After understanding Zhu Lingyun's life story, Ding Yun was still at a loss. The biographical records on her encyclopedia only made Ding Yun more aware of the deep connection between Zhu Lingyun's decision to study medicine and her mother's death from cancer.
If it weren't for her mother's death.
She probably wouldn't have had the idea of studying medicine to save people. After all, she hadn't touched a medical book before that.
So her previous concerns were right.
"The mission must be completed. I have to try no matter what. I can't do nothing or give up because of these concerns. I'm choosing Zhu Lingyun in 1960, which is ten years before her mother's death and ten years before she started studying medicine.
So there's no need to rush too much.
I can contact her first and take it slowly.
If she doesn't develop the idea of studying medicine later, I'll personally guide her. I don't believe I can't make her study medicine with my abilities.
Besides, since her mother could die of cancer, it means her mother's genes were inherently more prone to cell mutation and cancer than others. Even if she didn't die of cancer early due to starvation or other reasons, as she got older, in her seventies, eighties, or nineties, her chances of getting cancer would be many times higher than that of ordinary people.
Yes, I can guide her from this aspect.
For now, there's no need to communicate too much with her. Just provide her with some food that was available in her era and not too conspicuous."
After much deliberation and hesitation, Ding Yun could only come up with a temporary plan, treating a dead horse as if it were alive.
She planned to proceed like this for now.
If there were any changes in the future, it wouldn't be too late to revise it.
After making this temporary plan, Ding Yun immediately took out her phone, opened the food delivery app, claimed the corresponding coupons, and started buying miscellaneous grains like sweet potatoes.
Including cornmeal, millet, soybeans, and so on.
If she remembered correctly, 1960 was a difficult year. Not to mention fine grains like rice and flour, even cornmeal was classified as a fine grain.
They wouldn't even throw away sweet potato skins and had to eat them clean.
So choosing coarse grains and miscellaneous grains for trading was just right.
Trading with fine grains would be a bit conspicuous.
Then, she waited. After about half an hour, the delivery driver delivered the coarse grains and miscellaneous grains that Ding Yun had bought. Speaking of which, Ding Yun was really grateful to those delivery drivers during her confinement period. If it weren't for them, she would have had to go downstairs to buy groceries herself.
Wouldn't her confinement have been even more miserable?
She might have even developed some chronic illnesses.
Once the items were received, Ding Yun simply removed the labels and then, while preparing baby food, activated the trading device sub-system that she had bound to the 1960 Zhu Lingyun a few days ago and began to communicate with her.
"Hello, Zhu Lingyun!
I am here to help you, entrusted by your future self, crossing the interval of time. What's your situation now? Are you in class or doing something else?"
Needless to say, as soon as Ding Yun's words appeared in the mind of eight-year-old Zhu Lingyun, they undoubtedly startled her. Fortunately, she had been studying for several years, and her intelligent mind made her much more mature than her peers, so she did not scream in surprise or suspect that she was possessed or bewitched.
Coupled with the timely activation of the trading device sub-system and its appearance in her mind, as well as the infusion of some basic common sense, she quickly calmed down and figured out the general situation:
"I'm not in school, I'm lying in bed.
To save food and energy, classes are no longer held. Everyone lies down as much as possible to reduce consumption. The future you mentioned should be many years from now. It seems I didn't starve to death, but there must be some regrets. What should I do?"
It has to be said that people are truly different. Some eight-year-olds still have unclear logical thinking, while others at eight can already understand complex things like time travel and communication. Even if the other party doesn't fully understand, being able to accept it calmly is quite remarkable. Indeed, talented people who contribute to science and technology are never simple.
It's clear from a young age that they are extraordinary.
But this is also good. Ding Yun was a little worried that eight-year-old Zhu Lingyun might need to be coaxed like a child. Now that she is so mature and rational.
It makes communication easier for both parties:
"I didn't expect your logical thinking to be so clear. Then I'll tell you the truth. Although your family has survived these difficult years, some people's bodies have developed problems due to the starvation during this period.
This leads to them falling ill and dying relatively early in the future.
I can trade some food for you. What you need to do is keep it for your family to eat and minimize the impact as much as possible. The fewer people who know, the better, otherwise, something will happen."
What Ding Yun meant by "something will happen" was actually a concern that if the news leaked and caused a big scene, it might affect the future trajectory.
Although Zhu Lingyun's understanding was mistaken, thinking that "something will happen" meant being robbed or persecuted, she still replied:
"I know. Nowadays, who doesn't keep their food secretly? If people find out, someone will immediately come to borrow it. But do I need to do anything? This trading device should require mutual trading, right?
I don't have access to the family's money."
"No need. Your future self has already paid the reward.
Next, I will choose bartering. You can find any item at home, even wild vegetables or chopsticks. Then don't forget to choose cash on delivery for postage, and the transaction will be completed.
There are also some things I need to tell you.
Take the items out when no one is around.
Never reveal the existence of the trading device. You can find your own excuses, but absolutely do not reveal the existence of the trading device, nor the future. Also, each transaction has a very expensive shipping fee. This time, I don't know if you have a place to store food, so I have only prepared fifty catties of miscellaneous grains in total. Next, you need to find a safe place to store food.
Tell me how much you can store then.
I will try to send more food at once."
Ding Yun only has eight hundred trading points left in total. Even if she chooses bartering, she still needs to bear the shipping costs. And because young Zhu Lingyun doesn't have any trading points, she has to bear the shipping costs for both ways. Therefore, each transaction between them costs two hundred trading points, and her trading points are only enough for four transactions.
Although she can continue to recharge later.
But it's better to save where you can.
After explaining, Ding Yun put all fifty catties of miscellaneous grains she had just bought, with their labels removed, into the trading interface. Just as she was about to choose to trade, she suddenly remembered that the original owner also mentioned needing to condition her mother's body, and the pale blue gel inside the mermaid pearl had a body-conditioning effect.
So she quickly counted out fifty mermaid pearls from the crystal box beside her and put them in together.
Then, she clicked on bartering.