Niu Daji and Xia Kai slowly approached the Sphinx, who stared at them for a few seconds before nodding slowly.

"Go on in."

said the Sphinx.

"Alright. Brother Kai, this is the security supervisor of the clinic, you can call her Ms. Sphinx."

Niu Daji introduced Xia Kai.

"Hello, Ms. Sphinx."

Xia Kai quickly greeted.

The Sphinx glanced at him and then lay down on her own.

Xia Kai awkwardly scratched his chin.

"Ms. is quite aloof; you don’t need to mind it. Only the boss gets any special treatment from her."

Niu Daji comforted him.

"He’s no different! Humph!"

The Sphinx snorted coldly.

"Yes, yes, let’s go in."

Niu Daji led Xia Kai into the clinic.

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"Hmm~"

Liu Zheng stretched lazily, reaching for the San Huamao in his arms.

"Hmm?"

Something felt off; why is it hard and coarse?

He opened his eyes to find a sturdy, hairy horse leg in front of him.

"Have you touched enough?"

Niu Ma asked expressionlessly.

"Boss, your leg is really... a leg."

His tone was natural.

"I’ll count to three..."

Before Niu Ma finished, Liu Zheng had already sprung up.

"Boss, when did you come back? Have you had breakfast? Want me to order takeout for you?"

He asked enthusiastically.

"Do I need your approval to come back? Ordering takeout, trying to get rid of me so you can become the boss, huh?"

Niu Ma glared at him.

"No way, once a boss, always a boss. Even if you died, you’d be the eternal boss of the takeout department."

Liu Zheng stated seriously.

"Get lost, even if you die, I won’t."

Niu Ma disdainfully pushed the grass Liu Zheng slept on aside and lay down.

"By the way, boss, where’s Salmon?"

Liu Zheng asked.

"Napoleon took her back."

Niu Ma replied.

"Oh."

He glanced at his phone.

7:26.

That meant his thirteenth day in Metropolis.

"Shouldn’t you hurry and bring breakfast over? A day without seeing you and you’ve lost all sense, huh?"

Niu Ma pat the wall and said. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"Didn’t you have breakfast with your wife?"

Liu Zheng asked curiously.

"Eating once means I can’t eat again? That’s the rule, understand? You hillbillies have no insight."

Niu Ma scoffed.

"Ah, yes, yes, we hillbillies are like that."

He casually appeased, internally rolling his eyes to the heavens.

These hillbillies lack insight, but where do the farmyard hillbillies like Niu Ma come off thinking they’re any better? If not for marrying a tutor, he wouldn’t even recognize a large bucket full of characters.

But reasoning with the unreasonable like Niu Ma was pointless. Liu Zheng could only open the cabinet and offer breakfast from inside.

Luckily, today’s breakfast was spicy soup with fried liver, not part of his usual menu.

Niu Ma finished it all, but judging by their eating speed, they didn’t particularly like the combo.

"Reimbursement, thirty thousand."

After breakfast, Niu Ma directly presented an invoice.

The invoice format differed significantly from reality, but Liu Zheng could roughly understand the content.

"Did you go to Bathhouse Street or an auto repair shop? Why does it list repair and maintenance?"

Liu Zheng shook the invoice and asked.

"Don’t bother about it, just say whether you’ll reimburse it or not?"

Niu Ma said with her nose in the air.

"I will, I will, your attitude asking for reimbursement is atrocious; try doing that with finance."

He complained while pulling out the money.

"Humph, if you become finance, I’ll treat you more respectfully than my father."

Niu Ma said disdainfully.

"Turns out we do have finance."

Liu Zheng was surprised.

He had just been casually griping earlier.

"Obviously, how could a restaurant not have finance? The current finance is a Zuifu Child and has been there for hundreds of years; her temper is bizarre. Luckily, our takeout department rarely deals with her, so we avoid some grief."

Niu Ma said.

The kitchen needs to buy ingredients and replace equipment, the customer service needs to update decor and buy furniture, even the driver must get spare parts and fuel; but their takeout department needs nothing and relies entirely on self-sufficiency, which is quite touching.

"I’d rather suffer her temper if it meant getting a bigger break room, ideally with individual rooms for everyone, walnut bed frames, and latex spring mattresses."

Liu Zheng fantasized.

"Ha, then you best transfer to the kitchen or customer service; in the takeout department, you’ll die before that happens."

Niu Ma sneered.

In material terms, the takeout department lags far behind other departments, with Niu Ma, the boss, even inferior to longer-serving employees in other departments.

But there’s no choice; the takeout department is the only one allowed to wander outside.

Consider Britain, addressing any such need involved Liu Zheng running errands; otherwise, he could only spoil his own department’s employees, while Niu Ma could not only marry but also frequent the black market’s pleasure shops; failing to balance the other department’s sentiment would’ve been problematic.

"Boss, please stop testing me. I’m committed to the takeout department. Even if other departments offered better treatment, I’d never transfer."

Liu Zheng said with a smile.

"Humph, you rake in hundreds of thousands to millions outside, living luxuriously, surrounded by females, laughing with the City Hall officials; of course, you don’t care about such treatment."

Niu Ma rolled her eyes.

If she were Liu Zheng, she wouldn’t either; delivering takeout every day was like a paid vacation, a fool would decline such a sweet deal of mingling and building connections.