ITBBS Chapter 2

“Alright, Miss Shen, we’ll need about five days to prepare everything. Can I contact you then?” Manager Li said politely.

“Sure, thank you, Manager Li.” After saying this, Shen Yao left the wholesale market. Since it was still early, she went to a clothing wholesale market and purchased a large quantity of fabrics, clothes, and shoes. She chose durable and plain colors suitable for all ages, along with plenty of underwear for herself.

Next, Shen Yao visited several other markets and bought a large number of various wool yarns and needles. Seeing that there were sewing machines for sale, she bought twenty electric sewing machines and sixty old-fashioned foot-operated sewing machines. These old-fashioned sewing machines were rarely used and very cheap.

If she really traveled back in time, she would need to make her own clothes, and sewing and mending were only natural. Fortunately, she had learned embroidery from her grandmother for several years, so doing them wouldn’t be a problem.

Thinking she needed medicines, Shen Yao ran to various pharmacies and bought a large stock of common cold medicines, anti-inflammatory drugs, fever reducers, various bruise and injury medicines, vitamins, and special medicines like An Gong Niu Huang Wan¹(AGNHW) traditional Chinese medicine formula. It contains a combination of 11 herbs, including Bovis Calculus, Powdered Buffalo Horn Extract, Moschus, Margarita, Cinnabaris, Realgar, Coptidis Rhizoma, Scutellariae Radix, Gardeniae Fructus, Curcumae Radix, and Borneolum Syntheticum —everything essential and in large supply of each.

Shen Yao thought about the difficult days she might face decades ago and realized that she needed to stock up on everything. After all, these items could be lifesaving.

Moreover, since money would become waste paper if she traveled back, it was safer to gather supplies now while she had the funds.

After a busy day, Shen Yao was exhausted and returned to her rented apartment. After munching on an apple, she opened her phone to list the remaining items she needed and realized that she was still missing a lot of things. She jotted them down one by one, took a shower, and went to bed.

The next morning, Shen Yao went to several breakfast shops to order a lot of steamed buns, buns, dumplings, pancakes, flower rolls, fried dough sticks, sauce-flavored cakes, chive boxes, and many more. She then visited other restaurants to order different meals: roasted suckling pig, roasted duck, honey barbecued pork, and various stewed dishes. She even made a special trip to purchase snacks from Zhou Hei Ya²(周黑鸭) a Chinese food manufacturer.

She prepared a lot of each delicious snack so that if she didn’t have time to cook later, she wouldn’t have to worry about going hungry, especially since her space could keep them fresh.

Next, she planned to buy candies, chocolates, snacks, and other side dishes. Chocolate would be great for replenishing energy, so she stocked up.

She also decided to prepare cigarettes and alcohol, as these would become rare commodities in hard times and could be useful things to give to people to do things.

So, Shen Yao went to the candy market to order a large quantity of White Rabbit milk candy, premium milk candy, various fruit candies, and assorted canned goods, bread, cakes, chocolates, and many boxes of milk, drinks, milk tea, instant noodles, tea leaves, cigarettes, and various snacks. The amount of each was enough to last for several lifetimes.

Then, Shen Yao spotted cooking utensils and knives for sale and couldn’t resist. She really wanted to buy everything she saw now.

She bought a large number of cooking utensils, including coal stoves, coal, and a variety of pots and pans, thermal insulation bags, and flashlights, along with plenty of kitchen knives, cleavers, watermelon knives, and daggers.

Thinking that she also needed to prepare some milk powder or something for nutritional needs, and considering the possibility of getting married and having children in the future, she felt that baby products were also a must.

She bought a large supply of infant formula, bottles, body wash, clothes, shoes, diapers, milk powder, protein powder, oatmeal, and malted milk for teenagers, adults, and the elderly—enough for more than a dozen people to use for many years.

During this time, she also purchased a large quantity of grain seeds, vegetable seeds, fruit seeds, and various medicinal seeds.

Shen Yao specifically visited a rural breeding farm and ordered 200 black pigs, 200 large white pigs, 200 sheep, 100 yellow cattle, 2000 free-range chickens, 2000 guinea fowl, 1000 black chickens, 500 geese, 500 ducks, and eggs—100,000 chicken eggs, 30,000 duck eggs, and 20,000 goose eggs. All the livestock were to be slaughtered by butchers and delivered to the designated warehouse.

Recalling the scarcity of supplies decades ago, when electricity was rare and water access was inconvenient, Shen Yao quickly stocked up on thousands of barrels of water, preparing thirty large white plastic barrels capable of holding twenty tons of water each and filling them all with water.

Additionally, she suddenly had an idea and bought several Jiefang³truck manufacturing company in china brand cars and box trucks, along with a lot of farm tools, solar panels, shelling machines, and various household machinery, even various books on different subjects.

After several days of this, besides the ordered supplies, Shen Yao replenished many items and ran all over City Y. The goods she had ordered also began arriving at the warehouse in batches, with trucks full of supplies coming and going. Whenever a shipment arrived and no one was around, she would store it in her space. Anyway, if someone asked, she would say it was all being transported.

Next, Shen Yao began flying across the country.

First, she visited several major cities that produce seafood and bought large quantities of lobsters, abalone, sea cucumbers, scallops, cuttlefish, yellow croaker, oysters, crabs, and various seaweed. She loved seafood, so she prepared a lot of each. She even made a special trip to Jiangnan to order a large stock of Jinhua ham and rice cakes.

Then, Shen Yao traveled to the three provinces: the northeast, the northwest, and Sichuan province. Every time she arrived at a place, she bought all local specialties in bulk, especially rice, flour, and oil.

If anyone asked, she would use the same reason of opening a shopping mall. This way, she spent a month traveling all over the country and growing to all the places she could go.

Seeing that she still had plenty of money left, she bought a ticket to fly abroad. Shen Yao first purchased many self-defense weapons, then went to shopping malls to buy various home appliances, men’s and women’s watches, high-end skincare products, cosmetics, and jewelry.

Now, her space was filled with a dazzling array of supplies, and everything was available.

After two exhausting months of busy work, she felt completely worn out. With only 5,000 yuan left, she bought a plane ticket for her journey back home.

Sitting by the window on the plane and watching the blue sky and white clouds outside, she thought she could finally relax. However, luck was always short-lived. Shen Yao only heard a loud bang and fell into darkness completely…