Chapter 34: The Misunderstanding of the Horse's Teeth

Xu Jinfeng went home on the second day of Qiqi's full moon, and the old lady couldn't rest assured that she was an old man with children alone at home. Of course, it is correct to say that it should be safe for the old man to take care of the children alone. Yang Guo's father is much worse than Yang Guo, the old man is fifty-six this year, and he is a good hand at farm work, but in Xu Jinfeng's words, he is an old man who can't cook, let alone take care of a child. So seeing that his son's life was in good order, Xu Jinfeng put his mind at ease and didn't stay longer.

After her mother returned home, Yang Guo and Qiqi's lives returned to peace. Yang Guo rarely takes on ultra-urgent tasks of 100,000 words a week like before (that kind of task is not common), after all, that kind of task requires too much time. When Yang Guo was working tirelessly day and night, he translated for more than ten hours a day, and even took his personal time!

He now only works six hours a day, about 5,000 words. The unit price is naturally not too high, generally four to five hundred yuan per thousand words, but it is better that he can leave time to accompany Qiqi and learn from himself.

Kiki is full moon, so you can't always imprison her at home. Yang Guo would take her out for a walk every day. In the morning, after Yang Guo fed her milk, he would take her out to the small park to enjoy the morning sun bath. After dinner in the evening, Yang Guo would also take her to take a ride to the pedestrian streets of Shangxiajiu or Beijing Road to see the bustling night scene of Yangcheng and visit the shopping mall. Yang Guo found that Qiqi especially likes to go outside, whether it is to look at flowers in the morning or lights at night, she is happy to enjoy it.

Yang Guo now gives himself time to study in addition to work. He first learned French, and although he studied it for a while in college, he was learning to get by. I don't know who told him that French was a romantic language, and he didn't think it was the case at all, and the conjugation of the verb alone made him learn it painfully. A few years have passed, and almost everything I learned at that time has been handed back to the teacher.

Picking up the previous French book again, Yang Guo memorized words at night, gnawed grammar with difficulty, and read the text with the tape in the morning.

French is not easy to learn.

First of all, its phonetic transcription is very magical, its small tongue is easy to learn, a bit like the prelude to coughing up phlegm, but some notes will make different sounds when they encounter different notes, which is only a single note of the vocal change, if you encounter a special combination, there will be a recital or legato situation.

The second is its verb change, the difference in person, singular and plural, and tense will lead to a change in the form of the verb, often a verb can have more than ten kinds of inflections, that is to say, there will be more than ten different ways of writing and pronunciation! And their changes are not very regular, open the verb conjugation table at the back of the dictionary, a dozen thick pages, all of them are of different types! Not only that, but its nouns are also divided into negative and positive! So don't look at French dictionaries as thick as English dictionaries, but if you really count all conjugations, English dictionaries really don't count.

The tense of French is also more complex than that of English, like the present tense, in French, there are also direct forms, subjunctive forms, imperative forms, conditional forms, and other grammars are also unpredictable, and there is no way to figure it out without a lot of hard work. Like the pronunciation of numbers, it is completely different from the logic of Chinese and English, sixty is better than sixty, and when it is above seventy, it becomes the magic of sixty plus ten, eleven, twelve, ....... Then someone asked, is eighty sixty plus twenty? No, eighty and ninety became four twenty plus one and two...... 11.12......

French is a lot harder to learn than English! Even Yang Guo had to work very hard to memorize the words and polish the grammar thoroughly at the beginning. There is still a long way to go before I can understand the news in French! (Don't think that the French news is simple, the recordings of French texts are like a sky in the sky compared to it, and its speed is like a machine gun, and some French teachers may not be able to understand it.) )

However, today Yang Guo has no time to dwell on the study of French.

When feeding Kiki at night, Yang Guo found that Kiki seemed to have teeth!

Just when Yang Guo was about to pick up the empty bottle, in the gap between the pacifier and Kiki's mouth, Yang Guo seemed to catch a glimpse of a white grain. As if he had discovered a new continent, Yang Guo was a little jubilant, but he couldn't believe it.

Is it really a tooth?

Yang Guo tried to use the pacifier to get close to Kiki's mouth, but Kiki, who was full of food and drink, refused to open her mouth. Even coaxing and deception couldn't get Qiqi, so Yang Guo decided to get started.

Putting down the bottle, washing his right hand, Yang Guo put Qiqi across the sofa. He hunched over Kiki's face, his right thumb running across Kiki's upper lip and pressing lightly against her lower lip. As soon as she finished drinking milk, Qiqi Yinhong's small mouth was still oozing with sparkling water, Yang Guo's right thumb slipped a little inside, pressed Qiqi's lower lip, and opened a hole in her closed mouth.

As soon as Kiki's mouth opened, Yang Guo smelled the thick fragrance of milk, but it didn't matter, he stared blankly at the gums in Kiki's jaw, the originally bare gums now grew a small white dot, just like a baby tooth that had just broken out!

Yang Guo's right index finger reached in and gently touched the small white dot, which was a little hard. Before he could pull out his index finger, Kiki's little tongue curled up, as if protesting against the intruder, Yang Guo's index finger felt a soft touch, and then it was slobed with a lot of saliva.

