Liu Meiyun rushed to the hospital and went straight to the pediatric clinic, where she saw Lu Wanjun holding Xiaobao and getting an injection.
"Mom~ Wow~"
When Xiaobao saw his mother, tears began to fall from his little face again, looking aggrieved and pitiful.
Liu Meiyun kissed him with pity. Seeing that Xiaobao still had an IV drip on his arm, she was anxious, "Aunt, is Xiaobao's stomach okay?"
Lu Wanjun touched the little baby's forehead and said, "Don't worry, it's nothing serious. The drip will heal slowly. I don't know what I ate to upset my stomach. It's acute gastroenteritis."
After hearing from Lu Wanjun that it was nothing serious, Liu Meiyun breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "He and his two children eat the same food every day, how could he have an upset stomach?"
Patting Xiaobao soothingly, Liu Meiyun began to carefully recall the meals of the past two days.
Flour, rice, egg custard and seafood are all cooked.
The three brothers eat exactly the same thing at home every day, and Xiaobao eats a lot and digests food quickly. He has the best gastrointestinal function among the three brothers.
"Teacher, did Xiaobao eat anything at school this morning?" Since there was no problem with the food at home, Liu Meiyu naturally thought of school. He was fine when he went out this morning, but suddenly he had an upset stomach. Maybe he ate something dirty at school.
The teacher who came over was already panicking, and Liu Meiyu's question made her even more panicked. She hurriedly said, "Comrade Liu, the three Xiaobao brothers have never had a meal at school. They have never eaten breakfast in the cafeteria, and we have never given Xiaobao anything to eat."
"Teacher, please don't be nervous." Liu Meiyu softened her voice and said, "I don't mean anything else. My little baby is greedy. I just want to ask if he has ever snatched snacks from other children at school. Children are ignorant and if I don't find the reason, I'm afraid that he will eat randomly next time and won't learn a lesson."
"Yes, yes, we need to find the reason." Seeing that Liu Meiyu didn't seem to be looking for trouble and holding the kindergarten responsible, the teacher breathed a sigh of relief, thought seriously, and frowned and replied: "I'm sorry, Comrade Liu, there are too many children in the kindergarten, and we are just a few teachers. We can only take care of them roughly. Sometimes when children cry, we really can't stare at every child all the time. Anyway, from what I saw, although Xiaobao is a little naughty in school, he has a good relationship with others. Every day, many children like to play with him. But I can't guarantee whether he ate the snacks brought by other children. I have to go back and ask other teachers if they saw it."
Liu Meiyu nodded. The teacher was telling the truth and she needed to ask clearly before making a conclusion.
"Xiaobao is fine, I'll go back to the kindergarten to keep an eye on him and ask other teachers." The teacher saw that Xiaobao was dripping with blood and it would be unnecessary for her to stay there, so she wanted to go back to check.
"Teacher, could you please ask someone to tell my husband to go to the kindergarten to pick up Dabao and Erbao. They must be scared."
While taking care of the little baby, Liu Meiyun did not forget that there were two other children in the kindergarten who must be crying and looking for their eldest and second babies.
"Sure! I'll get there right away!" the teacher agreed readily.
"Mom, hug me!"
Xiaobao looked listless and wanted his mother to hold him, so Lu Wanjun carefully handed Xiaobao to Liu Meiyun with the IV. On the way, she felt that the pocket of Xiaobao's pants was hard, so she took it out and looked at it, frowning.
"Meiyu, look." Lu Wanjun handed Liu Meiyu half a piece of dry and hard sweet potato.
Liu Meiyun took it and looked at it, her eyebrows wrinkled, she lowered her voice and asked softly: "Xiaobao, is this what you ate?"
Little Bao snuggled in his mother's arms, feeling so uncomfortable in his stomach that he shed tears. When he heard his mother's question, he squeezed his big eyes, squeezed out the tears, and then nodded weakly and said "hmm".
"I guess it's because I ate too much of this stuff. It's so hard and hard to digest." Lu Wanjun sighed lightly.
There was no need to estimate. Halfway through the IV drip, Xiaobao's stomach started to feel uncomfortable again. He groaned in pain in his mother's arms, and then he vomited.
After spitting, looking at the residue on the ground, what else is there to not understand?
The greedy Lu Xiaobao was hospitalized for eating dried sweet potatoes, and he didn't have to go to kindergarten for several days.
