Chapter 155 Lack of Milk

He didn't know how much the food price outside had risen, but it should be less than three yuan per pound.

The difference in price would be considered as compensation to Liu Yinyin.

Jiang Zhiqing added: "You don't need to buy too much. About 20 kilograms of food a month will be enough."

Liu Yinyin: “…”

As for Aunt Zhou, the price of coarse grain has now risen to about two yuan and forty cents per pound. If Jiang Zhiqing really gives her three yuan, she can earn sixty cents per pound of coarse grain.

Twenty kilograms of coarse grain...is twelve yuan.

She can handle 20 kilograms of coarse grain in one trip.

You can earn twelve dollars in one go, which is indeed a steady profit.

Liu Yinyin coughed and said, "Jiang Zhiqing, if you say so, three yuan per pound of food, about twenty pounds a month, that would be sixty yuan?"

Sixty yuan is not a small amount of money. An average worker in a county town doesn't even earn sixty yuan a month.

She wasn't sure whether Jiang Zhiqing could afford it.

Jiang Zhiqing said confidently: "Don't worry, I have money."

When he came to Liujia Village, he brought with him a considerable amount of savings.

Plus, his family would send some money from time to time.

There was nowhere to spend money in Liujia Village, so Jiang Zhiqing saved most of the money.

Now, seeing that the famine was getting worse, he was afraid that he would go hungry in the future if he didn't buy some food.

Sixty yuan is a lot, but he can afford it for the time being.

Actually...if he wasn't unfamiliar with the place, he wouldn't have bothered Liu Yinyin for help.

Liu Yinyin thought about it and still felt that this transaction was well planned. Since Jiang Zhiqing was alone, there was no need to worry about causing any trouble.

So she said to Jiang Zhiqing: "Starting from the first day of next month, I will help you exchange 20 kilograms of food every month, but...you can't let others know about this."

Liu Yinyin would definitely make money, but she is afraid of trouble.

"Don't worry." Jiang Zhiqing is a grown man, and he wouldn't go around gossiping with others.

On the contrary, he was quite disgusted by this behavior.

The weather was hot, and mosquitoes gradually increased in number at night.

Gu Yanyan had several large bite marks on his hands.

That night, Liu Yinyin and Gu Cheng were busy setting up the mosquito net.

The small bed in the house has now been replaced with a large wooden bed, which is spacious enough for a family of three to sleep on.

After hanging up the mosquito net, Liu Yinyin was just about to blow out the light and go to sleep.

Suddenly, there was a series of knocks on the door outside.

Gu Cheng went out to open the door, and after a while, Jiang Cuihua ran in hurriedly.

"Yinyin..." Jiang Cuihua said anxiously, "Your second sister-in-law has no milk yet, and the child is crying with hunger. He won't drink rice soup. Don't you have milk powder at home? Sell me a bag."

She was extremely anxious now. Her grandson had been hungry for a day. Her second daughter-in-law had no milk, so she fed him rice soup, but he vomited it all out.

When I went to the village chief's daughter-in-law's house, she had already fed the child and had no more milk left.

Upon hearing this, Liu Yinyin hurriedly found a bag of milk powder and an unused milk bottle from the cupboard and gave them to her: "Mom, if anything happens, ask my second brother to come to me. There is a bicycle at home."

It is more convenient to ride a bicycle to the county town. I am not worried about anything else. If the child doesn’t want to drink anything, I am just worried that his stomach may be bad.

Jiang Cuihua responded casually and ran away in a hurry.

Fortunately, after waiting for about half an hour, Brother Liu did not come home to find her.

Thinking that everything was alright, Liu Yinyin heaved a sigh of relief.

The next morning, Jiang Cuihua came to her house to find her. She was almost worried to death.

There's nothing wrong with my grandson, he just cried because he had no milk. I made some milk powder for him last night, and the little guy can drink it and he hasn't cried anymore.

But Liu Ersao had no milk, so it was not an option for them to keep feeding their children with milk powder.

Not to mention that milk powder is hard to buy, even if they can buy it, their family cannot afford it.

What's more, milk powder is not durable. A child needs to drink milk every two or three hours. A bag of milk powder can only last for two or three days!

At this moment, everyone in the family is getting very anxious.

Without thinking, Liu Yinyin said, "We still have a few bags of milk powder at home. I'll give them all to you. Yanyan is grown up now, and it doesn't matter whether he drinks milk powder or not. Later... I'll ask Gu Cheng to exchange more milk powder with his friends."

After all, he is her biological nephew, and Liu Yinyin can't just ignore him.

The lady said it lightly, but Jiang Cuihua was not so optimistic: "A bag of milk powder costs several yuan, how can we afford it?"

There is really no money at home.

"That can't be helped." Liu Yinyin smiled, "Mom, I'll lend you the money for my nephew's milk powder."

It’s not quite appropriate to say that she is directly responsible for paying for her nephew’s milk powder. Doesn’t Liu Yinyin only have one sister-in-law? If she gives this one today, she must give that one tomorrow, right?

Jiang Cuihua gave her daughter ten yuan, which was the money for two packets of milk powder.

She accepted another packet of milk powder from her daughter and thought, "Let's talk about it in two days. If your second sister-in-law has no milk, I will go to the village chief's house and ask him to send some eggs and flour to his daughter-in-law to nourish her body and see if she can produce more milk."

If it is possible, it depends on whether the village chief's daughter-in-law is willing to lend her milk.

Of course, she was embarrassed to borrow it for free, so she would send her some milk-stimulating medicine every day to help her replenish her body.

Although Jiang Cuihua felt distressed, this was still better than feeding her baby with milk powder.

Liu Yinyin nodded and said, "That's fine too. By the way, I have brown sugar, red dates, peanuts, soybeans and so on here. If she is willing to borrow milk, I will pack some for you later."

They are all good things for increasing milk production. Liu Yinyin's family has no shortage of them, but the Liu family doesn't have many.

Besides, there is Mrs. Liu at home who is in confinement after giving birth, so she needs to keep the food for herself to recuperate.

Speaking of this, Jiang Cuihua was not very happy. Liu Ersao had eaten a lot of good things, but she didn't have any milk at all.

If the village chief's daughter-in-law is willing to lend me milk, I won't leave the good things in the house for her, because she won't have any milk after eating them anyway.

Two days later, it was Sunday and Gu Cheng was having a day off.

Last night, the couple discussed it.

Today they want to go to the mountains to look for wild boars first and then tend to the sweet potato fields.

I don’t know if I can get back by noon.

Liu Yinyin still brought lunch as she didn't have time to cook in the morning.

I only packed a few corn cobs and two boiled eggs.

As before, Gu Yanyan was sent to the Liu family to be taken care of by Jiang Cuihua.

The little guy is grown up now and can play with his cousins ​​by himself. He can tell me when he wants to eat or poop, so we don’t have to worry too much about him.

Although Jiang Cuihua did not go to work, she was not idle at home.

She was responsible for taking care of Mrs. Liu during her confinement, taking care of the children, and doing all the housework.

I also have to go to the village chief's house every two or three hours.

The village chief’s young daughter-in-law agreed to the matter of borrowing milk mentioned earlier.