There is a carrot hanging in front, and Su Ting has been more gentle recently. As long as she can finish her homework with quality and quantity before 8 o'clock in the evening, I will turn on the TV and let her watch it for half an hour.
Gradually, I seem to have found a goal. Not only am I more serious in class, but I am also more active in doing my homework than before. Every day when I come home, I start writing as soon as I enter the room without Su Ting urging me.
When Meng Xiuzhen came to see Su Ting, she said that she had really grown up and become more sensible.
After hearing this, Su Ting thought that she had not become sensible at all, she had clearly seen the benefits, but she did not say anything to dissuade the young lady.
No matter what the reason is, it's always a good thing that her daughter has become active in her studies. As a mother, she feels much better seeing this, but she doesn't want to go back to the time when she had to urge her child to do her homework every day.
But just a few days after Su Ting felt better, she discovered something: Man Man was actually eating ice cream secretly!
The secret was discovered when Su Ting found that there was no soy sauce at home while cooking, so she took some money and went out to buy some.
Although the supply and marketing cooperative has not closed down, due to the impact of the canteen, business is getting worse day by day, resulting in a backlog of goods and an increasing number of expired products. Therefore, even though the supply and marketing cooperative is inside the compound and closer, people in the compound still prefer to go to the canteen outside to buy things.
Su Ting was the same. After she walked out of the compound and turned around the guardhouse, she saw Man Man and Ji Yi standing at the door of the canteen with something in their hands. She wanted to call for help, but before she could say anything, she realized that the two children were not in a good state. Not only were they looking around, but they also looked a little sneaky, so she swallowed the words that were about to come out of her mouth.
Sure enough, the next second, the two children turned around and walked into the aisle in the middle of the store.
Su Ting saw it and hurried to catch up. When she was almost there, she slowed down and cautiously poked her head into the aisle to look. There was no one there.
Because Manman has often said recently that she would go out to play with Ji Yi for a while after school, and each time the play time was not long. School ends at 4:50, and she would be back home before 5:20.
So after considering it, Su Ting did not chase after him, but went into the canteen to ask Man Man if he had come to buy anything just now.
The peak sales period for the canteen is from after elementary school to around seven o'clock. The three partners are all there, each in charge of two counters, and they are all busy.
But work did not interfere with their conversation, and they answered one after another: "No, she didn't come to my place to buy anything after school."
“Nor did he come to my place.”
"I don't have any here either."
Su Ting asked: "Did you see her?"
Two military wives shook their heads. The one at the counter closest to the freezer thought for a moment and said, "It seems like she came, walked around the freezer, and left without buying anything."
The wife of a soldier working at the counter opposite the freezer remembered, "Yes, yes, recently after school she seems to come to the supply and marketing cooperative frequently, walk around the freezer, and then leave without buying anything." She jokingly asked, "Is it because you are too strict with her that the child is greedy for popsicles?"
The wife of a soldier at the middle counter said, "In the middle of summer, some children can resist not eating ice cream. Even I have to eat one when it's too hot. She is still a child. You don't need to control her too much."
The military wife who was closest to the freezer thought that Su Ting was complaining about the unclean popsicles, so she said, "Don't worry, Xiao Su, the popsicles we buy in the canteen are all from big brands, they are absolutely clean, and you can have one a day without any problem."
Su Ting explained: "I don't suspect that the popsicles you sell are unclean. It's just that her stomach has been weak for a long time. At the end of last month, she secretly ate a popsicle at home. At night, she said she had a stomachache. She went to the clinic and got two bottles of water before she felt better."
Because the working hours of the health center are from 8 am to 6 pm, and that night He Dongchuan went to the military doctor's house to see a patient, so everyone in the compound has heard about this incident to some extent.
Less than half a month had passed since the incident, and when Su Ting mentioned it, several people remembered it and changed their minds to agree with Su Ting's words. They recalled the events of the past few days again. Someone asked: "Man Man, you haven't bought popsicles in the past few days, right?"
"She probably hasn't bought any. She just takes a look every time."
