"Ms. Shao, I will try my best to do what you ask."
The next day, the alarm clock on the bedside table started beeping before dawn. Ling Chuan was afraid of disturbing his wife, so he quickly reached out to turn off the alarm. He looked at the dim night light and saw that it was only 6:30. Usually, Shao Mo would not get up until 7:30.
He had just carefully put the alarm clock back on the bedside table and turned around to hug his wife and take a nap, but his wife sat up from the bed.
"Wife, are you going to get up?"
"Well, you go to sleep. I have to go to Mrs. Zheng's place." Shao Mo replied drowsily with squinted eyes.
Today is the first day of the weight loss program. She is worried that Mrs. Zheng will not be able to adapt and will not do as she says, so she must go over to supervise her. In addition, she also has to give Mrs. Zheng Chinese medicine to regulate her body.
The Chinese medicine was prescribed by an old Chinese doctor. It was a common prescription for dispelling cold and replenishing qi and blood, but the water used to boil the medicine was made by her using spiritual spring water mixed with well water.
After getting up, Shao Mo first boiled the Chinese medicine, asked Sister Luo to help watch the fire, and then went to wash and get dressed.
After she had breakfast and the Chinese medicine was ready, she put it in a thermos and asked Tian Yuan to drive her to the villa.
Fortunately, when she chose the place, she deliberately chose one that was close to her, and it only took fifteen minutes to drive there.
When Shao Mo entered the villa, the nanny was preparing breakfast. According to the recipe she set, the breakfast was milk oatmeal porridge, a boiled egg, a small bag of nuts, and an apple.
After Mrs. Zheng got up and had breakfast, Shao Mo asked her to walk around the backyard for 15 minutes before taking out the Chinese medicine.
Looking at the Chinese medicine that looked like soy sauce, Mrs. Zheng frowned.
"Can I stop drinking? I've drunk a lot before and it didn't help at all."
"I guarantee this will work. You don't have to drink it for too long. Five days will be enough."
After hearing that it only took five days, Mrs. Zheng held the medicine bowl and gulped down the medicine in one go.
After drinking the Chinese medicine, Mrs. Zheng subconsciously called the nanny to bring a jar of mint candy, but only after she called did she realize that she was not at home.
Shao Mo smiled and handed over a half plum, "Suck this, it can remove the bitter taste of medicine in your mouth."
After drinking the Chinese medicine, they rested for another half an hour. Around 10 o'clock, Shao Mo changed into sportswear and began to lead Mrs. Zheng in fitness exercises.
After an hour of fitness exercises, Mrs. Zheng lay on the ground and couldn't get up.
Shao Mo asked the nanny to bring a towel to help Mrs. Zheng wipe the sweat off her body. She sat beside her and chatted with Mrs. Zheng: "Mrs. Zheng, you are in good physical condition. I thought you couldn't last half an hour, but you lasted for an hour."
Encouraged by Shao Mo, Mrs. Zheng also sat up from the ground.
"I used to be just like you, skinny as a bag of bones. At that time, my husband was just a small section chief in the factory. The factory was not doing well and couldn't pay wages. I was pregnant and felt dizzy and hungry every day.
It was not easy to make food at that time. There were so many rotten leaves in the vegetable market that people were fighting for them. I went to the rivers in the countryside to find snails, crabs, shrimps, and some wild vegetables. I would take them home and cook a pot of soup with half a bowl of rice bran. That was the whole family’s daily rations.”
"Later, my husband went into business, and our family conditions gradually improved. I started eating and eating, wanting to eat all the good things, stuffing them into my stomach as if I wanted to make up for all the hardship I had endured in those years.
My husband also loves me. He buys me whatever I want to eat. Slowly, my body has changed. At first, I weighed 120 pounds, and then when I got pregnant with my second child, my weight suddenly went up to 150 pounds.
Until now, my weight has been maintained at around 145 kg. Ms. Shao, if I could really lose weight to 120 catties, I would wake up laughing in my dreams. "
"Mrs. Zheng, you can call me Xiaomo. I still say the same thing, as long as you listen to me and do what I say, I promise that by the Spring Festival, you will be so thin that Mr. Zheng will not recognize you."
Under Shao Mo's brainwashing of "You will definitely lose weight" and "You can lose weight", Mrs. Zheng broke through herself again and again, insisting on an hour of fitness exercises, an hour of yoga classes, not eating after 6 pm, and so on.
"Xiaomo, I feel like I've lost weight, really. I feel like my arms and thighs are thinner, and there's less fat on my waist. Can I get on the scale?"
On the fourth day, Mrs. Zheng happily found Shao Mo and wanted to weigh herself.
"Mrs. Zheng, please bear with it for a while. We'll see what happens in three days."
"Do you think I've lost weight?"
"It's obvious. In fact, you should be able to feel it when you wear clothes. Is the clothes that fit you just before now loose?"
Mrs. Zheng nodded excitedly. "Yes, the pants I wore before were very tight around my waist when I sat down. Now the waist of the pants is looser and it doesn't pinch me when I sit down."
"Hold on a little longer, and I will make sure you feel a miracle in three days."
"good!"
In this way, with Shao Mo's various encouragements and motivations, Mrs. Zheng gritted her teeth and finally got through the first stage.
On the morning of the weigh-in, Mrs. Zheng stood in front of the scale for a long time, not daring to take a step.
She was looking forward to weighing herself every day, but when the scale was placed at her feet, she lost her courage.
It was so hard for her to hold on this week. She was so hungry at night that she wanted to eat her quilt. She only managed to hold on because of her determination to look thin when she weighed herself.
But she was afraid that the result would not be what she wanted, and that all her persistence over the past few days would be in vain.
"Mrs. Zheng, do you think weight is important?"
Hearing Shao Mo's question, Mrs. Zheng looked at her in confusion, "Of course it's important. If it's not important, then wouldn't my suffering these days be in vain?"
"Compared to your previous hard days, are these days really hard?"
Mrs. Zheng thought for a moment, "It's different. In the past, I suffered physically. Although I didn't have enough to eat every day, I was very happy, always thinking that life would slowly get better. But these seven days have been more of a mental and willpower torture for me."
"Mrs. Zheng, if you were asked to have a body like mine but weigh 130 or even 140 kilograms, would you be willing?"
Mrs. Zheng quickly shook her head, "You are so thin, how can you weigh 130 pounds?"
"I'm talking about hypothetical situations. Mrs. Zheng, what you actually want is a nice body shape, right?"
Mrs. Zheng nodded, looking a little sad. "I used to have a good figure, and I looked good in everything I wore. My husband loved taking me shopping for clothes. But since I gained weight, I have never gone shopping for clothes with my husband again, because I can't wear any of the beautiful clothes, and even if I put them on, I still look ugly."
Shao Mo took out a tape measure and said, "Mrs. Zheng, relax a little. I will measure your waist first."
Mrs. Zheng did not resist when measuring her waistline, and opened her arms to let Shao Mo measure it.
(End of this chapter)