She Only Cares About Cultivation

"Isn’t it? I wonder how desperate the mother would be if she knew her child was thrown away by her mother-in-law."

Qiuxia sneered, "How do you know that the mother isn’t someone who favors boys over girls? Maybe she agreed to it?"

Because the baby was crying loudly, and the two sisters were still chilled to the bone, An Yi looked at her hands, quickly washed them with clean water, and then came over to hold the baby.

Upon opening the swaddling clothes, she frowned: "Not even a month old? This is way too young."

"Yes, born on the eighth of October, half a month old. When her grandma abandoned her, we happened to see it. We’ve asked many families along the way, and no one wanted her. Either we send her to the orphanage, or..."

"Are the three of us raising her?" The one who chimed in was Liu Caixia, who turned to look at her were An Yi and Qiuxia, both staring at her made her a little shy.

"My dear sisters, look how pitiful this child is. Our lives may just be this way, should we really live a lonely life forever?"

Chen Qiuxia glared at her irritably: "How can you say we’re lonely? Aren’t the two of us people? How are you lonely? Moreover, we can’t even support ourselves, why should we raise her? She clearly has family, why not find them and give her back?"

An Yi looked at them calmly: "If you send this child back, she might end up drowned. Since they didn’t choose that path but instead brought her out, it was to give her a chance to live. You shouldn’t be surprised, this kind of situation isn’t rare, I’ve seen many."

Of course, they also received the repercussions they deserved, as many men in later generations couldn’t find wives because of this. It is karma.

Once An Yi held the little one, she stopped crying. Soft as she was, her eyes barely opened, yet she seemed to be searching for a familiar scent, constantly using her mouth to nuzzle at something, "She’s hungry."

"Yes, it’s been all morning, and she only ate once. Of course, she’s hungry. My house is too cold, so I brought her to my sister’s, but we don’t have anything to feed her, do we?"

She raised children in every life; in this life, she naturally didn’t want to pass it away so dully, so she had prepared many things for little kids early on—clothes, food, and drinks, both domestic and Japanese-made, and all were prepared before the Hiroshima bombing. Among these were mostly Japanese goods, because as long as you had money over there, you could buy anything.

"I’ll raise this child; you two will be the elder aunt and younger aunt. Later, we’ll find a son-in-law for her to take care of us three in our old age."

What An Yi said moved the two sisters deeply: "Okay, let’s do that. If we have the means later, we’ll raise a daughter too. Anyway, we can’t find sons, it’s always girls that we manage to take in."

An Yi teased them with a smile: "What, you still don’t believe my house An Ran can take care of you two in your old age?"

"An Ran?"

"What? Doesn’t it sound good?"

"Sounds good, really good, let’s call her that. An Ran for a lifetime, how great."

"It does sound good. But sis, don’t say we don’t believe in her or anything; raising so many people with just one child, can she handle it? We wouldn’t feel right letting her work so hard; future matters will wait for the future. Maybe we will indeed have the luck to find a child, just like this, the first one came."

An Yi laughed and cried helplessly, "Alright, stop messing around, go boil some water first, use a large tea jar to let it cool, let’s first see if she pees; if she needs a diaper change, speaking of which, we need diapers, I remember you cleaned lots of cloth back then, go home and bring it over to tear apart to use as diapers."

After arranging it for the two sisters, An Yi immediately took An Ran back to her room, found the milk powder suitable from the space, mixed it with hot water from the thermos and Spiritual Spring water, after combining them, poured it into the bottle, the little one was very hungry, started sucking immediately, the bubbling sound was indeed too adorable.

"Sis, you actually have milk powder here?"

An Yi rolled her eyes at her unpleasantly.

"Of course I do; otherwise, where do you think the cheese you eat comes from? It’s all sent by my classmate; she’s in the big city, Shanghai!"

Though they never saw her leave the house, An Yi had lots of good stuff, it was a fact, but... "Why are there bottles as well?"

"My classmate sent the bottles calculating my age; they were prepared for when I’d have kids. Who would have thought? They truly came in handy."

"So, was the bottle washed?"