Chapter 58 Taking care of a baby
After not sleeping for a whole night, Suning didn’t feel very sleepy, but there was a hint of fatigue between his brows.
When I brought Xiaoqiu back home, I saw the little guy looking at Zhang Qin's urn on the table. His red eyes were bloodshot, and tears were falling one by one from his eyelashes.
She sighed deeply in her heart, took her hand and gently comforted her, "Xiao Qiu, do you still remember your mother's wish?"
“Remember, remember…”
There was a strong nasal tone in Xiaoqiu's tender little voice. She answered while sobbing and nodding, which made her tears fall even more happily. "Mom... wants to go home."
"So we have to be well and stop crying like this. If she gets sick, we won't be able to take her home, right?"
"Well, I can't get sick if I don't cry. I want to... take my mother home..."
"Xiao Qiu is so good."
Patting her head, Suning pulled her up and went to the kitchen, "Let's eat something first, and I'll help you take a bath and change clothes."
Considering that Xiaoqiu often went hungry and had a weak stomach, she planned to cook some noodles that were nourishing to the stomach and easy to digest.
Light the fire on the earthen stove, clean the pot and boil hot water.
Xiaoqiu, who finally stopped crying, was not idle. She took the initiative to sit by the kitchen to help watch the fire and add firewood.
Soon, two bowls of plain noodles were cooked, sprinkled with some chopped green onions, and a poached egg was placed on each of them.
Put the noodle soup on the table and take out two pairs of chopsticks from the bamboo tube. "Xiao Qiu, take it and eat the noodles quickly. If they get clumped up later, they won't taste good."
"Thank you, Sister Ningning."
White, long noodles and plump, fried eggs were things they had never dared to imagine before today.
Sister Ningning is the only one at home, and food and oil are subsidized in fixed amounts every month. Although she is young, her mother and brother Guzi have told her these common sense questions.
Now with me as a burden, and without the connections for food and oil, city residents cannot receive subsidies. What if Sister Ningning goes hungry too?
Xiao Qiu was so afraid to move her chopsticks that she looked up and said timidly, "Sister Ningning, actually... you don't have to cook fine grains for me. I can eat anything, really!"
Brother Guzi said that fine grains are very precious, and one pound of them can be exchanged for many pounds of coarse grains, which is enough for them to eat for a long time.
Old grains, broken rice, buckwheat husks, sweet potatoes and potatoes are all delicious. She doesn't crave refined rice or white flour.
Slurp~
Well, not at all.
"Haha, eat without worry. How big is your stomach? Can you make me sick? I know what you are doing. Eat the noodles quickly."
The crying child gets candy, but the sensible child makes people feel distressed.
Perhaps it was because of her tough attitude, or perhaps because she was too young to resist the temptation of delicious food, Xiao Qiu finally obeyed and started to eat with relish.
I gulped down the whole bowl of noodles without leaving any soup, and my stomach was so full that it felt hard like a ripe watermelon.
The two of them took a walk in the yard to help digest their food and watered the vegetable garden, flowers and trees.
After the water in the pot boiled, Suning washed her from head to toe until no more mud could be rubbed out. Then he lifted her out of the wooden bathtub and put on her smallest short-sleeved shirt.
“Poof~”
“Hehe~”
It looks like a short-sleeved shirt on me, but it becomes a short dress on the little girl. You can imagine how thin she is.
With one hand he ruffled Xiaoqiu's hair, who was grinning foolishly, and restrained the smile in his eyes. Su Ning felt so distressed that it felt like he was being stung by ants.
Thinking about what I saw just now, the body was just skin and bones, with the ribs on the chest clearly protruding and purple scars everywhere.
He is just a five-year-old child. The person who did that is simply an animal!
"Sister Ningning? What's wrong? Is Qiuqiu's outfit not good looking?"
"No, I was buying them because I was thinking that when another big sister comes, I will take Xiao Qiu to buy two beautiful little dresses."
Hearing the words "beautiful" and "little skirt", Xiaoqiu couldn't help showing a happy expression, and the corners of her mouth that were raised high fell down for a moment.
If mom knew that Qiuqiu not only ate noodles and eggs, but also wore new clothes without patches, she would definitely be very happy.
Wouldn't it be more reassuring to watch her from heaven?
"Xiao Qiu..."
"Ning Baogai, here I come~ Little Circle, don't bite my skirt, or I'll beat you up!"
As soon as Luo Shuangshuang's screaming voice rang out in the yard, her long red and white polka dot skirt that reached her ankles was bitten by the little circle, causing her to wave her little fist and threaten fiercely, "Hehe, kid, if you don't let go, I will really beat you up!"
