Chapter 17 Centralized Online Book Shopping and Organization
June 9
I was exhausted a few days ago, so I'm going to lie down and rest for another day.
There's still enough time; there's no need to push yourself too hard. If you get sick now, it would be a huge loss.
Lying flat means online shopping.
I'm going to buy everything on my shopping list that I need to buy online today.
For the next four or five hours, I started browsing various shopping apps:
Natural disaster-related medicines
Rat poison and cockroach poison are very cheap; normally, 10 yuan is enough to last a long time.
Rat poison 100 yuan, cockroach poison 200 yuan, pesticide (5 x 500 bags) 500 yuan, mosquito repellent spray 200 bottles, total cost 2800 yuan.
Expensive generator batteries
Two 6500Wh batteries, ten 200Wh batteries, four exercise bike generators, one diesel generator, two sets of solar panels, and five solar lights, totaling 4.35W.
Various seeds
We can get 50 jin (25 catties) of soapberry fruit with the peel on. The peel can be used to make soap, and the seeds inside can be used to plant trees.
5 jin of soapwort seeds (soap raw material), 5 jin of mint seeds
Vegetable seeds: 200 bags of different types of chili pepper seeds, 100 bags each of scallion, chive, and cabbage seeds, and 50 bags each of garlic, garland chrysanthemum, cilantro, spinach, romaine lettuce, and lettuce seeds.
Vegetables: 100 bags each of green beans, eggplant, pumpkin, zucchini, broccoli, tomatoes, winter melon, and radish seeds.
Fruits: 50 bags each of strawberry, watermelon, grape, and cherry tomato seeds, totaling 4500.
Self-defense weapon (buy the expensive kind)
Five stun guns, five baseball bats
10 super-powerful slingshots, 1000 steel balls
Five super-powerful compound bows, 2000 steel balls.
Five iron-toothed maces, totaling 10,000.
Electronic products
10 memory card movie players, 10 memory cards full of movies and TV shows, 3 spare mobile phones, 1 tablet, 10 MP3 players, and 2 used card-insert projectors, totaling 17,000 yuan.
Then he remembered he hadn't bought any lighters, so he placed an order for 1,000 more.
I've basically bought everything I needed to buy online. Including the money I spent on diesel and gas yesterday, my total spending was 77,000 yuan, and I have 109,000 yuan left.
On June 10th, the deliveryman called as promised, and I drove to the delivery station to pick up the books.
After scanning the QR code to pay 200 yuan, the deliveryman quickly loaded all the books onto his vehicle.
After I got home, I arranged the books and notebooks on the bookshelf according to their categories.
The pens I had hoarded were also placed in a corner compartment.
Although they were secondhand books, 80% of them were in 90% new condition, which surprised and delighted me.
Many of the novels were ones I hadn't read, but some were ones I was very familiar with, such as the Four Great Classical Novels.
Suddenly I realized how narrow-minded I'd been. I never expected to find the Four Great Classical Novels among the books I bought, but aren't they the most famous literary novels?
It didn't take much effort to organize all the books.
Since I bought the last batch of goods online yesterday, I no longer feel the urgency I had before. Except for vegetables, frozen food, and raising chickens, I have basically stocked up on all the supplies.
Having nearly 110,000 yuan left over gave me a sense of comfort and satisfaction. This feeling of happiness was much like that of a child who had exceeded their task expectations.
So after tidying up the books, I lay down on the bed to rest, trying to make up for the physical strain caused by the excessive physical work I had done recently.
I was thinking about what else I needed to do during this free time.
I suddenly remembered something important: I haven't bought any vegetable pots yet. I looked around the east room and saw that it could probably fit 15-20 pots.
I took another look at the square, empty room. Half of the room was designated for raising chickens, and the other half for growing vegetables.
The two sides are separated by a passageway in the middle, and the small stoves installed are also included in the passageway.
This way, the chickens can enter the small west room without getting covered in chicken droppings, and the chickens can avoid getting burned by getting too close to the stove.
The idea was perfect; the next step was to buy the tools and put it into practice.
I got up very early on June 11th to go to the early market in town.
I ate breakfast at home, just bought two big meat buns at the market and ate them.
After eating, we started to wander around. There were many stalls selling various farm tools in the market.
First, buy the tools and pots for planting vegetables.
There are no special pots for growing vegetables in the town; everyone just uses old pots, buckets, or boxes to grow their vegetables.
However, I didn't have any usable old items when I first moved here, so I had to buy new ones.
Finally, I chose a rectangular plastic basin that was about the same size as the large tray at home. Since I bought a lot, I bought 30 basins at 8 yuan each, along with 5 small flower pot shovels.
I went to the fertilizer store and bought two sacks of nutrient soil for planting vegetables.
Then I went to buy things for raising chickens.
The thought of the hens following me and laying eggs for me every day makes me not want to mistreat them, so I'm going to buy better chicken coops and feed.
After looking around, all I saw were very simple iron cages; I couldn't find the chicken coop I was looking for.
Let's buy feed and grain first.
I specifically reserved a west wing room to store chicken feed; the 50-square-meter wing room can hold at least several hundred sacks.
Without worrying about storage, I started buying grain in bulk.
The most expensive chicken feed costs 200 yuan per bag, and there are 4 bags for every 100 jin (50 catties).
Apart from chicken feed, the rest will be purchased from processing plants and farmers.
Farmers would take their harvested grain to processing plants to process it. After processing, they would not take the leftover chaff with them, but would sell it directly to the factories, which would then add a little money and resell it.
When we arrived at the factory, rice bran was 50 cents a pound. We ordered 30 bags of 50 pounds each, which cost 750 yuan.
The processing plant also sells ready-made cornmeal, priced at 120 yuan per 100-jin bag. I bought 20 bags, and with the rice bran, the total cost was 3150 yuan.
I also plan to buy some dried corn kernels. These can be stored for a longer time; chickens can still eat them even after several years. If they are too big, I can grind them into powder using a small stone mill.
Many farmers don't sell all their grain; they store a lot of it. Buying directly from farmers is much cheaper than buying from stores, as it's almost half the price they pay.
After asking around, I finally bought some grain from a farmer. He sold me corn kernels at the price he paid for grain, one yuan per kilogram, in 100-kilogram bags. I bought 20 bags.
They were afraid that after they bought the grain, the farmers would have no grain left.
I quickly reminded him, "Brother, do you still have any food at home? There's been a lot of fighting outside, you need to keep more food at home."
The eldest brother smiled mysteriously, lifted the curtain of the west wing, and there were sacks piled up inside.
"You wouldn't let yourself go hungry, would you? Young lady, you're not from the countryside, are you? We rural families always store up some grain."
I was relieved. I smiled sheepishly, paid the money, and drove home with the truck full of grain.
I hadn't bought chicken coops and fences, but the car was simply too full to fit them all.
Today, a farmer taught me a very amazing skill: it turns out that the truck bed can be raised to empty things out.
This discovery surprised and delighted me. I no longer have to drag them out one by one, and I feel sorry for myself for struggling to pull the wooden blocks down.
Upon arriving home, the truck bed was slowly raised, and bags of grain gradually slid down to the ground.
They pushed bags of grain in a small cart and piled them into a specially reserved west wing room.
Put the corn kernels at the very back first, as they have a long shelf life and should be eaten last.
Then rice bran was piled up, followed by feed and cornmeal.
Stacking grain was a physically demanding task; once it was finished, you'd lie in bed questioning your existence.
Lately, I've had this persistent feeling that I'm being used like a donkey...
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