With that thought in mind, Xiang Qian decided to personally confess his feelings to Mu Xi. Seeing how sincere he was, surely she would agree to marry him!
His imagination was wonderful, but reality…
He had come to the supply and marketing cooperative today because he wanted to buy a gift for Yunxi. He hadn’t expected to coincidentally run into her.
And then he received heartbreaking news.
She had actually registered to go to the countryside!
So it wasn’t some attempt to play hard to get at all. She genuinely wasn’t interested in him, the son of the machinery factory director.
Xiang Qian left dejectedly, his head hanging low.
Meanwhile, Mu Xi, who had entered the supply and marketing cooperative, tossed the little incident from earlier to the back of her mind. She wandered around for a while and eventually bought a few small items before heading home.
She had also asked the salesperson about cotton. Since it was currently summer, there wasn’t much cotton in stock.
Mu Xi secretly thought to herself: If she wanted to buy some, she had better do it early.
After returning home, Mu Xi took advantage of the empty house and entered the space with a thought.
Come to think of it, there were plenty of things inside the space, but she really couldn’t find any cotton. Mu Xi figured that perhaps the clan members back then had all been cultivators, so they simply hadn’t been afraid of the cold.
There were countless pieces of gold, silver, jewelry, and precious treasures inside the small wooden cabin, but Mu Xi could only look at them helplessly.
That was because, in this era, it wasn’t even a question of whether these things were valuable. They simply couldn’t be brought out into the open.
And she didn’t have much money or many coupons on hand. Since she was going to the countryside, she had to buy some necessities, such as padded quilts and clothes. Once she arrived, depending on the situation, she might also need to have a wardrobe, table, and chairs made, as well as buy smaller necessities like a washbasin, thermos, towel, toothpaste, and toothbrush.
Which of those things didn’t require money and coupons?
Besides, once she reached the countryside, she needed to have at least some money on hand for emergencies.
Otherwise, having nothing in her hands would leave her feeling insecure.
So when everything was added up, the 200-yuan resettlement allowance really wasn’t much at all.
“I need to find a way to make some money first.”
Mu Xi already had an idea. She turned her gaze toward the mountain outside the small wooden cabin. The various fruits hanging heavily from the branches were undoubtedly something that could help her quickly obtain money and coupons.
It seemed she would have to make that essential trip every transmigrated female lead took—the black market.
Seeing that it was still early outside, Mu Xi wasn’t in any hurry to leave the space. Instead, she found a place, sat down cross-legged, and began cultivating.
The sooner she entered the path of cultivation, the sooner she would gain the ability to protect herself.
Even if she was only at the Qi Refining stage, she would still be a hundred times stronger than an ordinary person!
As one of the strongest survivors of the apocalypse, Mu Xi felt uncomfortable all over without strength to rely on. It felt practically no different from running around naked.
When the sun began to sink toward the west, Mu Xi finally awakened from her cultivation.
After cultivating for the entire afternoon, she had officially entered the Qi Refining stage and become an honorable little Qi Refining cultivator.
At the same time, the wood-type ability within her body had also improved significantly.
For that, she had the environment inside the space to thank.
While cultivating, she hadn’t even been able to stop herself from letting out a satisfied sigh. It was simply too comfortable. Compared with the foul, chaotic environment of the apocalypse, the inside of this space was practically a paradise on earth.
Countless wood-element particles surged straight into her body.
Pure and abundant.
Mu Xi stretched her body, then stood up in satisfaction and headed up the mountain. With a thought, all the ripe apples on one of the apple trees fell from their branches and flew toward the small wooden cabin.
This was an ability unique to the master of the space.
With her thoughts alone, she could control everything inside the space.
For example, harvesting, retrieving, moving…
In any case, now that the space had recognized Mu Xi as its master, she was essentially a god within it. Whatever she wanted to do, she only needed to think about it and it would be done.
All the harvested apples piled up inside the small wooden cabin, forming a small mountain.
Mu Xi gave the pile a rough glance. There should be around a thousand jin.
Because they had been grown inside the space, not only was the yield far higher than outside, but their appearance and taste were also top-notch.
Even their fragrance alone could drift for miles, refreshing anyone who smelled it.