Zhu Yunying, having returned to the 1960s, saw the large bag of items beside her. She grinned while listening to the sounds outside, fearing someone might suddenly appear and find her with the brought items.
Indeed, to ensure her safety.
And to prevent the items she brought from being discovered.
Zhu Yunying specifically went to a remote corner of a cemetery, a place rarely visited by people, especially on ordinary days, to bury the dead.
As for being afraid?
She had already died once, what was there to fear?
Of course, staying safe and alive was the most important thing.
Once she confirmed no one was around, Zhu Yunying quickly followed Ding Yun's instructions, taking the medicine in order. First, she took the medicine for stomach pain. After it took effect and her body fully recovered, she began to eat porridge while recalling the martial arts manual, the Taotie Art, that Ding Yun had taught her.
To Zhu Yunying at this moment, the greatest danger was not starving to death from lack of food, but her own family, or rather, the family of this body. They were utterly untrustworthy and not benevolent, and she had to find a way to avoid them to be safe.
Furthermore, having some martial arts skill and self-protection ability would be better. At the very least, she could escape in the worst-case scenario.
However, escape was undoubtedly the last resort.
For now, enduring for a few years and finding a job to leave was the best option. At this moment, Zhu Yunying did not know how difficult it was to find a job in this era, nor how rare it was. She only felt that although the present was bleak, the future would inevitably be bright as she cultivated diligently. With the help of Ding Yun's last trace of spiritual power, she successfully mastered the basics of the Taotie Art.
Then she started eating ravenously to improve her cultivation.
Ding Yun's last trace of spiritual power then completely dissipated. As for the reason, it was mainly because Ding Yun felt there would be opportunities to send spiritual power again in the future. The most pressing matter was to help Zhu Yunying, who might become her anchor, gain self-protection ability as soon as possible. However, this person's cultural level was a bit low, and she understood the content of the Taotie Art very slowly. Her aptitude was also poor, and it would likely take her ten days to half a month to even get started on her own, leading to unnecessary danger.
Therefore, she had to sacrifice this last trace of spiritual power.
To help her get started quickly.
After mastering the Taotie Art, Zhu Yunying's digestive ability immediately improved greatly. The porridge she ate was quickly converted into essence from water and grain, nourishing her body. Fortunately, she knew that changes in her appearance could not be too drastic, so she deliberately controlled the essence within her body, nourishing only her internal organs, bones, and muscles.
She deliberately ignored her outer skin, hair, and the like.
There was no other way. If she had gone out looking sallow and with dry hair, and returned with a rosy complexion and lustrous, dark hair, anyone would know something was definitely wrong. So, she could only focus on internal conditioning first.
External appearance would be dealt with later.
She might even have to find a way to get some makeup in a few days to give herself a sallow complexion.
Next, of course, was to continue eating until almost all the items she brought back were gone, leaving only a little. Only then did Zhu Yunying stop circulating the Taotie Art within her body and hide the remaining food.
Then she went to cut pig feed.
She was able to go out smoothly by pretending to cut pig feed. If she didn't bring back two full baskets of pig feed, her grandmother would definitely scold her and continue to cut her rations.
In short, their family adhered to a very simple principle: except for infants and males who went to school daily, everyone else did not work and did not eat.
Oh, and all food had to be handed in.
The original owner was beaten to death because she was discovered hiding a few wild eggs she found outside.
No matter how much Zhu Yunying couldn't understand or wanted to resist.
At this moment, she could only adapt.
She had to honestly go and cut pig feed to bring home.
...
Not long after Zhu Yunying left, Ding Yun thought of ways to make money and gain sufficient influence: beauty and skincare, and body shaping and weight loss.
Before Zhu Yunying left this time, she had complained a lot about the skincare company that caused her to lose her temper, become irrational, and accidentally push over a glass bottle of mineral water in anger, leading to her death.
She even wished Ding Yun could take revenge on that company.
At the very least, she wanted them to make a big deal out of what they did.
Otherwise, her resentment would be difficult to quell.
It was precisely because of her complaint that Ding Yun felt that since she had to take revenge on that skincare company, she might as well develop the beauty and skincare industry.
After all, she had no other direction for now. By focusing on one direction, and truly making it big and strong, unprecedentedly so, it was still possible to gain enough influence. Even if it wasn't enough, she could then extend and develop in other directions, and it wouldn't be too late.
This was how Ding Yun came up with the idea of developing in the direction of beauty and skincare, and even fitness and weight loss.
With the plan in place, the next step was naturally execution. But such things couldn't be rushed. Doing micro-business and selling unregulated skincare products still required money for promotion and the like.
Let alone establishing a foothold in this industry.
And making it big and strong!
So Ding Yun first made preparations like registering a company, and then posted a complaint about that skincare flagship store online. Through a series of operations, including but not limited to buying promotions and contacting those who were adversely affected by this incident to jointly sue.
She didn't expect to truly bring down that company.
Nor did she expect them to offer free gifts or refunds.
It was just to vent her anger. Otherwise, she felt too stifled. Even using their skincare products every time reminded her of this matter, which would likely shorten her lifespan by several years.
As for the result, it was as Ding Yun expected, not very useful. The top luxury brand didn't care at all, and didn't even apologize. They simply issued a statement, saying they were not wrong, that they had indeed given the lowest price, and that the number of free gifts was unrelated to the lowest price. They asked people not to make unreasonable demands.
It was normal to have different gifts during different promotional periods.
Good heavens, this made her even angrier.
Many people swore they would never buy their products again. Many who had already bought them but hadn't used them yet, were now applying for refunds.
In short, this incident began to escalate because of the arrogance of the flagship store. Consumer associations and the like also began to intervene. As for how it would ultimately develop.
Whether they would apologize and compensate or remain defiant, Ding Yun no longer cared, because this matter clearly wouldn't be resolved in a day or two, and she didn't have the time to keep paying attention to it.
She began to busy herself with research and development.
She started R&D for various skin problems. Because there were too many unscrupulous merchants, many people's normal skin was ruined by the misuse of all sorts of random skincare products, becoming fragile and sensitive. Then they had to use the skincare products they launched to repair it.
This was a classic case of creating demand where there was none.
And the results were not good!
So Ding Yun decided to start from this aspect, and develop a repair product with good and fast effects. After all, only by first restoring fragile and sensitive skin to normal could she then launch other functional skincare products.
As for how to develop them, it was actually very simple.
She had too many beauty secret recipes stored up, and too many products for beauty. She had both from cultivation technology and from magic and sorcery. Her so-called R&D was actually just selecting those secret recipes and seeing which ones were relatively easy to replicate in this world.
For example, a magic potion that required mermaid tears was clearly not feasible, because there were no mermaids in this world!