Seventy-year-old book: The villain Zaizai’s best mother

Materials are not abundant these days, and every household is in short supply. Not to mention the delicious peanuts made by Xia Mingshuang, even simple fried peanuts and boiled peanuts are eaten by everyone.

Especially the peanuts just harvested in autumn are fresh, plump and taste very good.

When Da Zhuang and his children went digging for a lot of peanuts, Xia Mingshuang dried them and made various peanut foods, including sugar-coated peanuts, salted peanuts, spiced peanuts, drunken peanuts, and spicy peanuts.

After it is done, divide it into portions and put them in glass bottles, and then add two bottles of shampoo that you made yourself.

Xia Mingshuang asked Da Zhuang to take Gu Nianjun and Er Zhuang to deliver gifts to various families with whom they had good relations.

It is actually very interesting to move around without the idea of ​​​​gaining benefits and simply to maintain feelings. When you have time, we can gather for dinner and share any new and rare things with each other. Everyone comes and goes without trying to take advantage of anything. This kind of relationship is very easy to get along with.

This is how Xia Mingshuang feels with Zhao Huilan, Fang Rong, Zhou Zhengqiao, Zhou Chengguang, Xiaobai and others.

Zhou Zhengqiao's wife also had a good conversation with her, especially with the homemade shampoo as a medium, and compared with the wives of her husband's colleagues around her, she thought highly of Xia Mingshuang.

Her own colleagues and her husband's colleagues and their family members are friendly on the surface, but secretly they are all competing with each other about who is wearing what clothes, who is buying what kind of shoes, and who is doing what they are doing.

If you don't compare with them and focus on simplicity, they will secretly laugh at you for being poor and embarrassing your husband. If you compare with them, they will also make all kinds of slanderous remarks about you. Moreover, the comparison goes on and on, and all the money at home is spent on looks. Go up and get no benefits. Her husband is in the education department. These days, the education department doesn't have much extra money and is very poor. It can't compare with the Organization Department, the Armed Forces Department, the Agriculture, Industry and Forestry Department.

Xia Mingshuang is different. She is diligent, studious, handsome and generous. Her husband is also a senior engineer, and her children are all beautiful and smart.

She doesn't even need to compete with others for food and clothing, she already has the upper hand and makes people envious and look up to her.

But she never looks down on others or puts them down. Instead, she interacts with others on an equal footing and treats them sincerely.

Zhou's wife was particularly fond of her. She often bought fake collars, jams, shampoo, snacks, etc. from Xia Mingshuang. She always said don't forget her if there are good things.

Whenever Xia Mingshuang does something, he will give her some. Anyway, it's not far away. Da Zhuang can just ride there to give it to her.

This time Xia Mingshuang did not forget her and asked Da Zhuang and the other three to ride to the county town to deliver gifts.

One family has two bottles of peanuts and two bottles of shampoo.

The peanuts are valuable because of her good craftsmanship, and the shampoo is really rare.

Nowadays, people have very limited cleaning products. In the countryside, they only have plant ash and alkaline noodles. They are willing to spend money to buy soap, but almost no one buys washing powder.

In the city, most people use soap, soap, washing powder, and if the conditions are good, buy Seagull brand shampoo.

The shampoo is not easy to use. It is a bucket of blue paste and it feels like it cannot be washed away even with no amount of water. It is particularly difficult to use.

Now this herbal shampoo made by Xia Ming Shuangjia is really fashionable and fresh, and it is very popular.

It's a pity that the production is not enough, after all, it requires a lot of raw materials such as saponins.

These are all given as a favor and are free of charge. As for Xia Mingshuang's colleagues, they have to spend money to buy them. They all know that these things are not easy, so naturally they will not get them in vain.

This time, because Cai Shenggang was at home, Xia Mingshuang naturally gave him a share.

Cai Shengang felt happy in his heart, "Aunt Xia, don't worry, I will go with Da Zhuang and the others to see him off, and no one will dare to cause trouble for them."

Xia Mingshuang looked at them differently, "Dazhuang, someone is causing trouble for you?"

Sun Dawei's matter was so serious that he didn't tell his family at all. He thought it was just a small matter and there was no need to trouble his parents and third aunt, and there was no need to worry them.

He glared at Cai Shengang dissatisfiedly.

Cai Shenggang: "No, no, it's just that I think too much. Now there are a bunch of gangsters gathering in the county. I'm afraid they will bully people on purpose."

Erzhuang stared at him. This Cai Shenggang could really tell lies. Wasn't he the leader of the gang of gangsters gathered in the county?

