“All the men, come with me and see what’s going on. The women stay home and get things in order.”
Old Man Su’s heart had been uneasy this whole time. He quickly gave out his instructions before hurriedly leading his sons and grandsons away.
Shen Yuehua took her daughter back to the room.
“Sweetheart, are you sleeping with Mom tonight or in your own room? Don’t mind that the room used to belong to Wanwan. I’ve already changed all the bedding. No one else has used it.”
Shen Yuehua quickly explained when she thought of it.
Shen Shuli hadn’t seen her parents for eight years and had missed them terribly, but she didn’t want to steal her mother away from her father either.
Besides, there would be plenty of opportunities to sleep with her mother once they began fleeing the famine.
“Mom, I’ll sleep by myself. Don’t worry, I’m not bothered by any of that.”
Shen Yuehua breathed a sigh of relief and asked, “Should we wait for your father to come back and find out what happened in the village?”
“Sure. It’s still early anyway. I won’t be able to sleep yet.”
Shen Shuli had no idea what had happened in the village either.
The novel had never mentioned this part.
Naturally, she was quite curious.
“Mom, I’m going into my space to organize the supplies and see what we’re missing,” Shen Shuli said.
“Okay. I’ll keep watch for you. Organize everything without worrying.”
Shen Yuehua stroked her daughter’s hair and had her lie down on the kang to do it.
Shen Shuli could only enter her spatial storage with her consciousness. Her physical body remained outside, looking as though she were asleep.
Her space was divided into two areas: a warehouse and a spiritual farmland.
From the outside, the warehouse looked like a hundred-square-meter traditional-style building, but the interior was as spacious as a football field.
In the modern world, Shen Shuli had always enjoyed stockpiling supplies, but what she had accumulated occupied less than one-thousandth of the warehouse.
The supplies she had taken from the Lin family occupied roughly one-tenth of the entire warehouse.
She hadn’t had time to carefully inspect everything she had taken from the Lin family.
Now, she quickly sorted and categorized everything with her consciousness.
It took her half an hour to finish organizing it all.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk. The Lin family is even richer than I imagined.”
Shen Shuli’s eyes practically sparkled.
There were ten whole chests filled with gold alone.
Each chest was roughly the size of a large bottled-water carton.
Each chest contained five hundred jin of gold, for a total of five thousand jin, equivalent to fifty thousand taels of gold. Converted into silver, that would be more than five hundred thousand taels.
The entire Dayong Dynasty only produced around one hundred thousand taels of gold in a year.
Who knew how many years the Lin family had spent accumulating all of this?
In the end, it had all fallen into her hands.
There were more than a hundred chests of silver, but their combined value was only about sixty thousand taels more than the gold.
As for the gold jewelry, silver jewelry, pearls, jade, emeralds, coral, and other precious treasures, there were more than a hundred chests in total.
Their value was impossible to estimate, but it was definitely enormous.
There were fifty-five chests of various luxurious fabrics and twenty-three chests of antiques, paintings, and calligraphy.
There were more than a hundred antique display shelves filled with precious porcelain, tea sets, and countless other valuable ornaments. There were so many that Shen Shuli couldn’t even be bothered to count them.
There were also all kinds of high-quality delicacies and rare ingredients, such as bird’s nest, shark fin, and donkey-hide gelatin, along with plenty of premium medicinal materials such as century-old ginseng and lingzhi.
There were also banknotes in every denomination, totaling more than one million taels.
On top of that, she had taken more than ten thousand jin of rice, flour, beans, peanuts, and other grains from the Lin family’s cellar, grain stores, and kitchen.
There were more than a hundred barrels of lard, over a hundred jin of chicken and duck eggs, and more than five hundred jin of assorted vegetables.
The ice cellar contained several thousand jin of pork, mutton, donkey meat, and horse meat.
Even the rare beef amounted to more than three hundred jin.
In short, if there was such a thing as becoming rich overnight, Shen Shuli had just experienced it firsthand.
There were plenty of good things, but most of them weren’t very practical for Shen Shuli.
Who would dare take these things out and use them while fleeing the famine?
Wouldn’t that be practically begging for trouble and painting a target on their backs?
Many of the everyday supplies she needed were actually missing.
The supplies she had stockpiled in the modern world weren’t nearly as abundant, but they were relatively comprehensive.
For example, everyday necessities included all kinds of toilet paper, tissues, wet wipes, towels, bath towels, sanitary pads, disposable face towels, disposable underwear, shampoo, shower gel, hair masks, body lotion, various kinds of soap, skincare products, facial masks, toothpaste, toothbrushes, and so on.
There were also plenty of cooking essentials such as oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, and various seasonings.
Whenever she stocked up, she bought them by the case, usually ten cases at a time.
If one person used these supplies, they could probably last a lifetime.
But if an entire family used them together, they would be consumed very quickly.
And once these supplies were used up, there would be no way to replenish them in ancient times.
A lifetime was a long time.
