Wen Qi saw Ming Zhe staring blankly without eating, so he quickly introduced it to him. He said the yogurt was super delicious, with a sweet and sour taste!
Wen Kai quickly swallowed the chocolate in his mouth and said, "I think chocolate is super delicious!"
Chen Lan ignored the three of them. She picked up a bottle of yogurt and two small cakes from the plate and sent them to Little Stone.
Just as Chen Lan inserted the straw into the yogurt bottle and was teaching Little Stone how to use it, she saw Hu Yuzhen walking into the living room with a freshly awakened Tiger Head.
Chen Lan called Wen Qi over to teach Little Stone how to use the straw to drink yogurt. Wen Qi happily ran over. Seeing Wen Qi teaching diligently and Little Stone learning earnestly, Chen Lan didn't bother with the two brothers.
She turned around, got a bottle of yogurt and two small cakes for Tiger Head, and handed them to Hu Yuzhen. Chen Lan had brought out these snacks several times before, and Tiger Head, Wen Kai, Wen Qi, and the other children had eaten them a few times, so they knew how to eat them without being taught.
At this moment, Mother Liu, along with Mother Cui, Cui Qiao, Zhao Xiaoyue, and Ming Wei, also entered the living room after finishing their kitchen chores.
Chen Lan greeted them one by one and then went into the side room. Once inside, Chen Lan used her mind to open the system and check the efficacy of the eye drops.
She saw that two types of medicine could relieve temporary blurred vision caused by excessive eye strain. Chen Lan immediately ordered two bottles of each.
Chen Lan took out one bottle of each and walked out of the side room, heading towards the corner where the men were chatting. Chen Lan overheard Uncle Fu telling Uncle De, Er Hu, and Xiao Shuan about the arrests of spies in the capital.
Uncle Fu exclaimed with emotion, "You don't know! I've lived in the capital for nearly fifty years, and I never imagined! There are so many spies here? In just this past month, nearly a thousand or eight hundred spies have been caught."
Everyone listened and sighed in agreement.
Uncle Fu continued, "You won't believe it, but someone I know turned out to be a spy."
Uncle Fu immediately piqued everyone's curiosity. They all looked at him and asked, "Who is it?"
Uncle Fu then dropped another bombshell!
"Everyone living in our alley knows this person. We greet each other almost every day."
Hearing this, Chen Lan knew what was going on.
This was a follow-up to when Chen Lan had asked Xiang Dong to report Duan Yunhai. After Duan Yunhai was captured and interrogated, he revealed his contacts in the capital. One of his contacts was a fifty-something old man living in the second house from the alley entrance. He often watched people play chess or chatted with people at the alley entrance, so most people entering and leaving the alley would greet him and chat.
When everyone heard that the spy was the old man at the alley entrance, they continued to sigh with emotion.
Before they could start discussing it, Chen Lan handed the eye drops to Uncle Fu and instructed him on how to use them.
Uncle Fu happily took the eye drops and was about to put them in his pocket when Chen Lan stopped him.
Chen Lan said, "Uncle Fu, don't store these eye drops in a place that's too hot, or where the sun shines directly on them. They should be stored away from light."
Chen Lan then asked Uncle Fu, "Does Xiao Shan recognize characters?"
Uncle Fu replied, "He knows some. I saw this child was smart, eager to learn, and diligent while working at the cloth shop, so I told the shopkeeper to teach him a few characters when he had time. Xiao Lan, what's wrong?"
"Oh! Uncle Fu, there's an instruction manual in the medicine box. Since Xiao Shan can read, ask him to use it for his mother according to the instructions. The manual clearly states how to use it and how many times," Chen Lan said, glancing at the box. "Uncle Fu, look, there are also usage and dosage instructions on the medicine box."
Uncle Fu looked at the medicine box in his hand and nodded, "Yes, there are characters!"
After clarifying, Chen Lan left, not wanting to delay their conversation.
Seeing that her three younger brothers had almost finished eating and drinking, she walked over and asked if they were done.
