Chapter 2

Lin Yue had no breast milk, which was a big problem. Aunt Su felt sorry for the two children and helped her think of a solution: “There are still a few lactating ewes in our brigade. I’ll go back and talk to your uncle about it. I’ll arrange for an ewe to be brought over for you. You can’t starve the two kids.

We’ll also think of other ways to see if we can get some more milk powder tickets.

” Lin Yue, through the original owner’s memories, also knew a lot about this era.

In recent years, there have been fewer babies born, and no one could be found in the nearby villages to breastfeed the two children.

But milk powder tickets were also hard to come by, they were precious.

She was moved when she heard Aunt Su say this.

Although no one in the village usually drank goat milk, if she really brought a goat back, some people might be unhappy.

She thought for a while before saying, “Auntie, I know you’re thinking of me. How about this, I’ll pay some money, just as rent for an ewe. That way, it won’t be considered me taking advantage of the brigade, and I’ll feel more at ease.

What do you think?” “Oh, how can that be? It’s just for the two kids to drink some goat’s milk, why would you need to pay for it? Besides, there’s never been such a thing before. No, no, absolutely not!” Aunt Su refused decisively, but Lin Yue could see that she was a little hesitant. She continued, “Auntie, you said I’m a military dependent. Yuan Dong is in the army, and he has strict discipline. I can’t hold him back.

Besides, it’s not a sale, and it will save people in the village from gossiping. What do you think?” Aunt Su sat on the stool, shifting her bottom back and forth for a long time, before slapping her hand on the table, “Okay, I’ll go back and discuss it with you.

You’re not willing to take advantage of the brigade, that’s good. I’ll let everyone know, so they won’t be idle and gossip behind our backs.

” After saying that, she couldn’t sit still anymore, she stood up and was about to leave.

Lin Yue tried to get up to see her off.

Aunt Su pressed her back down, “What’s there to send me off for? I’ll bring the goat back for you soon!” After saying that, she left in a hurry.

The two little ones were sleeping soundly at this moment. Lin Yue stroked their tiny hands, her heart filled with tenderness, and she actually felt a little bit of maternal love.

Aunt Su really did bring back three goats, one big and two small, very soon.

The two little goats were born not long ago and couldn’t leave their mother. Aunt Su brought them all over.

In this era, people lacked oil and water, and the sheep had less fat than pigs, so they weren’t as popular as pork, and even less so in the countryside.

This ewe didn’t seem to have been well cared for, and looked thin and bony. Lin Yue was really afraid that her milk wouldn’t be enough for these four little ones.

Aunt Su also knew that this sheep wasn’t very good, but there weren’t many sheep in the breeding farm, and there wasn’t much choice.

She taught Lin Yue how to milk the sheep, and repeatedly instructed, “The milk for the children must be filtered, boiled, and cooled before feeding. Otherwise, the baby will have diarrhea.

” After seeing Aunt Su off, Lin Yue looked around the hut she was living in.

After the original owner got married, her mother-in-law found an excuse to ask Zhang Yuandong for a lot of money and expanded the house. Now the old house had four main rooms and a storage room for firewood, which was considered a respectable family in the village.

As a result, when they split up, the original owner was directly kicked out, and she wasn’t even allowed to live in the storage room.

Sun Hongmei said nice things, saying that she would build a separate house for the eldest son when times get better.

The original owner was a weak and easy-to-bully person, whether she believed it or not, she didn’t argue and just moved out, and as a result, she didn’t even have a place to stay.

The brigade leader, Zhang Zhiqiang, felt sorry for her and let her live in the old warehouse of the village, and helped her find someone to partition it into two rooms, inside and outside.

Now Lin Yue was living in that warehouse.

The brigade helped her build a kang in the inner room. The room was bare, with almost nothing in it, just an old wooden box on the floor and two broken stools made of rope.

The outer room was small, and after a small stove was built, there was hardly any room to turn around. A heavy, deep-bottomed clay pot was sitting on the stove.

A simple yard was built outside with wild jujube branches called “thorn bushes.” There was also a hen in the yard.

The branches were too low, and the hen could fly out with a little flap of its wings.

Outside the yard was a small grove of trees, filled with weeds and locust trees.

There were a few families on the east side of this grove of trees, although they were a bit far away, at least they had people living around them, so it wasn’t too remote.

