Chapter 119: Chapter 119

The next day, Bai Ruxue went to Pingyang Town, first heading to the milk powder factory, bringing some food, and then telling Bai Daliang about the possibility of her grandmother coming over, and instructed him on what to say.

She had already told Bai Ruchuan to spread the word that Bai Daliang’s salary was borrowed to pay debts, and if Grandma Bai came, he should say just that.

Wang Yongsheng and his wife were staying at home, claiming the factory gave Wang Yongsheng three days of marriage leave!

Leaving the milk powder factory, she went straight back to her yard in Pingyang Town, and Wang Cheng wasn’t there when she arrived. After all, Wang Cheng wouldn’t casually come here except for picking up goods.

Bai Ruxue glanced into the east wing room, noticing that most of the supplies were gone. This time, she had taken out all the grain from the supermarket.

The food at home was enough for the next few days and was about to be automatically restocked, so she had to bring it out quickly.

She also took out the cigarettes, wine, and tea that she had been selling all along.

She only dared to sell one kind of cigarette! She dared not take out the others, so each time was limited, and every update from the supermarket had only forty cartons, which is four hundred packs of Yunyan.

This time, she not only took cigarettes, wine, and tea but also brought out chicken, particularly whole chickens, totaling twenty-eight. Since it’s still freezing, she planned to sell them quickly; otherwise, it would be hard to sell them in summer.

Thinking this, she noticed that besides the eggs laid by those hens, her supermarket had quite a few country eggs, a dozen boxes full. Surprisingly, she hadn’t paid attention to them and had been using the regular eggs to eat.

If those eggs could be hatched, would there be an endless supply of country chickens to eat?

She should ask her mother later if she knows how to hatch eggs! There are many families in the village raising chickens, but few have roosters. It’s more common to have hens laying eggs, which are exchanged for a bit of salt or matches; raising roosters would consume more grain, so few people raise them.

As a result, hatchable eggs are rare, and most are infertile eggs.

She wasn’t sure if all the eggs in her supermarket were fertilized, but even if half of the ten boxes could hatch chicks, it would suffice. After all, she could restock them weekly, giving her a constant supply of fertilized eggs.

"But...I can’t tell which ones can hatch and which can’t!" Bai Ruxue thought excitedly, but then realized she didn’t know how to hatch eggs or select them, and she felt deflated.

"Oh well, it’s better to sell more supplies and save more money, striving to become a millionaire sooner rather than later.

She currently had about fourteen thousand in assets, and the last batch of goods hadn’t been settled yet. Updates are released by novel※fire.net

Seeing the east wing room still had plenty of space, Bai Ruxue simply took out potatoes, cabbage, and radishes from the supermarket.

After doing all this, just as she was about to leave, Wang Cheng came over.

"Miss, you’re here today? I would have come sooner if I had known!" Wang Cheng said as he walked into the yard, closing the door casually.

"Yeah, I’m here to restock; just finished and about to leave!" Bai Ruxue said.

Anyway, having finished everything, and Wang Cheng unlikely to inquire too much about moving goods, she spoke indiscriminately.

"Miss, just right, let me give you the money!" Wang Cheng headed toward the main room and familiarly took out a satchel from the kang hole in the west room.

"You just keep money here?" Bai Ruxue asked, shocked.

"Yeah! It’s safer here at Miss’s place, where no one comes around, and both the courtyard and house doors are securely locked. No one would imagine there’d be so much money here!" Wang Cheng said, handing over the bag.

"Miss, here’s twenty-five thousand eight hundred seventy-three bucks! From the last batch of goods! I already deducted ten percent!"

Even the ten percent deduction was nearly three thousand, no wonder Wang Cheng willingly followed a young girl, addressing her as Miss every time.

"Alright, go check out this batch of supplies! By the way, how many are in the scalper team now?" Bai Ruxue remembered to ask.

"Miss, I didn’t dare to recruit too broadly; apart from myself, there are only six others, but they are trustworthy and safe individuals. Our supplies are too precious for Pingyang Town to handle, so I’ve sent them out, each to a different place, to sell to local scalpers. However, if they’re not quite reliable, we definitely won’t bring them into our team!" Wang Cheng explained.

Initially, it was decided that the scalper team would be fully managed by Wang Cheng alone, and the small partners had steady monthly wages, so Bai Ruxue didn’t interfere much, nor did Wang Cheng explain too much.

"Alright, got it!" Bai Ruxue nodded, "Have you communicated with the Mayor’s secretary?"

"Well... Secretary Guo bought a few things from me but is quite cautious, never talks too much, and is rather keen, making it hard to approach him..." Wang Cheng said awkwardly.

"Secretary Guo?" Bai Ruxue found the name familiar, and after thinking for a while, she remembered he was the person who took them to Chenxi County when Xiao Feng was ill.

That explains it. Back then, he gave her the impression of being very cautious and defensive, making it unlikely for him to easily mingle with a scalper.

"Stop contacting him in the future. Also, be careful selling him stuff, make sure he doesn’t know too much! I’ll handle this matter myself!" Bai Ruxue said, tipping the money, totaling over twenty-five thousand, into her satchel, which now bulged heavily.

If this were hundred-yuan bills, it would only be about two bundles, but seeing these twenty bundles of money, Bai Ruxue shook her head, knowing she’d soon stash it in her spatial pocket when she went out.

Now her assets totaled thirty thousand, and the extra two hundred-something she tucked into her pocket, knowing she couldn’t enter the supply and marketing cooperative empty-handed.

Though the returned tickets from the materials weren’t many, the tickets she had accumulated were already quite considerable.

She had plenty to eat here: meat, sausages, cooked food, snacks, various kinds, making the food at the supply and marketing cooperative unappealing to her.

So, buying anything would mean purchasing fabric back for Xiao Yun, who recently got hooked on making clothes. Although buying her delicious food also made her happy, buying various fabrics and threads would make her jump with joy.

Thinking it over, Bai Ruxue pushed her bicycle and soon arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative.

A month past New Year, the supply and marketing cooperative was quieting down, not for lack of buyers, but they were just a sparse few, and most were buying vegetables, grains, etc., with no one buying fabric or yarn.

Upon entering, Bai Ruxue headed directly toward Wu Yuxia’s counter.

"Sister Wu, you’re not busy, right?" Bai Ruxue approached with a grin.

Wu Yuxia awakened from her nap upon hearing her voice.

The voice was very familiar; whenever this little girl came, something good was bound to happen!

"Girl, what brings you here? Come, have a seat!" Wu Yuxia had long been overwhelmingly hospitable to Bai Ruxue, for she not only had money but also a strong backing and resources.

"Sister Wu, any good fabric lately that I could buy and take back?" Bai Ruxue didn’t stand on ceremony, since she came with a purpose this time.

She wanted to inquire something from Wu Yuxia, so she accepted Wu Yuxia’s invitation and sat behind the counter.

"Yes, a nice batch of dacron arrived recently, I’ll take you to see it in a bit!" Wu Yuxia said mysteriously.

"Why isn’t it on display at the counter?" Bai Ruxue asked, puzzled.

"It just arrived! Haven’t put it out yet, and it’s just your luck, you cheeky girl!" Wu Yuxia said mysteriously.