People in rural areas like to engage in feudal superstitions. Although the campaign to destroy the four olds is in full swing, how can some deeply rooted ideas be changed so easily?
Yao Qiaoyun explained it several times, but everyone was only half-believing and half-doubting.
The captain has prestige, so they are willing to believe him. The captain's wife is also a good person, so they are also willing to believe her.
The one they couldn't trust was Jiang Li! She was just a brainless idiot, and suddenly she could write and draw, who would believe it?
They are not fools. What others say is useless unless they see it with their own eyes!
After the old lady's funeral, Jiang Li's physical weakness caused by difficult childbirth gradually recovered.
On the third day after giving birth, she was able to get out of bed without help.
These days, Yao Qiaoyun gives her brown sugar water every day, and sometimes fish soup and soybean pig's trotter soup.
The poor Jiang Li family had never enjoyed such a standard of food.
Her stomach couldn't handle the sudden nutritious meal, and she was often vomiting. If she hadn't moved quickly, she would have almost pooped her crotch several times.
She hasn't started breastfeeding in the past few days, but she has been trying.
Every day, Jiang Li held the two children and took turns sucking them. The skin on his head was rubbed and bled a lot, but he still gritted his teeth and persevered.
The two children often cried out in hunger, and it was Yao Qiaoyun who saved their lives by making thick rice soup and feeding them little by little every day.
In the TV series, Jiang Li was afraid of pain and refused to let the children suck, thus missing the best period for breastfeeding.
Because of breast engorgement, her mammary ducts were blocked, which caused inflammation and excruciating pain after a period of time. After this illness, she had even less milk, and her milk supply gradually atrophied, so her two children didn't get a drop of milk at all.
The eldest child was taken away by his cousin Song Jialin in advance. Because the male protagonist's family was well-off, he was fed with rice soup and milk powder every day, so he grew up to be white and plump.
Sometimes the second son couldn't even get enough rice soup to drink when he was with her. The original owner wanted to sell him several times so that she could get money and not have to worry so much.
In the end, he endured it again and again because he was too lonely. Unexpectedly, the child died at the age of ten due to poor health.
The persistence of these three days had some effect. As soon as she put the child down, she was surprised to find small beige water droplets emerging on his head.
"Auntie, auntie, come and see!"
Jiang Li had a smile on her face. She lowered her voice and shouted outside, fearing to wake up the two children.
"What's the matter? What happened to the two children? Are they nauseous again?"
Yao Qiaoyun, who was cutting meat in the kitchen, rushed over with her hands covered in oil. She was really anxious, afraid that the two children would be gone in the blink of an eye.
These two children were born prematurely and Jiang Li had no milk, so their physical constitutions were particularly poor. They had to drink rice soup in several doses, and they would vomit if they drank a little too much.
Rice soup doesn't have much nutrition and is often lost in urine. The children need to be fed every two hours, otherwise they will cry incessantly.
Yao Qiaoyun recalled that when she gave birth to her children many years ago, she often poured out the excess milk. Now she thinks it was such a waste. It would have been great if she could have left some for these two children!
The rice soup cannot hold water, so I peed after drinking it for a while. I have to change diapers all day long. There is a bucket of diapers outside now, and I will have time to clean them after dinner.
These diapers are made from old clothes in her home, some of which were even used by her son and daughter when they were young.
Rural people are frugal and are reluctant to throw away old furniture, worn clothes, and even small items bought many years ago.
These clothes had been kept for who knows how many years. They were originally intended for her grandson, but unexpectedly they were used by Jiang Li's twins first.
"Auntie, I seem to have milk!"
Yao Qiaoyun leaned over to take a look and clapped her hands excitedly.
"Wow! There's actually milk here! Don't be fooled by its yellowish color; it's incredibly nutritious. It's said that the city folks gave it a fancy name, what's that? Oh, colostrum, yes, it's called colostrum!"
"While there is milk now, let the children suck more. Be patient and don't be afraid of the pain. It will be fine after this period."
Jiang Li quickly picked up Lao Er and put him in his arms for him to suck. Lao Er opened his little mouth and covered the little head, and Jiang Li felt a burning pain at the broken skin.
When the second child sucked with his little mouth, she gasped and sweat broke out on her forehead in the middle of winter.
"Bear with it, don't be afraid, you can do it. For the sake of your child's nutrition, you must not be afraid of pain!"
Yao Qiaoyun felt distressed and anxious watching this, but all women actually go through this.
It's just that she had someone to accompany her and her mother-in-law to take care of her, so she had a comfortable confinement period and didn't suffer much.
Unlike Jiang Li, there is no reliable adult at home.
Her own parents must have loved their daughter very much. It was because they loved her so much that they couldn't accept the reality and were angered to death.
Yao Qiaoyun thought so, and so did the villagers, which made Jiang Li's life in the village very difficult.
The second one tasted the sweetness and kept sucking with its little mouth. Jiang Li almost fainted from the pain.
The ring on her hand emitted white light again, gently enveloping her whole body. Jiang Li felt a little warmth, and the broken skin didn't seem to hurt so much anymore.
Yao Qiaoyun was relieved when she saw that her pale face finally turned a little red.
"I'm going to go cook first, just do this and stick to it!"
Yao Qiaoyun was worried and kept looking back, giving him constant reminders.
Jiang Li gritted her teeth and nodded. The pain began to spread again. Her whole body was twitching in pain and she couldn't even speak.
As time went by, the hard work finally paid off and the sucking force of the little guy became stronger and stronger. Jiang Li had already become numb from the pain.
She leaned against the bed, covered in cold sweat, and endured wave after wave of pain with her eyes slightly closed.
Every movement of the baby's lips was like torture to her. Fortunately, she had never given birth to a child before and had never suffered such pain and torture, otherwise she would be in double pain now!
Oh no! She had twins, which was double the pain!
After feeding the second child, Jiang Li picked up the eldest child tremblingly, hugged his small body, and looked at his wrinkled little face.
Aunt Yao told me that other people's babies are also wrinkled like little monkeys when they are born, but they usually grow out after ten days or half a month.
Her two children were extremely thin because they were twins and were born prematurely, and they felt light when she held them in her arms.
Jiang Li was extremely careful when holding the child, fearing that she would sneeze and blow the child away.
The eldest one is worthy of being the eldest one, his sucking ability is much stronger than the second one.
The pain came over her in waves like a tide.
Jiang Li lowered his head to look at the head that had been sucked by the second brother. A layer of skin was broken at the red spot, and tiny beads of blood kept oozing out.
The second child's little mouth was bright red, probably because he had just sucked a lot of milk and blood.
Looking at the eldest brother again, he had sucked a bigger hole in her areola. His little mouth was also red, and he kept sucking with a smacking sound, and the more he sucked, the more powerful he became, like a small electric motor.
After drinking the milk, the two children were still licking their lips with satisfaction. Their little mouths were moving, and they did not forget to drink milk even in their sleep.
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