Chapter 66: Even Jinshan cannot afford the milk powder!
After saying this, Sun Erni hurried back home. By then, the crucian carp and tofu soup was ready.
In the meantime, Su Qiuyan had made several corn cakes. Sun Erni ate two of them with hot water and then put down her chopsticks.
"Qiuyan, put five corn cakes on the third child. I'll be down now."
"Oh, well, Mom, don't you want to bring some soup or something for Jinsheng?"
"No need. There is plenty of free hot water in the hospital. Here, the fish soup in the pot is just like last night. Add some hot water and boil it again. Add some vegetables and have it with corn cakes in the morning! By the way, where is your sister-in-law?" Sun Erni looked around but didn't see her eldest daughter-in-law.
"Sister-in-law went to empty the chamber pot." Su Qiuyan couldn't say that her sister-in-law was avoiding her mother-in-law. She had already said that her mother-in-law would not be angry, but her sister-in-law just didn't believe it!
Sun Erni was too lazy to care about it and waved her hand, "Alright, alright, you guys eat by yourselves. I'll go to the hospital to bring food to Xin Bai."
When Sun Erni arrived at the hospital, she happened to see Jiang Xinbai feeding her baby. She put down the thermos, tiptoed over and asked, "Is your milk coming in?"
At this moment, the baby in the cradle started crying because he couldn't get the milk.
"Oh, what's wrong? What's wrong? Is the diaper wet? Let me take a look." Sun Erni was anxious and wanted to check it immediately.
Jiang Xinbai shook his head, "It shouldn't be that. Jinsheng just changed. I'm just hungry. I don't have any milk."
"Oh, it's my fault. How can I have milk without drinking soup? Come on, this is the freshly stewed crucian carp and tofu soup. Have a few sips. There are also noodles. They are delicious!"
Sun Erni quickly served out the soup and noodles, then took the child from Jiang Xinbai's hands and rocked him carefully.
"Be good, little baby. Mommy has to eat first before you can have your meal. Just be patient!" Sun Erni walked around the ward holding the child, coaxing him, and then suddenly realized that her youngest son was not there.
"Xinbai, where is the third brother? Where did he go? Why did he leave you all alone?" Sun Erni became dissatisfied when she said this. How could she leave a woman who had just given birth and her child alone in the ward? It's so dangerous!
Jiang Xinbai just swallowed a mouthful of noodles and replied with a smile: "Mom, the child just now couldn't get milk and cried for a while, so Jinsheng said he would go out and think of a solution."
"What can he do? He doesn't know how to breastfeed and he's just running around." Sun Erni is very dissatisfied with her youngest son now and feels that he has no awareness of being a father at all.
At this time, Yang Jinsheng ran in from the door mysteriously, carefully took out two things from his arms, and said with a smile: "Xiaobai, look what I brought back?"
"Oh, you're willing to come back? You've left Xinbai and the child in the ward. I think you're really heartless." Sun Erni walked to the bedside with the child in her arms, but couldn't help but retorted a few sarcastic words to her.
"Mom, you're here!" Yang Jinsheng didn't rush to explain, but just pointed at the things in his hand and said, "Look, I bought a milk bottle and half a bag of milk powder. Xiaobao won't go hungry anymore."
Jiang Xinbai was a little skeptical when she saw a dove-shaped glass bottle, "Is this the baby bottle you mentioned? Why is the shape so strange?" Don't blame her for being ignorant. No children in their village have ever used baby bottles, so she naturally didn't recognize it.
Sun Erni took a closer look and nodded, saying, "It's a milk bottle, yes. I've seen it before. But where did you get the milk powder?" Milk powder is hard to buy nowadays. The ones in the supply and marketing cooperatives are all shipped from other places, and the quantity is very small. They are usually sold out as soon as they are put on the shelves.
"Hey, make a bottle of milk for Xiaobao first. Let me see how much water and how much milk should be added?" Yang Jinsheng studied it carefully and figured it out, then quickly made a bottle of milk.
"Come, mom, hold you tight, I'll feed you." Yang Jinsheng carefully put the pacifier to the child's mouth. Perhaps the smell of milk attracted the child, and the child who had just fallen asleep immediately took the pacifier into his mouth and began to drink it up.
"Oh, my eldest grandson drinks milk so happily and vigorously." Sun Erni looked at the child in her arms with a smile on her face. She took back what she had just said, that the third child was really good at feeding the child milk.
The bottle of milk was quickly finished, and after drinking it, he smacked his lips in dissatisfaction, as if he wanted to continue drinking.
"Okay, now that you've finished drinking, it's time to go to bed." Sun Erni held the child and rocked him a few more times, and when the child fell asleep, she put him in the crib.
"Okay, now you can tell me where you got the milk powder? There's only half a bag." Sun Erni asked in a low voice for fear of waking the child.
Yang Jinsheng smiled proudly, "I was smart. I went to the toilet in the middle of the night. When I was washing my hands, I heard someone outside saying that milk powder was brought in, so I paid attention to his ward. In the morning, Xiaobai had no milk and the baby was crying with hunger, so I thought of trying my luck. I didn't expect it to work. The woman saw that I was pitiful and sold me half a bag. I spent ten yuan!"
"Ten yuan! Oh my God! It's so expensive. How many meals can this last?" Sun Erni looked at the bag of milk powder and then at the child in the crib. He could only finish half a bag in a day, right?
"Well, it's normal that it's a bit expensive. Milk powder is so hard to buy. This is the Red Star brand, specially for export. They mean well. You won't have to buy it once Xiaobai starts to produce milk." Yang Jinsheng felt that the money was well spent. He couldn't just let his son starve!
"Where's the bottle? How much did you spend on it?" Sun Erni pointed to the bottle on the table again.
Yang Jinsheng held up three fingers and said, "Three yuan. We originally had the round ones, but they are out of stock. I only have this pigeon-shaped one left. Let me buy it."
After listening to this, Sun Erni sighed, glanced at Jiang Xinbai, and urged, "Xinbai, drink all the soup so that you can produce milk sooner. You heard it too, this milk powder is so expensive, even if you have a mountain of gold at home, you can't afford it! It's better to have your own milk."
Jiang Xinbai glanced at her husband silently and thought to herself that there was no gold mountain, but there were a lot of gold bars, but it was a pity that they could not see the light of day.
"Okay, the baby has just eaten. Jinsheng, you eat the corn tortillas quickly. I'll go back and see if there is a rooster. Give Xinbai more soup so that she can produce milk as soon as possible." Sun Erni felt that at least the ingredients for making milk-producing soup were cheaper and easier to buy than milk powder.
Sun Erni had just arrived home and hadn't even had a sip of water when there was a knock on the door. "Erni~"
"Hey, I'll be right there." As soon as Sun Erni opened the door, she saw Xu Fengni standing at the door with a smile on her face, and next to her was a middle-aged woman with a shrewd look on her face.
"What is this?" Sun Erni looked at Xu Fengni.
"Let's go in and talk." Xu Fengni squeezed in with the middle-aged woman.
After Sun Erni closed the door, she spoke: "Erni, didn't you ask me to find eggs for you? This Sister He has some at home, so I brought her over to you."
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