The two brothers of the Lin family were still outside worrying about whether their sister was going to die, but they were beaten into silence by Lin Guoqing alone.
"Why can't I ask..." Lin Shuchao frowned, his face full of question marks.
Lin Guoqing rolled his eyes at him speechlessly. "It's not that I'm not allowed to ask, but can you please stop shouting so loudly? I can go around the whole village and tell everyone that you wet the bed last year. Would you be happy?"
Lin Shuchao jumped up from the ground. "I didn't wet the bed! It was an accident. I drank too much water! I had a dream last night that my brother told me to pee under a tree!"
"And then you peed on the bed. If this isn't bed-wetting, what is it?" Lin Guoqing was indifferent to his son's red face and continued to nag.
"I was dreaming about competing with my brother to see who could pee farther!! I didn't wet the bed!"
Lin Shu quickly covered his face. This idiot, even though he wet the bed, he still screamed so loudly...
"Oh, your bed is covered in piss anyway."
"It could also be my brother..."
Seeing that someone was about to start a fight with him, Lin Shu quickly interrupted the topic.
"Dad! That sister..." He raised his voice, then suddenly lowered it, "...what happened to her? Why didn't our...uh...little sister come out with us?"
Lin Guoqing smacked his lips, not knowing how to explain this. He even tried to recall how he knew about this kind of thing back then.
He actually didn't remember much. It seemed that when he was getting together with Youqing and a group of people, someone was talking about his sister or something.
Uh… No, no. If he knew these two brats were discussing things like their sisters outside, he would definitely break the broom. He felt that parents should teach their children about this matter and not let them go out and mess around. Otherwise, he would be irresponsible to his daughter and the two boys.
"Well, when a girl reaches a certain age, her body will undergo some changes. One of them is that some special blood will flow out of her body every month. This also symbolizes that my sister has grown up."
Lin Guoqing, relying on his elementary school diploma and social experience, tried to organize gentle and written words to explain to them, "Your teachers in school always taught you about the differences between men and women, right?"
The two little ones nodded.
"At three years old, we don't sit on the same seat as each other, and at seven years old, we don't sleep on the same bed as each other." Lin Shu hurriedly followed up with an ancient saying taught by his teacher.
"Right! You two are now ten or twelve years old, and your sister is eight. Shuying is already fourteen, a grown-up girl. You should be more careful when playing with girls in the future, and don't be so careless."
Lin Guoqing specifically called out Lin Shuchao, "Especially you, stop trying to catch big bugs or pretend to be a ghost to scare your sister. You won't be able to scare her, and you'll get beaten up anyway. Do you have any shame in fighting with a little girl?"
Lin Shuchao's face was puffed up with anger, and he was very unconvinced. "She was the one who wanted to hit me! I didn't even dare to fight back!"
"Will she hit you if you don't provoke her? Do you still want to fight back?" Lin Guoqing sneered.
"The point I'm making isn't just about your sister. Don't mess with little girls when you're out in the open or at school. Boys and girls should keep a proper distance from each other, don't you understand?"
Lin Shuchao: "...I really only fought with Lin Shumei. I never scared other girls..."
"Are you still proud of me?" Lin Guoqing rolled his eyes at him. "Anyway, don't fight with anyone!"
Seeing that the father and son were about to quarrel again, Lin Shu rushed to straighten their crooked building.
"Dad, then sister...how long will this blood last?"
Lin Guoqing scratched his head. "...Five or six days? I'm not sure, but there are a few days like that every month. She'll be weak during these days, so you should take good care of her and don't let her get cold or tired. Otherwise, her stomachache will get worse."
The 12-year-old Lin Shugan was given some knowledge about women for the first time, and he still didn't quite understand it, but this did not prevent him from remembering Lin Guoqing's last words.
During these days every month, don’t let me get cold or tired, otherwise I will have a stomachache.
…
Lin Shuying had her first period and felt very strange.
Especially in the summer, she felt as uncomfortable as a child wearing diapers. She went to the toilet several times a night and couldn't sleep at all because of Liang Shengdi's tossing and turning.
"What are you doing?" Liang Shengdi stood up and looked at her eldest granddaughter in the moonlight outside the window. She was coming back from the toilet for the nth time. "You didn't even get to eat watermelon today. Why do you keep squatting on the toilet? Even when you squat, you don't even make any peeing sounds."
Lin Shuying climbed onto the bed awkwardly and said, "I, I'm afraid it will leak out..."
"Huh? What leaked?"
Liang Shengdi was not at home just now and didn't know that her eldest granddaughter had grown up. She just listened to her moaning in the dark for a long time before she figured out what was going on.
"I was wondering! Why did you put a towel under your head just now... Just let your period come, it's normal, why are you so nervous?" Liang Shengdi muttered a few words, turned over and lay down again.
"It just so happens that the farm work is almost done recently, so you should just rest at home and don't fall into the water, otherwise you will suffer when you are old."
Lin Shuying lay beside her grandmother, her two big eyes fluttering, and she was not sleepy at all.
"grandmother……"
"what?"
"In the past, when you came... for this, did you also have to rest at home?" She felt that the precautions her mother had just reminded her of were no different from those her aunt had given her when she was in confinement after childbirth.
Liang Shengdi sneered in the darkness.
"How could I be as relaxed as you back then? I was still resting at home. Even in winter, I had to go fishing in the river. The water there would turn pink... If you went in the water wearing white pants, you would turn pink when you got out, without even having to go into the dye vat."
"Ah?" Lin Shuying exclaimed, turning sideways to face her grandmother, "Didn't you say you can't catch a cold? You just said you'd suffer when you get old..."
Liang Shengdi felt that she probably didn't need to sleep tonight, so she simply turned sideways to face Lin Shuying.
"Suffer or starve, you have a choice. If you don't go down to the river or the fields, what will you eat? Only little brats like you who have never experienced hardship will remember to take care of your health because your parents love you. As for me? As long as I'm not dead, I have to work."
"Are you feeling unwell anywhere now?" Lin Shuying was thinking about the topic of suffering. Her grandmother was old, and she might have many illnesses.
Liang Shengdi smacked her lips. "It's not so bad. I used to have stomachaches all the time, but they kept coming back. Then I... well, I haven't worked for a long time. You know what, during those years, I really didn't have any pain!"
Lin Shuying: ...
"Mom also said that if you keep catching cold at this time, you won't be able to have children in the future." But she saw that her grandmother didn't seem to be worried about whether she could have children or not.
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