Chapter 1 Seasonings, Beverages, Dry Goods, Canned Goods…
One month before the end of the world, Jiang Rong was reborn.
The first thing Jiang Rong did after his rebirth was to open his mobile phone to check the balance of his bank card. After confirming that he still had 23 million in deposits, Jiang Rong breathed a sigh of relief.
Jiang Rong herself is a lover of raw jade. All her current wealth has been basically accumulated slowly through these raw stones.
The reason why Jiang Rong buys raw jade is also related to a secret of her own.
Her space can absorb the energy contained in the jade and thus upgrade.
Therefore, most of the raw stones that Jiang Rong bought on a daily basis were contributed to the space.
However, the end of the world came suddenly in his previous life, and due to natural disasters in the later period, Jiang Rong had no chance to come into contact with things like jade.
She was either fleeing or on the way to escape. Only occasionally could she exchange a few pieces of jade of ordinary quality from other people who were fleeing with her, but this had almost no effect on upgrading the space...
Jiang Rong's university is located in the hometown of raw stones, Y City.
It is now the end of December, Jiang Rong's university has officially been on vacation, and several of her roommates have already returned home.
But every year at this time, she would stay here for a while, just to stock up on raw stones.
However, she usually stopped when she saw the benefits.
Firstly, she was just an ordinary college student, and if she made any big moves, she would easily be targeted.
Secondly, there is a limit to the amount of jade that the space can absorb. A palm-sized piece of ice jade is enough for it to absorb for a long time.
However, Jiang Rong is not in a hurry to collect jade at the moment. She plans to stock up on food first.
Jiang Rong first spent 5,000 yuan online to rent a temporary warehouse in the suburbs.
The time is about nine in the morning.
She took a taxi there, and while sitting in the car, she looked out the window, observing the wisps of crimson mist in the air.
Floating lightly in the sky.
At this moment, the fog is only a very thin layer. Ordinary people will not notice it at all.
It turns out that the fog appeared so early.
Jiang Rong sighed silently in his heart.
In the previous life, by the time people really noticed and took seriously the red fog, natural disasters had already struck.
The day when the natural disaster struck was January 24th.
Jiang Rong remembered it very clearly. That day was her grandmother’s 70th birthday and she was on the high-speed train on her way home.
At first, the crimson fog became thicker rapidly, and the visibility in the air dropped rapidly from several hundred meters at the beginning to dozens of meters. When the passengers in the car could no longer see anything outside and were completely surrounded by the blood-like fog, everyone in the car fell into panic.
Then the temperature outside began to drop rapidly. In about an hour, it dropped from a few degrees above zero to more than 30 degrees below zero. At this time, Jiang Rong was still about a thousand kilometers away from home.
She wanted to call home, where there was only an elderly grandmother and a young brother. Her parents died in a car accident when she was young.
Looking at the phone with no signal, Jiang Rong remained silent, with a bad feeling in his heart.
In Jiang Rong's memory, the sudden fog lasted for two days and one day.
During this period, most people hid in the high-speed trains and did not dare to go out. Some brave ones insisted on going out, but after going out despite being stopped by others, they never came back.
During those two days and one night, almost everyone went through a very painful time, except for a very small group of people who fell into a coma one after another and had no idea what was happening in the outside world.
It was not until the third day, when people all over the world were praying in their hearts that the strange fog would disappear quickly, that the red fog really slowly dissipated.
However, after the red fog disappeared, the world had undergone earth-shaking changes quietly.
All plants withered and died overnight, animals mutated into ferocious and brutal forms, and the land as far as the eye could see became bare.
For a whole year after that, Jiang Rong didn't see any plants on this land.
Large numbers of herbivores died or mutated and joined the ranks of carnivores.
There was a large-scale migration from mountains, plains and other areas to cities, and a small number of people dispersed to rural areas.
Hunting humans and everything else they can eat in cities and rural areas.
In addition, after the end of the world, the earth and air also had problems. They showed strong corrosiveness. Generally speaking, any creature that stayed on the bare ground without any defense for one night would surely turn into a pool of corpse water the next day.
The only way to resist this corrosion is evolution.
When the natural disaster first struck, the people who fell into a deep sleep were the earliest group of people with special powers.
The stronger the superpower, the greater the ability to resist this corrosion.
This situation changed again a year later. The crimson fog filled the sky again, and all the animals, plants, and humans that had withered and died before became nutrients for the earth.
As the earth comes back to life, the newly emerged green begins to evolve madly, making it even more difficult for humans to survive.