Dabao and Erbao didn't want to go at first, but if they both stayed at home, Liu Meiyu would have to take care of the youngest and she definitely wouldn't be able to do it, so their father gave them a strict order.
You don’t have to go to kindergarten. You can just stay in the hospital with your aunt.
When the two brothers heard that they were going to the hospital with their aunt, they thought it would be better to go to kindergarten.
Every time I went to the hospital office with my aunt, there were uncles and aunts I didn’t know who would come in and pinch my face, and they were always unhappy.
After knowing that Xiaobao had acute gastroenteritis after eating dried sweet potatoes, when Lu Changzheng sent Dabao and Erbao to kindergarten, he took the opportunity to find out the situation from the teacher and other children.
After I had almost understood the situation and told my wife about it, both of them were speechless.
Every day he secretly uses candies at home to exchange for dried sweet potatoes with other children. Liu Meiyun doesn’t know how to educate his little treasure.
"It's my fault. I usually treat them too well."
Liu Meiyu touched the head of Xiaobao who was sleeping soundly on the kang, and for the first time she began to doubt herself.
According to the living conditions of that era, her family was considered wealthy. She herself did not want to eat the salted vegetable steamed buns, let alone give them to her three brothers. So while other people were eyeing candies, biscuits and dried peach cakes, her silly son was craving for the dried sweet potatoes that were so hard to chew.
"Nonsense, how can you be blamed for this?" Lu Changzheng looked at his son who had caused Liu Meiyun to blame herself, but he was sleeping soundly on the kang with his butt sticking up. He patted the boy's butt twice in annoyance and said, "This silly boy is too greedy. I think it's good for him to suffer this punishment. It's just right to teach him a lesson. If he eats nonsense outside next time, I will take him to the hospital and let my aunt give him an injection!"
"You are really my biological father!" Liu Meiyu glared at the man.
The three brothers have always been in good health, but this time, the little treasure became sick because of his greed. During the few days of resting at home and recuperating his stomach, he cannot eat any meat or fish. But his aunt still cooks delicious food for the eldest and second treasures every day, while the youngest treasure can only drink tasteless white porridge, with some egg custard occasionally.
Xiaobao also knew that his aunt and mother did it on purpose.
He secretly exchanged dried sweet potatoes with other kids, so now he can’t eat meat for several days!
Therefore, every meal was a hassle.
"Brother Erbao, I want to eat meat, too." Xiaobao, whose stomach was almost full, took advantage of the moment when his mother's back was turned and secretly ran to Erbao, who was usually the easiest to talk to, to ask for meat.
Erbao looked at his mother and was about to secretly give it to him, but Dabao kicked his chair and complained to his mother, "Mom, Erbao secretly gave meat to Xiaobao!"
Liu Meiyu turned around and saw Erbao's little arms quickly retracted, and Xiaobao pretending to lower his head and pick up the chair when he was caught.
She walked over, separated Erbao and Xiaobao a little, and said, "Erbao, finish your meal and help mom with the work. If you do a good job, mom will reward you."
"Mom, what's the reward?" Erbao's eyes lit up and he started eating rice faster.
"What reward do you want?" Liu Meiyu asked.
Erbao tilted his head and thought about it, his little face full of expectation: "Mom, I want the same colored pencils as Sister Tiantian!"
Liu Meiyun nodded, turned around and asked Dabao next to her, "What reward do you want, Dabao?"
"Mom, I want to go to the zoo to see the monkeys."
Liu Meiyun nodded, indicating that she understood. Xiaobao beside her waited anxiously for a long time and began to worry: "Mom, there is still Xiaobao, you forgot Xiaobao!"
"How could mommy forget about Xiaobao? Mommy knows what Xiaobao wants, so there's no need to ask. As long as you perform well, mommy will give you rewards!"
"Really?" The three brothers looked at their mother with their big eyes.
"Of course it's true." Liu Meiyu nodded affirmatively.
So after Xiaobao recovered from his illness, the three brothers started going to kindergarten again as normal. Every day when they woke up, they looked forward to being called by their mother to do some work, but for one or two days, nothing happened.
Until this weekend, the weather was clear and the sun was shining, so the three brothers didn't have to go to kindergarten.
Just follow mom's butt, waiting for mom to "ask work"! .
Lu Changzheng came back from outside on a bicycle and, as his wife had instructed, unloaded the things he had brought from the back seat of the bicycle in the yard.
