Chapter 8: Swipe the Black Card As You Please!

The transfer of ownership for the RV and the sports car was quickly taken care of, and Jiang Yan also finished processing the paperwork for the van.

She even had someone clean and disinfect the entire cab and van space.

Dressed as usual in casual sportswear, wearing a wig, cap, and a mask, Jiang Yan drove the van directly to the city's largest wholesale market.

The wholesale market was located quite far from the city center, and various delays had occurred with the vehicle sale procedure.

By the time she arrived in the van, it was already past ten in the morning.

Jiang Yan had researched online and found that buying basic foods like grains and oils was best done at places like this—the prices were relatively affordable, and most importantly, the quality and supply were guaranteed.

She had an appointment with Du Ziteng to view properties in the afternoon, so she planned to get the bulk of the staple goods sorted out in the morning.

This was Jiang Yan's first visit to a wholesale market.

Although it was already late, the place was bustling with people.

Jiang Yan spent an hour touring the whole market, inquiring about prices, and getting a basic understanding of the market situation for staple foods before finally entering the largest grain and oil wholesale store in the market.

Several employees were attending customers inside the store, and their eyes became vigilant at the sight of her, with her backpack, masked face, and cap.

The store owner, however, was more perceptive and immediately recognized that the fully armed girl in trendy sportswear was someone with substantial purchasing power.

She paused the drama she was watching on her pad, stood up, and walked towards Jiang Yan with a cheerful greeting,

"Beauty, are you looking to buy something?"

Jiang Yan glanced at the other customers and spoke in a lowered voice, "Madam, I want all the goods in your store."

The store owner: "??!!"

What, everything?!!

Did I hear that right?!

I must have gotten up too quickly and am hallucinating...

The store owner, experienced in big business and accustomed to surprises, curved her eyes into a smile and asked again,

"Beauty, how much are you looking to buy?"

Jiang Yan calmly stated, "Madam, I'm buying everything. Additionally, for Wuchang Rice, T country fragrant rice, Zhefang Rice, as well as the high-quality rice, how much stock do you have? I want at least six thousand kilograms of each. For the remaining items like flour, beans, organic camellia oil, the best quality peanut oil, and rapeseed oil, I'd like five thousand kilograms each. For the rest whose names I haven't mentioned, three thousand kilograms each."

There wasn't any imported olive oil for sale here—she planned to go abroad directly to buy that later.

Jiang Yan had researched the previous night. If a person were to live to 100, they would need approximately ten thousand kilograms of rice, one thousand kilograms of cooking oil, two thousand kilograms of sugar, and two hundred kilograms of salt in a lifetime.

As for herself, her daily staple food consumption was low, and she normally consumed less oil, less sugar, and less salt, but she would still need about half of that amount.

Moreover, the [Storage Area] in her Space was not affected by the flow of time, so she did not worry about storing too much rice or oil—with fresh rice turning into old rice or cooking oil going bad.

As for salt, after Japan released nuclear-contaminated water, sea salt might also have food safety issues.

The store was selling Rock Salt, so she planned to stock up on that, too.

Anyway, having money and space, she could afford to be a little indulgent.

Additionally, although the black soil in her Space was cultivable, she wasn't particularly hopeful about her own planting abilities just yet.

Planting simple vegetables, melons, greenery, and flowers was okay, but large-scale planting of rice and wheat was better left to experimentation with a few plants.

Besides rice, the store also sold High Gluten Flour, Low-gluten flour, yeast powder, Black Rice, Purple Rice, Small Rice, glutinous rice, quinoa, sesame, Buckwheat, red beans, soybeans, green beans, peanuts, and more.

Being from the South, her diet leaned more towards rice, but she was not averse to flour, beans, and was willing to buy it all.

Among the grain products, she particularly liked egg silver thread noodles and decided to purchase some as well.

In another corner of the shop, there was black sugar, brown sugar, White Sugar, crystal sugar, Honey.

Further down were table salt, soy sauce, sesame oil, and various other condiments.

She had always controlled her sugar intake and didn't eat much, but when the severe cold of the later stages of the apocalypse set in, sugar would be valuable.

Plus, she was originally stocking up for the apocalypse, so it was essential not to buy less.

Being able to purchase most of the supplies from one shop saved her from running around elsewhere.

"Buy everything... eight thousand kilograms???" The store owner was naturally speechless for a second, but a merchant's keen intuition and professional habits made her respond before her brain did:

"Beauty, I'll check the exact stock levels for you in a bit, and if we don't have enough here, I can arrange to have it shipped for you. But are you sure you want to buy everything? For these items, the deposit alone could be more than tens of millions. After all, the most genuine and best quality Wuchang Rice is not cheap, you know."

As the shop owner finished speaking, Jiang Yan had already taken out her bank card:

"Calculate the total for me, both the deposit and the full amount. You can swipe for the deposit first. For the delivery, I'll give you a few warehouse addresses later—just contact me before your people head over."

The store owner took a quick glance at her black card, her pupils dilated with shock for a second, and after a swift scan of the other customers in the store, she carefully gestured towards a tea table in the back of the shop with a cautious voice:

"Little sister, how about you come sit in my room and have a cup of tea? I have a few things to clarify with you. After all, your order is super large, and I don't want to make any mistakes that might cause you a delay."

For someone in business like her, being able to run a big operation that stood firm in the market for many years was also related to her careful and cautious approach.

She actually liked having big customers like Jiang Yan, but she was also afraid that she might have other motives for buying so much on the whim.

After all, the government has always been cracking down on hoarding.

Moreover, the quantities Jiang Yan needed would require arranging additional supplies.

The price of the goods and commodities futures had connections too.

If anything went wrong in the middle, they might have to handle the goods priced high due to shipments arriving during peak pricing, potentially leaving them holding expensive stock.

Jiang Yan glanced inside the room and nodded in agreement.

The store owner was forthright and clever. The two quickly finished communicating.

She told Jiang Yan that because she was buying such a large amount of goods, she could only pay a deposit, not an earnest deposit.

Although the two terms sounded similar, their meanings were different.

After all, an earnest deposit could be refunded if the order was later cancelled, but a deposit couldn't be.

Jiang Yan clearly understood.

In addition, the store owner mentioned a big issue: White Sugar was a strategic material, and concerning salt, she was buying too much to sell her all at once.

If she insisted on buying so much, they might have to charge extra to seek out channels and relationships.

For Jiang Yan, this was not a problem.

After all, problems that money can solve aren't really big problems.