After Gu Haomiao made several promises, Zhou Pingping felt a little more at ease and immediately picked up Gu Haomiao's phone to contact Ding Yun, wanting to ask if Ding Yun had a place to stay, and if not, to move in with them.
Ding Yun had only blocked and blacklisted her Moments and Gu Jianguo's phone number; she hadn't blocked anyone else.
So Zhou Pingping naturally got through.
However, she politely refused Ding Yun's invitation: "No, I have a place to stay now. I've been dragged down by Gu Jianguo for so long, and now I prefer living alone. I'm free and unrestrained. I haven't had much freedom since I got married. Now that I'm divorced, I want to live freely for a while first."
She had spent her whole life for her son, daughter, and husband. Ding Yun absolutely did not want to be a nanny at her son's house after finally getting divorced. As for what the original owner had promised back then, helping her daughter-in-law take care of the children, the original owner had no intention of fulfilling it in the first place. After all, she already knew she was in the late stage of cancer and wouldn't live long enough to see her grandchildren be born.
However, since the original owner had made a promise, Ding Yun's plan was to give some subsidies every month once her daughter-in-law was pregnant or gave birth, and continue until the child didn't need care and could go to school. This should more or less offset the promise of help with childcare.
"Mom, are you really okay? I remember you don't have much savings, and you don't have a job right now. Renting a place outside will cost quite a bit."
Gu Haomiao was still a bit worried. Unlike Zhou Pingping, who didn't know her parents' financial situation well, Gu Haomiao had some understanding of his mother's income. He was also very aware of his father's habit of not paying wages. So he was naturally a bit worried.
"Don't worry, I won't starve to death without your dad. Instead of worrying about me, you should worry about whether your dad will starve to death one day or get drunk and die somewhere! Don't expect me to care about him anymore after the divorce. And don't expect me to pick him up in the middle of the night. Forget it, why am I talking about this? You shouldn't bother with your dad either. If he gets drunk and dies one day, it will be a relief for you, saving you the trouble of him becoming a burden years later."
"Okay, okay, that's settled. The 'Happy Every Day' variety show is about to start, so I won't chat with you anymore. I'm going to watch TV..." After a few words to dismiss her son, Ding Yun hurriedly hung up the phone and continued watching the latest variety show.
Gu Haomiao was stunned for a moment, then muttered:
"Mom is like a different person after the divorce. I remember Mom never watched variety shows before. When I called Mom before, I was always the one to hang up first. Such a big change is really a bit hard for me to get used to. It seems you were right, Pingping. Mom really suppressed her personality before. Only after the divorce did she truly release her true self. But I'm still a little worried, what should I do?"
"It should be fine. I don't think your mother-in-law is someone who would put on a brave face when she's suffering. If you're still worried, you can visit her yourself in a couple of days when you have time off," Zhou Pingping continued.
"Sigh, that's true. To be honest, I never thought my parents would get divorced in the past few years. I originally thought they would stay together forever. I didn't expect the drinking would always be something my mom couldn't tolerate... No wonder she never let me drink..." Gu Haomiao said, lost in thought.
"It's a good thing your mom doesn't let you drink. I'm telling you, I don't like men who drink either. A little occasional drink is fine, but I especially hate those old drunks. My mom argued countless times because my dad always got drunk. Because you don't drink, your dad dislikes you, but my mom is overjoyed. In the end, my mom overruled my dad and agreed. I really don't understand what's so good about alcohol. It's spicy and smells bad. Forget baijiu, even red wine tastes terrible, and it's not as good as freshly squeezed grape juice from the fruit store! Juice and milk tea are much better than alcohol..."
"Who knows..."
***
Not long after she started watching the variety show, the soul plugin that Ding Yun had compiled more than ten hours ago suddenly reminded her that her daily three meals check-in had been completed.
The three meals checked in were: one fresh giant octopus from the Jiao people, one ten-year-old preserved meat from the Northern Village tribe of the Barren lands, and ten tons of colorful shrimp from the Kun race.
Overall, her luck seemed pretty good today. Except for the ten-year-old preserved meat, which Ding Yun felt she couldn't bring herself to eat, the rest were fresh ingredients. The only difficulty was processing and eating them.
For example, the fresh giant octopus from the Jiao people was the breakfast for the entire Jiao tribe. One octopus was over a kilometer long, let alone its weight. At this time, the largest octopus recorded in this world was only a little over nine meters long and weighed over five hundred catties. Even though this kilometer-long octopus was super large and heavy, it couldn't be brought out at all. If it were brought out, there would be no way to explain its origin. Moreover, even with the Gluttony Art, Ding Yun would find it difficult to finish such a large creature within a day.
Ten tons of colorful shrimp from the Kun race. For the terrifyingly large Kun race, this much colorful shrimp was just one Kun's dinner, but Ding Yun truly couldn't eat it. Ten tons, what concept is that? That's ten thousand kilograms, twenty thousand catties. A cow generally weighs around a thousand catties. Twenty thousand catties is equivalent to twenty entire cows. Unless Ding Yun could cultivate the Gluttony Art to the black hole level right now, to the point where her stomach was like a black hole that could directly swallow extremely large objects, she wouldn't be able to finish the colorful shrimp or the octopus before midnight today.
Thinking this, and out of concern for her merit and luck points, Ding Yun finally decided to take out the ten-year-old preserved meat from the Northern Village tribe of the Barren lands to see if she could eat it. But after reading the description of the preserved meat, she became even more speechless. This ten-year-old preserved meat was made from a Bashe. Putting aside Ding Yun's discomfort with snakes, the sheer size of the Bashe made it difficult to finish. What is a Bashe? A Bashe swallows elephants! And a Bashe that swallows elephants is only in its juvenile stage. The Bashe used to make preserved meat by this so-called barren tribe was clearly an adult Bashe, its size comparable to mountains. Although this preserved meat was not a complete Bashe, it was a tail of a Bashe. Even after being air-dried, it weighed nearly a hundred tons.
Considering all this, the ten tons of colorful shrimp were the least in quantity. If only the meat was eaten after removing the shells, the quantity would be even less. Seeing this, Ding Yun truly couldn't figure out the positioning of the Myriad Worlds Food Sign-in System. However, she genuinely didn't have the ability to eat ten tons of colorful shrimp in a few hours, so she simply decided to lie flat and let the merit and luck points be deducted. Anyway, with so many things, their total value was equivalent to some merit and luck points. Then, of course, she would take out tens of catties of colorful shrimp to boil in plain water, eat while cultivating the Gluttony Art, and watch variety shows. These colorful shrimp were all natural and pollution-free good stuff. Even if she couldn't finish them, they couldn't be destroyed. She could keep them and eat them slowly.
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