Chapter 1576

The moment she saw Zhao Chi, she came over with a smile: "Look, the first batch of supplies you wanted is all ready. Was it fast?"

Her expression was a little proud.

She seemed to be waiting for Zhao Chi to praise her.

Zhao Chi of course praised her enthusiastically.

Then he said in surprise, "That fast? Where did you buy them?"

Su Qin said with a smile, "Of course it's fast when you have money—we're a big customer, after all. Most of it was bought from the Exchange. I've already added a few Exchange staff members' contact info and gave them a small service fee, so they locked down a lot of goods for us. But the Exchange didn't have everything, or it was too expensive, so quite a few rare materials were bought from Third Brother's side. The Lu family, Yang family, Cao family, Wei family, and several other families also bought some."

If you know the relevant people in other families, it's kind of like having a channel—buying and selling supplies is indeed fast.

Just send the list directly over and ask if they have the goods.

If they do, just teleport over to pay, then teleport back and you're done.

Among them, a few families caught his attention.

"The Lu family, Yang family, Cao family, Wei family? Who are they all?"

Zhao Chi could guess, but he still wanted to hear the specifics.

Su Qin indeed said with a smile, "They're your classmates, of course. The Lu family is that little beauty Lu Yi's family—I also bought some armor-piercing bows on the side. The Yang family is Yang Xiong's family, isn't he your good friend? The Cao family is Cao Feng's family—don't tell me you two aren't on good terms? But he was quite polite to me. I only found out from Lu Yi that you two weren't on good terms before."

Zhao Chi said, "Mm, I did have a conflict with Cao Feng before, but it was all pretty childish stuff. We're all comrades now, so it's not a big deal anymore. But who is the Wei family?"

"Wei Li's family, who else could it be?"

Zhao Chi was stunned.

"Wei Li? She went to find you?"

"Yeah, what's up? Isn't she your friend? I remember she helped us that day."

That day at the Wanyan Huashang clothing shop, although Wei Li couldn't exactly be said to have helped Zhao Chi and the others, she didn't act against them either. From that angle, Wei Li could indeed be considered to have helped them.

Besides, Su Qin had been immobilized at the time, her field of vision restricted, so she hadn't seen at all what Wei Li had done.

She had assumed Wei Li had defied orders and disobeyed Shangguan Ting's command, which was why Zhao Chi was still a complete man.

And Zhao Chi hadn't told Su Qin about what happened at the time either, so Su Qin's impression of Wei Li was still quite good.

She had assumed Wei Li was helping Zhao Chi.

Zhao Chi asked with a strange expression, "How did Wei Li get in touch with you? What did she say?"

Su Qin said, "She added me through Lu Yi. Lu Yi recommended her over. Didn't you say Lu Yi was trustworthy too? So I added Wei Li. She's still the leader of the Liuli Squad—there's a chance we can work together in the future."

The Lu family was originally from Beiliu Village, and the Wei family was from Jin Sha Village. The two villages were adjacent, and the two girls were from the same year. It was perfectly normal for Wei Li and Lu Yi to know each other.

But that wasn't what Zhao Chi cared about.

"What did Wei Li say to you?"

Su Qin said, "She didn't say much, just apologized to me for what happened that day. When I was buying supplies just now, I was still short on some rare materials, so I thought I'd ask them—after all, the Wei family was originally a family with real strength. The moment I asked Wei Li, she had the materials sent over right away."

"Really? Did you buy a lot from her family?"

"Not much, don't worry." Su Qin said with a smile, "I know I can't buy too much from any one family, so I spread the purchases around. It won't draw their attention—I'm being very careful."

"That's good."

"We bought a fairly large quantity of rare materials. I bought out all the cheap ones and the normally-priced ones at the Exchange—the rest were too expensive. So I also bought some from over a dozen other families separately. Each family was basically around 50-plus gold coins, and even the trusted families were only around 200 gold coins. This should be fine."

"Mm, you've thought this through very well."

"Hehe~"

"... Did Wei Li say anything else? Just that?"

"Mm, yeah, nothing else. Why, is there something about her?"

"No."

"Oh... should I just leave the supplies here? Do you want them moved to your storeroom?"

