"Mom, what is tooth replacement?" Su Xueyan took a sip of Wensi tofu soup in her small hands and asked while smacking her lips.
Well, the soup made by my sister is really delicious. Let me have another sip.
Su Xuanhe glanced sadly at the girl who had turned into a foodie: He, as her brother, now has a broken tooth and a mouth full of blood. Despite such a tragic experience, this girl only thinks about eating!
Seeing her son's aggrieved expression, Madam Yang consoled him, "It's okay. Everyone loses their baby teeth eventually. After a year or two, the remaining permanent teeth will slowly grow in, and you won't have these gaps or missing teeth anymore."
Yang originally thought that her words of comfort would at least give her son some peace of mind, but she never expected Su Xuanhe to almost collapse and shout, "What? Another year or two?!"
He completely forgot that he was still in a state of "gap teeth", and that his incisors were one of the teeth that had the greatest impact on his pronunciation. As a result, when he spoke just a few words, there was a lot of air leakage, and even his pronunciation was affected.
"Hahahahahaha..." Su Qingluan said that she was laughing happily.
"You!" Su Xuanhe looked at his unscrupulous elder sister with shame and anger, his little face flushed dark red.
"Ahem, Daya, don't laugh. Everyone has been through this." Su Guangfu coughed dryly a few times, trying to find a way out for his son who was already feeling ashamed.
The little girl slurping her tofu soup nearby was so shocked she nearly dropped her bowl when she heard this: "Does everyone have to change their teeth?"
After receiving nods of approval from her parents and elder sister, the little girl no longer cared about drinking the tofu soup. She quickly grabbed Su Qingluan's sleeve and asked, "Sister, will my front teeth fall out like my brother's?"
"It's not just the front teeth," Su Qingluan explained to the two children, "all teeth will fall out in the next period of time, and then..."
Before she could finish her words, Su Qingluan heard a low sob, and then -
"Wow... I'm going to lose my teeth!!"
"Wuwuwuwu... Sanya doesn't want to be toothless either!!!"
The two little guys suddenly started crying.
Su Qingluan quickly yelled, "Didn't they say that baby teeth will grow out after they fall out?!" Don't start crying halfway through listening, and didn't mother tell them just now?
As a result, the two children focused on the fact that "it takes a year or two to change teeth" and paid no attention to other content.
"Will it, will it grow out?" Su Xuanhe looked at Su Qingluan cautiously.
Although Su Xueyan didn't say anything, she looked up pitifully.
Su Qingluan bared her teeth, pointed at herself, and then looked at Su Guangfu and his wife: "Look at me, then look at my parents, no one of us has a missing tooth, right?" It is even possible that they have grown a few more.
The two children first looked at Su Qingluan, then at their parents.
In order to comfort the children, Su Guangfu and Yang opened their mouths slightly to the two children when they looked over, to reassure them.
The two children finally calmed down and stopped crying.
However, before he could calm down for a few breaths, Su Xuanhe became nervous again: "But...but many of the old men and women in the village have no teeth!"
"That's because they are too old." Yang comforted.
"Old?" Children's curiosity could never be suppressed. Su Xueyan turned around and asked her mother, "Why do we lose teeth when we get older?"
This really puzzled Yang. She only knew that teeth would become loose and fall out as people got older, but she had no idea why.
Just as Yang was trying to come up with an excuse, she saw her eldest daughter touch the top of her youngest daughter's head and whisper, "As we age, our gums shrink. The gums that once held the tooth roots tightly can no longer hold them in place, so they fall out."
"Then, we won't be without teeth for the time being?" Su Xueyan asked expectantly.
"Yes, it's too early for your teeth to fall out," Su Qingluan smiled and looked at her brother and sister, "But from now on, as long as you rinse your mouth with clean water every day and brush your teeth with tooth powder, you may not lose your teeth when you get old."
In modern times, even among the elderly in their 80s, many of them still have teeth that have not fallen out if they take good care of them.
Although medical conditions in ancient times were limited and not as good as those of modern times, Su Qingluan believes that since there are not so many sugary drinks now, it is possible to achieve the same level of careful care as modern times by letting the two little ones eat less high-sugar snacks and pastries and more healthy, tooth-strengthening foods.
With the joint comfort of Su Guangfu, Yang and Su Qingluan, the two children finally stopped crying and finally understood that "changing teeth" is something that everyone will experience and it is not such a scary thing.
However, the little girl still pulled Su Qingluan's sleeve with some worry: "Sister, does it hurt when you change your teeth?"
"Ask your brother if he's in pain?"
Then he stood up and said to his parents, "I'll go get some salt water for my brother to rinse his mouth. Everything tastes weird with a mouth full of blood."
After Su Qingluan left, Su Xueyan turned around and pulled Su Xuanhe's sleeve again: "Brother, does it hurt?"
Su Xuanhe blinked.
Just now, he was so shocked by the fact that his teeth were gone that he ignored other things. Now think about it -
"Well, it didn't hurt much. The tooth just fell out by itself when I was eating."
When Su Xueyan heard her brother's "promise", she breathed a sigh of relief.
Yang smiled and said, "It's not usually painful to change teeth. But Erzhuang should be more careful when eating recently and don't swallow the lost teeth whole."
"...What will happen if you swallow it..." Su Xuanhe asked cautiously.
Yang: “…” Why do these two children keep asking questions that she can’t answer today?
This time it was Su Qingluan who came to the rescue again.
"It's okay." With a soft "dong" sound, a bowl of light salt water was brought to Su Xuanhe. Su Qingluan sat back and picked up a bean cake. "Baby teeth can't be digested. Whatever went in, they will come out the same way."
Of course, it is not accurate to say that it is completely indigestible, but she can't explain to an ancient child what calcium carbonate dissolves under slightly acidic conditions, right?
Just thinking about it makes me feel weird.
Yang couldn't help laughing when she heard her eldest daughter's words, but then she stopped laughing and turned to ask her son, "Where is the tooth you just lost?"
Su Qingluan teased: "You didn't really swallow it, did you?"
Su Xuanhe shook his head repeatedly, lowered his head and looked under the table, then picked up the front tooth from the ground next to the stool leg and held it in his palm: "Mother, it's here."
"This time it's your upper tooth that fell out. Later, when you go to the yard, find a spot you like and bury the tooth deeper." Yang said to her son with a smile.
"Why bury it?" Su Xuanhe asked.
"What if it's the lower teeth?" This was what Su Qingluan asked.
Su Qingluan had only heard of the custom of throwing fallen baby teeth onto the roof, and this was the first time she had heard of burying them underground, so it was a bit new to her.
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