"I didn't see it. What did it say?" Chen Feng took out his phone and glanced at it subconsciously.

"Those who need boxed lunches for lunch and dinner tomorrow should sign up in advance. Li Erchun will drive to Qiuling City to make the bulk purchases. The prices may be a bit higher, since it's a long journey."

"You've thought of everything quite thoroughly. It's true that feeding so many people is a problem. You don't want everyone to go back to the car, and if you don't provide meals, you only have a few people, so you can't keep an eye on everything."

"Let's all order, as long as there's something to eat," Chen Feng asked everyone.

"Sure, a few more days won't make a difference, even if it's a bit more expensive."

"I guess she's also opening a new mine and isn't sure how many people will come in the future, so she can't decide whether or not to open a canteen."

Huang Fei guessed.

Everyone agreed and finalized the meals for the next three days.

In the evening, people would still come to the mine occasionally, but not many, so Li Erchun asked her father-in-law to watch the bar so she could free up her hands to do other things.

The family, consisting of several people, were compiling the list inside the house. Li Erchun asked questions as he counted the numbers.

"How's the preparation for spring coming along?"

"Haha, we secretly received 120,000 worth of goods. I reckon no one will get more than us this time." Li Kaichun chuckled.

"Yes, is Third Uncle ready? Don't let anyone tell he doesn't look like a gold prospector," Li Erchun asked, looking up.

"I'm ready. I've been teaching my third uncle for half a month, and he's almost become a real gold prospector now."

"If you ask me, why don't I take the lead? What about my own family members who can't participate in the competition?" Li Kaichun said, pursing his lips.

"Go to hell! Fine, you can participate in the competition, and you'll be number one anyway. Even a fool could see we're cheating," Li Erchun cursed in a low voice.

"Just kidding." Li Kaichun scratched his head and gave an embarrassed smile.

"They'll probably get suspicious just from this. After all, Uncle San is a gold prospector who has never shown his face before. He just won the championship and disappeared. Anyone would be suspicious."

“But it doesn’t matter anyway. So what if you guess? What can you do if I don’t admit it? Can I control whether other gold prospectors come or not? Really.” Li Erchun smiled confidently.

"Sis, you're so smart. I bet they never expected that the champion had already been decided inside the box. That's a 120,000 yuan worth of goods. Even if they had three days, they wouldn't have been able to find it no matter how hard they tried."

Li Kaichun exclaimed in admiration.

This move is killing two birds with one stone. The top buyer at the mining site has acquired 120,000 worth of goods, which will definitely make the mining site famous overnight. I estimate that many people will come after hearing the news.

My family's mining farm will definitely become the hottest mining farm for a period of time.

And since they won the championship themselves, the promise of taking all the goods from the first place winner is naturally no longer valid. Imagine how much more money they could have made!

“Those gold prospectors, just thinking about it makes me laugh. They’d be afraid I’d steal their goods if they asked them to deliver them. How could I be so stupid as to steal their goods?”

"If I really tampered with this, they would tear me apart."

"Everyone only cares about the little stuff in their own pockets, assuming I'll take it out. Why doesn't anyone think that I not only won't take it out, but I'll also put it in?"

Li Erchun's smile was full of smugness; she had figured out this reverse thinking.

Although there are surveillance cameras in the storage area, Li Erchun will show them the recordings to prove his innocence.

But in places where there were no surveillance cameras on the road, Li Kaichun had already made preparations, stuffing the goods into his third uncle's bag.

This move was absolutely flawless.

Just kidding, I'm both the referee and the player, how can you play with me?

"Sis, if you ask me, we might as well just take care of numbers one, two, and three. That way, we can save a lot of money."

Li Kaichun felt a pang of pain when he thought about the share of the second and third place winners, because that was all his family's money.

"You really are stupid. The second and third place winners only get a small cut, 80% and 60% respectively. You should at least give them a break."

"Besides, do you think I'm giving them that commission for nothing?"

"Those who get second and third place must also be veteran gold miners. Aren't these two living examples?"

“If those two go out and promote it, won’t our mine become even more popular? Did you think of that?” Li Erchun looked at his younger brother with exasperation.

"Wow, sis, that's a brilliant move! You're really amazing!" Li Kaichun said with admiration.

"Kid, you should learn from this. There's still a lot you need to learn."

"When you go buy boxed lunches tomorrow, don't forget to bargain with him. We're buying so many at once, he'll surely give us a few free," Li Erchun said to her husband.

Her husband is a dark-skinned man with a shaved head. He looks quite intimidating at first glance, and you wouldn't guess he's a timid, henpecked husband at first glance.

"Oh, I see. So, do I need to go earlier?" the man asked, nodding.

"Nonsense, why don't you go earlier and go later tonight?" Li Erchun glared at him.

Upon hearing this, the man immediately fell silent, turning his head to one side with a sullen expression.

By 11 p.m., almost everything had been tallied up. Li Erchun's younger brother went to relieve her father-in-law, and Li Kaichun took over the night shift.

At this moment, in a room of the hotel, a man wearing a vest and shorts with rather wild hair was looking at a map. A camouflage outfit was draped over the chair next to him.

If Li Erchun were here, she would immediately realize that this map is the map of her family's mine.

The man's finger moved back and forth across the map, and finally he picked up a pencil and drew a circle at a certain spot.

"Hmm, I think this is a better chance." The man drew another location.

The man's gaze continued to sweep across the map, finally settling on a location.

After drawing a circle on the map, the man tossed aside his pencil, stretched, and muttered to himself.

"Although I don't know if you guys will actually pull any tricks this time, Li Erchun, no matter what your plans are, I'm determined to win this championship."

The man spoke, his eyes gleaming with confidence.

There is no other reason why he dared to say this.

Because he was a geologist, he had an intimate knowledge of all kinds of terrain.

However, after passing the imperial examinations and being able to make great strides, he disregarded his seniors' attempts to persuade him to stay and resolutely chose to resign, becoming a gold prospector and traveling all over the country.

With just a glance at a mineral vein map, he could deduce where there might be plenty of gold and where there might be no gold at all.

This is the result of his more than ten years of experience, and his accuracy rate is extremely high. Compared to these old gold prospectors, this is simply a game-changer.

You might get lucky once, but you won't always be lucky, while he can guarantee that he'll be lucky most of the time.

This shows that metaphysics can't beat science.

Aside from being somewhat concerned about whether Li Erchun would pull some tricks, he didn't take the other gold prospectors seriously at all.

They're just a bunch of amateurs; they think they can compete with him? They're dreaming.