Before her transmigration, Lin Yue had lived in the city since she was a child, and after graduating, she also worked in the big city.

The few times she went back to her rural hometown when she was a child, she saw spacious brick houses with white walls and red tiles.

A 21st-century girl, how could she have seen such low, dilapidated, dusty earthen houses? Lin Yue knew she had transmigrated, but until this moment, when she saw the environment, she was in with her own eyes, she had a real sense of it.

She could no longer live in her newly bought house, and she could no longer see her parents and brother. She didn’t have to repeat the 9-11-6 life of a wage slave anymore, and she didn’t have snacks, takeout, a phone, or nightlife.

She stood stiffly in the kitchen, looking out, tears involuntarily streaming down her face, blurring her vision.

A tall figure blocked the light from outside the door. Lin Yue looked through her tears and saw a familiar figure walking towards her.

She thought she must be seeing things, she squatted down and cried out loud.

She scared the person who came, he hurriedly walked to her side and squatted down, wanting to pat her back but not daring to, he retracted his hand, not knowing how to comfort her, just kept whispering, “Good girl, don’t cry, you just gave birth, don’t cry and ruin your eyes.

” Lin Yue heard the person calling her familiar name, she buried her head even deeper, not daring to look up, and her tears flowed even more fiercely.

In her previous life, she was in a coma for three days after the car accident, and she also suffered for three days.

At that time, she had already accepted the fact that she was going to die.

So, when she came here, until just now, her emotions were still relatively stable, because she felt that every minute, she lived now was a gift.

But the appearance of this person finally broke her composure, making her almost collapse, the longing for her parents and family that had been suppressed deep inside her heart flooded her like a tide.

Lin Yue cried enough, she rolled up her sleeves and wiped her eyes hard, finally summoning the courage to look at the person who came.

This was a man in his forties, with semi-long hair, wearing a gray cotton coat, dressed like a farmer in the village.

But the man’s temperament was like a mountain, like a rock, with the elegance of a scholar, but sharper than a scholar, and also a kind of world-weariness.

This person looked exactly like her father.

There was no mirror in the house,

She didn’t know if the original owner looked like her, but this man was clearly her father, the same one she had video chatted with the night before her car accident! Except for the world-weariness on his face, he looked and acted almost exactly the same.

The man saw Lin Yue finally willing to look at him, and he became even more flustered. He reached out to wipe her tears, but he didn’t dare, he just kept saying, “Good girl, if you have any grievances, you must tell me, Dad… no, I’ll help you, I will definitely help you, I will definitely protect you from now on, I won’t let them bully you anymore…” Lin Yue wanted to cry again, she blurted out, “Dad!” The man was obviously very excited, hearing this “Dad,” tears also fell from his eyes.

The two of them squatted on the ground, both very emotional, neither of them wanted to get up, until they heard the baby crying, Lin Yue finally came to her senses, she stood up and ran hurriedly into the house.

She had been squatting for a while, and when she got up, she stumbled and was caught by the man.

They entered the inner room one after the other. The man looked at the simple furniture in the room, and his heart ached even more, he almost cried again.

It was probably because they were twins, the two little ones cried together.

It’s just that their bodies were too weak, they cried like kittens, their voices were weak.

Lin Yue touched the blanket; it was her daughter who had peed. She quickly and clumsily changed her daughter’s diaper.

In these days, there were no diapers, they used old bed sheets cut into pieces as diapers.

Now there were no conditions, Lin Yue could only adapt to local customs.

Fortunately, these diapers, although they looked old, were actually not dirty.

After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, hospitals often organized doctors to go to the countryside to popularize health knowledge, especially for pregnant women and newborns.

The villagers heard a lot about it, and they all knew something, they wouldn’t be as careless as before.

The midwife would also pay close attention to hygiene when delivering babies, afraid that if something happened to the pregnant woman, she would be blamed by the family.

Diapers and clothes that were used for the baby’s skin would be boiled in boiling water and then exposed to the sun.

The man was the original owner’s biological father, named Xu Enyuan, a famous red capitalist in Ludi.

He and his wife had a very happy life, but unexpectedly lost their newborn child during the war.

It wasn’t until a few years ago that he found his daughter in this poor mountain village. Who knew that Lin Yue was afraid of his background, afraid that others would know she was the “daughter of a capitalist,” and she refused to acknowledge him.

