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

The dozens of people around were so anxious that bubbles were forming at the corners of their mouths, but they dared not make too much noise because the marshal had just undergone surgery.

The marshal leaned weakly against the hospital bed: "Su girl, prescribe me some heart medicine. I can't lie down for the next few days—I won't feel at ease lying down until these two big holes are plugged."

Su Wanqing immediately asked, "What happened? What two big holes need to be plugged? And where are supplies urgently needed?" This old man was laughing and staying up all night watching planes transfer just a few days ago, and now he's all smiles?

But that's not a problem. Tell me quickly where the food is lacking; she needs to know immediately! Tell me!

The secretary next to her sighed, "Comrade Su Wanqing, you don't know this, but when Hebei was flooded a few days ago, it wasn't too serious. But these past two days, the torrential rains have not stopped at all. The main dike suddenly broke, and the floodwaters surrounded more than a dozen counties, leaving more than 1.3 million people submerged in the water."

We have urgently mobilized the grain reserves from five large grain warehouses in the surrounding area and transported them there overnight!

The situation in Yanshan is even more troublesome—although a vein of ultra-high purity titanium of space-grade material was found, the mine collapsed! Moreover, all the miners were veterans and their families. Now they are all trapped in the mountain valley where the temperature is below minus ten degrees Celsius. Their houses have collapsed, their food supplies are buried under the rubble, and they are out of food, coal, and electricity.

These two areas combined have over 2.5 million people starving, and reconstruction efforts won't be completed in less than a month or two. With such a massive food shortage, it's impossible to quickly procure so many supplies from anywhere else.

The marshal, with his eyes closed, said, "There's flooding and torrential rain in Hebei. The grain has to be waterproofed and prevented from getting moldy, so it can't be transported all at once. It's best to have grain that's easy to cook or that can be eaten directly... The Yanshan area needs cotton clothes, quilts, and coal, and they're even more short of grain—but where am I supposed to conjure up so much stuff for them? By the time we get grain from the Northeast and Sichuan, several generations of people will have already starved to death..."

Su Wanqing immediately pressed for details: "What's the situation regarding casualties? Are there many injured? Is the medical team short of medicine?"

Her heart couldn't help but pound—such a huge disaster, she couldn't even imagine how many people had died or been injured.

Although she had stockpiled a massive amount of food and supplies, she was lacking in medical supplies and medicine. If casualties were too high, she would have to rely on flour and enhanced spiritual spring water to make do. No, her current weakness was actually a shortage of medical supplies and medicine? She had to replenish them quickly!

The secretary quickly replied, "It's a stroke of luck amidst misfortune—the dike breached in Hebei during the day, and with the advance evacuation efforts, there were almost no casualties. Most people were safely evacuated to higher ground and resettlement sites."

But if this continues, more people will likely starve to death than drown.

The same thing happened in Yanshan. The mine had evacuated people before blasting the veins, so no one was trapped. But all the houses collapsed, and all the supplies were buried under the rubble. In this cold weather, airdropped rations alone won't last more than a few days.

"Pfft...cough cough." Su Wanqing almost burst out laughing, but quickly pretended to cough to cover it up. She really—she almost couldn't hold it in.

You mean there were no casualties on either side, no one was missing an arm or a leg, and there were no bloody and gruesome scenes?

The only predicament for everyone is hunger, lack of food, and lack of supplies.

She had just stockpiled ten or a hundred times the amount of grain stored in several large granaries in the capital, including nine million tons of refined snowflake flour, four and a half million tons of refined rice, nine hundred thousand tons of soybeans, nine thousand tons of frozen pork, and twenty-seven thousand tons of Chinese cabbage that hadn't been upgraded yet!

She was scratching her head in frustration, wondering what she should contribute to quickly increase her merit points, when suddenly it said that a super large amount of food was needed, and more than two million people were trapped waiting for her to feed them.

The marshal and everyone present stared at Su Wanqing in shock—had this girl just chuckled? The marshal weakly propped himself up on one side, his face full of disbelief: "Su girl, I've been so worried I'm about to lose all my hair, and you...you actually wanted to laugh?"

"Yes, Comrade Su, we're almost going crazy over this, how can you still..."

Su Wanqing pursed her lips, forcibly suppressing the joy on her face and in her heart. Although she felt sorry for the victims of the natural disaster, she was fortunate that she could make amends.

Just think, this time she could save over two million people and gain so many merit points; she would be willing to empty all her food reserves!

Anyway, these were all freebies from the granaries these past few days. At worst, I can just go abroad and freeload more from the granaries and cold storage facilities in the US. The US is rolling in money right now.

She immediately straightened her expression. "Marshal, comrades, please don't panic. I'm sure you'll all smile after hearing this news—"

To be honest, the first thing I asked about was the condition of the wounded. I only breathed a sigh of relief when I learned there were no casualties. As long as there are no wounded, everything else can be handled.

"That's easy for you to say. More than two million people are starving and need to eat for several months. Then there's post-disaster reconstruction and the transportation of supplies. Each of these requires astronomical sums of money..."

"But Comrade Su Wanqing is right. Fortunately, there were no casualties this time, which is a blessing in disguise—as long as everyone is safe, there is still hope."

Su Wanqing waved her hand: "As for the food shortage, just name the amount. It's a coincidence that my friend just managed to get a large batch of food, which will arrive at midnight tonight. We can definitely send it to the two disaster areas first."

However, even after she said that, the atmosphere around her did not lighten at all; some people even shook their heads with a wry smile.

The marshal sighed, full of helplessness: "Su girl, you probably have some misunderstanding about what you mean by 'a large quantity of grain'."

That's not just food for a few thousand or tens of thousands of people; it's food for two major disaster-stricken areas, affecting more than two million people. And it's not a matter of just a day or two—post-disaster reconstruction, road clearing, and production restoration will take at least one or two months.

Do you know how terrifying this kind of consumption is? Our country has only just started to have enough to eat, and now we're losing so much food all at once... Where are we going to get so much food from?

"Then we must tighten our belts and not let the people in the disaster area go hungry."

Su Wanqing remained unmoved, only repeating, "Just name a number."

The marshal closed his eyes briefly and announced a number: "We still need at least this much—300,000 tons. This is based on each person eating sparingly, only one meal a day, as a life-saving measure." With this amount as a buffer, we can gradually transfer grain from other regions in time.

Su Wanqing frowned.

That's it?

That's all?

This is less than a fraction of what she has in her storage space. How many merit points can she get by contributing such a small amount of food?

Upon seeing Su Wanqing frown, everyone present, including the marshal, felt a sinking feeling in their hearts.