Chapter 146

Seeing Pei Hong's hesitation, Li Mu pulled him aside and discussed with him for a few words. When he came back, he agreed to their proposal and decided to help with the aftermath on this island.

Qiao Sheng complimented Brother Pei on his righteousness, and went to the temporary shelter with Fang Yueyi to check on the pregnant woman. Li Mu and Xu Ziyan went to the ruins to join the excavation work.

This purely manual excavation is quite slow, but the current situation is much simpler than the previous work content, because the previous focus was on saving people and not causing secondary injuries, so everyone had to be careful no matter what they did. Now the survivors have been rescued.

As long as it is confirmed that there are no survivors below, the team members can break the rocks and move them again, but the continuous heavy rain will affect everyone's work progress.

In the shelter, Chu Wanyou and Ji Ya were still helping to take care of the newborn. The mother was still in a coma due to heavy bleeding. At noon, Grandma Chu came to see her and said that there was no big problem and that she would be fine when she woke up naturally. If the child was hungry, she could be fed with some rice oil.

When Qiao Sheng and the others came in, Ji Ya was sitting on a chair with a big belly and holding a hungry crying baby in her arms.

"Why is this child crying like a kitten?" Fang Yueyi was curious and leaned over to take a look.

"It's not full-term. I just checked it. The fingernails haven't grown yet. If it's like this, it will have to be put in an incubator in the hospital. Now this child is just relying on luck." Ji Ya gently rocked the child in her arms.

As they were talking, Chu Wanyou came in with a coconut bowl, which contained boiled rice soup with a few grains of brown rice at the bottom.

"Should I go to the trading system to exchange for some milk? Can I be full just by drinking this?" Qiao Sheng looked at the watery rice soup and asked uncertainly.

"The book says that if conditions permit, it is best to use breast milk or formula milk. When Ningning was just born, we read more books and looked up more information than when she was in school, and we were more serious about it." Ji Ya thought of how cautious she was when she first raised a child, and she felt that they were a little silly.

Since they couldn't feed the baby with milk, there was no need to worry about it. They waited until the rice oil was slightly warm before feeding it to the baby. Qiao Sheng also mixed a cup of Baibaodan powder water and fed it to the sleeping woman. When

the two of them came, they asked Ji Ya to go back to the boat to rest first. After all, she was so pregnant that she was tired just sitting there, not to mention holding a child.

Ji Ya didn't shirk her responsibilities. She simply told them a few words on how to take care of the child, and then asked Chu Wanyou to help her back to the boat. Before leaving, Chu Wanyou made an appointment with Qiao Sheng and the others to come over to take over in the evening. Qiao Sheng and the others were on duty last night, so they asked them to have a good sleep today. When the woman woke up, they would be much more relaxed.

The newborn baby was not able to lie flat on the bed for some unknown reason, and was less than a day old. At first, Qiao Sheng felt uncomfortable lying on the bed because it was too hard. Later, she took her own cotton vest, folded it and made it soft, and put the baby on it. She still cried. She

could only sleep peacefully when someone held her. No wonder Ji Ya held the baby tightly when they came in. They thought the baby was crying because of hunger. Fang Yueyi's

arms and waist hurt after holding the baby for a while. It was too tiring to hold the baby in this position. After holding the baby for a while, she decided to let go and give the baby to Qiao Sheng. Now that the mother and daughter were both asleep, there was no need for them to watch over them. She decided to go out and move bricks. After all, moving bricks was easier than holding a baby in her eyes.

At this moment, in the shelter, besides the survivors lying down, there was only Qiao Sheng, who was sitting and holding a child.

After a while, Li Mu entered the shelter with a wooden frame. At first, Qiao Sheng didn't understand what it was for. When he put the frame under her arm and put a cotton vest on it, she finally understood what the frame was for.

"Fang Yueyi just went out and said that it was too tiring to hold the child. She couldn't even straighten her arms. So I nailed a small table so you can put your arms on it. But what's wrong with this child? Why can't he leave someone and lie on the bed?" Before she could ask, Li Mu explained the whole story and didn't forget to question the newborn.

Qiao Sheng couldn't explain it clearly. He had never raised a child, so how could he know? He just held the woman until she woke up. But the wooden frame was very useful. It supported her arms and she didn't get too tired.

After arranging Qiao Sheng, Li Mu went out to continue his work. It was not easy to move bricks in the ruins, and it was even more difficult with the heavy rain.

The woman woke up after dark. The first thing she did after opening her eyes was to touch her belly. The next second she sat up suddenly.

"Slow down, the baby is here. It's good. You're weak to begin with. Don't move so much." Qiao Sheng was in a daze. He heard a sound from the bed and saw Qing Wan woke up.

The action was obviously to find the child. He stood up and handed the baby over. She just woke up. She had to feed rice oil every few hours. It was too tiring.

"Watch the child carefully. I'll give you this hanging cloth to cover it. Try to see if you have milk. The child is almost hungry again. It's okay if there is no milk. Someone is boiling rice oil outside. If there is no milk, we can make do with it. I'll go back and boil some fish soup for you to increase your milk. It won't be a problem if you don't have rice soup." After arranging the mother and the two, Qiao Sheng prepared to go out.

As soon as she walked to the door, she heard Qing Wan calling her girl, and then thanked her, and said that she would worship the goddess of the sea every day in the future to thank her for bringing them here and saving her and the child.

