Although Hua Mi felt no remorse for having tricked Ma Zhixuan, she still decided to go see Qin Zhen.
So he got out of his RV, stepped through the cleared snow, and headed towards Qin Zhen's RV.
Outside the RV where Qin Zhen was recuperating after childbirth, Hua Mi unsurprisingly saw Ma Yongchun.
Ma Yongchun was on the phone with the management of City C when he saw Hua Mi approaching. He quickly hung up, went to greet her, and said with some distress,
"Mrs. Gong, I haven't been able to find Zhixuan for the past few days."
He wanted Ma Zhixuan to come out and apologize to Qin Zhen and Hua Mi.
However, Ma Zhixuan was determined to evade punishment, and he hasn't even answered Ma Yongchun's calls in the past few days.
Ma Yongchun was extremely anxious, running back and forth between Xiangcheng and Ccheng, and he lost a lot of weight from exhaustion.
Hua Mi looked at Ma Yongchun with a half-smile.
"Why are you telling me if you can't find your brother? Do you think I, a heavily pregnant woman, would help you find your brother?"
After saying that, Hua Mi continued walking towards Qin Zhen's RV.
Ma Yongchun followed behind, explaining.
"I know Zhixuan made a big mistake this time, but the survivors in City C are really freezing, the temperature dropped too fast."
In just a few days, the snow on the ground had already piled up to knee-deep, and all the firewood that could be collected for burning near City C had been swept away.
This is no exaggeration. City C, due to a lack of effective management, doesn't even have a single smokeless wood-burning stove.
The smokeless wood-burning stoves popular in Xiangcheng are not available in City C!
Some of these stoves were purchased by Ikegawa from his friends' friends' friends' friends, while others were acquired from survivors and then resold.
In some cases, survivors actually saw a business opportunity, found the materials themselves, made the products, and sold them to the market themselves.
Because Xiangcheng has abundant supplies, once the market for street vendors became saturated, various artisans became sought after.
Anyway, if they can't sell what they make, they sell it to Chi Chuan. Behind Chi Chuan is Hua Mi, who has a lot of money, and she will take anything.
Over time, Hua Mi collected a bunch of miscellaneous supplies and also supported many artisans.
Among them are people who are skillful and adept at making smokeless wood-burning stoves.
This smokeless wood-burning stove can save heat energy; a few pieces of firewood can burn for several hours.
In City C, where there are no smokeless wood-burning stoves, people gather firewood and start a fire to warm themselves. After the fire is used up, they go to gather more firewood from the wild.
This not only results in a huge waste of energy.
The key point is that there isn't even a single tree branch left near City C.
Many survivors had to trek long distances each day through knee-deep snow just to carry back a bundle of firewood.
The living environment is deteriorating rapidly.
If they can no longer buy firewood and smokeless wood-burning stoves from Xiangcheng, Ma Yongchun's management team estimates that many survivors in City C may freeze to death.
At this point, everyone could realize just how destructive the butterfly effect was of Ma Zhixuan's failed firewood business deal.
Ma Yongchun meant that Ma Zhixuan absolutely had to apologize to Hua Mi.
Perhaps Hua Mi felt relieved, and she could continue to supply the survivors of City C with an unlimited amount of wood.
Everyone got along well and overcame this difficulty.
Hua Mi walked ahead, listening to Ma Yongchun's laborious explanation, and couldn't help but find it amusing. So, Hua Mi stopped and said to Ma Yongchun,
“Commander Ma, it’s not that I don’t want to help. I agreed to your wife’s business deal because I didn’t think about the seriousness of the problem. That’s why I was so arrogant and said I could provide C City with an unlimited supply of wood.”
"But right now, I really, truly don't have enough wood to help all the survivors in City C with their heating."
She was wrong. She had previously thought that 27 square meters of black soil could support an unlimited number of trees.
As a result, the trees on those 27 square meters of black soil did grow very quickly, but the yield was only tens of thousands of kilograms per day at most.
After a pause, Hua Mi continued,
“Yesterday my college classmate came and asked me to buy 10,000 jin of wood, but I haven’t sold any yet. There’s just no supply, so there’s nothing I can do.”
Ma Yongchun opened his mouth,
"No, you have tens of thousands of kilograms of wood every day, so your inventory must be quite large."
Hua Mi ignored him and continued walking forward. She had no wood in stock; her inventory was zero.
But she didn't say anything.
Before Ma Yongchun could say anything more, a secretary rushed over and said,
"Commander, we've found the Second Young Master. He's with a team at the Xiangcheng Rescue Center. This team just bought 300,000 servings of semi-finished pickled fish and supplies for 2,000 trucks."
This is no secret; in fact, it has become common knowledge in Xiangcheng.
Many wealthy people in City C are asking about this.
They donated a lot of money to City C so that the survivors in City C could live a better life.
As a result, Ma Zhixuan suddenly created this team, and the wealthy people all went to the management of City C to inquire about what was going on.
"What?"
Ma Yongchun suddenly shouted.
"Ma Zhixuan? Where did he get so much money?"
The secretary looked unpleasant and remained silent.
Although Ma Zhixuan was generous and had no shortage of money for food and drink in Xiangcheng, he could easily come up with tens of thousands of yuan.
But how can 300,000 servings of pickled fish and 2,000 truckloads of supplies be accomplished with just tens of thousands of yuan?
Everyone who knows about this is speculating about the source of Ma Zhixuan's funds.
Everyone knows that this matter is inextricably linked to City C's reserve fund account.
Hua Mi, standing next to Qin Zhen's RV, shrugged. Of course, she didn't know where Ma Zhixuan got the money.
Hua Mi didn't even know who was buying her supplies in large quantities.
She's just a businesswoman; she doesn't concern herself with other people's private affairs.
Once inside the RV, Ma Yongchun didn't follow; he went to find Ma Zhixuan instead.
Qin Zhen sat in the car with a headscarf wrapped around his head, and a large stack of documents was placed on the table in front of him.
Seeing Hua Mi enter, Qin Zhen pinched the bridge of his nose.
What is Ma Zhixuan doing now?
She was in the car and overheard Hua Mi and Ma Yongchun's conversation.
Hua Mi shrugged and handed Qin Zhen a stack of photos.
“I’m telling you this because I consider you a friend. If your husband asks, I definitely won’t tell him.”
Qin Zhen looked at the photo in her hand, her expression growing increasingly grim. Finally, she silently put the photo down.
Sitting opposite Qin Zhen, Hua Mi, out of curiosity, asked:
"Aren't you going to check it out? He's got a lot of money lately."
Qin Zhen's eyes showed struggle, which eventually turned into extreme rationality.
She looked at Hua Mi.
"Didn't his brother go? Let his brother handle it. I don't know anything about this."
Little Meimei is fine now. I took her to school this morning. I'm really worried; she's afraid to hand in her homework because she's afraid of being criticized too much.
(End of this chapter)
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