Forced to marry a disabled man in the countryside? I'll repay you tenfold!

They came to the United States on important business, and they can't be stuck in there every few days.

Su Wanqing was overjoyed. As the saying goes, good fortune makes one's spirits soar; she had acquired all the ore from Boss Crawford's side, and importantly, it only took up a few inventory slots. Her earnings this time were as follows—

[Approximately 300,000 tons of raw molybdenum ore were received]

[Approximately 1,200 tons of rhenium-associated ore were collected]

[Approximately 50 tons of selenium ore were recovered from the vein, along with a small amount of platinum group metals.]

These are all treasures! The reserves are truly impressive! Of course, Su Wanqing's eyes were also on the valuable instruments and equipment. So when the collapse occurred, she salvaged a bit more, managing to collect the equipment as well. Now, with a free upgrade opportunity, she'd upgrade!

Upgrade successful! The entire molybdenum-rhenium smelting production line has been upgraded to a "fully automated high-purity molybdenum-rhenium refining system".

Originally a semi-automatic device, it suffered from high energy consumption, unstable purity, and limited production capacity. The upgraded version can fully automate the entire process of crushing, flotation, roasting, leaching, extraction, and reduction, achieving a molybdenum purity of 99.99% and a rhenium purity of 99.999%. Energy consumption is reduced by 40%, production capacity is tripled, and a complete set of equipment manufacturing drawings is included.

Su Wanqing rubbed her hands together happily.

Great! Now we have the mine, and we even have the production line that Deputy Commander Zhao has been eyeing! She'll find some time to take all of these out, pack them up, and send them back to China so the country can start production quickly. Then the space upgrade will be ready to use them!

After Su Wanqing finished sorting out today's gains, she stretched and looked around at the Chinese group who were busy setting up camp. They were also familiar with the process and started setting up tents, building stoves, and even preparing lunch.

Before long, the aroma of the food wafted out.

Viktor, seeing this familiar scene, almost burst into tears: "Boss... look at China over there..."

Even without Victor saying it, Crawford, the boss, had already seen it.

He stared in disbelief: "They not only brought food, but also cooking utensils and even tents? Did they know the mine was going to collapse and prepare in advance?"

Victor shook his head: "It shouldn't be. They always bring this much stuff when they go out, just like that time at the tungsten mine... How about we buy some food from them for the miners? The sooner they start digging, the sooner they can get out."

Actually, before they even arrived, little Arendt ran over, trying not to laugh:

"Oh, Mr. Crawford, Victor, I sympathize with your situation. But getting out of here is the top priority right now. You happen to have so many miners, and Victor is quite experienced. You provide the miners, we'll provide the food, let's dig and get out of here as soon as possible? Forget about the money from before, after all, I sympathize with you... such a huge loss, pfft..."

He was holding back his laughter, and it was a real struggle for him.

However, young Arendt didn't want to waste time with them, so he decided to exchange the food he brought for the miners' labor.

Crawford's face was ashen:

"Alright, damn little Arend, I know you're about to laugh, so go ahead and laugh. But if you hadn't come in with us, I would have suspected you deliberately blew up the mine. After all, you brought so many supplies with you, it's hard not to think that way."

Little Arend laughed heartily: "Me? Bomb your mine? I'm not as despicable as Victor. Haha, this is what we call karma in China! Let's cooperate for now and get out of here as soon as possible."

I'm bringing all this stuff with me on my way to the several thousand acres of land I bought yesterday. After all, it's a place where gold was found before, and there's a good chance there's a gold mine there. I'm taking people and equipment there to look for gold, so it'll be a few days of camping. It's quite a coincidence.

As he was being pushed away, five or six pots in a row on the Chinese side began to bubble and release their aroma.

This time, Huaxia ate a hearty stew—in addition to the fried meatballs, fried fish balls, fried egg pancakes, and pickled Jerusalem artichokes and wild yams they brought themselves, there were several large pots full, and of course, there was also the potato stew with beef prepared by Little Arendt.

Victor frowned as he watched Arend's retreating figure: "The family exploration team that Arend brought is probably going to look for gold mines over there after visiting this place, otherwise he wouldn't have brought all that equipment."

Crawford spat, "If we could actually find a gold mine in that lousy place, I'd eat shit on the spot."

This time the collapse site is different from the last one—this area is all bare rocks and gravel slopes, with no grass, wild vegetables, or trees at all, and you can't find anything to eat.

However, there are some drought-resistant herbs.

After the scan, Su Wanqing didn't want to go out at all, but in order to get out as soon as possible, she still held the three little ones and said to Ding Xiaomei, "Let's go out for a walk and see what we can eat..."

Little Arend immediately raised his hand: "Me too! I'll go and see what's going on." He was in an extremely good mood and loved watching excitement.

Deputy Commander Zhao immediately nodded: "Although we brought ten days' worth of food, we really can't just sit around and do nothing. See what we have and get some of it. Yan Shen, you take fifty men and go ahead, the remaining two hundred will keep watch, we don't need to dig. The rest of you should reinforce the camp and build more wooden fences."

Actually, Su Yatou also brought them a lot of canned food before she came. They were really afraid of being trapped, so they brought at least a month's worth of food. But since they didn't want to flaunt their wealth while traveling, they underestimated it by a little bit.

"yes!"

Su Wanqing led Ding Xiaomei and her whole family on a stroll around the area.

Ding Xiaomei sighed, "This place in America is really nice. I must say, the scenery is quite interesting. It's just that there isn't a single edible wild vegetable in this desolate place."

Secretary Zhou explained from the side: "This is a typical arid desert geology. The annual rainfall is too low, so it's true that almost nothing edible can grow here."

Zhou Yan squatted down and carefully examined the ground, then looked around and shook his head: "Indeed, there are basically no wild animals. This place is too arid; even grass barely grows, so there's practically nothing to eat."

Even so, everyone still spread out with their sacks on their backs, hoping to find something.

Su Wanqing soon discovered something rare—a large patch of licorice, along with several clumps of ephedra and cistanche.

She excitedly greeted everyone, "This is a patch of wild licorice! This is a valuable herb; it can be used in medicine to stop coughs and clear phlegm, and it can also harmonize the properties of other herbs. And this is ephedra, which can induce sweating and relieve exterior syndromes, treating colds caused by wind and cold. That over there is cistanche, which tonifies kidney yang and nourishes essence and blood; it's a very precious medicinal herb in China!"

Once Su Wanqing said it was useful and valuable, what else was there to say?

Without Zhou Yanshen even giving an order, the people around him swarmed in like locusts and immediately started digging. After all, in China, people who have saved and scrimped their whole lives can't afford to waste anything of value!