Chapter 29: Raising Some Domestic Fowl

  "If it's delayed any further, those people will come knocking on the door again to collect debts, and Grandma's health will deteriorate even more."

  Yu Xiaoxi also felt that it was indeed the case, Ye Nainai's age was indeed high, and when she got sick, it would cost a lot of money.

  Everyone in the kitchen cast admiring glances at her.

  At her young age, with a frail body, she has to bear the heavy burden of supporting a family.

  At home, there is not only a mother who has just given birth, but also an elderly grandmother.

  Even living such a life, every time she sees her, she is still smiling, as if she has never complained about this life, but rather enjoys it.

  After the shopkeeper handed over the wrapped silver ingots to Su Xiaofan, the three of them bid farewell to the crowd and headed back home directly.

  After another hour of arduous journey, Su Xiaofan looked at Xiao Yiming with a puzzled expression and asked: "Little treasure, why aren't you tired at all?"

  Xiao Yi Mo raised an eyebrow and replied, "Because I'm young."

  Su Xiaofan was speechless, she herself was very young, wasn't she only fifteen years old?

  In her own world, fifteen years old was still just a child who would act spoiled in front of her parents.

  As soon as she stepped into her own courtyard, she heard the continuous crying of a baby coming from inside. Su Xiaofan walked in quickly and pushed open the door to ask, "Grandma, what's wrong with my brother?"

  "Fan'er is back, look at him, he must be hungry." Ye held the newborn baby in her arms and paced back and forth in the room, her expression full of anxiety.

  "Isn't it inconvenient for you to breastfeed?" Su Xiaofan leaned over, and the small baby in Ye Shi's arms was now opening its small mouth, crying with a face that had turned purple-red, and couldn't help but feel some worry, what if the child cried itself sick?

  "Your mother's body is too weak, she tried a few times but couldn't produce milk." Ye Shi whispered in Su Xiaofan's ear, afraid that Jia Shi would hear and become sad again, just now she had cried about this matter, after all, a woman sitting the month can't cry.

  Su Xiaofan took a glance at Jia's mother lying on the bed, and faintly saw that her eyes were red, apparently she had no milk to feed her brother, so she cried anxiously. Su walked over and comforted her, "Don't worry, mom, I'll go get some rice porridge, let's see if little brother will eat it."

  Ye's family heard this and a faint smile appeared on his anxious face: "Fang'er, hurry up, the child has been crying for half a day, Grandma is heartbroken."

  "Hmm." Su Xiao Fan smiled slightly and turned around to walk out.

  Su Xiaofan boiled some water, put the rice in a bowl to soak for a while, then used a rolling pin at home to crush the rice into grains. After filtering it with a small piece of gauze, she started cooking it in a pot.

  "I'll come and help you with the fire." Xiao Yimeng saw that she was busy burning the fire on one side and stirring the pot on the other.

  "Good, little treasure is really well-behaved." Su Xiao Fan smiled and turned around to walk to the side, letting him take over the position of burning fire.

  In no time at all, a small bowl of fragrant and savory congee was ready.

  Su Xiaofan took a small sip, although she had heard of the production method before, this was still her first time making it herself. The taste was not bad, with a chewy texture and a smooth mouthfeel.

  "Grandma, it's done." Su Xiaofan carried the cooked porridge into the room, dipped a chopstick in and placed it at the edge of the crying baby's mouth. The baby who was originally crying suddenly stopped, slowly sucking on the end of the chopstick with the porridge.

  "Zhīyān, look, the child has eaten." Yè shì called out happily, her face full of smiles.

  "Hmm." Jia smiled slightly in relief, but her expression still held a hint of worry.

  Su Xiaofan repeated her previous actions, while comforting her: "Mother, don't worry, maybe you're just too tense, that's why there's no milk coming out. You rest well and tomorrow it might be better."

  Jia thought that Xiaohuo had also advised herself in the same way just now, and at present she absolutely could not let her mother and Fan'er worry again. She relaxed and smiled: "Okay, I'll take a nap first."

  It wasn't until much later that the little brother, who seemed to have eaten his fill, finally fell asleep. Su Xiao Fan rubbed her sore arm and thought to herself, "If mother doesn't produce milk, this can't be a long-term solution. I wonder if there's something like infant formula in this world?"

  However, if it's true, can I afford it now?

  Every other morning, Su Xiaofan opened the door and walked out, only to hear Ye Shi's happy voice: "Fang'er, go make something for your mother to eat. What you make is more delicious than what Nainai makes."

  Su Xiaofan rubbed her eyes and walked over, asking softly: "What happened after last night? Why didn't grandma wake me up to feed my brother?"

  Originally before falling asleep, it was agreed that if her brother cried at night, she would be called upon to help feed him.

  "It's all right now, your mother has milk, haha." Ye Shi held a broken bowl in her hand, filled with some corn to feed the chickens.

  "Is it from the Xiao family?" Su Xiaofan also put down her mind, after all, the current situation, if mother didn't have milk, the family's condition would only become more tense.

  "Yes, it was delivered early in the morning by Tiger." Ye thought of Su Hu and his family, feeling grateful for their care over the years.

  Su Xiaofan went into the house, took out some silver coins and handed them to Ye Shi's hands, saying: "Grandma, here is one hundred taels, you go pay back the money to Second Uncle and Third Uncle's families first, then pay back some other people."

  Ye's family received it and asked in surprise: "Fang'er, where did you get so much silver from?"

  "Heh heh, yesterday I went into town with Xiao Xi to earn some money, Grandma can rest assured and use it, it's absolutely clean." Su Xiaofan stretched her waist and prepared to go to the kitchen to cook.

  "Fang Er, you'd better keep some for yourself and put it on your body." Ye Shi took over ten taels of silver, ready to hand them over to her.

  "No need, I still have a hundred taels left. Let's choose a day to go into town and buy some chicks back. As for the money, Grandma can take it first to repay those who are in urgent need." Su Xiaofan pushed her hand back.

  "Infant?" Ye Shi withdrew her hand in puzzlement, holding the silver ingots well, although she still found it strange how Fang Er suddenly earned so much silver, but didn't plan to continue asking.

  She pointed to the large empty space beside their house and said, "That land belongs to our family, it's been idle for a long time. In a few days, I'll ask Su Bing and them to help build a fence there, raise some chickens and ducks, first, we can have food for my brother and the little one in the future, second, if luck is good, we can also make some money to supplement our family expenses."

  Ye's family heard this and frowned, uneasily saying: "Your father had also bought some chickens and ducks back to raise before, only they all died mysteriously, and because of that owed a lot of money."

  Su Xiaofan furrowed her brow and thought for a moment, seemingly recalling something. The poultry they had bought back seemed to have died suddenly, leaving her slightly perplexed. She replied softly, "Grandma doesn't need to worry, let's just try it out. How will we know if we don't give it a shot?"

  Digression

  Thank you: darling baby (little monster pounces on Ultraman) sends a diamond to the little one, tiger touch

  There are also intimate baby (1015711011) sent two flowers to the daughter, continue to tiger touch.