Chapter 6 Xiaoxiao is too thin, she needs to eat more milk powder
The people in Team 3 looked at the hare with envy and admiration in their eyes. "Wow, what a fat hare!"

Uncle Jiang looked very proud. He carefully hung the hare on the hemp belt around his waist, picked up the hoe and walked home.

The people in Team Three were very dissatisfied. How could a cripple pick up such a fat hare? Why couldn't they, normal people with healthy limbs, pick one up?

He put down the shovel he was carrying in indignation, squatted down on the edge of the dry bridge, and stared at his surroundings with wide eyes.

But he waited and waited from noon until dusk, but did not even see the shadow of the hare. Instead, he was scolded by his family, who said that he was being lazy and slacking off instead of going to the fields to earn work points.

On the other side, Grandpa Jiang walked home leisurely. Along the way, people kept greeting him, but the topic was nothing more than how his son shouldn't have picked up a baby girl.

Uncle Jiang snorted in his heart, he had already picked it up, why was he saying all this?
Besides, he felt that this little granddaughter he picked up was full of blessings! Tell him where there are wild rabbits, and he really picked up a fat rabbit.

But he didn't dare to tell this to others casually. After all, once the blessing is revealed, it may not work.

"Well, yes, yes, there's nothing I can do if Daguo and his wife want to pick it up. Forget it, let's not talk about them. I'm going home to stew rabbits." Uncle Jiang patted the rabbit around his waist, shook his head and left.

The villagers widened their eyes. Is this lame old man so lucky?
Picked up a hare? -
Uncle Jiang returned home carrying the rabbit.

Aunt Jiang was mad at Liu Xihua because Jiang Xiaoxiao wanted to drink milk powder. She wanted Jiang Xiaoxiao to stop drinking milk powder and drink rice soup instead, but Liu Xihua refused.

When the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were arguing, Grandpa Jiang came back cheerfully carrying a wild rabbit. Before the man even stepped onto the steps of the courtyard, Grandpa Jiang shouted at the top of his voice, "Old woman, where is the man? Where is he?"

Aunt Jiang was sitting in the house, sewing shoe soles. When she heard his voice, she said unhappily, "Why did you come back so soon? Aren't you going to earn work points? Daguo and Xihua were away for two days yesterday and the day before yesterday, and you came back early. We have a money-eating ancestor at home. We can't get through a single day like this."

"Who eats the money?" Uncle Jiang used his hoe as a crutch and walked up the stairs.

Although the steps in the Jiang family's yard are only three steps high, for Grandpa Jiang, who has bad legs, even one step is troublesome.

But today he was in a good mood and walked up three steps in one breath.

"Who else could it be? The one Xihua picked up doesn't want to drink rice soup, but milk powder! This milk powder is more expensive than malted milk. Does he want to kill our entire Jiang family?" Aunt Jiang stamped her feet, slapped her thighs, and sighed in the house.

"For a baby who is only one or two days old, just eat milk powder. When he grows up, he can eat rice porridge." said Grandpa Jiang.

Aunt Jiang was arguing with someone, and for the first time she didn't get help from Grandpa Jiang. She was shocked and angry as she walked to the gate panting, "Old man, why are you speaking up for a little girl you picked up?"

Aunt Jiang was as beautiful as a flower when she was young, but her family background was not good and no one from a good family was interested in her, so she could only marry Uncle Jiang, a disabled person.

Fortunately, Uncle Jiang was considerate of her and always supported her, never asking her to do farm work.

But today he changed his usual behavior and helped others, which made Aunt Jiang so angry that she kept stamping her feet.

Grandpa Jiang thought to himself, of course he had to help his granddaughter, and she helped him pick up a wild rabbit that weighed three or four kilograms!

He worked in the fields from dawn to dusk, but he couldn't earn this much meat even if he earned a few centimeters in three days.

