Chapter 177 The Poor Kid in the Apocalypse 7
"Boss, how many kilograms of cabbage do you have here? What's the price?"
"Sister, your tomatoes look great. How many do you have left in the field? I'll take them all."
"What's the price of pork today? Quote prices for ribs, tenderloin, and pork belly separately. I'll buy all the pork available today, including what you have in your cold storage, as long as the quality is good."
"How much are the live fish? I need 200 catties each of grass carp, common carp, and crucian carp. Slaughter and process them on the spot, and then send them to my warehouse in a bit."
The stall owners were initially shocked, then overjoyed. Such a big customer was a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence! They quickly offered the best prices.
After all, there are more than one vendor selling the same product in this market. It would be a real shame to let such a big customer slip away for a few cents.
Shen Ci barely haggled, only emphasizing one point.
"Quality must be guaranteed. I've rented those two large warehouses next door. Deliver whatever goods you have now, and we'll settle the cash payment on the spot immediately upon delivery. No delays whatsoever!"
She paid a deposit on the spot, and the market, which was originally bustling but still manageable, immediately went crazy. Stall owners made calls to order goods, and the workers began to pack and load goods frantically. Tricycles and small trucks drove towards the warehouse that Shen Ci had mentioned.
At the same time, Shen Ci took out his mobile phone and contacted several large slaughterhouses in the suburbs.
"Manager Zhang? Yes, I need the goods in stock."
Five hundred pigs, five hundred cattle, and five hundred sheep—yes, all must be slaughtered fresh, cut into parts, and packaged securely.
Price? Add 10% to the market price, but the goods must be shipped and delivered today, the sooner the better!
After hanging up the phone, she contacted several large-scale breeding farms nearby.
"Director Li, I need five hundred broiler chickens, five hundred old hens, and five hundred young roosters."
"Slaughter and clean them all, remove the hair and internal organs. Give me ten thousand fresh eggs first."
Broiler chickens are suitable for frying, pan-frying, and stir-frying. Old hens can be used to make soup, while young roosters can be stir-fried!
Thinking of some common poultry, she added.
"By the way, do you have ducks and geese where you live?"
Five hundred of each, cleaned thoroughly. Also, prepare one thousand catties each of duck eggs, goose eggs, and finished preserved eggs and salted duck eggs.
The thought that in the future apocalypse, while others struggle to survive outside, she and her son can enjoy stewed goose in an iron pot around a stove in winter and sour radish and old duck soup in summer makes all the hard work at this moment worthwhile.
Money was spent like water, but Shen Ci remained calm. The system's rebate notifications kept ringing in her mind, so noisy that she had to ask for them.
"System, turn off voice prompts for regular purchases and only notify me for special rewards."
Having solved the problem of fresh supplies, Shen Ci thought of something else: her cooking skills were limited to ordinary home-style dishes, and she didn't want to cook every day. Moreover, the power supply might be unstable in the later stages of the apocalypse, so she immediately made another phone call.
"Is this the Oriental Restaurant? I'd like to book a banquet."
One hundred tables will be available at 888 yuan per table; one hundred tables will be available at 998 yuan per table; and one hundred tables will be available at 1888 yuan per table. Yes, after preparation, pack them into individual containers and send them to the cold storage at this address. I will send someone to pick them up.
She gave me the address of a large cold storage facility she had just rented.
Next, she contacted almost every well-known restaurant and eatery in the city and placed similar orders. Then, she opened the food delivery app on her phone and handed Da Bao a new phone that was linked to her bank card.
"Da Bao, come on, order whatever you want to eat using this."
Fried chicken, pizza, ice cream, cakes... order whatever you want, as much as you like. This will be our food from now on, no need to save money for Mom.
Shen Ci herself buried herself in the task, ordering a hundred servings of every dish, snack, and dessert she could think of that she liked.
The food delivery orders were placed very quickly, and soon her phone was ringing off the hook.
"Hello? Are you Ms. Shen? You ordered one hundred servings of braised pork from our store? Did you order the wrong thing?"
"You ordered the right thing. We're having a banquet at home, so please make it as soon as possible and deliver it to the designated address today."
Shen Ci used a consistent excuse to explain, and quickly added a note to the takeout order stating that the banquet was on standby, the quantity was correct, and to request prompt delivery, which prevented more calls from coming in.
The mother and son sat in the empty supermarket all afternoon, receiving takeout orders. Whenever a delivery arrived, after Shen Ci signed for it, she would have Da Bao hide in the back room and quietly put the still-steaming food into his personal space.
Looking at the food of all kinds from all over the country that was rapidly piling up in the space, Shen Ci thought of another important resource: water. He wondered if the food he had stockpiled before would be enough. A person can go hungry for a few days, but they can't go without water.
She immediately contacted the bottled water company and ordered thousands of the largest-sized bottles of water, requesting that they be delivered directly to her warehouse.
Working late into the night, they finally managed to store the mountains of agricultural products piled up in the two temporary warehouses, as well as the first batch of banquet dishes delivered from the cold storage, into their spatial storage. Meat from the farm and slaughterhouse would be delivered in batches the next day.
That evening, the mother and son had dinner taken from the space. It was a banquet at a restaurant with a standard price of 1888 yuan, consisting of 18 dishes and four soups. The food was delicious and had everything one could want. Shen Dabao ate with gusto.
Shen Dabao felt genuinely good that his mother was back. He could eat meat every day now and no longer had to rummage through the trash for bones.
After a hearty meal, the mother and son, who had been busy all day, finally rested for a while before starting a new round of shopping. This time, they weren't as busy as before; they mainly needed to buy some clothes, bed sheets, and some tools.
According to the needs of the four seasons, Shen Ci bought hundreds of sets of clothes, shoes and socks of all kinds, from the inside out, from small to large, for her and Da Bao. She also prepared hundreds of sets of quilts, down comforters, blankets, sheets and quilt covers. After the high temperature apocalypse, when zombies appear, the temperature will return to the normal four seasons.
Da Bao will need more clothes from age seven to his teens. Clothes may not be worth much after the apocalypse, but Shen Ci is worried that if they don't prepare now, they will easily be able to snatch contaminated clothes later.
Next, she purchased various types of axes, shovels, crowbars, multi-tools, fire axes, and other tools that might be needed, as well as a large quantity of batteries, candles, lighters, ropes, and other miscellaneous items.
Regarding energy, Shen Ci ordered ten high-power solar power systems, requiring installers to come to the villa the next day to install them, and that they be installed in relatively hidden locations that are not easily noticed.
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