In her previous life, Chen Shuning was from Northeast China, so she knew very well how cold the winters were there and how important winter vegetables were to a Northeasterner.
Keep in mind that this was an era of severe air pollution, and winters in Northeast China were already incredibly cold.
The environment she is in now is the 1960s, before it was destroyed by human desires, and the cold of winter is unimaginable.
She once read an article about Northeast China, which said that in Heilongjiang Province in the 1960s, the daytime temperature in winter could reach around minus 30 degrees Celsius, and it was even colder at night, reaching minus 40 degrees Celsius at the coldest times.
Moreover, in Heilongjiang Province during the 1960s and 70s, the snowfall was particularly heavy. Sometimes, when it snowed at night, it was difficult to open the door in the morning, and it was common for heavy snow to seal off villages.
This made Chen Shuning, who was always afraid of the cold, start planning how to get through the winter from the moment he learned that he was going to work in the countryside in Heilongjiang Province.
The first thing to consider is warm clothing and bedding, which is easy to deal with. Chen Ma will prepare some for her. She also has thermal underwear, down vests, and down pants that can be worn under cotton clothes. They won't be conspicuous when worn underneath, and she can take them out and wear them secretly when the time comes.
Silk quilts and down quilts should be easy to hide when they are covered with cotton quilts under a duvet cover. Besides, she already had plenty of these things in her space, and now she has an entire floor of clothing and home furnishings, so she has no worries about these things.
However, she didn't know if it would be easy to get firewood and coal for winter. At this moment, Chen Shuning dared not imagine that she could go up the mountain to collect firewood on her own with her small arms and legs, so that she could have enough firewood for winter.
She does have mountains in her space where she can cut firewood, but she won't be able to explain the source of the things.
Another issue is that firewood burns very quickly. Usually, if you fill the stove hole before going to bed at night, it will all burn out before midnight, and you have to get up and fill it again. Coal, on the other hand, is not allowed to burn. If you fill the stove hole at night, it can burn until the next morning. However, coal is not easy to buy. If all else fails, you can try the black market.
We also need to think carefully about what to eat. Ideally, it should be something that is both modern and delicious. Pickled vegetables are a great choice. It's also convenient to cook some porridge and eat it with steamed buns in the morning.
Of course, all of these thoughts Chen Shuning was having were based on the premise that she wouldn't be living with the other educated youth at the settlement.
Because of the great secret of her spatial ability and the presence of a reborn female protagonist like Yang Wanqiu, Chen Shuning never intended to live with everyone. Instead, she decided early on to build her own house and live alone.
Of course, Chen Shuning, being a young girl, just wanted to live a comfortable life, but she wouldn't do anything too conspicuous. The reason she had this idea was because of another female supporting character in the book, Zhong Lingling, who was also an educated youth from Beijing.
Zhong Lingling has three older brothers. She is the only girl in the family and the youngest daughter of her parents. She was spoiled from a young age and has a somewhat arrogant and domineering personality.
Because they were not used to sleeping with more than a dozen people crammed onto one kang (a heated brick bed), and they couldn't get used to the bland food at the educated youth settlement.
So after only three days, he proposed building his own house in the backyard of the educated youth settlement, with his own money. At that time, the educated youth settlement was short of housing, and the brigade leader had just received news that more educated youth were coming, so he readily agreed.
Chen Shuning's plan was to get involved when Zhong Lingling suggested building her own house, so that he could achieve his goal of living there without standing out and attracting attention—a win-win situation.
While lost in thought, Chen Shuning routinely strolled around the vegetable garden, orchard, and pasture, and after checking the agricultural products she would be harvesting that evening, she belatedly realized that in both her past and present lives, she hadn't had a chance to properly explore the shopping center that had caused her to transmigrate.
I've been in and out so many times, but I've only really been to the food court on the top floor and the supermarket on the basement level.
I only glanced at the other floors briefly, and some floors I didn't even look at. Since I had nothing else to do, I decided to take the opportunity to explore the area.
Without hesitation, Chen Shuning quickly manipulated his consciousness to fly to the shopping center.
We won't go to the supermarket on the basement level yet. We've already browsed most of it while moving things, and since I can't move things around anymore, there's not much to see.
She first went to the first floor, which, like many other shopping malls, had a jewelry and cosmetics section, with a few scattered cold drink, dessert and fast food restaurants.
Perhaps because the incident occurred shortly after the mall opened, there weren't many customers in the store yet. The tables in the cold drink and dessert shops were mostly clean, indicating that there were no customers yet.
However, the order counter, the gleaming display cases, and the refrigerated cabinets were filled with all sorts of goods for sale, making Chen Shuning extremely envious.
To prevent tears from welling up in her eyes without her realizing it, Chen Shuning decisively left the dessert shop and didn't even bother to look at the fast food restaurant next door.
Jewelry is not allowed to be worn in this era, so let's ignore it for now. Cosmetics are also not needed for the time being, so let's skip that.
The second floor is an international high-end brand section, which is basically a luxury goods store; I won't go there.
The third floor has all kinds of shoes and hats. Considering that I will be a farmer in the future, a straw hat and a pair of canvas shoes will do the trick. I can skip this floor for now.
The fourth floor is for relatively lower-end women's clothing, but this "lower-end" only applies to brands on the third floor. For ordinary people, the prices on this floor are still not low. However, due to the times, there's no need to shop on this floor anymore, because most of the clothes here are clothes she can't wear now.
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