Chapter 69 Part 1

After taking care of all the injured people and sending them away one by one, it was almost an hour and a half after such a big fiasco. Shiyi rubbed her eyes and massaged her waist again to relieve the fatigue caused by the continuous stitches.

“Are you tired?” Yang Shifeng asked while putting down the clear water basin he was carrying. He held Shiyi’s hand and helped her wash her hands.

Shiyi shook her head, “It was bearable, though those two people’s injuries were very serious, and it was not easy to stitch them up, otherwise I would be able to finish treating them sooner. At first, I thought it would be over in half an hour. Who knows, it took me an hour and a half to finish?”

When Shiyi said this, he suddenly remembered something, “Oh,” and said, “Oh, no, we forgot about little fatty! Little fatty hasn’t been fed for half an hour!”

Yang Shifeng opened his eyes wide and thought of little Fathy. With a click in his heart, he pulled Shiyi and walked out of the medical room.

“Uuuh— Uhhh—”

Before entering the room, they could hear the little fatty cry at a high decibel. How aggrieved he must have been. 

Hearing Tuanzi’s cry, Shiyi’s heart tightened. She couldn’t care about anything else, so she hurried in. As soon as she entered the door, Shiyi saw Grandpa Yang with a helpless face and was eagerly hugging the little fatty, “Tuanzi, be good, don’t cry, don’t cry, your mother is busy. She’ll be here right away, and come to feed Tuanzi immediately, okay? “

Grandpa Yang’s heart was almost crumpled when Tuanzi cried. His great-grandson loved to laugh ever since he came out of his mother’s womb and he had hardly seen his great-grandson cry. Grandpa Yang’s heart was almost in pain now, suddenly hearing how aggrieved his great-grandson was. If he hadn’t known that Shiyi was treating those injured patients and couldn’t be disturbed, he would have gone to call her.

“Grandpa, give me Tuanzi.” Shiyi came forward to take over Tuanzi. The little guy’s white fat face was full of tears. He looked really pitiful. It seemed that he was really wronged.

Grandpa Yang said in distress. “Why did you deal with their injuries for so long? Tuanzi hasn’t had milk for half a day. He has been hungry for a long time. At first, he endured it. He just kept looking out the door to find you, but now he is so hungry that he can only cry!”

Shiyi was also very worried. Her little fatty has always been able to eat and has to be fed once every half hour, but now it’s been an hour and a half. The little guy must be very hungry, otherwise, he wouldn’t cry this hard.

Shiyi kissed the little guy’s fat face and coaxed softly, “Fatty, Mom is sorry for being late. Don’t cry; mom will feed you right away. “

“Sob— Sob—” Feeling that his mother had finally come, the little fatty gradually stopped crying and sobbed once and for a while. His small mouth was opened wide, and he eagerly rubbed Shiyi’s chest.

I really want to drink milk.

Shiyi hurriedly brought Little Fatty into her room to breastfeed him.

“Slow down, Tuanzi, eat slowly and don’t choke. In the future, mother and father will feed you on time and you won’t be hungry again. ” Seeing his son eagerly swallowing milk, Yang Shifeng’s heart ached and he felt guilty. The two of them had just been busy and had really forgotten about Tuanzi,

How can such a small child be hungry for so long? This is the first time he has seen the smiling Tuanzi crying so sadly.

Xiao Tuanzi ignored his father, clenching his small fist and sucking hard. In a moment, he drank all the milk on both sides of Shiyi, but his stomach was not full. He increased his strength and sucked hard. However, he couldn’t suck it out at all. Finally, he realized that his rations were gone. He was stunned, “Waa—” and cried again, but this time he was not really crying, it was fake crying, dry howling.

Shiyi was very desperate, “No, I don’t have any milk anymore and he hasn’t eaten enough!” But her milk is really small.

“It’s okay, I’ll coax him.” Yang Shifeng caressed Shiyi’s face to comfort her and quickly took Tuanzi from her arms and patted him, “OK, OK, darling, Tuanzi won’t cry anymore, and his mother will feed him later. How about playing with my father for a while? ” With that, Yang Shifeng raised Tuanzi’s head high and teased him to play.

Seeing that he still had no rations after crying, Tuanzi had to accept this reality. He stopped howling and found that it was also fun to be raised high, so he threw himself into the game of being raised high in the air and “giggled”.

