Waking Up Again, Became a Post-50s

Over fifty years old, without children, she cared for her aging parents. After seeing them to their end, and with a bit of savings in hand, a mysterious space suddenly appeared.

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Chapter 5 Shopping (Part 3)

Five buckets of each. Don't be fooled by how heavy each bucket is; it's not much. But it's all optional, so it's fine to take a little less.

I also ordered star anise, Sichuan peppercorns, cinnamon, dried tangerine peel, Sichuan peppercorns, chili peppers, MSG, chicken bouillon, cumin, fennel, five-spice powder, thirteen-spice powder, pepper, bay leaves, etc., each bag weighing 1 jin, for a total of 10 jin.

These may seem like a small number, but they are actually quite durable, so you don't need to buy too many.

When I turned around to pay the bill and was about to leave, I saw that the shop also had white sugar and brown sugar, so I ordered 100 jin each. In the end, the bill came to 15,000 yuan.

We can have more sugar. It's always necessary, and it can be a lifesaver when there's no food.

Another perspective is that, according to traditional Chinese medicine, brown sugar is warm in nature and sweet in taste, and enters the spleen meridian, which helps to replenish qi and blood, strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, and promote blood circulation and relieve pain; white sugar is neutral in nature and sweet in taste, and has the effects of moistening the lungs and promoting body fluids, relieving cough and resolving phlegm; while rock sugar has the effects of replenishing the middle qi, nourishing yin and promoting body fluids.

Therefore, it's always a good idea to stock up on more sugar.

The owner helped me load it into the car. When I turned the corner, I saw a double happiness shop. I looked around and saw that there was still room in the car to load it. So I found a place to park.

After getting off the bus, I turned around and went back into the shop. I bought some other candies, such as 20 jin of White Rabbit milk candy of various flavors, 50 jin of fruit candy of various flavors, 10 jin of soft candy, 20 jin of chocolate candy, 10 jin of ginger candy, and 10 jin of maltose and sweet potato syrup, which cost me another 5,000 yuan.

This candy is really expensive. Even though I'm getting older now, I can't stop myself from buying things I want.

What can you do? Shopping is a woman's nature, and besides, whatever you buy now, you might need it in the future, so just buy it. It's better than having to wait until you don't have it.

In this way, I spent a whole day traveling back and forth between the market and the suburbs, buying all the shelves and foam boxes I needed, spending five thousand yuan.

When I got back in the evening, I didn't cook. I just went into my spatial dimension, grabbed a steamed bun and a cup of porridge, and sat down to eat.

After finishing the meal, he started installing the shelves. Once all the shelves were installed, he used Yi Shi to place them where they were supposed to be.

Is there no other way? This shelf can't be used without being installed properly, and it's a necessity. Otherwise, there would be nowhere to put all these things on the ground.

Seeing the mess on the ground and cleaning it up instantly made me feel very accomplished.

After tidying up the items on the sample floor, I checked them against the list and found that I was still missing quite a few things. It seems I'll have to go buy more tomorrow.

Oh right, I forgot about the blankets. I haven't prepared any blankets or anything like that yet.

You can't order this online; you have to knock it up before you can cover it up, and only then will it be warm.

But what kind of bed sheets and duvet covers can I buy online? I want two sets of four-piece sets that are 2 meters by 2.4 meters, two sets of four-piece sets that are 1.8 meters by 2 meters, and two sets of four-piece sets that are 1.5 meters by 2 meters. All the four-piece sets must be old-fashioned, unassuming pure cotton fabric.

Although it has a slightly dated feel, it's made of pure cotton, which is relatively good and comfortable to use.

When buying a four-piece bedding set, since I was buying items with a vintage feel, I immediately saw some vintage-style household items pop up on the page.

Just order whatever you see. Don't buy too much. For example, 10 military green canvas bags (they don't take up much space), 10 enamel basins, enamel teapots, enamel bowls, 10 tin kettles, 4 kerosene lamps, 10 military water bottles, 50 earthenware bowls, 10 80cm steamers, 6 36cm steamers, 10 military overcoats, 100 old-fashioned aluminum lunch boxes, 10 2m x 2m kang mats, and 2 straw raincoats.

I don't know if I'll need these things back then, but aside from some special items, they'll still be usable at any time. If all else fails, I can just use them secretly!

Since we've already bought these things, let's buy some other things from older times, like elementary, middle, and high school textbooks from the 1960s and 70s, as well as math, physics, chemistry, and natural science books.

Also, I need a complete set of all the past exam papers from the time the college entrance examination was reinstated until now.

Most importantly, get a set of things like picture books and those classic Chinese classics for children's early education.

Then he immediately placed an order for a set of "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Surnames", "Thousand Character Classic", "Analects", "Standards for Being a Good Student and Child", "Zhu Xi's Family Instructions", "Expanded Collection of Wise Sayings", "Tang Poetry", "Song Lyrics", "Sun Tzu's Art of War", and so on.

Finally, I realized we were missing locks, so we had to buy some. No matter what time it came, keeping the gate tightly closed was an important matter, so we ordered 10 brass locks of each size.

After buying these, I realized that old-fashioned coarse cloth is no longer sold on the streets, so I could only order online. I wanted two bolts of each of the following: reed-patterned cloth, ant cloth, willow cloth, checkered cloth, wild goose-line cloth, single-line cloth, jacquard cloth, etc., and ten bolts of fine white pure cotton cloth.