Qiao Sheng did not refuse this. After all, a person with faith and something in his heart will not do stupid things. He told Qing Wan to shout loudly if there was anything, and there were team members outside guarding and caring for the survivors, and she would be back later.

After coming out, she said goodbye to Li Mu and returned to the boat. She roasted some sweet potatoes for the basil and the others, and took some fish and pig's trotters to find Grandma Chu. She had heard that these things could increase milk production, but she had no idea how to make them or what seasonings they were. When she

got on Grandma Chu's boat, she saw fish soup in the pot. Upon asking, she knew it was for Qing Wan. She also told Qiao Sheng that none of the fish she brought would work, and that it had to be crucian carp. Grandma Chu didn't have pig's trotters, so she took them and prepared to clean them up and make another pot of soup.

The fish soup was cooked, so she asked her to serve it directly to Qing Wan, saving Grandma Chu from having to make another trip to deliver it. In order to be energetic for her night shift, Chu Wanyou had already gone to catch up on her sleep.

As for the fish that Qiao Sheng brought, she had to take it away, after all, she couldn't use it. However, Qiao Sheng finally left it with Grandma Chu because he had no hands to take it.

"Grandma Chu, don't worry about it. I have a lot of fish. Just take it and eat it. Don't give it back to me." Qiao Sheng's excuse was not very clever. When Grandma Chu said she would help her take it back to the boat, he directly refused.

"Okay, then Grandma will keep it. How about I make braised fish for you when you come back for dinner tomorrow night?" Grandma Chu knew she was determined to make up for her when she saw her like this.

Qiao Sheng agreed to this. Grandma Chu's cooking skills were indeed better than hers. Who would be willing to cook it themselves if they had good food? As for eating at Grandma Chu's place, it didn't matter. She couldn't come empty-handed then.

When they returned to the shelter with the clay pot, they found the baby already crying. Qing Wan was so anxious that she was sweating and kept rocking the child in her arms.

"I told you, don't worry. Grandma Chu said that the more anxious you are, the less milk you will produce. Come, drink this fish soup first, and give the child to me." The team member who was squatting outside to boil rice soup brought in a bowl of rice soup that had cooled down a little.

Qiao Sheng sat on a chair with a wooden stand made by Li Mu in front of him. The baby was lying in the crook of his left arm. He held a coconut bowl in his left hand and a small spoon in his right hand, feeding the rice soup into the baby's mouth little by little.

The baby, who was crying loudly because of hunger, stopped crying immediately and drank it mouthful by mouthful with great enthusiasm. Qing Wan, who had been stretching her head to look over here, finally drank the fish soup with peace of mind.

I don't know how Grandma Chu boils the fish soup, but Qiao Sheng should not be very tasty judging from Qing Wan's expression.

After the mother and daughter finished eating, Qiao Sheng returned the child to the mother. After making sure that she was not needed here for the time being, he left the shelter and told the team members outside to keep an eye on the woman in labor. Then he went to the ruins.

It was already dark, and the rain seemed to be getting lighter and lighter. It had changed from the previous heavy rain to a drizzle. However, the road was getting harder and harder to walk. Wearing sports shoes that increased his speed, Qiao Sheng did not dare to take big steps for fear of falling into the mud.

When he arrived at the ruins, he found that there were at least thirty or forty people still working. Fang Yueyi was having a great time moving stones, and she was moving them quickly. The stones she was moving were not small.

Seeing Qiao Sheng, she put the stone in her hand into the cleaning area, then trotted over and asked her why she came out. Knowing that the woman had woken up and was able to take care of the baby by herself, Qiao Sheng came out to move bricks, so she asked her to take a rest quickly.

The night shift people would come to take over after dinner, and they could go to eat or go back to the boat to sleep after work.

Qiao Sheng didn't listen to her. She should do more if she could, clean up these things as soon as possible, dig out the bodies and deal with them, and reach 100% completion, so that she would be in the mood to have a good rest.

They were busy until late at night, and Qiao Sheng and the others returned to the boat. They couldn't wash and rest directly on the boat, and they had to plant all the plants in the pots.

Sweet potatoes, corn, potatoes, peppers, cabbage, all of these are grown. Simply putting them together makes a dish. Pei Hong has already been told that he will be the contractor for the meals, so he must prepare more. Only when the team members are well fed can they have the strength to do more work.

When they came back just now, they also looked at some statistics. Three bodies were dug out in this afternoon and one night. The least injured Mr. Wang was asked to come out and identify who they were one by one. All of these must be cremated. The longer they are left, the more dangerous it will be for the living.

Of the three bodies, two were identified. One was stabbed in his own farm tools when he was trying to escape during the earthquake. He didn’t know what internal organs he had stabbed into, but it had already hardened when he was dug out. Mr. Wang recognized him as the second son of the Liu family.

Another was hit on the back of the head, and his face was deformed, but Mr. Wang still recognized him as the barefoot doctor on the island.

He really couldn’t recognize the last one. The earthquake happened late at night. The man was only wearing a pair of pants, bare-chested, and his head was gone. The team members searched nearby for a long time but couldn’t find him, so they had to give up.

Pei Hong asked his team members to take the three bodies to a distant place for burning. In order to leave a memory for the people on the island, he also asked the team members to burn and pack them separately. Each person had a small clay pot, and wrote their names on a piece of paper and stuck it on the outside of the pot. Finally, they handed it to Mr. Wang and put it in the shelter, waiting for their relatives to have the opportunity to take it away and bury it in the future.