"My head hurts so much, did I bleed?
Damn it, those guys are absolute scum!"
Looking at the slightly dark red bloodstains on her hand, Ding Yun couldn't help but curse before struggling to get up. She then searched the entire house for a mirror, wanting to see the state of her head.
Could she bandage it herself at home?
Or did she have to go to the hospital!
A moment later, Ding Yun found the only mirror in the original host's home in the bedroom. It was a gift from her great-grandfather on her tenth birthday.
Through the palm-sized glass mirror, Ding Yun could clearly see her reflection was pale, her eyes, ringed with dark circles, were bloodshot, and her lips were dry and chapped, also lacking color. Only the area above her temples was smeared with dark red blood that matted her hair, making her face look even more ghastly white.
Ding Yun then cautiously touched the wound, confirming it was only superficial and that her bones were likely unharmed.
Only then did she feel a little relieved.
She sat down calmly and activated her golden finger, wanting to see if it could help with her current situation.
[Beep, All-Around Chef God Cultivation Space activated.]
[Confirming host, binding space.]
[Beep, Binding successful.
Please select your desired cultivation achievement. Press one to cultivate as a Chef Apprentice, two for a Level 3 Chef, three for a Level 2 Chef, four for a Level 1 Chef, five for a Special Class Chef, six for a State Banquet Chef, seven for a Culinary Grandmaster, eight for an All-Around Culinary Grandmaster, and nine for an All-Around Chef God.]
Looking at the list of choices, Ding Yun didn't hesitate and directly chose nine. If she was going to do it, she wanted to be the best. Besides, what was there to learn from a culinary apprentice or a Level 2 or 3 chef? A quick training course or a professional technical college could handle that. Why waste a golden finger on such a trivial matter? It would be a colossal underutilization.
As Ding Yun completed her selection.
The virtual interface immediately changed.
[Selection successful, All-Around Chef God Cultivation Course unlocked. Would you like to begin the All-Around Chef God training?]
[Yes] [No] [Later]
"Uh, never mind, I'll hold off for now.
Since it's just a Chef God cultivation type golden finger, I assume it doesn't have healing functions. I should deal with my injuries first and rest for a couple of days.
I wonder if this system is a virtual soul learning mode or a physical practical learning mode.
Just in case, I'll wait until my body recovers."
Ding Yun's eagerness to activate the golden finger was primarily to see if it could help with her current injuries. Now that she had confirmed it wouldn't help with her injuries, and learning to cook was no easy task.
If it was just soul learning in a virtual space, that would be fine. But if it required actual learning and cooking in reality,
she wasn't sure if her body could handle it.
Therefore, Ding Yun immediately chose "Later."
Then, she began to boil water to treat her injuries.
And she also made herself a relatively rich and nutritious lunch. The original host had been very busy and tired recently, and her meals were extremely unstable, just grabbing something to fill her stomach. It was hard to say that her body's weakness wasn't related to her diet over the past few days.
Now Ding Yun had no other way to replenish her body,
so she could only rely on food to do so.
After two hours, Ding Yun finally managed to bandage her wound and was full.
She lay down on the bed to rest.
The next day, Ding Yun still didn't open the golden finger to start learning. Instead, she spent the morning tidying up the house a bit, and packed all the remaining money and savings passbooks.
Then she hurriedly left for town.
Her injury should not have been in vain. Although this injury wasn't fatal, the original host had indeed died because of this injury.
Therefore, she had to report the crime.
A report for intentional assault and home invasion robbery.
The two groups of people who came to her original host's house yesterday to demand her great-grandfather's inheritance, although they were scared away by the sight of the original host bleeding and fainting, they didn't forget to take the things they had robbed from her house when they first arrived, such as tables, chairs, and small appliances.
Those things might not be worth much decades later,
but remember, this was 1984.
Living conditions might have improved slightly compared to 1974, but only marginally. Small appliances were still considered relatively valuable items in a household.
So reporting the crime would definitely be a valid course of action.
About an hour later, Ding Yun finally walked to town on her own two feet. However, she didn't rush to report the crime immediately. Instead, she went to the hospital first.
She obtained a medical examination report of her injuries.
Then, holding the examination report, she went to report the crime.
This year was the second year the government had mandated severe crackdowns on all criminal activities, requiring strict and heavy punishment for criminal offenses. Home invasion robbery was, by all accounts, a criminal offense.
So the police station immediately responded actively.
They drove Ding Yun back to their village.
Originally, when those people who came to demand the inheritance from the original host's house yesterday fled, they were quite panicked, worrying if the person was dead and if they would go to jail. However, Ding Yun reappeared later, didn't she?
The lights in her house were still on at night, and smoke was rising from the chimney, so those people naturally knew that the original host was not dead.
But they were also hesitant to forcibly demand the inheritance again.
Fearing something else might happen.
Ding Yun had tidied up her house this morning and then left for town to report the crime. They didn't know Ding Yun was going to report the crime. They only knew Ding Yun had left.
Her house was empty.
It was the perfect time to look for the great-grandfather's inheritance and get those assets into their own homes, so they rushed to Ding Yun's house, broke down her door,
and went inside to steal things.
On one hand, they felt they were breaking into their own great-grandfather's door and the things inside should naturally be inherited by them. On the other hand, they felt they were breaking into their own daughter's door and they had the right to take whatever they wanted, and they didn't feel they were committing a crime at all.
Moreover, they felt they were in the right.
Instead, they considered the other party to be the robber.
So when the police officers arrived at Ding Yun's house with her, they caught the people who were robbing her house and even fighting, red-handed. Ding Yun didn't need to provide any further evidence.
It was a clear-cut case with direct evidence and caught in the act.
At this moment, the village chief, who had been invisible and had not appeared at all, suddenly ran out and tried to smooth things over, saying it was a family matter and the police didn't need to be involved.