The midday hour vanished quickly. Shen Guoliang and Li Hongmei went to work, and Shen Lin and Shen Yu, unable to stay home, went out to visit their friends. Shen Yu did indeed go out to see her classmates, while Shen Lin wanted to find a job or get married as soon as possible. She knew very well that with Shen Mu Ning taking her place in the rural assignment, if she stayed at home, she would either be sold off by her parents with a high dowry or wait until Ai Hen Yu graduated from high school to take Shen Yu's place in the rural assignment. She wouldn't trust her father like Shen Mu Ning did; only she herself was truly reliable.

After the noise in the house subsided, Shen Mu Ning took out a white steamed bun from her spatial storage. While filling her stomach, she began to check her space, which was the basic necessities for her to survive in this era.

Shen Mu Ning's space was roughly six acres in size, with a small courtyard occupying one acre and the remaining five acres being dark, barren land. A stream meandered through the fields, ending at a pond. Since she acquired this space in the fifth year of the apocalypse, ordinary crop seeds had either rotted or ended up in people's stomachs. Therefore, the land only contained mutated plants with various medicinal properties that she had collected during the apocalypse. The pond was empty of any normal aquatic life.

The courtyard is a traditional siheyuan (traditional courtyard house). Pushing open the gate, there's a well on the far left. Drinking the well water is said to have health benefits and a slight healing effect, though infrequent consumption won't yield significant results. Next to the well is the kitchen, furnished with earthen stoves and large iron pots. Unfortunately, I acquired this space too late; even with frequent missions to gather supplies, my personal stash of grain is only about 6,000 jin (approximately 3,000 kg) and some snacks. The adjacent building is the dining room, with a reception hall in the center. To the right is a bedroom, all decorated in an ancient architectural style, containing many pieces of jewelry and clothing.

The most important feature was a storage room on the right side of the entrance to the courtyard. It was like a compressed space; items placed inside would shrink proportionally. Although food was scarce in the apocalypse, Chen Mu Ning had stockpiled a great deal of gold and silver jewelry, machinery, firearms and ammunition, a large box of medicines she had made based on the characteristics of mutated plants in the apocalypse, and crystal cores. Adding to this the several large boxes of antique paintings, calligraphy, jade, gold and silver jewelry, and three large boxes full of gold bars already in her space, she knew these things would make her incredibly wealthy in the future.

However, the most important thing now is to prepare supplies for the rural areas and also go to the city to take all the family's property and put it in the space for safety.

After checking the space, Shen Mu Ning began planning the supplies she would bring to the countryside. She remembered Shen Lin mentioning that her destination was in Lingbei, where winters were long and cold, only one crop was grown, and the snow was heavy and temperatures low, so everyone stayed home during the winter. Such a place was wonderful; she could work for a few months and then rest for half a year.

Then I need to prepare my winter bedding, quilts, cotton-padded clothes and shoes, and all other daily necessities, since I might not be able to buy them in the countryside. I also need to prepare my high school textbooks, including the famous math, physics, and chemistry series, so I can study during the winter. I still have a few days to prepare everything, and I also need to deal with my second uncle's family. Although I have my bottom line and can't kill them, there are plenty of ways to make them atone for their sins in this era.