After cleaning all the kitchenware and tableware on the snack cart, Ding Yun was still not idle. She had to take out some sausages, tenderloin, and other items from the freezer to thaw, and the sauces needed to be remade. These all had to be prepared in advance.
As for the batter and such.
That would have to wait until early tomorrow morning.
She had to get up before four o'clock, otherwise she wouldn't make it for the school opening around six. Her business absolutely had to align with the school's schedule. Once the times for students going to and from school were missed, there would basically be no business.
In fact, most food businesses around schools were like this, primarily relying on students' money. If they couldn't earn from students, relying solely on residents from surrounding neighborhoods.
It would be quite difficult to sustain.
In short, with such a casual stir, an hour or so passed. Then Ding Yun washed her hands again, disinfected them, and went to her daughter's room to ask if she needed to use the restroom. If not, she could start the massage. This was a new massage technique Ding Yun had developed based on her current knowledge.
Its main function was to delay muscle atrophy.
To stimulate the self-repair of human neurons.
Of course, the repair speed was bound to be very slow. Ding Yun was currently trying to combine it with acupuncture treatment, but her acupuncture experiments had only progressed to the stage of piglets. She had just experimented on chickens, ducks, and geese, and was now experimenting on piglets. She hadn't yet moved on to human trials.
Just in case.
She hadn't dared to use it on her own daughter.
She planned to first succeed in experiments on piglets, then use herself as a test subject. After she succeeded in experiments on herself, she would use it on her daughter.
So, for now, she was only performing simple massages. At most, she could accurately locate acupoints, and the massage effect was much better than normal rehabilitation massages.
Every time Liu Linxia saw her mother working so hard and tiredly massaging her, while she felt nothing, an unbearable sense of guilt would welled up in her heart. She wanted to say something but didn't know how.
In the end, she could only often end with red-rimmed eyes.
However, today, as Ding Yun was massaging her feet, she suddenly felt a slight pain. This hint of pain instantly filled her with surprise and joy.
She immediately couldn't control her emotions and cried out excitedly:
"Mom, Mom, it's that spot, massage that spot again. I think I felt something, I think I have some sensation, I have a little sensation!"
Hearing her daughter's cry, Ding Yun immediately returned her hand to the previous acupoint and pressed down with force. The next second, Liu Linxia became even more excited and said loudly:
"Yes, that's it, that's it, Mom, it's really there, it's really there. I can feel something. I don't know how to describe it, but I can really feel you pressing my foot, and it even hurts a little!"
As she spoke, tears of excitement streamed down her face. Although Liu Linxia herself knew very well that such a small sensation didn't mean much, after so many years of complete lack of feeling, suddenly having a little sensation.
It was normal to not be able to control her emotional fluctuations.
At the same time, Ding Yun was also quite happy. She had only been massaging her daughter for less than a month, about twenty-three or twenty-four days in total, and it was already more effective than the massages she had been giving for over a decade. It was evident that her current approach was undoubtedly correct.
Therefore, she immediately began to comfort her daughter:
"It's good that it's effective, it's good that it's effective. But don't get too excited. Let's take it slow, slow and steady.
Today, only this one acupoint has sensation. In a few days, perhaps many acupoints will have sensation. In a while longer, perhaps her feet will have sensation. Calm yourself down a bit, and let's continue, let's continue..."
Before Ding Yun could finish speaking, Liu Changan, who heard his aunt's excited cry from the study, quickly put down his textbook and came in to ask what was happening.
After Ding Yun explained briefly.
He was also very happy, happy for his aunt.
Then, of course, Ding Yun sent him back to continue studying. Ding Yun massaged her daughter for another half hour before returning to her room to work on that little piglet.
There was no choice. Monkeys and apes were too difficult to manage. Pigs were already the closest animals to humans that Ding Yun could get, so she could only trouble that little piglet.
At least it was contributing to the medical field.
However, considering that the original body's core wish was to live longer to take care of her daughter and grandson, Ding Yun went to bed on time at ten o'clock.
After all, sleeping early and waking early is good for health.
Moreover, she had to get up before four o'clock every morning to prepare semi-finished hand-grabbed pancakes, sausages, tenderloin, and lettuce. The batter also needed to be prepared.
If she didn't go to bed early.
She was probably tired of living.
After that, Ding Yun's daily routine remained quite stable for a period of time. It consisted of the usual stall setup to sell hand-grabbed pancakes and other items, returning home to take care of her daughter, massaging her daughter, and continuing to study and improve her related skills in her spare time.
Research on acupuncture and nerves also made slow but steady progress, and she gradually transitioned to using herself as an experimental subject. However, Ding Yun soon discovered that while this did have some effect on neuron repair.
It was far from the effect she desired.
How to describe it?
The effect Ding Yun wanted was to repair damaged central nerves and other important nerves, allowing her daughter to gradually regain sensation, and even to stand up again.
However, through recent animal experiments and experiments on herself, Ding Yun had to admit that the effect of acupuncture was quite limited. It might be very effective for people with mild nerve damage, but for those with severe nerve damage, especially severe damage to the central nervous system.
The effect was minimal.
It was good if it didn't worsen.
If there were special elements like internal energy or healing spiritual power, or special energies, then perhaps it could be effective, but this world was a world without spiritual energy.
Clearly, such things did not exist.
Now Ding Yun had two choices: either change her path, or try to use other energies to replace internal energy or spiritual power. For example, slight electric currents, bioelectricity, or perhaps, medication.
But either choice meant that Ding Yun could no longer continue to work in isolation. She needed more experimental subjects, more experimental materials, and even more related research equipment, along with cutting-edge neuroscience technology, otherwise it would be difficult to achieve any breakthrough.
So, after more than half a year.
It was when her grandson was in his second year of high school, the second semester.
Ding Yun resolutely decided that she would take the college entrance examination.