Du Yuhan hadn't shopped at this mall much, as it was a newly built, high-end mall that had only recently opened. Now that it had entered her space, she naturally wanted to take a good look around.
Du Yuhan carefully checked each layer, fearing that others might have been brought into the space as well.
This is an eight-story shopping mall that includes everything from clothing and food to housing and transportation.
When Du Yuhan checked the third floor, her stomach was growling and she was starving, so she went to the food court on the top floor and found a bakery. She ate two pieces of bread and drank two glasses of milk to relieve her hunger and continued checking. In the end, she didn't see a single person, and Du Yuhan finally felt relieved.
This shopping mall will be hers from now on. Isn't this an extra compensation from heaven? Thinking about it this way, she is really lucky, and she doesn't care about the fact that she once died here.
After inspecting the mall, Du Yuhan had a general understanding of it. The basement level was a parking lot filled with various cars, but it was basically useless to her now; the first and second floors were a large market, with a large pharmacy next to it; the third floor sold jewelry; the fourth floor sold home appliances and electronic products; the fifth and sixth floors sold clothes, shoes, hats, home furnishings, and fabrics; the seventh floor was a bookstore area, selling various books and audio-visual products, as well as a small cinema and an indoor children's playground; the eighth floor was a food and beverage area, filled with a dazzling array of restaurants, pastry shops, dessert shops, and so on.
Du Yuhan thought that the things in the mall would be enough for her to use for a long time. But these things were limited; she had to use as little as possible. And although there were many things in the mall, very few could actually be taken out and used outside. Only some food, clothing, and cloth were relatively safe.
Du Yuhan felt she needed to work hard to upgrade her space as soon as possible so she could buy medicine to treat Han Yixian's leg from the space shop. Now that her space had been reduced to level zero, she had a long and arduous road ahead.
She ate some more food in the space, and then planted pasture grass on several plots of farmland in the space.
The space initially only provided a small bag of pasture seeds. She had to plant the pasture, sell the seeds to buy other seeds, and also gain experience points through planting.
She couldn't waste a single moment; she needed to upgrade the space as soon as possible.
All operations within the space can be completed on a large screen in a control room within the villa, making it highly intelligent. Furthermore, the space can be operated using thought from outside; one wonders if this space is an extraterrestrial creation.
Although it was very cold outside, Du Yuhan had no choice but to come out of the space because it was getting late.
She shivered as she stepped out of the warm space and was met with a biting cold wind. But she dared not take any clothes out of the space to wear, not even underwear, because her whole family slept in the same room, and it would be impossible to keep her new clothes a secret.
Because she had food in her stomach, Du Yuhan didn't feel so cold anymore. She carried the bundle of branches she had collected and headed home.
The howling north wind made people sway, but fortunately Du Yuhan was traveling with the wind, making it much easier.
As Du Yuhan approached the gate of her yard, she saw two people emerge from it. One was dressed neatly, clearly a city dweller. The other was the wife of their village head.
Du Yuhan could tell at a glance that the person had come to arrange a marriage for her. The person in question was Han Yixian, the one who was now paralyzed due to injury.
Du Yuhan quickly hid herself and waited until Liu Cuilian finished seeing the person off and went into the house before carrying a bundle of firewood into her own yard.
The Du family's courtyard was repeatedly expanded due to the large number of people living there. Now it has three main rooms, two side rooms on each of the east and west sides of the courtyard, and a kitchen that is generally used in the summer. The woodshed, outhouse, and pigsty are all in the backyard, and the chickens are also kept in the backyard, so the front yard looks relatively clean.
Currently, Du Yuhan's grandparents and her unmarried uncle live in the east room of the main house, while her aunt lives in the west room.
The eldest and second sons of the Du family lived in the east wing, while the third and fourth sons lived in the west wing, essentially one room per family.
Now, all the married families have quite a few children, and the housing is very crowded, but Liu Cuilian refuses to let any of the families move out. She wants to control the food rations of each family. It's as if she holds the lifeline of each family, making all her sons and daughters-in-law obey her.
Liu Cuilian thoroughly enjoyed being pampered; anyone who disobeyed would go hungry. The first and second wives, who weren't the old lady's biological sons, were long suppressed by her.
The eldest son was the old man's first son and was highly valued by Du Dachuan, so Liu Cuilian dared not treat him too harshly.
The second wife wasn't so lucky; she did the most work and was often hungry. The Du family patriarch turned a blind eye, which emboldened Liu Cuilian.
The children of the eldest branch of the Du family were in better condition, but the children of the second branch were all very thin and malnourished due to prolonged hunger. Du Yuhan was the worst off; she was already fifteen years old, but looked only in her teens.
Du Yuhan decided that she would never again compromise like she had in her previous life.
She put the firewood in the main room. There were two large pots on either side of the main room, and two earthen stoves connected to the heated brick beds in the east and west rooms. In winter, they cooked in the main room and heated the brick beds at the same time.
Each room in the Du family's house has an inner and outer room. The outer room has a stove for boiling water and heating the kang (a heated brick bed), otherwise people would freeze to death in winter.
Du Yuhan needs to gather more firewood, otherwise there won't be enough for each family to heat their kang (heated brick bed).
When Du Yuhan's younger brother, Du Haifeng, saw his sister return, he hurriedly came out of his house and whispered, "Sister, Mom left you a bowl of porridge, it's warming up in the pot, go and eat it."
Du Yuhan was sent out to collect firewood before breakfast by the old lady, just so that she wouldn't have to eat breakfast and could save food.
The Du family had a large number of members, and one house couldn't accommodate so many people for meals. After the meal was cooked, the old lady would divide the food among the family members and have them eat in their respective rooms.
Du Yuhan knew that the old lady Liu Cuilian would not share her food; the food left for her was saved from the mouths of the second branch of the family.
It would be a lie for Du Yuhan to say she wasn't moved. Although she wasn't Du Lianqiao and Wang Yuqiao's biological daughter, they treated her extremely well, saving food for her even if they didn't eat it themselves.
Du Yuhan had already eaten a lot in the space and wasn't hungry at all. She said, "Big brother, I'm not hungry. You can let second brother and little brother eat."
Du Haifeng grew anxious and pulled Du Yuhan aside, saying, "How can you not be hungry? You went out early this morning and didn't eat breakfast. Grandma just didn't want you to eat. Mother went to the brigade to pick cotton petals and told me to make sure you drink the porridge when you come back."
Du Yuhan knew that if she didn't eat, her younger brother would argue with her, so she went into the house, took out a bowl of thin porridge from the pot, poured out a little more than half of it, and drank it.
She carried the remaining half into the inner room and saw her second and youngest brothers huddled on the kang (a heated brick bed). It was too cold and windy, so they were warmer under the covers.
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