"Mommy, what is tooth replacement?" Su Xueyan asked, holding Wensi tofu soup in her small hands, taking a sip and smacking her lips.
Well, this soup made by my sister is really delicious. Take another sip.
Su Xuanhe glanced sadly at the girl who had turned into a foodie: His elder brother now had a broken tooth and his mouth was filled with the smell of blood. After such a tragic experience, this girl only wanted to eat!
Seeing her son's aggrieved expression, Mrs. Yang comforted her: "It doesn't matter, everyone has to lose these deciduous teeth. After a year and a half, the remaining permanent teeth will grow out slowly, and they won't be so chipped." Missing teeth."
Originally, Mrs. Yang thought that her son would feel at ease with her comfort, but Su Xuanhe almost collapsed and shouted: "What? It will take another year and a half?!"
He completely forgot that he was still in a state of "gap teeth", and the front teeth were one of the teeth that most affected the pronunciation of exhalation. As a result, after speaking just a few words, his breath leaked, and even his pronunciation was affected. .
"Hahahahaha..." Su Qingluan said she smiled happily.
"You!" Su Xuanhe looked at his unscrupulous sister with shame and anger, his little face turned dark red.
"Ahem, Da Ya, don't laugh. Who didn't come here like this?" Su Guangfu coughed a few times, trying to find a way out for his son who already felt embarrassed.
As a result, the little girl who was sipping tofu soup was so shocked when she heard these words that she almost dropped her bowl: "Does everyone need to change their teeth?"
After getting the affirmation from her parents and sister, the little girl didn't care about drinking the tofu soup. She quickly grabbed Su Qingluan's sleeve and asked: "Sister, my front teeth will fall out just like brother's." fall?"
"Not only the front teeth," Su Qingluan explained matter-of-factly to the two children, "all the teeth will fall out in the next period of time, and then..."
Before the rest of the words could be spoken, Su Qingluan heard a low sob, and then——
"Wow...I'm going toothless!!"
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
The two little guys suddenly started crying.
Su Qingluan shouted quickly: "Didn't I say that the deciduous teeth will grow back after they fall out!!" Don't start crying halfway through hearing this, and didn't Auntie tell them just now?
As a result, the two children focused on "it takes a year and a half to replace teeth" and did not pay attention to other content at all.
"Will, will it grow?" Su Xuanhe looked at Su Qingluan cautiously.
Although Su Xueyan didn't say anything, she raised her head and looked over pitifully.
Su Qingluan bared her teeth, pointed at herself, and then looked at Su Guangfu and his wife: "Look at me, then look at my parents. No one is missing a tooth, right?" There may even be a few more ones. .
The two children looked at Su Qingluan first, and then at their parents.
In order to comfort the children, Su Guangfu and Yang opened their mouths slightly to reassure them when they looked over.
The two children finally calmed down and stopped crying.
However, before he had time to calm down for a few breaths, Su Xuanhe became nervous again: "But... but many of the old ladies in the village have no teeth!"
"That's because they are too old." Yang comforted.
"How old?" Children's curiosity can't stop. Su Xueyan turned to ask her mother, "Why do you have no teeth when you get older?"
This embarrassed Ms. Yang. She only knew that her teeth would loosen and fall out as she got older, but she didn't know the reason.
Just when Ms. Yang was thinking of finding an excuse, she saw her eldest daughter touching the top of her younger daughter's head and saying softly: "Because as you get older, your gums will shrink, and the gums that originally tightly clamped the roots of the teeth will no longer be able to hold the teeth in place." , the teeth fell out.”
"Then, we won't be toothless for the time being?" Su Xueyan asked expectantly.
"Yes, it's too early for you to lose your teeth," Su Qingluan smiled and looked at his younger brother and sister, "But from now on, as long as you rinse your mouth with water and brush your teeth with tooth powder every day, you may not lose your teeth when you get older. My teeth are falling out.”
In modern times, even octogenarians still have many teeth that have not fallen out if they are carefully maintained.
Although the medical conditions in ancient times were limited and not comparable to those of modern times, Su Qingluan believes that there are not so many sugary drinks now. It may not be impossible for the two little ones to eat less sugary snacks and cakes and eat more healthy and tooth-solidifying foods. Modern level of care.
Under the joint comfort of Su Guangfu, Yang Shi and Su Qingluan, the two children finally stopped crying and finally understood that "changing teeth" is something that everyone will experience and is not such a scary thing.
However, the little girl still tugged on Su Qingluan's sleeves with some worry: "Sister, does it hurt to change your teeth?"
"You ask your brother if it hurts?"
With that said, he stood up and said to his parents: "I'm going to get some salt water and bring it over to rinse my brother's mouth. His mouth smells like blood, and any dish tastes weird."
After Su Qingluan left, Su Xueyan turned around and pulled Su Xuanhe's sleeve: "Brother, does it hurt?"
Su Xuanhe blinked.
Just now, he was so shocked by the "nothing" incident that he ignored other things. Now think about it——
"Well, it doesn't hurt much. It's just that when I was eating vegetables, the tooth suddenly fell out on its own."
When Su Xueyan heard her brother's "guarantee", she breathed a sigh of relief.
Mr. Yang smiled beside him and said, "It usually doesn't hurt when teeth are replaced, but Erzhuang needs to be more careful when eating recently, so as not to swallow the missing teeth whole."
"...What will happen if you swallow it..." Su Xuanhe asked a little cautiously.
Yang: "..." Why are these two children asking so many questions today that she can't answer?
This time it was Su Qingluan who came to the rescue again.
"It's not going to happen." With a soft "thump", a bowl of salt water was brought to Su Xuanhe's eyes. Su Qingluan sat back and picked up a piece of bean cake, "Baby teeth can't be digested. How do you get in and out?" .”
Of course, it is not accurate to say that it is completely indigestible, but she can't explain to an ancient child what calcium carbonate dissolves in slightly acidic conditions, right?
Thinking about it makes me feel weird.
Yang couldn't help but smile when she heard her eldest daughter's words. She held it back again, turned around and asked her son, "Where did the tooth you just lost just go?"
Su Qingluan teased: "You won't really swallow it, right?"
Su Xuanhe shook his head repeatedly, lowered his head and ducked under the table to take a look, then picked up the front tooth from the ground next to the stool leg and held it in the palm of his hand: "Mom, it's here."
"This time you lost your upper tooth. When you go to the yard later and see where you like it, bury the tooth deeper." Yang said to her son with a smile.
"Why bury it?" This is what Su Xuanhe asked.
"What if it's the lower teeth?" This was what Su Qingluan asked.
Su Qingluan had only heard of the custom of throwing fallen baby teeth on the roof. This was the first time she heard the idea of burying fallen teeth in the ground, so it was a bit new.
