Chapter 4: Crazy Shopping

Xiao Taotao opened her phone and started buying: toilet paper, sanitary pads (both day and night use), milk powder for children, middle-aged, youth, and elderly. She even bought malted milk that was popular in earlier decades—all in abundant quantities.

She searched and found a manufacturer still selling old-fashioned radios and called them directly. After a 30-minute negotiation, Song Jinxi hung up the phone, satisfied.

They were just in time—this manufacturer still produced all kinds of vintage items and even had a factory making military uniforms! So she placed orders for 60,000 radios, 60,000 sewing machines, 200 bicycles (she wasn’t sure if they would need registration), 10,000 aluminum lunch boxes, 20,000 military water bottles, 1,000 coal stoves, 20,000 sets of military uniforms, and tens of thousands of fabric bolts.

Then Song Jinxi visited various restaurants under the pretense of company banquets, ordering 100 portions of dishes from each one. She originally wanted to stop by some milk tea shops too, but it was almost time for delivery.

When she arrived at the warehouse, all the deliveries had already arrived.

“Sorry everyone, I got held up. I’m a bit late. I’ll open the door right away.”

“No worries, we just got here too. We’ll unload everything inside. The boss said that in two days, at the same time, the rest of the goods will arrive—including the meat. It’ll all be delivered together for convenience.”

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Once they left, Song Jinxi closed the warehouse door, and in that very instant, everything in the warehouse was already stored inside her personal space.

After finishing up, she went home and continued shopping online.

She bought a massive amount of snacks—spicy sticks, cookies, chips… and also instant foods like snail noodles, rice noodles, whole grain blends, dried fish powder, lotus root starch, and more. You could say she had bought enough to open several mega-sized supermarkets.

The next morning, Song Jinxi headed out in great spirits.

She got a call from the real estate agent early in the morning—everything had been sold. So she cleared out both villas, handed over the keys, and even handed over the keys to the four cars.

Of course, the best part—2.8 billion yuan landed in her Alipay account. Hahaha!

But Song Jinxi didn’t plan to stop. She immediately found a lawyer to draft two contracts and then went to meet her biological parents.

The purpose was simple: to sell shares. Song Jinxi said if they didn’t want to buy, she’d just sell them to someone else.

In the end, her parents bought the shares. Even though they didn’t care or visit her, they at least sent money on time. Deep down, Song Jinxi didn’t really want to sell them to outsiders anyway—there were still some emotional ties. After all, without them, she wouldn’t exist. And besides, many people would envy the life she had.

She sold the shares to her biological mother at market price. As for her biological father—he had long been swayed by his wife’s pillow talk and was completely biased. So to “reward” the scheming stepmother, Song Jinxi hiked the price significantly. Hence, the angry cursing episode.

One day later, Song Jinxi received the remaining shipments and completed all payments. She had spent almost 600 million yuan in total, plus 180 million on vintage items, 90 million on Taobao, leaving her with around 200 million yuan. After adding the money from the house and car sales and the 500 million from the shares, she still had roughly 800 million left.

From then on, her days were spent rushing between restaurants, snack streets, milk tea shops, cold drink stands, and duck goods stores—busily and happily.

With only half a month left before her time travel, she began traveling around the country.

She visited various provinces and bought roast duck, preserved fruits, crisp candy, soft cake, sugar-fried chestnuts, yellow chicken, Goubuli steamed buns, walnuts, wontons, spicy noodles, spicy hotpot, ice jelly, smoked meat pancakes, whitefish from Songhua River, yogurt…

She didn’t just buy food. She also swept up fabric from four stores—mostly cotton, polyester, and the expensive vintage Dacron fabric that was super trendy. She bought 400,000 jin (approx. 200 tons) of cotton, bed sets… and most importantly, she stocked up on tons of medicine with the help of local couriers in each province.

Spending and shopping—her only mission was consumption. After all, what’s the point of saving money if you’re gone? The saddest thing is dying before you get to spend your money.