After repaying the money to Fan Chongyang, the trip to the county town should have been completed.
Having resolved her concerns, Lin Momo originally intended to leave the city directly, but then she suddenly felt that since she had come all this way to the county town, it wouldn't be worth it if she didn't buy some things.
Next, she will be spending her days in the mountains.
Once you enter Nanshan, it's like entering a deep sea. If you find that you're missing something, there's nowhere to buy it there. You should take advantage of this great opportunity to come to the county and prepare as much as possible.
And let's not say that Lin Momo is anxious about gains and losses.
For someone about to retire to the deep mountains and forests, you can never have too much to prepare.
In Yilin's quiet opinion, the most important things in a person's daily life are food and clothing.
The food preparations are quite thorough.
As for clothes, she only bought autumn and winter styles in town last time, and only two sets of each, which was just enough for her to change into.
This won't do.
So, Lin Momo resolutely went into a clothing store and collected clothes for all four seasons, ensuring that she had no less than three sets each season.
When hiking in the mountains, the most worn-out item is undoubtedly your shoes. You should prepare several pairs of cloth shoes and boots in different sizes. Wearing several pairs alternately can reduce the rate of wear and tear, so that each pair of shoes can last longer.
In addition, she also planned to make her own clothes, so she needed fabric and needles and thread.
As for the fabric, it doesn't need to be too good; ordinary cotton, silk, linen, or similar fabrics will suffice.
Winter has already arrived, and it's much colder in the mountains than outside. There might even be heavy snowfall blocking the mountains this year.
She had taken Fan Chongyang's warning that this winter might be very cold to heart and was determined to prepare plenty of warm clothing to feel at ease.
Therefore, Lin Momo found another fur shop, hoping to buy some furs.
When it comes to warmth, fur is still superior.
Even if she can't afford expensive furs like fox, silver fox, or wolf, surely she can afford cheaper furs like rabbit or sheep?
She's not picky as long as it's leather.
It would be fine if she could just add some piping to the cotton coat, or make a small trinket like a scarf, forehead band, or earmuffs.
Now that we've bought the furs, how can we not stock up on some charcoal for heating?
With winter approaching, the price of charcoal was soaring, but even at such high prices, it was still necessary to stock up. Lin Momo gritted her teeth and took out twelve taels and five mace of silver to buy five hundred catties of medium-grade charcoal, intending to use it along with firewood.
The shop selling charcoal also sold various heating tools commonly used in this era. After the shop assistant's introduction, I learned that they included incense burners, fire baskets, braziers, fire buckets, hot water bottles, hand warmers, foot warmers, and so on.
Looking at these old-fashioned heating devices, Lin Momo was quite tempted.
After careful consideration, I chose a smoker, a fire bucket, and a hot water bottle to warm the bed.
In winter, clothes are difficult to dry after washing, so you can use a drying rack to dry them.
The fire bucket was made of wood, with an outer layer to protect it from heat and an inner liner to hold burning charcoal. When Lin Momo first saw it, her thought was, "If I put a wire mesh on top of it, wouldn't it be perfect for grilling?"
Yes, I have to buy one.
For her last stop, Lin Momo visited the clinic again.
This time, we're not selling medicinal herbs, but buying medicines, such as powders and ointments for treating colds, detoxifying, treating external injuries and burns, as well as snake repellent.
Although snakes and insects don't come out in winter, you have to be careful when spring and summer arrive.
She didn't know how long it would take to come out after going into the mountains, so she prepared some snake and insect repellent powder in advance.
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In the late afternoon, Lin Momo left the county town with the flow of people.
There was no need to rush this time, so she didn't take a carriage but walked back, carrying a small basket on her back containing only a set of clothes. This was mainly to provide cover for her retrieving items from her spatial storage.
She chose to walk because she wasn't in a hurry, and also to improve her walking ability and physical fitness.
That's right, Lin Momo has already begun preparing to go into the mountains.
The mountain path is not easy to walk. Without a certain level of physical strength, you will be out of breath after just a few steps.
Of course, in addition to exercise, she also needs to improve her nutrition.
Looking at her thin and small frame, Lin Momo decided that from today onwards she would eat properly and try to gain some weight. Her current body was too thin, and her height was also below average. If she were to weigh herself, she would only weigh around sixty pounds at most.
Fortunately, she is only fourteen years old and is in a stage of rapid physical development. Once her nutrition catches up, she can undergo a dramatic transformation in just two months.
Lin Momo still remembers the last time her body developed rapidly, which was when she was in junior high school. For a period of time, she ate a lot and always felt hungry. As a result, she grew taller rapidly, and her legs would ache slightly at night.
Grandma laughed and said, "It's nothing, they're just growing taller."
Sure enough, she grew to 1.6 meters tall by junior high school.
I started living at school in high school. I don't know if it was because the food got worse or the academic pressure increased, but I barely grew at all throughout high school, only growing a symbolic two centimeters.
My height eventually stabilized.
Lin Momo speculated that it was probably because she didn't eat well when she was living in the dorms during high school. The food at the rural school was terrible—it lacked nutrition and oil, and she was always hungry. She remembered feeling incredibly hungry every day after evening self-study at 10 pm, but she didn't have money for the school's special meals, so she went to bed hungry every night.
In this life, she must eat well and sleep well; she cannot repeat the same mistakes.
She wasn't greedy; she just wanted to be taller than she was in her previous life.
Old Man Lin and his sons are all quite tall, and given the Lin family's genetics, achieving this small goal is definitely not a problem for them.
After walking for half an hour, Lin Momo was too tired to walk any further. She turned around and looked around for a while, and just then she spotted a patch of wild woods not far to the west of the road. Without saying a word, she started walking towards it.
No way!
She needs to go into the space to rest for a while, and eat something to replenish her energy.
Upon arriving at the grove, Lin Momo squatted down, pretending to relieve herself, and instantly vanished into her spatial dimension.
First, I scooped water from the well in the front yard to wash my hands. Then I went to the room where cooked food is stored, cut myself a small plate of braised beef, took a meat bun from the basket, and finally ladled out a bowl of eight-treasure porridge and took a pair of chopsticks.
He carried the food on a tray to the stone table in the front yard, plopped down on a low chair, grabbed a steamed bun and took a bite, then stuffed a piece of beef into his mouth and began to chew heartily.
At this moment, Lin Momo felt incredibly happy.
Life is nothing more than eating and drinking, and she is the kind of person who feels happy as long as she has food and drink.
Such happiness is simple, but in this era of extremely low productivity and huge wealth disparity, it is not something that most people can enjoy.
Therefore, such simple happiness is all the more precious.
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