Feiying looked at the two little brutes that had been carried over, his mouth twitching in disgust. Are all babies this ugly? Then he had the wet nurse carry them back. As for himself, he wrote a letter to Mo Liujin detailing the events of the day. But before Mo Liujin even had time to reply after reading the letter, he received news that the Yueshi were attacking the city and immediately rushed off to the front lines.
When Chu Qingmeng woke up the next day, she saw Chunhe and Xiazhi each holding a bundle and coaxing them. Her mind went blank for a moment before she realized those were her children. Chunhe had long since found wet nurses—the daughters-in-law of the Chen Family and the Liu family in the village. Their own babies were already two or three months old and their milk was plentiful. To guard against anyone harboring ill intentions, the food, clothing, and supplies used by these two women had to come exclusively from what the estate prepared, along with two taels of silver per month. For villagers, this was a supreme fortune: all food, clothing, and daily expenses were covered, plus two taels of silver every month! One had to know that a whole family of a dozen people living on farming barely made twenty taels in a year! A single person could earn twenty-four taels a year just like this! Truly, it paid to be wealthy.
Chu Qingmeng was confined to her room every day and couldn't go out. Chunhe tended to her postpartum recovery with meticulous care. Eventually, the n…
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