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Xiao Ruo came to the tofu workshop, where the village chief's wife was padding a child's backside with a cloth diaper torn from an old garment.
"Oh, Xiao Ruo has arrived?" The village chief's wife looked up at her, quickly wrapped the child to prevent catching a cold.
Leshui's parents had died early, and she had no siblings, and since Mei Hua's family lived far away, it was only possible to ask the kind village chief's wife to stay and help with the child until Mei Hua's relatives arrived.
"Auntie, let me hold the baby," Xiao Ruo reached out her hands to the village chief's wife.
Resting in bed, Mei Hua saw this and worriedly said, "Xiao Ruo, do you know how to hold a baby?"
Xiao Ruo turned around and gave Mei Hua a white-eyed glance, "I definitely know how to hold a baby better than you do."
In her previous life, she had at least helped her cousin look after her baby for several days. Sister-in-law Mei Hua was a complete novice!