Chapter 221: Pig Slaughter Show Preparation Underway
The lunch on the third day of the visit was ultimately spent in an atmosphere buzzing with discussion.
Xiang Chuan was about to use ancient methods to process the castrated pig. This news spread rapidly throughout the Fourth Production Escort Ship without needing much time.
Originally, when Xiang Chuan bought the castrated pig, the transport employees from the meat processing plant were watching nearby. They were the employees responsible for transporting unqualified ingredients to the farming and processing department for feed processing, and they naturally interacted more frequently with the other two major production departments than the edible processing department did. Many employees had already received the news before lunchtime.
When the employees of the Fourth Production Escort Ship saw the news of the female student at the center of this topic storm buying a pig, their first reaction was disbelief.
Who would buy a pig like a normal person! If buying, it should be cows or chickens!
As a result, by lunchtime, the employees and cadres coming to eat at the First Canteen saw the transport robot parked outside the canteen and the big fat pig lying on it snoring away, and the last bit of doubt in their hearts was instantly blown away.
Then the topic naturally shifted from “Did the contactee really buy a pig?” to “Can the contactee create a pork miracle?”
The employees who believed Xiang Chuan could do it thought that since Xiang Chuan had casually solved the fishy smell problem of freshwater fish during field training, the fishy and gamey smell of pork could naturally be easily handled too.
Those holding skeptical opinions were cadres or viewers of Xiang Xue Live Stream Room who were more familiar with Xiang Chuan’s recent activities, because they had their own information channels and knew how Xiang Chuan had vomited until the world spun after tasting pork at home and school. The taste of pork couldn’t be solved with just some scallion ginger and garlic!
The students from other classes eating in the canteen were also divided into these two camps. Many of them were regular customers who frequently ate at the A Bite of China Club Small Restaurant, and some had witnessed Xiang Chuan attempting to cook pork, only to take one bite and immediately have the kitchen AI throw it into the fresh waste recycling bin.
For a moment, the entire canteen was in an uproar.
However, this surrounding bustle did not affect Class Eight Grade One. This time, they very consciously squeezed next to Xiang Chuan, chattering animatedly about how to allocate the equipment from Xiang Chuan’s application.
Meanwhile, Xiang Chuan herself was expressionlessly eating her second serving of egg fried rice, letting Class President Lu Daiqing and her own club’s Ouyang Yating take charge. By the time she put down the bowl and picked up the steamed milk pudding, the list was finalized.
Xiang Chuan: Sometimes I feel like I’m pretty superfluous.
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In the afternoon, inside the management facilities of the animal husbandry production department.
Since Class Eight Grade One had collectively taken leave to help Xiang Chuan, and the students from other classes were all thinking about watching ancient pork processing, Aksim General Manager decisively changed the afternoon itinerary to the management facilities.
After the Class Eight Grade One members underwent sterilization and disinfection in the locker room, they were now standing in a spacious large room. Besides the big fat pig already placed on the platform by the transport robot, the surroundings were also equipped with tools needed for pork processing.
The room was spacious relative to the Class Eight Grade One members. In fact, in the surroundings they couldn’t see, it was already crowded with a bunch of holographic projections of people.
Yes, this was the method that Aksim General Manager, Chief Steward An Jing, and other animal husbandry production department cadres came up with after an emergency meeting at noon, slapping their foreheads in realization.
The reason for using holographic projections to watch was that too many employees hoped to apply to watch the pig slaughter show together with other students, and the applicants to visit included not only employees and cadres from the animal husbandry production department, but even employees and cadres from the other two major departments who were relatively idle.
When Chief Steward An Jing saw Manager Wu and Manager Hill shamelessly draping their arms over her shoulders, hoping she would give them good seats for the sake of their usual colleague relations, she instantly felt unwell all over.
Heavens! Colleagues of over two hundred years of friendship actually came to her for backdoor privileges for the first time ever!
But if Manager Wu and Manager Hill could think of this channel, how could other cadres not figure it out on their own? Thus, the cadres of the animal husbandry production department were successively bombarded with emails from colleagues in other departments.
Even cadres conducting exchange studies on other production escort ships were accidentally group-messaged, looking confused as they asked their colleagues if the other two major departments had screwed up this time, which was why they came begging their animal husbandry department.
In the end, the three general managers saw that the situation was about to spiral out of control and decisively contacted Captain Mark Bay.
Captain Mark Bay, who was enjoying steamed milk pudding at the First Canteen, saw his three top subordinates looking distraught and laughed, “What’s so hard about that? You can just apply to use holographic projections directly in the room where that little sister is doing the ancient processing. If there are too many people, you can additionally enable no-disturbance mode for them.”
No-disturbance mode meant rejecting co-location with other holographic projection users during meetings, shielding everyone else, so that only the user faced the meeting host alone.
If Xiang Chuan knew about such a mode, she would definitely say: “Isn’t this the god-given mode specially made for concerts and music performances?! Using it specially for company government meetings would be such a waste!”
It had to be said that although Captain Mark Bay was usually too erratic, making his secretaries distraught, he always provided spot-on suggestions for the problems troubling his subordinates.
Hearing Captain Mark Bay’s suggestion, the three lit up and immediately instructed their departments to make arrangements.
Thus, this scene came about.
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Xiang Chuan somewhat uneasily scanned the overly spacious room and quietly asked Chou Manman:
“Man Man, is it really okay for us to slaughter the pig in this room… to perform edible processing on the pig? This room seems a bit too empty and too clean.”
You know, there would be pork large intestine waiting later! The stuff inside the large intestine also needed cleaning! Even with her big heart, she couldn’t stand watching such a clean room get messed up with excrement!
Thinking about the possible scenes in this clean room later, Xiang Chuan couldn’t help but shiver.
Even she, who wasn’t germophobic, felt a bit uncomfortable. If there were any latent germophobes among her young classmates, then… the scene would be unimaginable.
“Oh come on, Xiang Chuan, how many times have you asked this?” Chou Manman looked at her impatiently. “Didn’t you see we’ve prepared four cleaning robots here? If it really gets dirty, they’ll definitely clean it up immediately.”
“Yeah, Classmate Xiang Chuan, you’re just worrying unnecessarily… Is this the right way to use the term?” Class President Lu Daiqing pushed up her non-prescription glasses. “As managers of the animal husbandry production department, Chief Steward An Jing and Aksim General Manager must have anticipated every possible scene that could arise during edible processing of live poultry, which is why they ultimately arranged us here. And your pig and equipment have all been moved in. Instead of fretting over this, why not hurry up and start?”
To summarize Class President Lu Daiqing’s meaning simply: Since we’re here, let’s make the best of it.
Xiang Chuan thought they probably hadn’t anticipated the floor getting soiled with pig excrement.
However…
Seeing the excited expressions of the Class Eight Grade One crowd around her, Xiang Chuan lightly sighed.
Whatever, pork is more important anyway.
