The basin of grapes that Ding Yun had refined was half-eaten by the mother and daughter in a short time. The rest was intended for their father.
After all, they were a family of three.
They couldn't let two people stuff themselves while the third tasted nothing.
After eating the grapes, Huang Pinjuan was clearly less anxious. At the same time, she resolved to remain calm. If her daughter wasn't panicking, she shouldn't either.
Then she went to prepare lunch.
Meanwhile, Ding Yun began to consider whether she should sell fruit, sell fruit, or sell fruit next.
She couldn't help it; the income from helping the original host complete her commissions was too low. It was so low that she'd rather not complete the commissions and focus on finishing the Golden Finger trial report.
Thus, the necessity of testing the Golden Finger.
She had to mention this to her superiors.
Based on her current understanding of this low-level plant creation furnace, to test it as thoroughly as possible, she would at least need to plant seeds that had been processed by the furnace, and then try to cultivate mature plants and various other unrefined plants. In any case, she had to try everything comprehensively.
But whether it was planting processed seeds.
Or conducting experiments, it would definitely require money.
Relying on her meager fixed salary from working would never be enough to afford large-scale land leasing and various experiments. Even if it were possible, it would take over ten years of frugal saving. Not to mention that she was carrying a money pit in her belly, and there would be plenty of expenses once the baby was born.
Asking her parents for money was a good idea.
But Ding Yun couldn't bring herself to ask.
Moreover, they might not have much savings. She couldn't have them sell their house to support her land lease.
So, after much consideration, the simplest, most convenient, and most likely way to earn a large income was to use the low-level plant creation furnace to refine fruits and then make a profit by selling high-quality fruits.
Fruits that cost three to four yuan per jin wholesale, after refinement, not only had a taste comparable to those costing tens of yuan per jin but also looked much more perfect than before.
If these could be sold as premium fruits.
The profit would be much higher than selling ordinary fruits.
If she could scale up and develop the business, the income would undoubtedly be substantial.
However, considering that the original host had almost no savings, and most of her salary was spent on household expenses.
The money she had on hand was probably only enough to buy some fruits, definitely not enough to rent a storefront and renovate it. Furthermore, she was already six months pregnant, so it would be inconvenient to oversee renovations and operations. Hiring someone was also difficult because she couldn't explain the source of her fruits, making it inconvenient.
Therefore, after sitting on the sofa and pondering for a while, Ding Yun ultimately decided to start with online sales.
She had enough money to open an online store. Moreover, opening an online store wouldn't involve dealing with renovations or worrying about customers or troublesome children accidentally bumping into her, a pregnant woman. Most importantly, opening an online store didn't require stocking a large variety of goods.
She could buy a small amount of each fruit, refine it, take photos, and upload them to her online store. Then, if someone bought something, she could temporarily go to a nearby fruit store or wholesale market to buy more, refine it with the low-level plant creation furnace, and then ship it.
Also, business in an online store would certainly not be very good in the early stages.
It just so happened that she was pregnant and not very mobile. A small amount of business should be manageable. By the time she gave birth, the online store's reputation might have built up.
By then, she would have free time as well. Wouldn't that be wonderful!
With this thought, Ding Yun quickly began searching for information on how to open an online store and what documents were required.
What procedures to follow, and so on.
After clarifying these details, she carefully reviewed her recent work schedule and holidays, interleaving the tasks for opening the online store into her free time.
Only then was the general plan finalized.
After that, of course, she would continue to work normally.
And at the same time, she would busy herself with opening the online store.
As for Zhou Junyu, the three of them in his family had a tacit understanding not to mention him, to avoid increasing each other's anxiety.
...
Meanwhile, on Zhou Junyu's side, it wasn't until six days after Ding Yun left home that he couldn't stand it any longer and started cleaning.
He couldn't help it; he and his wife had been giving each other the cold shoulder for nine days. Even though it wasn't summer with temperatures reaching thirty to forty degrees Celsius, a temperature of over twenty degrees was still not enough to preserve leftover food and scraps for more than nine days.
If he hadn't already moved the delivery boxes and other trash from the room where he slept and played games to the living room three or four days prior, he probably wouldn't have lasted this long. But by now, he had reached his breaking point.
The smell in the room was so unbearable that even perfume couldn't cover it. It had even begun to breed indescribable and rather disgusting insects and mold.
To clean up the trash, he had to wear a mask and gloves and spent half an hour throwing out all the garbage in the room, including the bowls and chopsticks containing leftovers.
That's right, he didn't want to endure the disgust of washing dishes.
So he simply threw away the bowls along with the contents.
Please note, his cleaning was limited to this.
The floor was still dirty, unwashed clothes were still piled up where they were, the toilet in the bathroom had also not been cleaned for nine days, and the same applied to all other aspects and areas. He didn't clean them.
As for why?
That's because those areas hadn't reached a level of disgust that he couldn't tolerate. Those clothes hadn't fermented into mold or emitted a pungent odor.
And he still had clean clothes to wear.
So he wouldn't go out looking sloppy.
Moreover, he never felt he had done anything wrong. Because in his opinion, as long as he had clean clothes to wear, there was no need to rush to wash them. It was also good to pile up clothes and wash them when there were enough, wasn't it? Trash and the like were also the same. Piling it up to throw away was much more convenient and faster than taking out the trash every day.
It could even save a lot of time!
As for the toilet.
It wasn't clogged, so why clean it?
At the same time, he still hadn't called Ding Yun's parents to ask them to bring Ding Yun back.
It wasn't until the tenth day that a turning point occurred. This turning point wasn't due to a pang of conscience but because his mother came over.
His mother, Lin Guihua, was worried and came to check on him.
The main conflict between the original host's mother-in-law, Lin Guihua, and the original host was that when the original host was about three months pregnant, her mother-in-law wanted her to check the baby's gender through a channel she had found.
Although she didn't explicitly say that if it were a girl, she should have an abortion.
However, when mentioning the possibility of having a daughter, her mother-in-law's tone was clearly not good. She even explicitly stated that she would only raise grandsons and would not raise granddaughters.
Then, the two inevitably argued.
It was because of that argument that the original host's mother-in-law stopped coming to help and decided to visit once or twice a month. Whether she would come to help with postpartum care depended on whether the baby was a boy or a girl.
She would only be willing to come and take care of him if she had a grandson.
She wouldn't even bother enduring it if it were a granddaughter...
Moreover, her willingness to come once or twice a month was probably because the gender of the fetus in the original host's womb was unknown. If it had been known, she might have either come daily and even stayed to take good care of the grandson and daughter-in-law if it were a grandson, or she might have never come again if it were a granddaughter.
She'd wait until her daughter-in-law was pregnant again.