Starting from a short stick, becoming the master of the universe

At night, Jiang Cheng was sitting on a cushion, meditating to restore his mental strength, when the cell phone on the table began to vibrate.

Jiang Cheng opened his eyes, and with a thought, the cell phone flew into his hand. The call was from an unfamiliar number.

"Could it be Principal Xu?"

With this thought in mind, he answered the phone.

Immediately, a mature woman's voice sounded, with some majesty, "I heard Cui Hao say that you have something important to talk to me about? What is it?"

"Principal Xu, it's like this..."

Jiang Cheng didn't say much in greeting. After all, the other party didn't seem to be someone who would like this kind of thing.

After briefly recounting the incident, Jiang Cheng said, "Principal Xu, we have agreed before that I will complete the two tasks you assigned me, and the rest of the time will be at my disposal. However, I did not quite understand what Vice Principal Sun did at the meeting today."

Because he didn't know whether Sun Bo had received Xu Juan's instructions behind this, so his words were very polite.

"I see."

Xu Juan's voice then rang out, "How about this, I'll call him later. As for you, it's still the same as we agreed before. After completing the task, you can spend the rest of your time however you want."

"Thank you, Principal Xu."

Jiang Cheng said.

"Well, anything else?"

"Gone."

"Okay, I'll hang up first."

After saying that, Xu Juan hung up the phone.

Jiang Cheng looked at the phone screen and breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems that Sun Bo made the decision on his own and Xu Juan was unaware of it.

In this case, it is indeed better than expected.

He noted the cell phone number and continued to meditate.

On the other side, after Xu Juan hung up the phone, she found Sun Bo's number in the address book and called him.

A few seconds later, the call was connected, and Sun Bo's laughter rang out, "It's the principal. You called me so late, is there something important?"

"I heard that at today's meeting, you ordered Jiang Cheng to refine six furnaces of top-grade awakening pills every day? Is this true?" Xu Juan asked.

She didn't completely believe Jiang Cheng's words, although her intuition told her that Sun Bo might really be capable of such a thing.

"Did Director Jiang tell you?"

The smile on Sun Bo's face froze.

He thought to himself that the boy was really good at complaining, and he actually told Xu Juan about the matter overnight.

"You don't need to ask how I know it, just tell me if it's true." Xu Juan frowned slightly.

"Indeed, this is indeed the case."

Sun Bo felt some pressure and admitted it obediently, then said: "But I did this for everyone's good. In recent decades, the strength of our City of Hope has been increasingly different from those outside. Of course, there is a population gap, but the lack of a large number of elixirs is also an indisputable fact.

Since he has joined us, he should think about the collective and refine more pills. Besides, he is not without the ability. Principal, you may not know that it only takes him two hours to refine a furnace of top-grade awakening pills!"

"is it?"

After hearing the last part, Xu Juan was also a little surprised, and then shook her head:

"Principal Sun, I understand what you mean, but the gap between us and the outside world cannot be made up by producing a few more batches of top-grade Awakening Pills."

"Principal, it's better to have it than not to have it!"

Sun Bo emphasized his tone and said, "As the saying goes, 'dripping water wears away a stone, and a rope saw cuts through wood.' One or two years may not have much effect, but what about eight or ten years? A few more furnaces of awakening pills every day will make a big difference. What about twenty or thirty years? Who knows, we can have several more masters or even supreme masters in our City of Hope?" Hearing this, Xu Juan had to admit that what Sun Bo said made sense.

But she had already promised Jiang Cheng, and it would be too embarrassing if she didn't keep her word when it wasn't even a month yet.

What's more, the leader had reminded them many times at the beginning.

"Principal Sun, there is no need to say more about this matter. As long as he refines two furnaces of top-grade awakening pills every day and teaches students twice a week, it will be fine. If he wants to earn more contribution points, he will refine more pills on his own without you and me urging him."

"But the principal..."

"Okay, I don't want to say the same thing again."

Xu Juan's voice became serious.

"Yes, principal."

Sun Bo had no choice but to agree.

After hanging up the phone, his face was full of resentment.

I thought that even if Xu Juan knew about what happened today, she would turn a blind eye to it. After all, this matter is good for everyone.

Who knew that the other party would actually stand on Jiang Cheng's side, which made him much more passive.

Thinking of the scene in the conference room today where he was contradicted in public, the anger that he had suppressed in his heart burned up again.

……

The next day.

Jiang Cheng stepped into the academy, and as soon as he entered, he noticed that the atmosphere was wrong.

When the people around him saw him appear, they all looked at him with strange expressions, and there were also slight discussions.

"Look, that's Jiang Cheng. I heard that at yesterday's weekly meeting, he directly confronted Principal Sun and slammed the door and walked out halfway through the meeting."

"Is this true? That's Principal Sun. How dare he, a newcomer, confront the principal in person?"

"So many people saw it with their own eyes, how could it be fake? The point is, it wasn't a big deal, and Principal Sun was thinking about the collective. But he was like a powder keg that was lit and exploded all of a sudden."

Jiang Cheng ignored the gossip behind him.

Before coming here, he had already thought of this scene.

When I arrived at the corridor near the alchemy center, I met a few familiar-looking teachers walking towards me, talking and laughing.

When they saw Jiang Cheng, the smiles on the faces of the people opposite them suddenly froze. They all lowered their heads, looked away, and walked around Jiang Cheng.

Jiang Cheng didn't say much.

Although these people are all teachers in the Alchemy Department and are his subordinates, it is understandable that they would avoid him after he and Sun Bo fell out.

Fortunately, he never wanted to get too close to the people around him. Whether they were close or distant, he just let nature take its course.

I walked to the door of the director's office and just as I opened it, I heard urgent voices from inside the room.

"Hey, Director Jiang, you're finally here. I called you several times last night, but why didn't you answer?"

Ma Mingteng stood up from his office chair, put his hands in front of him, and walked towards Jiang Cheng.

"..."

Jiang Cheng was speechless, but also a little moved.

The person in front of him should be one of the few people in the entire academy who cares about him.

Although, this person may care about everyone in the college.

(End of this chapter)