After all, my mother has been to the provincial capital. Now that she returns to the small county, her horizons have broadened a lot. Of course, the most important thing is to earn more, so she won't look so petty. The women in the village surrounded her, pulled her clothes and asked her where she bought them and where she made them.

Mom hasn't bought any clothes in the past few years, let alone made them. They are all from Zheng's daughter-in-law. Because she takes good care of her, they are very generous to her. There are almost no patches on the clothes. Even if there are, she I don't dislike it either.

Because the material is good, and it keeps warm. In summer, the denim shirts, bragi dresses, small leather shoes, and small leather bags are all beautiful. After all, they are all from big cities. How can they have them in such a small place? ?

My mother was already energetic, but now that she has cleaned up, she looks younger. Standing with these women who are often exposed to the wind and sun, she really looks like a person from two worlds, so as long as she stops at the entrance of the village, she will not be able to see her. After a while, many people gathered around me.

Fortunately, my mother didn't wear any jewelry, otherwise I don't know how many people are jealous.

"What do you put on your face, why is it so fragrant? It doesn't look like clam oil,"

For ordinary people in the countryside, the only thing they can afford to use is clam oil. After all, you can buy a small box for five cents. If it is cream, it costs twenty cents. Who would be willing?
But I don’t know how much a small box of clam oil is, and it will be gone in a short time, and the cream is expensive, but it can last for a long time!

There are very few skin care products in this era, such as Pechoin moisturizer in a box of [-] cents. The yellow box is very eye-catching. It is particularly greasy when applied on hands and face, especially suitable for winter. You can smell its unique fragrance, which is very strong. As long as you apply this to your cracked hands in winter, you can get a good relief.

Then there is Friendship Cream, a flat iron box, light yellow color, the face will be covered with cracks stimulated by the winter wind, as long as you rub Friendship Cream for a few days, the dry cracks will disappear without a trace, very useful , and its price is not expensive, two cents cheaper than Pechoin, and you can buy it for two cents.

Many people have never seen clam oil. In fact, clam oil is not only of high practical value, but also very environmentally friendly.

Its packaging is the most special among all skin care products. There are various brown lines with different textures on the white shells, which are thick and thin, and the distribution is uneven. The shells are waxed and then labeled, which is the complete sale of clam oil.

Its facial oil is packed in a white shell, and the paste inside is more like boiled lard. Pick out a little and put it in the palm of your hand, then apply it lightly with your fingers, and then apply it evenly on the face. No matter how dry the winter is, with its protection, your skin will not feel dry and uncomfortable even when you grin.

The shells of clam oil can be buckled up and down, and can be used as decorations after use. Ding Xiang used it to wear a special image of a bunny. The handmade products are placed on her writing desk, which is also very interesting.

What she and Ding Xiang are used to is the skin cream of clam oil and elegant cream. This cream is packaged in a white porcelain bottle. It looks very high-end. It is not too greasy. After it is applied, there is a faint scent of sweet-scented osmanthus, which shows elegance .

They bought large bottles, [-] cents a bottle, [-] cents a small bottle, and the unique scent on my mother's face was actually the smell of Yashuang.

Yashuang is one of the cosmetics sent back by the children of the Zheng family to their mother and Grandma Zheng. Because they are not allergic to this product and comfortable, they will also send it to their mother. Pechoin, she will generously give this kind of cream to her and her sister, because the quality of the cream is good, it has the effect of skin care and cleansing, and it is suitable for the two of them in their age group.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they got home, they could smell it just by standing in front of them.

These women in the family have never seen such a good face cream. A bottle of five or six cents is more than a luxury for them, and they may have never seen it.

Mom is not a high-profile person, so she said something casually.

"Oh, my son sent it back to me. People in the sea wear this. I don't know what it's called. It's a white bottle anyway."

"That shouldn't be cheap, right?" Someone's eyes were shining, obviously wanting to bring it to my mother, who didn't want to be bothered, so she nodded.