"Dad, what is this?" The three brothers walked over to take a look.
"These are snacks your mother prepared for you three brothers." Lu Changzheng untied the bag and poured the sweet potatoes, which were still covered in mud, into a large wooden basin.
"Mom, this is sweet potato!"
All three brothers recognized this thing.
"Yes, it's sweet potatoes." Liu Meiyu nodded and told Lu Changzheng to fetch water.
"I don't like sweet potatoes!" Dabao protested with a pout.
"Mom, Erbao doesn't like it either!" Erbao followed his brother and echoed.
Only Xiaobao remained silent. As long as it was edible, there was basically nothing he disliked.
Liu Meiyun ignored the two brothers for the moment, and said softly to Xiaobao: "This is the gift that mommy gave to Xiaobao. Don't you like eating dried sweet potatoes? Mommy will make it for you. When you go to kindergarten in the future, you can put it in your schoolbag as a snack, okay?"
Student Lu Xiaobao, who only remembers eating but not being beaten, recalled the chewy dried sweet potatoes and nodded happily: "Yeah, Mom, you are so nice!"
"You are so stupid!" Lu Changzheng poured the water into a large wooden basin. Seeing that his little son was admitted to the hospital for eating dried sweet potatoes and had not learned his lesson, he didn't know what to "praise" him for.
"Mom! What about Dabao?" Dabao pouted unhappily with a jealous expression.
Erbao was not far behind, he squeezed into his mother's arms, hugged her thighs and protested: "Mom, my younger brother got a gift, where is Erbao?"
After rubbing the heads of her two sons, Liu Meiyun patiently coaxed them: "Mom, remember, Dabao wants to go to the zoo, Erbao wants to buy crayons, and Xiaobao likes dried sweet potatoes. As long as you help mom work today and make dried sweet potatoes together, mom will give you a reward!"
After hearing what their mother said, Dabao and Erbao smiled, rolled up their sleeves and started to help wash the sweet potatoes in the big wooden basin seriously.
Because there was a big cake hanging in front, the three brothers worked very hard. Dabao was picky and liked to be clean. He would hold a sweet potato in his hands and wash it for at least 20 minutes. It was washed so clean that not a speck of mud could be seen.
Erbao works very efficiently but gets distracted easily. He can't work for long and soon starts playing with cement in the basin.
Xiaobao is the most serious and focused, but that only happens when it's related to food. If you ask him to do something else, he'll run away without anyone knowing where he's going.
Liu Meiyu and Lu Changzheng sat nearby, busy with other things. Apart from pouring water, they did not mix anything else. At most, they just urged the guests to eat.
"Big Treasure, Second Treasure, Little Treasure, you guys have to work hard and wash yourself clean as soon as possible. Mommy wants to make delicious sweet potato fries for you."
"Mom, they're just dried sweet potatoes!" Dabao rubbed the smooth sweet potatoes with an expression that said, "Mom, don't try to lie to me again."
Erbao followed his brother and said, "Mom, you can make it for Xiaobao. Xiaobao is not afraid of injections. I don't want dried sweet potatoes!"
"Mom! Xiaobao likes to eat! Xiaobao is not afraid of injections!"
Lu Xiaobao was discharged from the hospital just a few days ago and is full of life again. He doesn't have any shadow on Sweet Potato Dried Fruit at all!
"It's different. Dabao and Erbao definitely like the sweet potato chips made by mom." Liu Meiyu said affirmatively.
"Mom, are the sweet potato fries you make different from others?" Erbao's little brain was working quickly, with a hint of anticipation on his face.
"Of course it's different." Liu Meiyu touched his little head, "As long as you wash the sweet potatoes quickly, mom will make it for you. If it's too late, mom will have to cook later and won't be busy, so she won't make it for you."
Dabao tilted his head and looked at the man who was doing nothing but staring at his mother. He said rationally and vigorously, "Mom, let Dad cook!"
Lu Changzheng slammed his head and said, "How old are you? How dare you call your father!"
"Hmph! Bad dad!" Dabao snorted and continued to rub the sweet potatoes.
In the minds of the three brothers, Liu Meiyu, whose words were 99% credible, successfully aroused the enthusiasm of Dabao and Erbao, and the three brothers began to work together to rub the sweet potatoes again.
After washing them two or three times, the sweet potatoes were completely free of mud. Liu Meiyu picked out some and put them in a large iron pot to steam. After they were steamed, they were allowed to cool and then sliced. She then placed them in a large winnowing basket on a large rock in the yard to dry in the sun.
