Chapter 724: Want to Split the Family
The man from that family seemed a bit embarrassed as he said, "Auntie, don’t listen to her, my mom will definitely come over soon. I’m really sorry."
Song Shiya did feel sympathy for the child, who was crying ’ao, ao’ with hunger, but they weren’t a charity. They’d already given milk twice that morning, each time two spoonfuls of milk powder. Why did it seem like they were the only ones being targeted when there were two other families in the ward?
As strangers, they’d already been helpful enough, yet this woman was still so impolite. Now, Luo Qiao’s own daughter hadn’t even started lactating yet, and she had twin grandchildren, a boy and a girl, who also needed to be fed.
Besides, you shouldn’t spoil people. Otherwise, why didn’t she ask one of the other two families? Wasn’t it just because they seemed easier to talk to?
Luo Qiao handed two bags of milk powder to her cousin’s husband, Zheng Zhiyuan, "Brother-in-law, please put away these two bags of milk powder. I bought them just in case Sister Jialin’s milk comes in late, and I don’t want my nephew and niece to go hungry."
The other postpartum women in the same ward were all green with envy. That woman was so lucky, having had food delivered by her in-laws that morning, with her mother-in-law there to make sure she ate before leaving only after her own mother arrived.
They had sent food early in the afternoon again, and now even her own cousin was worrying about late lactation and had brought milk powder over. But when they remembered she’d had twins, a boy and a girl, the jealousy subsided, leaving only envy.
Seeing that she hadn’t managed to get any milk powder this time, the complexion of the woman in the next bed turned even uglier, cursing the child, "Cry, cry, cry, all you know is to cry. You don’t have their good fortune; what’s the use of crying?"
The old lady by the door couldn’t stand it any longer, came over, and said to the man trying to soothe the baby, "Here, hand the child over to me, I’ll calm them down for you. You should quickly check whether the food is ready at home. If not, buy something for your wife to have a bite first."
"If she doesn’t eat, where will the milk come from to feed the child? If the baby keeps crying like this, it might cry itself sick, and then it will be you who suffers."
The old lady’s daughter had already eaten, and now with the child fed and sleeping, and her son-in-law attending to her daughter, she came over to help out.