"It's not cheap, the small bottle is three or four cents, and the big bottle is more expensive. The main reason is that the seaside has a long sunshine time, and the skin will peel off after a long time in the sun, so they have no choice but to use this. It is more expensive, at least it can protect the skin. "

When the women heard the price, they couldn't help being dumbfounded: "The small bottle is so expensive? Then your son is willing to do it. I heard from my daughter that your two daughters have good skin. Could it be that you also used this?"

Zhao Qingqing smiled lightly and nodded: "Almost, my eldest and second son dote on my younger sister, and I always think about them if I have anything good, and I am also honored by them. Isn't my son just taking advantage of this time to be filial? When people get married, how can they think of me, a bad old woman?"

"Hey, don't say that, you are still young, how can you call yourself an old woman, but you are right, this son is married, and he has no heart with his mother, you have no wife I don’t understand, but your sons are all good, and I don’t know which girl can win them. Have you ever thought about coming back? It’s been a few years, and I think some people have come back for two years. What are you doing? The sons haven't come back after two years?"

"They have changed from soldiers to non-commissioned officers. As long as they do well, they can continue to work. I thought about it and didn't have a job when I came back. I might as well work in the army. Let them go, anyway, it's a big deal."

"That's because you have many sons. I don't want to argue about this. Look at my son. I wish he could stay by my side for the rest of his life."

……

Ding Wei also admires these mothers, as long as they talk about their children, they can't help showing off, but with mothers, they obviously don't have the capital to show off, because no matter how they compare, they can't compare.

Not only sons, but also daughters, even themselves, and even their husbands, are also inferior to Zhao Qingqing and Ding Zhenlong. What's more, they have grandparents at home. Unlike their family, they have never seen their parents-in-law since they got married. I know how many people feel emotional about this, this lucky person looks radiant wherever he goes, why do you envy him?
The only comfort they feel is that their children are by their side.

However, this is the most unpromising performance.

Because most people work at home, in the era of reform and opening up, almost no one went out to work, so they could only stay in the small village where they lived. Even going to the city to do odd jobs had to accept the unified arrangement of the production team.

Every time Ding Wei goes home, there will be many little girls who used to go to school together come to play with them, but Ding Wei feels that there is really nothing to talk to them, especially before they say a few words, they start to pick their hair because of itching. , scratching and scratching all the time, Ding Wei took a closer look and was startled.

"Why do you still have lice? You have to scrape them well with a grate and wash them often. Or can you just cut them shorter? Doesn't it bother you to leave them so long?"

Ding Wei's hair is just shoulder length, and it would be troublesome for her to grow any longer, so as long as it grows, she asks her mother to cut it for her, so she and Ding Xiang will always look neat and clean.

And the hair of these little girls, not to mention dry and yellow, actually had lice, which made her stand back subconsciously and calmly, for fear of infecting herself, which is why she didn't want her brothers to live. Fortunately, my brothers all have short hair. Even if one or two were found, they were quickly killed by my mother with potion, and their bedding was often taken out to expose to the sun.

So until now, their family has never suffered from such troubles, but now the lice crawling on the hair of these little girls really made her feel uncomfortable.

Zhao Di shook her head with an aggrieved face: "My mother still wants my hair to grow a little longer and sell it to my brother for the gift money!"

"My hair is the same. My mother insisted on letting me keep it. She will sell it in the future, saying that it is to buy me delicious food. It is nothing. She subsidizes it for my brother every time."

"Wei Wei, how come your hair is so short, black and shiny, what did you use to wash it? We wash it with plant ash and acacia, but it still can't kill these bugs. I can't kill the hot water. Death, emerge in endlessly, every day I feel so bad that I want to die.”

Ding Wei sighed weakly: "My mother bought me medicinal soap to wash my hair, and then apply aloe vera juice after washing. Although it is troublesome, the nourished hair is very soft, but aloe vera juice is not always smooth. Yes, if you don’t have it, apply a little bit of lard oil to lubricate it, but you can’t apply too much, or it will look very greasy. Your hair is your own, you have to pay attention to maintenance, or it will be like yours The forks are dry and yellow."

Ding Wei just said it casually, but these girls not only listened seriously, but also looked envious, and even turned into heavy sighs in the end.

