Forced to marry a disabled man in the countryside? I'll repay you tenfold!

Qiaocui: Hehe, that's because there's no poop or pee, so of course there's no smell.

"I understand, I understand everything!" Li Honghong waved her hand, a look of sudden enlightenment on her face. "There's a way to live even when you're paralyzed, and there's a way to live even when you're not. Li Yu still wants to go out and mess around? Humph... Dr. Su, thank you, I know what to do. Even if Li Yu begs me for a divorce, I won't! It's better not to divorce, hitting someone is considered a 'family matter.' If I hit someone after the divorce, that's intentional assault, and I'll go to jail—don't you think? And about his illness, I'll bring him in for treatment tomorrow, it's not good if he dies too young."

The more she thought about it, the clearer things became, and she felt much brighter. The old woman tormented her, and Li Yu cheated on her and spread rumors about her having a disease—fine, fine, let's see who can outlast whom! She never planned to get married in this life anyway; having a man meant having to serve him, so it was better to just have some fun.

Su Wanqing: "..."

She swore that she really only wanted to broaden Li Honghong's horizons and had no intention of teaching her to "copy what she learned".

But given the current situation... did she accidentally open Pandora's box?

Su Wanqing watched Li Honghong's eager expression, wondering what Li Honghong would do when she got back, but that was none of her business!

After Li Honghong left, Su Wanqing didn't sit idle. She simply started to slack off... no, she started to seriously plan.

She made a long list. When the female lead, Su Lingshan, was writing the book, she set up scorching heat and drought to torture her. The winter was full of extreme environments. What's worse, she didn't even spare the male lead.

She didn't want to suffer the same torment the original owner had endured.

The list is mainly divided into several categories: warmth and protection against the cold, food reserves, medicines, and miscellaneous items. Regarding food, various dried vegetables need to be dried now to avoid having to take things out of the storage space later. It's currently the season for Xinjiang fruits, so dried fruits also need to be stocked up—dried apricots, dried peaches, dried apples, and dried cantaloupe are all good options.

There are dozens of empty glass jars from leftover fruit preserves at home, perfect for making fruit preserves. Peaches, apples, pears, hawthorns... make plenty, then use your spatial abilities to upgrade them and get ten times the profit back—that'll be more than enough to eat.

Apples are in season now, so we can make fruit leather and apple jam.

Unfortunately, she had never heard of dried watermelon or canned watermelon before, so she decided to grow more in her space and keep them for herself to eat and drink the juice secretly.

"What kind of natural disaster could have killed so many people here, and we still haven't received any rescue?" Su Wanqing shook her head. "Forget it, let's stockpile supplies first. Even if it's terrible, can it be worse than the apocalypse?"

She had just finished making her list and was about to leave work when Liu Shuqing, Li Aiguo, and another person rushed over carrying three boxes.

Li Aiguo actually came all the way from the county town.

"Director Li, why did you come in person?"

Li Aiguo wiped his sweat and gestured for them to put the three boxes down: "This is the final payment for the six hundred sets of bearings last time—gold. I brought it over as soon as the settlement was completed. Is it alright to leave it here? This time there's a lot of gold; do you need me to put it somewhere else for you?"

This time there are a full 300 jin of gold!

Su Wanqing was secretly delighted—the random critical hit last time had greatly increased her gold reserves, so she wouldn't have to worry about upgrading her space for the time being. On the surface, however, she simply said nonchalantly, "You're too kind, just put it here."

Li Aiguo asked Liu Shuqing to close the door, then lowered his voice: "Dr. Su, I'm here to discuss something with you... We've almost sold out of gold in this area. For the next few hundred units, could we use something else to offset the payment? Like cash, or..."

Su Wanqing did some mental calculations: with the existing gold and the newly delivered batch, the gold requirement for the space upgrade was indeed almost met. She then added, "Coincidentally, my friend also said the gold was almost gone. Gold would be best in the future, but if not—steel, even scrap steel or substandard steel, will do. Silver is also acceptable."

The main shortages for upgrading are steel and silver. We can only find beryllium ore after Elder Zhang finishes his exploration. We're also short nearly a thousand merit points… and we need to save another ten or so people. This is no easy task.

Li Aiguo frowned: "The planned steel is definitely out of the question; there's a nationwide shortage. But we can try to find a way to get scrap steel slag and iron blocks. Okay, I'll go back and pull some strings."

This trip wasn't a complete waste. The surrounding gold market is saturated, but as long as we don't need gold, we can still scrape together other supplies, so he can complete his mission.

Li Aiguo then remembered something and said apologetically, "Oh, right, Dr. Su, about your friend's Hongqi 20 camera... I've asked around, but nobody here dares to take it. It's not popular here. But the market is huge in the south; there are only two hundred in the whole country, so it's very rare. Do you want me to ask around south for you?"

Su Wanqing nodded: "Okay, then I'll trouble you."

If we can sell them, we will; if not, it doesn't matter. We can deal with it when we go back to the south next year. Then she remembered something else: "Director Li, do we have any fish, shrimp, or aquatic products here? I'd like to get some."

Li Aiguo smiled wryly: "Where would we get aquatic products in our Northwest? There are some grass carp in the reservoir, though..."

Su Wanqing was a little disappointed. She didn't like grass carp; it had too many bones, unless it was processed into fish balls. Then she thought of the 9,900 jin of pork balls in her spatial storage—what a sweet burden! How was she going to use so many?!

Li Aiguo took his leave in a hurry. Su Wanqing then applied to Liu Shuqing for a substrate quota, and casually mentioned, "Secretary Liu, even with a heated kang (traditional heated bed) in the growing room during winter, the temperature might not be high enough. It would be best to have a plastic tarpaulin covering it for the mushrooms to grow. Can we apply for that?"

Liu Shuqing calculated the time: "It's only September now, winter is still a long way off. But I can submit a report in advance." Oyster mushroom cultivation is generating revenue for the group every week, so we will definitely support it.

After finishing their business and waiting for them to leave, Su Wanqing rubbed her hands together and happily collected all the gold. Not only was she enough to upgrade this space, but she probably also had enough gold for the next space upgrade.

However, as the main material for upgrading the space, this stuff is always a good thing, and you can never have too much of it. After the reform and opening up, she will make herself a few more gold bracelets that have lost their precious metal power. She prefers big gold bracelets.

After work, she went home to cook dinner. She had already started consciously stocking up on supplies—she had dried a lot of mushrooms to store for winter. The pickled vegetables would take another month.

Although dinner was plentiful, none of it was freshly made by her: fried rice, braised eggplant, and egg drop soup were all products processed by her space, which was incredibly convenient.

At the dinner table, Uncle Ding suddenly spoke up: "I'm planning to go back to my hometown in a few days."

He shoveled some rice into his mouth. "My legs have felt better these past few days, even better than before I was injured. I'll go back and get all the things I've hidden for Wanqing. And three or four properties... Yanshen, do you want to come with me, or should Wanqing go instead?"