"You're just two days old, why would you do that?" Grandpa Jiang pulled the rabbit off the hemp rope tied around his waist and threw it in front of Aunt Jiang. "Kill the rabbit, wash it, and stew it. Oh, and peel off the fur, wash it, and dry it in the sun. Then make a hat for Xiaoxiao. She can wear it when the weather gets cold in the second half of the year."

Aunt Jiang had an argument with someone and didn't get any help. She was about to get angry, but when she saw the hare, her temper suddenly subsided.

"Where did you get the hare?" She walked over and picked it up. "It's quite heavy, maybe three or four kilograms?"

There was joy in Aunt Jiang's eyes. The last time the family ate meat was during the New Year's Eve dinner last year.

It’s been more than two months now.

"I found it on the road. This wild rabbit was so stupid that it kept bumping into the stone pillar. Hahaha, I picked it up at a bargain price." Uncle Jiang was in a good mood and laughed heartily. "It's stewing now and we can have dinner." Aunt Jiang put down the shoe sole in her hand and happily went into the kitchen.

Liu Xihua fed Jiang Xiaoxiao some milk powder, covered her with a blanket, and walked out of the bedroom, "Dad, you're back?"

She poured a bowl of herbal tea and handed it to Uncle Jiang.

Liu Xihua had not been able to give birth to a baby for the Jiang family, and she had picked up a man who spent money. She was just scolded by her mother-in-law, and she felt very guilty.

Uncle Jiang took the bowl and looked towards the bedroom. "Where's Xiaoxiao?"

"She fell asleep after eating." Liu Xihua said, pursing her lips, "Dad, Xiaoxiao's milk powder was given by the hospital. It would be a waste if she doesn't eat it. I will feed her rice soup after this can is finished."

Grandpa Jiang shook his head and said, "Xiaoxiao is too thin. She needs to eat more milk powder and rice soup when she is older."

Liu Xihua blinked, ah?

Is her father-in-law so considerate of her and the children?

"Dad, milk powder is expensive, let's just forget it." Liu Xihua said embarrassedly, pinching the corner of her sleeve.

The family was too poor, and she felt embarrassed to let Xiaoxiao eat milk powder all the time.

"It's not like the baby has to be breastfed until he is three or five years old. If he is weaned at one year old, our family can still afford to keep him fed. Xihua, don't think too much." Grandpa Jiang waved his hand and said.

Liu Xihua opened her eyes wide, huh?
Eat it until one year old? Eat it for that long?

Babies in the village are weaned at six months!

Because women also had to work in the fields to earn work points, they had to breastfeed their babies and could not do anything else. The babies’ milk stopped at around six months old, and they were then fed rice soup.

But seeing her father-in-law's expression, it didn't seem like he was just saying it casually, so Liu Xihua breathed a sigh of relief, "I know, Dad."
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Today's dinner was especially delicious because of the rabbit meat.

I feel that the sweet potatoes in the porridge are a bit sweeter than usual.

After dinner, the Jiang family sat in the main room as usual, talking about what to do tomorrow.

What they said was also what the team leader told everyone when they finished work.

Jiang Meihua was slow and only earned three work points today. Uncle Jiang scolded her, "Other women earned five work points, why did you only earn three?"

Jiang Meihua's eyes were red, and she pinched the corner of her sleeve, "I don't know either."

"Look at you, you can't do your work, and you can't do housework well. How can you get married?" Aunt Jiang also scolded her second daughter, "Your eldest sister is smaller than you. Before she got married, she could earn six work points every day. She was the one who earned the most in our team."

[Second aunt can't do farm work, but she can herd cattle. The cattle listen to her.] Jiang Xiaoxiao said with a hum.

Who says that only those who know how to farm are capable people?

Although Jiang Meihua works slowly, she is very patient. The cows in the village have bad tempers. When others are herding or plowing the fields, the cows always lose their temper and refuse to cooperate. But when the cows are in Jiang Meihua's hands, they are as docile as lambs and do whatever she tells them to do.

[Helping the team to herd and feed cattle can also earn work points. Second Aunt can specialize in herding cattle.]

(End of this chapter)