My Husband, a Marshal: Conquering the Stars with My Culinary Arts-Chapter 615 - 207 Department Task_3

It just so happens that emergencies always appear at such coincidental times; Du Xixi’s class is destined to be postponed. Wenren Yu urgently notified Du Xixi to attend a meeting in the conference room. Though it’s still a small internal meeting within the Food Department, Lin You, the director of academic affairs, surprisingly attended as well.

During the meeting, it wasn’t appropriate to be too casual. Although Du Xixi usually got along well with Lin You, this time she only greeted him briefly and didn’t say much. Once everyone was present, Lin You stood up and said seriously, "I’ve come today because there’s a very important task that needs to be assigned to you. This is a department-level task that requires the full participation of your Food Department."

Du Xixi raised an eyebrow and exchanged a glance with Wenren Yu, already feeling a bit puzzled. However, He Yuan and the other two were clearly even more confused, because while Du Xixi and Wenren Yu knew that departments at Blue Star University had a tradition of accepting tasks, the other three did not.

Blue Star University selects tasks from the community or departments to help develop students’ practical skills, assigning these tasks to various departments.

For example, students from the Ancient History Department would be taken by their professors to the Cultural Relics Bureau for internships to understand the work they might experience in the future. Similarly, Architecture Department students would be arranged to work on construction sites to personally experience the construction process, helping them better understand architectural structures.

However...

When Wenren Yu and Du Xixi exchanged glances, they both saw the concern in each other’s eyes, realizing that the other was thinking similarly. The Food Department is just a budding department, renowned yet not very prominent. Surely, no one would be willing to be the "first to try the crab" and test the strength of the Food Department?

While Du Xixi was explaining to He Yuan, who leaned over to ask quietly what tasks at Blue Star University were, she was also pondering what the task content would be. Intuition told Du Xixi that the source of this task... might have something to do with her?

Sure enough, when Lin You introduced the task, it was related to Du Xixi, and the reason was because of the Victory Cake live stream she did yesterday afternoon.

The organizing party for the task was none other than the Military Department headquarters that Du Xixi was very familiar with—yes, the same Military Department where Ke Lian is stationed. The task content was to ask the entire Food Department to help make Victory Cakes, with each cake purchased at the price set by Du Xixi, ensuring that the Food Department wouldn’t suffer any financial loss.

"The Military Department? It’s probably to use the Victory Cakes to encourage the soldiers at the frontline, right?" Du Xixi could easily guess what the Military Department wanted the Victory Cakes for; it certainly wasn’t because they felt sorry for Du Xixi, the billionaire, and came specifically to give her money. "Since it’s for Ke Lian and the others, we don’t need too much payment. Just give some labor fees to our professors and students."

On Blue Star, Du Xixi is capable of turning in millions at a time, so the pastries she produces are not inexpensive. It’s not only because high-priced pastries appear more appealing, but also because what she makes is genuinely delicious.

Having arrived in the Star Era, Du Xixi is also very confident in her skills, so she doesn’t plan on undervaluing her pastries. Instead, she opted for a more tactful manner, ensuring the Food Department’s efforts wouldn’t be in vain and her feelings would accompany these Victory Cakes to Ke Lian at the frontline.

"Yes, Xixi is right, but as professors, we actually don’t need to take any money; after all, our salaries aren’t low. The students rarely have opportunities to earn some extra money during their breaks, so these labor fees should go to them." Wenren Yu, being the head of the department, laid down the directive and then said to everyone, "I’ll contact the Military Department on our behalf, and we’ll discuss the details."

Although Lin You came in person, she was only there to announce the task; as the director of academic affairs, she’s not involved in the details, which is to maintain fairness.

Lin You stepped out, and as she left, she gave Du Xixi a meaningful look. Du Xixi returned the gesture with a knowing wink, and they wordlessly agreed to meet shortly after.

After discussing some details, they decided to start making Victory Cakes that afternoon. Consequently, Wenren Yu hurried out to post an announcement. The next class was He Yuan’s, and she quickly left with her lesson plan. When she entered the classroom, the students inside were already on the verge of murmuring among themselves.

The meeting was convened in urgency, lasting less than twenty minutes, but it caused a two to three-minute delay for He Yuan’s class. The bell had rung for a while before He Yuan finally arrived.

It’s known that every professor in the Food Department is very punctual—starting class as soon as the bell rings and ending exactly when the bell rings again. Now, seeing He Yuan rushing in, sweating and clutching her lesson plan, yet not in a hurry to start class, how could the students not guess something was up?

Since they were to make Victory Cakes that afternoon, balancing class duties meant that the morning’s two classes couldn’t follow the lesson plan’s schedule. He Yuan took a few deep breaths, waited for her breathing to calm down, and then said loudly, "I’m sure you all looked into this when you joined the school: every department has tasks to complete. Just now, our Food Department received a task, which is to make Victory Cakes for the soldiers fighting the Insect Clan at the frontline."