In fact, although Su Qingluan discovered that Mr. Xu Kekuan had a sweet tooth at the beginning, she only thought that his taste was slightly sweet, and had not discovered that he had "swallowed" the candy.
As for the fact that every time Su Xueyan went to Nong Moxuan, the old man bought the little girl candy or snacks, she didn't care too much - after all, who doesn't like a cute and sweet-talking little girl? This little girl could easily bring back a bag of snacks after just a stroll around Huaxi Village.
This is no longer a strange thing.
However, before Qingming Festival this year, when Su Qingluan went to a pastry shop to buy cakes for tomb sweeping and offerings, the owner told her not to buy sweets for children, otherwise their teeth would be damaged and they would suffer in the future. This made her suspicious.
After all, Su Xueyan is now over five years old and is about to turn six. In another year or two, she will probably have to change her teeth.
If children don't develop good oral hygiene habits early on, it will be very difficult to correct their teeth after they have replaced them. More importantly, dental clinics are not as widely available these days; a broken tooth is a broken tooth.
Although Su Qingluan had read in various popular science books before that ancient times also had the most primitive technology of filling teeth with raw materials such as beeswax, after more than two years of observation during her time travel, she felt that although there might be many surprising inventions and technological creations in this era in terms of the "upper limit of medical skills", the "lower limit" was really worrying.
Most importantly, there were no medical licenses or professional assessments in this era—even if there were, they were only required by official "medical institutions" such as the Imperial Hospital. As for folk doctors, they ranged from the more reliable Huichuntang to the very unreliable "half-immortals" who practiced shamanism.
Doctors vary widely in quality, and with no effective vetting system or institution, choosing a doctor is a matter of luck. While Su Qingluan considers Huichuntang and even the mysterious Mu Xingzhi to be excellent doctors, she still believes that in this era of medical expertise, the safest approach is to avoid getting sick as much as possible.
So ever since she realized that her sister was around the age where she needed to change her teeth, Su Qingluan gradually began to strictly control her sister's intake of sweets.
Relatively speaking, Su Xuanhe does not need Su Qingluan's restraint in this regard. After all, as this kid grows older, his taste becomes more and more like Su Guangfu's, and he doesn't like sweet food as much as he did in the past two years.
But what surprised Su Qingluan was that after observing for a period of time, she found that Su Xueyan did not have as many candies and snacks as the bakery owner worried, and the specific types did not match completely - more than once, Su Qingluan mentioned individual types of candies, but Su Xueyan had never seen them, and naturally could not have eaten them.
After a few interactions, Su Qingluan gradually shifted her attention to old man Xu Kekuan.
It's no wonder Su Qingluan took so long to notice. Who could have imagined that such a refined and well-educated old gentleman would use the opportunity of buying snacks for a little girl to "line his own pockets"? This was simply a blind spot!
Later, Su Qingluan learned from Chef Xu Yuanwei that in fact, in the past two years, Mr. Xu Kekuan was diagnosed with mild diabetes, which is what Su Qingluan called diabetes in her previous life, and according to Su Qingluan's observation, it should be type 2 diabetes.
This condition requires proper control of a high-sugar diet and more exercise. Therefore, the Xu family has been keeping a close eye on the old man's diet lately.
The old man had only had this little hobby in his life, and suddenly his "only happiness" disappeared. How could he not think of a solution? In the end, this "solution" became buying candy for little girl Su Xueyan.
Of course, the final result was that all the extra candies were confiscated, and Su Xueyan had to report all the candies she brought in every day to prevent Mr. Xu from stealing them. For Mr. Xu's health, both families took great pains.
This time, the reason why Su Qingluan sent four red date and sweet bean rice dumplings was not to let the old man eat as much as he wanted, but to allow him to "eat them in batches for several meals." After all, if the rice dumplings were properly stored, there would be absolutely no problem for them to not deteriorate in two or three days.
"Mr. Xu," Su Qingluan explained the fillings of the zongzi, then handed over six of them, smiling and saying, "These zongzi are hard to digest, and they're sweet. Just eat one for breakfast every day. Don't eat more, okay?"
"Oh, I get it," Xu Kekuan nodded repeatedly. "Ever since you found out I had diabetes, how come you've been nagging me even more than my son and daughter-in-law? You're so young, and you're like this. Be careful that your husband's family might dislike you in the future."
Su Qingluan continued to smile nonchalantly: "If I have to nag my husband when I get married, that would be his blessing. If he wasn't worried, who would bother nagging me?"
"Oh, I know you're doing this for my own good, but... I can at least have a candied bean while it's fresh, right?" Grandpa Xu Kekuan said as he wanted to unwrap the rice dumpling.
Su Qingluan nodded beside her: "Of course you can! But I'm going to Hongfulou later. I guess Chef Xu has also made rice dumplings. I wonder how they taste?" As she spoke, she glanced at Xu Kekuan and saw that he retracted his hand that had originally reached out to touch the rice dumplings.
Su Qingluan was trying to hold back her laughter, but she didn't show it on her face. As usual, she told her sister to be obedient and then turned and left.
Only after they walked a few steps away did Su Qingluan help laughing out loud: It was obvious that Mr. Xu wanted to eat a sweet rice dumpling to satisfy his craving while others were unaware. After all, everyone had been watching him very closely recently.
But since Su Qingluan was going to Hongfulou and said she wanted to ask Xu Yuanwei what kind of filling the rice dumplings had, she was telling him that Xu Yuanwei would also know how many rice dumplings Su Qingluan had sent and what the filling of each rice dumpling was.
In this way, if Mr. Xu ate too much, he would be discovered. So Mr. Xu finally reluctantly put down his "Lushan claws" and looked unwilling to do so.
Su Qingluan thought of Mr. Xu's depressed expression as if his "little plan was overturned", and she couldn't help but smile until she arrived at "Su Ji".
She told Liu Yunniang the whole story, and Liu Yunniang was left in a state of confusion: "Oh, they always say old kids are old kids. That old man looks like a teacher, but I didn't expect him to fight with children for candy!"
Su Qingluan also shook her head: "Maybe you feel embarrassed to still like eating candy at your age?"
As for the matter of diabetes, Su Qingluan did not tell Liu Yunniang about it. This was a habit she had kept from her previous life - the disease was a private matter for everyone. Although there was no concept of "privacy" in this era, she did not want to tell a third party about things that others did not want to mention.
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