"No need, just leave them here. We'll sort and store them in a bit."

"Alright, then we'll be going. Call me if you need anything."

"Come by tomorrow. There's 3,000 tons of grain to sell to Third Brother. Get in touch with him in advance, then just transport it away."

Su Qin said with a smile, "Another bumper harvest? Leave it to me, don't worry. There's an awards ceremony tomorrow morning—shall I come find you so we can go together?"

"Sure."

"Hehe, bye-bye."

Su Qin smiled and waved, then disappeared with the elves.

Zhao Chi thought for a moment, then released Wei Li from the blocked status in his contacts.

He did a quick check of the supplies: 15,000 vials of various potions, and over 10,000 portions of rare materials—definitely enough to make the undershirts.

Zhao Chi called Gu Qing over and had her distribute the potions and give them to everyone to drink.

Gu Qing came over with water droplets all over her body and said with a smile, "No need to distribute them. Just call everyone over."

Soon, Gu Qing called all the female soldiers over. The female soldiers were all wearing brand-new underwear, drinking the potions nonstop, vial after vial.

The potion was very bitter. Although the female soldiers feared nothing, they still found it very bitter.

One after another, they knit their delicate brows, looking very much like Gu Qing when she was gaining energy.

They all found it bitter, but none of them were willing to stop.

After all, this was all good stuff.

Zhao Chi recalled drinking Chinese medicine before—it was just like this, enduring the bitterness and drinking nonstop.

"Gu Qing, I'll leave this to you. I'm going to make the fashion outfits with Qi Yue."

Gu Qing said with a bright smile, "Yes, my lord. You've worked hard."

Qi Yue was also frowning as she drank, having just finished.

The moment Zhao Chi ducked in, he tasted the bitterness flooding his mouth—definitely the flavor of Chinese medicine.

Once the sugarcane harvest comes in later, they can eat some to relieve the bitterness.

Zhao Chi 【Qiyue, we're starting work】

Qiyue 【Yes!】

Until 7 a. m. the next day.

3,000 brand-new shirts were finished. Among them, 2,000 of the High-Efficiency type and 1,000 of the Silky-Smooth type.

Gu Qing already had people distribute them, and at the same time collected back all the shirts worn by the female villagers — a total of 2,504 pieces.

Among them, over 200 were brand new, already eliminated before ever being worn.

Another 2,300 had been worn, and their durability had suffered some wear to varying degrees. But the highest wear was only a little over 40 points, while the shirts' total durability was 260 points, so the durability loss wasn't significant.

What affected them the most was actually the fragrance.

All these old shirts were giving off a captivating, rich scent.

Not the slightest hint of anything pungent — only a pure, sweet fragrance.

A pure scent alone would be hard to transfer onto clothing, but their work and training would definitely make them sweat, and once their sweat clung to the fabric, the scent clung with it — it would probably take a while before it fully dissipated.

These garments were meant to be sold.

Even used, their durability was still several times higher than other super-improved shirts.

The only question was whether to wash them clean before selling.

After thinking it over for a while, he still decided to give them a wash.

It wasn't that he worried the fragrance would hurt sales — this kind of scent was very natural, and no one would possibly排斥 it; it might even sell better.

But this scent was a bit special — Zhao Chi didn't want Shopkeeper Wanyan to be able to track him down through the trail of the fragrance.

Now the entire territory was covered in white shirts drying everywhere, swaying gently in the morning light and morning breeze.

By the afternoon they would be dry, and then they could be sold at any time.

Su Qin's side still had plenty of shirt durability left, so there was no need to give her elves any for now.

Once theirs wore out or got damaged, he could just craft a batch made of entirely new materials for her.

Originally, he could have made even more.

But… Zhao Chi's early-morning hours didn't belong to Zhao Chi.

They belonged to those women.

Today Gu Qing finally got her fill.

Following Gu Qing's arrangement, Zhao Chi gave her a full 8 points.

Combined with Gu Qing's brand-new genes now, Zhao Chi fell deep into it.

Gu Qing was not Tang Ruan.

Although in personality she clung to Zhao Chi even more than Tang Ruan and the others, when it was time to break, she still broke.