“Ning Baogai’s little circle has a bad temper, and he is too bullying!”
Didn’t you just mutter “ugly” yesterday, and then promptly changed your words to “cute”?
"Let go, little circle, and stop biting the lesbian's skirt!"
"Hahaha, that's right, we don't want dogs that behave like hooligans, you know."
When Luo Shuangshuang saw it loosen its mouth, she glanced at the wet hem of her skirt that was covered with saliva. She was so angry at this guy that she almost laughed. Before she could say anything else, she saw the girl hiding behind her friend.
Hey, does Ning Baogai have any preference for dark, thin and small people?
"What's that expression on your face?"
"Hey, hey, hey, no, no, is this the girl next door? Why is she here?"
Patting Xiaoqiu's hand that was tightly holding hers, Suning introduced them to each other, "Xiyou, this is Xiaoqiu, and Xiaoqiu, this is the sister Shuangshuang I just told you about."
"Hello, Sister Shuangshuang~"
"Hey, Xiao Qiuqiu, you too, sister will treat you to some candy!"
Looking at the candy she handed over, Xiao Qiu did not take it but looked up at Sister Ningning beside her. When she saw her nodded, she took it and whispered thank you.
"Xiao Qiu, why don't you play with Xiao Yuanquan in the yard for a while?"
"good."
He gave Luo Shuangshuang a look, pushed down the silly hair on Xiaoqiu's head, smiled and let the two little guys play for a while, then he walked into the main room with a weird expression on his face.
I whispered to her about Zhang Qin and the future arrangements for Xiao Qiu.
She looked at the small box on the table with sympathy and fear. Having almost been abducted last time, Luo Shuangshuang hated human traffickers even more.
If it weren't for Ning Baogai, her ending probably wouldn't have been much better.
If she was really sold to a remote mountain area, without Zhang Qin's intelligence and patience, she would have run away!
"Ning Baogai, we are lucky to meet you."
Whether it is her, Zhang Qin or Xiao Qiu.
Luo Shuangshuang held her hand, and her eyes became moist as she spoke.
"What are you talking about? Don't cry. I can't comfort you anymore."
"Pfft~ Who's crying?"
"Okay, okay, you're done, right?"
Raising his chin proudly, Luo nodded with satisfaction with a smile in his eyes.
The two chatted for a while, and then Suning stood up and took his bag, "Let's go, take the little one to buy two clothes, it's not right for him to wear mine."
"Okay, count me in. You pay and I pay the ticket, how about that?"
"I should be happy if someone is willing to save me cloth coupons."
…
Ancient City Department Store.
In the children's section, Suning bought Xiaoqiu a pink puff-sleeved dress with a butterfly pattern, a white short-sleeved shirt with dark blue overalls, and a pair of small plastic sandals.
All this would cost nearly thirty yuan, not counting the cloth coupons.
Xiaoqiu, who had changed into new clothes and new shoes, overheard the price and was picking her nails nervously.
"Sister Ningning, why don't you buy it?"
"Why? Don't you like it?"
"It's too expensive. Sister Ningning's clothes are very good and new..."
"You're still worried when you're younger. Be careful not to grow taller!"
Luo Shuangshuang, who had paid for the ticket and got the receipt, came over and heard it all. She raised her hand and touched her forehead, saying half-jokingly and half-seriously.
"This is a gift given to Xiao Qiuqiu by us, the elder sisters, because we like Xiao Qiuqiu. If the little one doesn't like it, we will be very sad~"
"No, no, I like it very much!"
"That's good, the little kid should be happy wearing new clothes and new shoes."
"Yeah, thank you Sister Ningning, thank you Sister Shuangshuang!"
Xiaoqiu pursed her lips and gave her a sweet smile: Qiuqiu was happy, not only because she had new clothes and shoes to wear, but also because she lost her mother but had two very good sisters.
Suning and Luo Shuangshuang naturally had no idea what the little girl was thinking. They each held one of her hands and continued to walk around before slowly walking out of the building.
"Ning Baogai will be waiting for you to come back. I should also report here to start work."
"All done?"
"Well, when I got home last night, my dad told me that I would start work the day after tomorrow and the day after tomorrow."
Luo Shuangshuang curled her lips. As expected, her parents did not agree with her following Ning Baogai to do purchasing. They insisted that they could not bear the hardship and did not have the adaptability.
Well, think about it, if she were to go on a business trip alone to a place where she is unfamiliar with the place, she... might not be able to do it?
(End of this chapter)
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