Han Yan returned home on the second day of Qiqi's one-month birthday. The old lady was also worried about the old man taking care of the child alone. Of course, to be exact, she was worried about the old man taking care of the child alone. Han Yan's father was much worse than Han Yan. The old man was fifty-six years old this year and was good at farm work. However, in Xu Jinfeng's words, he was an old man who didn't even know how to cook, let alone take care of a child. Therefore, when she saw that her son's life was orderly, Xu Jinfeng was relieved and didn't stay any longer.
After his mother returned home, Han Yan and Qiqi's life returned to normal. From now on, Han Yan would rarely accept super urgent quests that required 100,000 words per week. After all, those quests required a lot of time to complete. As Han Yan, he worked tirelessly day and night. He translated for more than ten hours a day and even used his personal time!
Now, he only worked six hours a day and translated around five thousand words. The unit price wasn't too high. Usually, it was four to five hundred yuan per thousand words. However, he could save time to accompany Qiqi and study.
Qiqi was one month old now and he couldn't keep her at home all the time. Han Yan would take her out for a walk every day. In the morning, after Han Yan fed her milk, he would take her to the small park to enjoy the morning sun. After dinner, Han Yan would take her to the pedestrian streets like Shangxiu Jiu or Beijing Road to see the bustling night scene of Yang Cheng and go shopping. Han Yan realized that Qiqi especially liked to go outside. Whether it was looking at the flowers in the morning or the lights at night, she enjoyed it.
Han Yan now gave himself time to study other than work. The first language he learned was French. Although he learned it in university for a period of time, he just muddled through it. He didn't know who had told him that French was a romantic language, but he didn't think so at all. Just the conjugation of verbs was a pain in the neck. A few years had passed, and what he had learned at that time had been handed back to his teacher.
Picking up his old French book again, Han Yan memorized words at night and struggled to understand grammar. In the morning, he followed the tape and read the text.
French is not easy to learn.
First of all, its phonetic symbols were very magical. Its uvula sounds were easy to learn, a bit like the prelude to coughing. However, when some notes encountered different notes, they would produce different sounds. This was only the sound of a single note. If there was a special combination, there would be consecutive recitations or concatenations.
Secondly, the verb changes. The person, singular, plural, and tense would cause the verb to change. Often, a verb could have more than ten forms, which meant that there would be more than ten different ways of writing and pronouncing! Moreover, their changes were not very regular. Flipping open the conjugation table at the back of the dictionary, there were more than ten pages of different types of conjugation! Not only that, but it was also categorized as masculine! Therefore, even though the French dictionary was not as thick as the English dictionary, if all the conjugation was included, the English dictionary was really nothing.
The tenses in French were also more complicated than the English. For example, the present tense in French was divided into the direct tense, the subjunctive tense, the imperative tense, and the conditional tense. The other grammatical forms were also unpredictable. If one did not put in a lot of effort, there was no way to understand them. For example, the way numbers were pronounced was completely different from the logic of Chinese and English. Sixty and below sixty were still okay, but above seventy, it became the magical sixty plus ten, eleven, twelve …. Then, someone asked, was eighty sixty plus twenty? No, eighty and ninety became four twenty plus one, two … eleven, twelve ….
French is really much more difficult to learn than English! Even Han Yan had to spend a lot of effort in the beginning to memorize the words and figure out the grammar thoroughly. There was still a long way to go before he could understand French news! (Don't think that French news is easy. The recording of French texts is simply heaven and earth compared to it. It is as fast as a machine gun, and some French teachers may not be able to understand it.)
However, today, Han Yan did not have the time to worry about learning French.
When he was feeding Qiqi at night, Han Yan found that Qiqi seemed to have teeth!
Just as Han Yan was about to pick up the empty milk bottle, in the gap between the pacifier and Qiqi's mouth, Han Yan seemed to catch a glimpse of a white tooth. As if he had discovered a new continent, Han Yan was a little happy, but also a little in disbelief.
Is it really a tooth?
Han Yan tried to put the pacifier close to Qiqi's mouth, but Qiqi, who was full, refused to open her mouth. Since even coaxing and lying could not convince Qiqi, Han Yan decided to try.
Putting down the milk bottle and washing his right hand, Han Yan placed Qiqi horizontally on the sofa. He leaned over Qiqi's face, his right thumb brushing across Qiqi's upper lip and gently pressing on her lower lip. After drinking milk, Qiqi's small red lips were still glistening with water. Han Yan's right thumb slid in a little, pressed on Qiqi's lower lip, and pried open her tightly closed mouth.
As soon as Qiqi opened her mouth, Han Yan smelled a strong milk fragrance, but that was not important. He stared blankly at Qiqi's gums under her chin. The originally bare gums now had a small white dot, just like a baby tooth that had just broken out of the skin!
Han Yan's right index finger reached in and gently touched the small white dot, which looked a little hard. Before he could pull out his index finger, Qiqi's small tongue curled up, as if protesting against an intruder. Han Yan's index finger felt a soft touch, and then a lot of saliva was smeared on it.
