Reborn in the Apocalypse: A Commoner's Survival Log

After packing the poultry and livestock into cages and loading them onto the truck, Zhou Yang bought all the eggs in stock from the aunt, as well as some grains and rice bran for feeding, which made the aunt clap her hands with joy.

After paying the full amount, Zhou Yang left. As he was leaving, the auntie invited him to come again next time.

After driving a long way from the aunt's house, Zhou Yang finally found a secluded spot, where he stored everything in the truck bed and the poultry and livestock into his spatial storage, and even built a few more sheds for them.

By the time I finished all that, it was almost 3 p.m.

Judging that the elderly folks in the countryside would probably be out selling vegetables by now, Zhou Yang used navigation to find the nearest vegetable market and went straight there.

The elderly folks in the countryside love to grow vegetables. If they grow too many and can't finish eating them, they'll set up a stall outside the nearby market to sell them.

Although these stalls only sell seasonal vegetables and don't have as many varieties as the markets, the advantage is that they are freshly picked and pesticide-free, something you can't find in the city.

As expected, when they arrived near the market, they saw a long line of elderly people setting up stalls. They found a parking spot nearby, and Zhou Yang took out several large plastic bags, going from stall to stall to buy their goods, almost completely buying up all the elderly people who were setting up stalls.

Zhou Yang's outrageous move stunned a crowd of onlookers.

Many people came to ask him why he was buying so many vegetables, and he could only say that he was buying them on behalf of a friend in the city, and that he didn't know anything about it.

After collecting the vegetables from the elderly folks, Zhou Yang drove away from the area and found a secluded spot to store the items in his spatial storage.

Following this routine, Zhou Yang visited all the large and small vegetable markets in the surrounding area, and also bought some local pork, pork fat, freshly slaughtered chickens, ducks and fish at each market. He only headed home when it was almost time.

Unfortunately, it's not harvest season now. I asked several villagers, and they all said that the early rice of the large-scale farmers had only been planted recently, and it's still a long way from harvest, at least until mid-to-late July. Otherwise, he would have liked to buy a batch of fresh rice.

However, each of the large-scale farmers kept a lot of rice for their own consumption. Zhou Yang asked them one by one, and bought three to five bags of rice each. This allowed him to collect about 2 catties of rice. He just needed to buy a small rice threshing machine later.

Moreover, given the current weather, it's estimated that this year's early rice will have to be harvested early in the month, otherwise there will be nothing left.

At the beginning of July, which happens to be the first few days of the apocalypse, I might still be able to go out and run around. I'll come back then and see if I can still come out to collect some new rice.

After returning the truck, Zhou Yang drove his own car to the warehouse, where a batch of shelves was waiting to be collected.

When they arrived at the warehouse, the delivery truck was already waiting there.

The driver and another worker unloaded the shelves into the warehouse, then helped assemble them, and only left after watching Zhou Yang pay.

After the master left, Zhou Yang closed the warehouse door and put all the shelves into his spatial storage. Some were placed in the cellar, and some were placed on the open ground outside. He then reorganized the supplies in his spatial storage, and it finally looked much more tidy.

By the time I finished packing up the shelves and got home, it was already 7 p.m.

Zhou Yang was too tired to move after a long day, so he simply took out a plate of fried noodles that he had made that morning and made do with that.

The next day, Zhou Yang got up early and took the early train to Baiji.

I met with a real estate agent at the agency.

However, since the landlord is not a local and bought the house purely as an investment, he was not present and entrusted the entire operation to the real estate agent.

The two went to see the house together.

After looking at the apartment, Zhou Yang was very satisfied with the layout and floor. He then said that he wanted to do some basic renovations and modifications, and that the landlord would not need to pay for them.

The agent immediately called the landlord to communicate.

The landlord assumed he was just doing a simple job of painting the walls and laying floor tiles, and since he didn't have to pay for it himself, he had no objections.

The two parties hit it off immediately and signed a one-year contract. Zhou Yang even prepaid six months' rent.

After getting the keys and seeing off the real estate agent, Zhou Yang called the designer from the renovation company and arranged to meet him at the rental apartment.

After the designer arrived and inspected the house, Zhou Yang and the designer confirmed the decoration style and the areas that needed special attention during the renovation.

The style is minimalist, with all walls painted with the most environmentally friendly latex paint. The house will have a layout of three bedrooms, one living room, one kitchen, and two bathrooms, but the balcony must be large, as he plans to use it for growing vegetables and such.

The entire house, inside and out, needs top-notch sound and heat insulation. Security doors and windows are essential, but an additional explosion-proof door must be installed, and all glass must be replaced with bulletproof glass, preferably double-glazed, and then fitted with privacy film. Curtains must not only block out light but also have an insulation layer. All gaps in drain pipes, ventilation ducts, and windows must be properly sealed to prevent any air leaks or odors.

Although the designer felt that the renovation requirements were a bit fussy, he immediately had no objections after Zhou Yang said that he could pay more.

However, given that Zhou Yang only required a one-month construction period, the additional cost was considerable, but it was an expense that couldn't be avoided. Zhou Yang gritted his teeth and agreed, readily paying a 30 yuan deposit, with the remainder to be paid after acceptance.

After confirming with the designer that the blueprints could be completed and construction could begin today, Zhou Yang left the renovation keys with the designer and then bought a high-speed train ticket to go home.

I got home just after 5 p.m.

Zhou Yang had nothing to do for the time being, so he went to the fresh food supermarket at the entrance of the community and bought a lot of vegetables.

He planned to take advantage of his free time to cook more food and store it in his space. In the future, when there's no water or electricity, he wouldn't be able to cook even if he wanted to.

Zhou Yang first made herself a simple fried rice to fill her stomach before starting her big project for the evening—

Render the lard! Then fry some pork cracklings!

Rice with lard and stir-fried vegetables with pork cracklings are so delicious! Nothing you buy outside tastes as good as homemade.

First, take out all the earthenware jars and clean them thoroughly. After wiping them down briefly, turn them upside down to drain.

Next, I took out the pork fat I had just bought, washed it, and cut it into small pieces, filling four large basins. Judging by the amount, it would probably take several pots to render.

After blanching all the pork fat in water, you can start rendering the lard.

Put the blanched pork fat into a pot with a bowl of water and simmer over medium-low heat. Once the water has evaporated, the pork fat will start to render its own fat.

When it was almost done, Zhou Yang took a dry earthenware pot, added a spoonful of salt, and then poured in lard. After the lard in the pot had shrunk by more than half and there wasn't much lard left, Zhou Yang used a spatula to press the lard down to make sure it was all rendered into cracklings before turning off the heat.

This time, instead of using an iron spoon, I simply added a filter screen to the earthenware pot and poured the lard directly in. Then, I poured the filtered lard residue into another basin to drain the oil.