All three of them said so, but Su Ting felt that it was not that simple. Thinking of the fact that Man Man went there with Ji Yi, she asked, "Has Ji Yi come to buy ice cream in the past few days?"
"She?" The military wife next to the freezer recalled, "Yes, she has been here. She comes here every day recently."
Su Ting asked: "Do you remember what kind of ice cream she bought each time and how much she bought?"
"I didn't remember it before, but today she bought two mung bean popsicles. Oh, yes, she bought two popsicles every time these few days." The military wife next to the freezer realized something and asked, "Could it be that the extra popsicle she bought was for Manman? No, that's not right. I asked her before, and she said it was for her brother..."
People who can catch up with the trend and seize the opportunity to do business are not stupid. Before she finished speaking, she realized that she was fooled by a little brat. She said angrily and amusedly: "These two girls are so smart! Will everything be fine in the next few days?"
"It's okay," Su Ting shook her head and said, "but I'm afraid she'll have problems if she eats one ice cream a day. In the future, when Ji Yi comes to buy ice cream, can you only sell her one?"
The other party was also worried that Xiaohua would have an upset stomach from eating popsicles, so he immediately agreed: "No problem."
Su Ting thanked him, asked him to bring her a bottle of soy sauce, paid the bill and left the store. After leaving, she did not go back immediately, but stood by the aisle, waiting for Man Man and Ji Yi to come back.
About fifteen minutes later, the little girl's voice came from the other end of the corridor and gradually approached until it was right next to my ear.
Su Ting turned her head and looked down, and met the surprised eyes: "Mom!!"
"Are mung bean popsicles delicious?" Su Ting asked with a smile.
The two little girls straightened their backs and looked down at the tips of their shoes, they were so scared that they were like quails.
Su Ting didn't say anything, just looked at them like this, until she could no longer bear it and admitted her mistake: "Mom, I was wrong."
"What's wrong with you?"
"I shouldn't have eaten the ice cream secretly." He said slowly, raised his head and glanced at Su Ting, and then said softly, "I lied to you and said that I went out to play with Yiyi after school, but in fact we went to find a place to eat ice cream."
Su Ting raised her eyebrows and asked knowingly, "Oh? So, you have been eating ice cream when you come home late recently?"
He slowly opened his mouth, then realized that he seemed to have blown himself up, and suddenly felt regretful: "I..."
Su Ting said sinisterly, "He Miao, I advise you to be honest. If you tell me the truth, I might give you a lighter sentence. But if I find out that you lied, you're done for, understand?"
He slowly fell silent, struggled for a long time, and bowed his head again to admit his mistake: "Mom, I was wrong."
Ji Yi was afraid that her friend would get beaten up, so she said bravely, "Auntie, I..."
But before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by Su Ting: "Yiyi, Auntie wants to ask you for a favor. I will ask you to buy ice cream for me later. Please don't agree, okay?"
Ji Yi swallowed her words and looked at Man Man hesitantly. When she nodded, she said, "Okay."
"You are a good child." Su Ting praised her, patted her head and said, "It's getting late, your mother must be waiting anxiously at home, you should go back quickly."
Ji Yi hesitated and said, "Then...see you slowly?"
"goodbye."
After watching Ji Yi walk away and turn into the courtyard, Su Ting lowered her head to look at Man Man and said in a cold tone: "Go home."
After saying that, Su Ting took the lead and walked towards the compound. When she saw Man Man, she hurriedly followed. On the way, she met several military wives and children. Su Ting greeted them as usual, but Man Man did not dare to speak.
The child was not very smart and didn't notice that Manman was wrong, but the military wives noticed her silence and asked curiously, "What happened to Manman? Did she make a mistake?"
Su Ting was not in the habit of telling everyone about her family affairs. She only answered everyone's questions vaguely. Once she got home, she dropped her friendly attitude and pointed at the wall and said sullenly, "You, go over there and stand there!"
She walked over slowly with her head down. Because she couldn't stand against the wall with her schoolbag on her back, she took it off. After taking off her schoolbag, she remembered something important and asked carefully, "Mom, do I still have to do my homework today?"
Su Ting suddenly laughed out of anger: "You made a mistake and you still want to skip your homework?"
