Chapter 197: The Rose Factory

Liu Ji followed Bai Liu's lead, without saying a word, without any intention of attacking him, and without turning to Tang Erda to negotiate a confession.

But to treat him so calmly at a time when this man clearly knew he was Bai Liu was a bit off.

Bai Liu gave him a sidelong glance, not saying anything.

Liu Ji was right, Liu Ji was a bit of a deadbeat, simply put, he would do anything to help him, he wouldn't do anything bad to him, and like his weapon of skill, he was a bit of a stick figure, easy to deal with - which is why Liu Jiayi shook him up, Bai Liu needed a If Bai Liu needs a helper, Liu Ji is the best choice.

Liu Ji did not realize that he had been set up by Liu Jiayi and Bai Liu, thinking that his entry was an accident and that Bai Liu had saved Liu Ji's life in the Inner World.

It was as if he remembered Liu Jiayi for saving his life.

Coincidentally, the King's Guild is full of devious people, but the reserves are basically good people - because these are the people Hearts has chosen as Liu Jiayi's [spare brothers], who require all kinds of character, but not much intelligence, and whose most important traits are loyalty and control, not easily betraying Liu Jiayi. The most important characteristic is that they are loyal and good at controlling, not easily betraying Liu Jiayi.

The reserve team members that come out of this screening mechanism are picked up by Bai Liu - the type of personality he is best at fooling around with.

Bai Liu withdraws his gaze from Liu Ji and walks towards the piazza - today is the day they hand over the semi-finished products to the factory workers.

The three processors who deliver the most semi-finished products and have the highest delivery rate will be given the opportunity to be promoted to factory worker.

Liu Ji walks over and sees several factory workers sitting in the piazza.

They were dressed head to toe in robes of pure white fabric, wrapped tightly from neck to ankle, and the lower half of their faces were wrapped in loops and loops of gauze, making them look like they were wearing a very dense and heavy mask.

Bai Liu They were the first fabricators to show up and the group of factory workers didn't give much of a look when they did - they had to wait until most of the fabricators were due before they could start collecting semi-finished products.

Bai Liu was in no hurry and asked Liu Ji where they kept their semi-finished products before going over to have a look.

The size of the roses in the iron pot has shrunk considerably compared to when they were first picked, from being able to pile up the whole pot to just a layer at the bottom.

"Yesterday we were frying to the back and it was getting easier and harder because the roses were so much lighter." Liu Ji sighs, "The semi-finished dried leaf roses are only yielding a quarter to a tenth of a percent, and with all the dried leaf roses we had yesterday, we've only got less than 100kg left to fry and three people to share."

Bai Liu looked around and all the other processors looked to have more roses in their iron pots than they did, especially the one not far from them, which was almost smothered and looked like it should be the one with the most semi-finished products.

Seeing Bai Liu sizing up other people's pots with a puzzled look, Liu Ji hurriedly reminded him, "That's Tang Erda's. Processors are forbidden to plunder each other's work, and if they're caught, they'll be removed from their jobs!"

Bai Liu nodded to indicate that he knew.

From the fact that the roses were placed directly in these iron pots, Bai Liu realised that the management at the processor's level should be stricter, at least in the sense that the flower-picker kind of robbing mechanism should not exist anymore, otherwise the whole operation of the factory would just go haywire - no one would have to labour, just guard and rob others.

Bai Liu made the rounds and returned to their pots, Liu Ji sighed somewhat ruefully, "We are the least semi-finished after the equal share and I don't know if we will be demoted."

"No." Bai Liu looked sideways at him, "If you're willing to pay a small price, you can get a promotion"

Liu Ji looked at the bottom of the pot with a pathetic layer of half-finished products and looked at Bai Liu with a question mark: "? What's the price?"

Bai Liu smiles: "Perfume."

Liu Ji, who has a surplus of perfume on his person, looks at Bai Liu in confusion and tries to ask more questions, "Perfume will get me a promotion? But I only have low grade perfume here, how can this be a good thing ......"

Even if you bribe the factory workers, they don't see eye to eye.

Liu Ji asked a few more questions, but Bai Liu didn't say anything else, which made Liu Ji suspicious - was Bai Liu making up excuses to cheat him out of his perfume?

Bai Liu This person's antecedents are too many, a few bottles of low-level perfume for a promotion, if this game was that easy, it wouldn't be a Level 3 game.

Liu Ji shook his head, knowing that as a not-so-smart player, it was too easy for a highly intelligent player like Bai Liu to fool him.

The only thing he could do was to tell himself - no matter what tempting looks Bai Liu comes up with later, don't give him the perfume!

There is no way that the kind of beauty that Bai Liu, a lying liar, is talking about exists! No fool would trade a promotion for a few bottles of cheap perfume!

Bai Liu did not notice Liu Ji's mental activities, but just quietly looked at the entrance of the factory, which was a white mist, and suddenly he seemed to see something in this white mist, got up and walked out.

Liu Ji hurriedly followed, and Bai Liu made his way around the field of flowers to the spot where they had been drying roses.

There was a vague layer of mist by the flower fields in the early morning and a few figures stood vaguely in the mist, which instantly alerted Liu Ji, but Bai Liu approached as if he hadn't seen them, unsuspecting.

