Chapter 2 Stockpiling Supplies

After that, Lin Yuexi used her phone to continue searching online for things that could be used in the 1960s and 1970s. She took out a diary and a pen from the bookshelf and wrote down all the supplies she needed to buy. The first thing to buy was definitely rice, flour, grain, oil, soy sauce, salt, vinegar, and other seasonings.

 Then there were instant products, instant noodles, biscuits, ham, snail powder, mala tang, hot pot base, drinks… Otherwise, once she got there, she wouldn’t have anything to eat! Of course, she had to buy some clothes. Thinking about the living standards in the 1960s and 1970s, there were no good clothes to wear.

Buying cloth was not only expensive, but also required cloth coupons… Oh! She had to go and see if there were any garment factories nearby, could she have them make clothes from that era? Also, she needed to stock up on some dacron, cotton cloth, woolen cloth, floral cloth, and some of the gray and black cloth that most people used in that era, as well as red festive cloth, which she could sell later? To make ends meet! She also needed to buy everyday items like toothpaste, toothbrushes, towels, bath towels, shampoo, conditioner, shower gel, and so on.

Besides these things, there was also food. Meat, milk powder, protein, honey, malt extract, brown sugar, white sugar, rock sugar, Da Bai Tu milk candy, fruit-flavored milk candy, anyway, sugar was very expensive at that time. Not every household could afford it, so she could sell some for more money later.

Also, she should buy some canned goods, like meat cans? Fish cans, fruit cans, sausages, spicy sausages, and so on, and so on. Of course, she also had to buy some vegetables and fruits. Anyway, they wouldn’t go bad in the space, the more the better. Later, she would not only have some to eat herself, but she could also sell some to make money… Also, she should go to a breakfast shop and buy some buns, soy milk, fried dough sticks, and rice noodles for later use. Thinking that the crops in the space had all been harvested and the land was empty, she might as well buy some seeds to plant.

 For example, fruit planting, vegetable planting, rice planting, corn seeds, wheat seeds, rapeseed seeds… Of course, some personal items were also essential, such as underwear, monthly necessities like sanitary napkins and safety pants, and she also needed to buy some diapers for children, just in case she might need them later. She also had to buy some farming tools!

 Although they wouldn’t be used in the space, they would still be useful outside the space in that era. Later, she wouldn’t have to borrow them from others! Thinking about the fact that there was no electricity in the countryside in that era, she also had to buy some coal, matches, candles, coal, and the three essentials of that era: sewing machines, bicycles, watches, and radios. And also, pots and pans for the kitchen, frying pans, clay pots, spatulas, cabinets… Lin Yuexi hurriedly wrote down a whole bunch of things, not sure if she had missed anything.

Never mind, she would buy them first! Of course, she would buy as much as she could online on her phone! If she couldn’t buy it online, she would go out and buy it with her notebook! So, Lin Yuexi bought a whole bunch of things online on her phone, and then took her notebook and drove out to buy more.

 Lin Yuexi took her notebook and drove to the largest wholesale market in Beijing. She parked her car and walked around several grain and oil stores before choosing one with the largest variety and the most complete selection. As soon as the clerk saw Lin Yuexi come in, he asked, “What do you need to buy?” Lin Yuexi: “I want to buy rice, flour, oil, grain, how are your prices? Is the quality good? I need a lot.” The clerk saw that this was a big deal and readily gave her the lowest price.

 Lin Yuexi asked, “Can you give me a further discount? I really need a lot…” The clerk heard this and said, “Please wait a moment, I’ll go inside and call our boss…” “Okay…” Lin Yuexi said. After a while, the clerk called their boss out. The boss was a middle-aged woman in her forties. As soon as she saw Lin Yuexi, she knew she had met a big customer! Lin Yuexi said to her, “I want 30 tons of rice, 20 tons of flour, 60 tons of grain and oil, and 30 tons of various coarse grains…” The boss heard this and thought, this is really a big deal! She quickly set the price at the lowest price. Lin Yuexi heard this and said, “Okay! I’ll buy it from you.

” The boss said again, “You need so much, I need to organize it, I can deliver it to you tomorrow night, okay?” Lin Yuexi replied, “Okay…” Then Lin Yuexi paid half the deposit by card and gave the boss a warehouse address, telling her to deliver the goods to the designated location when the time came.

The boss kept saying, “Okay, okay…” and her face was beaming. After leaving the grain and oil store, Lin Yuexi went to a nearby candy store and bought 150,000 jin of brown sugar, white sugar, and rock sugar. She also ordered 30,000 jin of fruit candy, 50,000 jin of Da Bai Tu milk candy, and many different flavors of hard candy, as well as some chocolate. Lin Yuexi paid half the deposit, took an address and said to the boss, “You can deliver it to this address after 4 o’clock.

” The boss received the money, took the address and replied, “Okay, I will definitely deliver it to you on time.” After leaving the candy store, Lin Yuexi went to a spice store. She walked around inside, looked at the spices, and said to the boss, “I want 100,000 tons of salt, the kind that comes in bags, and 2,000 boxes of soy sauce, vinegar, oyster sauce, dark soy sauce.

I also want 2,000 jin of chili peppers, chili powder, frozen meat packs, hot pot base, cinnamon, star anise, bay leaves, chicken essence, MSG…” The boss was very happy to see her order so much, and quickly had the clerk calculate the price. Lin Yuexi readily paid the bill, gave the address, and said, “You can deliver it to this place after 4 o’clock.” The boss happily said, “Okay, I will definitely have someone deliver it on time…” After buying all this, Lin Yuexi looked at her watch and saw that it was already noon.

She felt hungry and quickly found a store to eat a bowl of beef noodle soup before going back. Then, she drove to her own warehouse and saw that there was nothing stored there. She would put the food and candy she bought here for now, and then put them into the space later. Thinking that there were still many things to buy, Lin Yuexi opened her phone and bought some agricultural supplies online.

 For example: tractors, water pipes, water pumps, agricultural vehicles, harvesters, tillers… As soon as she finished buying, it was time to pick up the goods. All the goods she had bought in the morning were delivered on time. Lin Yuexi checked them one by one and, with a wave of her hand, stored them all in the space.

After receiving the goods, Lin Yuexi looked at her watch again and saw that it was almost midnight. She drove back home, cooked a bowl of egg noodles, and went to sleep.