Chapter Thirteen: Employee Placement

On the day the renovation was completed, Mu Qingyu inspected the house. Brother Wang joked, "Miss Mu, this house of yours can withstand not only filming variety shows, but even if the apocalypse really comes!"

Mu Qingyu replied jokingly, "Then who knows when the apocalypse might come! Brother Wang, have you seen the posts online?"

"Haha, you young people have such vivid imaginations!" Brother Wang laughed dismissively.

Actually, the temperature started to drop sharply globally two days ago. At the same time, a light drizzle also began to fall.

Because this is a globally unified major temperature drop, a rare weather event that is not seen for thousands of years, various countries have also reported on this weather from multiple perspectives.

As a result, "apocalyptic theories" emerged online. Many bloggers started threads predicting and speculating about the future "end times," offering all sorts of opinions.

However, most people treat these apocalyptic theories as mere amusement and don't take them seriously. Clearly, Brother Wang thinks so too.

Everyone has their own destiny, and Mu Qingyu naturally wouldn't say anything more. After inspecting the house and putting away the keys, Mu Qingyu still had many things to do!

First, she needed to go back to Muxiangyuan to take stock of the online purchases made over the past ten days. Mu Qingyu asked the Muxiangyuan employees to sign for the packages, and then simply throw them into the warehouse.

Mu Qingyu primarily chose the wholesale platform "Ani Mama" for her online shopping. Almost all the suppliers on this platform are manufacturers, so she could order in bulk for almost anything.

Mu Qingyu ordered a huge amount of essential menstrual products, such as toilet paper, sanitary napkins, and sanitary underwear, from this store. She spent 370,000 yuan to order a quantity of sanitary products that she could never use up in her entire life.

Secondly, there are lighters, candles, kerosene lamps, and related accessories. With 50,000 yuan, you could have more than you could ever use.

Then came sleeping bags, waterproof jackets, tents, survival ropes, and other outdoor survival and warmth supplies, which cost a total of 90,000 yuan.

To cope with extreme weather conditions, such as scorching sun and extreme cold, Mu Qingyu also purchased a lot of face cream, sunscreen, hand cream, Vaseline, and so on. She stocked up on these by the case, spending a total of 100,000 yuan.

In addition, medicines are very important, especially antibiotics. However, antibiotics are regulated, so Mu Qingyu had to order them online while also making trips to various pharmacies in City A in her spare time.

Fortunately, she owned Mu Xiangyuan, which had the necessary business licenses. Using the pretext of purchasing protective equipment for her employees, the obstacles to procuring medicines were significantly reduced. She also enlisted the help of Boss Zhao's wife, and managed to buy 2.88 million yuan worth of various medicines from Mu Qingyu.

At this point, Mu Qingyu had already begun to use the money that Lü Peng had borrowed for her from Mu Xiangyuan.

Before settling the renovation payment, Mu Qingyu had a balance of 3,695,000 yuan. After settling the renovation payment, Mu Qingyu had 885,000 yuan left. At this time, the bank loan of 2,920,000 yuan came in, and Mu Qingyu had 3,805,000 yuan left.

After deducting the expenses for online shopping, hygiene products, and medicines incurred during this period, Mu Qingyu only had 315,000 yuan left. She also had 3.31 million yuan in working capital in the company's account. Mu Qingyu decided not to touch the money in the company's account for the time being.

Day 10 of the apocalypse countdown.

The light drizzle of the past few days has turned into moderate rain, which has been falling continuously, and the temperature is also dropping.

A peculiar flu has begun to spread across the globe, and many people have started to catch colds and fevers.

That day, Mu Qingyu bought up most of the warehouse at a military enthusiast's supplies store. She snapped up everything she could find—military boots, camouflage uniforms, cold-weather gear, combat uniforms, night vision goggles, helmets, goggles, and so on. Anything she could see and use, she grabbed.

She also purchased crossbows and bayonets. These items were originally contraband and not allowed to be bought or sold. However, considering that Mu Qingyu had spent 300,000 yuan in his shop in one go, the shop owner secretly provided Mu Qingyu with three powerful automatic crossbows and several hundred arrows. There were also five military-grade triangular bayonets, all of which were sharpened.

Because it was a contraband item, he charged Mu Qingyu 55,000 yuan for just this little thing.

At this point, Mu Qingyu had finally run out of money in her own account and had also used 40,000 yuan from the company's account.

During this period, Mu Qingyu also did several other things. For example, she personally made warm arrangements for the bedrooms in rooms 3 and 4, such as covering all the walls with new insulation materials and adding thick quilts to the rooms.

Then they took out all kinds of food, supplies and drinking water from the space, filling more than half of the storage room on the second floor of the two houses.

Then she bought ten huge plastic buckets, each with a capacity of three cubic meters. She placed five in each house on the first floor, and filled them with well water whenever she had time, until all five buckets were full.

She also traveled to all the major furniture factories and wood processing plants in City A. They produce a lot of wood chips and waste wood scraps every day, which Mu Qingyu specifically collects. She rented a small truck, directly collected the wood chips and loaded them onto the truck. When she arrived at a deserted place, she would store the contents of the truck into her spatial storage and then move on to the next factory.

These scrap materials are extremely cheap; they're things people need to get rid of, so they just pay a token amount. Mu Qingyu goes to collect them whenever she has time. The factories are mostly concentrated in one area, so it's very convenient.

Over the course of several days, Mu Qingyu hauled back more than thirty truckloads of sawdust. All this stuff, including the truck rental fee, only cost her a few yuan. Adding the insulation materials and large barrels, the total cost was only 8100 yuan.

Day 8 of the apocalypse countdown.

After completing the basic preparations, Mu Qingyu finally started ordering some delicious food online. Spicy strips, chocolate, boneless chicken feet, duck necks, self-heating hot pot rice, spicy chicken noodles, fried noodles, tasty little breads and cookies, jelly plum energy bars...

In short, as long as it's delicious, Mu Qingyu will place an order and buy as much as she can with the money she has.

That day, Mu Qingyu returned to Muxiang Garden to "receive the goods," and was finally caught by Lü Peng!

For the past ten days or so, Mu Qingyu has been running around and rarely seen. Lü Peng is also busy with the affairs of Mu Xiangyuan. In addition, Mu Qingyu is deliberately avoiding the Mu family, so it has become difficult for Lü Peng to see Mu Qingyu.

However, Lü Peng knew that Mu Qingyu had been making large-scale purchases and would sometimes return to Muxiang Garden at night to check on the supplies, so he specifically staked out Mu Qingyu today. And he actually managed to catch her.

A lot has happened recently, and Mu Qingyu has started using the company's working capital, which makes Lü Peng very worried.

"President Mu, the weather has been strange lately, and many employees in the company have fallen ill. Some customers have also ended their storage early and want to pick up their goods as soon as possible. There are also some customers who have delayed their delivery deadlines..." Lu Peng first reported the recent situation of Mu Xiangyuan to Mu Qingyu.

What he really wanted to ask was whether Mu Qingyu truly wanted to end Mu Xiangyuan's business? What would happen to him and the remaining twenty-odd employees of Mu Xiangyuan?