0p0 Chapter 129 The abandoned baby picked up (19)
Chapter 129 The abandoned baby picked up (19)
One day not long after, Ye Chu came home from school at noon. When passing by a large yard, he heard a baby crying from inside.
In this large courtyard, Grandma Feng's family lives, to be precise, Grandma Feng and her eldest son's family.The eldest son is in his 40s and has already given birth to four children. This crying baby is his fifth child.
The Feng family are landlords.
In the original world, Grandma Feng was so frightened by the tense situation that she immediately took off all the tiles from her big brick house and gave it to the production team to build a warehouse. In addition, she also had a young son serving in the army. Considered dodged.
However, although I will no longer be tortured, being isolated is still inevitable.People in the village were worried about being implicated and no one dared to deal with them.
After Xiaowu was born, Aunt Feng had no milk and the child kept crying.With their status, they don’t want to borrow milk unless they have to, what if they cause trouble to others?I just thought that if I wait, Aunt Feng might have milk soon.I waited from noon to almost evening, but still didn't come.
Uncle Feng muttered a few words, "How come there is no milk? Weren't the four of them all fine before?" Then, together with Grandma Feng, they secretly carried the child out to borrow milk.
No matter how tense the situation is, the villagers will not let their children starve to death.On this point, they are aware of it.
After the two of them left, Aunt Feng and her Xiaosi, who was less than 6 years old, were left in the family.Aunt Feng sent Xiaosi away, struggled to get out of bed, and drank a bowl of salt brine.
Maybe it was the hard life, postpartum depression, or the panic of not having milk to feed her baby. Aunt Feng suddenly lost the idea of living.
When she finished drinking the brine and was struggling between life and death, she shouted to Xiaosi, "Go and call your dad. Run faster. If it's too late, you won't see him."
Xiao Si was confused at the time and ran to find someone obediently. She didn’t know what happened, but saw that her mother was very uncomfortable. Maybe it was a daughter’s intuition, so the little girl ran very fast.
However, when Uncle Feng rushed home, he still didn't have time to see Aunt Feng for the last time.
Xiaosi was so shocked by her mother's death that she didn't speak for several years, and Xiaowu died before she was even a month old.
Uncle Feng has been blaming himself, feeling that those few words he muttered were the last straw for Aunt Feng.If Aunt Feng hadn't thought too hard, Xiao Si wouldn't have become like this, and Xiao Wu might not have died.
In this life, the village has been relatively peaceful, and the Feng family has kept the roof tiles, but the isolation of the landlords and rich peasants still exists.
Ye Chu was worried that Aunt Feng still had no milk, so he hurried home, put an unopened bag of milk powder into his schoolbag, and ran out.
When she met Ye Haibo coming home from work at the door, he stopped her and asked, "Why are you going? Why are you running so fast?"
Ye Chu pulled him in and closed the door before saying, "Aunt Feng seems to have given birth to a baby. I heard the baby crying on the way back."
Several question marks rose on Ye Haibo's head: "Do you want to see the newborn? Then you can go there in two days. She has just given birth and her family must be busy."
"No, I'm here to give gifts. A few years ago, when we had no food to eat, didn't Aunt Feng save half a bag of stick noodles from her house for us? This time she gave birth to a baby. In this situation, it is definitely not the case. Someone will come to see the confinement, I will secretly send it off to make her happy."
"That's right. What are you giving me?"
"A bag of milk powder."
Ye Haibo: "I wish I had bought two more bags. I bought two bags in total, and we almost finished one bag. How about you take that bit with you?"
Ye Chu: "...Okay."
She went back to the house and put the small half bag in again.
When she came out, she found her father peeking out from the door.
Ye Chu also leaned over to look outside and asked, "What are you looking at?"
"Let's see if there's anyone else on the road. Okay, go ahead. Everyone who got off work should have gone home, and there won't be anyone on the road now."
Ye Chu: "...Don't worry, I won't give anyone a chance to write my big-character poster."
After saying that, she swished away.
Ye Haibo shook his head from behind: "... He can run faster than a rabbit."
He ran to Feng's house in one breath, opened the door and went in.The eldest brother of the Feng family was a little strange when he saw her. Xiaoba had not been visiting during meal time for a while.
"Xiaoba, is something wrong?"
"Yeah. I heard the baby crying. I wanted to see it."
Brother Feng: "... I'm quite curious. Come with me. I'm tired of crying now and have fallen asleep."
The room where Aunt Feng lived had not been tidied up, there was a smell of blood, and the doors and windows were still closed.
When Ye Chu went in, Aunt Feng was eating. Noodles and eggs, just like brown sugar eggs, are one of the regular recipes for pregnant women.At this time, this is a rare good thing.
But Aunt Feng obviously had a poor appetite.
Uncle Feng was there to advise: "Eat more. Only when you eat well can you have milk to feed the child."
There was nothing wrong with what he said, but Ye Chu could clearly see that after he said this, Aunt Feng's appetite became even worse.
"Uncle, aunt."
"Xiao Ba is here. What's wrong?" Uncle Feng finally stopped staring at Aunt Feng eating.She could even hear Aunt Feng sighing in relief.
"When I came home from school, I heard the baby crying. I came to take a look."
As she spoke, she took out an unopened bag of milk powder from her bag, and then took out a small half of an opened bag, and said: "When the production team was on holiday a few days ago, my dad went to the supply and marketing cooperative and bought two bags of milk powder. We took it apart and brewed a few bowls, and it was quite delicious. Let’s give it to the baby.”
As soon as she finished speaking, she felt Aunt Feng looking at her with burning eyes, almost crying with excitement.
Uncle Feng stood up, took the milk powder, and said: "Xiaoba, thank you. Logically speaking, I shouldn't accept milk powder, which is such a valuable thing. You are also growing, so you should keep it for yourself. But I really need milk powder now. Give it to your little brother. After waiting for a while, I will find a way to buy more bags of milk powder for you to drink."
"Hey. It doesn't matter whether I drink or not. I can eat. My little brother can't eat yet. Then I'll leave first."
"Hey, boss, please send Xiaoba out. Pay attention to see if there is anyone on both sides." Uncle Feng ordered.
These days, it’s better not to let anyone see Xiaoba interacting with them.But they have to remember this friendship.
In fact, Uncle Feng's family is far from being in dire straits. It is purely because of the tense situation in the past two years that has restricted their thoughts and hands.In addition, people nowadays are not in the habit of feeding their children with milk powder, and they have not prepared in advance, so they just did not react for a while.
When they react, they can find a way to get milk powder themselves.
When Ye Chu returned home, Ye Haibo was making lunch.
As soon as he saw her coming back, he asked: "How is it? Have you seen the child?"
"I saw it. It was sleeping when I went there. It's a little bit wrinkled and red, just like the litter of little rabbits that were just born at Grandma Tian's house."
Ye Haibo: "...If you describe this child like this, is there any way to look at it?"
Ye Chu: "I'm telling the truth."
"Newborn babies are not very pretty. It will be fine if they grow out. When you were little, you were wrinkled for several days."
"Impossible, I have been good-looking since I was a child."
Ye Haibo: "...Yes, yes, you have been good-looking since you were a child. Bring a bowl to serve rice."