Chapter 9 Do I owe her?
"Have you ever seen a baby breastfeeding? It's like that, hurry up."
Lu Feng was stunned for a long time, then blushed with embarrassment.
In fact, he was only four years older than Lu Qingqing, and was only a twenty-year-old young man.
Hearing her sister speak so bluntly, she was at a loss for words and stammered, unable to utter a single sentence.
Feng Xiaowan was in so much pain that her head was spinning, and she didn't even know what the two of them were talking about.
"Okay, I'll go out. Hurry up, brother, the child is hungry."
Lu Qingqing casually took away the chicken soup that Lu Feng had brought in.
It's oily and sticky; that's what causes blocked milk ducts.
Lu Qingqing went to the kitchen and saw that her father and Lu Yun were already eating, but what were they eating?
A few dark brown cornbread buns, and a bowl of wilted pickled vegetables.
The steamed buns were made from coarse flour ground from wheat grown at home, mixed with bran and wild vegetables. This wasn't modern times; as long as you had land, you could eat your fill and eat well.
Crops already have low yields, and after the autumn harvest, the best grains are taxed, so only the defective ones are kept for food.
Some people continue to eat food even after it has become moldy due to improper storage.
"Qingqing, are you hungry? Sit down and eat."
Old Man Lu took out a bowl of white rice from the covered pot, and then took out a plate of stir-fried shredded radish with meat.
Although the color isn't great, it uses a lot of meat.
Lu Qingqing was very upset.
This is the original owner's daily life.
At home, she was treated like a princess, and her father and brothers were her servants.
She was always fed refined rice.
I wonder if this kind old woman would be sad if she knew her real daughter was gone.
"Dad, don't cook for me separately anymore. The rice you buy is for everyone to eat together."
She returned the remaining ten taels to Old Man Lu.
He didn't say anything sentimental, only saying, "I won't let you worry about me anymore."
Lu Yun stared at the few pieces of silver, his eyes wide with surprise.
The money that ends up in Lu Qingqing's hands is like meat buns falling into a dog's mouth. If you try to snatch it, it will bite you to death. How could it possibly voluntarily spit it out?
Except for that pretty boy Ning Xiuwen.
Has Lu Qingqing really changed for the better?
No, don't believe it. At most three days. She'll revert to her old ways in three days.
Old Man Lu was very excited, and in his excitement, he started coughing violently.
Out of professional habit, Lu Qingqing quickly went to take his pulse.
After taking his pulse, his complexion didn't look too good.
"We can't eat this anymore!"
She got up and poured all the pickled vegetables on the table into the slop bucket.
Old Man Lu is severely malnourished and depleted. His hair is dry and he is anemic. If this continues, his body will be completely destroyed.
"Oh, Qingqing, you..." Old Master Lu felt sorry for her.
"If you don't want to get tuberculosis, you can't eat it anymore."
The father and son were terrified.
At this time, people were terrified of tuberculosis, as it was a terminal illness!
Although Old Man Lu didn't get it, the situation wasn't optimistic. If things continued like this, even if he didn't get tuberculosis, he wouldn't live for more than two years. That's why Lu Qingqing said that.
"Lu Qingqing, do you really know medicine? What happened to Father?" Lu Yun asked in a trembling voice.
As Lu Qingqing separated the rice and served meat and vegetables to her father, she said, "Anyway, it's very serious. You need to eat well from now on and take good care of yourself. Don't overwork yourself."
She thought she should cook the meal herself, since they probably wouldn't want to eat it anyway, and she had just tasted the food and it was really awful.
There are no seasonings other than salt.
The salt was also the coarse kind, with a bitter taste.
At that time, salt was expensive, and ordinary people could not afford fine salt.
Old Man Lu gave a wry smile. He knew his own body well. These days, he often broke out in a cold sweat at night, had shortness of breath, and found it harder to get up in the morning than before.
Sometimes, while I'm working, I suddenly feel dizzy and lightheaded.
This body is truly beyond saving.
But his son and daughter are not yet married, he can't collapse!
Lu Yun's eyes began to redden.
He was completely unaware that his father's health had deteriorated so much. He had clearly heard his father coughing at night, but he hadn't taken it seriously.
Lu Qingqing glanced at him and said gently, "Don't worry, Dad will be fine with me here. You crybaby!"
