Early the next morning, Chen Yuan began liquidating everything she owned. She sold all of her company shares, bonds, investment funds, and real estate.
It would take some time for all of her assets to be converted into cash, but she still had more than 500 million yuan in savings on hand. She decided to spend that first.
After breakfast, she packed twenty meat buns, twenty fried dough sticks, and ten bowls of millet porridge to go. Once she got back into her car, she stored them in one of the cupboards inside her storage space.
She had already tested both the cupboards and the warehouse. Everything placed inside stayed perfectly fresh.
After eating, Chen Yuan drove straight to the wholesale market.
She purchased one hundred tons of rice, along with ten tons each of glutinous rice, millet, black rice, brown rice, soybeans, red beans, mung beans, peanuts, and oats.
She also bought one hundred tons of flour.
For cooking oil, she purchased two thousand five-liter containers each of peanut oil, soybean oil, rapeseed oil, cottonseed oil, and sunflower oil, as well as two thousand bottles of sesame oil.
Without wasting a moment, she headed to the slaughterhouse.
She bought one hundred slaughtered pigs, thirty cattle, and twenty sheep, asking the workers to butcher each animal and sort the different cuts separately.
At nearby poultry farms, Chen Yuan purchased 5,000 jin of regular eggs, 5,000 jin of free-range eggs, and 1,000 jin of duck eggs.
After that, she visited a dairy wholesale market.
She bought a total of ten thousand cases of fresh milk from various brands and five thousand cases of yogurt.
She also stocked up on powdered milk for every age group, including soy milk powder, sweetened whole milk powder, senior formula, adult formula, teenage formula, and infant formula Stages 1 through 3, purchasing two hundred cases of each.
At the daily necessities wholesale market, she went on another shopping spree.
She bought five thousand cases each of facial cleanser, toner, moisturizing lotion, face cream, shampoo, and conditioner, with ten bottles per case.
She purchased five thousand packs of toilet paper, each containing twenty-four rolls.
For sanitary pads, she bought five thousand cases each of daytime and overnight varieties.
She added two thousand cases each of facial towels, tissues, and wet wipes.
She purchased five hundred bags of baby diapers in every available size.
She bought five thousand cases of soap, with fifty bars per case, along with five thousand bottles of hand soap.
She purchased five thousand cases of laundry detergent, each containing ten large bottles, as well as ten thousand bags of laundry powder.
Finally, she bought fifty thousand toothbrushes and fifty thousand tubes of toothpaste.
Next came the wholesale market for dried goods and seasonings.
She bought five thousand cases each of dried wood ear mushrooms, dried shiitake mushrooms, kelp, dried tofu skin, dried chilies, Sichuan peppercorns, star anise, cinnamon bark, bay leaves, and countless other spices.
She purchased ten thousand cases each of light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, and cooking wine, with twelve bottles per case.
She bought ten thousand cases of table salt, each containing fifty bags.
She also stocked up on brown sugar, white sugar, and rock sugar, purchasing five thousand cases of each, with fifty bags per case.
In addition, she bought five thousand cases each of Lao Gan Ma chili sauce, fermented bean curd, chive flower paste, sesame paste, doubanjiang, and chili sauce, with twenty jars per case.
She also bought clothing in bulk.
Five hundred sets of sportswear.
Five hundred sets of casual clothing.
Three hundred sets each of summer and winter clothes.
Two hundred long down coats and two hundred short down coats.
For bedding, she purchased fifty quilts each weighing two, five, eight, and ten jin, along with twenty down comforters.
Half a month passed in the blink of an eye.
By then, she had spent well over half of her money, and the proceeds from selling all of her assets had finally arrived.
A total of five billion yuan.
The moment the money hit her account, Chen Yuan flew overseas.
In E Country, she purchased one hundred thousand tons of coal, one thousand cases of chocolate, ten thousand loaves of rye bread, five hundred cases of honey—ten jars per case—and five hundred cases of large sausages, with fifty sausages in each case.
In Y Country, she bought one hundred thousand tons of crude oil.
In F Country, she purchased one hundred thousand bottles of red wine, ten thousand cases of chocolate, and ten thousand assorted loaves of bread.
In D Country, she bought two sailboats, two luxury yachts, fifty kayaks, fifty assault boats, fifty jet skis, five off-road vehicles, five self-propelled motorhomes, and five towable RVs.
In A Country, she spent fifty million yuan on firearms and ammunition, twenty million yuan on traditional weapons, and another one billion yuan on gold and jewelry. She also spent ten million yuan buying huge quantities of fast food.
Back in Y Country, she purchased one thousand sets of solar photovoltaic power systems, each consisting of thirty panels, one thousand portable outdoor power stations, and fifty million yuan worth of generic medicines.
Finally, in T Country, she bought 5,000 jin each of bananas, durians, mangoes, lychees, jackfruit, and other tropical fruits.
By the time she returned home, she still had 500 million yuan left.
There were still far too many things she needed to buy.
Once back in the country, Chen Yuan resumed her shopping spree.
She bought one thousand coal stoves with built-in heaters, one thousand electric heaters, ten thousand hot water bottles, one thousand cases of disposable heat packs—each containing five hundred warmers—along with one thousand electric blankets.
She also purchased fifty ice makers, fifty refrigerators, one thousand air conditioners, and one thousand portable air coolers.
For transportation, she bought one hundred Flying Pigeon-style bicycles, one hundred mountain bikes, one hundred electric bicycles, and one hundred compact electric cars.
After that, she hired craftsmen to build one hundred electrically heated kang beds with integrated hot-water heating systems.
She also commissioned ten wooden insulated mobile homes and ten metal insulated mobile homes, each measuring ten square meters with three-layer insulation.
Finally, she learned how to assemble solar photovoltaic panels and install plumbing systems herself.
That way, her storage space would have both electricity and running water.