"I didn't..." Although Manman was afraid of his angry mother, he was not the type to keep his words to himself. He softly explained, "I can't do my homework while standing."
Su Ting's tone softened a little and asked, "How much homework do you have?"
"Two papers." He slowly opened his schoolbag and took out the papers to show Su Ting.
There were two test papers, one for Chinese and one for math. Math was OK, but there was an essay in Chinese. After reading it, Su Ting said, "Go to your room and do your homework."
I slowly took the test paper and walked towards the study, but before I entered, I suddenly asked, "Mom, do I still have to stand in the classroom as punishment?"
"Yes! If you can't finish it today, you will be punished tomorrow."
Slowly: "Okay."
…
As soon as He Dongchuan entered the house in the evening, he felt that the atmosphere was not right.
Normally, whenever he came back, as long as his wife and daughters were at home, someone would come out to greet him.
But today, he took off his military cap and walked out of the bedroom. When he passed the study, he stopped as usual. However, the lady did not even raise her head. She washed her hands and went into the kitchen. The wife was also concentrating on cooking and did not look back.
He Dongchuan asked: "What happened?"
"What?" Su Ting asked in a light tone.
He Dongchuan heard it and asked, "You are not happy."
"I'm not happy?" Su Ting snorted, but her expression lasted less than a second before she said angrily, "I don't think I'd be happy! Do you know what your daughter has done these past few days?"
He Dongchuan knew it was the girl who caused the trouble, but he didn't make a blind guess. Based on his experience, he could just ask the next question at this time: "What did Manman do?"
"What has she done? She's going to make a scene!"
Su Ting unconsciously increased the strength of her hands because she was angry. He Dongchuan took the spatula from her and said, "Let me do it."
Su Ting stepped aside and leaned on the stone table where she was cutting vegetables. She calmed down before speaking again: "Recently, after school, doesn't Man Man always go out to play with Captain Ji's daughter for a while?"
He Dongchuan knew about this, so he hummed and asked, "Did they cause trouble while playing? Did they have a fight?"
Su Ting sneered: "Fight? The two girls have a very good relationship. They are 'comrades' who ate ice cream together secretly!"
He Dongchuan heard the problem and frowned and asked, "Did Manman sneak an ice cream after school?"
"Of course! You don't know how smart this girl is. She was afraid that the people in the canteen would let it slip and I would find out about this. So after she decided on the ice cream she wanted to buy, she would go out first, letting Ji Yi buy two ice creams by herself and then hide in the small woods opposite to eat them."
He Dongchuan served the dishes and commented, "As expected of my daughter, you have a good sense of counter-intelligence."
Su Ting immediately glared: "Is it time to praise the child now? She ate ice cream behind our backs! She has been eating it for several days. If I hadn't caught her, we wouldn't have known what was going on when she had a stomachache!"
"It was my fault. I didn't know the difference," He Dongchuan quickly reflected on himself and criticized, "I really didn't handle this matter well..."
"Just not good?" Su Ting squinted.
He Dongchuan quickly changed his words: "This child is too worrying! She has been eating ice cream secretly again after only a few days of recovery. We must have a good talk with her!"
"What are you going to say about her?"
"Talk to her and tell her the dangers of eating ice cream..."
He Dongchuan made a long speech, but it can be summed up in four words - earnest advice, and the result is obvious - no pain or itching.
So after he finished speaking, Su Ting did not adopt any of his suggestions and said, "Just give him a beating."
"Um?"
"This is too bad. First of all, she had been eating ice cream for several days in a row, which took a long time. Secondly, she had countless opportunities to stop making mistakes in these days, but she didn't. If I hadn't found out, I don't know how long she would have continued to eat. It shows that she has no remorse." Su Ting finished her analysis and concluded, "So I think it's hard to make her realize her mistakes just by preaching. She must be severely punished, and a beating is more appropriate."
He Dongchuan thought for a moment, "You're right."
"Then shall I go get you a stick?"
"Okay - no, why are you looking for a stick for me?"
Su Ting asked with innocent eyes: "Didn't you agree to give me a beating?"
