It was currently summer vacation, but Wen Ruchu had already completed the coursework for her senior year in advance. She had inherited her parents’ intelligence. Although both of her parents had been businesspeople, she herself had been interested in studying medicine. Still, her parents had supported her unconditionally.
Before long, the doorbell began ringing nonstop.
The delivery workers looked at each other in disbelief.
So many takeout orders?
Could anyone even finish all that?
But when they looked at the huge villa in front of them, they simply accepted it.
The world of the rich was not something they could understand.
After Wen Ruchu stored all the takeout into the Dimensional Space, she took out a portion of crayfish, some barbecue, and a bottle of iced beer to enjoy.
If only the apocalypse didn’t exist, how wonderful that would be.
She stayed up until after midnight. Only after confirming that the time she could enter the Dimensional Space had reset to ten minutes did Wen Ruchu finally feel reassured enough to fall asleep.
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The next day, Wen Ruchu went to the wholesale market and entered the largest shop she could find, one that seemed to have the most complete variety of rice and flour.
The shop owner sat fanning himself lazily, half-asleep. Seeing that it was just a young girl, he didn’t even stand up and simply said,
“Little girl, take a look around. See what you want.”
Wen Ruchu didn’t know much about these things, but she could tell that the goods looked good. The rice grains were all quite nice.
“I’d like ten tons of each type of rice you have. Also red beans, mung beans, soybeans, black beans, millet, and other coarse grains—one ton of each variety you carry. Flour and wheat, ten tons each. Oh, and cooking oil—every type of oil you have, I’ll take ten thousand barrels of each…”
The boss instantly lost all traces of sleep and stared at her in shock.
“Little girl, you’re not joking with me, are you? That’s a huge amount of grain and oil.”
Wen Ruchu didn’t waste words. She simply took out her phone and scanned the payment code.
“Alipay has received 500,000 yuan.”
“That’s the deposit.”
Only then did the boss believe her.
This was real.
A god of wealth had appeared!
“Miss, the amount you want is quite large. I’ll need three days to prepare everything. After that, we can deliver it directly to you. Is that alright?”
“That’s fine. Just deliver it to this address.”
Wen Ruchu gave him the address of the warehouse.
The boss couldn’t help asking another question.
“Miss, what do you need so much grain and oil for?”
Wen Ruchu casually made up an excuse.
“My family’s company plans to donate it to poor mountainous areas.”
After all, she needed a reason. Otherwise, when the apocalypse arrived, if someone remembered that she had bought so many supplies, they might assume she had enormous stockpiles and come to rob her.
Later on, she actually did donate a small portion to the mountain regions.
Hearing that it was for charity, the boss stopped asking questions and even promised that he would prepare only the best goods. He immediately began making calls to arrange the shipments.
It was the height of summer, and the heat was unbearable.
Looking around the wholesale market, Wen Ruchu didn’t want to go from shop to shop. Seeing that the boss seemed honest enough, she asked him,
“Boss, do you know which shop has the best dried goods and seasonings? I’d like to buy some as well. Do you have any recommendations?”
“Ah, miss, you asked the right person! My wife’s family sells dried goods and seasonings. How about I take you there?”
Wen Ruchu nodded.
It was June, and the temperature in Hua City had already reached thirty-five degrees Celsius. She didn’t want to wander around searching. If she could buy everything in one place, that would be best. She might even get a discount.
Wen Ruchu followed the boss to his wife’s family’s shop.
“Mom, I’ve brought you some business!”
“Coming!”
An elderly woman who looked about sixty years old walked out from inside.
“What would the young lady like?”
Wen Ruchu looked around the shop. There were plenty of seasonings—cinnamon, star anise, bay leaves. Those would definitely make braised pork trotters delicious. There were also various dried goods: white fungus, dried longan, kelp, dried mushrooms, and more.
“I’ll take one thousand jin of each type of seasoning and dried goods. As for salt and sugar, ten tons of each. Lao Gan Ma chili sauce, noodle sauces, vinegar, soy sauce—ten thousand bottles of each. Also hotpot base and pickled fish base—ten thousand boxes of each.”
The woman was stunned.
She had been worrying about how the heat was ruining business, and suddenly such a huge order appeared.
“Alright, miss. But the quantities you want are quite large. I’ll need three days to gather everything.”
“No problem.”
Wen Ruchu didn’t want to waste time waiting to check out later, so she said,
“Let’s settle the payment now. I might not be in Hua City afterward.”
The store’s calculator began clattering rapidly.
After a while, the total was calculated.
“Miss, the rice, flour, grain, and oil come to eight million. The seasonings and dried goods total fifteen point two million. Since you’re buying in bulk, I’ve removed the small change. The total is twenty-three million.”
After paying the bill, Wen Ruchu immediately headed to the fruit and vegetable wholesale market.
She did not want to experience what she had gone through in her previous life—when the lack of fruits and vegetables had made going to the bathroom a miserable ordeal.
No, absolutely not.
Nowadays, technology was advanced. Fruits that could once only be eaten in their specific seasons were now available year-round.
As one of the top GDP cities in Dragon Nation, Hua City naturally had a huge variety.
Sugarcane, lychee, pineapple, loquat, strawberries, guava, mulberries, black plums, blueberries, longan, cherries, plums, waxberries, dragon fruit, durian, mangosteen, watermelon, cantaloupe, passion fruit, coconut, apples, mangoes, pears, Hami melon, red grapes, yellow peaches, papaya, kiwifruit, grapes, green grapes, persimmons, pomegranates, grapefruit, starfruit, bananas, lemons, cherry tomatoes, sugar tangerines, hawthorn, oranges, raspberries, wampee fruit, rambutan, prunes, pears, jackfruit, avocados, wax apples…
She ordered ten thousand jin of each.
There were even more varieties of vegetables.
People nowadays had increasingly high standards for variety and quality.
Onions, cauliflower, peas, bok choy, Chinese toon, spring bamboo shoots, crown daisy greens, pea shoots, garlic scapes, lettuce, scallions, tea tree mushrooms, broccoli, bean sprouts, zucchini, celery, shiitake mushrooms, baby greens, romaine lettuce, chili peppers, loofah, bitter melon, green beans, asparagus, wild rice stems, corn, cucumbers, perilla leaves, water spinach, pumpkin, fiddlehead ferns, tomatoes, eggplants, purple cabbage, amaranth greens, yardlong beans, lotus root, Chinese yam, sweet potatoes, water chestnuts, radishes, taro, ginger, winter melon, okra, potatoes, Sichuan peppercorns, napa cabbage, celtuce, spinach, chives, enoki mushrooms, cabbage, baby cabbage, daylily buds, flat beans, Shanghai greens, Chinese cabbage, coriander…
She ordered ten thousand jin of each of those as well.
Wen Ruchu left the warehouse address again.
Since the quantities for each fruit and vegetable variety were not extremely large, they could all be delivered to the warehouse on the same day.
By the time Wen Ruchu had stored all the fruits and vegetables from the warehouse into the Dimensional Space, night had already fallen.
Even at night, the heat was still intense.
Wen Ruchu didn’t want to go home so soon.
She wanted to look a little longer at this prosperous world.
After all, it would soon disappear.
Human civilization would be destroyed, and no one knew how long it would take for it to reappear—or whether it would ever return at all.