SFS 249: Causes of Loss of Appetite
249: Causes of Loss of Appetite
"How is that possible!" Yao Chengxian subconsciously denied him. It was just a jar of osmanthus wine that he brewed himself. How could it be sold so expensively!
"How is it impossible?"
The price ceiling of wine is already very high. Various famous Chinese and foreign wines are sold at much higher prices, but their taste and aroma are not necessarily better than osmanthus wine.
The vice president thought to himself, if he were a rich man, he would definitely buy it.
But unfortunately he is not a rich man, and Professor Tan will not sell it.
Although he had no money, there were a few wealthy people in the institute who all wanted to buy osmanthus wine through Professor Tan and the Xiao family.
When so many rich people were scrambling for it, at least in their hearts, the value of osmanthus wine was greater than those hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Seeing Yao Chengxian’s incredible expression, the vice president wanted to tell him that different people have different pursuits.
Some people seek food and clothing, some seek wealth, some seek fame, and some seek health.
It's fine if you don't understand something yourself, but questioning others or even reporting them without knowing the full story is truly bad behavior.
The vice president felt that he had to talk to Yao Chengxian in detail.
He cleared his throat, his face somewhat serious, and said to Yao Chengxian seriously, "Professor Yao, you shouldn't always keep an eye on Professor Tan. You know about any small changes in Professor Tan faster than anyone else. If you have any extra time, you'd better spend it on your team and build good relationships with your colleagues..."
His words made Yao Chengxian blush. Even though he was still dissatisfied, he felt embarrassed to stay here. After saying a few words, he hurried away.
The vice president sighed helplessly and continued writing his materials, but his heart was hard to calm down. Grapes, grapes, grapes kept popping up in his mind...
Looking at the night outside, he calmed down a little.
Grapes can’t grow legs and run away, so let’s go tomorrow.
...
Xiao Liu carried the bag of grapes back home. He did not stop along the way and could not wait to share the good news with his family.
His wife is the head nurse of a nearby hospital. The couple often work overtime, so they invited the old lady to come and help take care of the children and cook.
When Xiao Liu returned home, his wife was staying in the room watching TV series. The old lady was running around the house chasing Xiao Liu with food in her hand.
The child still refuses to eat, but it’s even worse today. He doesn’t eat a single bite.
Xiao Liu walked into the house with a delighted look on his face. He waved the things in his hands towards the old lady, as if presenting a treasure, and said, "I brought back something good today."
The old lady held the bowl and looked over, and found that it was half a grape.
She lost interest and continued feeding her eldest grandson, complaining, "Who buys half a bunch of grapes? Is this all that's left?"
"I didn't buy these," Xiao Liu explained, his face full of pride and cherishment. "These aren't ordinary grapes. The professor gave them to me. I brought them back to try for my child to see if they can improve his appetite."
Hearing that it was given by the professor, the old lady's attention was attracted again.
"What the professor gave must be something good." She muttered with shining eyes, put down the bowl in her hand, and couldn't wait to give orders to her son.
"Hurry up and give it to the child. We can also get a taste of the professor's talent. In the future, our grandson will also be able to get into a good university and study for a master's degree."
Xiao Liu took the grapes to the kitchen, washed them, brought them out in a fruit basket, then picked a grape from the bunch and walked to the child.
"The professor and I picked these grapes together. They are very clean."
The old lady nodded repeatedly and praised the bunch of juicy grapes.
"What the professor gives me is different. These grapes are better than those sold outside."
Xiao Xiao Liu didn't want to eat, he was concentrating on playing with the toy in his hand.
When the grapes were extended to his mouth, he turned his head away proudly, "I don't want to eat anything!"
Xiao Liu used his hands to crush the grape skin a little and rubbed it on the child's lips.
The child licked it subconsciously, then suddenly raised his head, as excited as if he had seen Ultraman.
"Dad, I want to eat big grapes!"
This was the first time in the past two days that the child asked to eat when he came home, and Xiao Liu was delighted.
"Eat! Eat the big ones! Are two enough?"
Xiao Xiao Liu had a big grape stuffed in his mouth, with a satisfied look on his face, and spoke incoherently.
"That's enough. Thank you, Dad. You are so nice."
One of them could fill his mouth completely.
He ate one and wanted more, so he reached out to grab the fruit basket in Xiao Liu's hand.
But Xiao Liu took a step back and didn't let him get it.
He looked at the child with a greedy look on his face and asked, "Do you want to eat now?"
The child said no, he just wanted to eat grapes.
Seeing how attractive the grapes were to the children, the whole family gathered around.
Finally, after discussing it with their family, they told Xiao Xiao Liu.
"Grapes can only be eaten after a meal. You can't eat grapes before dinner."
Hearing this, Xiao Xiao Liu felt like the sky was falling.
He held the toy, struggling in his mind for a while, as if making a choice, and finally nodded.
The next day, Xiao Xiao Liu was sent to school.
The person sitting in front of him turned around and called out to him, "How much money did you bring today? Let's go buy some food."
There is a man selling snacks at the back door of the school these days. He disguised his small van as a small store, which is filled with lots of snacks. Children would run there to buy snacks after class these days.
Xiao Xiao Liu was also one of those who bought snacks before.
His grandmother usually goes out to buy groceries and puts all the change she makes in the drawer under the TV cabinet, including one-yuan and fifty-cent notes.
The old lady usually doesn't count. When it's time to buy groceries, she takes out some change from the coin box and puts it back if she hasn't used it all.
It just so happened that Xiao Liu, who was eyeing the colorful snacks outside the school gate, discovered the hiding place of the change. So before going to school every day in the past two days, he would secretly take five yuan from the drawer.
These five dollars were enough for him to buy a lot of things at the 'snack shop'.
So he came home with a full meal every day.
Faced with that big bowl of rice, it is naturally impossible to eat it.
He didn't dare tell his parents that he had stolen change from the TV cabinet, so he pretended to have no appetite and couldn't eat.
Because his acting was so good, his family didn't notice. They thought he was sick and took him to see doctors everywhere.
He was not sick to begin with, so the doctor couldn't see anything.
The child at the table in front of him was his snack partner, and as usual, he asked him to go buy delicious food together.
But Xiao Xiao Liu did not go with him this time.
He thought of the grapes his father brought back last night and shook his head firmly.
"I'm not going, go buy it yourself!"
He savored the grapes carefully before going to bed last night and felt that they were much more delicious than snacks.
So he had to save his stomach, go back and finish his meal, and then eat the grapes his father brought back.
So, when Xiao Liu returned home today, he had regained his previous appetite and ate two bowls of rice with his own small bowl.
Then he sat on the sofa, holding a big grape in each hand and eating it with a happy look on his face.
The old lady next to him was so moved that she called him a miracle doctor.
It’s amazing, it works immediately.
Although things were not quite what Tan Hongru had expected, the child's problem was indeed solved.
It doesn’t matter if there are some problems in the process, as long as the result is correct.
In order to thank Tan Hongru for solving Xiao Xiao Liu's problem, the old lady specially asked relatives to send a box of local eggs from her hometown, and brought two live chickens, and asked Xiao Liu to deliver them to Tan Hongru.
After receiving it, Tan Hongru had no use for it, so he gave it to Qingqing to nourish the child.
Two days later, a teacher at Xiao Xiao Liu's school discovered that snacks were being sold at the back door and immediately reported it to the school.
The school sent security guards to guard the place strictly, and the mobile "canteen" never came again.
Since then, Xiao Xiao Liu’s problem of loss of appetite has been completely solved.