Chapter 15: Nine Hundred Million, Gone

Jiang Yan had considered building a new home inside her space, so she bought twenty sets each of the latest refrigerators, washing machines, dryers, induction cooktops, microwave ovens, ovens, dishwashers, smart toilets, massage bathtubs, and so on.

As for pots, pans, bowls, and all kinds of tableware, she bought thirty sets of each.

Although Jiang Yan loved cooking and gourmet food, cooking every day in the apocalypse wasn’t practical. So, she also bought over a dozen sets of automatic cooking pots and various vegetable-chopping gadgets.

Thinking that she’d sometimes have to cook outside her space, she also stocked up on a bunch of portable stoves, alcohol burners, wood-burning stoves, and the like for situations where there was no electricity or gas.

The reason she bought so many was that, in the future, if something broke beyond her ability to repair, she could just toss it and use a new one.

Aside from rice, flour, grains, oil, meat, eggs, and dairy, daily-use paper products were another must-have to stockpile.

Jiang Yan went all out in this area.

She bought 50,000 packs each of toilet paper rolls, tissue boxes, handkerchief tissues, wet wipes, face towels, and kitchen paper towels.

For sanitary pads—an absolute necessity for women—she bought 10,000 packs each of day-use, night-use, panty-type pads, and liners. For menstrual cups, which she wasn’t too used to, she bought 500.

Even though she’d bought smart toilets with automatic heating and washing, she still got 10,000 packs of toilet wipes.

Having experienced mask shortages before, she made sure to add disinfection supplies to her stockpile.

She bought 100,000 masks, 10 tons of disinfectant alcohol, 10 tons of bus disinfectant, 10,000 packs of disinfectant wipes, plus plenty of thermometers, mops, rags, and spray bottles—all stored in her space.

She also bought 1,000 units each of various types of insecticides and pest control medicines.

Because her warehouse was initially filled with deliveries of rice, flour, grains, oil, and other staples, she left bulk purchases of vegetables and fruits for last.

She bought six tons each of cabbage, potatoes, onions, lettuce, tomatoes, corn, celtuce, shiitake mushrooms, button mushrooms, broccoli, asparagus, eggplant, Chinese kale, baby bok choy, yam, stem lettuce, lotus root, watercress, pea shoots, fennel, spinach, and so on.

For things she didn’t eat much of, like fresh chestnuts, taro, bamboo shoots, peas, tofu, sweet potatoes, celery, etc., she bought one ton each.

Other seasonings and aromatics like scallions, ginger, garlic, cilantro, chili peppers, mint, etc., she bought 5,000 kilograms each.

She also bought 10,000 individually packaged vegetable salads and fruit salads, along with 10,000 portions of various salad dressings.

In addition to the imported supermarket salads, she specially ordered several signature low-calorie fitness meals from a few well-reviewed healthy food shops, getting 3,000 portions of each.

For fruit, she bought 10,000 kilograms each of all kinds of citrus, durians, apples, cherries, Hami melons, dragon fruit, green coconuts, bananas, avocados, lychees, pineapples, mangosteens, etc. For strawberries, grapes, pears, longans, passion fruit, papayas, lemons, jujubes, and so on, she bought 5,000 kilograms each.

Naturally, she didn’t neglect personal care products: 5,000 units each of facial cleansers, makeup removers, shampoos, conditioners, essential oils, toothpaste, dental floss, mouthwash, hair removal devices, razors, shower gels, bath salts, soap, hand wash, laundry pods, laundry detergent, washing powder, dish soap, dishcloths, toilet cleaners, and other cleaning products.

When buying these, aside from paying attention to brand and reputation, she chose ones with mild scents that wouldn’t attract attention after use.

As for skincare products, she ordered a small amount of well-reviewed domestic brands online.

Products from Korea and Japan are also popular and suitable for Asian skin, but she didn’t dare buy Japanese cosmetics these days.

She did buy a batch from Korea, though.

For the rest, she planned to buy them directly abroad.

After all, many foreign skincare products have significant differences in ingredients and effects between domestic and international versions.

Also, drawing from her extensive novel-reading experience, she bought 100 tons of cat litter and a pile of garbage bags.

Thinking of the fertile black soil in her space, already prepped with seeds and saplings, she bought a bunch of farming and gardening tools.

She even ordered two sets of automated hydroponic growing machines from overseas online. These machines are great for growing lettuce, water spinach, spinach, and the like, though delivery would take a month.

When she passed by a bookstore—being a fan of reading and physical books—she didn’t hold back. She bought two copies each of books on management, life wisdom, science fiction, culinary and health, literary classics, agricultural planting and breeding, and all sorts of miscellaneous novels.

One copy for reading, one for collecting.

Of course, to kill time after the apocalypse, she also spent nearly a million yuan on over two hundred different Lego sets, ranging from simple to complex.

One of them, a Hogwarts Castle Lego set, would probably take Jiang Yan a whole month to finish.

Besides Lego, she also bought a pile of sticker books, Goo Cards, wax seal kits, and all sorts of other crafts and art supplies that kids love.

She also prepared a matching collection of e-books.

Additionally, she downloaded all her favorite anime, TV dramas, movies, financial interviews, entertainment gossip, science exploration, agricultural programs, and more—all for offline viewing.

Music was a must, too: ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, pop, rock, light music, traditional Chinese style, rap—even square dance and children’s song compilations, all downloaded.

Downloading and backing up all these resources was extremely time-consuming and exhausting, so she didn’t do it herself. She paid someone to organize, download, and label everything on hard drives.

She also bought two home theater systems, two home KTV setups, a dance machine, a Street Fighter arcade machine, a bunch of game consoles and VR headsets—almost moving an entire arcade into her home.

Whether she’d actually use them didn’t matter; the point was, if she had the money and the space, she’d get everything.

As a fitness enthusiast—and knowing that good physical health is essential for survival in the apocalypse—she simply had her favorite gym owner custom-order five sets of single-person gym equipment for her.

From yoga mats, yoga balls, dumbbells, jump ropes, and ab rollers, to treadmills, ellipticals, stair climbers—she got it all.

After buying and stockpiling everything, Jiang Yan did the math and realized her nine hundred million was gone.

Vegetables and paper products didn’t actually cost much. The down payment and renovations for her new home were less than a million. The real expenses were meat, high-end tobacco and alcohol, and especially all kinds of energy.

Fortunately, the final payments from selling her house, car, watches, and bags had come in.

Altogether, she’d made 230 million yuan, most of which came from her mother’s luxury villa."