The three nodded and replied in unison, "We're done!"
Ming Zhe said happily, "So the capital has so many delicious things! I'm so happy! If I had known earlier, I would have come with you last time!"
Chen Lan touched a lock of his hair that was sticking up and said, "You feel so happy just eating snacks?"
Ming Zhe nodded and said, "I feel happy when I eat delicious food!"
Chen Lan continued, "Last time you had the toy gun I gave you, you also said you were happy?"
Ming Zhe nodded again and said, "I feel happy when I eat delicious food, play with fun toys, see beautiful things, and hear nice sounds! I don't do anything that makes me unhappy!"
Chen Lan asked, "Ming Zhe, do you feel happy when you see how cute Jia Yao and Jia Hui are?"
Ming Zhe thought for a moment and nodded.
Chen Lan continued, "And when you were sweating profusely and panting while carrying Jia Hui just now, were you happy?"
Ming Zhe quickly shook his head, "No, Jia Hui is too fat! Too heavy! It almost killed me."
Chen Lan almost burst out laughing!
She quickly suppressed her smile and asked Ming Zhe, "Didn't you just say you don't do things that make you unhappy? Then, knowing Jia Hui is fat and you can't carry her, why did you still carry her? You almost dropped her."
Ming Zhe thought for a moment and said, "But I thought she was cute! She woke up and cried because she was hungry, she was so pitiful!"
Chen Lan said, "So you turn happiness into unhappiness for that reason?"
Ming Zhe mumbled, "Sister-in-law, I'm not wrong, am I?"
Chen Lan saw that this wasn't working. After talking for so long, Ming Zhe still didn't understand the problem.
She looked at Wen Kai and said, "Wen Kai, can you tell us what the idiom we learned yesterday, 'measure your strength before acting,' means?"
Wen Kai stood up and replied, "Okay!"
He put his small hands behind his back and said loudly:
"Measure your strength before acting"
"Liang" means: to estimate, to gauge, to measure.
"Xing" means: to act, to move, to do.
"Liang li er xing" means: before we do something, we should estimate our own abilities and then act, without forcing ourselves.
Chen Lan was the first to applaud. "Well explained!" The other two also applauded.
Chen Lan then said to Wen Qi, "Wen Qi, can you tell us what the idiom 'think thrice before acting' means?"
Wen Qi also stood up and replied, "Okay!"
He also put his small hands behind his back and said loudly:
"Think thrice before acting"
"San" means: repeatedly, indicating multiple times.
"Si" means: to consider, to ponder, to think again and again.
"Xing" means: to act, to do.
"San si er xing" means that before we do something, we must consider it repeatedly (that is, think again and again), and then act.
"San si er xing" means that we should consider carefully before acting.
When Chen Lan saw that Wen Qi had also finished explaining, she was the first to applaud again. "Very well explained!" Wen Kai and Ming Zhe also applauded.
Chen Lan looked at Ming Zhe and asked, "When you were holding Jia Hui, did you think about whether Jia Hui was too heavy for you to carry?"
Ming Zhe shook his head. "No, I didn't think about anything. I just picked her up when I saw her crying."
Chen Lan said, "This is a case of not measuring your strength before acting and not thinking thrice before acting."
Ming Zhe nodded and said, "Sister-in-law, I should have asked Wen Qi and Wen Kai to watch Jia Hui and Jia Yao first, and then I would have come to find you, or Mother, or Aunt Qin, right, Sister-in-law?"
Chen Lan looked at him and encouraged him to continue.
Ming Zhe went on, "This way, with an adult present, Jia Hui and Jia Yao wouldn't cry, Jia Hui wouldn't almost fall, and I wouldn't be almost exhausted. Sister-in-law, right?"
Chen Lan gave Ming Zhe a thumbs-up and praised him, "Ming Zhe, you're amazing!" She then gave Wen Qi and Wen Kai a thumbs-up and said they were all amazing!
The three of them shouted happily, "We are all amazing!"