Zhuangwa and Baowa were very good-looking. This kind of beauty was not the white and plump beauty that came from the abundant material environment in later generations. After all, the living conditions were there.
Even with the allowance from Kuang Aijun, Zhuangwa and Baowa could not be described as fat.
Because Kuang Aijun was a soldier, Zhuangwa and Baowa were able to get milk tickets and sugar tickets like children in the city.
Before the two children were one year old, Old Mr. Kuang would walk for an hour every day to the nearest farm to get goat milk or cow milk with food tickets, boil it, and feed it to the children.
Perhaps because of this reason, Zhuangwa and Baowa looked whiter and more tender than other babies since they were young, and they always had a strong milky smell on their bodies.
Zhuangwa was the older brother, who was born half an hour earlier than his younger sister. He was much stronger than his younger sister. He was chubby and had a clear face after the wrinkled skin when he was just born faded.
His handsome facial features could be clearly seen. This was what he had inherited from their father. In the memory inherited by Ah Wu, Kuang Aijun had thick eyebrows and big eyes.
Zhuangwa had a whorl on his head so that the tuft of hair on the top of his head always stuck up disobediently. Now Zhuangwa stared at his mother with wide eyes in accusation, and the silly hair on top of his head also stuck up, which was so cute.
When Baowa was just born, she was only about two kilograms and her cry was very soft, so raising this daughter was much more troublesome than raising a son. This daughter looked mostly like her mother Ye Wu, but her nose was like her father’s.
At such a young age, people could already see her slightly raised nose bridge. People could imagine how tall and pretty her nose would be when she grew up.
Although Baowa was only two-and-a-half years old now, she already knew how to act like a spoiled child. She could not only coax the elders at home, but also coax her brother who was only half an hour older than her.
There was often a bowl of egg custard at home, and Baowa could take most of the bowl by herself. Ye Wu, as a mother, wanted to coax her eldest son to drink more, but this silly boy was unwilling to do so, always saying that his sister was good and she should drink more.
Because of the arrival of the two children, Ye Wu no longer felt that it was difficult to be without her husband. For Ye Wu, as long as the children were fine, she could accept her husband staying in the army for the rest of his life.
“Woo, Mom, Mom is bad!”
Baowa sobbed softly and complained about her mother who had disappeared all night. Her two white and tender hands covered her face, but she opened a small gap and peeked at her mother through the small gap.
“Mom, my sister cried at night. When Mom was not around, Zhuang Zhuang also cried. Hiccup, hiccup~ Mom.”
Zhuangwa cried until he started to hiccup. He used his not-so-fluent language ability to express the nervousness and fear of himself and his sister last night because this was the first night that he and his sister slept without their mother since they could remember.
“Cao Ni’er, look how cute and sensible Zhuangwa and Baowa are. For the sake of these two children, you have to be strong too.”
The children in the village were all raised freely. Every household had a bunch of children. The elders in the family had to do farm work, so basically the older children took care of the younger ones. As long as they didn’t die, any way of raising them was fine.
Especially not every family in the village had such good conditions as the Kuang family. Children of the same age as Zhuangwa were almost all pale and thin. The adults couldn’t even fill their stomachs, so where could they get milk to feed their children?
Moreover, not everyone was qualified to get milk tickets for their children like Kuang Aijun. Now cattle and sheep were state property, and goat milk and cow milk also needed to be uniformly regulated by the state. They had neither the money nor the ability to get these things for their children to supplement their nutrition.
In addition, Third Grandma Xu was well-known in the village for her love of cleanliness. She could not tolerate her children wearing clothes that had been waded through mud and stained with snot.
As long as the weather was good, a long row of washed clothes would be hung out to dry in the yard of the Kuang family. Even in winter, the children of the Kuang family had to take a big bath every seven or eight days. In the countryside, there were many people who didn’t take a bath for the whole winter.
Under the influence of Third Grandma Xu, the daughters-in-law of the Kuang family also loved cleanliness and tidying up. No matter how busy the farm work was, they always had to spare some time to clean up for themselves and their children.
Ye Wu was clever and skillful. She used extra scraps of cloth to make several bibs for the children.
When other children were pale and skinny with saliva and snot all over their bodies, Zhuangwa and Baowa were always fragrant and clean. It was not surprising that these two children were so adorable.
“I know. Even for the sake of the two children, I will be fine.”
Ah Wu nodded. ‘Ye Wu’ cared most about these two children. She must raise them to be plump and healthy.
As for how to do it, Ah Wu hadn’t figured it out yet.
“I feel much better now. There are still some things to do at home. I’d better go home.”
Ah Wu wanted to go back and count the savings and food on hand. Although she had the memory of ‘Ye Wu’, she had to see it with her own eyes to feel at ease.
Raising a child had never been something that could be accomplished by just thinking. It took a lot of time, a lot of effort, and a lot of money.
Ah Wu was somewhat unfamiliar with this era, but the memory of ‘Ye Wu’ told her that this era was very difficult and that money and supplies were very important.
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