Not only Ye Jianguo thought so, but Fu Wan, Fu Ming and the others also nodded in agreement.
He sold his daughter's food rations for just two cents to feed other people's children while leaving his own daughter hungry.
Isn't this a classic case of someone's brain being gouged out by a wild boar?
Li Chunhua thought so too, and at that time he scolded Wa Pian'er's wife, but unexpectedly, she was slammed against the wall with a single sentence.
It's your daughter-in-law who wants to sell it; my grandson doesn't need to go hungry!
If it weren't for how beautiful Liang Cuifen's little daughter is, she wouldn't bother spending money to buy milk!
Upon hearing this, Li Chunhua understood. Even if there were no tiles, there was still a pot lid; the root of the problem lay with Liang Cuifen.
Under Li Chunhua's repeated questioning, Liang Cuifen finally revealed the reason why she refused to breastfeed.
She still resented that Xiaoli wasn't a son!
She even felt that Xiaoli had taken over her son's body; if it weren't for Xiaoli, she would have a lovely and handsome son.
Just thinking about it, Liang Cuifen could imagine how proud she would be in the village.
But it just so happens to be a girl!
Liang Cuifen grew angrier the more she thought about it. In winter, when there was no busy farming season, Ye Jun wouldn't let her get involved in the chicken farm business.
She became increasingly obsessed with the idea of feeding Xiaoli at home. At first, she would feed Xiaoli properly, but after making a deal with Wa Pian'er's wife these past few days, she started feeding the child once a day.
The rest are all saved up for others.
In her words, her milk must be given to boys!
This line of thinking shocked everyone. Li Chunhua was so angry that she almost fainted. If she hadn't been worried about her granddaughter not having eaten, she wouldn't have made it home.
After talking to her family, she felt much better.
Fu Wan finished the chicken soup in her bowl, then put it down and said to Li Chunhua and Ye Jianguo, "Uncle, Aunt, this can't go on."
"Leaving aside Liang Cuifen's situation for now, if Liang Cuifen insists on not feeding Lili solid food, then you can't feed the child rice cereal every day."
Rice porridge is essentially the first rinse water from steaming rice. It contains a little nutrition, but not much.
For a child as young as Xiaoli, the nutrition is simply not enough.
"Ah Wan, you have so many ideas, tell me what to do?"
Li Chunhua was extremely anxious. After all, it was her granddaughter, such a lovely child. She really didn't know how Liang Cuifen could be so heartless.
Although she had two sons, neither she nor Ye Jianguo had any preference for sons over daughters. When they shared candy or peach shortbread, Ye Xiaofeng would get a little more because she was younger.
She didn't understand where Liang Cuifen's patriarchal mindset came from.
Fu Wan had seen quite a few people like this. The preference for sons over daughters is very common in China, especially in rural areas where this idea is deeply ingrained.
But what Fu Wan couldn't understand was that if a man had such thoughts, it could be said that he was protecting his fellow human beings, but if a woman had such thoughts, it was simply pure stupidity.
Liang Cuifen is even more stupid than that.
A woman who cuts off her daughter's food supply for a boy with whom she has no blood relation is not fit to be a mother.
Fu Wan couldn't bear to watch any longer. Lili was an innocent child, and as an elder, she naturally had to offer some advice.
"Auntie, have you thought about buying baby formula?"
"Baby formula? Wouldn't that be for older children? Lili is so small, do they even have that kind of formula?"
"Yes, not all mothers have enough food to feed their children, and children can't just go hungry. Supply and marketing cooperatives and Friendship Stores have infant formula, but it may be more expensive than regular nutritional formula."
"It's a bit expensive... but it's okay if it's a bit expensive. By the way, Wan, is it okay to eat malted milk powder? I still have two unopened cans of malted milk powder!"
"No, this stuff has no nutritional value and shouldn't be given to such a young child."
The malted milk powder that Li Chunhua had was bought by Chen Guifang with her salary not long ago. But malted milk powder is basically a beverage containing glucose. It's okay for Xiao Feng and Zhenxing to drink, but it's absolutely unacceptable for Xiao Li, whose internal organs are not fully developed yet.
“Then let’s buy milk powder. The second one doesn’t have time, but the eldest one can go later. I’ll give you the money, and you and your wife can come back together tonight.”
Ye Jianguo habitually took out his tobacco. How much milk powder could a baby consume? Ye Jianguo could afford it if he gritted his teeth.
We can't just watch our children starve to death!
He would never do such a beastly thing!
Ye Lin was called upon and was about to respond when a voice came from outside.
"No need to trouble you, brother. I'll buy it this afternoon!"
Fu Wan and the others turned around and saw Ye Jun with a dark face.
After Fu Wan and the others left, he reinforced the surrounding fence. After Ye Lin brought the food, he ate it quickly and then returned with the bowls, chopsticks, and eggs for Fu Wan and the others.
I thought I would hear laughter and cheerful voices when I got home, but instead I overheard Li Chunhua talking about Liang Cuifen.
With the Lunar New Year just around the corner, the chickens and ducks at his chicken farm will be ready to be sold to the slaughterhouse in the next few days. He's been so busy lately that he only gets to see his daughters a couple of times each day. Little did he know that this bitch Liang Cuifen would dare to cut back on his daughters' food rations!
What's wrong with his daughter? Ye Jun only loves his daughter!
If he doesn't breastfeed his daughter, he'll buy formula instead and won't give Liang Cuifen a single penny!
Seeing Ye Jun return, Li Chunhua's anger flared up again. She had spent far more energy on her second son than on her first.
This child has always been prone to overthinking. A while ago, he was finally awakened by a few words from Fu Wan, and now that everything was developing in a positive direction, trouble has arisen again at the second child's family!
She said that this wife was not suitable to marry, but Ye Jun had disobeyed her back then!
Hesitation will only lead to chaos!
"Second son, this can't go on. Your father and I will die one day. While we are here, we can protect the child. But after we are gone, Liang Cuifen will sell the child too."
"No, you must divorce her. Our Ye family can't afford someone like her!"
Fu Wan also felt that things couldn't continue like this, but she didn't want to interfere. Even an upright official can't settle family disputes, so she simply put a piece of meat into Fu Ling's bowl, gesturing for her to eat quickly.
The children didn't know what the adults were arguing about, except for Ye Zhenxing, a boy who was only a little over 20, whose eyes were sparkling.
Divorce? That's great! He didn't like this aunt either; she treated him strangely and always made Xiaofeng do things for him.
Last time, she asked Xiaofeng to boil water for her, but Xiaofeng didn't know how to start a fire. When she blew on the stove, the flames suddenly flared up and burned the girl's hair.
Xiao Feng was so frightened that she burst into tears. If Li Chunhua hadn't happened to be there and applied medicine to her forehead in time, she would have been left with a scar.
After hearing Li Chunhua's words, Ye Jun's lips pursed into a straight line.
He also wanted a divorce, but if they divorced right after the child was born, who knows what people would say about their family.
They might even turn around and accuse the Ye family of disliking Liang Cuifen for having given birth to two daughters.
How dare Liang Cuifen treat his child like this? Does she think he's dead? Even if we're going to get a divorce, we'll have to wait until he's vented his anger!
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