Meanwhile, after hearing Wu Qiaoqiao's shout, four children's faces appeared from a tree. Looking at the four identical faces on the tree, Wu Qiaoqiao couldn't help but slap her forehead.
These little ones are her daughter Liu Xiangqin, her twin sons Xiangdang and Xiangguo, and Lin Yuwei's precious daughter Feng Shiyin, nicknamed Niuniu.
At that moment, the four people were sitting in the tree, smiling ingratiatingly at Wu Qiaoqiao below. Seeing their fawning smiles, Wu Qiaoqiao had no choice but to shake her head and reach out her hand to signal them to come down, saying she would catch them from below.
Actually, Wu Qiaoqiao wasn't worried about her own children climbing trees. She was just afraid that some children in the village would follow suit and get injured, which would be difficult to explain to her family. After all, even her youngest daughter, Niu Niu, had been soaking in medicinal soup since she was a baby, and her body was more agile than other children her age. Not to mention her two rascals, whose bodies had already been modified when they were still in Wu Qiaoqiao's womb.
As for Liu Xiangqin, although she didn't receive medicinal baths from a young age, nor did her twins experience supernatural powers while she was in the womb, fortunately, when she first transmigrated and the powers dissipated, Liu Xiangqin and Liu Xiangjun were always by her side, having been affected by the power's effects. Their bodies are also healthier than ordinary children. Moreover, she and Liu Xiangjun have now begun practicing martial arts. Therefore, as long as her four children don't become too reckless, their safety can generally be ensured.
Seeing Wu Qiaoqiao's expression, the four children in the tree knew they wouldn't be punished, so they jumped down one by one without worrying about falling, trusting that Wu Qiaoqiao would catch them. Wu Qiaoqiao did indeed catch them all as they jumped. When it was Liu Xiangqin's turn, she prepared to climb down herself. However, Wu Qiaoqiao opened her arms, gesturing for her to come down. Having already caught the three younger ones, she was sure she would catch the older one as well; after all, she couldn't show favoritism.
Liu Xiangqin blushed as she looked down at her mother, who was smiling and reaching out her arms to her. She closed her eyes and jumped down, feeling herself being caught. Opening her eyes, she saw her mother's face right in front of her. Liu Xiangqin always felt safe in her mother's arms, but now she felt embarrassed to stay there, especially with her younger siblings watching. So, blushing, she climbed down from her mother's lap and stood beside her siblings.
After putting her eldest daughter down, Wu Qiaoqiao looked at the four little kids standing in front of her and couldn't help but want to facepalm. All four had uniformly tanned skin. The two boys, needless to say, had buzz cuts, while the two girls... Liu Xiangqin had kept her hair long, but finding it too much trouble, one day, while Wu Qiaoqiao and Lin Yuwei were out, she took scissors and cut it into a haphazard, mangled mess. When Wu Qiaoqiao and Lin Yuwei returned and saw her hair, Wu Qiaoqiao almost fainted on the spot. Later, Wu Qiaoqiao had to trim it a little, resulting in the slightly longer haircut it has now. However, Liu Xiangqin has never kept her hair long since.
Lin Yuwei's daughter, Niu Niu, has shoulder-length hair. This morning, Wu Qiaoqiao combed her hair into two buns, but one bun is still tied up, while the other is loose and hanging down. As for the clothes on the children, only the eldest daughter's clothes are okay. The other three are really a mess. You can see the three little ones just by turning around. Their two round, yellowish-brown bottoms are obviously the result of sitting on the ground playing.
However, Wu Qiaoqiao didn't say anything. Instead, she pulled the three little ones around and patted their bottoms twice. When she saw that she couldn't pat them anymore, she stopped and said to Liu Xiangqin who was standing next to her.
"Alright, it's almost noon. You should take your younger siblings home now. If they don't want to eat lunch, just make them some milk powder or malted milk. You know where everything is at home. Just be careful when you're doing this, so they don't get burned. I'll go home as soon as I'm done here."
Hearing Wu Qiaoqiao's words, Liu Xiangqin nodded and took her younger siblings back. As for Wu Qiaoqiao's comment about lunch, they definitely wouldn't eat anything; they'd been eating non-stop since morning and weren't hungry at all. However, Liu Xiangqin didn't plan to give them formula or malted milk powder. She asked her siblings if they wanted some dumpling soup, and after they said yes, Liu Xiangqin prepared to go back and make some dumpling soup.
After watching her daughter leave with the little ones, Wu Qiaoqiao turned to the crowd and said...
"Alright, it's already noon. Everyone should go back and cook. The men in the family should come back for lunch too."
When the women and children present heard Wu Qiaoqiao say this, they looked up at the sun and realized it was true. Although the land had been divided among the families and they weren't as busy as when they were working in the fields, if the men had worked in the fields all morning and still hadn't eaten lunch when they came back, they would at least get a scolding, if not a fight.
So everyone called their friends and took their little ones home to cook. When Wu Qiaoqiao saw that everyone had left, she turned around and went into the pig farm.
As Wu Qiaoqiao entered the pig farm, she put on the gear she had brought: an apron, sleeves, a hat, and a mask. Except for the mask, all of these items were made of specially made waterproof material.
After Wu Qiaoqiao entered the pigpen where the sow Ruhua lived, she saw a young man with a slight problem in his right foot limping around, leading the people from the pig farm to circle around that pig. When the young man saw Wu Qiaoqiao come in, he quickly stood up and greeted her.
"Master, you're here."
This man is the current manager of the pig farm, named Li Muzi. He is the son of the village's barefoot doctor. His leg problem is a sequela of polio caused by a fever when he was a child; his right leg has a slight problem, but it doesn't affect his walking.
Li Muzi had been following Wu Qiaoqiao since the village started its pig farm. Because his father was the village's barefoot doctor, he had learned some herbal medicine from his father since childhood. For this reason, Wu Qiaoqiao taught him some methods for treating poultry and livestock, so he had always called Wu Qiaoqiao "Master" ever since.
After Wu Qiaoqiao stepped down as the pig farm manager this spring, Li Muzi officially took over as the manager after a vote by the entire village.
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