In short, what Jiang Rong didn't expect was that it took her seven years to go back home, which usually only took half a day.
For seven years, she struggled to survive various disasters including extreme cold, heat, floods, insect pests, viruses, earthquakes, etc.
In order to avoid the mutant beasts that appeared one after another after the natural disaster, they hid from place to place.
When she finally found her former home, it was already in ruins and all her former family members, relatives and friends had disappeared.
Thinking of this, Jiang Rong felt a pang of pain in her heart and her eyes turned red. This time she would definitely make full preparations.
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The person who handed over the warehouse key was a man in his sixties who looked quite friendly. After handing over the key, the man left with a smile.
During Jiang Rong's three years at university, he liked to go out for a walk during holidays.
In the past three years, she has been to many places. She knows where the aquaculture center is, where the grain processing plant is, where the fruit and vegetable wholesale market is, and where the breeding farm is.
The first place Jiang Rong went to was the grain processing plant closest to the suburbs.
This is a small gathering place for grain processing, and there is not just one but more than a dozen of them connected together.
In addition, there is a grocery store and a frozen food wholesale department across the street.
The county town is not far from here, and there are many residents nearby. So there is no shortage of business at all, and there are many people coming to buy goods.
Jiang Rong had been to this place before and bought a lot of things here, but because so much time had passed, she couldn't remember which store the boss she was familiar with was from.
So Jiang Rong had no choice but to walk along the street. Finally, when she was almost at the end, a plump and enthusiastic aunt came out of the third-to-last store.
The grocery store owner had a fashionable perm and spoke authentic local dialect.
Jiang Rong could probably only understand about 70% of what was said.
"Xiao Jiang is here to buy the goods."
In his previous life, Jiang Rong accidentally discovered that his ancestral jade talisman could devour jade, and successfully opened up a small space after devouring the first piece of jade. He then became interested and wanted to get more jade for experiments.
And because Y City is the hometown of raw stones, I was introduced to the raw stone field.
Later she discovered that as long as she held the jade talisman in her hand, she could see the different "qi" attached to the surface of the stones.
After continuous swallowing, the space was upgraded again about half a year later. Jiang Rong could vaguely sense that the space had become larger at that time. However, for the next two years, the space never reached the critical point of upgrading again until the natural disaster struck.
Because he had the space, Jiang Rong would stock up some goods in the space when he was wandering around for convenience, so as to avoid having to wait several days for express delivery when he needed them.
However, the quantity purchased is generally not large. After all, no one knows that the end of the world will come.
When she first arrived at the end of the world in her previous life, the high-speed train she was on stopped halfway in a deserted place surrounded by bare mountains. She barely managed to get out alive by relying on the supplies in the space.
"We might buy a lot this time." Jiang Rong responded, while adjusting her silver-rimmed glasses that had slipped down a little on her face. She was slightly nearsighted.
When the grocery store owner heard what Jiang Rong said, she immediately smiled and her eyes became more wrinkled.
"Okay, whatever you want to buy, Auntie has it all."
Because soon Jiang Rong will leave for Province J, which is more than 2,000 kilometers away from here.
So Jiang Rong was not afraid of being recognized, he just bought it.
"Auntie, how many packs of salt do you have in a box?"
"50 bags per box." The aunt replied with a smile.
"How much do you want?"
"500 boxes, maybe." Jiang Rong bought as many as possible, considering that his grandmother liked to make pickled vegetables and might need more salt.
"100 boxes of MSG, 80 boxes of dark soy sauce, 50 boxes of light soy sauce, and 150 boxes of soy sauce." Jiang Rong did not ask any more questions and placed an order directly, buying as much as possible. Otherwise, the 23 million in the card would really become a string of numbers when the end of the world came.
After a pause, Jiang Rong continued: "100 boxes of vinegar, 200 boxes of cooking wine, and 500 bags of chili powder."
Jiang Rong remembers that the chili powder here is sold by bags, and each bag contains 100 kilograms.
As for whether the products she bought would expire, Jiang Rong said she was not worried after more than two years of experimentation.
At least the apples she put in there two years ago are still intact in the space.
"5,000 kilograms of white sugar, 2,000 kilograms of rock sugar, and 1,000 kilograms of brown sugar."
"500 kilograms each of cinnamon, prickly ash, fennel, star anise, pepper, tangerine peel, dried chili pepper, and 300 kilograms each of other spices."
Hearing this, the proprietress's facial expression was no longer relaxed. Instead, she looked serious and quickly wrote down the information in a small notebook.
This is a big order, so we can't be careless.
But for now, her store can still cope with it.
