Chapter 217: Worms in the Stomach (Page 1/2)
Evening self-study lasted until 8:30. Lin Man was about to walk back with the students with a flashlight. As soon as she walked out of the school gate, she found Huo Qingci standing at the gate pushing a bicycle.
Lin Man's face lit up with joy, "Qingci, you're here?"
"Well, I'm here to pick you up from get off work. Let's go!"
It takes at least 40 minutes to walk home, but only 20 minutes by bike. If you live with your parents-in-law, you can save half the distance.
Lin Man doesn't have a bicycle, and the mountain bikes in the space can't be taken out and used. If Huo Qingci doesn't come to pick her up, she can only walk back.
Fortunately, I only have to work late classes on Mondays, and the other evening study time is arranged for other teachers.
Lin Man took the flashlight from Huo Qingci, jumped on the back of the bicycle, and said, "Let's go. I'll use the flashlight to illuminate the area."
"Manman, if I'm on night shift and can't come pick you up, just stay in the dormitory for the night! An'an, Ningning, Sijie, and Grandpa will help look after you."
"I'd be worried about the children if I lived alone. What if An'an and Ningning got sick in the middle of the night?"
"Speaking of illness, Ningning complained of stomachache after dinner. I suspected he had eaten too much, so I gave him some hawthorn slices to help him digest the food.
But before going to bed, he still complained of a stomachache. I wonder if he slept well after I came out."
"Ningning has a stomachache, why don't you take him to see a doctor? If you don't pick me up, I can walk back with the students."
"He said it hurt, then said it didn't hurt. I wanted to take him to the hospital, but he hid."
Lin Man knew that her son was very scared. Whenever he saw a doctor in a white coat, or a doctor who gave him vaccinations, he would hide.
Lin Man suddenly said, "My son has grown up, but it seems he has never been dewormed. Could he have roundworms?"
"Well, I'll go to the hospital pharmacy tomorrow and get some anthelmintic medicine for everyone to take."
Lin Man understood that in this era, sanitary conditions were poor, and the vegetables and fruits we ate were all watered with urine and feces. We didn't know whether there were roundworm eggs on the leaves. Both adults and children should be dewormed regularly.
People who pull cucumbers and tomatoes off the vine and eat them without washing them are particularly prone to ascariasis.
There are albendazole tablets in Lin Man's space. After taking them, you won't even see the dead roundworms. If you eat pagoda candies, you might even see living worms.
"Okay, go to the hospital tomorrow and buy some more pagoda candies so Grandpa and Sijie can get rid of the parasites."
"Manman, don't you want to eat?"
"I take the anthelmintic medicine from the space. I don't dare eat the pagoda candy."
Huo Qingci didn't expect that Lin Man was not afraid of dogs and snakes, but was afraid of roundworms.
It was almost nine o'clock when they got home. Huo Yi was already asleep, but Huo Yining was still awake. When she saw Lin Man coming back, she got up from the bamboo bed. "Mom, you're back."
Lin Man put down the flashlight and asked, "Ningning, why aren't you sleeping?"
"I need to poop. It's too dark outside and I'm scared."
"Don't be afraid. Your dad will take you to poop as soon as he locks the bike. Mommy's going to take a shower first."
After Lin Man finished speaking, she went back to her room to get clothes and take a shower.
As soon as Huo Qingci came in, Huo Yining said to him, "Dad, my stomach hurts and I need to poop."
"Come on, I'll take you to the backyard and poop in the potty."
Lin Man carried the hot water into the bathroom. Just as she unbuttoned her clothes, she heard a scream, "Mom, help! Help! There's a snake biting my butt."
Lin Man was so scared that she quickly buttoned her clothes, opened the bathroom door and rushed out, "Ningning, what's wrong?"
"Don't worry, this kid has a tapeworm stuck in his butt. I'll get the tongs to remove it. You hold the flashlight."
