It is of course a good thing that the child is sensible, but Jiang Mengxue also doesn't want her nephew to suffer any injustice.
"You are not a child at all. Don't be polite at your aunt's house. If your older brother doesn't eat, how can your younger brothers and sisters dare to eat? Today you have to help your aunt entertain these children, understand?"
Jiang Yukun wanted to say that he didn’t want to eat, but when he lowered his head, his younger brothers and sisters looked at him with pitiful expressions, so he had to take it.
Jiang Mengxue was happy to see that he continued.
"Xiao Kun, let Da Hei take you to the backyard to pick some watermelons, just right for entertaining the guests."
Today, Jiang Mengxue told Dahei to stay put and not run around in the yard.
Their own family knew Dahei's temperament, but their relatives didn't.
I was getting along well with people every day, and suddenly a dog appeared. I was scared to death. What's more, there were many children there. If they accidentally hit it, I wouldn't know what to do.
Jiang Mengxue shouted outside: "Dahei, come here."
Dahei ran out of his nest like a gust of wind.
This was not the first time that the Jiang family children had seen Dahei.
Jiang Mengxue had taken Dahei back twice before. Dahei behaved very docilely and the children in the Jiang family liked him very much.
After explaining something to Dahei, I let them go together.
As an animal, Dahei has its own way of judging whether plants are ripe or not. Every time I let it pick fruits and vegetables, they are all delicious.
The men were all received outside by Gu Zhen and Jiang Guxing, and Gu Qingbei brought Jiang's mother and other female relatives into the inner room.
He was really not used to a group of women chattering together, so he left and asked Jiang Mengxue and his mother to receive them.
After all, Luan Huiying is not very good at cooking, and she can't help with any real work outside. She can only entertain guests and chat with them.
Sure enough, when Jiang Mengxue entered the room, Luan Huiying was bragging about business with Jiang's mother.
Jiang's mother praised Gu Qingbei for his ability and caring for his wife and children. Luan Huiying praised Jiang Mengxue for being filial to the Gu family and often writing letters and sending things to the old couple.
Jiang Mengxue was so embarrassed that she almost went in because of what they said.
But just at this moment Mo Bao woke up. Although he didn't cry loudly, his soft sobs were even more heartbreaking.
Jiang Mengxue went forward to check whether he was hungry or had diarrhea.
The diaper is still dry, so it can only be hunger.
But there were so many people in the room that Jiang Mengxue would not lift up her clothes to breastfeed. She couldn't do it even if they were all women.
She let Jiang's mother hold the child and turned to the table to make milk powder. The water in the thermos was just boiled in the morning and was just right for use now.
Seeing her skilled posture in preparing milk powder, my aunt asked, "Xiaoxue, don't you have any milk? It costs a lot of money to feed her with milk powder for a month, and milk powder is not easy to buy."
My second aunt chimed in, "Yeah, the doctors say formula isn't as nutritious as breast milk. Xiaoxue, if you don't have milk, ask your mother-in-law to make you something good to eat. It's better than feeding your child formula. Wouldn't it be better to save that money for your son to get married? Children who feed their children rice porridge are doing just fine. Why waste that money?"
Jiang Mengxue didn't know what to do. Her family wasn't so poor that they couldn't afford to marry a daughter-in-law just because she was fed some milk powder.
But before Jiang Mengxue could reply, Luan Huiying acted as if she didn't understand what she meant and directly replied, "Why have a child if you can't afford milk powder? You don't have to pay for it. We, as grandparents, are here. It will take another 20 years for Mobao to get married. I'll ask his grandfather to try harder when I get back. We can't let little Mobao have to eat a few meals of milk powder and then he won't be able to get married in the future."
Everyone in the room burst into laughter when she said that.
"That's right. You two old people still have to work hard. Xiaoxue and her husband are still young. I'll give you a few more grandchildren in the future. When they get married in the future, they will look for grandparents, hahahaha."
It's just a joke. Everyone here is a grandparent. How many of them can afford to pay for their grandson's wedding? It's just a joke.
Jiang Mengxue's aunt was a little embarrassed. She was the one who started the conversation, but she didn't expect Jiang Mengxue's second aunt to pick up the conversation.
She really did care.
Her daughter-in-law didn't have much milk after giving birth. The couple felt sorry for the child, so they used their connections to exchange for a milk powder ticket and bought a bag of milk powder.
A small bag of milk powder costs more than two yuan.
Seeing that the milk powder Jiang Mengxue took out was a big can, it might be more valuable.
That's why I asked this, and I don't have any bad intentions.
Considering the child's appetite, if he keeps on eating milk powder until he is old enough to eat, even if there are workers at home, they will not be able to support him.
Jiang Mengxue also knew her aunt and knew that she was not a bad person. She also knew that she was asking casually, so she answered her to avoid embarrassing her.
"My milk supply is pretty good, enough for Mobao. Sometimes I mix it with powdered milk for a meal, but he eats whatever I give him, he's not picky about food.
The last time I went back, my mother told me that my cousin's wife had given birth, and how was the baby? But I didn't go because she was pregnant."
They are close cousins and keep in touch with each other. Jiang Mengxue was not married before, but now that she is married, she will give a gift whenever there is something going on.
She didn't go last time, so she asked Jiang's mother to help take care of him.
When the aunt heard Jiang Mengxue reply to her, she was no longer embarrassed.
"The child weighed about five pounds when he was born and was in good health. It's just that your sister-in-law is greedy for milk. She gets milk when she eats a good meal, but she doesn't get milk when the food is bad.
Your cousin spent a lot of money to buy a milk powder ticket, but milk powder is too expensive, only two yuan for a small bag, and your family can't afford to feed your baby so much.
I asked them to grind some rice paste, and after five or six months, I can feed them some egg custard and porridge."
There are not so many requirements for raising children in the countryside. As long as they are not hungry, there is nothing they can't eat.
Just raise it until it can eat, it’s not a big deal.
Feeding with formula is a sophisticated method of raising babies, which is only available in cities. People in the country can just raise their babies in a rough way.
"I really don't know. Mobao's milk powder is all sent by my parents from the army. He rarely feeds me. I usually breastfeed him. If he goes to Tsinghua or Peking University, he uses milk powder."
Jiang Mengxue didn't say that she knew it. She did have a few milk powder tickets in her hand, and if her aunt asked her, she could give one to her. If she didn't ask, she wouldn't take the initiative to talk about it.
She had exchanged these milk powder coupons with others, and they can be used for at least a few months. If her second and third sisters-in-law need them, she will give them to them, as well as to Jiang Dongmei, and of course to people close to her.
My second aunt was a little unhappy.
This was her first time at the Gu family. She had heard before that her niece Jiang Mengxue had married well, but most of it was just hearsay and she had not seen it with her own eyes.
When I arrived at Gu's house today, I found that everything in the house was in good condition and was clean and tidy.
Although it is not a brick house, the stone house is just as tall and neat, with bricks on the ground, unlike the earthen house which will be dusty no matter how you sweep.
There was also a sewing machine covered with a cloth, two bicycles parked in the yard, and a basin full of meat. Whose family could afford such a lavish banquet?
The tables outside were also filled with snacks, and anyone who came could grab some candy.
Especially when Jiang Mengxue casually took out a can of milk powder and scooped it into the bottle spoon by spoon as if it was free, she was so jealous that she almost spit fire.
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