When Xu Qinghe got up at dawn, she nervously took the power bank out of her storage space.
Before putting it in the night before, it had been at 68% battery.
Now it was at 100%.
It was a solar-powered power bank she had bought some time ago because it was cheaper.
If a solar power bank could recharge inside the space, that meant the farming space was exactly as she had suspected—
there was sunlight inside it.
And if there was sunlight, then electricity could be generated.
And if electricity could be generated, then she could use electrical appliances!
Xu Qinghe allowed herself a small moment of excitement before sighing.
Even if the space could support solar power, she simply didn’t have the money to buy a proper solar power generation system.
That was also why she hadn’t bought many electrical appliances.
Please, Heaven… let me win the lottery.
She dug out a picture of the God of Wealth, offered a quick prayer, then grabbed a piece of bread and hurried out the door.
She had a lot to do today.
First, she drove to the outskirts of the city and rented a warehouse for three days.
Before paying, she inspected the building.
There were numerous security cameras outside for safety, but none inside.
Satisfied, she nodded and immediately paid for the rental and collected the keys.
After quickly securing the warehouse, Xu Qinghe drove to the livestock farm with the best reputation.
Along the way, she sent the warehouse address to the coal supplier and instructed him to deliver all the coal there.
When she arrived at the farm, she exchanged a few pleasantries with the owner she had already contacted, then began inspecting the animals.
She planned to raise seven kinds of livestock:
The owner showed her several different breeds.
After comparing them, Xu Qinghe chose the varieties with the best cost-effectiveness and the highest reproduction rates, even though their meat quality was slightly inferior.
For someone like her, who had never eaten particularly fancy food, that wasn’t a disadvantage at all.
“A wild boar doesn’t appreciate fine cuisine anyway.”
People with no refined tastes could be surprisingly confident.
Her own inner commentary amused her enough that she laughed.
Unfortunately, the laughter didn’t last.
The livestock alone cost 23,000 yuan.
Including feed, the total rose to 33,000 yuan.
Instinctively clutching her chest, she felt as if her heart were bleeding.
She paid through gritted teeth, left the warehouse address with the owner, and quickly escaped this heartbreaking place.
Around noon, she bought two packs of bread from a roadside supermarket and ate them as lunch while driving to various pharmacies.
Yesterday she had stocked up on medicine in the suburbs.
Today she would buy medicine closer to home.
Over the next several days, she would be traveling frequently to the warehouse in the suburbs to collect deliveries.
By alternating between districts when buying medicine, she hoped to attract as little attention as possible.
After finishing her pharmacy run, it was already past three in the afternoon.
Without taking any rest, she hurried back to the market.
On the way, she pulled a long down coat out of her space.
Upon arriving, she first visited the tailor shop.
She showed the coat to the tailor and confirmed that it could be altered into two down-filled inner liners.
After paying for the work, she also checked on the progress of her custom quilts.
Leaving the tailor shop, she jogged over to the general store.
Together with the owner, she loaded today’s household supplies into her van.
Before leaving, she slipped the owner a pack of cigarettes as thanks.
On the way home, she found another secluded area and transferred all the supplies into her space before finally relaxing enough to drive home.
She had been busy the entire day without even a moment to catch her breath.
She was exhausted.
Dragging herself back home, Xu Qinghe practically collapsed onto the floor and stared blankly into space.
She still had dinner to eat.
And after dinner, there was still plenty of work waiting.
Closing her eyes in despair, she sighed.
As expected, even after quitting her job, a poor person like her couldn’t escape the fate of a wage slave.
After a simple dinner, she adjusted the layout of the livestock section inside her space.
When she originally divided up the land, she had forgotten to reserve an area for growing animal feed.
Fortunately, buying feed today had reminded her.
She removed part of the fencing from her original three-and-a-half-mu livestock area and set aside one mu specifically for growing feed crops.
Looking at the redesigned layout, she sighed again.
Would this be enough?
Ever since she started stockpiling, she constantly worried that something wouldn’t be sufficient.
Not enough land.
Not enough supplies.
Not enough money.
Everything seemed stretched to its limit.
I really want to be rich…
After indulging in the fantasy for a moment, she got back to work.
Because she had been rushing around these past few days, all the supplies she bought had simply been piled haphazardly inside the storage area.
Today she wanted to organize everything properly so future retrieval would be easier.
While sorting supplies into categories, she continued shopping online.
She had previously planned to buy sanitary pads online but had become so busy that she completely forgot.
Thankfully, she remembered now.
Based on fifty years’ worth of usage, she ordered:
They were the same affordable brand she had always used.
The total cost was over 10,000 yuan.
She also purchased:
Including the ones she already owned, she would now have:
Enough to last her a very long time.
After finishing her purchases and organizing the space, she spent some more time digging the reservoir before finally going to bed.
Before dawn the next morning, Xu Qinghe was already back on the road.
Chewing a piece of bread, she drove toward the suburbs.
First, she bought the medicines she needed for the day and stored them in her space.
Then she headed to the warehouse to collect deliveries.
The previous afternoon, the coal supplier had already delivered half of the coal she ordered.
The remaining half would be sent once she paid the balance.
After arriving at the warehouse, Xu Qinghe inspected the coal quality.
Finding no problems, she transferred all of it into her space and paid the remaining balance.
She waited in the warehouse for a while.
Soon, the livestock farm owner arrived with her first shipment:
To make storage easier, she had arranged for the animals to be delivered over three days.
Day 1: Chickens, ducks, and rabbits
Day 2: Pigs, sheep, and donkeys
Day 3: Cattle and feed
Conveniently, her warehouse rental lasted exactly three days.
The chickens and ducks were incredibly noisy, while the rabbits trembled nervously in their cages.
After helping move the animals into the warehouse, the owner exchanged a few polite words and left.
Once he was gone, Xu Qinghe looked at the chaotic flock of birds and took a deep breath.
Time to work.
She drove her van into the warehouse and pretended to load animals into it.
Some were placed into the van.
Others were directly transferred into her space.
Then she drove to a deserted area and moved the animals from the van into the space as well.
She repeated this process three times before finally transferring all the chickens, ducks, and rabbits.
Letting out a long breath, she checked on them inside the space.
Strangely enough, the animals that had been restless and frightened before now seemed much calmer.
The chickens and ducks were already wandering around searching for food.
The rabbits quietly nibbled grass inside their cages.
Looking at her miniature farm, Xu Qinghe felt an unexpected sense of satisfaction.
These animals represented her future.
After resting briefly, she didn’t even stop for lunch.
Tearing open another package of bread, she climbed back into the van and headed toward the market to collect more supplies.