Daily Life of the Post-80s Generation

Chapter 4 Milk

Xu Ningyu had prejudices against Wang Mei. He just couldn’t like her and didn’t even want to look at her. As soon as Xu Jianbing and Xu Xinning left, he slowly slid down from the recliner, walked around the door to digest his food, and then went back to his bedroom.

Wang Mei didn’t know that she was hated by a two-year-old child. She pouted and thought that this boy was too spoiled. Which boy doesn’t have a bad temper? This child is not very old, but he is always silent. He stays in the house like a little girl all day long and has no liveliness at all. He must have inherited his bad mother’s temper.

Wang Mei saw Xu Ningyu enter the house and ignored him. She washed the dishes and sat in the living room to watch TV.

Of course, her family couldn’t afford a TV. At that time, a 14-inch black and white TV cost more than 1,000 yuan. Only the village chief and a few other families in their village could afford it. When everyone wanted to watch TV, they moved their stools to the village chief’s yard to watch TV. Of course, they had to look at the village chief’s wife’s face and couldn’t change the channel as they wished. Now she was watching the 16-inch color TV by herself, and she could just change the channel to watch whatever she wanted. It was so beautiful.

After more than an hour, Xu Ningyu came to the living room slowly again. It was time to drink milk.

He drank half a bowl of porridge and ate a piece of steamed bread in the morning. His stomach was bulging at that time, and now he was hungry again. In his previous life, his height was just a little short of 1.8 meters. He hoped to grow a little taller this time. Now there are no calcium tablets or anything like that. Milk is his only nutrition, so he remembers it very well.

Wang Mei has been watching TV in the living room. Recently, the spy film “Ice City Under the Night” has been replayed during the day. She had watched a few episodes at the village chief’s house before, but she missed a lot. She was fascinated by it all of a sudden.

Xu Ningyu staggered out of the bedroom, held the door frame and said to her, “Drink milk.” She didn’t move at all.

Before leaving, Xu Jianbing reminded her twice to make milk for Xu Ningyu. Wang Mei just felt that this man was too nagging and spoiled the child. A two-year-old boy can walk, why should he drink milk. One yuan and fifty cents for a bag of milk powder, which can buy more than a pound of pork, enough for a meal.

Wang Mei had thought it through. A child this young didn’t know anything, so she just fed him some water to fool him. She planned to put the saved milk powder in cans and bring it with her when she went back to her parents’ house next time, so that her family could have a taste.

She got up and poured a bowl of hot water, put it on the chair next to her: “Drink it.” Then she sat down and continued watching TV.

Xu Ningyu blinked, looked at the clear boiled water, raised his head and looked at Wang Mei indescribably. He couldn’t help but wonder: Did Wang Mei also give him boiled water as milk every day in his previous life?

Xu Ningyu felt that he had found the culprit who caused him not to grow to 1.8 meters in his previous life.