Although the gas company said it was just a malfunction and they were doing emergency repairs, without natural gas, they couldn't even heat up and boil river water to drink.
So Huo Jing made up his mind and brought all the cash in his house to find Hua Mi.
He sat opposite Hua Mi, his face filled with shame.
"Actually, I went to the water treatment plant this morning, but the entrance was packed with people buying water. Almost every few cases of water that the plant brought out were sold out."
Oh, actually, we shouldn't use the word "buy," but rather the word "rob" would be more appropriate.
"We also tried ordering water online."
However, they failed to accurately assess the severity of the situation. Although logistics were still operating, they couldn't get into the city at all. Even if they did, the packages would be delivered to some unknown courier station in the city.
It's very difficult for people in Xiangcheng to pick up their packages now. Sometimes, people in the city have to go outside the city to pick up their packages.
Inconvenient logistics resulted in a lack of adequate food and water supply.
Everyone was panicking, everyone was desperately hoarding food and water, and some people even moved into temporary medical centers.
Some people simply couldn't stand the constant shaking in Xiangcheng and simply moved their entire families away from the city.
For example, those people who set up stalls outside the makeshift medical center to clear out their stock.
By the end, Huo Jing's expression almost pleaded.
"Miss Hua, please sell me a little water. This time, no matter who says otherwise, I won't sell it to you."
Hua Mi ate a piece of dried orchid and felt a little tired.
She pointed with her chopsticks to a small open space around the supermarket.
"You offered too little. Look how much a bottle of water costs outside now, at least 50 yuan a bottle. How many bottles can you buy with just a few wads of cash?"
Huo Jing lowered his head dejectedly, his shoulders slumping.
Remembering how he had been tricked by his relatives into selling 3,000 bottles of mineral water, he raised his hand and slapped himself hard.
"Don't go to extremes. Keep a calm mind at this time, and you'll slide into the abyss more slowly."
Hua Mi had already finished a huge bowl of spicy hot pot, and then said...
“I need to put up a wire fence here. If you help me with the work for a day, I’ll give you a case of bottled water.”
She was really tired, and after eating, she kept feeling sleepy.
Right now, I just want to go to sleep.
But her level 4 factory and level 4 warehouse are waiting to be upgraded, and the 1 square meter of black soil is not keeping up, which is delaying her business.
Upon hearing this, Huo Jing, who was sitting opposite, exclaimed, "Wow, there's actually such a good thing!"
If a bottle of mineral water costs 50 yuan outside, and a case of mineral water contains 24 bottles, then he can earn 1200 yuan by working for a day.
Huo Jing immediately nodded in agreement.
In the next sentence, Hua Mi continued:
"You still have to pay in cash, all of it!"
Therefore, the value of a case of mineral water every day is Huo Jing's cash plus Huo Jing's labor.
Even so, Huo Jing could only nod in agreement, since he could get a case of mineral water for doing a day's work for Hua Mi.
But even after a day's work outside, you might not get a case of bottled water.
After settling Huo Jing in, Hua Mi returned to the supermarket.
The generator set has been installed and is running loudly behind the supermarket.
As soon as she returned to the second floor of the supermarket, she opened the control panel and saw the health bar on the level 4 factory icon flashing.
It indicates that it is charging.
It can be done like this... It's just that the generator set outside is too noisy, and the energy is charging too slowly.
If it continues to recharge at this slow and leisurely pace, the diesel fuel will probably run out before the Level 4 plant is fully charged.
This energy source will become increasingly expensive and scarce as the environment deteriorates day by day.
Ultimately, it became a case of having a price but no market.
Hua Mi looked helpless; she couldn't move the supermarket to the temporary emergency center to recharge.
For now, we can only leave it at that. She'll go buy some gasoline and diesel later to stock up.
Having made up her mind, Hua Mi plugged a power bank into every outlet in her supermarket and then went to sleep.
I originally only planned to sleep for a few hours before getting up, but I ended up sleeping until dawn the next day.
She has a good habit of turning off her phone when she goes to sleep. When she wakes up and turns on her phone, it's overflowing with text messages.
The water plant manager urged her to quickly deliver hundreds of thousands more mineral water bottles to the plant.
Afu said he had delivered a truckload of empty mineral water bottles to the water treatment plant, but the plant didn't have a single bottle of water for Huami to bring back.
Because all the bottled water is ordered as soon as it enters the production line.
Everyone was in a great hurry, saying how much they needed these bottled water.
There's really nothing we can do.
Huo Jing also left her a message. He said that half of the barbed wire had been put up and he had left as agreed. He would come back today to finish the rest of the work.
Then, he told Hua Mi that he found a large clump of rush grass 20 meters away from the supermarket, and took it upon himself to cut it down and weave it into a rush grass broom.
They also helped Hua Mi clean up the empty supermarket.
Hua Mi ran downstairs and saw that, sure enough, the supermarket, which had previously been covered in a layer of dust, had been cleaned spotlessly by Huo Jing.
This guy is capable.
She ran out again to check on the barbed wire fence that was already half-finished; Huo Jing had done a very good job.
Finally, Hua Mi remembered the rushes on her patch of black soil.
Two days ago, when she left, she casually scattered a handful of rush seeds on the black soil, and they've already sprouted?
She quickly teleported to the black soil and saw that the rushes that Huo Jing had just cut had sprouted another square meter of tender shoots.
It is estimated that another batch of rushes will be harvested in less than two days.
Is this black soil really that magical?
Hua Mi immediately regretted it. She had bought a lot of fruit seeds last time. If she had known better, she would have planted fruit instead of rushes. She could have eaten fresh fruit today.
Feeling deeply regretful, Hua Mi could only channel her grief and anger into motivation. When Huo Jing arrived, she gave him a case of bottled water, a bag of bread and instant noodles, and then she left the ruins.
Today she plans to go to the street stalls outside the ambulance center to find some items that can be used for self-defense.
As Hua Mi passed A Fu's truck, she slowed down slightly, patted the truck bed with her palm, and quietly filled the huge truck bed with empty mineral water bottles.
These empty mineral water bottles are meant to be used to exchange for diesel fuel with the water plant manager.
Then she went outside the city to pick up a package before leisurely arriving at the outside of the ambulance center.
Before entering the stall area, Hua Mi found a quiet spot, dragged her electric flatbed truck out of the Level 4 warehouse, and drove it into the stall area.
To be honest, she actually came here with the intention of finding building materials.
But as soon as I got closer to the stall area, I saw a stall selling sanitary napkins.
Sanitary napkins, antibacterial panty liners, tampons, overnight pants... piled up higher than a small mountain.
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