The milk she collected every morning by running to the suburbs. Sometimes, if she was lucky, she could buy some, and other times she could only buy sheep milk. Because it was too strenuous and the price was high, she simply spent ten silver coins to buy a ewe and the milk from this one sheep was enough for her to make cakes every day.
Sheep milk definitely wasn't as good as cow's milk, but cow's milk was hard to find. In this era, cows were considered labor force; not something ordinary people could afford. So even using sheep milk as a substitute didn't matter much. When she had a lot of milk, she didn't even bother making soup, she just drank the milk directly, and in just three months, she gained ten jin. Her body also began to develop.
