Of course, these deeper thoughts and upcoming plans, Ding Yun hadn't mentioned them yet, but just her playing the sympathy card had already moved her daughter and grandson considerably. Liu Linxia even cried.
She cried, saying she had made her mother worry and so on.
Liu Chang'an, however, completely misunderstood Ding Yun's intentions. He thought Ding Yun was indirectly hinting that he should apply to medical school, so he immediately said:
“Grandma, since this is your wish.
I will work hard.
Don't worry, I will definitely apply to medical school for my college entrance exams, and I will study hard in university to help Aunt as much as possible. You don't need to worry. As for the college entrance exams, you don't need to waste your energy on it anymore…”
“No, Chang'an, what are you talking about.
I'm telling both of you, I'm not joking, and I'm not intentionally asking you to do anything. I've already told your teachers and the principal about this, and they've all agreed.
They've even tested my scores.
Do you think the school leaders would agree if my scores were too low? So don't overthink it, especially you, Chang'an. Stop thinking about those unnecessary things. Focus on your studies now. Apply for the major you like, and go to the school you like. Don't consider me and your aunt.
My health is very good now.
Your aunt doesn't need you to worry about her.
Just focus on yourself, understand?”
Hearing her grandson, Ding Yun immediately understood that he had misunderstood. She didn't want this kind of misunderstanding to drag on for twenty episodes like in TV dramas, when it could be explained clearly in two or three sentences.
So she quickly came clean and explained.
Finally, she reminded him again:
“Chang'an, if you don't believe me, you can ask your homeroom teacher, Ms. Xiao, tomorrow. She was present when I discussed this with your school leaders.
Also, starting next semester, from your third year of high school, I will be taking all your monthly exams with you, and our rankings will be together. Chang'an, I'm telling you, your grandma is very smart. I don't study, but when I do, I'm amazing. You can't slack off during this time. If you still can't beat me in the first mock exam next semester,
then it will be a joke…”
Ding Yun wasn't lying about this matter, so she naturally didn't mind her grandson asking his homeroom teacher or anyone else.
At this point, Liu Chang'an and Liu Linxia finally confirmed that Ding Yun wasn't joking earlier, nor was she trying to achieve some ulterior motive. She was serious.
What followed was undoubtedly amazement and questions.
They were amazed that Ding Yun, at her age, was actually serious and willing to put so much effort into studying and preparing for college entrance exams for her paralyzed daughter.
Amazed by her persistence as a mother.
As for the questions, they were naturally asking Ding Yun what she was thinking, or if she had always been this smart, how she studied normally, and how she had hidden it so well. In short, Liu Chang'an and Liu Linxia, like gossip reporters, asked Ding Yun for several hours.
Only then were they somewhat satisfied and filled with emotion.
They felt that their mother and grandmother,
were both held back by their maternal grandfather's, or rather, great-grandfather's, preference for sons. If they had been able to continue their studies back then, who knew how successful they would be now.
…
Since the issue of the college entrance exams was settled and basically resolved, the next step was naturally to make money.
Ding Yun didn't plan to make any big moves in this regard.
She simply transferred her snack cart and used the time she would have spent preparing and selling hand-grabbed pancakes, as well as the commute time, entirely on translation.
After this period of exploration, Ding Yun had gained a considerable understanding of the life skills system.
The most powerful aspect of this system was that.
As long as one had enough foundational knowledge and was diligent enough, it was easy to level up and integrate all that knowledge. This was extremely beneficial for Ding Yun in mastering skills that only required learning fixed knowledge and did not require innovative thinking.
For example, for a language skill, Ding Yun only needed to memorize the dictionary and then learn grammar, pronunciation, and so on, to naturally elevate this language skill to a perfect level.
Successfully mastering and becoming proficient in a new language.
Even more thoroughly than a native speaker.
For other skills that did not require innovation and only required learning all the existing knowledge to reach a high level, Ding Yun could now learn them in the same way.
Mastering several foreign languages was a very easy task for Ding Yun. After mastering several foreign languages, taking on translation work was also not difficult. The only drawback was that it was a bit tiring.
The advantage was that it did not require much physical labor.
At the same time, the income was also high.
With Ding Yun's current ability, as long as there was enough work, she could complete a hundred thousand characters of translation in a day without any problem. Even if the fee standard was two hundred yuan per thousand characters, that would be twenty thousand yuan a day.
This was assuming she didn't have much fame yet and couldn't take on jobs with particularly high requirements, strict standards, and good remuneration. Once she gained some fame and translated academic papers of publishing quality, professional papers, etc., even seven or eight hundred yuan per thousand characters would be normal.
However, even though this was the case, and the income was calculated as such, it did not mean that Ding Yun could receive work every day, nor did it mean that she could receive jobs of a hundred thousand characters every day. Therefore, the actual daily income had to be discounted. Sometimes she could only earn a few hundred to a thousand yuan a day, and sometimes she could directly earn ten to twenty thousand yuan.
However, no matter what, the income from translation was higher than selling pancakes and other similar items. The free time she had each day was also more than when selling pancakes or hand-grabbed pancakes.
The extra free time.
She used it to learn and improve other skills. Learning more skills was always beneficial, after all, the more skills she had, the more ways and channels she had to make money, and the stronger her ability to resist external environmental pressures would be.
During this process of making money, Ding Yun also cooperated with the families of the perpetrators and participated in a total of four lawsuits against insurance companies and automobile manufacturers. Only then did she finally help them and herself to successfully obtain medical compensation and other related funds.
It had to be said that this money was truly hard to get.
From beginning to end, it took more than a year, nearly two years.
Only then did she get the compensation she was rightfully entitled to.
What did she rely on? Did she rely on the other party's trustworthiness? No. She relied on their perseverance.
She relied on legal support!