When Liu Meiyu was working, the three brothers followed her around, more clingy than followers.
When they found out that the process of drying the sweet potatoes was completed, the eldest and second children were eagerly waiting for their mother to make sweet potato chips for them. The youngest child couldn't even wait and had already peeled a fresh steamed sweet potato and started to eat it.
Lu Changzheng was also curious and wondered how his wife would coax the three little kids at this moment.
After a while, I saw Liu Meiyu put a large pot of oil in the pot, put the cut sweet potato strips in, fried them, and then took them out. The fragrant smell immediately filled the whole room.
"Mom, it smells so good! Dabao wants to eat it!" When Dabao smelled it, he couldn't wait to grab it, but was slapped away by Lu Changzheng.
"You just took it out of the hot oil pan, aren't you afraid of burning your paws? Go wash your hands with your brothers before eating!"
"Dad, don't eat secretly!"
The three brothers swallowed their saliva and rushed to the pool.
It was impossible to eat secretly, Lu Changzheng ate openly.
"Meiyun, these sweet potato strips are really delicious when fried."
It just wastes fuel. Of course, he didn't say the second half of the sentence.
After Lu Changzheng finished eating, he couldn't help but grab some more, but Liu Meiyu slapped him with a shovel.
"Captain Lu, you said the child didn't wash his hands. May I ask if you washed your hands? As a father, you are not a role model at all."
Captain Lu defended himself: "I washed it when I was washing the pot just now."
Liu Meiyun took the plate of French fries away and ignored him, "You've already tasted it, so you don't need to eat more."
“…”
The three brothers quickly washed their hands and came back to see their father running towards the sink again.
"Mom, it's delicious!"
After washing their hands, the three brothers gathered around a plate of fried sweet potato fries on a small wooden table. Their lips were shiny from the eating and their paws were covered in grease.
"Xiaobao, which is better, fried sweet potato fries or dried sweet potatoes?" Liu Meiyu asked Lu Xiaobao who was competing for food with his brothers.
Xiaobao nodded without hesitation: "Mom, this is delicious."
It was obviously delicious. After finishing a plate, the three brothers still wanted more. Seeing that there were still potato chunks left on the stove, they pestered their mother to fry more.
Liu Meiyu refused mercilessly, "No, that's reserved for my aunt and uncle, you can't eat it alone."
The three brothers curled their lips. The French fries were delicious, but they only ordered that much.
"Mom, Xiaobao doesn't want dried sweet potatoes anymore. Let's bring those from outside in and make French fries!" After eating the fried sweet potato fries made by his mother, Lu Xiaobao no longer has a special liking for dried sweet potatoes.
"That can no longer be used to make fried sweet potato chips, it can only be used to make dried sweet potatoes." Liu Meiyu completely dispelled the naive ideas of the three brothers.
"Mom, will you make it for us tomorrow?" Dabao asked with anticipation.
Liu Meiyu felt relieved to see that Dabao no longer cried incessantly when asking for meat like he did when he was a child, but instead started to communicate.
But I am also relieved that it is impossible to be soft-hearted.
She rubbed her arm and said to the three brothers earnestly, "You can eat fried sweet potato fries, but you have to wash the sweet potatoes yourself and do the work yourself. If you want something, you have to work hard. Next time you want to eat it, ask your father to buy sweet potatoes. As long as you wash them clean, mom will help you."
"Yes, Mom, I'll wash it!" Xiaobao agreed most readily because he had food hanging in the balance.
Dabao and Erbao hesitated for a moment and nodded.
So the next day, the three brothers spent most of the day rubbing sweet potatoes in the yard, and Liu Meiyu fried a little for them to satisfy their cravings.
She doesn't mind the oil, but she thinks eating too much is unhealthy.
After three consecutive days, the three brothers didn't want to wash the sweet potatoes anymore, and Liu Meiyu naturally stopped frying them.
Since Lu Xiaobao had eaten the soft and crispy fried sweet potato fries, he suddenly lost his appetite when he saw the dried sweet potatoes that had been dried in the sun...
After solving the problem of Xiaobao's love for eating dried sweet potatoes, Liu Meiyu would occasionally prepare some "bitter and sweet" rice for the three brothers to broaden their horizons and prevent them from eating too much white bread and always thinking about other people's bran and vegetable dumplings.
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