Jiang Chengzhou looked him over and seemed fairly satisfied with his uncle's appearance. "Okay, I can look like you."

Su Lang chuckled, patted his head, and led the children to the supply and marketing cooperative.

Three milk popsicles, five cents each, were already considered the store's premium item.

After seeing his uncle pay, Jiang Chengzhou quietly put away his secret stash of money.

He had originally planned to treat everyone.

Su Lang caught a glimpse of his movements out of the corner of her eye and chuckled, "What, another allowance from your aunt?"

Before Lin Zhilan came to the island, Jiang Chengzhou was the richest kid on the island.

Su Lang was an unmarried man at the time, and had never raised a child; all he knew was to give money.

The reason why Jiang Chengzhou was able to be the leader among the children at that time was because he had a lot of pocket money and was willing to treat others.

We can't be called "fair-weather friends," but we're more like casual buddies.

But things are different now.

Jiang Chengzhou patted his pocket and said proudly, "Uncle, do you know how much money I've saved up now?"

"How many?"

"Eleven yuan and eighty cents!"

"Wow!" Little Linlin didn't understand, she just kept praising him, "Brother is so awesome!"

Su Lang laughed and asked, "How did you save it?"

Jiang Chengzhou took a sip of his popsicle. "My aunt gives me fifty cents a week, which is two dollars a month. It's easy to save up."

Although Jiang Chengzhou had a sweet tooth, he was a big fan of his aunt's cooking and firmly believed that there was no food in the world more delicious than his aunt's cooking.

Ever since Lin Zhilan let him manage his own allowance, he instantly became a miser. It's only because the weather is hot now that he's willing to spend money on popsicles.

Su Lang thought he had done a good job, and took out five yuan from his pocket: "I heard you got perfect scores on both your final exams last semester, this five yuan is a reward from your uncle."

Jiang Chengzhou frowned and pouted, "Uncle, do you really not know how to raise children?"

Su Lang was momentarily speechless. "What advice do you have?"

"My aunt said that studying hard is my own business, and getting perfect scores is the result of my hard work. She shouldn't give me a reward."

But my aunt told me that when she has time off, she'll take me to the beach to go beachcombing because I didn't make any careless mistakes during the exam and even checked my paper carefully; she wants to praise me.

Lin Zhilan doesn't know how to raise children; she can only raise them according to textbooks.

The book states that sometimes, inappropriate rewards can destroy a child's intrinsic motivation.

Rewarding learning with money or material things, such as giving 5 yuan for getting 100 points or buying toys for finishing homework, turns learning into a transaction.

It will make children feel that they are not studying for their own benefit, but for the sake of exchanging things.

Lin Zhilan and Jiang Chengzhou discussed this seriously, and Jiang Chengzhou agreed with this viewpoint.

Furthermore, Jiang Chengzhou preferred his aunt to take him and his sister out to play with him rather than five yuan.

After listening to Jiang Chengzhou's explanation, Su Lang felt somewhat guilty.

To be honest, he wasn't a very good husband, father, or uncle.

"Uncle, Uncle!" While Su Lang was lost in thought, Jiang Chengzhou frantically tried to wink at him.

"What's wrong?"

"If my sister eats too many popsicles, she'll get a stomachache."

Su Lang turned to look at his daughter, Linlin, who then took a slurp of an ice pop right in front of him.

"Baby……"

As soon as Su Lang called out a name, Linlin twisted her body and said, "This is the baby's, Daddy has it too."

As she spoke, she took her father's hand and licked the popsicle.

Su Lang quickly raised his hand.

"Daddy, baby won't grab it," Linlin looked up at the popsicle, opened her little mouth, and exclaimed, "Ah~"

Su Lang: "..."

My daughter, at such a young age, already knows how to "treat the symptoms."

How could a doting father resist such a sweet and affectionate daughter?

If Su Lang had stayed home for a while, he would have realized that Linlin only used this one trick on everyone.

Although there aren't many tricks, they've been tried and tested repeatedly and are exceptionally effective.

Except for the occasional defeats in front of the principled Lin Zhilan and Li Xuan, almost everyone else was wiped out.

Jiang Chengzhou pretended not to see it and quickly finished the popsicle in his hand in a few bites.

"Daddy?" Linlin tilted her head and acted cute.

Su Lang was on the verge of surrendering when a sudden idea struck her. "Baby, the popsicle isn't cooked yet. Let's cook it when we get back."

Jiang Chengzhou lowered his head and covered his mouth to chuckle.

My uncle is just taking advantage of Linlin because she's never been to school.

Fortunately, Linlin was illiterate, and she was actually fooled by Su Lang.

Su Lang went all out with his act. When he got home, he put the remaining popsicle in the kettle, and it melted naturally without even needing to be lit.

"It's cooked." He pretended to prepare a bowl and a spoon.

Milk popsicles are actually just sugar water with some milk powder added. When melted, they are milky white and have a faint milk flavor.

Su Lang poured the sugar water into a bowl, scooped a spoonful and fed it to her daughter, "Try it, is it still too hot?"

Linlin subconsciously breathed out a breath, carefully took a sip, her eyes lit up, and she exclaimed in surprise, "It's not hot at all!"

Jiang Chengzhou lay on the table, chuckling to himself, his whole body vibrating.

"elder brother?"

Linlin pointed to her brother at her father, looking worried and anxious.

Su Lang: "He's fine. Mom will give him a few acupuncture treatments when she gets back. We can continue eating."

"Mmm." Linlin nodded obediently.

immediately……

"Daddy, don't move." Linlin grabbed Su Lang's hand, which was trembling with laughter.

Then he said confidently, "Dad needs to get a few acupuncture needles too."

……

While Su Lang and Jiang Chengzhou were "bullying" the child at home, a strange patient came to the Traditional Chinese Medicine department.

On such a hot day, the woman wrapped herself up tightly and huddled in a corner.

She had arrived long ago, but she just wouldn't go into the examination room to see a doctor.

Lin Zijun and Qin Qing called her several times, but she just shook her head and told them not to come near.

She didn't come in until noon, when the patients had gradually dispersed.

Lin Zhilan glanced at her attire, then gestured with her chin towards the chair opposite her. "Sit down. Are you feeling unwell?"

The woman looked at Lin Zijun.

Lin Zhilan: "Xiao Lin, you can go out now."

Lin Zijun shrugged, walked out, and closed the door to the consultation room behind him.

The woman remained silent for a long time without saying a word.

Lin Zhilan did not urge her, and lowered her head to organize the medical records.

Qin Qing didn't have that much patience and couldn't help but urge, "Comrade, where are you feeling unwell?"

The woman licked her dry lips and finally spoke: "I...I have that disease...a disease."

She spoke the word "sickness" very softly, as if it were something she found very difficult to say.

Qin Qing was startled and instinctively took a step back.

Lin Zhilan said calmly, "Take off your clothes and let me see."

The woman glanced at Qin Qing and slowly took off her outer garment.

Her skin was very clean, and perhaps because she had been covered up for a long time, her neck and arms were even whiter than her face.

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