Shen Shuli didn’t want to spend the first half of her life enjoying herself only to suffer through the second half.
Besides everyday necessities, Shen Shuli had also acquired many contraband items while carrying out various high-risk missions.
She had participated in operations against drug traffickers, terrorists, arms dealers, illegal smugglers, and various criminal organizations, both domestic and international.
The amount of contraband she had seized was too numerous to count, and she would often secretly store some of her spoils in her space.
There were firearms and ammunition, extremely sharp cold weapons, various medicines, military vehicles, military equipment, and more.
With all this equipment, Shen Shuli’s chances of staying safe during the journey to escape the famine would be greatly increased.
The spiritual farmland was quite small, only one mu.
Shen Shuli had deliberately divided it into three sections.
She planted a circle of various fruit trees she liked around the entire outer edge of the spiritual farmland.
One section was dedicated to growing precious medicinal herbs.
Another section was used to rotate different crops, vegetables, and fruits.
She had also separated a small ten-square-meter area to raise several chickens, ducks, geese, and rabbits, making it convenient to have eggs and meat.
Although the planting area was small, it was enough to ensure Shen Shuli never had to worry about food or drink.
The poultry and rabbits she raised were still lively and energetic, chirping and squeaking whenever they saw her.
The cattle, donkeys, mules, horses, chickens, ducks, geese, and other animals she had taken from the Lin residence were all in the vegetable garden, completely wrecking it.
The dozen or so vicious dogs had also woken up at some point and were wreaking havoc in the vegetable garden as well.
Fortunately, the medicinal herb garden was surrounded by a fence, so it had escaped the destruction.
Shen Shuli was somewhat helpless.
The space was only so large, and she really had nowhere else to put all these living creatures.
As for the livestock and vicious dogs, she wasn’t planning to kill them yet.
If she let these animals eat the fruits, vegetables, and grains produced in her space for a while, not only would they become stronger and healthier, but their meat would also become more delicious.
For now, she would just raise them like this.
Once she had time, she could separate another small section of the spiritual farmland specifically for them.
Between the spiritual farmland and the warehouse stood an ancient spiritual spring well.
It produced two liters of spiritual spring water every day.
If she didn’t consume the water in time each day, it wouldn’t accumulate.
The spiritual spring water had incredibly powerful effects.
It could cure all kinds of illnesses, neutralize countless poisons, strengthen the body, improve physical constitution, slow aging, and accelerate plant growth. It possessed all sorts of miraculous properties.
Shen Shuli had been able to become an elite ace of a special department in the modern world, and the spiritual spring water had played a major role.
She exited her spatial storage.
The moment she opened her eyes, Shen Shuli saw Shen Yuehua fanning her with a fan.
Those beautiful, perfectly shaped almond eyes gazed at her with extraordinary tenderness without blinking.
She didn’t seem to mind in the slightest that her daughter was currently wearing a face so badly swollen and battered that it was almost unbearable to look at.
Shen Shuli grinned at her mother.
An empty glass appeared in her hand. She filled it with one-third of the spiritual spring water and handed it to Shen Yuehua.
“Mom, I haven’t used up today’s spiritual spring water yet. Here, have some first.”
“Are you finished? Are you tired? Keep it for yourself. Take care of the injuries on your face first. I don’t need this.”
Shen Yuehua immediately pushed the glass back and firmly refused.
“We get two liters every day, so don’t worry. Besides, drinking this much at once would make the effects too obvious. If we divide it into three portions, it’s perfect for the three of us. This one is yours, so hurry up and drink it. Then we’ll go wash up properly together.”
Shen Shuli refused to back down.
“All right. My daughter is so thoughtful. You always think of your parents whenever you have something good.”
Shen Yuehua stopped refusing. She took the glass and drank it in one go, unable to resist sighing.
“It’s been so long since I last tasted spiritual spring water. It really is the finest thing in the world.”
“Hehe, of course.”
Shen Shuli also drank a glass and stored the remaining portion in a cup inside the warehouse.
Time was frozen inside the warehouse, so nothing stored there would ever expire or spoil.
If spiritual spring water was left outside, its effects would gradually weaken over time. Only when stored in the warehouse could its properties be perfectly preserved.
After mother and daughter finished drinking the spiritual spring water, they immediately felt a warm sensation spread throughout their bodies, as though they were sweating from within.
The spiritual spring water was taking effect.
Shen Yuehua quickly took her daughter to the bathing room to wash up.
Shen Shuli secretly took out some modern toiletries from her space, and the mother and daughter thoroughly washed themselves.
They immediately felt much fresher and more comfortable.
“Sweetheart, the swelling on your face has visibly gone down,” Shen Yuehua pointed out.
Shen Shuli immediately took a large doll mask from her space and put it on.
“Mom, your skin looks several years younger too. You need to be careful about that.”
“Hmm. I’ll cover mine too.”
The moment the two of them stepped out of the bathing room, the men of the Su family happened to return.