Chapter 154: Ugly Nian Nian
Nian Nian, whose lips were pale, finally regained her rosy complexion after sleeping at home for an afternoon.
He woke up with a dry throat.
Fortunately, Shi Guilin had the foresight to put a cup of hot water at the bedside in advance. The water temperature was just right at this time. Nian Nian sat at the bedside and drank half a cup of warm water.
The water moistened her throat, Nian Nian coughed, and regained some of her voice.
He looked around, but there was no sign of Shi Guilin in the huge children's room.
"Dad's not here."
Nian Nian, whose fever had temporarily subsided, muttered to herself.
His dizziness was gone, his eyes were no longer dry, and he felt like he was fine again.
She lifted the quilt, put her feet into the slippers on the ground, ran into the bathroom, stood in front of the sink and washed her face.
He splashed two handfuls of water on his face, feeling very comfortable. In a good mood, he took the small towel that was drying on the rack and wiped his face.
The towel fabric absorbs the water droplets from the skin, and the energetic Nian Nian feels dry and comfortable.
He couldn't help but support himself with his hands while washing up, grinning at the mirror in front of him.
There was something wrong with that smile.
How come there's a black hole in his straight, white lower teeth?!
Nian Nian moved closer to the mirror and touched the empty spot on her lower teeth with the tip of her index finger.
Soft and smooth—his gums.
He remembered.
He lost a tooth at noon today.
Became ugly.
After realizing this problem, it was like a bolt from the blue, and Nian Nian's face changed drastically as if she couldn't accept it.
Slowly, he closed his mouth, and like a stuck video, he retreated from the mirror frame by frame.
It took him a long time to mentally prepare himself before he walked out of the bathroom. When he reached the bed, he was too lazy to even kick off his slippers. He threw himself face-first onto the quilt, facing death with a fearless attitude.
Like a dead fish, motionless.
The doorknob rang, and Shi Guilin, who had changed into comfortable home clothes, pushed the door open and came in, ready to call Nian Nian, who had slept all afternoon, to get up for dinner.
Shi Guilin wasn't sure whether Nian Nian was still asleep, so he walked very lightly.
It wasn't until I got closer to the bed that I saw Nian Nian's feet in slippers resting on the edge of the bed, but her body was face down in the soft quilt.
He must have woken up once.
"Nian Nian, are you hungry?"
Shi Guilin leaned over and patted his calf, "Come downstairs for dinner."
After waiting for a few seconds, the person on the bed didn't move at all.
"Niannian?" He knelt on one knee on the bed, grabbed the person's shoulder and shook it.
"Hmm." The person who had been keeping his face down finally made some movement.
Even though it was a cry.
With a crying voice???!
Shi Guilin was frightened. He forcibly grabbed Nian Nian's body and turned her over like a pancake.
A wet face was revealed.
Nian Nian's eyes were covered with tears. Shi Guilin subconsciously touched his forehead, feeling it, and asked worriedly, "Why are you crying? Is the fever coming back?"
Facing Shi Guilin's warm, dry palm and worried, concerned gaze, Nian Nian suppressed her trembling voice and said in despair:
"Daddy, I'm not your pretty baby anymore."
Shi Guilin was stunned. He didn't understand why he was crying, nor did he understand why he was not his beautiful baby. He even glanced at Nian Nian's face.
Still very fresh and juicy.
There's nothing wrong with it.
Nian Nian continued her painful declaration: "Dad, there is a black hole on my teeth when I smile. It doesn't look good. I have become ugly."
"What should I do, Dad? I will never be praised for being cute again. I'm so ugly now." Nian Nian seemed to be suffering from appearance anxiety. She was extremely sad and two lines of tears flowed down her face.
He never even knew who said it, or from which costume drama, the line "I have become a broken piece of jade, Dad. I am no longer myself."
Shi Guilin looked at him: "..."
