Jian Anping had already ordered the food. In the steaming hot pot, the red broth was bubbling and emitting a fragrant aroma.

"Mengyao, Xiaoning, sit down quickly, I've already started cooking the meat. It's perfect to eat now!" Jian Anping was like a docile big cat in front of Li Mengyao, completely suppressing all his hostility.

"Honey, you're so good to me!" Li Mengyao sat down with a sweet smile, hugging Jian Anping's arm and shaking it twice. Then, she said to Jian Ning with a beaming smile:

"Ningning, I forgot to tell you earlier, your brother and I got our marriage certificate this morning."

We're planning to book a hotel tomorrow. There will definitely be a lot of couples getting married in October, and we don't even know if we'll be able to get a reservation if we book now. How about we have a destination wedding? What do you think, honey?"

"I'll listen to you! No objections." Jian Anping thoughtfully took out the cooked mutton from the pot and put it in a small bowl for Li Mengyao.

"Congratulations! From now on, I'll have to call you sister-in-law. You don't need to rush to book the hotel. I'll ask my classmates later. The largest hotel in Jianghai City, Lanqiao Hotel, is owned by his family."

Jian Ning didn't want them to waste their money, so she could only find an excuse to delay for a while.

"That's great! Ningning, just give us thirty tables. Your brother and I will figure it out. Including relatives, classmates, and friends, it'll only take about that number."

Li Mengyao felt that the wedding preparations had gone incredibly smoothly. Her eyes were filled with beautiful anticipation for their future happy life together.

"Xiao Ning, have you asked that friend at the meteorological bureau recently if this extreme weather thing is reliable? I think this year's heat is a bit abnormal."

"Brother, I'm your own sister, would I lie to you? It doesn't hurt to stock up on more stuff. By the way, your friends don't know where we're staying now, do they?"

Jian Ning was worried that since the apocalypse had just begun, people in the group would be asking for food everywhere. Jian Anping was a very generous person; if he had something on hand, he would feel embarrassed to refuse a friend who asked to borrow it.

"I haven't told anyone except Er Gouzi. Your brother isn't stupid. This family, and your sister-in-law, will be my safe haven and my last resort from now on."

And I've listened to your sister-in-law's advice and plan to withdraw from this situation. I'll start my own small business from now on. We all have families now, and we can't continue fighting like before.

"Brother, you're right to think that way." Jian Ning raised her beer glass and clinked it with his. "Brother, sister-in-law, congratulations on your marriage."

"Thank you, Ningning!" Li Mengyao happily raised her glass to clink glasses with her and drank it all in one gulp.

After dinner, Jian Ning accompanied Li Mengyao to a nearby supermarket, bought a large watermelon for Jian Anping to carry, and they went home together.

When the elevator reached the sixteenth floor, they discovered that the innermost room also had an extra security door installed, and it looked even larger and sturdier than theirs.

"Brother, didn't the agent, Xiao Li, say that the landlord kept the house for himself? Has it been rented out now?" Jian Ning frowned slightly, looking at the door with some worry.

That's what they say, but why should you care? Just live your own life.

Your sister-in-law said the old lady at that house had a kind face and seemed like a good person. Come on, let's go back inside and eat some watermelon, and while we're at it, let's see the diamond ring I bought for your sister-in-law, and the wedding photos.”

Jian Anping glanced at the door of 1603, but didn't take it seriously. In this day and age, it's their own house, they can do whatever they want with it. As long as it doesn't bother him, he doesn't care at all.

The couple's wedding photos were exceptionally beautiful. Jian Ning was even a little envious, but it was a pity that she didn't have anyone to go with her to take the photos.

If she's to find a partner in the future, she absolutely must find someone like Xiao Lingfeng, the most handsome man in the cultivation world. A man with broad shoulders, a narrow waist, long legs, and eyes that seem to hold the stars and the sea—only he could match her stunning beauty!

She probably thought of a handsome man and had a sweet dream for half the night, though she couldn't see the man's face clearly in the dream.

He kept whispering something in her ear, and Jian Ning was so sleepy that she didn't get much sleep. In the morning, she bought a bus ticket to Anshi with dark circles under her eyes.

During this period, I have been stockpiling and receiving goods.

She wasted more than ten days just dealing with diesel and gasoline, since these things can't be bought in large quantities. If you buy them in bulk, you need your ID card and a certificate from the police station.

So she would drive to fill up the gas tank, then pull it out into the security box, and then put it back into the storage space.

She didn't even have time to go out and buy medicinal herbs. The weather is getting hotter every day, so she has to hurry. After this trip, Jian Ning doesn't plan to go out again. She'll just stay home quietly and wait.

The air conditioning was on in the car, it was hot, and there weren't many people out.

The two-hour journey passed quickly. When we got off the bus, we could clearly feel that the ground temperature here was several degrees higher than in Jiang City, and the asphalt road had softened from the heat.

The heat in the air was so intense that it made my nose feel stuffy, so I quickly hailed a taxi and headed straight to a hotel near the medicinal herb wholesale market. Once there, I booked a room at a nearby hotel, making sure it was reserved for someone delivering goods later.

Then I walked to the medicinal herb wholesale market and went straight to the largest stall.

The goal is very clear: first, we need to refine some powerful pills. The required medicinal materials include earthworm, angelica, earthworm, natural copper, etc., all of which are common Chinese medicines.

He bought a hundred doses of medicine at once. He also bought and stored all the other Chinese medicinal herbs that looked to be of good quality. He spent more than three million yuan in less than one round of the medicinal herb market.

The only pity is that these are all ordinary medicinal herbs, without any spiritual power, and there are many medicinal herbs that are common in the cultivation world but have never been heard of here.

This frustrated Jian Ning, so she spent money to buy dozens more ceramic jars for alchemy, since she didn't have a proper alchemy furnace. Her spiritual energy was also weak, so she could only rely on open flames.

They packed all these items and delivered them to the hotel next door.

"Miss, miss, wait a minute," she said, having just finished buying the items and was about to leave.

A middle-aged man ran over and called out to her.

"Hello, is there anything I can help you with?" Jian Ning stopped and asked him.

"I have something good here, I wonder if you're interested?" The man's mysterious look immediately piqued Jian Ning's interest.

"Okay, I'll go take a look."

"Come on, this way."

The middle-aged man led Jian Ning to his stall, which happened to be one of the stalls they hadn't visited earlier.

He probably had been observing from the sidelines the whole time, and when he saw this big customer about to leave his stall, he finally couldn't sit still any longer.

"I called my wife and she came over right away with the stuff. To be honest, my stall is in a rather out-of-the-way spot, so I didn't dare put the good stuff here."

"If I hadn't seen that you bought a large quantity of medicinal herbs today, proving you're a big customer with the financial strength, I really wouldn't have been willing to sell them."

"Oh, I'm really interested now." Jian Ning sat down on the stool and waited for a while. Then a woman carrying a large bag came running over in a hurry.

"Old Liu, I've brought the goods. Is this the customer who wants them?"

“Yes, let’s talk inside.” Old Liu picked up the bag and led Jian Ning to a small room behind the counter, hidden by a curtain. He carefully took out a sandalwood box from the bag; the outer packaging alone was worth a lot of money.