He Dongchuan was not so easily tricked, and said, "You were the one who brought it up first, shouldn't you be the one to take action?"
"I'm so thin, how hard can I hit someone? How can I be as intimidating as you?"
"I can find you a thin branch that will hurt you without much effort."
"Then go find it."
He Dongchuan was shocked: "Are we really going to fight?"
As their two children grew up, the couple rarely used violence, so He Dongchuan thought Su Ting was just joking.
Su Ting didn't want to solve the problem with violence, but when she thought back to what Man Man had done, she realized how meticulous he was!
If she hadn't happened to see the two little girls together, even if she had heard the store owner say that she was going to look at the ice cream, she might have thought that she was just there to look and didn't buy anything.
If she could use this meticulous mind in the right way, Su Ting wouldn't have to worry about her studies.
Su Ting said: "She must learn a lesson from this."
Seeing her firm attitude, He Dongchuan really went downstairs and broke off a branch.
It's just that Su Ting was mentally prepared to beat the child, and He Dongchuan also prepared the tools, but gradually they didn't give them the opportunity.
In the evening, before she finished her homework, she felt a cramp in her stomach, and she felt like she had to pee. She held it in for a while, but finally decided to go to the toilet.
I slowly stood up, holding my stomach. When I left my seat, I looked down and saw a bloodstain on the bench. I reached out and touched my pants, and my hands were covered in blood. I was so scared that I burst into tears: "Mom and Dad! I'm going to die!"
Hearing the sound, He Dongchuan and Su Ting rushed in one after another.
Seeing the blood on her hand, the couple's faces changed drastically. While checking her body, they asked, "Where did the blood come from?"
As soon as she finished speaking, the two saw the blood on her pants and slowly started crying, "My butt is bleeding, mommy, I'm going to die!"
He Dongchuan's face froze. Although he was a man, he knew that women had menstrual periods. Every time Su Ting had her period, she would feel very uncomfortable for the first two days, and sometimes she would be in so much pain that she couldn't even stand up.
He coughed and looked at his wife: "Can you take Manman back to the room to have a look?"
Su Ting was silent for a moment and said, "Let's go to the bathroom." She took Manman's hand, led her into the bathroom, took off her pants, and let her take a bath.
In the fear of dying, Manman couldn't believe what his mother said so calmly. He cried out loudly and asked, "Mom, I'm bleeding and dying. Won't you take me to the hospital?"
Su Ting's lips twitched slightly: "Don't worry, you won't die. This is a normal physiological phenomenon."
Slowly she stopped crying and asked through tears, "What is a physiological phenomenon?"
"That's it..." Su Ting paused and said thoughtfully, "Although what is flowing out is blood, it is actually the body detoxifying. Women have such a few days every month."
Slowly she continued to sob: "But I'm not a woman, I'm a girl."
"…Is it okay for women? All women experience this every month. The shortest period is three or four days, and the longest is six or seven days. It will be fine after it passes."
Slowly, she became terrified: "Does it happen every month? Will I have to bleed for six or seven days? Will Mom really not die?"
"Isn't mom alive and well?" Su Ting spoke from her own experience.
"Mom also bleeds?"
"Um."
"Does mom also have stomach pain when she bleeds?"
"Sometimes."
Man Man immediately showed sympathy: "Mom is so miserable."
Su Ting: "...Hurry up and take off your clothes. Take a shower first. I'll find some clothes for you."
"I'm bleeding, how do I wash?"
"Wash it the same way you normally would today."
"All right."
After the conversation, Su Ting left the bathroom, went into her room to find the clothes she was going to wear to bed, then went to her room to find a sanitary napkin and put them together, then returned to the bathroom door and said, "Call me after you finish taking a shower, and I'll get you some clothes."
"I know!"
As soon as Su Ting returned to the living room and sat down on the sofa, He Dongchuan asked, "Are you okay?"
"It's nothing, it's just my period."
He Dongchuan raised his eyebrows: "She ate ice cream today, will she feel uncomfortable?"
Thinking about how she had been hunching over in the bathroom just now, Su Ting suspected that she might have a stomachache. But thinking about how she had secretly eaten ice cream for several days, she hardened her heart and said, "She asked for the pain herself!"
