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Chapter 126 Notification
"You have to know that if I had been a step later today, the child would be gone." Wu Qingping decided to tell Tang Wentao.

"What? The child is really with you? How come I can't see it? Are you hiding somewhere? Are you covering the child?" Tang Wentao's face turned red with excitement.

"Don't worry, the child is safe now."

"What's going on? Why is the child about to die?"

"When I saw it, there was an old woman holding a child. Before I could see clearly, the old woman threw the child away and ran away. I didn't care about what the old woman did. I went to check on the child, and found that the child was dead." Wu Wenqing was interrupted by Tang Wentao before he could finish his words.

"What? Dead?" Tang Wentao was so anxious that he jumped up and down.

"Don't be impatient! Didn't I tell you? If I had been a little later, the child would have been finished. In other words, the child is fine now."

"Then can you tell me in detail what happened?"

"That woman must have wanted to strangle the child to death and then throw it into the Daughter Tower. She may have strangled the child for a while and thought the child was dead, so when she saw me, she dropped the child and ran away."

"I didn't pay attention to her at the time. Seeing that the child was dead, I was also panicked, so I picked up the child and patted his buttocks twice. I don't know if it worked. Anyway, the child was able to breathe again and cry, but no sound was made."

“How could there be no sound?” Tang Wentao was really afraid that he would become mute. Born in such a family, how would he live in the future?

"Don't worry! I saw that the child was alive and would not die, so I took him to find a doctor. Who knew that there were several waves of bandits guarding the mountain when we were going down? I was able to avoid them because I was familiar with the place. It took me a lot of effort to send the child to the doctor."

"What did the doctor say? He's not mute, is he?" Tang Wentao was very concerned about this question.

"No! The doctor said it was just a vocal cord injury, and it will be healed in a few days."

"That's good, that's good." Tang Wentao even wanted to go pray to Buddha. It was really God's blessing!
"The doctor's medical skills are very good, don't worry!"

"Then why don't you stay with the child? What if he is found by those bandits?" Tang Wentao was very anxious.

"If you can't find it, how can the gangsters find it?"

"Then you should take me to see the child as soon as possible, so that I can feel at ease." Tang Wentao insisted on going to see the child.

"Okay, but you have to wait for me. I've been out for so long, and these children haven't been fed or had their diapers changed yet." I've been out for such a long time, and two children are crying. They might cry soon!

"Don't you have a wife?" Aren't these things something women should do?
"No! Who would marry me?"

"Then where did all these children come from?" Although I had thought that so many children could not all be Wu Qingping's, I didn't expect that he didn't even have a wife, so none of these children were his.

"I picked it up from the Daughter Tower."

"What?" Tang Wentao had already been an official, so it was impossible for him to be ignorant of the world. The construction history of the Maiden Tower was one or two hundred years old. What was the Maiden Tower used for? How was it built? Tang Wentao knew everything.

In the past, only poets would mention it in one or two sentences, or a few words would appear in the letters of literati, lamenting the unfairness of fate, and nothing else.

Among the wealthy families in the capital, no one would pick up two children to raise, even as slaves. To be honest, Tang Wentao used to think that being a good official and letting the people under his rule live and work in peace and contentment would reduce such human tragedies.

As for taking the children back to my own home to raise them, I have never thought about it. If their own parents don't raise them, what obligation do others have to raise them?
Although it is not wrong to say so, Tang Wentao has never thought that only when his family grows stronger can he have no worries about food and clothing. However, his family has occupied a lot of resources, which makes it more difficult for the people at the bottom.

Make life difficult for the lower class people. They can afford to raise one or two children, but it is difficult to raise three or four. If they have more, they will be condemned to the fate of being sent to the Daughter Tower.

Wu Qingping ignored him and skillfully poured water to make milk powder. The two older children made soaked rice. There was no time to cook now, so they just made do with this meal.

Wu Qingping skillfully prepared five bottles of milk and handed the two larger ones directly to the girls, who held the babies and drank from them.

"Xiaojuan, Xiaohua, take some and drink them! I won't cook today, we'll have something delicious to eat tonight."

"Okay!" The two little girls obeyed.

The two older ones can walk now. They were a little malnourished before, but after a period of supplementation, they have also grown a little bit bigger. Now they don’t fall when walking, and they can go to the toilet by themselves.

There are three bottles left. Wu Qingping used to feed them one by one. Doesn’t one more person need to be there today?
Wu Qingping handed Tang Wentao a bottle: "Can you do it?"

"How do I feed the baby?" Although these are women's jobs, there are no women here! Besides, I have to feed the baby quickly so that I can go pick up the baby, so Tang Wentao accepted it well.

He would never admit that it was this strange feeding method that attracted him and made him eager to try it.

"How do you feed it?"

"Do you know how to hold a baby? Do it like I do. Let him lie in my arms, lift his head up, and then you can feed him." Wu Qingping picked up the youngest child and demonstrated to Tang Wentao.

Tang Wentao picked up the child carefully. The child was very soft, like a piece of tender tofu, and he was afraid that the child would break if he put too much weight on him.

"Why is this child so soft?" Tang Wentao hurriedly fed the child milk powder.

"Of course it's soft. She was only born more than ten days ago. Look at this one in my hand. It's softer. Don't you have children in your family?" He didn't even know this.

"Yes! I have two sons and a daughter. But I have never hugged them."

"Why? Don't you like your child?" Wu Qingping didn't understand.

"Don't you prefer grandchildren to children? Families like ours all emphasize this." Although Wu Qingping looked poor, he was polite in his speech and should have been educated. How could he not understand this?
"Who said that? The doctor said that children raised by their fathers are smarter." She said while picking up the child skillfully and burping him.

After taking the photo and putting it down, he picked up the remaining child and fed him. The whole process was so smooth that Tang Wentao was stunned.

Seeing that Tang Wentao's child had also finished eating, she put the child down and went to burp the child in Tang Wentao's arms.

After feeding the children, Wu Qingping began to prepare water and change diapers for the younger ones.