Chapter 2383 - 2190: Stay Away from the Young Lady_5
Chapter 2383: Chapter 2190: Stay Away from the Young Lady_5
And just like that, the entire day’s output from yesterday was scrapped.
Song Xiaodong didn’t feel bad about it. Instead, he took Su Xiaoliu with him to personally inspect the raw materials and the water source.
All the various medicinal ingredients and tea leaves checked out fine, and the water used to produce the slimming tea wasn’t some amazing natural spring or fancy mineral or purified water either; it was just tap water that had been strictly disinfected to meet food safety standards, coming from the Beishan District Development Zone’s water plant. To ensure continuous production, the factory area had two water towers, one in use and one on standby, and usually only one tower actually held water.
Song Xiaodong climbed up the ladder along the water tower to the top, and as soon as he stepped up he caught a whiff of an intense stench. He couldn’t help covering his nose with his hand. Standing on the ladder beside the tower top, he looked down and saw no obvious foreign objects in the water, but there was a thin rainbow‑colored film of oil floating on the surface.
Song Xiaodong flipped himself over and jumped straight down from the top of the tower, then came to stand by Su Xiaoliu and said, "Go draw a sample from the water quality test outlet."
Su Xiaoliu ordered someone to draw water from the testing outlet on the tower. Before long, they came over to Song Xiaodong holding a beaker full of water.
Song Xiaodong took the beaker and saw that the same nearly invisible oily film was still floating on the water.
He stuck a finger into the beaker and lightly dipped it, then put the finger into his mouth.
"Pah!" A violent, rotten‑corpse stench rapidly spread through his mouth. His stomach lurched, and he hurriedly spat onto the ground.
"Family Head? What’s going on?" Su Xiaoliu asked.
"Drain all the water out of the tower, re‑disinfect and clean it, and switch over to the other water tower," Song Xiaodong ordered.
"Got it."
Both towers in the factory area were used to supply water for beverage production, while the domestic and drinking water in the factory came from another tap water pipeline in the Beishan District Development Zone. If the tower water had a problem, the beverages would have a problem. Everyone on site drank the beverages every day; whoever had drunk the beverages got diarrhea, while those who only drank plain water or tea were fine.
"Tonight, call in a few more people. Find some who are sharp and handy, have them come guard the place, and get the monitoring system around the factory set up as soon as possible," Song Xiaodong said to Su Xiaoliu.
"Understood."
"Contact the staff who called in sick and didn’t come to the factory, check how they’re doing. If any are in serious condition, have them come see me," Song Xiaodong added.
"Okay."
"Yesterday’s entire production batch is a write‑off, just destroy it all."
"Family Head..." Su Xiaoliu was a bit pained at the thought of the money.
"If you feel bad, you can take it all home and drink it slowly yourself," Song Xiaodong said, smiling at him.
"No, no, that’s fine..." Su Xiaoliu waved his hands repeatedly.
With final exams just around the corner, the last‑minute crammers Lu Yaobing, Zhang Si Rui, Chen Xue, and Jiang Nan were grinding away while also deciding to put their faith in mystic forces. The four girls were nervously going out to play, eat, drink, and have fun, all the while hoping that the Exam God would descend upon them so they could know everything without studying.
That day, Lu Yaobing, Zhang Si Rui, Chen Xue, and Jiang Nan went to the temple fair. As they were walking, they suddenly came across a fortune‑telling Taoist priest, holding a banner high, setting out an incense table, sitting cross‑legged and chanting under his breath, looking quite legit.
"Bingbing, why don’t we ask the master to take a look, see if we can actually pass the exams smoothly?" Zhang Si Rui asked Lu Yaobing.
"Xiao Rui, you actually believe in this stuff?" Lu Yaobing asked her.
"When exams are looming, you’ll clutch at any cure. You’re good at studying so you don’t need to worry, but we bottom‑of‑the‑class types are different. At this point if you told me to believe in Conan, I’d believe him," Zhang Si Rui said to Lu Yaobing.
"Hahahaha."
"Wait here for me, I’m going to get my fortune told." Zhang Si Rui sat down across from the master.
"Asking about your studies?" The old fortune‑teller didn’t even lift his eyelids; he just opened his mouth and asked.
"This is spooky! How does he know what I want to ask?" Zhang Si Rui turned around in surprise and said to Lu Yaobing, Chen Xue, and Jiang Nan.
"Idiot, we’ve been chattering here for ages, he heard every word loud and clear. Of course he knows what you’re here for," Chen Xue said to her.
"You’re awful!" Zhang Si Rui took a swat at Chen Xue through the air.
"Master, could you just read everything for me? Like, the whole package?" Zhang Si Rui asked the fortune‑teller.
"Bone weighing, face reading, palmistry, bone palpation—young lady, which one do you want to choose?" the fortune‑teller asked her.
"Which one is more accurate?" she asked.
"Accuracy doesn’t depend on the method, it depends on the fortune‑teller’s Shuiping," he replied.
Zhang Si Rui wanted to ask outright, "So how’s your Shuiping?"
But after thinking about it, she felt it might be a bit rude to directly question someone’s professional Ability, so she let it go and said to him, "Read my palm then."
"Please," the fortune‑teller said, gesturing for her to hold out her hand.
He glanced at her palm, then closed his eyes and calculated for a long moment before saying, "You were born with peach blossom fate. Your emotional life will be quite Fengfu. You’ve got a knack for business, wealth will flow in, but remember: in business and in life you must be honest and keep your word, or you’ll suffer for it later."
Chapter 2194: Reading Relationship Fate
"What exactly do you mean by ’emotional life will be Fengfu’?" Zhang Si Rui asked him.
Taking one look at her face—phoenix eyes with upturned corners, her speech and manner delicate and seductive—the fortune‑teller thought to himself, "You’ve got the fate of a vixen spirit, destined to hook up with married men and be a Mistress."