master and ancestors.

"Shu Lin, thank you so much. You go and tell Master first so that He can be prepared. I will then carry the things directly to Master's house." Liu Xikui was very happy after hearing what Tian Shu Lin said. He couldn't stop smiling on his face. He didn't even consider what would happen if Li Shengli rejected him.

"Xikui, let me make it clear to you first. I have no say in this matter. I haven't seen my master for a long time, and I don't understand what my master is thinking. Don't hold such high expectations for the time being." Tian Shulin gave Liu Xikui a shot of prevention first.

"Don't worry, just go and tell Master. I believe Master will not ignore me." Liu Xikui had inexplicable confidence in himself.

(End of this chapter)