Seeing him smile, Shiyi breathed a sigh of relief for a while, but she also knew that this would not work. Tuanzi is so big that he can eat so much. If he grows up, it is estimated that his milk will be insufficient. Does he have to eat less every time? This can’t be done. How can you grow up if you don’t have enough to eat at such a young age?

No, we have to find a way.

Shiyi took the paper and pen, tried to write some medicinal materials that are helpful for milking on the paper, and finally cut them to form an effective prescription.

Yang Shifeng asked, “What is this for?”

“I’m breastfeeding. Drinking it should make me produce more milk. The current amount of milk I have is not enough for Tuanzi to eat, so I can’t go on like this. “

“That won’t have any effect on your body, will it? You can’t eat drugs indiscriminately. “

“Don’t worry, the prescription I prescribe for myself is not harmful to my body. But after drinking it, we have to expect that my appetite will increase greatly.”

Yang Shifeng breathed a sigh of relief. “It’s a good thing to have a big appetite. It’s best to let yourself grow some meat. You’re too thin now. ” Shiyi is lighter than her original weight after giving birth to their child, which made Yang Shifeng very worried and hoped that she would gain more weight.

Shiyi didn’t know if the food she was eating could be used on herself (make her gain weight). After all, Tuanzi could eat too much, and his demand for milk was really big.

After Yang Shifeng played with Tuanzi for a while, Tuanzi slowly fell asleep and slept happily in Yang Shifeng’s arms.

At this time, Shiyi was in the mood to go out with Yang Shifeng and ask what happened in the morning.

Grandpa Yang knew this and sighed heavily, “Oh, the disturbance was caused by the officials.”

Yang Shifeng remembered the notice issued by the government during this period and asked, “Is it because of the conscription?”

“That’s right.”

Shiyi was a little confused. “Grandpa, what are you talking about? Conscription? How come I don’t know about this? “

Grandpa Yang waved his hands and sighed, “it’s the imperial court that wants to recruit soldiers. It seems that we have a serious war on the northwest border, so they suddenly want to recruit soldiers, and each family has to provide at least one strong labor force. It just spread to the village these two days, and it’s noisy all of a sudden, but it has nothing to do with our family, and you just gave birth to a baby, so we didn’t tell you.”

“Alas, the last conscription was six years ago. I didn’t expect that this time, it would be so sudden. This news was really fatal.”

Shiyi frowned slightly. “Well, why are so many people fighting? What does it have to do with this? “

Grandpa Yang explained: “It’s about money! Every household needs to provide a strong labor force, or they can pay eight taels of silver per household. Who can easily take eight taels of silver? Those who have a lot of hard-working family members, who are they going to send? These are all contradictions. it was because there was a commotion within the family at the beginning, and none of the three sons wanted to go, and they knew they would die if they went. Then there was a quarrel between the brothers, and someone moved their fist first. “

“Later, because he wanted to raise eight taels of silver, he went to borrow money from other people, but because of the lack of money, the two brothers also fought. Well, in short, it’s a mess, and it’s all about money! “

It was indeed a mess, but the main reason was the lack of money caused by the imperial court’s conscription. In this era, once you are recruited, you basically can’t come back. If you go, you’ll be dead. No one wants to die, If there was another option, they would go for it, but the only other option was to pay money. But even a large family can’t save eight taels of silver in a year. Some people don’t know whether they have eight taels of silver in total. Now, they have to take out eight taels all at once, but all of it turned into a mess.

Grandpa Yang patted his thigh, “it’s really hard for people to live in peace. They would come here every few years. It’s hard to save some money and it would be gone all at once. Every village like ours can’t recover even after two years, It’s impossible to live well at all.”

Yang Shifeng and Shiyi looked at each other and did not speak. Their family has the money to pay the required quota. Yang Shifeng doesn’t have to go, but not all families can afford this money. When the time comes, either people are gone, or they become destitute, which makes people feel bad.

Grandpa Yang obviously thought of this and was very happy, “Fortunately, our family still has enough money. If we can afford eight taels of silver, Shifeng won’t have to go, but otherwise, without Shifeng, our family will be in trouble. I just don’t know whether the rest of the village will be peaceful in the future. “

Shiyi inexplicably felt that the village might not be so peaceful in the future, including their family.