Chapter 2 - 2 0002 The Mustard Seed 2_1

Rice grown on black soil is the most delicious, as everyone knows. After several purchases, Feng Qingxue had bought four to five thousand bags of rice, worth several hundred thousand yuan. Being from Jiangbei, Feng Qingxue had a preference for noodles, so she had bought nearly half as much rice as flour. With the main staples purchased, Feng Qingxue began to buy side dishes and other items. Feng Qingxue started in the Northeast, buying various game, dried meat, blood sausage, red sausage, wood ear mushrooms, tea tree mushrooms, hazelnuts, pine nuts, honey, and large barrels of loose liquor. The wines from the Northeast are all brewed from pure grains, which are delicious and strong. Everything was purchased in large quantities and was of excellent quality and cheap. Then, she bought a variety of fur from the northeastern mountain villages, from expensive mink fur to cheap rabbit fur. During her shopping, she didn’t forget to buy well-known local products such as mountain ginseng and badger oil. Feng Qingxue made a trip to the Great Plains, buying up large quantities of fur, and sheep, beef, and horse meat as well as dried beef, cheese, sheep milk wine, horse milk wine, wool yarn, cashmere yarn, wool felt, sheepskin coats, and even two Mongolian yurts. Next, Feng Qingxue began to travel across the country. In the Great Northwest, she bought walnuts, red dates, raisins, pine nuts, gray dates, white apricots, almonds, black Goji berries, red Goji berries, and many compressed cotton and cotton cloth, as well as lamb, wool blankets, wool quilts, wool yarn, sheepskin jackets and so on. The Northwest region is known for large-scale fruit cultivation, and when the market is unfavorable, a lot of it is abandoned and used to feed sheep. So, Feng Qingxue was able to buy a large quantity of fruits and vegetables for very little money. She bought several hundred acres of cantaloupe for a thousand yuan, and thousands of acres of watermelon for a few cents to a couple of dimes per kilogram. Each acre can yield up to five to six tons. There were even many fruits and vegetables rotting in the field because no one wanted them, the owner simply let her transport them away, the only cost was the freight. After buying everything she could buy, Feng Qingxue flew to the Southwest Region. The Southwest Region is most famous for its cured meat, sausages, chili peppers, and chili sauces from the Sichuan-Guizhou area. Then, Feng Qingxue visited Jiangnan Water Town, buying Jinhua ham, rice cakes, glutinous rice, dumplings, seafood... She didn’t miss out on any tropical and coastal areas, buying many local specialties. During this time, she also went to mountain villages across the country to buy black pig meat, local chickens, ducks, and geese, as well as goats and cattle. She would hire butchers to slaughter them, and under the pretense of shipping them to the rented warehouse, she actually collected them into her space. Though the price was a bit high, the taste was excellent. Since she had better choices and enough funds, why skimp on herself? While buying raw meat, Feng Qingxue also bought all kinds of eggs and vegetables. However, she couldn’t neglect to prepare cooked food. Feng Qingxue didn’t know if she would have time to cook in the future. After all, in the face of the apocalypse, everyone was struggling to survive, who had time to cook? Therefore, she had to prepare a large amount of ready-to-eat food. Mantou, baozi, pancakes, flapjacks, steamed twisted rolls, dumplings, fried cakes, local bread, stuffed buns, doughnuts, scallion pancakes, vegetable pancakes, chives dumplings, and all kinds of roasted, braised, stewed, and boiled chicken, duck, goose, sheep, pork, and beef as well as eggs could be bought in as many quantities as possible, all classified and stored in her space. Boxes of frozen dumplings, frozen wontons, frozen glutinous rice balls, instant noodles, sausages, marinated eggs, chicken legs, duck legs, canned goods, milk, biscuits, sesame paste, oatmeal, eight-treasure porridge, candies, mooncakes and more were all available.