Chapter 149: Discovering a Problem with the Medicine Powder

Except for Bao Junyi and Su Huchen, the other three directors all held their breath simultaneously.

It's over; this matter is not going well.

"Did you see? President, you saw it today too! It's not that our Su Hanlin is incapable, but that some people are. Our Su Hanlin has worked tirelessly analyzing intelligence for everyone, exhausted like a dog. And now, not only do we get no reward, but we are also slandered, insulted, and framed!

This is not how one bullies people.

From now on, analyze your own intelligence yourselves.

Stop bringing your intelligence to our Eastern City Intelligence Bureau for our Su Hanlin to analyze for you.

Our Eastern City Intelligence Bureau is done serving you."

Bao Junyi watched as Su Huchen delivered his ultimatum directly.

He no longer remained silent: "Then it is settled. Henceforth, the Eastern City Intelligence Bureau will only be responsible for intelligence analysis in the eastern district. The other districts must cultivate several intelligence talents themselves and stop relying so heavily on others."

Bao Junyi's words directly choked off the words Zhang Zhi had been about to speak.

Zhang Zhi had originally wanted to ask if Su Hanlin could be made to persist a little longer for the sake of the greater good.

Instead, Bao Junyi told them to cultivate their own intelligence talents!

If they could not cultivate intelligence talents, would that not mean they were inferior to Su Huchen in his ability to recognize heroes?

"Intelligence analysis talents are not so easily cultivated," Han Yi said.

"But you cannot always rely on others either? Intelligence analysis talents must always be cultivated by oneself. Only then can they be used smoothly. If you always get used to using other people's talents, what if they leave?" Bao Junyi said. Just as Su Huchen cultivated Su Hanlin, any clear-eyed person could see that Su Huchen had long planned to take Su Hanlin with him when he left.

"Then what if I truly cannot cultivate my own intelligence analysis talents?" Tang Junyi suddenly said.

"Since you are so incompetent, I intend to replace you. Do you think that is acceptable?" Bao Junyi directly blasted him.

Tang Junyi instantly dared not make a sound.

With Tang Junyi silent and Zhang Zhi lacking support, neither dared to speak much; before long, Bao Junyi dismissed them all.

As everyone walked out of President Bao's room, Xu Yunrui naturally approached Su Huchen, intending to inquire about the situation.

Han Yi left on his own.

Tang Junyi and Zhang Zhi huddled together, glaring hatefully as Su Huchen departed with Xu Yunrui.

"Didn't you say you could ensure this setup was foolproof?" Tang Junyi angrily questioned Zhang Zhi in private.

"I can guarantee that not a single piece of the materials I sent over was fake," Zhang Zhi said with a very serious expression.

"Then how did Xu Yunrui catch the insect spy?" Tang Junyi asked, confused.

"I suspect they discovered our intentions, then turned the tables on us and counter-ambushed," Zhang Zhi said.

"Is Su Huchen that smart?" Tang Junyi said.

"Perhaps the truly smart one is Su Hanlin," Zhang Zhi added.

"So what do we do now?" Tang Junyi said.

"First, we must capture the few spies we secretly discovered. We will claim that the intelligence analysis talents we cultivated found them ourselves. We must secure the merit first, so that Bao Junyi cannot use excuses like incompetence or uselessness to remove us," Zhang Zhi said worriedly.

He was an elder of Xiancheng, while Bao Junyi was a later leader.

It would be strange if the two could get along!

He had long adapted to the management style of the former president and was secretly excluded by the current president. He had actually sensed this long ago.

This was also one of the reasons he wanted to suppress Su Huchen.

Su Huchen was too brilliant, which would make him appear dim and without light. What future would he have then? Perhaps he would be purged from the Patrol Bureau.

Zhang Zhi thought: I absolutely cannot be driven out in disgrace like that.

Su Jin and the others cleaned their new wooden house and arranged their personal belongings.

Liu Shi then began to redistribute tasks.

Their entire class, all twenty people, were assigned to the largest medicinal herb workshop on Mount Woniu.

Various external injury powder medicines were being mass-produced there.

The student apprentices were directly assigned to various parts of the workshop. Some went to sort raw materials, some were assigned to grind herbs, and others were assigned to steam the herbs.

Su Jin, Su Wuji, and the others were assigned to inspection and packaging.

When the powder medicine was delivered, it came in small piles packed into huge wooden trays. Then they would wrap each small pile of powder in paper packages and place them into the Su family's specially made medicine boxes capable of long-term storage for powder and pills.

The student apprentices doing this work were the most numerous.

There were a full eight of them.

They included Su Lan, Qi Yi, Su Jin, Su Wuji, Su Cheng, Su Qingniao, Su Linyuan, and Yang Guan.

This work was easy to do if one considered it easy; just watch how others wrapped the powder medicine, then wrap two batches oneself, and one could start working immediately.

Everyone sat wrapping; on both sides of the long table sat not only these newly joined student apprentices but also many newly hired temporary workers and a small number of veterans.

If one considered it not easy to do, it truly was not easy; wrapping back and forth like this quickly became tedious.

Su Jin had only wrapped about twenty medicine packages when she suddenly stood up. Just then, Liu Shi was also sitting in this large room; seeing her stand, he proactively asked, "Su Jin, is there a problem?"

"The chicken-tail grass in this powder medicine has already rotted and spoiled. Yet they ground it into powder and packed it into these medicine packages," Su Jin said, pointing to the medicine package in her hand.

Liu Shi's expression immediately changed.

She took the medicine package from Su Jin's hand, opened it, and gently sniffed it.

Then, without saying another word, she began contacting people.

"Liu Shi, there is another type here where the plague-clearing grass has a problem; it contains insect eggs. They actually mixed the insect eggs into the powder medicine even after steaming and drying it." Watching Su Jin begin to report, Su Wuji also produced a medicine powder package he had sorted out and pushed it toward Liu Shi. "These two paper packages contain two black insect eggs. The insect eggs are extremely tiny, but they cannot escape my eyes."

Upon hearing them speak, everyone around the long table simultaneously stopped their hands.

They looked at them with shock and awe.

"This has all been ground into powder; how did you two discover the abnormalities in the chicken-tail grass and the plague-clearing grass?" Su Linyuan exclaimed in horror at the two of them.

"We smelled it out. Genuine medicinal materials and defective medicinal materials differ too much in scent and nature. How could one not smell it?" Su Jin explained to him.

Su Lingyuan ran straight to Liu-shi, picked up the medicine packet in her hand, sniffed it carefully, then said in confusion, "I can't smell anything."

"Wait until your Yi Wood Eternal Spring Art breaks through to the third layer of Qi Refining. You'll be able to smell it right away," said Su Wuji. When he himself broke through to the third layer of Qi Refining, all five of his senses had been comprehensively enhanced with respect to plant-type living beings.

He believed Su Jin was the same. "Su Jin, you really did break through to the third layer of Qi Refining."

"Huh? I just broke through less than two days ago, and you already noticed."

Su Cheng glared at the two of them, thinking: That's enough, you two freaks!! At a time like this you still don't forget to single yourselves out and show off? Isn't that too infuriating?