Chapter 392 - 157: The Turnover That Scared the Martial Brothers to Tears

Chapter 392: Chapter 157: The Turnover That Scared the Martial Brothers to Tears

Damn it!

He had been happily feasting at Delicious, gorging himself on the Cthulhu dish Boss Su had personally made. He was even flexing by posting a few pictures in a group chat—life was good!

But around seven in the evening, his nearly-defunct "e-commerce department" suddenly gave him a call. ℴℴ𝘮

They said the online store was being flooded with orders!

Fang Chang was skeptical at first. He had only opened the online store because he couldn’t stand the Bureau of Industry and Commerce constantly nagging him about supporting rural development and getting into e-commerce.

So he’d opened an online store, basically just to humor them.

Fang’s Meat Industry catered to locals. What kind of business could an online store possibly get?

Sure, he got some orders on a typical day, but they were almost all from locals, the kind that qualified for same-city delivery.

So when they said he was being flooded with orders, Fang Chang wouldn’t believe it in a million years.

But his employee kept insisting, even telling Fang Chang to log into the store’s admin panel and see for himself!

He didn’t think much of it, but one look was all it took. Fang Chang was stunned!

Starting from just after eight in the evening, orders from all over the country had begun trickling into his shop.

Fang Chang didn’t know how business was for people selling beef at fifty yuan per jin, but in his store, the ground beef that had been sitting at eighty yuan per jin forever had sold over seven hundred orders in just over an hour!

And that number was still climbing!

Still bewildered, Fang Chang rushed to the warehouse. Since people had placed orders, he had to arrange for shipping, right?

He reactivated all sorts of long-dormant business operations. Just contacting his network of connections took several hours. By the time everything was ready, it was already past ten at night.

In the midst of the chaos, Fang Chang also figured out what had happened.

It turned out some streamer, while eating, had casually asked where the delicious ground beef in the Mapo Tofu was from.

The chef, Wang Peixing, had piped up and said it was from a local premium meat purveyor in Jingzhou, one that specialized in high-quality meat, called Fang’s.

And then...

...came the scene before him now.

"Boss, the pork trotters are blowing up too! Another two thousand orders just popped up!"

"Go! Let’s fucking go for it! Put all our inventory on the line today!" Fang Chang said, clenching his fist fiercely.

He might seem goofy most of the time, but Fang Chang actually had a knack for business.

"But Boss, if we use up all our inventory, what are we going to do about the physical store tomorrow?"

Fresh meat from the slaughterhouse was only part of their supply. Not all meat was butchered and sold on the same day; some products required a larger inventory.

A fierce glint appeared in Fang Chang’s eyes.

"Damn it, we’re going all in!"

He immediately called his dad. Having been in the butchery business for so many years, Father Fang Chang knew some people in the surrounding cities.

Fang Chang made his decision.

He would contact every slaughterhouse in the surrounding cities immediately, regardless of the cost or price!

Before dawn tomorrow, even if the price of meat went up by ten percent, he had to get those slaughterhouses to supply him with a share of their product!

This time, he had to seize this sudden, heaven-sent windfall!

If he handled this well, the money would come rolling in. But if he screwed this up, he might never get a chance like this again.

’Opportunities in life are rare. When you find one, you have to grab on and never let go!’

’Boss Su, thank you so much!’

Fang Chang jumped into his Wuling Sunshine cargo van and sped home to pick up his dad!

That night, some were busy beyond belief, some tossed and turned, unable to sleep, and still others slept like a log until the sun was high in the sky.

「By eight o’clock the next morning.」

Delicious had already descended into a state of organized chaos, with all hands on deck.

The eight senior apprentice brothers had been feeling a bit demoralized by Su Chen’s sales figures, but something Ling Shuyu said to them that morning snapped them out of it.

"You can compare yourselves to anyone, but you choose to compare yourselves to Boss Su?"

That was right!

The senior brothers had an epiphany.

Why were they comparing themselves to Boss Su?

Was he even someone they *could* compare themselves to?

Forget about them—even their master, Cui Yufen, had to call Su Chen "Fifth Brother"!

It was pointless. Absolutely pointless!

"Just prep the same amount of ingredients as yesterday," Su Chen announced. "Six hours. We don’t work a minute longer."

Su Chen gave the final order.

As the employees got busy, Su Chen returned to the nineteenth floor.

He had practically cleaned out all the seafood markets in Jingzhou City. Supplying unlimited Cthulhu buns like the day before was now impossible.

After preparing enough ingredients for just under two hundred buns, Su Chen casually returned to his office.

He had been so exhausted the previous day that he had passed out immediately, which meant he hadn’t gotten to a very important matter.

He habitually bolted the door and settled into his recliner.

[Congratulations on completing the main quest: Return to Simplicity]

[Quest Reward Acquired: Magic Sticker (Item)]

[Magic Sticker: A very magical adhesive bandage.]

That’s it?

Looking at the absurdly simple item description, Su Chen was astonished. ’That’s it?’

With a thought, an adhesive bandage appeared in his hand.

It looked like the most ordinary kind, the type you could buy a pack of ten for a single yuan. There was absolutely nothing magical about its appearance!

"Don’t tell me this thing is a one-time use item," Su Chen wondered.

Su Chen tried peeling off the two plastic strips from the back. "But where the hell am I supposed to stick this?"

He wasn’t even injured!

Frustrated, he SLAPPED the adhesive bandage onto the back of his hand.

A countdown suddenly appeared in Su Chen’s mind!

[Magic Sticker Effective Duration: 23:59:59]

Huh?

Su Chen raised his left hand and examined it, but he didn’t feel anything special.

With a thought, he entered his practice space. After confirming the bandage was still on his hand, he summoned the ingredients for the Cthulhu crab soup buns he had saved earlier.

The other steps were nothing special. Su Chen placed the lard in the wok and turned the heat to low.

Then, he added the crab meat to the melted lard.

As he gripped the spatula...

"Wait!"

The instant Su Chen gripped the spatula with his right hand and the wok handle with his left, a flood of information suddenly burst into his mind.

’If I add a little more crab meat, the ratio will be perfect.’

’The temperature is just right, but I need to adjust the flame in a few seconds.’

’Why is this wok so heavy?’

This information wasn’t in the form of words or images. It was more like...

Yes!

Su Chen suddenly remembered—it was similar to when he activated his White Jade Hand Skill.

The moment he touched the wok handle, the information flowed into him as if it were innate knowledge, as simple as seeing an apple and instantly knowing it’s red!

"If this is the effect, does that mean it’s like a twenty-four-hour version of White Jade Hand?"

Su Chen raised his left hand and stared at the unremarkable adhesive bandage. A new idea suddenly struck him.

’What would happen if I stuck it somewhere else?’