At noon, Jiang Si accompanied her great-uncle to have lunch. After pouring a lot of spiritual spring water into the well in the backyard, she planned to leave.
Her great-uncle knew that she was going to purchase some things in the afternoon, so he stuffed her with a lot of vouchers.
These were all offerings from his disciples and grandchildren below. He and Zhong were used to a rough life and didn't need these things.
Jiang Si didn't decline either. She took the vouchers and headed straight for the largest supply and marketing cooperative on the outskirts of the city.
When she arrived, she first went to the agricultural supplies counter.
Jiang Si had never done farm work in either of her two lifetimes and couldn't tell what these farm tools were for. She could only buy the things required by the one-key function in her space.
She bought one of each: plows, spades, picks, hoes, sickles, flails, iron forks, windmills, sieves, dustpans, stone mills, rakes, shovels, ladders, baskets, sacks, buckets, watering cans, butcher knives, and seed drills (for sowing)...
The prices weren't expensive, but it cost her several industrial vouchers.
Originally, Jiang Si also wanted to buy some chemical fertilizers, but unfortunately she didn't have the "Chemical Fertilizer Allocation Form" issued by the production brigade, so she had to give it up.
As for daily necessities, she didn't plan to buy them here.
She still had to go to the No. 1 Department Store in Shanghai later. The goods there were more complete.
After wandering around for a while and seeing that there was nothing else to buy, Jiang Si found two salesmen.
She stuffed each of them with half a pack of first-class cigarettes and asked them to help carry these things to a secluded alley nearby.
She couldn't carry so many things by herself!
After the people left, Jiang Si waited for a little while longer before putting the things into the space.
To be honest, she was quite curious about this one-key function, so as soon as she entered the space, she directly clicked on "One-Key Plowing".
Whoosh!
The plow went to the designated position and then started plowing the land row by row.
The speed was no worse than that of a large-scale land cultivator!
After thinking about it, she clicked on "One-Key Digging Holes". The size of the holes could be selected independently.
She first dug some small ones for planting fruit trees.
Then she dug a few large ones. Later, she was going to buy some fish, shrimps, and crabs to raise in them.
When she got to Qiongzhou Island, she could also introduce seawater to raise seafood!
Not bad, not bad. She could achieve seafood freedom in the future.
Jiang Si watched for a while and then left the space. Her next stop was the city's seed company.
She selected the most common seeds on the market.
For vegetable seeds, she bought: green vegetables, spinach, celery, chrysanthemum lettuce, cauliflower, leek, lettuce, peppers, green soybeans, cowpeas, lentils, white eggplants, purple eggplants, water spinach, red amaranth, cabbage, white radishes, carrots, tomatoes, potatoes...
For bean seeds, she bought: red beans, mung beans, soybeans, broad beans, peas...
For grain seeds, she bought: rice, wheat, corn, sweet potatoes...
For oilseed seeds, she bought: peanuts, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, rapeseed, cotton seeds...
For melon seeds, she bought: watermelons, pumpkins, winter melons, cucumbers, muskmelons, snake gourds, loofahs...
For spice seeds, she bought: scallions, ginger, garlic, coriander...
She didn't buy much of each, just a small packet for each kind.
Different from the hybrid seeds of later generations, these could all be used as self-retained seeds after they matured. These were enough for her to eat.
Next to it was the agricultural technology promotion station. There were fruit tree seedlings inside, but there weren't many varieties.
There were only apples, pears, peaches, plums, apricots, grapes, pomegranates, and oranges.
Jiang Si bought two of each kind.
By the time she entered the space, the small holes had already been dug.
Jiang Si placed the fruit seedlings one by one into the soil, backfilled it, and then stamped it down firmly with her feet. Finally, she watered them with spiritual spring water!
Suddenly, the grapevine beside her unexpectedly shot up more than a meter.
It gave Jiang Si quite a fright!
Only then did she remember that the space's warm reminder had mentioned that watering with spiritual spring water could randomly shorten the plant growth cycle.
She patted her pounding heart and took another look at the other fruit seedlings.
These were quite normal. The leaves of the once wilted fruit seedlings had clearly perked up after drinking their fill of the spiritual spring water.
She took a look and saw that the land in the space had been plowed by now.
Jiang Si clicked on "One - click sowing" and didn't bother about it anymore. Mainly because she couldn't tell which seed was which now, so she just let the space do its thing.
After taking a short rest, Jiang Si left the space and then rushed non - stop to the First Department Store in Shanghai.
In this era, except for the national food coupons, other coupons couldn't be used outside the local area.
She had to use up all the coupons in her hand before leaving, otherwise, it would be a waste.
Another reason was that if she didn't buy things now, even if she had money and coupons in other places, she might not be able to buy them.
Especially on Qiongzhou Island. Due to the inconvenient transportation there, even the most basic daily necessities couldn't be supplied freely.
As soon as she entered the department store, Jiang Si went straight to the third floor and bought a watch.
She didn't like the Shanghai brand watches. They were too big and not good - looking.
Finally, she picked a "Jewel Flower" women's watch, which cost 110 yuan. She also spent an additional 5 yuan to buy a thinner chain. Worn on her hand, it was delicate and dainty.
