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Chapter 196 Little Grey is Poisoned

Ma Xiaoqin wasn't angry even when scolded; she just smiled and stood aside with her things.

"Old Zhang, we've been working together for most of our lives. Don't you have this much trust? If you said you'd resolve it, you definitely will give us an explanation."

The man, growing impatient, bluntly stated the truth: "The production department is incompetent. Making things difficult for our export business is useless; there's nothing we can do about it."

Manager Zhang noticed the growing number of onlookers and swallowed his words.

"Let's talk about this in a couple of days. Anyway, you have to give us an explanation, and the beef jerky too."

The two parted unhappily.

Ma Xiaoqin took the beef jerky and walked out, quickly returning to her car.

"Manager Hu, I just ran into the sales manager of Gu County Food Factory. The two of them got into an argument right in the lobby, apparently about beef jerky."

Ma Xiaoqin relayed what had just happened to Hu Zhibin.

After hearing this, Hu Zhibin felt a little better, and scoffed, "Instead of thinking things through properly, you were always trying to take shortcuts and take advantage of other people's work. Now you've fallen..."

"This beef jerky isn't as good as the ones from our factory," Ma Xiaoqin said, eating the beef jerky she had just bought.

I can't quite put my finger on what's wrong. It doesn't have the same aroma as the first bite from Huaihua Food Factory, but the taste is just okay, nothing special.

"Let me try it." Hu Zhibin also took a piece of beef jerky and put it in his mouth.

The sales manager, who was most familiar with the product, noticed the problem after only chewing it a couple of times: "This tastes milder than ours, and it's not dry enough."

Hu Zhibin broke open a piece of beef jerky, revealing the fibers in the middle, which were much less than those from Huaihua Food Factory.

"Why does it feel like their method is different from ours?"

"Manager Hu, why don't we take it back and show it to Manager Ji? If we don't go back now, it will be too late for get off work by the time we get back."

Hu Zhibin put away the beef jerky, thinking that Master Shi's words made sense.
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Huaihua Food Factory.

Ji Sisi locked the office door and glanced at Ma Xiaoqin's workstation, which was empty.

I hope something bad happened to me after I was out for so long this afternoon.

Ji Sisi was a little worried and ran into Gao Shu, who was going back home, when she went downstairs.

"Gao Shu, did your Manager Hu return this afternoon?"

"No, even Master Shi, who went to deliver the goods, hasn't come back. Could it be that we ran into him in the county and he went to another place to discuss business?"

Neither Hu Zhibin nor Master Shi returned, which put Ji Sisi at ease.

Speaking of Cao Cao, Cao Cao will arrive.

Hu Zhibin got out of the car to open the door, and Master Shi drove in. After the car stopped, Ma Xiaoqin and Master Shi both got out.

Ji Sisi teased, "Manager Hu, are you trying to recruit all my people into your sales department?"

Hu Zhibin pulled the iron gate over and hurriedly explained where he had gone that afternoon.

Ma Xiaoqin handed the beef jerky to Ji Sisi, "Manager Ji, please try this. We brought it back from Gu County."

Ji Sisi was also curious, so she took a bite as well.

"It's alright, but not as dry as ours. It's easy to eat though." Ji Sisi smiled, looking at the beef jerky in her hand. "It's not dried thoroughly, so it probably won't keep for long before it gets moldy."

If you squeeze it hard, you can still get a shallow fingerprint, which means that the moisture in the flesh has not completely evaporated.

Ji Sisi immediately thought of desiccants; if desiccants were packaged separately, the shelf life could be extended significantly.

However, their beef jerky gave me an idea for ways to extend shelf life, other than vacuum packaging.

"Everyone's tired after a long day. Let's talk about this tomorrow. Everyone should go home now. The cafeteria is closed."

"Xiaoqin, you can use my bicycle that I parked in the shed for a while. You have to walk so far every day, it will be more convenient to have a vehicle."

Ji Sisi had observed Ma Xiaoqin's performance during this period; she was a hardworking and resilient girl who had worked for a month and a half without uttering a single complaint about her daily commute. Ji Sisi hadn't ridden the bicycle she had applied for from the commune since she became heavily pregnant.

Ma Xiaoqin was surprised, her eyes gleaming with excitement. "Manager Ji, is what you said true?"

"When has Manager Ji ever joked with you?"

Hu Zhibin was also happy that Ma Xiaoqin had a means of transportation.

Ji Sisi nodded, "Really, here are the keys. This car was applied for by the commune. You have to take good care of it from now on. If it breaks, there won't be any replacements."

Ma Xiaoqin's hands were trembling as he took the keys, and he ran excitedly towards the shed where the bicycles were.

After instructing everyone to lock the doors and windows, Ji Sisi returned to her residence.

She opened the door, and there were more and more things inside, especially Jiang Sirou, who would bring a bunch of things with her every time she came back from the provincial capital.

As soon as it got dark, Little Grey came running, drawn by the smell.

It ate the whole box of sausages, and today, as soon as it came in, it lay down by Ji Sisi's bed and made low growling noises.

"What's going on here?"

"Woo!"

Little Grey let out a whimper, rested its head on the ground, and looked listless.

Ji Sisi took out a box of canned meat from her space, opened it and put it near its mouth, but Little Grey just turned its head to the other side.

"You don't even eat canned meat?"

Ji Sisi couldn't squat down. She hadn't noticed before, but now that she was closer, she saw a ring of white foam around Little Grey's mouth.

Loss of appetite and foaming at the mouth are characteristics of poisoning.

She didn't have time to think about anything else, and took out a bowl of spiritual spring water from her space and placed it near Little Gray's mouth.

Whether it was sensing that the water could save its life or not, Little Grey stuck out its tongue and began to drink.

Looking at the increasingly plump Little Grey, Ji Sisi shook her head and sighed, "You come here for extra meals every day and go out to eat random things. You're almost as fat as a ball, and you're still so greedy."

As they were talking, Little Grey picked up the iron basin and ran outside.

Less than half a minute later, it came back with the iron basin in its mouth. It was unclear whether the water in the basin had been spilled or drunk up.

Little Grey just stared longingly at Ji Sisi.

"What do you mean? You want me to go out with you?"

Ji Sisi glanced at the pitch-black sky outside; there wasn't even a single star in sight.

Little Grey stood at the door watching Ji Sisi, occasionally turning its head to look outside, as if urging her to go out.

"It's inconvenient for me to go out so late."

Seeing its behavior, Ji Sisi couldn't help but guess that something was wrong with its wolf pack, which was why Little Grey wanted to take the water back to the other wolf packs.

Little Grey didn't move, it just looked at her.

Ji Sisi took a step back, "How about I give you a bottle, you can take it back and give it to them to drink? If it's not enough, just bring the bottle back to me."

She found a plastic bottle in the space warehouse, filled with spiritual spring water. She thought that if it were a large-scale poisoning, one bottle would probably not be enough.

Ji Sisi found six bottles and tied them together in pairs with rope, making three strings in total.

Once outside the space, she took out a rope and had it hold the middle rope in its mouth, while tying the other two ropes to its back. She told it, "If you want to drink, bite the bottle open, and the water inside will come out."

Worried that it wouldn't understand, Ji Sisi even took a bottle as a demonstration, punctured the bottle with scissors, and water started to gush out.

"Ouch."

After watching the demonstration, Little Greyhound carried it out, both in its mouth and on its back.