Chapter 7 Apples Are a Good Thing

Lin Nianhe finally took out a rather ordinary-looking hammer.

She really couldn't believe the honesty of merchants from the future. What if the silent electric drill wasn't silent? How would she explain the noise?

Claiming that a tractor drove into her house?

She figured others wouldn't believe it.

Ultimately, with her tiger's mouth going numb from the vibration, she finally nailed two nails on each of the two windows.

Her space wasn't short on building materials, she ground the nails with sand and dirt for a long while, dulling their shine before daring to use them.

The process of aging was similarly applied to the wire of the curtain pull, and as for the curtains themselves...

She brought out two pieces of dark grey plain-woven vintage thick fabric that looked ordinary, with intentionally created uneven textures that resembled the rural fabric of the present day.

However, their light-blocking effect was superb; pulling the curtains tight, the room could be as dark as midnight in the afternoon.

Lin Nianhe breathed a sigh of relief and took an apple out of the space, biting into it largely.

She used to dislike apples the most, but here, at the Cooperative Society, there was always a long queue whenever apples were available; now she wished she could chew the apple cores.

Besides rice and flour, the thing she hoarded most were apples, these were quite a solid currency in the post-apocalyptic world, with some even willing to trade a kilo of rice for an apple. But now, it didn't seem much...

Suddenly, Lin Nianhe froze, her gaze slowly shifting down to the apple in her hand.

At that time, to buy more apples to use as "money", beyond the small portion she kept for her own consumption, she had hoarded 20,000 tons of the most common variety of apples, just a bit bigger than those she had eaten at the Lin family's.

Flames slowly ignited in Lin Nianhe's eyes.

She finally saw a way to make money!

However, her thoughts flickered to another issue almost immediately—if she only sold apples, it would be too conspicuous and could easily attract unwanted attention.

Lin Nianhe munched on the apple while scanning the space's inventory with her mind, pondering other suitable items for resale.

After time-traveling here, her thoughts had been confined; she was only preoccupied with grieving over the grains and oils, overlooking many things.

Now with a broader perspective, she realized there were actually quite a few things she could sell!

Besides apples, there were also jujubes, pears, pork, chickens, ducks, chicken eggs, duck eggs available for sale in this era; the quality differences of these items were within reasonable ranges, and she had a large stock, making them sellable.

She needn't think about items like fish and shrimp; if she brought out a king crab in this era… haha.

She also had plenty of dried goods like kelp, but the quality difference was too wide, making them difficult to sell, so she could only shove them in her own stomach.

Lin Nianhe contently withdrew her consciousness from the space and took out a box of leek boxes from before the apocalypse, packed from a restaurant, and happily took a big bite.

While eating, she thought that in the future, she needs to ask Wen Lan to change how she addresses her; she couldn't make leek boxes, and there were only one hundred portions in the space, one less each time she ate one, she wouldn't have any left if Wen Lan kept nagging her about them.

After finishing one portion of the leek box, Lin Nianhe revived.

She locked the door, drew the curtains tightly and took out a storage battery.

She had a hundred fully charged storage batteries, each could charge up to two hundred degrees, enough for her use for a long time, and they could be recharged using solar panels or diesel generators for recycling.

Lin Nianhe took out an ultraviolet sterilizer, connected the power source, turned it on, and started to sterilize the room.

The room had been empty for too long, who knows what small animals had taken shelter here; it felt awkward not to thoroughly disinfect.

She dared not leave the room, closed the bedroom door, and went into the kitchen to tidy up.

The items delivered by Su Yuncheng, she initially did not want to touch, but after careful consideration, she realized she needed to use them.

Su Yuncheng and the original host were too familiar; if she didn't touch anything he sent, it would sure be noticed as something amiss.

Lin Nianhe took out a notebook from the space to keep accounts.

Hold onto it for now, wait until the time is right to return the favor!

She had just finished the accounts when she heard voices outside.

"Right, it's for the firewood shed at the back, but I have to go to work, you..."

Lin Nianhe quickly put away her notebook, went back inside to put away the sterilizer and battery, then swiftly opened the curtain, pretending she had just finished putting it up.

The window here was just for show, but Sun Guanghui still chose to knock politely.

"Comrade Lin, Li Xiaoshan has brought the glass back, could you please come out?"

"Okay!"

Lin Nianhe crisply replied, and opened the door latch.

Standing next to Sun Guanghui was a young man with dark skin and a simple appearance, carrying a few pieces of glass in one hand and holding a casserole in the other.

Along with them was Wang Shumei.

Lin Nianhe thanked them and took the casserole from Li Xiaoshan's hands, placing it on the stove.

Sun Guanghui said, "Comrade Lin, I need to go to work now. If you need anything, just call me in the fields."

"Thank you, Comrade Sun."

Lin Nianhe realized that she had said "thank you" more today than she had in the past month.

Li Xiaoshan worked efficiently, replacing the glass and sealing it with putty firmly.

Wang Shumei stayed by her side, worried someone might say something unpleasant.

She said, "Xiao Lan was so tired she fell asleep. Her family is from Shaanxi Province, it's a long car ride."

Seeing that she looked spirited, Lin Nianhe casually asked, "Sister Shumei, where is your home?"

"My home is in Liao Province, relatively nearby." Wang Shumei smiled, glanced through the window at the empty room and asked, "You don't have much here, how do you live?"

"Well, I need to get some things," Lin Nianhe said, then asked Li Xiaoshan, who was still working on the glass, "Comrade Li, is there a carpenter in the village?"

Li Xiaoshan's cheeks turned red, his eyes fixed on his hands, and he hesitated to reply in a low voice, "Yes, my second uncle is a carpenter, he lives west of my house."

Lin Nianhe nodded, went inside to pack up some brown sugar that Su Yuncheng had brought her, and handed it to Li Xiaoshan once he had finished his work.

This made Li Xiaoshan blush profoundly. He wanted to refuse, but he couldn't bear to look at Lin Nianhe and couldn't even utter a complete sentence.

Wang Shumei knew what Lin Nianhe meant and helped by saying, "Comrade Li, just take it. Without your help, Nianhe wouldn't have been able to install the glass before autumn."

"Yeah, you also helped me send a telegram and buy a casserole, tasks I should have done myself. Without your help, I wouldn't even know where to start."

The two of them convinced him, and Li Xiaoshan, utterly puzzled, left with the package of brown sugar.

On his way home, Li Xiaoshan couldn't help but recall the conversation he had overheard from a few educated youth on the road.

He thought to himself how easygoing this new educated youth was—good-looking and polite, not like the others, who were more calculating than Accountant Zhao...

Lin Nianhe tested the window a few times, happy to find it sturdy, and smiled contentedly.

She asked Wang Shumei, "Sister Shumei, I'm going to find the carpenter. Would you like to join me?"

Wang Shumei nodded, "I'll join you. Xiao Lan and I need a wooden tub and also a Kang table for the winter."

"Great, wait for me, I'll lock the door."

Lin Nianhe returned to the room to look for her backpack, which was actually her retrieving an era-appropriate padlock from her storage space.

As she locked the door, Wang Shumei softly said, "Be careful these days. You have a lot of stuff, and your brother came to bring you so much, just don't attract unwanted attention."

"I know." Lin Nianhe kicked the broken glass on the floor, "I'll bury these shards in the ground later, let them deter anyone who tries to trespass. Sister Shumei, please warn Sister Lan to be careful when coming here."

Wang Shumei clicked her tongue, this girl might look tender, but she's quite ruthless inside.