Chapter 117: People Chasing the Light
Zhang Bowen, who had received Wang Muyi's advice, quickly said gratefully, "Old Wang, if you need me in the future, I will do my best."
"Haha, we're all family, don't be polite." Wang Muyi waved his hand with a smile.
As a veteran, Wang Muyi naturally knew the importance of personal connections. Although it was easy to offend people within the company after becoming a supervisor, he was not too worried.
On the one hand, his boss Brian is tough enough.
On the other hand, Wang Muyi himself was also forming cliques and factions, such as setting up Chinese hometown associations and friendship associations.
Li Qingye was actually very aware of the internal factions, but he knew that this was inevitable in human nature. As long as it did not affect the work and the interests of the company, there was no need to interfere directly.
In the system of the Homo Sapiens company , spider web managers and soldiers are the core strength of the company. As long as there is no problem with the core, others will not be able to make any waves.
After Wang Muyi's team and Julie's team completed the survey of that section of highway, they continued on a special minibus, took a township road, and headed towards Manila.
Suddenly a message popped up on Wang Muyi's phone.
He took a look at the company's internal work communication software and immediately knew that the Supervision Department was launching another surprise attack.
"Driver, head to Malagondong Town."
"Malagondong?" The driver glanced at the navigation, nodded while turning the steering wheel: "Okay."
The minibus turned around; the driver was obviously used to this kind of sudden change of itinerary.
The minibus swayed for more than an hour on the rural road with poor road conditions. It was almost noon when they finally arrived at the town of Malagondong.
This small town is located on the southern coast of Manila Bay and is under the jurisdiction of the Metro Manila District.
"Let's go eat first!" Wang Muyi suggested.
Julie nodded in agreement.
Soon, the driver found the restaurant of House of Plenty in the town of Malagondong using the company’s internal communication software.
The restaurant is very easy to find, right next to the local Fengzao supermarket.
Looking at the deserted Coke Bee fast food restaurant not far away, and then at the packed Fengrao fast food restaurant, even though the opposite side was also a chain fast food restaurant opened by wealthy Chinese businessmen, Wang Muyi didn't want to go against his wallet.
Entering Fengrao Fast Food Restaurant, Wang Muyi directly took out his employee card and said, "Waiter, please arrange a private room that can accommodate 15 people."
"Please follow me." The waiter was very sharp-eyed and immediately saw the level on Wang Muyi's employee card. He quickly smiled and took them to the private room on the second floor.
After opening the private room, the waiter turned on the air conditioner.
Wang Muyi was looking through the menu: "One set meal number 12, plus two bottles of lemon soda water."
The others also knew the rules. They were still in a semi-working state, so everyone ordered their own food. They were not allowed to order alcoholic beverages. In fact, Wang Muyi didn't like drinking either. In this regard, he very much agreed with the company's mandatory regulations.
The waiter quickly filled two lists according to each person's seat number and the set meal they ordered: "Wait a moment, it will be delivered soon."
"Boss, what project are you investigating in Malagondong this time?"
Wang Muyi shook his head: "I don't know, don't ask casually, I will notify you when I get to the location."
Another employee turned around and asked, "Team Leader Julie, aren't you from Manila? What are the famous places in Malagondong?"
Julie smiled and shook her head: "I had never left downtown Manila before graduation, so I'm not very familiar with this place."
While we were chatting, the waiter pushed a cart and brought up meal sets and drinks.
Wang Muyi's set meal No. 12 consists of rice, black pepper chicken, grilled eel, and stir-fried water spinach. The internal price for this set meal is 30 pesos for employees, which is on the high side.
He picked up a black pepper chicken mushroom and put it into his mouth. Ever since he ate it last time, Wang Muyi has been fascinated by this kind of mushroom.
As one of the more expensive edible mushrooms, Alpinia ternata tastes very delicious and has a wide range of customers. It is much better than truffles which have a very strange taste.
If it weren't for the long list of procedures required to export to China and the inconvenience of returning to China recently, Wang Muyi would have wanted to get a batch of chicken mushrooms and take them back to sell.
After all, Haitian Agriculture’s production of Alpinia pilosula is very large now, and it can be supplied to its own fast food restaurants as affordable ingredients.
It's a similar situation with eels.
Each of their meal packages is slightly different, but the layout of the meal packages is similar, basically staple food + edible fungi + meat + vegetables.
For example, Julie's set meal No. 7 is pasta, mushroom gravy, black pepper steak, and cherry tomatoes, and is also priced at 30 pesos for internal employees.
This steak is a synthetic steak made from carrageenan, beef scraps and tenderizer powder.
Because supercomputing is used in the synthesis process to reconstruct and model muscle patterns, the beef scraps can be rewoven into a whole piece of meat. Then, using precise fat injection technology, the beef fat is injected into the woven meat to form a very delicate snowflake pattern.
Therefore, this piece of synthetic steak, which costs about 8 pesos, is almost the same as real Wagyu steak in appearance, taste, and nutritional content .
There are even cheaper flavored steaks made entirely from duck meat and butter that cost just 3 pesos per serving.
Julie has eaten both types of steak and can't tell the difference.
Wang Muyi, who had eaten Australian Wagyu beef in a western restaurant in Manila, felt that his own synthetic steak was more delicious. After all, the synthetic steak was benchmarked against top-quality Wagyu beef, and he naturally felt that the ordinary Australian Wagyu beef he had eaten was inferior to the synthetic steak.
As a person with dialectical materialist thinking, Wang Muyi would never go against his wallet.
After all, the difference between the company's own synthetic steak and top-quality natural steak is very small, and the taste, texture and nutritional content are similar.
Faced with a price gap of thousands of times, is it possible that the so-called "soul", "naturalness" and "sentiment" have become the victim?
Although many Western restaurants in Manila despise Haitian Agriculture's synthetic steaks, believing that it is self-deception of the inferior class.
But the poor also mock the upper class for being taken advantage of.
At least many poor people who have just escaped poverty are very realistic. They don't care about synthetic meat or natural meat. As long as safety and low price can be guaranteed, they are willing to buy it.
Many people even gave this synthetic steak a special name, "Haitian Beef", to distinguish it from the synthetic steaks produced by Haitian Agriculture and other companies.
The ideas of Wang Muyi, Julie and others actually represent the views of the Sapiens company and the lower classes of Luzon on synthetic food.
For example, for someone like Julie who used to live in a slum and even eating slop meat occasionally was a luxury, how could she possibly dislike synthetic food?
Only by living in hardship can you understand how hard it is to get everything you have.
Julie never wastes any food when she eats because she knows what it feels like to be hungry.
Being able to eat happily here was one of Julie's dreams. She was filled with gratitude every time she ate.
For many people, working at Sapiens is a way to make a decent living.
For Julie, it's not just about life and money, she also wants to see a bright future.
After all, Sapiens Company is a ray of light in her life. If it hadn't appeared, she might still be living in the slums, and then marry a man who is also a poor man, repeating the fate of her parents.
She worked very hard in the Supervision Department, motivated by both money and belief.
Maybe she just wanted to protect the beautiful dream in her heart.
People’s dreams give us courage and strength.
