Rebirth of the Legend of the Red Age

Chapter 94, Material Collection

The most difficult part of collecting materials this time was the machinery and equipment. The next day, Wang Li went to ask Zhang Lei, Li Hu and Zhao Qiang for help to see if there was any channel to buy these equipment.

Although they didn't know what he was going to do with the equipment, and Wang Li didn't explain much, they still agreed to use their connections to help Wang Li buy the machines he needed.

Sure enough, within a few days, the first person to reply to Wang Li was Li Ren's father, Li Hu. Because of his work unit, he had a wide network of contacts and knew a leader of a grain processing plant.

This factory was established before the founding of the People's Republic of China. After the public-private partnership, it needed to expand its production capacity. Their machinery and equipment were somewhat outdated, and the factory needed to upgrade and renovate, so they wanted to donate these equipment to the surrounding villages and towns.

After hearing the news, Li Hu used his connections to sell a set of small husker and flour mill, as well as some small grain processing equipment, to the Siheyuan recycling station in the name of disposing of scrapped machines. Wang Li's family then paid a premium to purchase them from the purchasing station.

In this way, the processing plant can recover part of the funds, the recycling station will make a profit, and Wang Li's family will get the machinery and equipment he wants. The only ones who may suffer some losses are the surrounding villages and towns, which will lose a set of processing equipment, but the impact is not significant.

Because the processing plant sold small equipment to Wang Li's family, it did not affect large-scale grain processing.

After the machinery and equipment were arranged, Wang Li breathed a sigh of relief. The first step was finally taken care of, and the rest was shopping in the city, hunting, and going to the countryside to buy various agricultural products.

This is a long process, but Wang Li is not in a hurry. After all, there are no obvious signs of famine at present, and basic necessities such as food can still be purchased.

But Wang Li was a little busy. He had to go hunting in the mountains and buy food from various villages and then transport it back using space.

Every time this happened, he would complain that he did not have enough space, as he only had 5 cubic meters. The amount of food, animals or other materials he could transport each time was not too large, so he had to transport them multiple times.

Fortunately, he didn't dare to buy too many supplies at one time, which made him feel less resentful about the small size of his space.

I just complain that if the space is bigger, I won’t have to worry about food storage. After all, time in space is relatively static, which is most conducive to preserving food, vegetables, meat and other supplies.

He decided to use the space to store four cubic meters of grain, oil and meat in case of famine.

In fact, these supplies were enough for Wang Li's family to survive the famine. The reason why Wang Li still stored supplies in the underground warehouse was, firstly, to help relatives and friends around him, and secondly, to exchange the excess supplies for some collectibles.

In this way, Wang Li's family began their busy life again, as if they had returned to a few years ago when they built the courtyard house.

The only difference from the past is that Wang Li has grown up now and is the main labor force for stockpiling supplies.

My father, Lai San and the women in the family were mainly responsible for smoking meat, sorting and storing various types of food, and preventing moisture. In short, everyone had a clear division of labor in stockpiling supplies.

As the amount of hoarded materials continued to increase, Wang Li's family's savings and gold were decreasing. Although the hoarded materials were relatively cheap, because he bought them privately, the prices were slightly higher, and the amount hoarded was large, so the consumption of funds was still considerable.

In other words, Wang Li's family is not short of money, so they can hoard supplies like this. Even if ordinary families knew the news, it would be difficult for them to have the money to buy so many supplies and have a place to store them.

Wang Li's family stockpiled supplies very smoothly, and the happiest person during this period was Lai Xiaomei. After all, women's shopping talent is imprinted in their genes.

In order to stock up on supplies, they go to shopping malls and markets almost every day, because when buying things in these places, they cannot buy too large a quantity at one time, otherwise it will attract the attention of interested people.

This gave the women in Wang Li's family ample reasons to go window shopping, and they spent money like water.

They bought all the daily necessities they would need in the future. When they had accumulated enough supplies to last for several years, they realized that they had bought too much.

Only Wang Li knew that they didn’t buy much, the disaster would last for several years, and even after the disaster was over, there would be a long period of time when supplies would be extremely scarce.

The supplies stockpiled now will not be in vain. Only Wang Li knows that the future will be an era of bills, and it will not be as easy to buy things then.

So he continued to encourage these women to go out and buy things and hoard them whenever they had nothing to do, on the grounds that they were afraid of war. This was taking advantage of the fact that they had experienced war times and always had a sense of crisis in their hearts.

At this time, only Zheng Lan had some suspicions. The others did not realize that they had bought too many things, nor did they realize Wang Li's real purpose.

But Zheng Lan didn't say much. She believed that her husband would not do anything useless, so Wang Li's family continued to stockpile supplies.

Wang Li is also not idle. He goes hunting in the mountains every week and also goes to the surrounding villages to purchase various agricultural products.

After bringing them home, they are handed over to the women in the family to sort and smoke them.

My father later came to his senses and wanted to say something, but after seeing Wang Li's attitude and the state of the women, he did not stop them.

After all, the family is not short of money, and the things they buy will not break down in a short period of time, they just take a longer time to use.

Therefore, not only did they not stop them, they also helped them sort out all kinds of supplies.

(End of this chapter)