Huo Qingci handed the flashlight to Lin Man and rushed into the kitchen to get the fire tongs. Huo Yining looked at Lin Man with tears in her eyes, "Mom, Snake is wanting my butt, woo woo..."
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"Don't cry, it's a little bug. Mommy will help you pull it out."
Lin Man looked at her son with tears streaming down his face. Without thinking, she took out a stack of tissues from the space and directly pulled out the little roundworm that was stuck on his little butt and was twisting and turning.
"Okay, son, the bug has been caught, don't cry!" Lin Man comforted him softly.
When Huo Qingci came out, he found that the roundworm on his son's butt had been pulled out by his daughter-in-law.
He said to Lin Man, "Manman, you're right. I'm going to buy some more insecticide tomorrow."
"Well, I'll take a shower first, and you wipe our son's butt."
"good."
Huo Qingci put down the fire tongs and asked Huo Yining, "Ningning, are you done with your poop?"
"Dad, I'm scared! I'm scared of poop!"
"Don't be afraid, your mother has already caught the bugs for you. After you poop, wash your butt and go to bed."
"Dad, other people are giving birth to babies, but I am giving birth to worms. Am I a worm?"
Huo Qingci was frowning. What was this kid thinking about? Having roundworms in the stomach was caused by unhygienic behavior and eating food containing roundworm eggs.
"How can you give birth to a baby if you are a boy? You have worms in your stomach. That's because sometimes you don't wash your hands and eat dirty things, which causes worms to grow in your stomach.
Tomorrow, Dad will buy you some pagoda candy. After you eat it, you won’t have any worms in your stomach anymore.”
When Huo Yining thought that eating candy could kill the bugs, he decided to eat a few more tomorrow. He raised his butt and said, "Dad, I'm done. Please help me wipe my butt. I want to go to sleep."
"I understand, my little ancestor."
After Lin Man finished bathing and washing her clothes, her eldest son was already asleep. After drying his clothes and returning to his room, she looked at him grinding his teeth while sleeping and said, "This kid is grinding his teeth while sleeping. Why didn't we notice it before? If we had, we would have dewormed him long ago."
"An An doesn't need to be dewormed until he's one year old. Ning Ning should have dewormed him long ago."
"Well, the bed is too small, let's go back to sleep in the space!"
Lin Man carried her two sons back to the space, and then took Huo Qingci into the space together.
Lin Man had no classes on Tuesday afternoon. She spent the whole afternoon either grading homework or writing lesson plans. When she was done with nothing else, she left half an hour early.
Because other teachers are in the same situation, the school stipulates that even if the teacher does not have classes, he or she must be in school, but if he or she has something to do, he or she can leave work half an hour early.
Lin Man went to the tofu workshop and bought a few pieces of tofu and two pounds of tofu foam.
"Master He, when will you make firm tofu? I'd like to order a few boxes of firm tofu from you."
He Bainian, who had just finished braising dried tofu, asked, "Teacher Lin, would you like to order firm tofu to make fermented tofu?"
Lin Man nodded, "Yes, I want to make two jars of fermented tofu."
"Maybe we need cooler weather before we can make firm tofu. Tofu spoils easily in hot weather. Come back in mid-October to order. I'll have my son deliver it to you as much as you want."
Tofu is not that expensive anyway, so they just make more. They keep one jar for themselves and prepare one jar for the mother-in-law and others.
Lin Man calculated in her mind that there were 16 blocks of tofu in a box, and four boxes meant 64 blocks. Each block of tofu could be cut into 9 small blocks, so there were more than 500 blocks in total, which should be enough to fill two large jars.
Lin Man thought for a moment and said, "Then let's order four boxes!"
He Bainian asked, "Why did you order so much? Normally we order one or two boxes."
"I have a big family and we drink a lot of porridge in the morning, so I can't live without these jar dishes."
"Okay, I understand. I'll make some old tofu and send it to you in the middle of the month."
"Thank you, Master He."
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