"Then come here, Auntie will help you wash your face and brush your teeth." Shi Chu waved to Du Xiaoling, and Du Xiaoling came over in a bounding motion.
It's summer now, and I don't have to worry about catching a cold if I wash my face with cold water, so Shi Chu didn't heat the hot water and just wiped Du Xiaoling's face with cold water. After wiping her face, Shi Chu went to grab Du Xiaoshi again, ignoring him. He struggled hard and wiped his face before letting him go.
Du Xiaoshi's face turned red with anger, and he frowned and scolded her: "Bad woman! I don't want you to pretend to be kind!"
Shichu shrugged and said, "You're too late, your face has been scrubbed by me."
"Hmph!" Du Xiaoshi shouted angrily, "Then I, I won't let you wipe it tomorrow!"
"Tsk tsk, don't wipe it if you don't want to. If you see someone with eye mucus in the corner of your eye, you will be laughed at..." Shi Chu said deliberately.
Du Xiaoling immediately made funny faces to her elder brother: "Wow, my brother has eye pus, and he is being laughed at!"
"I don't have eye mucus! No! If you don't believe me, just look..." Du Xiaoshi was so angry that he ran after his sister, insisting on letting her see if there was eye mucus in the corners of his eyes.
Shichu went to arrest Du Xiaoling again and asked her to brush her teeth.
"Auntie, I don't want to brush my teeth..." Du Xiaoling looked at his little toothbrush with a frown and said.
"If you don't brush your teeth, your teeth will be eaten away by toothworms, and you will have a black hole in your mouth. Oh, it's so ugly..." Shichu threatened her.
Du Xiaoling was really frightened by her words: "Is it as ugly as the dental holes in Grandma Wang next door's mouth?"
"Yes, look at the toothless people in the village. Which one is not ugly?" Shichu nodded and continued to fool her.
Du Xiaoling was so frightened that she immediately brushed her teeth obediently: "I'll brush my teeth!"
After taking care of Du Xiaoling, Shi Chu also had to take care of Du Xiaoshi. Du Xiaoshi was a few years older, so it was difficult to fool him. In addition, he was still hostile to Shi Chu. When he saw her coming over with a toothbrush, he raised his chin and made a look of disdain. Refuse to pay attention to Shichu.
At that time, she would not treat him the same way she treated Du Xiaoling. She said directly to Du Xiaoshi: "Do you know how much it cost to buy this little toothbrush? If you don't brush your teeth, that's fine, I can take yours." I sold my toothbrushes for candy.”
This was the early 1970s when material resources were scarce. Children generally did not brush their teeth. Only the two brothers and sisters of the Du family, because Duzhou was racing outside all year round, could buy toothbrushes for children. Shi Chu said that the toothbrushes were sold. In exchange for sugar, that is really possible.
Du Xiaoshi obviously knew this, and he immediately believed it. He felt that if he really didn't use his toothbrush, it would probably be sold by his stepmother, so he didn't bother to persuade him a second time and immediately snatched his toothbrush. I started brushing my teeth angrily.
After the hygiene problems of the two children were solved, the porridge was cooked in the kitchen. Shichu heated up the leftovers from the evening and had breakfast with the two children.
At the beginning, he did not feed them personally like the original owner, but gave each of them a spoon and let them eat by themselves. Du Xiaoshi was okay. He was five years old and could eat with a spoon in a decent manner, but Du Xiaoling could not. , she was young and had no strength in her hands, so she could not hold the spoon firmly, so she ate like a mess and had a lot of rice porridge on her body.
At this time, a neighbor passed by the door and saw Du Xiaoling eating in a sloppy manner. He couldn't help but said to Shi Chu: "Wan Cao'er, why don't you feed Xiaoling? How can she eat by herself at such a young age?" Look at this half-eaten and half-eaten person, and he’s still dirty. Isn’t this a waste of rice and clothes?”
The neighbor walked in while talking, looking at Shi Chu with a scrutinizing look in his eyes: "You just got married and you don't behave well. If your mother-in-law or Du Zhou find out about this, you won't be accused of abusing your children. You will be uneasy." Kindhearted?"
Shi Chu paused and said nonchalantly: "No matter whether I behave well or not, they will think I am uneasy and well-intentioned now. Since I am taking care of the children, then do it my way. Anyone who has any objections will be taken home." Take care of yourself.”
As she said that, she looked at the kind-hearted neighbor with meaning. The neighbor suddenly choked, his face darkened, and he turned and left. As he walked, he said: "Forget it, it's my good intentions that are not repaid. Huh, look. What good can you get in the future? You are indeed careless..."
After quarreling away her neighbor, Du Xiaoling still ate like a fool, but she ate it with relish and found it very novel and interesting, so she didn't care about her much at the beginning.
She was very patient in taking care of the children's meals, because she would eat and play at the same time. At first, it didn't matter, because her job was to take care of the two children. Apart from housework, she had nothing to do, and she had enough time for Du Xiaoling to play.
But she never expected that the neighbor was a big talker, and the story of her not feeding the child and letting the child eat sloppyly spread all over the village - of course, this included Du Mu who was always concerned about Xin. An old man with a daughter-in-law and two grandchildren.
So before Du Xiaoling finished his bowl of porridge, Du's mother came to the door.
As soon as she entered the door, she saw Du Xiaoling holding a spoon and eating rice grains all over his head and face. She felt as if the sky had fallen. She scolded Shi Chulai in a fuss: "Wan Cao'er! You lazy guy! Xiaoling is still like this." How can she feed herself? Didn’t you see that her face and body were all dirty?!"
Before Shi Chu had time to give birth, Du's mother snatched away Du Xiaoling's spoon with both hands and feet, and then used the rag on the table to wipe her clothes and face vigorously...
Shichu looked at the brown rag in her hand and said, "Don't wipe her face with a dirty rag..."
"Why is the rag dirty? What's the difference between wiping your face and wiping your hands and wiping the table? You're just being picky! You're so picky, why do you just see Xiao Ling covered in porridge, water, and rice water and don't care about it?" Mother Du said to Shi angrily. Chu yelled, "I knew you had a bad heart. Your true colors were exposed so quickly and you didn't care about the two children..."
She closed her eyes at the beginning. To unreasonable people, no matter what she said now, it would only be regarded as unkind sophistry, so she simply didn't bother to argue.
Mother Du wiped Du Xiaoling's clothes with a dirty rag, and hurriedly found a clean piece of clothing for her to change into. She also talked endlessly about Shi Chu and ordered her to feed Du Xiaoling in the future and not let her eat by herself.
Regarding this point, Shichu couldn't agree and said: "I let her eat by herself to train her self-care ability. She is almost three years old, so she doesn't need adults to feed her. You will only make her more and more dependent on eating." grown ups……"
"What ability can she develop? She is still so young? What ability can she develop? I think you are just lazy! Wan Cao'er, let me tell you, my son is willing to marry you just because he wants you to take care of two children. He is not here to enjoy happiness. If you don't even take care of your children, what's the use of you? Are you just eating free food..." Du's mother glared and cursed.
