The snow continued to fall, floating down like catkins, covering the ground, thinly, like a gauze dress draped over the earth.
Qi Xinlan was not in the mood to appreciate the beautiful scenery. She cooked millet porridge for Xu Minghao, steamed dumplings, took out the leftover buns from yesterday, heated them up, and put them all in the lunch box.
Before leaving, Qi Xinlan told Qi Xinyu not to run around and to listen to Aunt Feng.
"Xiao Lan, don't worry, I will take good care of Xiaoyu and make sure not to miss a single hair." Aunt Feng held Qi Xinyu's little hand and promised with a smile.
"Thank you very much, Aunt Feng." Qi Xinlan was very grateful.
"Go ahead, Captain Xu must be waiting for you in the hospital." Aunt Feng waved her hand.
"Xiao Lan, go ahead. I will listen to Aunt Feng." Qi Xinyu's face was full of reluctance, but when she thought about Xiao Lan's fiancé who was injured and needed Xiao Lan's care, she couldn't be willful no matter how reluctant she was.
Seeing this, Qi Xinlan left the family building with peace of mind and rushed to the hospital.
Before I entered the room, I heard the baby crying. It seemed like it had been crying for a long time and its voice was a little hoarse.
When Qi Xinlan went in, she saw the man named Li Dali lying on the hospital bed and sleeping, and the woman in labor named Wu Hua was sitting in a corner of the bed with a pale face, with the baby beside her, who was still crying.
Qi Xinlan frowned, said nothing, and went straight to Xu Minghao's bed. Xu Minghao was not sleeping. He sat up, leaned against the wall and closed his eyes to rest, but his brows were tightly furrowed, and there were some dark circles under his eyelids. It was obvious that he had not rested well.
"Hey, are you two deaf? The child has been crying for so long, why don't you comfort him?" Suddenly, an old voice sounded from behind.
Qi Xinlan turned around and saw an old man in a hospital gown standing at the door, glaring at Li Dali and Wu Hua with a frown.
"Why are you coaxing her? She will stop crying soon." Wu Hua said expressionlessly.
"Your child kept me awake all night and is making noise again early in the morning. Do you want me to live?" Seeing Wu Hua's attitude, the old man became even angrier and his voice became a little higher.
This woke Li Dali up. He tugged his head in annoyance, kicked Wu Hua's leg, and said impatiently, "Hurry up and stop this money-loser from crying."
Wu Hua was kicked by her husband, so she reluctantly picked up the child and comforted him, but the more she comforted him, the louder the child cried.
Li Dali was so upset by the noise that he yelled at Wu Hua, "You bitch, you can't even coax a child, and if you do give birth, it will only result in a money-losing baby. What's the point of having you? Why don't you just die?"
Wu Hua shuddered at Li Dali's yell and burst into tears: "The child is hungry."
"If she's hungry, feed her!"
"But... I don't have milk." Wu Hua said hesitantly.
"Are you still a woman? You don't even have milk. Why don't you just die?"
When Wu Hua heard this, she cried even harder. She didn't know why she had no milk. The first three girls had milk, so why didn't she have any with this child?
"What's wrong with you? It's normal that your wife has no milk. She is weak and needs nourishment. Once her body is nourished, she will naturally have milk." The nurse heard this when she came in for rounds, and immediately frowned and scolded.
"What the hell is normal? What kind of woman is she if she doesn't have milk?" Li Dali, who was already in a bad mood, became even more furious when he saw someone retort.
"You..." The nurse was about to say something else when she was interrupted by a hurried voice.
"Here it comes, here it comes, the lactation consultant is here, here it comes."
When Qi Xinlan heard the voice, she looked and saw that it was Wu's mother. She looked exhausted and was accompanied by a white-haired old woman.
When Wu's mother saw that her daughter had no milk and saw her granddaughter crying pitifully, she asked around for a lactation consultant. Fortunately, she found an experienced one.
Then the mother was pushed into another room to induce lactation. Suddenly everyone left. Qi Xinlan breathed a sigh of relief. It was really too noisy.
"Brother, eat something. I made you some steamed dumplings, buns, and millet porridge. Eat it while it's hot."
"Thank you for your hard work, Lanzi."
Xu Minghao was really hungry and started eating voraciously.
The old man standing by couldn't help but swallow his saliva when he saw Xu Minghao eating so sweetly.
Seeing this, Qi Xinlan took two or three buns and gave them to the old man, saying, "Grandpa, you haven't had breakfast yet, have you? I made a lot, you can try some too."
"Then I won't be polite, little girl. By the way, my name is Zhang Gang, you can call me Grandpa Zhang." Zhang Gang took the bun and took a bite impatiently: "Hmm... little girl, your bun is really delicious, with thin skin, big filling, and rich juice."
Qi Xinlan and Zhang Gang got along very well. Zhang Gang revealed that he had a grandson who was serving in the military headquarters in Beicheng. These days, the grandson was busy rescuing villagers from an avalanche, so he had no time to see him. If the grandson came, he would definitely introduce him to Qi Xinlan.
Qi Xinlan was about to decline politely when she heard Xu Minghao say unhappily, "No need for introductions, my wife already has me."
Zhang Gang was a little surprised: "Little girl, he is..."
"Grandpa Zhang, he is my fiancé, Xu Minghao, and he is also a soldier in the North City Military Department." Qi Xinlan's cheeks turned slightly red, and she felt a little embarrassed.
"Oh, I thought he was your uncle." Grandpa Zhang's mistake was not without reason. The main reason was that Xu Minghao was tall and strong, with dark skin, and he had a tense face all day long, looking cold and serious. When standing next to a fair and tender girl like Qi Xinlan, people would subconsciously think that he was the girl's elder.
Xu Minghao's face darkened when he heard this. This was the second time someone said he was Qi Xinlan's uncle.
Qi Xinlan wanted to laugh, but when she saw Xu Minghao's unhappy expression, she held it back.
Xu Minghao saw Qi Xinlan covering her mouth and trying hard to hold back her laughter, but she couldn't hide the smile in the corner of her eyes, and her eyelashes trembled. He immediately lost his temper.
After a while, Wu Hua was pushed back. The old woman shook her head and said, "No, I've tried everything I could, but there's still no milk. I have no other options. Please seek help from someone else."
After saying that, he left without waiting for anyone's reaction.
"What should we do? Without milk, what will the child eat?" Mother Wu was very anxious while holding the child.
"You can go buy some milk powder for the baby," the nurse suggested.
"What kind of milk powder do you want? How much does it cost? Just feed him some water as I said." Tian Damei was immediately unhappy when she heard that she had to pay for milk powder. Milk powder is so expensive! It's just a money-losing product, does it need to be so refined?
As soon as he finished speaking, for some reason, the child started crying again, his voice sharp and shrill.
When Wu's mother saw her child crying again, she immediately tried to comfort him in a hurry, but the child would not listen and cried with his face red and out of breath.
Qi Xinlan felt a little reluctant and stepped forward and said, "If you trust me, I can give you acupuncture."
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