Han Yan did not know whether to laugh or cry as he pulled his right hand back, and took a piece of tissue from the coffee table to wipe it. Qiqi seemed to be very satisfied with her masterpiece just now, as she lay on the sofa and giggled.
She really had teeth! But that was not right. Han Yan clearly remembered reading the parenting books that Xu Jinfeng had left behind. It said that a baby's first teeth would only grow at four or five months old. Qiqi was only a little over a month old now, so how could she have teeth so quickly?
This was a little strange. Han Yan did not dare to delay, so he called his mother.
After a few words of greeting, Han Yan asked about Qiqi's situation. After Xu Jinfeng asked about Qiqi's situation, she smiled and said, "Han Yan, this is not a tooth, it's a false tooth. It's quite common for children to have false teeth before they are three years old."
Xu Jinfeng said that although Han Yan did not have such a situation when he was a child, the neighbor's child had "false teeth" before. At that time, it was very inconvenient to go to the hospital, so she asked the elders, and the elders introduced a local prescription, which was to rub the false tooth with a cloth dipped in salt water. Only by rubbing it, the child's real teeth would be able to grow smoothly in the future.
After hanging up the phone, Han Yan fell into deep thought.
Using a cloth dipped in salt water to rub the hard lump in Qiqi's mouth, wasn't it a little too cruel? How much pain would Qiqi have to suffer? Han Yan imagined the scene of Qiqi crying as he rubbed her false teeth, and his heart ached.
However, if he did not make up his mind to do it, would it affect the normal development of Qiqi's real teeth? Han Yan remembered that there was a saying in a book, "Spoiling too much is harmful!"
After hesitating, Han Yan did not make up his mind in the end. It was still early, so he picked up the phone again and called Head Nurse Jiang, wanting to ask her if there was a better way.
"Auntie Jiang?"
"I'm Han Yan. Yes, I'm not disturbing you, am I?"
"I have a question to ask you …"
Over the phone, Han Yan told Head Nurse Jiang about Qiqi's situation, and then told her about Xu Jinfeng's treatment suggestion.
Unexpectedly, Han Yan was reprimanded by Head Nurse Jiang, saying that he was superstitious, did not believe in science, and only believed in rumors.
It turned out that Qiqi's white, grain-like thing was medically called "epithelial beads," also known as "horse teeth." It was true that it was not a real tooth, but most babies would go through this stage. It was actually formed by the accumulation of epithelial cells, so it was not a disease at all, and had no effect on the normal development of the child's teeth.
As for the horse teeth, Han Yan could choose to ignore them, because they would naturally fall off after a few months. On the contrary, as the folk superstition said, not only would it not be beneficial to use a needle or something to rub it, but it could also hurt the child's oral skin, and there was a risk of bacterial infection or even a serious disease.
Although he was sweating profusely from Head Nurse Jiang's scolding, Han Yan still felt very lucky. Fortunately, he had asked a professional, or he would have really harmed Qiqi!
Of course, Xu Jinfeng also had good intentions, and she did not know the seriousness of the matter. However, after this incident, Han Yan deeply realized that raising a child required science. He could not blindly do it himself, and he could not be superstitious about traditional methods.
In order to better protect Qiqi, Han Yan felt that he still needed to learn more about pediatrics, or else he would still make some common mistakes in the future.
With lingering fear, Han Yan picked up Qiqi and kissed her little face. Qiqi did not know that she had escaped a disaster, and quietly laid in Han Yan's arms. Her eyes began to blur, and her face was pressed against her father's chest. Her little hand unconsciously pulled on the corner of her father's shirt, unwilling to move.
It seemed that she was sleepy, so Han Yan stood up with Qiqi in his arms. After coaxing her to sleep, he put her on her small bed.
After returning to the living room, Han Yan read for more than an hour, he suddenly thought of something: It was almost Children's Day!
Although Qiqi was not even a child, Children's Day was a day of celebration for every child. Han Yan felt that on such a day full of children's laughter, he should do something for Qiqi!
But what should he do?
Han Yan thought about it while scrolling through Weibo on his phone.
"Hey! Kung Fu Panda's second movie is released! "Han Yan was a little surprised to see this news.
Han Yan thought of the cartoon that was popular all over the world three years ago. He thought of the cute panda that was pursued by countless children. That movie was humorous and interesting, and it swept more than 600 million dollars in the box office worldwide! Back then, Yang Guo had also donated a movie ticket. At that time, she had also laughed out loud and liked it very much.
Han Yan made up his mind to take Qiqi to see Kung Fu Panda 2 on Children's Day! He believed that Qiqi would definitely like it. Han Yan was very confident in his heart. However, Han Yan seemed to have forgotten that his daughter was only one month old!
Kung Fu Panda returned after three years, and it happened to be Children's Day. He estimated that the tickets would be very popular. Therefore, Han Yan turned on his computer, logged onto the cinema's website, and bought three tickets in advance.
Why did he buy three tickets? Han Yan thought that he was bringing Qiqi. If Qiqi made a scene in the cinema, it was bound to disturb the nearby audience. Therefore, Han Yan simply bought a ticket at the back, and then bought the two seats next to it. This way, the impact could be controlled to a small range.
Han Yan thought that he was very witty, but would it really be as smooth as he thought?