After buying the watch, Jiang Si went down the stairs to the daily necessities counter on the second floor.
If there was one thing that Jiang Si couldn't accept the most after transmigrating into the book, it was probably that there were no sanitary napkins in this era.
Especially for someone like her with a heavy menstrual flow, each period was simply a living hell!
Bearing the shocked looks of the salesperson, Jiang Si bought all the toilet paper and sanitary belts available.
She also bought a lot of soap, which she would use for bathing and washing her hair.
She remembered that the book had mentioned that the first domestic shampoo in China wouldn't be available until the late 1970s.
There were foreign shampoos in the Friendship Store, but ordinary people couldn't buy them, nor dared to.
Oh, right, there was also vanishing cream!
Qiongzhou Island was surrounded by the sea on all sides, and the ultraviolet rays were relatively strong. If you didn't put on something when going out, you'd turn as black as charcoal in just a few days.
No woman didn't love beauty, and Jiang Si was no exception!
She chose the most popular products on the market, including Shanghai Women, Yashuang, Pechoin, Friendship, Shuangmei. She bought five boxes of each!
Then there were toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap, washing powder, prickly heat powder, mosquito - repellent perfume, and mosquito nets. These were the most commonly used things in daily life and in summer, so she had to buy them all.
She bought three pairs each of slippers, sandals, and white sneakers.
She bought five sets of pure - cotton underwear. She originally wanted to buy more, but they didn't have her size.
Since she was already there, she also bought raincoats, rain boots, and umbrellas, and picked out several woven straw hats.
Jiang Si didn't buy the iron - shelled kettles, enamel basins, and aluminum lunch boxes because the ones at home had been stored in the space and were enough for her to use.
"Hello, comrade, could you help me calculate how much this all costs?"
The salesperson swallowed hard and asked, "Comrade, are you buying so many things?"
Jiang Si nodded with a smile. "Yes, I'm buying some for my classmates."
Anyway, there was no limit on purchases, so it was her freedom to buy as much as she wanted. As for what the salesperson thought, it was completely out of her consideration.
After buying these things, Jiang Si went to the adjacent non-staple food counter.
She asked for five catties of brown sugar, two catties of each kind of pastries. She wasn't used to drinking malted milk essence, so she finally bought several bags of Red Star milk powder.
She didn't plan to buy White Rabbit toffees at first, but since they were mentioned in every time-travel novel, Jiang Si was quite curious about the difference between the White Rabbit toffees of this era and those of later generations, so she bought a small amount.
This shopping spree lasted for more than an hour. It wasn't until she had used up all the coupons on her that Jiang Si walked out of the department store contentedly.
She checked the time. It was already a little past five in the afternoon.
She found a deserted corner and put all the things into her space. Her last stop was going to be the black market!
In Shanghai, there were two sessions at the black market, one in the early morning and the other in the evening, and each session lasted about two hours.
There was no need to worry about safety. Those who were in this business had connections above. To put it bluntly, they all paid protection fees.
They knew exactly when the crackdowns would be carried out.
Moreover, the person in charge of this area used to follow her great-uncle.
Otherwise, Jiang Si wouldn't have dared to take the risk of going to such a place.
There was no need for disguise. The white shirt and black trousers she was wearing were the most common outfits of this era.
If she put on the straw hat she just bought and stood in the crowd, surely no one would recognize her.
Half an hour later, Jiang Si found the place according to the address.
This black market was quite large. There were no fixed stalls inside, and you had to find what you wanted by yourself.
Jiang Si wandered around inside for two rounds and finally found the place where chicks and ducklings were sold.
The prices were okay. Chicks cost 25 cents each, ducklings were a bit more expensive, costing 50 cents each, and the most expensive were piglets!
These piglets had been raised for more than two months, and each one cost about 20 yuan.
When it came to raising small animals, you either didn't raise them at all, or you raised at least two.
Jiang Si bought two of each kind and specifically asked for one male and one female.
There was no need to buy too many. After all, the grains and vegetables in the space were grown with spiritual spring water. After the chicks, ducklings, and piglets ate them, they would definitely grow faster than those outside.
Worried that they would wander around in the space, Jiang Si also bought a lot of bamboo fences.
She planned to enclose a separate area for them to let them grow freely inside.
Going further inside, there was a river, and there were two or three people selling river fresh produce beside it.
During this season, you couldn't get the three famous Yangtze River delicacies - the longnose gar and the hilsa herring. However, there were still quite a variety of things being sold here.
There were more than a dozen kinds of fish, and there were also crabs and live shrimps!
Most people who came to the black market were after hard currency like fine grains, pork, and eggs. In comparison, aquatic products weren't that popular.
Seeing this, Jiang Si bought them all!
It was an hour later when she returned to the space again.
Seeing that the fishpond had been completely dug, Jiang Si quickly released the fish she just bought into it.
She took another look at the sown seeds and clicked on "One-click watering".
Next, it was time to find a suitable place to set up the bamboo fences.
Just as Jiang Si was busily transforming the space with great enthusiasm, on the other side, Lin Baozhu, the nephew of Lin Yueru, and his several cronies finally made their move!
