That evening, Gu Mingxia was almost exhausted to death.
Someone who was dead drunk and heavy was truly difficult to manage. If he had simply passed out from drunkenness and felt nothing, it wouldn't have been so bad.
At most, they could have just treated him like carrying a corpse. But the problem was that Gu Jianguo hadn't truly passed out from drunkenness.
He still had some faint consciousness.
He would still toss and turn, and move.
Moreover, he often exercised, whether it was running or lifting stone locks, he had immense strength. When he struggled, it was incredibly difficult to handle. Gu Mingxia and Xu Haibin, even working together, couldn't hold him down. Fortunately, he was just struggling unconsciously. If he had been conscious and fighting back, they would have been definitely injured.
Therefore, after a great deal of effort, and struggling for over an hour, the couple finally managed to get Gu Jianguo from the funeral site to his home, a journey that should have taken less than fifteen minutes.
"Your dad is really something else..."
As soon as they got Gu Jianguo onto the bed and stepped out, Xu Haibin wiped the sweat from his forehead and sighed.
"I never imagined he would be like this when drunk. I used to think Mom had it easy, bringing him home shouldn't be difficult, just a matter of getting him home.
How much trouble could it be? Now I know...
But I didn't expect my dad's feelings for my mom to be so deep. He was so uncooperative just now, it seemed like he was struggling because it wasn't Mom picking him up.
Did you hear? He kept saying it wasn't Juan.
He said he wanted Big Sister to pick him up or something.
When he gets drunk, he calls Mom Big Sister. We usually use this as a standard to judge if he's had a drink or is completely drunk. He won't call her that if he's just had a drink without being drunk."
Feeling tired both physically and mentally,
Gu Mingxia didn't forget to ponder and sigh.
"Have you ever considered that maybe this isn't love, but simply habit? I tapped a basin for half a month straight, and every time I tapped it, I gave dog food to Xiao Huang.
Now, if I tap the basin without giving dog food,
Xiao Huang still runs over and drools.
That was only half a month, and your mom has been picking up your dad for how many years? Ten, twenty years. Habit is a terrifying thing, especially when one is drunk and disoriented. Habit is almost equivalent to instinct.
This has little to do with love. If he truly loved your mom, he would have quit drinking long ago. Don't flatter him. And the address 'Big Sister,' from a psychological perspective, suggests a certain dependence on your mom.
It's similar to a mama's boy.
You women really love to delude yourselves.
Your mother-in-law has worked hard all these years!"
Xu Haibin subconsciously retorted a few times, even wanting to sigh about how happy men were in the past. Fortunately, he hadn't been drinking, so the last few thoughts of sighing were forced back down his throat, not daring to say them in front of his wife.
Gu Mingxia, who had originally wanted to reminisce about her parents' love, lost all her sentimentality after his analysis:
"Enough of your nonsense, let's go back.
Go back and find me seventeen or eighteen excuses so you don't have to take on this task again. Let him do whatever he wants. Just to bring him back, it wasted over an hour of our time."
"Alright, alright, why don't you get pregnant too, just like our sister-in-law? Then I can find excuses too."
Xu Haibin immediately played along with a cheeky grin.
"Get lost, get lost, get lost. Your mom hasn't retired, and my mom is unlikely to come and help me with the child. If I have a child, I won't be able to work for at least three to five years. Your salary barely covers the mortgage, and I'd be eating the northwest wind if I didn't work!"
"Sigh, the pressure of the mortgage is a bit much. If I had known, not buying a house and living with my parents would have been much easier!"
"Who says not?
We used to think living with parents-in-law would lead to more conflict, and living separately would be easier. But the mortgage pressure is indeed a bit high. If we had an extra six thousand yuan or so to use freely each month, living with parents-in-law doesn't seem so unacceptable."
"What's the point of saying this now? Let's go back..."
...
Meanwhile, at the new house, Ding Yun.
After hanging up on her sister-in-law's call and blocking her, Ding Yun took several deep breaths before once again pushing Gu Jianguo out of her mind.
Then, she ate dinner according to her old habit.
After dinner, she continued to cultivate the Gluttony Technique.
However, as night deepened, Ding Yun felt that just doing nothing like this was rather boring. So, that night, she delved deeply into the original body's dying wish, and further elevated the original body's most profound wish: for her cancer to be cured.
Elevated to the hope that everyone's cancer could be cured.
That it could be cured with very little money.
Generally speaking, completing a task only requires fulfilling the superficial task, that is, the most easily known dying wish, to be considered successful and receive a fixed salary.
However, delving deeper into more profound dying wishes, even elevating them, is considered a reasonable operation. It's just that doing so doesn't significantly increase salary income and is a loss-making endeavor, so most people don't do it.
Ding Yun's kindness this time was mainly because after doing earth-shattering deeds in previous mission worlds, she found it a bit unaccustomed to just enjoying herself without doing anything.
Since she was idle anyway,
Doing some good deeds wasn't a bad thing.
With something to do, Ding Yun quickly began to design cancer treatment methods suitable for widespread promotion, based on the specific requirements of low cost and the ability to treat all cancers.
In the end, she discovered that
The most cost-effective method was to promote the Gluttony Technique.
As long as the Gluttony Technique was appropriately modified, changing its original characteristic of devouring everything ingested into the stomach to enhance and transform the body, to instead devour abnormal cells in the body, such as cancer cells and various viruses.
And then transform a small amount of Gluttony True Qi to nourish the body.
This would easily cure all cancers except stomach cancer, and most other illnesses could also be cured or at least controlled by this method.
The reason stomach cancer could not be cured was because the foundation of cultivating the Gluttony Technique was in the stomach, and when the Gluttony Technique combined with the cancer cells in the stomach, it would mutate.
Becoming what Ding Yun was currently experiencing.
Therefore, stomach cancer was naturally excluded.
As for why the Gluttony Technique needed to be modified, besides the fact that the modified Gluttony Technique would specifically target cancer cells and allow people to heal cancer quickly, the main reason was to limit the cultivation of the Gluttony Technique.
This would ensure that all cultivators could only cultivate the Gluttony Technique to the point of physical health, to the point of curing cancer, and not even achieve the first full bodily transformation.
It wasn't that Ding Yun was unwilling to impart the technique externally. The main reason was that once the Gluttony Technique was cultivated deeply and achieved the first transformation, the cultivator would be influenced by certain gluttonous characteristics, and their demand for food would increase manifold.
A cultivator who had completed the first transformation of the Gluttony Technique would consume fifty times more food daily than a normal person.
The entire country had only been well-fed for a few years, and grain still needed to be imported annually. Let alone nationwide cultivation, even if all cancer patients cultivated to the point of completing one transformation, the country's grain supply would likely become strained.
Therefore, Ding Yun's modification and restriction of the Gluttony Technique
Was entirely out of necessity.
However, even so, Ding Yun was clearly not entirely satisfied, because the new version of the Gluttony Technique could not treat stomach cancer. This was undoubtedly a major flaw. Therefore, for a period of time, Ding Yun delved into this issue, even specifically buying some mice, inducing stomach cancer in them.
And guiding the mice to cultivate with her mental power.
Hoping to find a solution from this.