Chapter 284: President Jing Goes Online

“Now I announce that both candidates have passed the assessment and will become vice presidents simultaneously!” Chairman Tie said excitedly, tears streaming down his face. He was forced to step down. That damn Zhou Bapi gave him two choices: either announce his abdication himself or have Zhou Bapi announce the result.

Zhou Bapi sneered, “I’m just giving you some face. You decide.”

Chairman Tie was desperate. What else could he do?

Amid cheers and applause, both were crowned as vice presidents of the Medicinal Herb Association. After tedious procedures and computer entries, their information was stored in the big data archives.

This included many transfers of authority. After the announcement and assessment, Jing Shu and Wang Daxian were taken through formalities, while others went to collect seeds. The Medicinal Herb Association was set to work hard for sixty days. Jing Shu had Wang Danai distribute seeds to be planted first; if problems arose, they could come to her.

Oh, the seeds weren’t free. Each seed cost Jing Shu 5 contribution points. Take only what you can afford. Seeds from the association couldn’t be sold outside; each seed was tracked and had to be planted within the association’s records.

Contribution points were the association’s internal currency. Each planted herb, including seeds, was valued from 1 to 10 points. The more valuable and more planted, the more points earned.

Points could buy various seeds. Unsoaked seeds cost 5-10 points; soaked seeds cost 1-5 points. Jing Shu followed the association’s rules, which were quite humane.

As Jiao Jiao said, seeds from the association meant the herbs belonged to the association, including seeds. But once medicinal, points were earned.

Annual evaluations promoted those with the most points to full employees.

Non-full employees could only buy soaked seeds, fertilizer, etc., with points.

Full employees could buy nearly extinct seeds, fertilizer, pesticides, planting space, and other resources and tools.

Most importantly, full employees could buy medicinal herbs directly with points.

Vice presidents had even more privileges. Besides the above, they could exchange points for daily necessities and special rights. When Jing Shu opened her permissions, she found in the association’s app she could exchange points for cars, fuel, electricity, and more. Unfortunately, her points weren’t enough to unlock these yet.

Of course, these had monthly limits. Jing Shu realized supporting one vice president required many resources. The association couldn’t afford more positions.

Before becoming vice president, Jing Shu was just a player executing tasks, unable to change rules or gameplay. After becoming vice president, her permissions changed instantly. She became an administrator who could change rules.

Like a game GM, she supervised players planting herbs to benefit the association and fixed bugs.

The vice president’s role was indeed important.

From this day, she was part of the real power circle. Though not much power, her status was completely changed. After fingerprinting and data recording, her identity was officially changed in big data to “Wu City Medicinal Herb Association Vice President Jing Shu,” with higher permissions to view others’ detailed info.

In rank, she was even above Li Yutian by one level, above Niu Mou by two, and above Jing Ma by three levels. Though honorary and powerless like a noble title, and less powerful than Jing Ma, her title was grand.

Jing Shu loved this kind of easy, wealthy, high-ranking job. It suited her perfectly!

If she had to work outside like Jing Ba and Jing Ma, it wouldn’t be what she wanted. She was used to freedom and couldn’t stand constraints.

Wang Daxian moved into Chairman Tie’s planting lab, while Jing Shu was assigned a new planting lab—another place to plant. She looked around her private office with mixed feelings. Though a bit shabby and simple, she was happy. To have such a good position in the apocalypse was beyond her expectations.

“President Jing, hello.”

“Thank you, President Jing, for the seeds!”

“President Jing!”

“President Jing, after evaluation and submission, you earned 20,200 contribution points from the tobacco on these shelves. After all seeds were distributed this afternoon, you got 17,000 more, all credited to your account,” Wang Danai reported with a wink.

“Well done. Looks like you have room to grow, Danai. Keep it up. I’m counting on you.”

After speaking, Jing Shu and Wang Danai laughed heartily until Wang Daxian approached, an aura of elegance about him, walking unsteadily with a box in hand.

“President Jing, look, I brought you a twenty-year-old ginseng.” Behind him was Wang Xiaoxian, the little girl, head down, occasionally glancing at Jing Shu with a very guilty and ashamed face.

Jing Shu raised an eyebrow, “You don’t come without a reason, huh?”

“I’m straightforward. I’ll be honest. I helped you praise earlier because I knew the news. After seeing your tobacco, I knew you’d become vice president. Now, I like your astragalus, not yet medicinal, right? How about we trade?”

“You’re in for a big loss,” Jing Shu said, looking at the twenty-year-old ginseng. It was bigger than the one in her space but not as plump.

“No loss, no loss. To be honest, I want to keep your astragalus seeds. Only astragalus like yours is worth keeping.”

Wang Daxian’s smile always had another meaning. Jing Shu didn’t catch it but agreed to the trade. She needed his ginseng to get through the next stage.

Wang Daxian happily left with the astragalus. Zhou Bapi, upon hearing this, slapped his thigh angrily, “That old bastard just wants to steal my peach.”

If you’re unlucky, you stay unlucky; if you’re lucky, you keep being lucky. Jing Shu didn’t know how many times she had stepped in dog poop to have such luck. A few days later, Chu Zhuohua told her her RV was ready.

Of course, the surprise wasn’t the RV itself, but the surprise Su Xiangnan gave her—something related to the RV!

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