"Lin, I have sothing I want to discuss with you, but I’m not sure how to begin. Please don’t take it to heart if you find what I’m about to say unpleasant, okay?"
"Auntie, you’ve always told not to be too formal with you. Just say whatever you want; we can discuss it together."
Yu Xiui organized her thoughts and said to Lin Xiang, "It’s like this, the past two days while Tiantian was in the hospital, I’ve been thinking about how many children lose their lives each year due to similar situations. Just this year alone, our school had several incidents."
"So I was wondering if you could teach that life-saving thod of yours to everyone, so in critical monts, more lives could be saved."
The rescue ti for food stuck in the throat is only a few minutes. If you live close to a hospital, it’s manageable, but if you’re far away, you might not make it to the hospital in ti, and could stop breathing on the way.
If everyone learned this thod, it would invisibly save many lives!
However, Yu Xiui wasn’t sure if Lin Xiang was willing, so she asked quite tactfully.
"Sure," Lin Xiang agreed readily without much thought. "Auntie, how about I teach you first? After you return to school, you can teach other teachers, then they can teach the students, and the students can teach their parents."
This way, the spread will be fast and wide, and soon, most people in Mianyang Town would know the Heimlich Maneuver.
Lin Xiang didn’t have any intentions of keeping the thod to herself; in fact, she thought it should be widely known.
She just hadn’t found the right opportunity to suggest it before, so it was perfect when Yu Xiui brought it up.
Yu Xiui hadn’t expected Lin Xiang to be so generous, and imdiately felt even more favorable towards her, "Lin, what do you think? Next Friday, we are having a faculty eting at the Town First Middle School. Could you co to the school that day to provide so on-site guidance?"
"Guidance might be a bit of an overstatent. I’m just sharing what I know with everyone."
"Then it’s settled. Next Friday at 1 PM, make sure to be on ti at the Town First Middle School."
Lin Xiang agreed.
The Heimlich Maneuver indeed needed more promotion. Moreover, she was going to attend the Town First Middle School as a second-year high school student at the beginning of the year, so she could use this opportunity to familiarize herself with the environnt.
Lin Xiang and Yu Xiui had a pleasant chat, while Shi Leng, unable to join their conversation, went to the yard to find Lin Yun.
Lin Yun had just finished washing the sweet potatoes, and was now cutting them into pieces.
He worked quickly and steadily, with a firm grip on the knife and strong hands. Before long, he had filled a sieve with sweet potato chunks.
They just didn’t look very neat.
Seeing the pile of sweet potato chunks without any pattern, Shi Leng was about to reach out to arrange them when Lin Yun stopped her.
"These sweet potato pieces are going to be ground into powder later, so there’s no need to arrange them too neatly."
"Oh."
Shi Leng silently withdrew her hand, "Are you making sweet potato starch?"
"Yes. My sister said she needs so sweet potato starch for sothing important. Since I don’t have to earn work points these days, I decided to make it for her."
Shi Leng remarked, "The relationship between you and Lin Xiang is really good."
Her family only had her and her sister, and their bond was also deep.
But in families she knew with brothers, the girls often seed to be on the losing end.
She had never seen a brother like Lin Yun who took such good care of his sister.
Lin Yun paused slightly in his actions.
Does he treat his sister well?
Just making so sweet potato starch for her counts as being good?
But his sister treats him even better. Every ti she returns from town, she brings him treats.
Lin Yun isn’t greedy, but every ti Lin Xiang brings him food, it shows that she keeps him in her thoughts.
He seed to have forgotten about the previous tis when mother and daughter oppressed him.
"As a brother, isn’t it my duty to take care of my sister?"
Moreover, he was the adopted one. It was a great kindness from Mrs. Lin not to have kicked him out and instead taken him in.
Shi Leng didn’t know which of her words touched Lin Yun, but she felt he worked even more energetically as all the sweet potatoes were cut into pieces in the blink of an eye.
She saw Lin Yun throw the sweet potato chunks into a machine he had just assembled and curiously asked, "Is this machine for grinding powder?"
"Yes, it’s dual-purpose. One side is for grinding powder, and the other can press vermicelli. It’s very efficient."
Although it was his first ti using it, he had listened to Lin Xiang’s introduction, so he knew enough.
"Then this machine is quite good." Shi Leng blandly praised it. After all, if she didn’t talk, Lin Yun wouldn’t speak up proactively either.
Not wanting the conversation to drop, she tried hard to co up with topics.
Just as she finished her complint, Lin Yun seriously nodded, "Indeed, I find it quite useful too. My sister is so clever, coming up with such a good machine. The best part is that it’s not even hard to use."
Shi Leng, "Are you saying your sister, Lin Xiang, developed this machine?"
"Yes, is there a problem?"
Shi Leng shook her head chanically.
No problem.
It’s just that Lin Xiang wasn’t quite what she had imagined.
Shi Leng pondered while Lin Yun focused on making sweet potato starch; with her silence, he also opted to remain quiet.
This taciturn attitude was just like when she first t him in town.
What a blockhead!
Shi Leng cursed silently in her heart, no longer paying attention to Lin Yun, and turned to enter the main house.
Lin Xiang noticed the protagonist storming in angrily and thought to herself that Lin Yun had upset her?
Tsk, tsk, better watch out for a hard ti chasing a wife!
"Auntie, Uncle, it’s almost alti now, why don’t you stay and have a al at our place? I’ll cook."
"No, you don’t have to bother. We’ll sit for a while longer and then head back."
"It’s no trouble at all. Cooking on a farm stove is quick, but the food might not be as good as what you have in town; just don’t mind it."
Yu Xiui objected, "Listen to you. If we refuse your kind invitation to eat, would we even be human?"
Lin Xiang liked interacting with straightforward people like Yu Xiui!
"Alright, then I’ll get started, and I’ll have my brother co in to keep you company."
Lin Xiang went to the yard and called out to Lin Yun, who was diligently pressing vermicelli.
"Brother, could you entertain our guests inside while I go to the team office? I’ll be back soon."
The Lin Family’s house wasn’t large, and the living room wasn’t soundproof. Lin Xiang and Yu Xiui hadn’t exactly whispered, so Lin Yun had heard everything about their acquaintance loud and clear.
Especially knowing that Yu Xiui was a teacher at the Town First Middle School, Lin Yun said, "Alright, go ahead. I’ll entertain them for you."
The Lin Family didn’t have much to offer; Lin Yun took a few sweet potatoes to the kitchen, baked them, and served them in the living room.
"The sweet potatoes from our Li Hua Team are famous throughout the commune. They’re sweeter than those grown in other teams. You should try them."
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