Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife

With a good daughter-in-law like Feng Qingxue, Lu Jiang’s life was flavorful and enjoyable. On the other hand, with a lazy daughter-in-law, Zhang Yuejin’s life was in a state of turmoil. The baby was not fat, but not skinny either, he was above average. His mother assured Miao Fengqin that her grandson would certainly start eating in his first month. After all, the living conditions were good, and Miao Fengqin had given them plenty of chicken eggs, white flour, and rice. The day after the baby was born, Feng Qingxue instructed Lu Jiang to send over twenty to thirty more eggs, two bags of brown sugar, and a bag of millet.

But everything did not go as she predicted.

Wang Jiao was heavier than any pig, but her breast milk was pitifully scarce, insufficient for the baby.

Zhang Yuejin slaughtered a pig and brought back a pair of pig trotters. With some aged yellow soybeans and peanuts, he made a small pot of soup. Wang Jiao drank it all in one meal, but the breastmilk the next morning was only enough for Goudan’s one meal.

Goudan is Zhang Yuejin’s son. His proper name, given by Wang Zhengguo, is Zhang Heng - ’Heng’ as in perseverance.

The bag of milk powder they had prepared in advance was quickly consumed. Now what?

Zhang Yuejin was so worried that he almost tore off his eyebrows.

"I must not be eating well, that’s why I don’t have enough breast milk." Wrapped in a quilt, Wang Jiao lay in bed. "That day you brought me the pig trotters, I had milk the next day after eating them at night. But now that I see no meat, the milk is gone."

Zhang Yuejin gave a bitter smile, "I only get four ounces of pork a month."