Chapter 324 - 143: Overt and Covert Strife Between Socialites, Someone’s About to Be Disgraced

Chapter 324: Chapter 143: Overt and Covert Strife Between Socialites, Someone’s About to Be Disgraced

So they’ve never gotten along.

Zhang Jiayi was trying not to offend either side, but now it looked like she would end up pleasing neither!

’I’d better contact Boss Su...’

There was no other choice. According to the rules of the Jingzhou social circles, it was indeed her turn to host this week.

’If I’d known it would be this much trouble with Boss Su, I should have just taken the girls to Shanghai or Peng City for fun. At least that wouldn’t have delayed my trip to the Capital City...’

"Boss Su?"

Zhang Jiayi found the WeChat account Su Chen had used to contact her that day.

"Hello, this is Bai Xiaobo, the product manager for Meiweilai Company. How may I help you?"

Seeing the reply, Zhang Jiayi frowned slightly.

"I need to talk to your boss about this order."

"Of course. Please wait a moment while I report this to the boss."

「Meiweilai Company.」

In the kitchen, Su Chen and Chen Wenliang admired their masterpiece, the result of a full day’s hard work. Both were quite satisfied.

"Good thing this Dragon Beard Candy isn’t too difficult to make. It’s pretty common on the market."

Chen Wenliang said speechlessly, "You have the nerve to say that? If you hadn’t insisted on pulling it 20 times, this Dragon Beard Candy would have been done long ago."

"Hehe, I’m just striving for perfection. Weren’t you going to call someone and ask? What did you find out?"

Just mentioning it made Chen Wenliang angry!

The method for making Dragon Beard Candy was the simplest among all the selected pastries; you just had to continuously pull the maltose after dipping it in lotus root powder.

Many street vendors sold it, usually for about ten yuan a box.

"I just had someone ask a few old masters who have been doing this for decades. They all said the limit for Dragon Beard Candy is 15 pulls. But you went and did 20! That’s 5 more than anyone else! Is that something a human can even do?"

When Su Chen heard the number 15, he nodded silently.

’That’s a relief.’

It wasn’t a waste for him to have specifically activated his White Jade Hand skill while making this pastry.

"It’s not just a matter of five more pulls."

Ling Shuyu had been watching in the kitchen the entire day.

As everyone’s eyes focused on her, Ling Shuyu began to speak slowly. "The maltose starts as a sugar patty. You make a hole in the center to form a ring, then stretch it, fold it into a figure-eight, and continue to pull."

"Pulling it like this 15 times turns one strand of maltose into 32,768 strands. The boss pulled it a full five more times, and the resulting change is not as simple as just five extra pulls."

After speaking, Ling Shuyu looked at He Shuting. "So how many strands is five more times?"

"Huh?" He Shuting was completely bewildered. "How would I know how many strands?"

"Don’t look at me! I don’t know either!" Zhang Li quickly surrendered.

Aunt Fang and Chen Wenliang were even more clueless, and Zhang Heping silently turned his head, pretending to be busy with something else.

Just then, Bai Xiaobo burst in.

"Boss, I have something to report!"

Ling Shuyu waved her hand. "Don’t be in a hurry to report. I have a question for you. If this Dragon Beard Candy starts as one strand and is repeatedly folded and stretched 20 times, how many strands will there be?"

Bai Xiaobo: ???

’What kind of crazy question is that?’

"Forty strands?"

Ling Shuyu sighed. "Didn’t you graduate from college?"

Bai Xiaobo was completely dumbfounded. "What does that have to do with college? This is middle school math. Of course a college student wouldn’t know how to do it!"

Su Chen gave him a thumbs-up. "That’s a damn good answer!"

’Why should a college student be expected to know middle school math?’

Ling Shuyu, however, remained perfectly calm. "Boss, I suggest that anyone who doesn’t know the answer to this question can resign."

With that, she walked straight out of the kitchen, leaving everyone to stare at each other in bewilderment.

’What the hell!’

’Does she have to be so arrogant!’

Su Chen gave Bai Xiaobo a light punch. "Stop messing around. What did you need to say?"

"The 20,000-yuan customer wants to talk to you about something. She seems to be in a hurry. Do you have time?"

"Did she say what it was about?"

Bai Xiaobo scratched his head. "No."

"Okay, tell her I’ll be available in fifteen minutes. I need to take care of some things here."

"Oh, okay."

After saying that, Bai Xiaobo was about to leave, but he turned back indignantly. "Boss, do you think President Ling has it in for me? There’s no way she knows the answer to such a hard math problem herself, right? And that stuff about resigning if you don’t know... on what grounds?! I refuse to believe anyone could know the answer to that!"

Su Chen was about to wash his hands when he saw Xiaobai’s furious expression. "If you pull it 20 times, it should be one million, forty-eight thousand, five hundred and seventy-six strands."

Bai Xiaobo, who had been about to say something else, opened his mouth but froze when he heard Su Chen’s words.

After a long moment, he finally managed a laugh. "Boss, you’re just making that up, right? You have to be. Nobody’s mental math is that good. Anyway, I don’t believe it."

"Xiaobai!" Zhang Li turned her phone around to show him the screen. It was a scientific calculator displaying: 2^20 = 1,048,576

"It’s really the number the boss said! It’s exact!"

Bai Xiaobo snatched the phone and calculated it again himself. "You... you guys are bullying me!"

Then he stormed out.

As he walked out the kitchen door, he was surprised to see Ling Shuyu still standing there.

This made Xiaobai even angrier. ’Why? Why does President Ling always have to pick on me!’

SOB SOB SOB...

As for Ling Shuyu, she suddenly felt a little upset.

She hadn’t really thought much about it, but she had always fantasized that one day she could pull off a cool, natural moment of showing off, just like Boss Su...

And today, the perfect opportunity had presented itself.

In Ling Shuyu’s mind, after she left the kitchen, the people inside would surely be buzzing, all of them thinking that such mental math was absolutely beyond human capability.