The beloved baby has a space

Chapter 6 Lucky Baby

Wang Chuanman was startled for a moment, but quickly recovered and jumped down, pulling Xiao Ayu and Wang Wulang up with one hand each. Liu Shi also arrived and hurriedly hugged Xiao Ayu in her arms.

Grandma Wang hurriedly said, "Take the child inside first."

Those in the family who were weak went to sit in the kitchen. The old lady asked her sons to burn the bamboo fence that had been taken down, and a fire was also set up on the stove, where water was being boiled.

With the bright sun shining outside, the room actually got quite warm.

The remaining members of the Wang family stared dumbfounded at the giant python's corpse before them.

Old Wang was cautious, fearing the python was just stunned, so he grabbed a hoe and smashed the snake's head repeatedly until its brains were spilling out.

"My goodness, we've never seen such a big snake before..." Although their house was built against a cliff with a mountain range behind it, they had never seen such a large python in all these years.

The snake was about half an adult's arm's width. Because its body slid along the drainage ditch, its length was easy to estimate; it was about ten zhang long.

The python was clearly hungry; its belly was flat, but its body was very thick, with the thickest part being about the size of an adult.

"Good heavens, this must be at least ten zhang long!" Wang Chuanfu gasped.

There's one more thing everyone hasn't mentioned: this python looks to weigh at least a thousand pounds. Putting everything else aside, python meat is edible.

With this, this winter will probably be much better.

Old Wang narrowed his eyes: "Let's get him up first."

It's supposed to be the day the snow melts, but it's not happening that quickly; the world around us is still a world of ice and snow.

The weather is cold, and snakes are cold-blooded by nature. They will freeze completely in no time, and that will be troublesome.

While the men went to retrieve the python, the Wang family's wives were also watching from the kitchen doorway.

Little Ayu received the chamber pot, only to find it empty. She pursed her lips slightly, a little disappointed.

The things she was going to send out have disappeared.

Seeing that the child looked listless, Liu wrapped her up even tighter.

She had never been a mother, but because she wanted a child, she often helped hold babies for the women in the village, learning some experience and now she was holding them quite well.

While holding her, she gently hummed an unknown tune. Little Ayu rubbed her eyes and fell asleep in no time.

Madam Feng moved the fire basket next to Xiao Ayu and looked at her small arms and legs.

Finding no serious injuries, he adjusted her clothes and said, "I've heard that the bigger the snake, the less poisonous it is. I suppose that big snake was edible. We have to thank Ayu for this."

Xiao Ayu had referred to herself as such before, so everyone just followed her lead and called her that.

Ah Yu, Ah Yu, isn't she as well-behaved as a pearl and as precious as jade?
Little Zhang, who has a sweet tooth, said, "Who cares if it's edible or not? It's better to die full than starve! Looks like we've found a lucky baby in our family."

Ma, tending to the fire in the stove, also said, "If it weren't for Ayu, something terrible would have happened today!"

Everyone nodded, some even still feeling lingering fear.

That's right. If Ayu hadn't rolled and fallen like that, the python might have jumped up, and everyone in the courtyard would definitely have been in trouble.

Even a python that's ten feet long can kill a person, let alone one that big.

If a tail were to sweep across, the person would be either dead or crippled. How could things be as peaceful as they are now?

The only thing they didn't understand was that in winter, all the wild animals in the mountains hibernate, and snakes, which are afraid of the cold, hide away early. So why did such a big one suddenly come out now?
Could it be that they were really too hungry? Liu just listened to their conversation without interrupting.

He tapped his hands gently to the beat, gazing at the baby in his arms with deep affection.

After a few days of care, the baby's fever subsided, and the redness disappeared, making his thin and emaciated appearance even more noticeable.

That face, which should have been round and chubby, didn't look very fleshy, and the skin was rather pale.

Perhaps because it's been warming by the fire, it now looks a bit more rosy.

If you gain weight, you'll definitely look especially good.

"There are still a few sweet potatoes at home, let's roast them for the children," said Madam Feng. Madam Ma then threw the hidden sweet potatoes into the stove, hiding them where there was no open flame.

Sweet potato yields are only slightly higher than ordinary grains, but you can't eat too much of it. Eating too much will cause bloating, stomach acid, and make you hungry quickly.

Moreover, the existing stock is not very large.

While they were discussing this in detail, the others had already painstakingly dug the python out. Fortunately, the snake's skin was very thick, and even though some of it was stuck to the edge of the drainage ditch, they hadn't torn it off.

"Dad, what do we do with this? We've never caught one this big before." The snakes we usually catch are only a little over a meter long and about the same thickness.

Old Wang said, "Are you stupid? Do it the same way you did it before!"

The sons buried themselves in their work again. In the past, of course, they would skin the snake first. Back then, they would scald it before skinning it, but the python was so big that scalding it wouldn't work. They could only use a knife to skin it little by little.

Aunt Hu was originally lying at home. Her house was the closest to Old Wang's house, but it was still more than ten or twenty feet away on both sides. She could not hear small noises, but she could not hear a loud shout.

The family was lying in their room. In winter, they didn't eat much, and everyone tried to stay still as much as possible, conserving their energy and keeping warm by lying in bed.

"What are you doing, tossing and turning?" Hu San's husband, Hu San, frowned. "With every movement you make, all the warmth escapes. Are you trying to freeze me to death?"

Aunt Hu rolled her eyes behind his back and said, "I was just thinking about the Wang family. They have so many people, and so many grandchildren. Winter is already hard enough. If they add another girl, how will they survive?"

"Why do you care about these things? Haven't you had enough of that old woman's beatings?"

“…Our third son said he wasn’t coming back, right? We have enough food at home to last through the winter; we can’t let him starve to death.” Aunt Hu gestured with her chin and said, “That stubborn mule definitely can’t stand seeing anyone in the family starve to death. We might as well let her starve herself to death. The summer before last, our third son almost died; it was all because of her…”

Before Aunt Hu could finish speaking, Hu San pulled the blanket over his head hard: "Alright, alright, this is so annoying! Aren't all the keys with you? If you want to send something, go ahead and send it. Anyway, when our family goes hungry, we'll let you, you big-hearted brat, starve to death first!"

Aunt Hu put on a coat and got out of bed. Turning around, she saw her husband lying on the bed, so she put on the dirty coat that was covering him with the quilt. Only then did she take the key to open the cabinet where the grain was stored.

She took out a small cloth bag from inside, weighed it in her hand, scooped out a spoonful, and then walked out.

When we arrived at Old Wang's house, we could see Old Mrs. Wang pulling tree roots behind the house from afar.

"Zhang the Donkey?" Old Mrs. Wang's surname is Zhang, and Aunt Hu would call her that from time to time.

Hearing Aunt Hu's voice, Old Mrs. Wang stopped pulling on the tree roots: "Jiang Dahua, are you itching for a beating again! I'm free now, come over here!"

"I'm not going to argue with you!" Aunt Hu threw the bag on the ground, turned to walk back, but after a few steps she turned back and said, "Remember to give me back the bag! Also, consider this a loan; you'll have to pay it back in the spring!"

Grandma Wang was suspicious, so she went over, picked up the bag, and saw that it contained a bag of millet that had not been milled into rice, weighing about ten pounds.

This is just for the sake of writing; just understand it.

In a civilized society, we do not eat wild animals.

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(End of this chapter)