Chapter 96: Be Cruel in Parenting
Yu Hui gave Gu Dong 40 cents and asked him to go to the grocery store to buy six strawberry-flavored popsicles. He could keep the remaining few cents for himself.
Why six strawberries?
Yu Jianshe reminded him, "Aunt Yu, Li Xin and I eat white sugar."
Yu Hui: "I know you want to eat sugar, but I only want to treat you to strawberry."
Yu Jianshe: “…”
Aunt Yu is such a nice person. Even though he asked for sugar, she still bought strawberries for him and Lixin.
"Go buy it quickly." Yu Hui raised her chin towards Gu Dong.
Gu Dong nodded and called Gu Nan and the two brothers Yu Jianshe to go with him.
Gu Xixi also wanted to go with them.
"Don't go. We have to run there and back, otherwise the popsicle will melt and your legs will be too short to keep up."
After saying that, the four children ran out in a hurry.
Gu Xixi looked down at her legs and frowned. Humph, Xixi's legs are not short at all.
Qian Lan came back from outside with a basket and saw her two little boys running down the road with the two older brothers from the Gu family. She yelled at the top of her lungs, "Jianshe, Lixin, where are you taking your younger brothers?"
"Aunt Yu treated us to popsicles. Let's go to the grocery store to buy some." Yu Lixin turned his head and replied to his mother while running.
Qian Lan opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but the children had already run away.
She looked down at the green cucumbers she had just picked from her fellow villagers and said, "Send a few to Xiaoyu."
The fellow villager said that he couldn't finish eating all the cucumbers grown in his yard, so he asked her to pick some.
"Xiao Yu, are you spending money to treat the children to food again?" Qian Lan walked straight into the Gu family's yard.
Yu Hui had just finished washing Bei Bei's dirty hands when she saw Qian Lan come in. She smiled and said, "It's just two popsicles, why spend so much?"
"That also costs money." Qian Lan walked into the house, put the basket on the table, and went out to get the cucumbers.
"I went to my fellow villager's place and picked some cucumbers. I'll give you a few. They're delicious stir-fried or served cold."
Yu Hui didn't bother to be polite with her, "Thank you, sister-in-law."
"Thank you for what?"
"By the way, today, Li Xin, Jianshe, and I went to the ditch to pick some snails. Li Xin said, sister-in-law, you've never fried snails before, so you might not know how to make them, so he left them all with me..."
Before Yu Hui finished speaking, Qian Lan said nonchalantly, "I'll leave this thing here with you. I won't use these things."
"I steamed the crabs he caught yesterday, and he said I was wasting his crabs." Qian Lan couldn't help rolling her eyes when talking about this naughty monkey at home.
Yu Hui smiled and continued, "I was thinking, tomorrow night I'll stir-fry some snails, cook some green bean porridge, make two salads, and two side dishes. I'll have your family of four come over to eat."
Qian Lan glared, "How can I want this?"
It's okay for the two little ones to come and eat the snails they caught, but how could the adults come over? They are taking advantage of them.
Every time the Gu family made something delicious, they would give it to the two children, and sometimes they would even send it home. They already felt very embarrassed about it.
Yu Hui laughed again, "Why would I want it? It's not like I'm eating anything fancy, it's just some porridge."
"Let me make this clear. You must come tomorrow. Otherwise, I'll have to ask the two kids to take the snails they caught back home."
"You, you..." Qian Lan smiled and pointed at her, as if she didn't know what to say to her, and took out two more cucumbers from the basket.
When the children came back in a hurry, Qian Lan had already returned home.
The children ran back quickly, and although the popsicles melted a little, they didn't melt much.
"This is from Mom." Gu Dong handed the popsicle to Yu Hui.
Yu Hui took it, tore off the wrapping paper, and put the cool popsicle into her mouth.
call……
Comfortable.
Sure enough, ice is the way to go in summer.
Seeing her eating, the children started eating, happily licking the sour, sweet and fragrant popsicles.
Beibei's saliva was dripping down to his chin.
Gu Dong was licking the popsicle happily when he suddenly felt something pulling at his trouser leg. He looked down and saw his sister drooling at him.
"Pot, eat, eat..."
Gu Dong wanted to lick his sister, but when he remembered his stepmother's words, he ruthlessly rejected his beloved sister.
"Mom said, babies can't eat ice."
"Woo..." Beibei frowned in grievance, her little mouth pouting so much that an oil bottle could be hung on it.
Everyone can eat it, except Beibei.
Yu Hui picked up the bib pinned on Beibei's collar and wiped her saliva that was almost dripping onto her clothes.
"Woo..." The little guy looked at his mother with resentment.
Yu Hui put down the bib and sighed, but she still couldn't bear it.
"One lick, you can only lick it once. Once you lick it, you can't ask for more. Can you do that?"
Beibei's watery black eyes lit up at first, then he frowned and nodded vigorously.
Beibei can do it.
Yu Hui put the half-bitten popsicle next to Beibei's mouth.
As soon as Beibei's little tongue touched the popsicle, he was struck by the icy cool texture and sour and sweet taste.
The next second, he bit the popsicle.
Wow, what a delicious delicacy this is! Beibei wants to take a big bite.
Yu Hui: “!”
As expected, children are the best at deceiving others.
"Relax, let go."
Beibei: Not loose.
The little mouth quickly sucked the cool, sweet water which tasted better than milk powder.
Yu Hui gritted her teeth and pulled the popsicle out of Beibei's little mouth. The weather was so hot and the popsicle was not in the refrigerator, so it was not frozen very hard. As soon as she pulled it out, the remaining ice broke and fell off the wooden stick to the ground.
“…”
The room was silent.
Gu Dong and the others looked at the broken ice on the ground with regret in their eyes, and then looked at their sister who had caused the trouble.
Beibei saw the broken popsicle on the ground and exclaimed, "Ah!" He raised his little head to take a look, then looked at his mother, then hid behind his brother feeling a little guilty.
Beibei didn’t mean it, it’s just that Bingbing is so delicious.
Yu Hui took a deep breath, picked up the broken ice on the ground, and threw it into the ditch in the yard.
"Sure enough, when it comes to raising children, you still have to be a little ruthless."
You can't let your children take a small lick of food just to taste it because they are greedy and you can't bear it.
"My sister is so disobedient." Gu Xixi looked at her sister reproachfully, and handed the popsicle that she had licked all over to her stepmother.
"Mom, Xixi's popsicle is for you."
Yu Hui glanced at the popsicle that had been licked to half its original size by him. Although she was very pleased, the corner of her eye twitched slightly. "No need, eat it yourself."
"Oh." Gu Xixi withdrew her hand with some regret and continued to lick the popsicle.
The crabs for dinner were still spicy, served with pumpkin porridge and scrambled eggs with cucumber.
At the dinner table, Gu Huai announced something.
"The division headquarters issued an appointment notice today, and I was promoted to deputy regimental commander."
There was silence at the dinner table for three seconds, and then there was an exclamation.
"Really? Dad, you've been promoted to deputy regiment commander?" Gu Dong's voice was the loudest, his face full of surprise.
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