Chapter 2: 2. Chapter 2: Crazy Hoarding

Chapter 2: Crazy Hoarding

Near the agency was the largest agricultural market in the area. Her space was currently quite primitive, consisting of only ten acres of land and a pond. Although simple, it had miraculous effects: items would not decay, crops grew at double speed, and the water in the pond was inexhaustible.

Shen Meng first bought various grain seeds: wheat, rice, sorghum, corn...

Then came the vegetable seeds—green beans, tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, cabbage, radishes, bok choy, and more. As long as the shop had them, she basically bought them all out.

Next, Shen Meng went to a grain and oil store.

She ordered one hundred bags each of rice, soybeans, black beans, sesame, sorghum, corn, and millet. She wanted fifty barrels each of peanut oil, soybean oil, sesame oil, walnut oil, and olive oil. Even red dates, star anise, chili peppers, various dried goods, seasonings, and soybean paste—she bought a significant amount of all of it!

The proprietress had never seen such a generous customer. Her list spanned several pages, and her calculator was worn out from the tapping. Over a hundred thousand yuan worth of goods! She had completed a month’s worth of sales in just half a day! The proprietress was overjoyed and threw in a few extra bags of rice, even calling a truck for free to deliver the goods later that evening.

Afterward, Shen Meng followed the same procedure to order various vegetables, three hundred jin of each.

She hesitated for a moment while ordering. After all, there was plenty of land in her space, and the vegetable seeds she bought were renewable, so having fewer vegetables was fine. The most important thing was to buy more meat later.

Most of the items ordered today would arrive one after another by the next afternoon. She checked the time, found a restaurant to eat a bowl of noodles, and then drove on the highway for over two hours to reach the nearest township.

The beef here was not only fresh but had just been slaughtered. There were cattle farms, chicken farms, pig farms, and many orchards in the area.

When Shen Meng arrived at the town, it happened to be market day. It was bustling with activity: stalls selling braised dishes, snacks, pastries, candies, vegetables, fruits, clothes, and general merchandise. There were also specialty shops selling quilts and duvet covers, as well as hardware stores.

She scoured the seven large pharmacies and five maternity and infant stores on the main street. Basically, as long as the goods at the stalls were of good quality, she bought them all as she strolled along.

The elderly men and women selling the goods were very honest and simple. Seeing that she was a slender girl, they would hoist the goods up and help her load them into the trunk.

Every time, Shen Meng would wait for them to leave before quickly tucking the items into her space.

For the things she couldn't take with her immediately, she sent them via next-day delivery. She specifically sought out a shop that sold those outdoor iron stoves.

It wasn't for any other reason than the fact that everything in the township was incredibly cheap. Beef in a first-tier city could cost fifty yuan per jin, but in the countryside, you could get it for around thirty, and it was extremely fresh.

She visited several farms and told them she had a family event coming up, buying out everything they had slaughtered that day. The farm owners were kind; not only did they give her all the offal for free, but they also helped clean it.

Shen Meng didn't spare the orchards either. Vitamins were still necessary, and she even bought some saplings she saw, all sent via next-day delivery.

Just before leaving, she saw someone selling steamed buns. She went up and bought a few to try; they were delicious. The shop had a wide variety: large meat buns, vegetable buns, beef buns, soup dumplings, pan-fried buns, vegetable pockets, flatbreads, as well as noodles, rice noodles, hot and sour soup, red bean porridge, pumpkin porridge, and more.

Since there were few customers at the moment, Shen Meng asked the owner to prepare everything, and she bought them out. When it came to cooked food, she preferred to take it with her on the spot rather than pre-ordering. Otherwise, if she paid and couldn't get the goods, she would be furious if she thought about it later.

Finally, as the sky began to darken, Shen Meng swept through the large pharmacies. Recalling the scenes from her dreams, she still felt a lingering fear. If she really ended up in such a harsh environment, she might get sick just from drinking water. She bought every type of medicine she could find before driving back to her residence.

It was past nine o'clock when she got home. She was so exhausted she collapsed onto the bed and fell asleep without even washing up.

She slept until broad daylight. Shen Meng felt a bit disoriented, secretly thinking that since she hadn't dreamed last night, maybe she wasn't the unlucky one after all!

If that were the case, hadn't she wasted over 1.7 million yuan for nothing?

But fate didn't give her time to hesitate.

After waking up, Shen Meng’s phone didn't stop ringing. It was either deliveries of clothes and quilts, various meats, or grain, oil, fruits, and vegetables.

Trucks arrived one after another. She unloaded the goods into the garage she had temporarily rented, and once the delivery people left, she would tuck them into her space. This process repeated many times.

Fortunately, most of the people in her residential complex were property speculators who had bought their units as investments, so the occupancy rate was low. Her purchases didn't attract any unwanted attention. Throughout the entire afternoon, Shen Meng only ran into a couple walking their dog near the garage entrance.

Shen Meng, who had spent the day in high spirits, was jolted awake in the middle of the night by a dream again.

This time, it caused a dull ache in her heart. In the dream, the man was holding a green coat she had worn before her death, and he jumped directly into the river where she had drowned. It was the dead of winter, and by the time people discovered him, he was already frozen stiff.

After her heart calmed down a bit, Shen Meng suddenly felt something cold on her face. She reached up and touched it—it was tears.

She was stunned for a moment. Even if she was reluctant, she had to admit that this family was truly miserable. What was even more miserable was that she had to continue spending money to hoard supplies.

The next day, Shen Meng wasted no time in buying a plane ticket and heading straight to the small commodity city. Hair ties, cosmetics, old-fashioned porcelain basins, enamel mugs, vintage mirrors, old-style thermos flasks, hot water bottles, nostalgic clothes, shoes, hats, cotton-padded jackets, yarn, needles and thread, sweaters, socks, bicycles, televisions, refrigerators, nostalgic toys, stickers, books—as long as she could find them, she bought them all.

Just as she was planning to stay a few more days, she suddenly received a call from the agent saying that an elderly couple had taken a liking to her house and intended to buy it.

Upon hearing this, Shen Meng immediately canceled her plans to stay longer and flew back without delay. This matter could not be delayed.

The elderly couple were honest people. Seeing that she was just a young girl, they didn't haggle ruthlessly. After both sides reached an agreement, they prepared the contract, processed the transfer, and paid for the house.

After the house transfer, Shen Meng was either receiving deliveries or on her way to receive them. Recently, a trend for domestic products had swept the internet, and she went crazy placing orders in live-stream rooms. These items were cheap, of good quality, and effective, and they came with many free gifts.

Strangely enough, during this period of hoarding, Shen Meng slept very soundly.