After returning from the hospital, Ding Yun specifically created a group chat for her family and informed them about Qian Ping'an's situation and the changes they needed to make. The most crucial change was for Qian Wen and Qian Ya to call Qian Ping'an "Uncle" whenever they saw him, to reduce his sense of unfamiliarity.
This was to make him feel like he was part of the family.
Apart from Qian Wen and Qian Ya, who wailed in the group chat, everyone else had no objections.
In fact, they felt it was only natural.
After all, Qian Ping'an was indeed their uncle.
Ding Junya even took the opportunity to be cheeky in the group chat, telling them that they had to call him "Uncle" in the future.
They couldn't just call him "brother" just because he was only slightly older than them.
For a moment, Qian Wen and Qian Ya truly understood what it meant to be suppressed by seniority. Everyone in the family, older and younger than them,
held a higher generation status.
Their family status plummeted to the very bottom.
How miserable, how miserable, how miserable!
And this was just one aspect. Later, their family underwent another major room adjustment. Before the adjustment, their living arrangement was: the original host and her mother lived in the master bedroom, Ding Junya and Qian Wen lived in the second bedroom, Qian Ya lived in the original guest room, and Qian Ping'an lived in the original study.
After the adjustment, Ding Junya was kicked out.
Qian Wen and Qian Ping'an swapped rooms.
Everything else remained the same.
Overall, things were slightly tilted in favor of Qian Ping'an. There was no other way; after all, he was the youngest and had some psychological trauma. Since they had taken on the responsibility of guardianship, they had to do their best.
In addition, as Ding Yun was not very good at befriending a nine-year-old child, she could only buy him toys and healthy snacks. She also made sure to take him downstairs frequently to play with children his age.
To this end, she even specially bought a lot of snacks and toys to give to families with children of similar age nearby, asking their children to interact more with Qian Ping'an.
To include him in their games or playtime.
After some time, Qian Ping'an's overall condition finally improved significantly. Specifically, he spoke more, became a bit more cheerful when playing with his peers, and when he missed his home or parents, he no longer ran out secretly. Instead, he knew to communicate with Ding Yun, who would then take him.
In short, everything was developing in a positive direction.
During this period, Qian Ya and Qian Wen's university acceptance letters also arrived one after another.
And not long after, the siblings packed their luggage and, under Ding Yun's countless instructions,
went to report to their respective schools on their own.
There was no way around it; someone had to stay at home. Moreover, the schools they were attending were not in the same place. Even if Ding Yun could find someone to look after her paralyzed mother and her young uncle, she couldn't possibly split herself into two to send them off. For the sake of fairness,
it was better not to send either of them.
Let them go by themselves.
After all, the public security was good nowadays, and once they arrived, the school would have people to pick them up. What could possibly go wrong?
However, after they left, both Ding Yun and her mother, Zhou Pinjuan, felt that the house suddenly became quiet. After all, there were originally six people in the family, and now only three remained. With half the people gone, wouldn't it be quiet?
Ding Yun even had some difficulty getting used to cooking at first. She always forgot that there were half as many people in the house and would accidentally cook too much, then have to eat it for three days.
Fortunately, habits can change.
After a period of adaptation, things got better.
...
As September arrived, the last child, Qian Ping'an, also started attending primary school on time every day.
Only Ding Yun and her mother were left at home.
Zhou Pinjuan could no longer bear the loneliness. She was reluctant to stay at home most of the time. Every morning, she asked Ding Yun to take Qian Ping'an to school and drop her off downstairs as well, so she could chat with the neighbors downstairs.
To pass the time of loneliness and boredom.
It was better than lying at home watching TV all day.
As a result, Ding Yun suddenly became a solitary figure. But it wasn't without its benefits. The advantage was that since no one was at home, she didn't have to worry too much when doing certain things. She didn't even have to cook three meals a day; she could directly materialize them from the game.
After all, no one was home.
Who would know that the dishes weren't made by her, but materialized and extracted from her restaurant management game?
However, considering that staying at home doing nothing all day wasn't ideal, and with the increased expenses from the two children going to university, and Ding Junya moving out and paying no rent,
Ding Yun soon began to ponder how to reasonably use her golden finger to make money.
And this was truly a bit troublesome.
No matter how many good things there were, if their origin couldn't be explained, they were difficult to handle. Compared to various natural and pollution-free foods, rare treasures, minerals, or even dragon eggs, knowledge was the easiest to explain.
After all, knowledge didn't require a strict explanation of its origin.
If you said you thought of it yourself,
who could refute it or open your head to check?
Moreover, many things in the game actually required recipes. This meant that recipes in the game could be materialized and extracted. It was just uncertain whether the materialized recipes would be exactly the same as in the game or if they would be rationalized.
For this reason, Ding Yun downloaded a lot of online games and specifically purchased many accounts with advanced life skills, then began to conduct various experiments frequently.
In essence, she was materializing and extracting item recipes from various simulation and online games.
For example, recipes from the farm processing workshop, recipes from the ranch synthesis workshop, dragon synthesis recipes from the dragon ranch, dish recipes from restaurants, engine synthesis cards from parking lots, small blue and small red potion recipes from online games, health pill, vitality pill, and longevity pill recipes, and even profound iron recipes, long sword recipes, gem synthesis recipes, and so on, all of which were materialized.
As Ding Yun continuously reviewed these recipes, understood the item production processes and specific raw materials, she quickly grasped whether the recipes were useful.
The farm and ranch recipes were useless because they required a synthesis workshop and could only be manufactured with items produced in the farm or ranch. The dragon ranch recipes were also useless because a dragon lair was missing. The restaurant dish recipes were useful,
but they were just recipes, and Ding Yun wasn't very interested.
Engine synthesis cards and similar items were useless; extracting them only allowed for engine synthesis after accumulating a certain quantity.
There was no engine manufacturing technology.
What truly brought Ding Yun pleasant surprise were the recipes from various online games, especially those that life skill players had to master before they could be manufactured.