After a brief silence, there was a burst of extreme laughter. Shi Guilin laughed so hard that he couldn't breathe. He held onto the edge of the bed and slowly slid down to the carpet. He laughed until his stomach hurt, and he laughed until he fell flat on the carpet and pounded his fists.
His laughter was so shocking that Nian Nian's crying stopped for a few seconds.
He became ugly and was laughed at by his father.
Nian Nian felt desperate and twisted her body back to the position she was in before Shi Guilin came in. She lay in the quilt and mooed.
The uncontrollable sobs were mixed with the bitter curses:
"Wuwuwu, the rotten chicken leg from lunch, give me back my teeth, wuwuwu..."
He recalled that his tooth was broken by the chicken leg in the cafeteria at noon.
When Shi Guilin heard this, his waist, which had just straightened up, bent down again, as if he was about to die from laughing.
On the bed, Nian Nian was lost in pain. On the carpet, Shi Guilin, who had been laughing so hard that he didn't know what the world was, finally returned to normal.
He exerted force on his legs and got up from the carpet, brushed off the non-existent dust on his pants, and then hurried back to the bed to comfort the heartbroken Nian Nian.
"Nian Nian? Baby? Don't be sad. A new tooth will grow in that black hole in a while."
The trembling little body froze in tears. Nian Nian raised her face and sniffed, "How long is a while, Dad? Three days is okay?"
Shi Guilin cruelly told him: "I'm afraid not. It will take longer."
Nian Nian's mouth corners drooped, but at least she didn't cry.
Shi Guilin suppressed his smile, poked the corners of Nian Nian's mouth with his two index fingers and lifted them up, "Don't look so sad. Changing teeth is an essential experience for every child. Everyone's teeth change at about the same time. Maybe Mu Mu and Ji Shu He will lose their teeth in a couple of days too."
"Besides, everyone is changing their teeth, so there's nothing funny about it." After all, everyone is the same when it comes to showing their teeth.
"Okay." Nian Nian felt a little comforted.
"It's okay. After she gets through the teeth-changing period, Nian Nian will have a set of better-looking new teeth. Does that make you feel better?" Shi Guilin took his hand, led him out of bed, opened the door, and went downstairs.
"By the way, don't throw away Nian Nian's lost tooth. Give it to Dad. He will keep it in a beautiful little bottle."
“Why save my teeth?”
"Dad wanted to leave a little memory of your growth. When Nian Nian grows up, Dad will pick up the bottle and see the teeth inside, and he will remember what Nian Nian looks like now."
Sounds good.
Knowing that teeth can grow back, Nian Nian is not worried about becoming ugly. He agreed to give his teeth to Shi Guilin, but emphasized: "Dad, you must think of Nian Nian with new teeth, not Nian Nian without teeth."
"Okay, okay." Shi Guilin was at a loss whether to laugh or cry, and pulled the conceited and burdened kid to eat.
——
After that day, Nian Nian recovered from her illness and resumed her school life, which was happy but also a little boring.
These days, there's good news and bad news.
The good news is that white tips are finally appearing on his empty gums, and it seems that new teeth are about to grow out.
The bad news is that before this tooth has fully grown out, he lost another upper tooth.
For a moment, Nian Nian was filled with mixed feelings of sadness and joy.
Before they had time to announce the death of their upper teeth, Xi Zimu and Ji Shuhe's tooth replacement period came one after another.
The ugly baby with a lisp suddenly became three.
Nian Nian suddenly felt that he had a companion on the road to tooth replacement, and the feeling of loneliness left him.
So gradually, the issue of tooth replacement no longer bothered him.
Not only did his worries disappear, but sometimes he would feel an inexplicable sense of accomplishment when he saw more and more teeth in the small bottle:
There are so many teeth in the bottle, they are all his.
But lately he has no time to be proud of the growing number of teeth in the bottle.
As for the reason, it is naturally because the National Day holiday is coming soon!
Primary school student Nian Nian is going to have vacation!
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