Chapter 13: Space Warehouse Resources Enough to Squander for Several Lifetimes

“Not only this year, but every year from now on, we will remit eighty yuan to the village to support the schooling of our village children.”

“As long as the children want to go to school, especially those who study well and are willing to work hard, whether it’s elementary school, junior high school, or senior high school, we are willing to help. We hope our village can produce more college students and break free from this small village.”

This…

Su Jinyan’s bombshell directly stunned everyone in the room.

The room fell silent instantly, everyone staring at each other wide-eyed.

What had they just heard?

Eighty yuan!

Just like that, given to the village?

And not just this year, but every year?

This was a sudden act of kindness Su Jinyan wanted to do.
Being able to be reborn was a gift from heaven. Doing more good deeds would also allow her to live a more beautiful and happy life.

After a moment, Zhao Yuan reacted and said, “Uncle, please accept it. You can also use this money to buy some school supplies for the children in the village.”

At this time, an aunt on the floor clicked her tongue in disbelief and asked, “Comrade Su, are you really going to give the villagers eighty yuan every year from now on?”

For her, eighty yuan was enough for more than half a year’s living expenses. Only her son was in school; she couldn’t bear to send her daughter.

With Su Jinyan’s support, she would also let her daughter go to school.

Su Jinyan turned around and nodded with a smile. “It’s for the children in the village.” She had seen this woman before but couldn’t recall her name. Looking at the desire in the eyes of the eight or nine-year-old girl beside her, she smiled and asked, “Little sister, have you started school?”

The girl shook her head, secretly glanced at the woman beside her, and then cautiously asked, “Big sister Su, I want to go to school.”

Su Jinyan raised her eyebrows with a slight smile and looked at the woman. “Auntie, only by going to school can girls have good jobs in the future and even marry well. You wouldn’t want your own daughter to be tanned and sweaty every day, would you?”

“Study hard. Even if you can’t get into senior high school, you can find work in town. Besides, it’s always good for girls to be literate.”

The woman laughed awkwardly. “I understand but the family is poor. We’re already in debt for the school fees of the boys, so we can’t afford to send the girls.”

Several women beside her sighed in agreement.

“That’s right, which family doesn’t want their children to go to school? It’s easier for the boys, but if the girls go to school, who will look after the younger siblings? Who will feed the pigs and chickens? Once spring arrives, the adults all start working in the fields. Aren’t the younger ones at home left for the girls to take care of?”

“Exactly. Take our family, for example. Our third branch has four children, the eldest branch has five, the second branch has three, and the fourth branch has two. With so many people, we have to eat as soon as we open our eyes. If the older ones all go to school and the parents are busy looking after the younger ones, the whole family will starve.”

As they spoke of their hardships, the atmosphere became heavy.

Yes, livelihood was the most realistic problem.

In this era, children were born like piglets, one after another. The fewest had three or four, and the most had seven or eight siblings. With a large population, they needed to work and earn money constantly.

Not to mention the adults, even children around ten years old worked in the fields every day, not daring to miss a single day.

Missing a day meant eating less food.

Su Jinyan nodded slightly and looked at the brigade leader and the elders sitting on the heated brick bed. “I wonder if any of the respected grandfathers and uncles have heard of kindergarten?”

Seeing them shake their heads in confusion, she pursed her lips and said, “The problem everyone is talking about is also faced by people in the city.”

“Not only do villagers have many children, but city dwellers also have many children, so they need to work hard.”

“And if they work hard, the children need to be looked after.”

“That’s why there are kindergartens in the city, which are places specifically for children aged two and a half to six to learn and play.”

“Families with no one to look after their children will send them to kindergarten, where teachers will take care of them uniformly and also teach the children some basic language skills, singing, and dancing.”

“If the village wants to cultivate talent, we need to find a way.”

Building a kindergarten would cost a lot of money, and she didn’t have much ability now, so saying it was pointless.

“Alright, everyone, hurry up and eat. The food is getting cold.”

The meal was relatively harmonious, after all, so much meat and vegetables were a rare sight.

After dinner, Su Jinyan went back to her room and packed the remaining pencils, erasers, and a clean small notebook that the original owner had used, giving them all to the little girl who wanted to go to school.

She told her, secretly, that opportunities for learning needed to be fought for, and asked her to register with the brigade leader.

