Zhou Yingxue raised an eyebrow. "I'm doing a good deed for the stronghold. Don't you know that my master is worried about the food shortage?"
These words sounded particularly emotional when spoken in the dialect of the Northwest.
By the time Wang Yuexi arrived, Zhou Yingxue was sitting in the car with a gloomy face. In front of their convoy of trucks were parked two patrol cars from the Public Order Division, blocking their way.
When Zhou Yingxue heard him say that, she immediately became unhappy. "Why don't you tell me how my good intentions turned out to be bad? If you don't give me a good explanation, I'll treat you to tea at the black market today."
"I understand that you're doing this out of good intentions, but it's very likely that your good intentions will turn out to be bad intentions." Wang Yuexi was actually a slightly arrogant scholar. It was precisely this arrogance that caused him to be unemployed for a long time and be disliked wherever he went.
However, Wang Yuexi put on his coat and rushed outside. "I don't have time to explain. Stop the convoy for me first."
Zhou Yingxue's ability to store strange seeds could only be used on mutated plants. Normal plants would not work.
If the person in charge of transporting the goods did not personally admit that they were potatoes, the stronghold residents would probably not believe it.
But now, those people had all disappeared from the face of the earth and were thrown somewhere to be used as fertilizer.
Ren Xiaosu was taken aback. "Why?"
Everyone in the office was stunned. "What's the matter, Director Wang?"
Wang Yuexi said in seriousness, "This has nothing to do with who the Young Marshal values. I have my reasons for stopping your convoy. I'm not afraid even if I go to the Young Marshal to reason with me."
In Wang Yuexi's opinion, although this batch of potatoes could suppress the food prices in the short term, it would be a blow to the entire market if the free potatoes caused some small stall owners to lose their jobs and cause their fruits and vegetables to rot in their hands.
At this moment, Zhou Yingxue was sitting in the first transport truck proudly leading the convoy to the stronghold's market. This was the mission that Ren Xiaosu had assigned to her. He wanted her to use potatoes to solve the urgent food shortage in Stronghold 144.
Wang Yuexi said, "Let's go to the Young Marshal's place to discuss this matter."
"Young Marshal, let me ask you a question." Wang Yuexi said, "If everyone could obtain unlimited resources without having to work, would they feel fulfilled or empty?"
"No need, I'm here." Ren Xiaosu rushed over when he heard that Wang Yuexi had stopped Zhou Yingxue's convoy. He asked curiously, "What happened?"
Of course, it was impossible for everyone to only eat potatoes. They would still buy cabbage when necessary, but they would definitely buy less than usual.
Although Zhou Yingxue was extremely obedient in front of Ren Xiaosu, how could a woman who ran a black market outside the stronghold be that obedient? When Zhou Yingxue first came to the stronghold, there were people who coveted her black market business, including this person.
However, Wang Yuexi was having a small meeting in his office at the Policy Research Institute when he received a report from his subordinate. "Director Wang, the woman from the black market has brought a large batch of potatoes into the city. She said she'll let the stronghold residents receive them for free. Those potatoes are especially big, so I don't know where she got them from."
The slogan at the entrance of the black market had changed. It used to be, "Don't enter this place if you're afraid of death."
Ever since Ren Xiaosu said he wanted to revitalize the Northwest, Zhou Yingxue did not stay idle. For the first time ever, she led her subordinates from the black market to reclaim a piece of wasteland. Then she offered a high reward in the black market: "Look for mutated crops, including but not limited to wheat, sorghum, winter melon, tomatoes, and so on."
Now that the Potato Shooters had a good harvest, she naturally rushed over with the first batch of potatoes to claim credit.
Wang Yuexi continued, "I heard from Miss Zhou that she can still grow other things, but I don't think it's suitable for large-scale cultivation."
Even though Zhou Yingxue was usually carefree and did not care about anyone, she still took Ren Xiaosu's words to heart.
This was the first time the heroes of the black market realized they had such a close relationship with food. Furthermore, the price they offered was quite high. It was so high that the hitmen who had sworn to only do high-end missions had even gone out into the wilderness to look for mutated crops.
But when Wang Yuexi heard this, he did not think so. He suddenly stood up and said, "Where's the convoy? Hurry up and stop them! "
With that, Wang Yuexi first got the people from the Public Order Division to evacuate the crowd. Then he walked up and looked at the potatoes in the carts.
Stronghold 144 suddenly became lively because a batch of potatoes had suddenly been shipped in from outside the stronghold. The carts of potatoes were huge and looked like small watermelons.
"But it's not easy to stop that person from the black market. You know how she does things …."
Zhou Yingxue had a bold and arrogant look on her face earlier. But when Ren Xiaosu appeared, she immediately put on an aggrieved expression. "Master, didn't you ask me to grow potatoes? In the end, when I brought them here, she accused me of doing something bad out of good intentions. Did my potatoes have poison in them or something? By the way, Master, I have some good news here. Not only can we plant potatoes now, but we've also collected seeds for other crops. Look at the last cart. Those are the winter melons I planted the day before yesterday! But even though I've worked so hard to help you solve your problems, someone framed me …. "
This was indeed good news for the Northwest, where food was becoming increasingly scarce.
"Even if it's not easy to stop them, you still have to." Wang Yuexi said, "I'll rush to the scene immediately."
When Zhou Yingxue saw Wang Yuexi walking over, she sneered and said, "Sure, it's because my master thinks too highly of you that you think you can even stop my convoy? Why don't we go to my master's place right now and see whose words carry more weight? Get out of my way! "
Everyone else in the office was stunned. "How big is' especially big '?"
This was the first time such a simple bounty had appeared in the black market. In the past, it had always been missions like assassinations, selling intelligence, causing accidental deaths, or transporting secret goods. But now, this mission that was at the top of the black market's mission board looked so out of place.
"It looks like a watermelon." His subordinate gestured and said, "That's great. The price of food in the stronghold should have stabilized."
It had to be said that Zhou Yingxue did not lose out to Wang Fugui and the others when it came to helping Ren Xiaosu solve his problems. She did her best.
"It's like this, Young Marshal." Wang Yuexi explained, "You mentioned the potatoes before, but I don't know anything about supernatural beings, so I didn't know they could be planted so quickly. I didn't even have time to plan in detail before the potatoes were shipped in. Of course it's a good thing to have potatoes. I'd like to thank Miss Zhou in advance, but we definitely can't put these potatoes in the bazaar for free. "
Now that someone was accusing her of doing bad things out of good intentions, Zhou Yingxue could not stand this injustice!
Ren Xiaosu glanced at her. "Speak properly and don't pretend to be aggrieved. No one did anything to you, and I've never seen you act like this before. Don't be influenced by others. Wang Yuexi, what do you think?"
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