Chapter 9: A Large Order Comes to the Village Convenience Store

This girl was dressed like a country lass; who would have thought she was actually an undercover rich woman running a farmhouse resort!

Bai Wei took out her phone, "The deposit is twenty thousand yuan. It must be delivered before noon tomorrow. I need fresh pork."

If not for her lack of funds, she would have bought a hundred pigs, no matter what.

"No problem." The pork stall owner's mouth couldn't close from smiling, "I guarantee it's fresh and clean."

He wasn't doing any more business today!

He was going to focus solely on serving Bai Wei, this Goddess of Wealth!

The surrounding meat stall owners watched with envy and swarmed forward.

"Boss, do you want lamb? I'll cut it and deliver it, at a discounted price."

"I sell beef, at a favorable price."

"Fresh poultry, slaughtered on the spot, delivered to your farmhouse resort for free."

"I'll take a bit of everything, but you must move it to the designated location for me."

Bai Wei waved her hand, ordering two hundred jin of everything.

There was still Refined Rice in the military camp; she would add some meat dishes for them first to resolve the immediate crisis, and then purchase large quantities of Refined Rice and flour once she had the money.

She required the owners to find workers to transport all these items, because to use Teleportation, she had to put them into the wardrobe, and she couldn't move that much by herself.

The several owners were so happy their mouths were crooked from grinning, nodding frantically.

"Please rest assured, Boss. Wherever you point, that is where we will place it."

Bai Wei paid a deposit of twenty-five thousand yuan and hopped back on her bicycle to head toward the village.

It was just the time school was letting out; a group of elementary school students by the roadside were carrying their backpacks, holding skewers in their hands, jumping and playing while they ate.

Bai Wei's eyes stung at the sight.

She thought of Xiao Liujin and the rest of the child soldiers in the military camp; they were the same age as these elementary students, yet they were fighting on the battlefield, facing death at any moment.

She remembered that decades ago, when the Japanese enemy invaded and the nation was in peril, a group of child soldiers stepped forward to fight the Japanese enemy in a bloody battle!

Every inch of land is worth an inch of blood; the Songshan Battle was the most heroic battle in the history of the resistance against the Japanese.

Most of the child soldiers in this battle were under fifteen, similar in age to Xiao Liujin, with the youngest child being only nine. Over seven thousand child soldiers sacrificed their lives heroically to defend their homeland, dying for their country!

Today's peace was all bought with their blood!

Bai Wei took a deep breath, and while riding her bike, she wedged her phone between her head and shoulder to call the village convenience store.

"Zhang Shen, do you have milk there? I want as much as you have! I also want children's growth milk, and Yili QQ Star!"

"And get some White Rabbit Creamy Candies, and also..."

The children's milk and candies were for child soldiers like Xiao Liujin.

Children, after all, should be eating things that help them grow.

The village convenience store sold low-priced goods; although the quality couldn't compare to big brands, the prices were very accessible.

Bai Wei rode her bicycle over and saw from a distance that Zhang Shen was standing at the entrance of the convenience store, wiping away tears.

Beside her were two men, lifting a large yellow dog tied with hemp rope onto a scale.

The yellow dog was muzzled, its four legs bound, and it looked at Zhang Shen, whimpering and begging incessantly, tears in its eyes.

Bai Wei recognized it as Zhang Shen's guard dog and quickly jumped off her bike, "Zhang Shen, why are you selling Dahuang?"

"Sigh, business at the store is bad, and the backlogged goods won't sell." Zhang Shen rubbed her moist eyes and spoke with a sob, "The family owes quite a bit of debt, and I can see we won't be able to pay the child's tuition. These two people are willing to pay three hundred yuan for Dahuang, so I have no choice but to... have to..."

One man had a cigarette dangling from his mouth, licking his finger to count the banknotes, "The meat of local dogs raised in the countryside is just more fragrant; it's mouth-watering when stewed in soup."

"Awoo..." Dahuang seemed to understand Zhang Shen's words and finally stopped struggling, tears streaming from its eyes.

The other man stared greedily at Dahuang and took out twenty yuan, handing it to Zhang Shen.

"Give me two bottles of strong liquor; we'll have dog meat with our drinks tonight..."

"Slap!" Bai Wei knocked his arm away and said crisply, "Still want to eat dog meat soup? Dahuang is not for sale!"