Su Jinyan didn’t know that her few pencils and words would directly cultivate another city’s top scorer for the country.

Many years later, when the little girl knelt before her with a suitcase full of certificates of merit, she was dumbfounded.

After the meal, the village aunts helped Sun Shi clean up before leaving.
They were leaving tomorrow. Zhao Yuan was pulled away by several village elders and the brigade leader for a talk. The children were left with Sun Shi, and Su Jinyan returned to her room alone.

After a tiring day, lying on the heated brick bed, she finally excitedly thought of it – she had a space.

She tried entering the space with her body and was surprised that she could. Then she hurriedly left the space, afraid that Zhao Yuan would suddenly return.

After her consciousness entered the space, following the introduction of Empress Nara’s space, she went straight to the underground warehouse in the backyard.

As she walked forward, the electric lights on both sides of the stairs instantly lit up.

Looking at the voice-activated lights that were just like those of later generations, confusion flashed in Su Jinyan’s eyes.

She wasn’t mistaken. These lights were the same as the voice-activated lights she had seen in her later life, only more sensitive. The sound of footsteps could make them light up, dispelling the cold and gloomy feeling from before.

Continuing deeper, the lights in the warehouse below the stairs also instantly turned on.

She stood in front of the warehouse and was clearly stunned when she saw the rows and rows of neatly arranged supplies on iron frames.

It was a bit different from what she had imagined – it was too neat.

The warehouse stretched as far as the eye could see. Checking everything would take a long time. Su Jinyan was worrying about how to know what was inside when she was attracted by the table on the left side of the warehouse entrance.

A mahogany table with thick folders, bamboo scrolls, hand-stitched ledgers, and more on it.

She walked over and was instantly drawn to the folders and document boxes she had used before.

This…

She pulled out a blue document box with the words “Cheng Wenjing – Collection of Supplies Series, 2018-2028” written on it.

2018-2028?

Su Jinyan’s heart suddenly clenched. Someone from modern times had inherited this.

Was this Cheng Wenjing also a reincarnation of someone from the Nara clan?

She could accept this inherited jade bracelet space, so anything was possible for others.

Accepting it almost within two seconds, she quickly opened the document box. Inside were more than twenty pages of letter paper and a gel pen. The handwriting on the letter paper was very beautiful.

2018

Paddy rice: 6800 jin (68 bags, 100 jin/bag)

Hulled rice: 6 tons (120 bags, 100 jin/bag)

White flour: 3 tons (120 bags, 50 jin/bag)

Millet: 1 ton (200 bags, 10 jin/bag)
Reading line by line, Su Jinyan instantly perked up and sat down on the chair, laughing excitedly.

She laughed for a good while before feeling a bit eerie laughing loudly in this empty place.

This Cheng Wenjing was truly a godsend.

The collection from just 2018 alone was enough for her to use for several lifetimes. More importantly, everything inside was complete. Not only raw grains, meat, and water, but also various milk, beverages, instant food, cooked food, fabrics, clothes, shoes, common daily necessities from toothbrushes and towels to quilts and duvet covers, and even a lot of baby supplies. There were even cars; in 2018, two large G-Wagons and an off-road vehicle were collected.

Too extravagant!

If she didn’t work hard to earn money and hoard supplies, she would be letting down her predecessor!

Cheng Wenjing’s supply archive had six bags and three boxes. The contents were countless. Su Jinyan didn’t look through everything, only knowing that the earliest hoarding of supplies began in 1980.

In that year, this Cheng Wenjing hoarded a lot of full sheets of stamps, bills, and coins.

Through Cheng Wenjing’s notes, she also saw the supplies she had hoarded.

This Cheng Wenjing must have been a very capable person. All the supplies she hoarded had been processed. There were no labels on the packaging of anything. To take something, she only needed to think about it, and the shelves were labeled with the name and production date of the supplies.

Su Jinyan found the cooked food area and couldn’t help but swallow her saliva looking at the various delicacies labeled on the shelves.

Hmm, the world of the rich, she didn’t quite understand. Besides the common steamed buns, dumplings, rice, and braised pork, she had never even heard of the names of the rest.
She opened a few exquisite lunch boxes and looked at the still steaming hot food inside, her mouth watering with desire. But thinking that she was still in her consciousness form, she had to give up.

Oh well, there would be plenty of time in the future.

However, with so many good things, she could lie down and win in this era of scarce resources!