He Dongchuan didn't say anything after hearing this. After a while, he stood up and said, "I'll go see if there's any brown sugar at home."
Because Su Ting suffered from dysmenorrhea, the family always had brown sugar on hand. He Dongchuan quickly took out half a bag and took it to the kitchen to boil brown sugar water.
Su Ting sat in the living room and waited. After about ten minutes, a weak voice came from the bathroom: "Mom, I'm done."
Su Ting went into the house to get her clothes, and when she came out she pushed open the bathroom door and went in.
Man Man had finished her shower and was squatting on the floor, holding her stomach. When she heard the door open, she raised her head and said pitifully, "Mom, my stomach hurts."
"How much does it hurt?"
He said weakly, "It hurts so much, I can't stand up anymore."
Su Ting did not sympathize with her and said, "Who told you to eat so much ice cream?"
"Can't I eat ice cream if I'm bleeding?"
"You can't eat it. Not only can't eat ice cream, you can't touch raw or cold food. You can't eat spicy food, especially spicy noodles."
There are few teenagers who don't like spicy noodles. They were dumbfounded and asked, "What if I want to eat it?"
"Then just bear with the pain. Get up and put on your underwear."
Gradually, she became very sad. She felt that her mother was so cold-hearted. She was in so much pain, but she had no sympathy for her at all. She pursed her lips and stood up under her mother's pull and said, "Mom, I'm still bleeding. What if my pants get dirty?"
"If it gets dirty, just wash it clean."
"What if the bed is dirty?"
"Wash them all the same."
"The quilt is dirty, what's wrong..." Before I could finish my words, I saw my mother take out a square object and asked, "What is this?"
"Something to prevent you from getting your pants dirty." Su Ting opened the package and handed it to Manman, teaching her how to stick the sanitary napkin on her underwear.
I followed the instructions one by one and then asked, "Has Mom used this?"
"Well, this is my mother's little trick to prevent her pants and quilt from getting dirty. Now I'm teaching it to you."
Slowly: "Oh! Is this useful?"
"It's useful, but you need to change it frequently. I'll give you a pack later. Remember to change it every two or three hours."
"I have to change it every two or three hours? How can I sleep at night?"
"You can use two extra mattresses, or get up in the middle of the night to change them."
Gradually, I felt that neither of these two methods sounded very good, and sighed, "It's so hard to be a girl."
Half an hour later, as I slowly endured the pain in my lower abdomen and drank brown sugar water in small sips, I couldn't help but sigh out loud again.
Su Ting laughed after hearing this: "Girl, please finish your brown sugar water quickly and go to sleep."
Then he said "oh" slowly and asked, "What should I do if I can't sleep because of the stomachache?"
"You can choose to do the homework, or stand in the corner as punishment."
Man Man: "...Mom, I suddenly feel a little sleepy."
"Drink the brown sugar water before going to sleep."
"Can I not do my homework?"
Although Su Ting's menstrual period would not affect her studies and work, she was still young and it was her first time to have her period, so Su Ting could not hold her to the same standards as adults, so she said, "You can do it tomorrow."
I gradually became disappointed, then I remembered to ask, "What about the punishment of standing?"
"Wait until your period is over."
Afraid that she would think that she would just let it go, Su Ting decided to give her a tight grip: "The mistake you made this time is very serious in my opinion. I wanted to give you a beating. I have already found a stick, a thin branch, and it will definitely hurt if I hit your palm."
Although Man Man had never been beaten by her parents, she had seen other military wives beating their children in the compound and knew that being hit by a thin branch would hurt, so she was so scared that she put her hands behind her back.
"I'm not going to spank you today because you have a stomachache. But if you think you can just let this go, you're totally wrong. When you're well, I'll definitely settle this account with you. So you'd better behave yourself these few days. If I'm in a good mood, I might spank you less. But if you do it again, the punishment will be doubled. Do you understand?"
Slowly he trembled with fear: "I heard it!"
Su Ting was quite satisfied with her attitude, nodded and said, "Okay, go to sleep."