Because they don't have the conditions, but Ding Wei said: "If you don't have the conditions, you can create the conditions yourself. It's not that no one grows aloes in our village. When they sprout, you transplant them in the yard, and they will grow very vigorously. It doesn’t cost much, just smear a little lard secretly, who can find out? Also, your hair needs to be washed more often, it’s greasy and ugly, girls need to be clean, look under your nails, It's all dust, don't you feel uncomfortable when you have such long nails? When my nails grow a little, I feel uncomfortable when writing."

When Ding Wei said this, Pandi and Caixia looked at her with uncomfortable faces.

"Weiwei, we didn't go to school. It's inconvenient to keep nails, but it's also troublesome to cut them. Only when they grow to a certain extent can they be snapped off with scissors."

Ding Wei was speechless, seeing that their red faces were covered with dirt, and their hands were dry, cracked and rough due to work, and they were not girls' hands at all.

However, she couldn't help them, because of the general environment, who could she help them?At least they still stay in their own homes. In this day and age, as long as they are born as girls, many of them are sent out, and there are even...

After Ding Wei sent them away with sympathy, she turned around and asked Zhao Qingqing.

"Mom, don't they all go to school? Why do the boys here go but the girls don't? Can I help them?"

Zhao Qingqing shook her head, "I'm afraid they can't, it's okay if they don't know, once they know it's you, they will turn from gratitude to jealousy, and maybe it will bring more troubles to our family, at least before you make money independently, yes You can’t expose your current ability. Also, can you guarantee that all the money you donate will be spent on them? Maybe they turned around and gave it to their brothers. This is a tradition brought from the root and cannot be changed. Don't think that they will yearn for school, few people would think that way, what kind of thinking was instilled in them since childhood, and they are so tired from studying, how many of them can make progress like your sister Cailian?"

Ding Wei naturally knew this truth, but now that Zhao Qingqing said it, she still felt that her mother's analysis was in place and everything was considered comprehensively.

Girls in this age are seventeen or eighteen and marry themselves at the latest at the age of 20. Some may be even younger because they did not study. The poorer the place, the more serious this phenomenon is. Most people still have feudal ideas. It is a waste of money to only let the boys in the family study and the girls to study.

Unlike in big cities, whose children don't study?That would be ridiculed, and both boys and girls have the right to study.

But in rural areas, this phenomenon is not taken seriously.

Maybe with the reform and opening up, this situation will get better and better, but at least for now, there is no such movement.

Ding Wei is rarely able to accompany her parents back to her hometown because she is more busy with work than studying. On the contrary, Ding Xiang can accompany her parents back for a weekend every week, and Zhao Qingqing and Cailian will go home for one night in exchange. .

In this way, it is convenient to take care of the elderly on both sides.

Since Dingjian went to the coal mine, Jianxin and Jianjian are obviously much more honest. Although the food is not good, the clothes are not good, and they look dirty, but at least they can fill their stomachs. Studying is not the best. , also know how to learn.

Wang Yuhuan goes to work on weekdays, and has to cook and take care of her own children when she gets home. It is good to be able to take care of the brothers to go to their house for dinner. Other laundry and so on, really can only rely on themselves.

As soon as Ding Zhenlong came home, he would take the two of them to wash their clothes and take a bath. The bath was taken to the bathhouse in the town. As long as they went in, they would not take off a layer of skin, and there was no need to come out. This made the two brothers very resistant to entering the bathhouse. When I got to the bathroom, I panicked.

But Ding Zhenlong couldn't get used to their slovenliness, now that he was getting stronger, the two children also murmured, Ding Jianli was so good, wouldn't he also be thrown into the coal mine to do manual labor in the end?

Now that the two of them have food and drink, and live in a big house, they should be content, so even if they don't want to go in their hearts, they dare not say it on the face.

In order to let them wash their clothes clean, Ding Zhenlong also imitated Ding Wei and made dozens of pieces of soap at home, and distributed [-] yuan each to the second and third families, just to let them clean themselves up, otherwise they would be punished wherever they went. people dislike.

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