Jiang Hu quickly came over with a bowl of vegetable porridge. There were more wild vegetables than rice, and a large bowl of soup. This was already very good. The remaining soup in the pot was watery and tasteless.
"Er Niang, get up and eat something." Erni was still young. She could barely start a fire and did not know how to cook yet. As for the sugar water she had prepared for her mother earlier, she did not even boil the water.
After consuming the milk powder and spiritual spring water, Er Niang was much more energetic and woke up immediately.
Erni explained why her younger siblings had changed places. Er Niang smiled and touched Xiaomi's face. "So Sanni likes to be close to me."
Jiang Hu placed the two little ones on the other side of the bed and helped Er Niang to sit up. "Er Niang, eat something. It's just that I'm too useless. It was so hard on you when you gave birth, but I can't even provide decent food."
Jiang Hu's heart ached and he blamed himself. When Er Niang saw the vegetable porridge in the bowl, she knew that Jiang Hu must have scooped all the vegetables for her. She quickly shook her head.
"Don't just care for me alone. You and the children have to eat. If you give it all to me, what about all of you?"
"Er Niang, you're feeding three people now. If you don't eat, what are you going to feed Sanni and Siwa? Don't worry, Dawa has gone to dig for wild vegetables. It's spring now, and there are many wild vegetables in the mountains. The birds and beasts might come back later. When the time comes, I'll go hunting in the mountains and I'll be able to support our family."
"Hu, it's been hard on you. I'll go to the fields with you tomorrow. Let's quickly plant the crops and harvest early."
Er Niang was touched. Although life was hard with Jiang Hu, it was worth it as her man loved her.
"What are you talking about? You just gave birth. How can you go to work? The doctor said that it is much harder to conceive two than one. You have to go through confinement. Otherwise, what if you fall ill?"
Jiang Hu's expression turned serious. He could not get anything delicious for the family, but he could always let his wife rest more.
"But in the field—"
"Don't worry about the fields, you take your meal first. Sanni and Siwa will be hungry again."
Xiaomi, who was placed at her feet, rolled her eyes. She was not hungry. She had just drunk her fill. She could manage for three to four hours.
However, Xiaomi had also gathered some information from her parents' conversation.
For example, it was only spring now. There was no food at home, and from the sound of it, one could tell that there was more water than rice. That sounded like the best. There might only be boiled wild vegetables left in the pot.
Xiaomi was anxious. How could she secretly get the things out of the space and feed the entire family? She did not want her family to starve to death as soon as she was reborn!
At this moment, Er Niang ate two mouthfuls of wild vegetable porridge and smacked her lips. "Hu, I don't think I'm hungry."
"Nonsense. You just gave birth. How can you not be hungry? Eat quickly. If you don't eat, I'll pour it away!"
Jiang Hu thought that Er Niang wanted to save food and he uttered a direct threat.
"No, no, really. I'm not talking nonsense. Touch my stomach. I'm full. I'm really not hungry!"
Er Niang panicked and quickly pulled Jiang Hu's hand to her stomach. "Do you feel it? I'm really not hungry."
"That's right." Jiang Hu was also surprised. In the past few years of fleeing, the couple's stomachs had almost dried up. She was not like this now. Her stomach was a little protruding.
"How did this happen? Erni, did you feed Mother?" When she was sleeping just now, Erni was the only one in the room.
Erni shook her head, "No, I don't have any food."
Xiaomi snorted. Her second sister didn't have any food, but she did! She had given her mother at least half a catty of milk and made a lot of milk powder. It must be better than that wild vegetable porridge!
Er Niang touched her stomach. She was full and comfortable.
Then she quickly handed the wild vegetable porridge to Jiang Hu. "Hu, eat this with the children. Don't waste it."
Jiang Hu took the bowl suspiciously, still finding it hard to believe. "Why are you full without eating anything? Could you be sick?"
Thinking of this, Jiang Hu was alarmed. "No, Er Niang, lie down for a while. I'll go find Doctor Xie. Erni, look after Mother and Brother!"
With that, he ran out without looking back.
Xiaomi realized belatedly that this was bad. She had fed her mother too much. This would easily expose her.
From the look of her parents' clothes, this was ancient times. If she was treated as a demon or ghost, she would be burned to death!
It seemed that she had to be careful in the future, especially when feeding her mother. She had to pay attention to the amount.
Doctor Xie arrived quickly. After taking her pulse, he said that Er Niang was fine. She had just given birth and was very weak. She needed to recuperate well.
As soon as Doctor Xie had left, Xiaomi felt that something was wrong. She was going to poop!
"Ahhh!" Someone, quickly carry me to poop. I shouldn't poop in my pants!
"What's wrong with Sanni? Hu, Hu, see why Sanni is crying." This was the first time Er Niang had heard Sanni sound so flustered. She immediately became a little anxious.
"Er Niang, don't be anxious. Let me take a look." Jiang Hu had just picked up Sanni when a stench assaulted him. The first poop of a baby was extremely smelly.
Xiaomi looked desperate. She had lost face in an alternate world. Damn it, can I still survive?
However, in contrast to Xiaomi's despair, Jiang Hu happily changed his daughter's diaper and even wiped her butt clean.
"Sanni is so cute. She can even call me Daddy when pooping."
Xiaomi indicated that she did not want to speak.
Fortunately, another stench followed. Her younger brother, Siwa, had also pooped. Xiaomi finally felt a little better.
Jiang Hu asked Erni to bring the bowl of vegetable porridge back and share it with Dawa. He then fetched water to wash the dirty diapers.
There were not many diapers to begin with, and now that the two babies were both using them, there was an even greater shortage. He had to wash and dry the diapers in time before he could keep up.
He had just moved to Fu'an Village and the fields were all reclaimed and not fertilized. Jiang Hu carefully splashed diaper water into the vegetable garden. He thought that it was considered manure. Perhaps the vegetable seeds would germinate sooner.
After Mimi experienced social death, she simply closed her eyes and pretended to sleep. In fact, she entered the space and began to rummage through the things in the space, wondering what could be taken out without worrying about being treated as a demon.
According to her brief observation, this family was very poor. Not only did they not have anything to eat, but even the beds were hard and did not keep them warm.
There were many winter clothes, cotton clothes, duvets, and so on in her space. Unfortunately, she could not take these out. Not to mention whether these would scare her family, if others in the village found out, it would probably be a disaster.
Fortunately, it was already spring. The weather would get warmer. If they had survived the winter, there was no reason why they wouldn't survive now.
The most important thing now was to find something that could fill the stomachs of her family members.