He had no choice but to use his connections to be sent down to this remote countryside as an educated youth.

In recent years, the relationship between father and daughter had just eased, but unexpectedly, that family suddenly married their daughter off to another village.

Xu Enyuan learned that his daughter was not doing well, and he secretly came to see her a few times, but the original owner was afraid of others knowing their relationship, and she always refused to get close to him.

It wasn’t easy for him to come to Tianta Village, and he couldn’t even take care of her more.

He stood aside at this moment, watching his daughter clumsily change the baby’s diaper, feeling both heartache and relief.

Lin Yue’s heart was also restless, she didn’t know if she was deceiving herself, she increasingly felt that her relationship with the original owner might be a past life, or maybe this was a parallel space, then this person was really her father, and she wasn’t alone in this world anymore.

Lin Yue was afraid that the baby would be hungry; after changing the diaper, she quickly went to prepare the goat’s milk.

Xu Fu was afraid that she had just given birth and her body couldn’t handle it, so he asked her to stay in the room to take care of the two children, while he went to the kitchen.

This body was too weak, she had just cried a lot, she really couldn’t stand now, so she sat down to rest.

Xu Fu obviously wasn’t a good cook, not long after, a plume of smoke drifted in from the kitchen, Lin Yue was afraid of choking the two children, she quickly closed the door of the inner room.

She heard Xu Fu coughing outside, followed by a bang, bang, bang, and he ran out of the house.

Lin Yue wasn’t worried, she felt much lighter now, and even had the mood to laugh secretly.

Xu Fu finally managed to heat the milk; his face covered in soot. He brought the milk in and tried to explain, “Haha, I’m not used to using this clay pot in your house.

” Lin Yue secretly finished laughing, she nodded seriously now, giving Xu Fu enough face.

She took the spoon and slowly cooled it down, spoon by spoon, feeding it to the two children.

It was probably because they were too weak, the two children didn’t eat much, they only ate a total of less than two spoonful’s of goat’s milk.

Lin Yue had never raised a child before, she didn’t know what was going on, and she couldn’t go to the hospital for a check-up now, she was terrified, afraid that the child was uncomfortable.

Just after she put the child down, the brother spit up all the milk he had just drunk.

This scared both of them, they hurriedly picked up the child and were about to go out to find Dr. Liu in the village.

Fortunately, they saw Aunt Su who had returned at the door.

Aunt Su listened to her story and calmly brought them back into the house.

Aunt Su was afraid that she hadn’t taken care of children before, so she came back to check on her.

She carefully told Lin Yue about the precautions for newborns, and also taught her how to burp the baby.

After everything was settled, she smiled at Xu Fu and said, “I forgot to tell you that Principal Xu came to look for you yesterday, you were just asleep at the time.

I didn’t expect Principal Xu to come again today, is there something urgent?” Xu Fu is now the principal of Donglinjia Village, he smiled when he heard her words, “I was passing by here yesterday, so I came to see Lin Yue.

You don’t know, although she hasn’t been to school properly, she’s my most proud student.

I know she lives alone, and I’m afraid she’ll be inconvenient when she’s pregnant, so I often come to see her when I pass by.

” Xu Fu was a learned man, Aunt Su was very envious when she heard this, she praised repeatedly, “Our little Hui’s wife is really amazing, to have a teacher like you, her knowledge must be very good!” She also said, “I know Principal Xu is worried about little Hui’s wife, don’t worry, our brigade will definitely take good care of her.

” The two of them chatted back and forth, Lin Yue wanted to interrupt but couldn’t get a word in.

She really wanted to tell Aunt Su directly that this was her real father, so it would be more convenient for them to interact in the future.

But Xu Fu seemed to guess her intentions, he gave her a look that meant to wait, and he didn’t give her a chance to speak.

After a few more polite words, Aunt Su saw that Lin Yue didn’t look very good, so she took the initiative to say goodbye.

Others didn’t know the relationship between Xu Fu and Lin Yue, and it wasn’t convenient for him to stay here for long. He whispered to Lin Yue, “Don’t tell anyone about our father-daughter relationship.

” After saying that, without waiting for Lin Yue to reply, he followed Aunt Su out.

Lin Yue was too tired now, her body was still weak after giving birth, after the two little ones fell asleep, she lay down on the kang, she didn’t want to move at all.