The fog faded rapidly as the distance diminished, and there stood several cowering-looking stragglers, each of them carrying a sack, who, at the sight of Bai Liu's arrival, approached with glowing eyes and whispered to him with the utmost respect, " Mr. Bai's sister is here!"

"We're not too late!"

Bai Liu nods and asks, "Did you bring everything?"

"Bring it on!"

Liu Ji also helped to pick up some of the sacks, which the migrant handed to Bai Liu.

When Liu Ji took it, it felt heavy and he opened it and was dumbfounded - inside the sack were semi-finished products that had already been dried and fried!

So many sacks, how many half-finished products must there be here!

"Thank you for your hard work." Bai Liu nodded earnestly to the stragglers, then turned to the dumbfounded Liu Ji and inclined his head very naturally, "One sack of a bottle of perfume, four sacks in total for me here and you, pay up."

"Oh oh oh, okay," Liu Ji was carried away by that natural tone of Bai Liu's voice and was about to pull out his money when he snapped to attention.

Liu Ji turned to Bai Liu and questioned him, "No, I'm fine with paying for the sacks I want to use, but why don't you pay for your own sacks and ask me to pay for yours?"

Liu Ji was shocked by Bai Liu's frank shamelessness - his girlfriend had never taken him for granted and asked him to pay like that!

"What you paid for me was an intermediary fee." Bai Liu smiled decently, "I am the broker of the deal between these stragglers and you, it is impossible for you to make a deal with them without my introduction, you can try to see if they will deal with you without my presence."

Liu Ji subconsciously turned his head to look at the stragglers.

The stragglers looked at him warily and reached out to snatch the sack back out of his hand, " Mr. Bai's sister does not agree to this deal, please return the half-finished product to us."

Liu Ji A mouthful of old blood: "......"

He sulked and honestly paid the bill for Bai Liu, taking out five bottles of low-grade perfume and giving them to the stragglers, who excitedly took them, bowed to Bai Liu, thanked him and left in gratitude.

Liu Ji: "......"

I'm the one who gave the money! Why didn't anyone thank me!

What's wrong with you npc's! You should find the right people to hate and thank!

But what Liu Ji didn't know was that the stragglers were thanking Bai Liu because they had wanted to give Bai Liu the semi-finished products for free - Bai Liu had helped with the raw materials and given them the perfume for free, and they were selling them to Bai Liu for money, which was a bit ungrateful.

But Bai Liu only smiled a little mysteriously at the time, saying that someone would pay for him and that they should just play along with him.

I didn't expect any fools to take the bait! They earned five extra bottles of perfume for nothing, so naturally they were more than grateful to Bai Liu for looking out for them.

Liu Ji is not at all happy to have been given a promotion, but he returns to the piazza with several sacks of semi-finished products, which is gradually filling up with processors.

Tang Erda and another member of the King's Guild are working overtime to wrap up, and the rest of the processors are busy, with the factory workers' audit due to start soon.

Bai Liu followed Liu Ji over and, without moving, mixed the half-finished products he had bought into the iron pot.

Another member of the King's Guild looked up at them in amazement at these extra dried leaf roses in the pot.

Bai Liu gave him a slight shake of his head, signalling him to keep quiet, and the three of them quietly shared the pot of roses equally.

The audit of the factory workers has officially begun.

The processors put the tossed roses into sacks and line them up in order. The factory workers first confirm the quality of the semi-finished products and then weigh them, and the audit is divided into two criteria: one is the yield and the other is the colour of the roses.

Bai Liu They were at the end of the line, and there was a constant chorus of remorseful or escapist discussion in front of them.

The majority of processors have a steady output of around two hundred kilograms per man.

A sudden outburst of exclaims.

"352.3kg! This one is producing at a high rate, almost close to fifty percent!"

"...... fuck, it's that new processor, the man's strength and staying power is outrageous, this output rate would have to keep flipping the roses fast to evaporate the water without too much ......"

"So many, dammit, I guess it'll take up a spot for a factory worker promotion."

The processors at the back are cursing and Bai Liu looks over his shoulder to see an indifferent looking Tang Erda standing next to the weighing table.

He didn't seem to think that he was breaking the rules of the trade by messing up three times as many dried leaf rose semis as anyone else on his own, shook hands with a delighted factory worker and nodded his head as he went down.

Liu Ji's face visibly froze as the total weight of their side of the rose semi-finished product was over eight hundred kilograms, which averaged out to just over two hundred per person - higher than most of the factory workers, but not even close to Tang Erda.

If there are higher than them behind ...... three places for factory workers they are certainly hopeless!

"Pick one person with only two hundred and four guaranteed, the other two three hundred." Bai Liu looked to the other two and made a snap decision, "Keep the factory worker position."

"Two hundred and forty kilograms for me, I think." The King's Guild member who was the latest to get up gave a bitter laugh, "I don't even know how you guys got so much back, it wasn't even my business to begin with, it was good enough to keep the bottom."

Bai Liu: "Yes."

When Bai Liu stood up to be weighed, the factory workers, after ascertaining Bai Liu's picking weight and output weight, looked down with their calculators and looked up at Bai Liu in disbelief: "360kg of fresh roses, and you've produced 302.7kg?"

"Eighty-four percent output rate, almost one to one, how do you do that?"

Bai Liu: "......"

Got careless, over-copied assignments and forgot to think about output rates.