Chapter 7 Continue Stockpiling 3
After hanging up the phone with Bai Jiyang, before I could call Gu Yanxu back, his phone rang.
After Bai Tang answered the phone.
"Tangtang, come over for lunch. Where would you like to eat?" Gu Yanxu's gentle voice came from the phone.
Bai Tang said, "I just booked a private room at a hotel. Their food is pretty good. I also invited Ji Yang to come along. Why don't you come too?"
After saying that, Bai Tang sent the address to Gu Yanxu.
Bai Tang went to the hotel first, ordered the food, and waited for the two to arrive.
Not long after, the two entered the private room one after the other, and the food began to be served one after another.
After the meal was served, Bai Tang asked the two how the contract signing went.
"Don't worry, the money is in hand. I'll have my secretary add everything we bought yesterday to the cart and send it to the warehouse," Bai Jiyang said from the side.
"I've got everything sorted out on my end. The contract went smoothly, and I've found a supplier for the weapons. We'll be picking them up in three days. Tangtang, would you like to come with me then? We can also store the weapons in our spatial storage while we're at it."
Gu Yanxu wants some time alone with his partner.
Bai Tang understood what Gu Yanxu meant and said, "Okay, I'll go with you to pick up the goods that day."
Bai Jiyang, oblivious to the romantic gesture, said, "Brother Xu, take me with you! I want to go too."
Bai Tang looked at her silly younger brother who had never been in a relationship, then turned to him and said something.
"You still have a very important task to do. I've made a list and sent it to you. Those supplies are also very important, so I'm entrusting them to you to stockpile in the next few days."
Upon hearing that it was an important mission, Bai Jiyang became incredibly excited: "Sister, don't worry, I'll definitely stockpile all the supplies."
Seeing that Bai Jiyang was no longer insistent on going to pick up the goods that day, Gu Yanxu breathed a sigh of relief. He and Tangtang could finally have some time alone together.
The three of them ate and talked about their stockpiling progress over the past two days.
Bai Jiyang said, "I had my secretary find suppliers for daily necessities such as sanitary napkins, toilet paper, towels, toothbrushes, skin care products, flashlights, lighters, candles, etc. For some electrical appliances, I went directly to the manufacturers and paid extra to have them supply a month's worth of goods."
Bai Tang said, "We also need to stock up on daily necessities such as ice cubes, ice makers, power banks, solar panels, electric fans, hand warmers, matches, water purification tablets, water towers, and stoves. We also need generators and solar panels, as these will be useful in the apocalypse."
Bai Jiyang said, "OK, I'll have my secretary go and arrange the stockpiling process this afternoon."
Gu Yanxu thought for a moment and said, "Medicine, we still need medicine. In the apocalypse, a single ordinary cold medicine can be exchanged for ten kilograms of gold."
Besides medicine, we also need to prepare some protective equipment. I can arrange that. I also have a pharmaceutical factory; I've told them to work overtime for the next month to produce the drugs, and then have everything delivered to the warehouse. Tangtang will have to handle the receiving of the goods then.
"As for collecting things, we can live better in the apocalypse with these things. It doesn't matter if we're a little tired these two months."
After finishing their meal, around 2 p.m., Bai Jiyang and Gu Yanxu followed Bai Tang to collect the meals they had ordered from one hotel to another.
After collecting all the pre-ordered meals, Bai Tang remembered something very important that she hadn't stocked up on yet: water!
Water is the source of life, and people cannot go without water for a long time.
In the post-apocalyptic world, most water sources are polluted, and apart from deep well water, it is merely a drop in the ocean and simply not enough.
Therefore, Bai Tang is preparing to stockpile water like crazy this time.
Gu Yanxu said, "I have a bottled water plant in the suburbs. You can go there to store water. Xiaoyang, you can go and keep an eye on storing other things. Your sister and I will go."
Gu Yanxu made an excuse to send Bai Jiyang away.
Bai Jiyang, feeling miserable, drove back to continue stockpiling goods.
After getting Bai Jiyang out of the way, Gu Yanxu fawned over Bai Tang like a peacock spreading its tail feathers.
"Brother Xu, if I didn't know who you are, I would have thought you were after the supplies in my space," Bai Tang said with a smile.
"Tangtang, how could you think of me like that? I just haven't seen you in a long time. We haven't had any alone time together in a long time." Gu Yanxu pretended to be pitiful.
Bai Tang teased him, "Tsk tsk tsk, do your employees know that the domineering CEO they see is like this in private?"
"My dear Tangtang, I'm only like this in front of you."
Gu Yanxu even acted coquettishly towards Bai Tang, which really was unbecoming of a domineering CEO.
"Okay, okay, you only do this to me. Be good and drive carefully."
The two talked for a while and time passed quickly. About half an hour later, Gu Yanxu finally stopped the car.
Gu Yanxu led Bai Tang into the factory, where the factory manager came to greet them.
"I wonder what brings you to the factory, Mr. Gu?"
"I need a continuous supply of bottled water from your factory for a month to be delivered to this designated warehouse. This is a big order that I negotiated with a friend. Also, does your factory have water towers and water storage tanks? Please deliver two hundred of each to the customer."
A stainless steel conical water tower that is one meter wide and two meters high can hold 3.3 tons of water, and a water storage tank can hold 6 tons of water.
Bai Tang and Gu Yanxu had already planned it out on their way here.
It's estimated that relying solely on household water pipes for two months won't be enough to fill these water towers and storage tanks.
So they plan to take some time to go to the reservoir in the suburbs and fill the water tanks and water towers, and also stock up on some water purification tablets, so that the water in the water towers and tanks can be used for domestic purposes.
Actually, there's no need to hoard so much water. There's a whole flowing stream in Bai Tang's space, but it's better to be safe than sorry. Naturally, the more water the better, since who would complain about having too much water in the apocalypse? Many people fight tooth and nail for a single sip.
After listening, the bottled water plant manager said, "Mr. Gu, we have other orders too."
Gu Yanxu said, "I've thought of that too. Here's what you should do: cancel all the other orders that haven't been placed yet. For the ones that have already been placed, just continue with them as usual. Once you've completed those orders, you can start delivering the big order I mentioned."
When Bai Tang and Gu Yanxu left the bottled water plant, they took ten bottles of water with them, because the car could only fit ten bottles, and the rest would have to wait for the water plant to deliver them slowly.
Speaking of water, Bai Tang thought of ice cubes.
Ice is a good thing when it's extremely hot.
They went to the ice factory and ordered thousands of pre-made ice blocks to be sent to Gu Yanxu's cold storage. They also bought several ice-making machines at a high price so that they could make ice themselves.
Gu Yanxu drove Bai Tang to a large supermarket again, intending to let her experience the joy of shopping once more.
Bai Tang bought all sorts of snacks with Bai Tang: chocolate, small cakes, bread, potato chips, jelly, nuts and dried fruit, dairy products, and so on, until their shopping cart was full before Bai Tang stopped.
After Gu Yanxu finished paying the bill and returned to the car, Bai Tang said, "I want to put all those things into my space. They're all my food reserves."
"It's alright, Tangtang. I've already arranged for Lin Fan and the others to find the supermarket's suppliers. I'll let you stock up on goods in your space like crazy, okay?" Gu Yanxu told Bai Tang about his arrangements.
"Okay, then you and Xiaoyang are in charge of shopping, and I'll be in charge of receiving the goods!"
After spending another day on a frantic stockpiling spree, Bai Tang felt increasingly hopeful for the future.