After saying this, she turned and tilted her chin at Zhang Shen.

"Aunt, how much backlogged food do you have in your store? I want it all."

Zhang Shen was wiping her eyes and was stunned upon hearing this.

"Girl Wei, you... what did you say? You want it all?"

Bai Wei nodded, "I also want three thousand boxes of pure milk, one thousand boxes of Yili QQ Star, two thousand bags of White Rabbit Creamy Candies... oh right, you have canned luncheon meat, right? Give me four thousand boxes!"

The two men nearby were also dumbfounded, the cigarettes in their mouths falling to the ground.

"No... no, this..." Zhang Shen was so frightened she couldn't even speak clearly, and she quickly reached out to touch Bai Wei's forehead, "Girl Wei, have you burned your brain? Why are you talking nonsense? Aunt will take you to the village clinic right now."

"Zhang Shen, I really want to buy things." Bai Wei smiled, took out five stacks of red banknotes, and 'slapped' them onto the glass counter, "This is the deposit."

Fifty thousand yuan, neat and tidy!

She had withdrawn the money on her way back to the village.

"You're really buying?" Zhang Shen's eyes widened, sweat appearing on her forehead, "What are you going to do with so many things?"

Bai Wei had already made up her story, "A friend of mine is doing charity work and needs to send supplies to people in impoverished areas, so they entrusted me to help with the procurement."

"Really?" Zhang Shen's eyes immediately lit up with joy, "Girl Wei, you've really done your aunt a huge favor. I was just worrying about how to sell the things in the store."

But after saying that, she clapped her hands in distress.

"But I only have a dozen boxes of stock at most in my store, where would I get thousands of boxes of goods?"

"Don't you have the addresses of the manufacturers? Go to the factory to get the goods," Bai Wei reminded her, then added, "Zhang Shen, since I'm buying so much, you have to give me the wholesale price. Also, you need to find people to help me move them to the farmhouse resort."

The villagers couldn't afford expensive things, so to save costs, Zhang Shen always went to the factories to get the goods herself.

She wanted to support Zhang Shen's business, but she wouldn't let herself be taken advantage of either.

"Hey, of course." Zhang Shen's mouth couldn't close from smiling, "For charity items, I won't earn a dishonest penny, or I'd be struck by lightning! I'll only earn one dime per item from you, just consider it a moving fee!"

Even if she only earned one dime, that was still a large sum of money!

Bai Wei nodded, "Alright, I'll make a list, and I'll have to trouble you to help me purchase them from various manufacturers."

After saying this, she took out paper and a pen and began to write.

"... In addition to the items above, I also need one thousand packs of Ham Sausage and thirty thousand barrels of Instant Noodles."

As Bai Wei wrote to this point, she looked up at the shelves of the small shop.

On the bottom shelf of the glass counter sat a few pairs of fleece-lined liberation shoes covered in dust; the style was old-fashioned, but the price was very cheap, only twenty-four yuan.

The villagers liked things that were cheap and good when they went out to work in the fields; although these fleece-lined liberation shoes looked tacky and were from an unknown generic brand, they were sturdy, cheap, warm, and cold-resistant, and they wouldn't slip when walking on snow.

Bai Wei's budget was currently insufficient, and these street-stall goods that rich people looked down upon were just right for people in ancient times to wear.

"Give me thirty thousand pairs of the fleece-lined liberation shoes as well, and for now, I need sixty thousand pairs of cotton socks so they can be changed and washed easily."

Writing to this point, Bai Wei suddenly stopped her pen.

She had been so focused on buying that she hadn't paid attention to calculating the price; the total price of the things she was buying had already exceeded one million.

The one hundred and fifty thousand she had on hand was already used up, and now she was urgently waiting for a return call from Zhou Yuchuan.

She didn't know how much that set of silver wine vessels could actually sell for.

The supplies she had written on the paper were all life-saving necessities to help the soldiers of Daliang survive the severe cold weather; if that set of silver wine cups couldn't sell for that much money, she wouldn't be able to buy so much.

Bai Wei immediately called Zhou Yuchuan.

"The user you have dialed is currently unavailable..."

A busy signal came from the mobile phone.

Bai Wei called several times, but it wouldn't go through, and a layer of cold sweat seeped out on her forehead.

Zhou Yuchuan had turned off his phone, and he hadn't replied even now; could he be a scammer?