"Why are you crying?" Li Erlang asked helplessly.
"Are you hungry?" Li Yan replied.
Fortunately, at this time, the crying of the little one woke Lin up. When she opened her eyes, she saw two children lying beside her bed, and tears flowed down her face unconsciously!
Li Erlang, who was squatting beside him, clumsily wiped the tears from his wife's face with his hands and said anxiously: "Don't cry, don't cry, be careful not to hurt your eyes!"
Lin struggled to get up, picked up the child and started to feed him.
Seeing this, Li Yan stood up and said, "I'll go see if the sugar-water steamed eggs in the kitchen are ready." After that, she hurried out of her parents' room.
Lin gestured with her eyes as she lay down in front of the bed and looked at her husband eagerly, which clearly meant, "Why don't you go out yet?"
But Li Erlang pretended not to understand and continued to lie beside the bed to comfort his little son who was about to cry.
Looking at her daughter in her arms, whose face was red from crying, Lin had no choice but to unbutton her lapel, gently hugged her daughter's body, and held her close to her chest. The little girl followed her instinct to find her own food.
After all, she had just given birth, and the little one sucked for a long time but couldn't get any milk. She was so anxious that she twisted her body restlessly, looking like she was about to cry again.
"What should I do? I don't have much milk right now!" Lin looked at her husband anxiously.
Li Erlang immediately stood up and said, "Don't worry, there are several women who have given birth in our village. I will ask my mother to invite one to feed the baby first!" After that, he hurried out of the next door.
Mrs. Wu was plucking chicken feathers in the yard. Seeing her son approaching her anxiously, she hurriedly asked, "What's wrong? Why are you so flustered?"
"Mom, Wan'er has no milk now. Please help me find someone in the village to feed the two little ones first!" said Li Erlang.
After hearing this, Mrs. Wu shook off the chicken feathers on her hands and stood up immediately: "Wen Jian's third daughter-in-law just gave birth to a boy a few days ago. I will go and ask her to come over!" After that, she rushed out of the yard like the wind.
Wu ran to Li Wenjian's house panting. At this time, the four men in the family had all gone to Li's house to help dig the pond, and only three women were busy in the yard.
Seeing Wu standing at the door panting, the eldest sister-in-law Zhang quickly dropped her work and called out, "Aunt, is there something wrong? Come in and sit down!"
Last year, my father-in-law passed away, and thanks to the help of the Li family, the family was able to survive smoothly. This year, all the men in the family can go to the Li family to work, and life at home has become better and better! The three sisters-in-law are very grateful to the Li family, and they are even more enthusiastic when they see Wu who has come to find them.
Mrs. Wu waved her hand and said, "Xiao Cui, can you please go home? My wife just gave birth to two babies, and they haven't started producing milk yet. The babies are crying from hunger, so I want to ask Cui'er to help feed them for us first!"
At the beginning of the year, Cui'er gave birth to a boy for the third child, Li Wenping. When she heard that Wu had come to her place, Cui'er said very straightforwardly: "Sisters-in-law, please help me take care of the baby. I will go with my aunt!"
The two sisters-in-law were both pragmatic and simple women, and they agreed without hesitation!
When Mrs. Wu hurried back with her people, she just walked into the yard and heard the crying of the babies. This made her heartbroken and she quickened her pace.
The crying in the room did not stop until the two little ones were fed.
Li Erlang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. His wife gave birth many days earlier than planned, and he hadn't prepared for many things. He never expected that his wife could give birth to two children at once!
Li Yan was busy coaxing the child and had no time to eat Lin's brown sugar eggs, so she brought out the cold food.
After a while, she made another portion. When Cui'er finished feeding, she took the food and walked into her mother's room.
Li Yan placed the tray on the wooden table and brought a bowl to Cui'er. "Little aunt, try it too. Thank you so much for today!"
Cui Er looked at the bowl full of brown sugar and eggs and waved her hands: "Just give this to your mother!"
"My mother still has some, but it's not a good thing. Please don't dislike it, auntie!" Li Yan handed the food to Cui'er without saying a word.
"This, this is so embarrassing." Nowadays, for Li Yan, this thing may not be worth mentioning, but for most families in the village, eggs are usually reluctant to eat, not to mention sugar, which is even more precious.
"You also have children who need milk. Today, my two little ones have eaten up all their food. I feel embarrassed. Stop refusing!" said Lin.
"Yes, little aunt, I may have to trouble you for a day or two!" Li Yan said to Xiao Cui while handing another bowl of food to her mother.
It does take one or two days for the colostrum to come out. I have to feed three children at once. If I don't give them some soup or water, I won't have enough milk by then.
Thinking of this, Cui'er no longer refused and started eating in small bites.
After eating the brown sugar eggs, Cui'er sat for a while and then said goodbye and went home: "If the child wakes up, sister-in-law can send someone to find me!" Her baby was only three months old, and she was still worried.
After Li Yan sent the person away, she returned to her room and saw her father standing by the bed with a tender and affectionate look in his eyes.
My mother had already fallen asleep, with two wrinkled little dolls beside her.
Li Yan was about to speak: "Dad..."
Li Erlang made a gesture of silence, indicating that the two should go out and talk.
After closing the door to block out the outside voices, Li Yan said, "Dad, it's getting late now. You should hurry up and go to the city to supervise the work!"
It wasn't too late to go now, but he was worried about his wife and children. Li Erlang said, "Then I'll ask the county magistrate for two days' leave and buy some food for them!"
The construction schedule for the city market was very tight. Even if I couldn't go because of something, I still had to inform the county magistrate.
On the other side, when it was time to go to work, Mr. Li came down the mountain with farm tools in his hands and a happy face.
The busy crowd on the side saw Mr. Li, who was late, and teased him, "Uncle, you are late today!"
Mr. Li usually arrives early in the morning to dig the pond, and has never been as late as today.
Mr. Li smiled from ear to ear and replied, "We just had a new addition to our family!"
"Uncle looks so happy, he must have given birth to a boy!" someone said with a smile.
While working, everyone listened curiously to Mr. Li's next answer.
Old Master Li straightened his chest, smiled with wrinkles all over his face, and said, "They gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl!"
When everyone heard this, they congratulated Mr. Li.
With Mr. Li's publicity, the news that Li Erlang's family had a pair of twins, a boy and a girl, spread throughout the entire Lijia Village in just half a day.
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