"Who is..." Lu Yun was about to retort when he suddenly froze.
His eyes were glazed over.
Lu Qingqing, it's been so many years, so many years since I called him that.
Ever since she was rescued from the pond when she was eight years old...
"Qingqing, can you tell your father how you suddenly learned medicine?" Old Master Lu's eyes held a kind of hopeful expectation that he dared not hope for.
Has his daughter remembered something?
Lu Yun also perked up his ears.
Lu Qingqing was too lazy to make up an excuse.
To put it simply, "There was someone in my dream who taught me."
Lu Yun snorted.
"In a dream?" Old Man Lu didn't think Lu Qingqing was talking nonsense at all. Instead, he hurriedly asked, "Was it a woman?"
"Hmm... I can't see very clearly."
Even in dreams, there are strict rules about the separation of men and women?
“Your mother has appeared, your mother has appeared, she received the incense I burned…” Old Man Lu suddenly choked up.
Lu Yun: "..."
Lu Qingqing: "..."
Before Lu Qingqing could ponder her father's words, Lu Feng called her over.
Inside the house, Feng Xiaowan was crying, the child was crying, and Lu Feng was flustered and wanted to cry too.
Although he felt Lu Qingqing was unreliable, she was the only woman in the family, so he had no choice but to call her over.
He dared not touch the child, nor his wife.
Lu Qingqing held the baby, helped Feng Xiaowan breastfeed, and cleaned up the mother and child. She then told Lu Feng that the two of them would be moving to different rooms in the next few days, and that she would be staying here to look after them for a few nights.
Feng Xiaowan is habitually afraid.
But when he thought of Lu Qingqing's gentle comforting of the child, he remained silent.
Lu Feng's face turned completely red, and he didn't say a word.
"I, I'll go to the fields..."
"Where have you been? You haven't gone anywhere these past few days! If you have nothing to do, just stay in the house and talk to your sister-in-law!" Lu Qingqing habitually scolded people.
Lu Feng lowered his head and said, "Oh."
When Lu Qingqing went out again, her father and Lu Yun were gone.
Looking at the hoe and plow that disappeared in the corner, they must have gone to the fields.
That bowl of rice with meat and vegetables was finished, though.
Lu Qingqing started preparing postpartum meals for Feng Xiaowan.
She cooked pumpkin and millet porridge, then steamed red date and egg custard. After serving it, she started grinding herbs.
The broth made directly from boiling was too bitter, so she wanted to make it into pills.
Lu Feng had been peeking outside the kitchen for who knows how long before finally coming in to ask, "Little sister, your sister-in-law and the child are asleep. May I go to the fields?"
"You're not allowed to go!"
"oh."
A moment later, someone knocked on the door, and Lu Feng went to open it.
The yard is too small; you can hear the sounds outside clearly from the kitchen.
It was Granny Li who delivered Feng Xiaowan's baby before.
"I heard your wife and child are lucky to have survived. Your auntie didn't have much, so she gave us ten eggs."
"Oh dear, Auntie, we haven't even been paid for our hard work, why are you giving it back to us..."
"Alright! Here, take it. Use it to help your wife recover. I'm telling you, this is for your wife, not for that lazybones of yours!"
Lazy Lu Qingqing...
Lu Feng returned quickly and took the eggs to the kitchen.
"Little sister...you have five, and your sister-in-law has five."
A surge of anger suddenly welled up in Lu Qingqing's heart.
"They already told me not to give it to me, didn't you understand? Don't you know what's going on with your wife right now?"
Instead of saving the good stuff for her, you give it to a lazy and wicked creature!
"Are you an idiot?"
In fact, Lu Qingqing had been holding her breath for a long time.
This family is like they have masochistic tendencies, worshipping the original owner like an ancestor. Are they sick?
She couldn't take her anger out on an old man, so she took it out on Lu Feng.
Who told him to be as honest as Old Man Lu, almost to the point of being stupid!
There were only two chicken legs, and they gave one to this troublemaker. There were only ten eggs, and they had to share half with her.
Do I owe her?
Lu Yun even got angry with her, but Lu Feng, just like his father, only knew how to nag uselessly, and then helplessly had to clean up her mess!
Lu Feng was startled by Lu Qingqing's sudden anger, and his upright face looked even more honest.
It's not that I'm really timid, it's that I'm afraid she'll become...
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