Chapter 712 - 731: Low-level Star Poverty Alleviation Plan
Chapter 712: Chapter 731: Low-level Star Poverty Alleviation Plan
The buzz surrounding her dual major quickly died down.
For a while, Jiang Qiuqiu found herself the center of everyone’s attention.
But that’s just how people are.
Even the most miraculous things become ordinary when they’re around you day in and day out.
Besides, the person at the center of it all acted as if nothing was out of the ordinary and didn’t think she was special in the slightest. Influenced by her attitude, if you still acted all surprised, you’d seem like the odd one out.
The students from the Mecha Department were the first to get used to it.
Huo Jia’s gaze toward Qiuqiu grew even more fervent.
’The girl he admired was even more incredible than he had imagined.’
He began training even harder and tried to ask Jiang Qiuqiu out to spar, but unfortunately, with her energy now split between two majors, the time she had available for him was also cut in half.
The young man was both disappointed and immensely proud.
’It’s okay. We might see each other less, but we’ll still see each other.’
’Just being able to see her is good enough.’
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How does one balance studying... with more studying?
In the beginning, Jiang Qiuqiu had been flustered by the challenge.
But about a month after resolving to balance everything, a single word came to define her life: routine.
As long as she was disciplined enough, maintained her aptitude, and preserved her tenacity and perseverance, her schedule remained unaffected.
After she began to get a feel for how to intertwine her Healing Power and spiritual power, she even found herself handling the coursework for both majors with greater ease.
Just as Dean Zhu had said, every Spirit Healing Master’s path is unique.
After all, spiritual power itself was a profound and mysterious thing.
Even with today’s advanced technology, the secrets of the brain had yet to be fully unraveled.
Everyone had to find their own way.
And Jiang Qiuqiu was finding hers.
After her intense training sessions, she began to carve out time to catch her breath, relax, and socialize, finding little gaps in her schedule to enrich her university life.
She finally managed to find time to go shopping at the Federation Mall with her roommates.
By this time, it was already July.
The seasons turned, and in an era where the changes were particularly distinct, July was already considered part of autumn.
It was time to put away summer clothes and switch to long sleeves. Although people’s enhanced physical constitutions meant they no longer feared the cold as much, they still liked to follow the rhythm of the seasons.
And the best news of all in July was—
Winter was approaching, and according to Federation news, the Insect Race’s dormancy period was about to begin.
Her Little Panda, who had been away for nearly half a year, was finally coming home.
They had only managed to contact each other six or seven times during brief lulls in the fighting. A wave of longing washed over her, and Jiang Qiuqiu thought she finally understood why Mo Si had said he liked winter.
’It was a rare chance to rest.’
Casualty numbers from the front lines slowly trickled in, along with soldiers suffering from mental or genetic collapse who were gradually being transferred back. The Military Department had contacted her last week to ask about her studies at Federation University. They wanted to know if she had time to visit them, as the head of the research department was hoping to meet with her.
Jiang Qiuqiu agreed.
Then there was the matter of the app. As a co-owner of the company, Jiang Qiuqiu could only say she had... heard rumors about what was going on. In any case, she wasn’t too familiar with the details.
Little President Qian was more brilliant than she’d ever imagined.
She had previously suggested deconstructing Master Huang’s signature dishes. Little President Qian later took that idea and effectively commoditized all of Master Huang’s specialties. And what did "commoditized" mean?
He had many of the talented streamers on Taobao Food learn those fifteen dishes, then listed them as freebies within the app.
Customers only needed to purchase three or four food items with the Juju tag to receive one of those dishes for free.
It was a massive slap in the face to their competitor.
Besides taking on Master Huang, Little President Qian also did something he had dreamed of doing since he was a boy.
The young man "with stars in his eyes" and "faith in his heart" partnered with a philanthropic council member from the Federation to spearhead a poverty alleviation program for Low-level Stars.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Thanks to Jiang Qiuqiu’s tutorials, beneficiaries publicizing their earnings, and rising numbers of daily active users and Star Coins spent, the scale of Taobao Food had exploded.
At one point, its valuation even surpassed that of its parent company’s New Star app, making it the most valuable golden goose in New Star Company’s portfolio.
With so many chefs, there was a massive demand for ingredients.
A while back, an incident involving a price hike for a certain ingredient, coupled with a vendor who purchased spoiled produce that caused a small-scale outbreak of diarrhea and other issues among customers, prompted Wanxing and Little President Qian to propose taking control of their ingredient supply chain.
Needing investment, he held an online shareholder meeting, inviting all the tycoons and heiresses from Haiyun Star to ask them about investing in production facilities.
Since there was profit to be made and people to be helped, everyone agreed to the proposal.
Thus, New Star Company established eleven large-scale vegetable, fruit, crop, and Star Beast farming facilities across six Low-level Stars. This provided jobs for tens of thousands of their residents and helped tens of thousands of families escape poverty.