books44 Chapter 4 Emptying my wallet to buy supplies
Chapter 4 Emptying my wallet to buy supplies
The two sisters began to calculate all the money they had on them:
I have 800 yuan left in my phone as a reward from my parents for the exam, 400 yuan left for living expenses in my hometown, 80 yuan in cash before returning home, 500 yuan in cash from my maternal grandparents, and 500 yuan that my parents just transferred to me to buy food on the train journey.
The total is 2280 yuan.
Search online for essential items from ancient times, compile a list, and purchase them in order of importance.
Lin Chunyi asked: Which do you think is more likely, the palace or the deep mountains and forests?
My sister replied: No, it's not a possibility. I can sense that if I were to wear it, it would definitely be in a remote mountain forest!
OK, fine! Farming, huh? I get it!
The most urgent thing is to buy online from Pinduoduo that are hard to find in physical stores, and that can be delivered within four days. These items should be relevant to surviving in remote mountains and forests.
After finishing my online shopping, I would go to town to buy daily necessities such as sugar, salt, and medicine.
The items they ordered online arrived two days before they boarded the train, and they began packing all the supplies they wanted to take with them.
Food:
10 bags of 400g table salt, 20 yuan. Two bags of 1-jin (500g) vacuum-packed rice, 10 yuan.
4袋400g白砂糖，25元。两袋500g水果糖约360颗，15元。
两袋500g奶糖约220颗，40元。两袋500g红糖50小块，30元。
4袋250g压缩干粮8块，20元。一盒燕麦棒20条，25元。
Two boxes of 120g chocolates (40 pieces) cost 30 yuan.
6瓶500ml矿泉水，6元。两瓶500ml可乐，6元。
4支VC泡腾片80片，30元。两袋500g奶茶粉，20元。
Two 500ml bottles of high-proof liquor, 15 yuan.
use:
两个耐烧30h的蜡烛，10元。6把刃长为6cm的双面刃竹节刀，60元。
10 lighters, 10 yuan. 10 boxes of old-fashioned matches, 5 yuan.
Four boxes of soap and eight boxes of scented soap cost a total of 60 yuan.
6支100g牙膏，40元。20支牙刷，40元。
18 rolls of toilet paper, 25 yuan. Two small solar-powered flashlights, 20 yuan.
A sanitary napkin set contains 60 pads and costs 50 yuan. A menstrual belt set of 24 costs 80 yuan.
10 snake and insect repellent pills, 18 yuan. 4 distress whistles, 24 yuan.
Two sets of vulcanized latex costumes for making someone look ugly or old, 150 yuan.
medicine:
For internal use: Two packets of Jingfang granules (36 sachets each), 23 yuan. Two packets of Lianhua Qingwen granules (20 sachets each), 35 yuan.
1盒洛索洛芬分散片20片，20元。两盒蒙脱石散24袋，30元。
3盒可服可用的藿香正气水30支，10元。两盒100ml布洛芬混悬液，50元。
External use: 4 bottles of 4g Yunnan Baiyao powder, 70 yuan (includes four insurance pills).
10盒3g清凉油，20元。两瓶70ml创面消毒喷雾剂，20元。
Two 15g vials of growth factor, 80 yuan. Two boxes of 200 bandages, 15 yuan. Two sets of Yunnan Baiyao spray, 90 yuan.
wear:
10 pairs of underwear, 50 yuan. 6 pairs of winter socks, 30 yuan.
Four sets of thick fleece thermal underwear to withstand temperatures as low as -20 degrees Celsius, 250.
Cultivation:
Two bags each of chili peppers, corn, cabbage, winter melon, pumpkin, cucumber, tomato, chives, lettuce, and lettuce seeds, 20 yuan (I bought a lot, so I got two bags of cilantro and scallions as a gift).
Six bags of strawberry seeds and two bags of blueberry seeds cost 50 yuan. A jar of watermelon seeds was given free of charge by my grandparents.
Grandpa and Grandma's house gave us 5 free sweet potatoes and 5 free potatoes with sprouts.
Book:
Complete Guide to Planting and Animal Husbandry, 36 yuan. The Exploitation of the Works of Nature, 25 yuan.
Five books in total, covering common wild vegetables, wild fruits, wildflowers, Chinese medicinal herbs, and mushrooms, priced at 100 yuan.
Things I brought back to my hometown from Qincheng Prison:
One set of toiletries, one box of toilet paper, three sets of underwear, five pairs of summer socks, two sets of spare clothes, two pairs of shoes, one umbrella, and one 500ml thermos cup made of 316 stainless steel.
Remove all the packaging from the supplies.
The day before taking the bus.
Fearing unforeseen circumstances during their journey, they divided all their supplies equally among their two suitcases.
Lin Chunyi had also made plans; if they couldn't take their suitcases, they would each prepare an emergency kit in their handbags.
A bag of salt, a block of compressed dry rations. A piece of chocolate, a bamboo knife, dozens of fruit and milk candies, a bottle of mineral water, a strip of painkillers, a strip of fever reducers, a lighter, a small solar-powered flashlight, a thermos, a fully charged power bank and mobile phone, as well as identification documents and a data cable.
You can't not even bring your handbag!
Everything imaginable and achievable has been prepared. If it was just something Lin Lanshan said casually, they'll figure out a reason when they get to Qincheng.
However, it was clear that after she mentioned the word "time travel," her sense of urgency and anxiety was more pronounced than the previous two times.
"Lanshan, your intuition... Sigh, we really can't think of any reason to tell anyone about this. I hope it's just a joke. If it's true, even with all this preparation, I don't know how the two of us will survive. Tomorrow, we'll have to hold hands and hold onto the suitcase tightly the whole way. If only one of us makes it, or we get separated, or we forget to bring the suitcase, that would be adding insult to injury."
Lin Lanshan glanced at her sister with a complicated expression, then nodded. She thought to herself, "This time, it's probably not a joke..."
She herself didn't know how to describe the feeling of being summoned from somewhere.
"Sister, let's go to the city tomorrow and use the remaining four hundred yuan. Let's see if we can buy anything that would be easy to sell for money in ancient times."
Lin Chunyi was stunned, then gritted her teeth and said:
"Okay, I'll search online right away. As for the money we run out of, if we can get back to Qincheng and see our parents, we can think of a reason to tell them. At worst, I can set up a street stall and earn back a few hundred yuan, that shouldn't be too difficult."
"Pfft, you? Setting up a street stall? Hahaha, forget it, I'm afraid you won't sell anything, but you'll sell yourself."
Lin Chunyi, feeling embarrassed and annoyed, reached out and tickled her younger sister's waist. After laughing and playing around for a while, the two sisters relaxed a lot.
On the day the train departed, the grandparents, with tears in their eyes, slipped five hundred yuan in cash to the two sisters, choking back sobs as they said:
"Grandpa and Grandma are getting old and don't have much money to give you. Take this and use it to buy some good food on the way. If you get hungry on the train, buy some hot boxed meals. Don't go hungry. Come back and visit us when you have time."
The two sisters exchanged a glance, and tears instantly streamed down their faces. They hugged their grandparents tightly, whose bodies had become hunched over.
"Grandpa and Grandma, we'll miss you. Next holiday, Mom and Dad will come back too, and then... we'll spend every day with you!"
Grandpa and Grandma, they don't know if they'll ever see each other again.