Xia Mingshuang smiled and said: "Thank you very much. You are all good children, but you are different from them."

Cai Shenggang was rarely shy.

A few days later, after all the shampoo was delivered, Xia Mingshuang received another call from Fang Rong.

Fang Rong wanted to apply to the department store leaders to put the shampoo made by Xia Mingshuang and others on the counter.

She said: "Mingshuang, this is a high-end product, and the price will definitely be high when the time comes. I will apply to the leader to guarantee your profits. What do you think?"

To be honest, Xia Mingshuang is not optimistic about selling it on the counter. In the era of planned economy, any product that looks good will change its taste once it goes on the counter.

Originally, this was a handmade product from a family workshop. The quantity was small and sold to acquaintances. She and Song Yanmin could make some money, but they didn't need to make a lot.

But if it goes on the counter, it is a planned product. The formula, raw materials, products, etc. all have to be decided by the leader.

She would rather not let people tell her what to do, but she would not feel comfortable if people took away the formula and did not give her any benefits.

Originally, many privately run small industries were good. After they were nationalized, a group of people who didn't understand the business were put in. Everyone wanted to point fingers and take a bite. As a result, they ended up going bankrupt.

So many big factories eventually went bankrupt, let alone a small workshop like this?

Xia Mingshuang feels that now is really not the time to vigorously develop this kind of high-end shampoo. After all, ordinary people cannot even popularize the most common soap. How can they have the spare time to produce this?

As long as the economic model doesn't change, she doesn't want to get involved.

And she felt that even if she gave them the formula and let them put it on the production line, it would definitely be nothing in the end.

Adding a production line will require leaders and workers. When the time comes, all relevant households will be packed in, and there will be few people working.

Of course, Xia Mingshuang did not explain it so thoroughly to Fang Rong. She only said that it was not suitable for the time being. In order to avoid Fang Rong misunderstanding that she was reluctant to hand over the formula, she made an appointment to meet and talk in detail.

After Gu Yunshan returned home, Xia Mingshuang took his car to Mingcheng the next day and asked him to take him to the department store to find Fang Rong.

Fang Rong is an active worker. As long as there are no big things at home, she will basically arrive early and leave late, working all year round. She is a true workaholic.

Gu Yunshan parked the car in front of the department store, "How many days will it be over? I'll pick you up. Come to my place for lunch at noon."

As long as he was not too busy in the workshop or laboratory, he would like to spend some time with his family. Especially when Xia Ming came to Mingcheng, he naturally wanted to have dinner with her.

Xia Mingshuang: "Manager Fang will definitely treat me to dinner. You don't have to worry about me. I might take Zhong Lian's car back in the afternoon..." Before she finished speaking, she looked at Gu Yunshan with a disappointed look on his face, and couldn't help but laugh, deliberately He leaned over and whispered: "Gu Yunshan, you are an old married woman, how can you be so clingy?"

Gu Yunshan's slender hands were on the steering wheel. He was very reserved outside and rarely moved his hands and feet, so when Xia Mingshuang came to talk to his ear, he didn't do anything even though it was extremely itchy.

He tilted his head, stared into her dark eyes, and said, "We are not an old couple."

We've only been married for a short time, and I'm not old either.

Xia Mingshuang thought of something and smiled, "Then you come and pick me up after get off work, and we go home together."

The corners of Gu Yunshan's lips curved slightly, and he whispered: "Why don't you go to my dormitory tonight? We can live in a world of two."

Xia Mingshuang deliberately teased him, "Isn't your dormitory not soundproof?"

Gu Yunshan stared at her and said word by word: "You can try it."

Xia Mingshuang coughed quickly, fearing that he would take it seriously.

At this time, Fang Rong looked at them, quickly came to them, and said with a smile: "Hey, what are you two talking about in the car? Why don't you get out of the car for so long?"

Xia and Ming handed Gu Yunshan's glasses to him and said with a smile, "I'm looking for glasses."

She quickly got out of the car and asked Gu Yunshan to go to work.

Gu Yunshan nodded to Fang Rong as a greeting, glanced at Xia Mingshuang again, then turned around and left.

Fang Rong looked at the direction of the jeep and said to Xia Mingshuang, "Mingshuang, you two have such a good relationship."

It's really rare for a couple with four children to still be so clingy.

Xia Mingshuang quickly changed the topic and talked to her about shampoo.

Fang Rong's attention was drawn back to her, "Let's go to my office to chat."