After saying that, Su Ting turned off the light and left the room, leaving her lying on the bed and sighing. She felt uncomfortable because of the stomachache, and even when her stomach ached, she still felt uncomfortable because she was going to be beaten.
Life is so hard!
…
After one night, the pain in her abdomen did not ease and she kept crying at home. Su Ting had no choice but to ask her classmates for help to ask the teacher for leave.
Apart from eating, I didn't get out of bed that day. I was either lying on the bed in the room in a daze, or lying on the sofa in the living room watching TV.
Originally, Su Ting didn't want to let her watch TV, but she cried so hard that she had to comfort her by letting her watch TV.
After watching TV, her endurance slowly increased. No matter how severe the stomachache was, she bit her lips and said nothing, her eyes fixed on the TV. When Su Ting saw this, she didn't know what to say to her.
After enduring a whole day, the abdominal pain gradually subsided in the evening. I felt more energetic when talking. After a good night's sleep, my stomach didn't hurt much the next day.
When the pain came, she wanted to roll on the ground, but when it stopped, she slowly started to feel disappointed. First, she had to go to school, and second, her mother would definitely not let her watch TV anymore.
But under her mother's sharp eyes, she gradually dared not tell lies. The branch that her mother was going to use to beat her was still on the TV.
Although my stomach pain was gone, the discomfort caused by my period did not completely disappear. Over the next few days, I gradually felt a little listless and had no strength to speak.
But that was during normal times. When she was on the phone with He Yan, Man Man became quite lively and asked coquettishly, "Brother, when will you come back? Man Man misses you so much."
He Yan said on the other end of the phone: "Maybe in July. Your brother will definitely come back before your exam."
"It's still a long time." Man Man's tone was a little disappointed.
"Why would it take so long? Today is June 20th, and there are less than 20 days until your exams." After He Yan finished speaking, he saw Man Man was silent, so he said, "Then can I bring you a gift when I come back?"
"What gift?"
"Clothes, shoes, bags, whatever you want is fine. There are also many fruits here. Have you ever eaten durian? How about I bring you a durian?"
I slowly asked curiously: "What is durian?"
"A kind of fruit that smells stinky but tastes delicious."
"Really?" Manmo slowly expressed his doubts.
"Of course, when my brother brings one back, you will know for sure."
Man Man was very curious, but he didn't believe that such fruit would taste good, so he hummed, "Then I don't want to eat it."
"Take a look first and then decide whether to eat it or not."
"All right."
After the brother and sister finished their conversation, the microphone was handed to Su Ting. After a brief greeting, she asked the same question as Man Man, when would He Yan come back.
Life is really amazing.
In the original novel, He Yan was obsessed with making a name for himself, but in this life, He Yan was committed to getting laid down as soon as possible. However, after many twists and turns, he embarked on the same path in both lives.
It's just that in his previous life, He Yan didn't graduate from junior high school and went out to work. He had a hard time in the first few years. He started his own business in an unconventional way. Although his business was not over the line, it was not so legitimate. Every step he took was like walking on a cliff, and he might get silver handcuffs at any time.
In this life, He Yan was in a dilemma because on the eve of applying for the college entrance examination, Duan Xiaolan came to talk to Su Ting about her future plans after graduation. She mentioned that a college classmate of hers was assigned to a unit under the Economic Bureau after graduation. He just drank tea and read the newspaper at work every day, so he was hesitant whether to work according to the assignment or start his own business directly.
Duan Xiaolan thinks that drinking tea and reading newspapers at work is a waste of time, but He Yan thinks this is his ideal job as soon as he hears it, and when he applies for college, he decisively fills in the economics major at Capital University.
After graduating from university, He Yan entered his ideal unit, but he didn't know
Although He Yan's ideal working state is to drink tea and read newspapers, after entering the unit, he somehow caught the attention of the leader, who was determined to cultivate him. Not to mention drinking tea and reading newspapers, he was thankful if he didn't have to work 996.
After receiving his diploma in early June, He Yan quickly decided to start a new business. Since he would have to work 996 hours a day anyway, he would of course choose the one that paid more money.