"This child looks like he's only a month old, right?"
"It was thrown at the gate of our courtyard early in the morning..."
"How pitiful! If he had been any later, he might have frozen to death..."
"What should we do now? Should we send him to an orphanage?"
The doctors and nurses at Lingshui Town Health Center were discussing the matter in a lively manner.
Early this morning, the staff at the health center found the swaddled baby at the door.
I don’t know when he was released, but his face was already blue and purple from the cold.
Fortunately, although it snowed today, they still came to the yard on time, otherwise if they were a step later, the child would probably have frozen to death.
After examination, the child was found to be in good health. After staying by the stove for a while, his body temperature rose and his face became white and rosy, looking very cute.
The little girl slowly opened her eyes in a dizziness.
"Wake up, wake up!"
"It's so cute, how can I bear to throw it away!"
“That’s right…”
The little girl's eyes seemed to light up instantly.
Her glass-like eyes looked at the people around her, and her watery look was enough to melt people's hearts.
The silver bell-like laughter reached everyone's ears.
"That laugh is so beautiful...it's like hearing the ocean."
"You've never seen the sea, what are you talking about?"
"So what? It sounds good anyway."
"Director, what should we do with this child? Should we send him to the orphanage in the county?"
Several nurses looked at the director, hoping he could give them some advice.
There is nothing wrong with the child's health, but he cannot be kept in the hospital forever. If he is sent to an orphanage, he has to be in the county town.
The old director is over sixty years old this year but still in good spirits. He reached out and held the child.
The little girl didn't know if she knew that the person in front of her could decide her future, so she gave the old dean a sweet smile without teeth.
The old dean, who is always serious, couldn't help but smile.
"It looks like this child was abandoned by his family. What a sin... Does anyone want to take him home and raise him?"
The nurses nearby looked at each other but said nothing.
The child looked very cute, with fair and tender skin. In fact, he was prettier than their own children, but he was a child, not a kitten or a puppy.
If there is one more mouth to feed at home, then there will definitely be more food to eat.
As health center employees, they were given some food coupons as subsidies every month, but their families still lived a tight life.
Even my own children may not be able to eat enough every meal now, and I want to have another baby who needs to be carefully raised...
Those days were extremely difficult.
Most people really can't stand such a hassle.
The old dean sighed when he saw the wrinkled expressions on their faces.
Actually, it’s useless to ask. These days, most families don’t want to have more children.
The old dean weighed the baby in his arms, thought for a moment and said:
"If you don't want to raise the child, then I'll find a good place for him..."
The gently falling snowflakes showed no signs of stopping, and the air was freezing cold everywhere.
A large courtyard with five houses to the east of Huaihe Village was also covered with a layer of white snow.
There was still a faint warmth in the main room where the stove was lit.
Chu Yuefang, the daughter-in-law of the Ling family in Huaihe Village, was lying on the kang bed, gently patting her five-month-old son to coax him to sleep.
The water on the stove was boiling and making a gurgling sound.
The eldest son Ling Mu took the kettle down and put it on the ground. The blue flame bounced up instantly without being suppressed.
Just as he was about to make milk powder for his younger brother, Ling Mu frowned.
"Mom, weren't there four bags of milk powder left before? Why are there only two bags now?"
His mother used to make the milk powder herself. He only remembered checking it once last month, when there were four bags.
Xiaowu doesn't drink it every day, usually only one bag a month.
It won’t be consumed so quickly.
Chu Yuefang stammered and was speechless for a moment.
Ling Mu suddenly understood what was going on and said:
"You won't give the milk powder to the Su family again, right?"
Chu Yuefang smiled awkwardly at her son, touched her nose and whispered:
"Well, isn't the Su family having a harder time? I was thinking about their little girl, she's so skinny and looks so pitiful..."
Ling Mu, however, rarely interrupted his mother directly, his handsome little face tense.
"mom!"
"This milk powder is not easy to get. I don't know how much effort my uncle and the others put in. No matter how much you like the Su family's child, she is not ours! Forget about the ones you gave her before, but now these are for Xiaowu and must not be given to his family anymore!"
Ling Mu knew that his mother wanted a daughter very much because she had given birth to five brothers. The aunt next door, Su, gave birth to a child at the same time as his mother. His mother gave birth to their fifth brother first, and the Su family gave birth to a daughter not long after.
His mother looked sore-eyed. Ever since she came out of confinement, she had been thinking about the child from the Su family and running to their house all day long. She certainly couldn't go empty-handed this time.
His uncle lived in Tianjing City and was relatively well-off. From time to time, he would send them some snacks, fabrics, milk powder, etc. His mother had no idea how much she had sent in just a few months.
It’s not that Ling Mu is stingy. No matter how much he likes the little girl from the Su family, he thinks his mother shouldn’t do this.
No matter how good the Su family's daughter is, she is not theirs after all.
I can give you other things, but this milk powder is not something you can get easily.
Ling's mother had given birth to too many children and her health was not very good. After giving birth to Xiaowu, Xiaowu mostly relied on rice soup. Later, he received milk powder sent by Ling's uncle.
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