After all, this is the largest wholesale place for the same products in Y City. Even if you can't make ends meet, you can borrow some from other old friends and give them a higher price. We can make money together.
This is how everyone usually solves this situation.
"5,000 eggs in a tray." Jiang Rong remembered that there were about 30 eggs in a tray.
"5000 duck eggs."
"Auntie, are you selling goose eggs?"
The proprietress was also stunned after hearing this. She had never seen anyone ask her this question before.
“Yes, but it will be two days later.” Normally, most people buy chicken eggs, duck eggs, goose eggs...but there is not much stock of these.
"Okay, then 5,000 barrels of goose eggs."
Since the second upgrade of the space, Jiang Rong knew that the space had become much larger, but she herself did not know how big it was.
In her previous life, when she escaped from the mountains, the natural disaster had already occurred for several months. All the supplies that could be collected had been looted, and there were not so many things for her to measure how big her space was.
If at that time there really isn’t enough space, then you’ll have to make a choice.
Therefore, we still have to find a way to upgrade the space quickly.
“Do you have ginger and garlic?”
"We have garlic. As for ginger, you may have to go to the fruit and vegetable wholesale market to have a look." The proprietress replied.
"10,000 kilograms of garlic." Jiang Rongji's younger brother loves to eat garlic and can't live without it.
"Auntie, what canned food do you have?"
At this time, the proprietress who was busy keeping accounts raised her smiling face again.
"There are so many, including yellow peaches, oranges, coconuts, apples, kiwis, mangoes, lychees, strawberries, grapes, and hawthorns. These are all fruits. There are also a lot of meats, all on that shelf."
Jiang Rong looked in the direction the proprietress pointed and made a rough estimate. There were about thirty kinds of canned fruits and a dozen kinds of canned meats.
I didn't expect that this grocery store, although not big in appearance, is actually well-equipped with a wide variety of products.
"I want 100 boxes of each." When Jiang Rong placed the order, he suddenly felt the joy of those hoarders.
"Nori, kelp, bean curd, bean curd skin, dried shiitake mushrooms, red dates, longan, dried small fish, dried shrimp, dried shrimp, dried oysters, dried razor clams, dried mussels, dried conchs, scallops, dried squid, dried cuttlefish, dried whitebait, dried abalone, 400 kilograms each of these. If there are others, 200 kilograms each." Jiang Rong picked out some of his favorite ones and bought a few more. The rest were all 200 kilograms.
At this point, Jiang Rong suddenly remembered that when his grandmother gets older and has bad teeth, he should remember to buy more fresh tofu and other soft and sticky foods.
"3,000 bags of spicy fish ingredients and pickled vegetables, and 1,500 bags of hot pot ingredients of various flavors."
What else? He had bought so much that Jiang Rong didn't know what else to buy.
After a pause, Jiang Rong took out his mobile phone from his pocket and searched the Internet, and immediately an idea came to him.
"100 boxes each of fermented bean curd and Lao Gan Ma, and 60 boxes each of other pickled vegetables." After saying that, Jiang Rong looked around the store and found that there were also drinks.
He continued: "Coke, Sprite, Fanta, 1,000 cases each in cans and bottles."
"500 cartons each of orange juice, Wanglaoji, and coconut juice, and 200 cartons each of other beverages."
"Finally, 300 boxes of liquor and 500 boxes of beer. That's all for now." After spending half a day putting in the order, Jiang Rongyi stopped, still unsatisfied, and asked her to go back and think about it. She could buy the rest online.
"Okay, since you bought so much, I'll give you a 15% discount." The proprietress said readily.
She really didn't realize it before. Xiao Jiang was dressed in ordinary clothes, and the black canvas shoes on his feet were so white from washing that you can't judge a person by his appearance.
In line with the principle of long-term business, we naturally offer preferential prices to major customers.
"Thank you very much, Auntie." Jiang Rong was happy to see it happen. After that, because the boss lady wanted to calculate the price, Jiang Rong waited for a long time.
"The discounted price is 2481320, and after rounding it off, it's 2481000. You must come back to me next time if we have business."
"Okay, there should be a lot of people coming to buy goods in a month, so you can stock up more in advance," Jiang Rong reminded.
When the lady boss heard this, her eyes lit up instantly, and she whispered, "Xiao Jiang, did you hear any gossip? Tell me, I promise I won't tell anyone!"
"I guess so, but it's hard to say. But auntie, you're right to listen to me. I'm going to do business with you in the future, so there's no need for me to fool you, right?" Jiang Rong said seriously.
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