After business hours, Qin Huai didn’t work overti. Instead, he followed Tan Wei’an’s lead in loafing around—playing on his phone, chatting gossip, eating snacks, wandering aimlessly. Because Qin Huai hadn’t slacked off in ages, suddenly doing so felt a bit strange and unfamiliar. He didn’t even know the proper way to slack off, so he basically just copied Tan Wei’an’s approach.
This directly led Guli to look at Tan Wei’an with eyes that said: Senior brother, you slacking off is one thing, but how could you corrupt Master Qin too? Even though you’re my senior brother, I still want to say to you with my eyes—
You’re really a damned man.
Tan Wei’an just wanted to shout three tis that he’s wronged.
Of course, no one knew of Tan Wei’an’s feeling of being wronged, and Master Qin’s slacking off was forcibly stopped.
After not seeing Zheng Da in the kitchen by 1:54 PM, Qin Huai pretty much confird that Zheng Da was likely skipping work directly today too.
Qin Huai decided to call Zheng Da directly.
The call was answered instantly.
"Hello, Xiao Qin, is there so problem with the Four Happiness Flower Rolls? Is it an issue with rolling them normally, or when rolling them the other way, or both? Is it because you can’t get the feel, or does the technique feel weird, or are you just not satisfied with the shape?" Zheng Da’s cheerful voice ca from the other end of the line.
"Master Zheng, today’s Four Happiness Flower Rolls went smoothly, and there haven’t been many issues so far. I called to ask how your neighbor’s dog is doing? How’s the follow-up? Has the gastroenteritis completely healed?" Qin Huai replied in a respectful tone, imitating Su Qian’s way of reporting work.
"Ah, what dog? Oh, alright, alright, alright, it’s in great health now, eating and sleeping well, just ran around the yard."
"I just...just took it back from the pet hospital. The recheck at the pet hospital is terribly complicated and takes two days, so I didn’t go to Huang Ji in the morning."
"This afternoon...do you need over there? If not, I might have sothing this afternoon, so I won’t go today, I’ll go tomorrow instead."
It wasn’t hard to tell from Zheng Da’s words that his laziness had flared up again.
This was completely normal; this was the real Master Zheng.
Qin Huai respectfully continued: "If you have sothing to do today, you don’t need to co. I mainly called you to talk about sothing else. Yesterday, Su Qian told ..."
Qin Huai briefly explained his need to go to Zhiwei Restaurant and the plan everyone had co up with to Zheng Da, finally asking if Zheng Da could help make the Four Happiness Rolls at Huang Ji for at least a week. Given Zheng Da’s skill level, imitating Qin Huai to make a batch of low-budget Four Happiness Rolls should definitely be no problem.
The response to Qin Huai was Zheng Da’s silence.
Qin Huai thought Zheng Da was unwilling, and he could understand.
For such a lazy person like Master Zheng, asking him to work at Huang Ji for a week was more painful than death. He could only think of a plan B, wondering if he could get Zheng Siyuan to stay at Huang Ji for another week to imitate his Four Happiness Rolls.
He just didn’t know how close the imitation by Zheng Siyuan would be.
Just as Qin Huai was about to hang up, Zheng Da almost shrieked on the other end of the line: "What, that shaless Su from Zhiwei Restaurant rushed you to go to Zhiwei Restaurant the day after tomorrow!"
"Where does Zhiwei Restaurant have a snack master skilled in cloud patterns? Their signature Ruyi Roll has been lost! If there was a single Grand Master in Zhiwei Restaurant skilled in cloud patterns, Guli wouldn’t ss up hers like that. Master Zhou’s technique is better than mine, but when it cos to cloud patterns, he might not do them better than ."
"All these years, I practice cloud patterns quietly at ho every year before the new year. Does he have more years of cloud pattern practice than I do?"
"I thought that Su guy with his thick brows and big eyes was a decent person, but I didn’t expect he would secretly sabotage and steal people like this."
"Xiao Qin, don’t worry, I’m going to call that Su guy right now and ask him what he’s up to!"
"Beep beep beep beep beep..."
Qin Huai: ...
Master Zheng, your points of concern are truly extraordinary.
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