Yang Guo pulled his right hand back with a smile, took out a tissue from the coffee table and wiped it. Kiki seemed to be very satisfied with her masterpiece just now, and she lay on the couch and giggled.

Really teething! But no, Yang Guo clearly remembered reading the parenting books left by Wu Yue before, which said that the baby's first tooth would only grow when it was four or five months old, and Qiqi was only a little more than a month now, why did she grow teeth so quickly?

Things were a little strange, Yang Guo didn't dare to delay, and made a call to his mother.

After a few words of greeting, Yang Guo asked about Qiqi's situation. After Xu Jinfeng asked about Qiqi's condition, she smiled and said: "Guozi, this is not a tooth, it is a denture, which is quite common for children before they are under the age of age." ”

Xu Jinfeng said that although Yang Guo did not have such a situation when he was a child, the neighbor's children had "dentures". At that time, it was very inconvenient to go to the hospital, so I asked the elders, and the elders introduced an earthwork, that is, to rub it with a cloth dipped in salt water. Only when it is broken, the child's natural teeth can grow smoothly in the future.

After putting down the phone, Yang Guo fell into deep thought.

Isn't it too cruel to take a piece of cloth dipped in salt water and rub the hard lump in Kiki's mouth? Kiki, how much sin is this? Yang Guo imagined the scene of Qiqi being wiped by his dentures and crying vaguely, and his heart ached faintly.

However, if you don't do it ruthlessly, will it affect the normal development of Kiki's natural teeth? Yang Guo remembered that there was a saying in the book before, too much doting is harm!

Hesitating, Yang Guo still didn't make up his mind in the end. It was still early, so he picked up the phone again and dialed Nurse Jiang, wanting to consult her to see if there was a better way.

"Aunt Jiang?"

"I'm Yang Guo, yes, I didn't bother you, right?"

"I have a question for you......"

On the phone, Yang Guo told Head Nurse Jiang about Qiqi's situation, and then talked about the treatment advice given by Xu Jinfeng.

As a result, Yang Guo was reprimanded by Nurse Jiang, saying that he was superstitious and did not believe in science, and listened to some false rumors.

It turns out that Kiki's white rice-grained thing, medically called "epithelial beads", also known as "horse teeth", is indeed not really a tooth that grows, but most babies go through such a stage. It is actually formed by the accumulation of epithelial cells, which is not a disease at all, and does not have any effect on the normal development of the child's teeth.

For horse teeth, Yang Guo can choose to ignore it, because after a few months it will naturally fall off on its own. On the contrary, as the folk superstition says, picking it with a needle or grinding it with something not only does not do any good, but also may hurt the skin of the child's mouth, and there is a risk of bacterial infection or even serious illness.

Although he was scolded by Nurse Jiang and sweated profusely, Yang Guo still felt lucky. Fortunately, I asked a professional, otherwise I would have really hurt Kiki!

Of course, Xu Jinfeng also had good intentions, and she didn't know the seriousness of the matter. It's just that Yang Guo has gone through this incident, and he has a deeper understanding that raising children must pay attention to science, and he can't blindly make a mess by himself, and he can't be superstitious about local methods.

In order to better escort Qiqi, Yang Guo felt that he still had to read more about pediatrics, otherwise he would still make some common-sense mistakes in the future.

Picking up Kiki with palpitations, Yang Guo kissed her little face. Kiki didn't know that she had escaped, and lay quietly in Yang Guo's arms. Her eyes began to fog, her face was pressed against her father's chest, and her little hands unconsciously pulled the corners of her father's clothes, unwilling to move.

It seemed that she was sleepy, so Yang Guo stood up with Qiqi in her arms, put her to sleep, and put her on her small bed.

Yang Guo, who returned to the living room, read a book for more than an hour, and suddenly thought of one thing: It's almost Children's Day!

Although Kiki is not even a child, Children's Day is a carnival day for every child, and Yang Guo feels that on such a day full of children's laughter, he should do something for Kiki!

But what to do?

Yang Guo was thinking as he flipped through Weibo on his phone.

"Huh! The second part of Kung Fu Panda has been released! Yang Guo was a little surprised to see this news.

Yang Guo remembered the cartoon that swept the world three years ago, and the cute panda that was sought after by countless children, that movie was humorous and funny, suitable for all ages, and swept the box office of more than 600 million meters around the world! Yang Guo also dedicated a movie ticket himself, and he laughed and liked it at that time.

Yang Guo made up his mind to take Qiqi to watch a kung fu panda 2 on Children's Day! I believe that Qiqi will like it, Yang Guo is very sure in his heart. However, Yang Guo seems to have forgotten that his daughter has just reached the full moon now!

Kung Fu Panda is back after three years, and it is Children's Day again, and it is estimated that tickets will be very popular. So, Yang Guo turned on the computer, boarded the website of the cinema, and bought three online in advance.

Why did you buy three? Yang Guo thought about it this way, he took Qiqi with him, if Qiqi made a fuss in the theater, it would inevitably make noise to the nearby audience, so Yang Guo simply bought a ticket to the side and back, and then also bought the two seats next to him, so that the impact could be controlled in a small range.

Yang Guo thought he was very witty, but would it really go as smoothly as he thought?