Upon hearing this, Xie Guihua hurriedly went to find a raincoat and went along, so she could take care of the child.
The actions of family members affect the officer and are related to the husband's future; any attempt to mitigate the damage is worthwhile.
The couple was terrified by the glaring scratches at the entrance of the stairwell, and their hearts clenched when they saw the red child.
Xie Guihua used to play with the two children's mother. The two children were well-behaved and sensible, and she always envied them.
Things have changed. The child's father listens to his wife's words and doesn't care about the child anymore. Sigh, how heartbroken the child's mother would be to see her chubby little girl being ruined like this.
The Xiao family keeps medicine on hand; when Old Master Tao came, he brought antipyretics.
But it wasn't good for the child to go without food all day to take his medicine, so he kept making excuses about asking Zhou Miao to cook some porridge.
Xie Lin took out a lunchbox from his pocket, inside which lay 15 plump, white dumplings.
"Aunt Guo, please give some to this child, and mash the rest with some water and cook it into a soup to feed the sick child."
"Okay..."
"Let me do it," Zhou Miao said, reaching out to take it.
She was starving, and now that she could eat a whole cow, if it fell into her hands, she would definitely eat half of it.
White flour.
It tastes like pork.
That lowly brat doesn't deserve to eat.
Xie Lin handed it to Guo Qiuhong, turning a corner.
They've got all those abacus beads jumping in his face, do they think everyone else is blind?
Shishi gave him a task, and she's definitely watching now. How can he not complete it?
Guo Qiuhong took the task and immediately got busy, giving Zhou Miao no chance at all.
Want to eat dumplings?
Eat your fart.
Zhou Miao's eyes turned red with anger, but she didn't dare to snatch it, so she could only grit her teeth in resentment.
Cao Liqing changed her clothes and brought over two bowls of ginger tea.
"Old Tao, Deputy Regiment Commander Xie, have some ginger tea, don't catch a cold."
"Guihua is here too! You two should come to my house and have some ginger tea."
No one can escape getting wet in the rain. Since they were all good friends, Xie Guihua didn't stand on ceremony with her. After finishing her drink, she helped feed the child.
One person ate, two people ate, and the room was filled with the delicious aroma of meat, making the group of people who hadn't eaten meat in a long time drool. But no one cared, except for the one who claimed to be pregnant.
"Lanlan, give Auntie a few to eat. Auntie is starving. Auntie's hunger is because the little brother in my belly is hungry. You don't want your little brother to be hungry, right?"
She's the epitome of "shameless people are invincible".
Does Xu Lan think she's stupid?
The 5-year-old child went from having no worries about food and drink to being hungry every day and having to do housework and cut pig feed. If he didn't do it well, his grandmother would hit him with a stick. It's all thanks to his stepmother.
Should I give it to her?
How many more do you need?
That's really daring.
She chewed loudly and with great relish, then curled her little tongue up to her lips after swallowing, leaving them shiny with oil.
“Auntie, you just said you’re not my mom and you don’t have to worry about us. These dumplings were given to me by my brother, not yours, so I don’t have to give them to you.”
If she had known that returning to this home would cause her sister such suffering, she would have preferred to stay in the countryside and farm with her sister.
After returning home for a few months, they had learned farm work and were able to earn work points to support themselves.
Let's wait for Dad to come back. If Dad can't control this woman, she and her sister will leave here and never acknowledge Dad again.
She knew that when her mother was alive, her father disliked them because they were girls, and he disliked them even more after her younger brother died along with her mother.
My mother is the best mother in the world. She always cooks delicious food for me and my sister, puts them to bed, and her heart and soul are always with them.
Unfortunately, her mother died young, and she could no longer snuggle in her mother's arms or see her gentle mother again.
With tears welling up in her eyes, she ate heartily the delicious food she hadn't tasted in a long time.
The older sister said that if they were hungry, they should go to the women's director; if they were beaten, they should also go to the women's director. She remembered this and knew that this woman shouldn't try to mistreat her and her sister.
Aunt Guo also said that this is her father's home, and her father's home is also their home. They eat and use food earned by her father, not by her stepmother.
She remembered it carefully and would tell her sister when she woke up.
Zhou Miao was furious and started throwing things around, preparing to cook something.
Suddenly, the room went dark with a snap—the power had gone out. She screamed, and the plate in her hand fell to the ground with a jarring crash in the darkness, but no one paid her any attention.
She brought this on herself; why didn't she do this earlier?
After feeding Xie Ying noodle soup and giving her fever-reducing medicine, her fever started to subside after about half an hour.
"This child needs to be kept a close eye on tonight. If the fever returns, she'll need to take her medicine again tonight. Which of you is willing to take care of her tonight?"
It was impossible to rely on Zhou Miao, and Xu Lan was too young, so Xie Lin could only entrust the task to his two neighbors, Guo Qiuhong and Cao Liqing.
Feeling guilty, Xie Guihua took the initiative to do the work.
"Deputy Regiment Commander Xie, let me take care of the children. I used to be close friends with Xiaoying and Xiaolan's mother. Now that the children need help, it's only right that I help them out."
The child fell into the water because of her in-laws, and she only hoped that reaching out her hand could alleviate her guilt.
Secondly, it's common knowledge in the compound that she was close to the child's mother. Now that her sister is gone and the child is in trouble, it's only right that she lends a hand.
Moreover, she had always liked these two well-behaved and sensible children, and couldn't bear to see them suffer.
"Oh, you're talking so righteously, saying you should take care of them. If you're so kind, why don't you take them home and take care of them? What's the point of taking care of them at my house? They'll still have to use my things."
Without electricity, they couldn't cook in the dark, and Zhou Miao was starving. She was so angry and resentful that she spoke without thinking.
"Zhou Miao, I'd like to take the child home and care for him, but can you make that decision? Can you be the one to make the decision for Deputy Battalion Commander Xu?"
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