Finally, the crucial moment arrived!
Xia Qing secretly rubbed her palms against her leg, hidden under the table, before solemnly accepting the land use certificate for Mountain No. 49 and the two contracts.
The certificate's material, size, and seal were identical to her territory certificate; it was obviously genuine. Both certificates bore precise latitude and longitude coordinates and area measurements. The difference was that her land use certificates for Territory No. 3 and the high slope had no expiration date, while the land use certificate for Mountain No. 49 had a one-hundred-year term. Her territory covered 7,500 mu, while Mountain No. 49's surface area was 180,000 mu. The names on both land use certificates were hers, and Mountain No. 49 belonged to the Azure Dragon Team.
Based on the precise latitude and longitude, Mountain No. 49 was 12 kilometers long from east to west and 10 kilometers wide from north to south, with a surface area of 120 square kilometers, or 180,000 mu. The main peak of Mountain No. 49 was nearly 2,000 meters high, and its surface area was many times larger than its surface area.
She was about to become the owner of this mountain for a hundred years. Until she turned 125, would the mountain belong to her? Although holding the certificate, Xia Qing still felt no sense of reality. She handed the certificate back to Yang Jin and asked, "Captain Yang, buying this mountain must have taken a lot of effort. How many points did it cost?"
Yang Jin smiled, "We traded resources for it, which translates to 1.1 million points."
How...how much?!
Xia Qing's eyes widened instantly.
Yang Jin reached out to refill Xia Qing's teacup across the small table. After the gentle sound of flowing water brought the adorable girl back to her senses, Yang Jin continued unhurriedly, "Of those points, 300,000 were for the base's difficulties with the Azure Dragon team, which has nothing to do with you. So the actual price of Mountain No. 49 is 800,000."
800,000...that's not a small amount...
At this moment, Xia Qing finally felt an incredibly heavy reality about owning a mountain: just as she was about to achieve a comfortable life, she was about to be 800,000 in debt.
Yang Jin understood her expression and analyzed for her, "Eight hundred thousand for a hundred years, that's only eight thousand points a year, which is already very cheap."
Cheap? Xia Qing, who used to earn only five points a day on the construction team, nodded numbly, "Thanks for the reminder, Captain Yang. Shall we sign the contract now?"
Yang Jin smiled, "Brother Luo, could you please record this on your phone?"
The requirement to record the contract signing was also Xia Qing's request.
Because she was the weaker party in this transaction, she needed video evidence, besides the contract, of the Azure Dragon Team selling the mountain to her. Otherwise, if the Azure Dragon Team later reneged, even if she sued them with the sales contract, everyone in the base would think she forged it.
With video evidence, it was different. She could simply release the video and ruin the reputations of the three leaders of the Azure Dragon Team.
According to the video recording, Xia Qing signed two copies of the sales contract and the sublease agreement, then exchanged the contracts with Yang Jin, signed them separately, and then held the contracts up to the phone camera.
On her side, they signed and affixed their fingerprints; on the Azure Dragon team's side, Yang Jin, Xie Yu, and Luo Pei signed and affixed their official seal. After the contract was signed, Luo Pei recorded the video onto a USB drive and handed it to Xia Qing.
After the contract was signed, Xia Qing, in order to earn points, continued negotiating business with Yang Jin, "Team Leader Yang, is it acceptable to price the edible food you purchase from my territory according to the market price in the safe zone?"
Yang Jin agreed, "Sure."
"If you need to use spring water, how do you price it?" Spring water is in high demand, and there's no publicly available market price. Xia Qing knew that Yang Jin had once exchanged two cases of uncontaminated spring water from the Fire Phoenix at the Huiyi Base to treat Luo Pei.
Since it's tradable, there must be a price, which could be used as a reference.
"We could refer to the publicly sold price of the spring water from the Blazing Fire Team at Huiyi Base, what do you think?"
Yang Jin's answer was exactly as Xia Qing had predicted. She nodded and continued, "Captain Yang, is my spring water of better quality or the Blazing Fire Team's?"
Yang Jin answered directly, "Yours."
The quality of spring water is mainly determined by two factors: one is the content of harmful and radioactive elements, and the second is the content of iodine and other elements beneficial to the human body. The lower the former and the higher the latter, the better the spring water performs in cultivating plants and treating harmful chemical poisoning.
Xia Qing offered a price she could accept, "My spring water is of high quality, so it should be more expensive than the Blazing Fire team's. However, I don't have the strength of the Blazing Fire team; I need the Azure Dragon team's assistance to protect the spring water's secret. Therefore, my spring water is 20% cheaper than the Blazing Fire team's, and for now, I'll only trade with the Azure Dragon team. Is that alright?"
Seeing Yang Jin staring at her with his captivating eyes, Xia Qing tightened her face, resolutely resisting the temptation, "That's the price, I can't go any lower!"
Any lower, and she'd be in forever trying to pay off the 800,000 points she owed the Azure Dragon team.
Beauty was indeed tempting, but beauty couldn't bring her a single point or a grain of food. Between beauty and points, Xia Qing naturally chose the latter without hesitation.
Yang Jin, who had initially intended to trade with Xia Qing at the price set by the Blazing Fire Team, beamed. "Currently, the Blazing Fire Team's spring water costs 180 points per liter. Your price is 144?"
"Okay." Xia Qing lowered her eyelids, her mind slightly dazed by his handsome appearance, unable to quite figure out what 800,000 divided by 144 equaled.
Yang Jin explained, "If we calculate the 800,000 entirely in spring water, at the current price, that's 5,555 liters."
5,555 liters? Xia Qing's mind raced with the calculations.
5,555 liters—that's about the output of her spring in 28 days, one-third of the amount of water used to save Luo Pei, and a mountain…
Therefore, the poison in Luo Pei's body requires three mountains of number forty-nine to cure!
Therefore, the three guns, nine hundred bullets, eight green-light seedlings, and ten security guards that Yang Jin traded to her last time are worth three mountains! Compared to this, Xia Qing suddenly felt that the mountain wasn't actually that valuable; 800,000... wasn't exactly a huge debt...
Her back straightened again, her shoulders relaxed, and a relaxed expression appeared on her face.
Yang Jin's smile deepened as he continued discussing the deal, "After Brother Luo leaves Territory Three, can the Azure Dragon Team exchange 300 liters of spring water with you on the first of each month? If anyone in the team is poisoned again, we'll discuss the water usage then."
Xia Qing's spring could produce 300 liters of water a day, and Yang Jin's monthly exchange of 300 liters was perfectly acceptable to her. "Sure. If it's for antidote, the maximum water usage can't exceed what Brother Luo used this time."
Not everyone is worth such a heavy-handed attack from an opponent. Yang Jin nodded. "Of course, it definitely won't exceed Brother Luo's water usage. If you're going to trade the vegetables, grains, vegetable seeds, and grain seeds grown in your territory, I hope you can include the Azure Dragon Team as a trading partner."
"Okay," Xia Qing agreed. Currently, she wanted to keep her identity secret, and trading with the Azure Dragon Team was the best option.