I need 10 bolts of pure cotton fabric in military green, gray, black, bright red, and khaki colors, and 1 bolt of pure cotton fabric in each of other colors.

Since we've already bought the cloth, let's buy some shoes too, both men's and women's. We need 50 pairs of cloth shoes with multi-layered soles in every size, from largest to smallest, as well as 10 pairs each of Warrior shoes, Liberation shoes, and rain boots.

I don't know if I'm facing time travel or the apocalypse. These clothes are pretty much useful in whichever era or time I go to, so I might as well take a bit of everything!

There are also some smaller items, like 100 cotton bags of varying sizes, 100 burlap sacks, and 100 nylon bags. In case there's no electricity, and since we just ordered kerosene lamps, we'll also buy five boxes of candles—the thick, durable kind.

Not only did I order 5 pieces of the coarse kind, but I also ordered 5 pieces of the fine kind. In case using the coarse kind caused unnecessary trouble, I'd better buy some fine kind and keep it somewhere! As long as it's done openly, it has to be the same as everyone else's.

Oh right, I haven't bought any cotton-padded clothes or anything like that yet.

Without electricity, there would be no way to provide heating, and we would have to use thick quilts to get through the winter.

During the day, you can only wear cotton-padded clothes. When it's cold in winter, a down jacket is sometimes not as useful as a thick cotton-padded coat.

But I won't know my weight by then, so I won't be able to buy it!

Hey! Never mind that for now, let's buy a few items first!

We need two sets of cotton-padded jackets and trousers for each age from childhood to adulthood. We also need to buy some cotton, so if we really can't make more, we can just make more. We'll need 200 jin (100 kg) of Xinjiang cotton.

Looking at it this way, it's about time. It's past 11 pm now, and I've spent 30,000 yuan. The more I spend, the less money I have. I didn't buy much, and more than half of it is already gone. Sigh! I'm really not careful with my money!

After taking a nap, I took out a fried dough stick and a cup of soy milk from my empty stomach. After eating, I drove my old car to the county town as usual.

There are still quite a few things I need to buy today. I haven't bought toiletries yet, and I also need to buy a few blankets and such. Who knows what situations we might face? It's always good to have some on hand.

First, I'll go buy some toiletries. I'll just go to the supermarket and get the unscented kind. I don't care about that stuff; right now, I just want to be safe. Nothing is more important than my own safety!

I need to go to the seed shop to buy some more seeds, and I also need to buy netting for the chicken coop. The more I think about it, the more I realize I haven't finished buying everything yet! Just thinking about it is getting a bit annoying.

Do you see any baby chickens, ducklings, or goslings for sale? I need to buy some and put them in my space quickly, otherwise they might just snap one day.

Also, if you don't have any, you can buy some large ones. Oh right, I haven't bought any chicken, duck, or goose eggs yet.

Although it's possible to raise them in the space, we still need to prepare some food in the space, otherwise what if there's nothing to eat?

It's still early, let's buy this first, and then buy the seeds later.

I drove straight to the market, to the section that specializes in selling chicken, duck, and goose eggs, and bought 1,000 chicken eggs, 500 duck eggs, and 200 goose eggs. That cost me another 5,000 yuan. Seeing my balance dwindling, my heart ached. Oh well, I had no choice but to spend it blindly.

Seeing that there was still some space in the car, and remembering that I hadn't bought any fruit yet, I decided to buy some strawberries and blueberries since the fruit was fresh this morning.

Oh, and there are these fruit seedlings in my yard. I can transplant them into my space when I get back. I can't forget about that.

Mulberries, cranberries, blackberries, raspberries, and red currants are fruits we don't usually eat, so we can buy a small amount, like a basketful. A basketful isn't much, just a dozen or so pounds.

We can get a few watermelons, cantaloupes, honeydew melons, and honeydew melons. We'll buy some seeds at the seed shop and plant them in our space.

Oranges, tangerines, kumquats, lemons, grapefruits, pomelos, and pomelos are fruits we don't usually eat, so we can buy a basket of each next year.

Cherries, peaches, plums, apricots, dates, olives, longans, and lychees are fruits we eat often, so bring more of each, five baskets of each.

Five baskets of apples, rambutans, peaches, chestnuts, custard apples, coconut meat, and dried plums were also ordered.

Bananas, persimmons, dragon fruit, star fruit, mangosteens, loquats, cherry tomatoes, kiwis, kiwifruit, and grapes—you don't need too many of these; one basket of each will suffice.

However, the yard isn't very big, so we can't grow too many fruit trees, but we still need to plant a few. To save space, we can plant the fruit trees in the chicken coop; we can grow at least five or six trees there.

My favorite fruits and vegetables are apples, cherries, peaches (yellow peaches, the kind that can be made into canned yellow peaches), jujubes, persimmons, and pomegranates. I'd also like to buy two grapevines (one for Kyoho grapes and one for Summer Black grapes).

That way, even if you buy and eat all the fruits you like from the virtual space, there will still be fruit trees, right? You won't be able to eat them all the time, but at least they'll bear fruit every day! As long as there are fruit trees, you can eat them whenever you want. Isn't that great?