Chapter 4: Stockpiling Supplies [Part 3]

After buying bicycles, Lin Yuexi bought a lot of clothes and shoes, for adults, children, and the elderly, all complete. She also wholesale-bought liberation shoes and slippers suitable for that era, from small to large, all of them! Then there were toys with a sense of the era, as well as modern toys. Then she bought 10,000 sets of various four-piece bed linen, and then bought toothpaste, toothbrushes, various face creams, various cosmetics, for children and adults, all in 10,000 sets.

Although few people wore makeup in the 1970s, that didn’t mean no one did. As the saying goes, “Everyone has a love for beauty!” After that, Lin Yuexi went to a deli and bought a large amount of chicken necks, duck necks, chicken feet, duck feet, duck heads, duck wings, roasted chicken, and roast duck, 10,000 of each. She bought dried goods like bean starch noodles, mung bean starch noodles, wood ear mushrooms, vermicelli, mushroom sauce, chili sauce… After buying enough food and daily necessities, she went to a seed company and bought rice, corn, cotton, millet, peanuts, soybeans, black beans, sesame seeds, and various other seeds.

She bought vegetable seeds, including potatoes, Chinese cabbage, napa cabbage, cabbage, green beans, lettuce, lotus pods, broccoli, onions, ginger, garlic, peppercorns, green peppers, red carrots, white radishes, eggplants, tomatoes, cucumbers, winter melons, watermelons, loofahs, watermelons, etc., 2,000 jin of each. These seeds would produce vegetables that were much tastier and more productive than those of the 1970s. She also bought flower seeds, including roses, lilies, roses, bougainvillea seeds and seedlings…

She also bought some fertilizers, although she might not need them, it was always better to be prepared. She then went to a place that sold saplings and bought poplar trees, willow trees, oak trees, sandalwood trees, cedar trees, nanmu trees, Chinese toon trees, and so on. She bought fruit saplings, including apples, pears, grapes, oranges, tangerines, strawberries, cherries, cherries, pineapples, mangoes, etc., 100 of each. She also bought various mushrooms, mushroom spawn bags, wood ear mushrooms, dead wood, as well as bees and beehives. Lin Yuexi bought things while looking at them, crossing off the items she had bought in her small notebook and continuing to buy the ones she hadn’t.

After buying so much, Lin Yuexi realized that she hadn’t bought any poultry. Her farm in the space was empty! She had to go buy some to raise. So she went to a poultry market and bought chickens, ducks, and geese… 100 pairs of each, male and female. Thinking that the male and female birds she bought could hatch chicks, ducklings, and goslings in the space farm later. Next, she went to a place that sold wild game and bought pigeons, turtledoves, wild rabbits, pigeons, fawns, quail, wild chickens, and wild ducks, 100 pairs of each.

 In short, she bought all the live wild game in the stalls! She went to the livestock area again and bought 100 male and female lambs, foals, donkey foals, piglets, calves, mules, etc. As for fish, Lin Yuexi also bought small crabs, crayfish, tiger prawns, sea bass, bream, crucian carp, carp… She bought Yangcheng Lake hairy crab seedlings.

 On the seafood side, she bought tuna, yellow croaker, salmon, squid, cuttlefish, octopus, etc., as well as some clams, oysters, kelp, and seaweed. She also bought 50,000 jin of various poultry, fish, and shrimp feed. After buying all this, she thought about how difficult it was to see a doctor in the 1970s, so medicinal herbs were essential. She bought ginseng, lingzhi, astragalus, licorice, deer antler, angelica, Cordyceps sinensis, bezoar, cicada slough, earthworm, seahorse, cinnabar, gypsum, dragon bone, magnetite…

 Each one had a clear description of the processing method. She also bought Western medicine, including ibuprofen, aspirin, Sanjiu brand cold medicine, various cold medicines, stomach medicines, gastrointestinal medicines, as well as iodine tincture, gentian violet, povidone-iodine, alcohol, Yunnan Baiyao, anesthetics, bandages, gauze, various surgical knives, several sets of acupuncture needles, and various medical equipment… After paying for everything, she had them delivered to her designated warehouse.

 After working so hard for so long, Lin Yuexi looked at her watch and saw that it was 6 pm again. She immediately drove home, ate something, and went back to the warehouse to wait for the delivery. After a while, the merchants delivered all the goods. As soon as the delivery men left, Lin Yuexi waved her hand and put all the goods into the space. Seeing that it was getting late, Lin Yuexi returned to her residence, washed up, and lay down on the bed to sleep.

This time, Lin Yuexi dreamed of the woman with sallow skin and two ragged children in the mud-brick thatched cottage, the two children’s faces full of tears… When she woke up again, it was already bright. Lin Yuexi took a deep breath, it seemed that she would be crossing over soon, she had to stock up quickly. Thinking of this, she quickly got out of bed, got dressed, washed up, and drove out.

This time, she didn’t rush to buy things, but instead exchanged 500 million yuan for jewelry, antiques, gold, and the like. She knew that in the 1970s, the currency of the present world would not be in circulation, so she had to stock up on more gold and antiques, which she could use to exchange for money when she needed it urgently. After stocking up on 500 million yuan worth of antiques, Lin Yuexi thought about the backward agricultural tools of that era and went to a place that sold them.

She bought hoes, sickles, curved knives, plows, all in the style of the 1970s. Lin Yuexi also thought about the backward agricultural machinery of that time, so she bought tractors, seeders, tillers, harvesters, flour mills, rice mills… In addition, she bought ten Red Flag sedans and Jeeps from that era. By the way, she bought cars, she had to buy oil! She also bought two tons of gasoline and diesel.

Then there were all kinds of appliances, water heaters, refrigerators, color TVs, air conditioners, washing machines, and all the things you could possibly need in the kitchen. Never mind, although the space villa had them, they might break down, and besides, after the 1980s, many places would have electricity, so these things could be used or sold later.

 Then there were those bed linens, bedding, four-piece bed linen, three-piece bed linen, sheets, duvet covers, pillowcases, towels, scarves, underwear, cotton clothes, down jackets, retro Zhongshan suits, embroidered shoes, cloth shoes, etc., all in 10,000 sets. She also thought that she would need warm cotton, duck down, goose down, and good quality cotton to make cotton clothes at that time, so she bought 5,000 jin of each.

She had already bought kitchen supplies last time, but she was still missing firewood, coal, and coal briquettes used in that era, 100,000 tons of each, as well as candles, kerosene lamps, matches, lighters, etc., 10,000 of each. After putting all these supplies into the space, Lin Yuexi tried to use her mind to sow seeds in the 300-acre farm, and then irrigated it with spiritual spring water. She found that all the crops grew very fast after being irrigated with spiritual spring water. In less than a moment, the entire farm was transformed.

Lin Yuexi strolled along the edge of the space farm, a gentle breeze carrying the fragrance of soil and the sweetness of grass. Looking out, the new green on the farm was growing at a visible speed, the magic of the spiritual spring water made every crop seem to be infused with the code of life, the plump ears of grain rustled in the wind, heavy and drooping, the corn kernels were plump and full, as if they were about to burst out of their skins, shining with an alluring golden yellow.