With the food almost ready, Jian Ning suddenly remembered that there weren't even blankets on the bed in the small building in the jade pendant space. This wouldn't do.

When the extreme cold arrives, the temperature can drop to minus seventy or eighty degrees Celsius. With her small frame, if she doesn't take good care of keeping warm, she'll freeze into an ice sculpture!

Driving my own van, I navigated to Jiang City's largest clothing and footwear wholesale market.

It's very lively here, packed with people, almost as crowded as a wet market.

Jian Ning parked her car and went inside. Instead of buying anything, she browsed a few shops and compared prices before finally stopping at the home of a plump older woman.

"Ma'am, I see you have a wide selection of goods. Can we negotiate the price if I buy more?"

"This is wholesale price. If you need a lot, we can discuss it," the older woman said enthusiastically, having finally gotten a big customer this morning.

"Give me ten of these twelve-pound cotton quilts, five of each of the ten-pound and eight-pound ones, and twenty of each of the down quilts, blankets, and electric blankets."

"Alright, little sister, you're a big customer, I'll give you a 15% discount on all of these."

The older woman quickly pressed a few keys on her calculator and collected 8200 yuan from Jian Ning. She then enthusiastically helped her put the money in her car on a trolley before happily heading home.

Jian Ning then went and bought thick woolen cotton shoes, a thick down jacket, a cotton hat, a scarf, gloves, and snow boots, prioritizing warmth and choosing dark colors. She bought twenty sets of each item.

Seeing that it was almost midnight, Jian Ning found a relatively clean dumpling restaurant near the wholesale market and ordered a plate of shrimp and pork dumplings with a three-delicacy filling.

Before I had even finished eating, I saw someone carrying a gas cylinder coming over to exchange it. That's when I realized I didn't have anything to cook with. I had almost forgotten about that.

While waiting for the gas deliveryman to arrive, I quickly went over to ask. The deliveryman's truck wasn't big, and he only had about ten gas cylinders left.

Without saying a word, Jian Ning took them all, left her phone number, and even paid a deposit, since she couldn't just give away so many gas cylinders for free.

After storing the gas cylinders in her spatial storage, Jian Ning took out the notebook with the shopping list and looked at it. There were still quite a few things she needed to buy, but she was in a hurry and online shopping was cheaper, so she decided not to buy them piecemeal.

I drove to a real estate agency and rented a 600-square-meter warehouse, paying one month's rent.

Then she drove the boxed car back to the community. At this time, her phone showed that the things she bought on Meituan were ready to be picked up. The self-pickup point was the convenience store at the entrance of the community.

When she drove over and gave the last four digits of her phone number, the convenience store clerk gave her a slightly strange look.

"Young lady, you live alone, aren't you afraid of attracting bugs by buying so much grain? It's hot here in the summer, and this grain will spoil if it's not stored properly!"

"Big sister, I bought this for someone else. It's cheaper through group buying, right? I definitely can't eat this much myself." Jian Ning said, forcefully pulling up a bag of flour from the ground. She tried to move it, but couldn't budge it!

I was stunned for a moment, realizing that my body had no strength at all. How could it be so useless!

"Put it down quickly. With your skinny arms and legs, you'll get hurt again. Old Wang, come and help the girl carry the grain to the cart."

A middle-aged man of short stature came out of the house in response. Jian Ning smiled and called him Uncle Wang.

"Xiao Jian, you don't need to lift a finger with all this stuff. I'll carry it all to the truck for you myself." Uncle Wang said, taking a handcart and quickly loading the grains and vegetables onto the cargo box, arranging them neatly.

"Thank you, Uncle Wang," Jian Ning said, taking a large watermelon from the driver's seat and insisting on putting it in Uncle Wang's hands before driving into the residential area.

After storing all these things in the space, I went upstairs. As soon as I reached the second floor, I heard voices coming from upstairs.

"Mingxuan, do you think Jian Ning doesn't want to be friends with us anymore? She wasn't like this before. How come she changed so much after falling into the water?"

"Miao Xin, don't overthink it. I think she might be too emotionally fragile. As you know, Jian Ning's parents both passed away from illness."

Her brother is a good-for-nothing who spends all his time wasting his time and always asking her for money. He's probably in trouble, which is why he doesn't want to go to school. We're all her good friends, so we definitely have to help her out.

Li Mingxuan felt that his idea was definitely right. In the past two years, Miao Xin had told him a lot about her family. In order to pursue him, she had lowered herself to the extreme and told him almost everything.

"I know, Mingxuan, Jian Ning has liked you for a long time. Even if she ignores me, she won't be angry with you. So you must help me borrow her jade pendant. I really need it urgently."

When Jian Ning heard Miao Xin's words from the bottom of the stairs, her anger flared up instantly.

You, Miao Xin, are already thinking about the jade pendant. I wonder how she knew that there was a storage space inside the jade pendant.

But that's not important; the person who wants to take something from Jian Ning hasn't been born yet!

He stopped listening downstairs and strode upstairs.

He said coldly, "Miao Xin, if you want my jade pendant, you could just say so. Why did you need Li Mingxuan as a middleman? You're quite the schemer!"

"Jian Ning, why are you back? That's not what I meant, let me explain!" Miao Xin looked at Jian Ning, who suddenly came upstairs, and her expression was a little flustered, but she quickly calmed down.

"Jian Ning, are you alright? We only found out you were staying here after we went to see the head of student affairs."

"So I specially bought some fruit to check on you. Miao Xin is just concerned about your health." Li Mingxuan said, picking up the fruit basket from the ground and handing it to Jian Ning.

"Thank you for your concern, but as I've already said, I don't need these things. Please take them back."

"And Miao Xin, what jade pendant are you talking about? I don't know anything about it. Do you know more about my possessions than I do? Are you a former spy?"

Jian Ning stared into Miao Xin's eyes and asked coldly.

"No, Jian Ning, let me explain."

I used to have that jade pendant, but I lost it by accident. It was a gift from my maternal grandmother for my eighteenth birthday.

My current idea is to make another one based on the pattern on your jade pendant, otherwise the old lady will be unhappy if she finds out I lost the thing she gave me.

I was afraid you wouldn't lend it to me, so I asked Li Mingxuan to speak on my behalf.

"Jian Ning, don't worry, I'm just drawing a pattern. I'll return it to you soon. I won't lose it. Or, can I give you some money as a deposit?"