Chapter 3: Babies Without Milk

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

“Come, Xue. Eat it while it’s hot!” Bai Daliang brought in a bowl of corn paste with a spoon in it.

Bai Xue took the bowl and looked at its contents. This was more like water with some corn flour added to it. It was not thick at all and was no different from drinking water.

She looked at her sleeping mother and her new younger siblings who were either asleep or had no strength to cry, and her four younger siblings as they looked at her eagerly.

“Come on. Let’s each take a bite!” Bai Xue pushed the corn paste in front of Bai Ruchuan.

“Big Sis, we ate last night. Hurry up and eat! You’ll have the strength to recover after eating!” Bai Ruchuan said sensibly. Although his eyes never left the bowl, he still had no intention of taking the spoon.

“That’s right, Big Sis. Hurry up and eat. You’ll have more strength once you’ve eaten!” Bai Ruxia also said from the side.

The others also nodded without any intention of eating.

Bai Xue was very touched. Although she was reborn in this godforsaken place, her family was good. It was a blessing in disguise.

In the end, she shared it with her younger siblings. She gave most of the food to her younger sibling and only took a small sip. Sure enough, it was indeed disgusting.

She thought about the interspatial supermarket she had just accessed. Fortunately, she could use it. She was reborn into an era with very few resources, so she might die without the supermarket.

In the 1960s, when resources and food were scarce, food was more precious than gold. It was really not easy to stay alive.

If she wanted to change the family’s current situation, she had to first subdue Old Madam Bai, who was also the host’s grandmother. Otherwise, if she kept taking supplies from her family, it would be unsafe for her to take anything out of the interspatial supermarket.

Just as she was thinking about it, the two babies on the south side of the brick platform bed cried in unison. Their cries were weak and soft.

Bai Xue had no choice but to get off the brick platform bed. After delivering the corn paste, Bai Daliang went out. She did not know what he was doing, so she had to help coax the child.

Bai Xue picked up one of them. She did not know if it was a younger brother or sister. Although the blanket was a little torn, the child was not frozen and its limbs were quite warm.

The brick platform bed was already warm, and it was not as cold as last night.

“Yun, come over and help with the kids. If you carry them and rock them like this, they might fall asleep!” Bai Xue could not carry the two children alone, so she could only call her younger sister over.

“Big Sis, it’s no use. They are hungry. Mother’s too weak to even have breast milk. What should we do?” Bai Ruyun obediently walked over and picked up the child as she spoke.

“Xia, come and carry the baby. I’ll go out and see if there’s anything to feed the child!”

The children tried their best to lower their voices, but they still woke Wang Cuihua up. When she heard the babies cry, she quickly got up. “Yun, Xia, give them to me!”

The two of them looked at Bai Xue, who had yet to leave. Bai Xue had no choice but to walk over. “Mom, your body is still weak. I’ll go out and see if I can find something for my siblings to eat! Lie down first!”

“Xue, are you okay? I’m relieved…” Seeing her eldest daughter awake, Wang Cuihua ignored the babies and got up to hug her. Her eyes were red from crying.

“Alright, Mom. You just gave birth. You can’t be agitated! Hurry up and lie down to rest!” Bai Xue helped her lie down.

“I can’t lie down. I have to feed your brother and sister. The kids are so hungry that they don’t have the strength to cry!”

“Mom, do you have breast milk?” asked Bai Xue.

“Well …”

“Alright, Mom. Lie down and rest well. Leave the rest to me. I’ll think of a way!” Bai Xue said and walked out.

Wang Cuihua’s eldest daughter always had a lot of good ideas, so she was also happy to listen to her and it was no different this time. Since Bai Ruxue said she would take care of the food, Wang Cuihua was happy to let her give it a shot. Wang Cuihua did not have any breast milk, so she was of little help anyway.

After Bai Xue left the house, she turned around to check that her younger siblings did not follow her. She quickly entered the supermarket and looked around before taking a bag of white sugar from the shelf.

Actually, there was milk powder in the supermarket. Although it was not baby formula, it was high-calcium milk suitable for babies as well. It was far better than letting the babies cry out in hunger.

Otherwise, other dairy products worked as well. She also had yogurt, pure milk, and skim milk in her interspatial supermarket. However, she had not thought of how to tell her family the source of the things, so she did not dare to take them out.

Bai Xue quickly ate a small loaf of bread, drank a bottle of yogurt, and threw the trash into the interspatial supermarket. She took the white sugar and went to find a bowl to make white sugar water. She did not dare to leave the rest of the white sugar out in the open. She could only grab a small handful, place it in a bowl, and put it in the cupboard. She carried a bowl of white sugar water and walked back inside.

The newborn babies had not eaten anything since they were born. They must have low blood sugar by now. They had not absorbed much nutrition in their mother’s stomach to begin with. It was only natural for them to have low blood sugar.

Hypoglycemia in newborns was very dangerous. It would affect the child’s brain and might cause cerebral palsy.

Bai Xue wasted no time and quickly brought the white sugar water in. “Yun, Xia, quickly put down the babies and feed them the white sugar water!”

“Xue, where did the white sugar water come from?” Wang Cuihua’s eyes had turned red listening to her babies crying.

“I hid a little in advance! Mom, don’t ask. Just feed the babies first.”

Although it was just water, the white sugar would help with their hypoglycemia. She had put a lot of white sugar in the water.

“Okay, okay! I won’t ask…” Wang Cuihua was happy and sad when she saw the two children calm down after drinking the sugar water.

“Mom, when will you start having breast milk? It’s not a good idea for the babies to keep taking white sugar water like this!” Bai Ruyun looked at her younger siblings who had fallen asleep after drinking the white sugar water and asked with a frown.

Bai Xue winked at Bai Ruyun, and only then did she see Wang Cuihua’s red and swollen eyes. Her grandmother had taken away all the food at home.

How could their mother have any breast milk when she didn’t have anything to eat? Seriously, she had touched a sore spot.

Immediately, Bai Ruyun squatted on the brick platform bed like a child who had done something wrong and was at a loss.

“Mom, don’t worry. You should get some rest while the babies are sleeping! I’ll make you something delicious. I’m sure you’ll have breast milk after eating it!” Bai Xue sat on the edge of the bed and helped Wang Cuihua lie down, covering her with a blanket.

“Xue, there’s no food at home! Your grandmother is really heartless… Boohoo… I don’t get it. You’re also her biological grandchildren!” Wang Cuihua lay down, but she was still crying.

The two brothers standing on the ground gritted their teeth when they heard Wang Cuihua’s words, their faces filled with hatred.

Bai Ruyun and Bai Ruxia were no better. They looked at each other, their eyes filled with loathing for their grandmother.

“Mom, you don’t have to worry about this, okay? You just gave birth, so you can’t get agitated anymore! If this keeps up, you’ll continue to have problems breastfeeding! You just have to take good care of the babies! Dad and I will take care of everything else!” Bai Xue said as she called her two sisters down from the brick platform bed.

“Xue…” Wang Cuihua said sadly.

“Alright, go to sleep. When you wake up, there will be delicious food!” Bai Xue comforted her for a while before coaxing Wang Cuihua to sleep.