After the replacement of the military officer, the soft stepmother won

Shen Li distributed the small gifts she brought from Beijing to her sisters-in-law who came to visit her.

"Sister Li, you're really wasting money." Sister Narcissus looked at Shen Li and said, "You brought so many local specialties for us last time, and you brought even more this time. This is too much. You should save some money. Your money doesn't come from the wind."

"These were prepared by my father and brother for everyone. I didn't spend any money on them." Shen Li said, "Everyone also prepared a lot of gifts for me before."

She opened the box of Daoxiangcun and distributed the cakes inside to everyone. Then she opened the lid of the crispy candies and gave 5 crispy candies to each of the sisters-in-law present.

"This is too much!"

"Yeah, I can't even eat so much candy during Chinese New Year!"

"What kind of soup is this? It looks so good!"

"It smells better than White Rabbit candy!"

Everyone looked at the candies in their hands with curiosity.

"Sisters-in-law, please try it." Shen Li said with a smile.

"I'll make it up to you. I'll take this candy home and give it to my children. It's useless for an adult like me to eat it." Sister Narcissus said, looking at the crispy candy in her hand.

"Sister-in-law, you can't think like that. You have five candies in your hand. At most, you can eat one and give the child four." Shen Li said, "Children are important, but you shouldn't sacrifice yourself for them. Mothers like us should also eat and drink as we should."

"As a woman, especially as a mother, you must first love yourself, and then love your children or husband. Only by loving yourself can you be happy and have more energy to take care of others." Shen Li said.

This was the first time Sister Narcissus heard these words.

Sister Narcissus always heard all kinds of strange and bizarre statements from Shen Li.

love yourself?

Over the years, Sister Narcissus has been taught from childhood that women, especially mothers, should be good wives and mothers, love their children well, take good care of their husbands and children at home, cook hot meals for their husbands, do housework and educate their children well... She has always followed these standards to complete and do these things, and has always required and restrained herself as a good wife and mother.

At home, when eating watermelon, her husband and children eat the watermelon pulp, while she eats the remaining pulp in the watermelon rind. The same is true when eating mango. She peels the mango and cuts blood orange cubes into cubes for the children and husband, while she eats the pulp on the mango core.

This also applies to meal times. She looks after the children at home, and then prepares the meal. Her husband eats first and then feeds the child. By the time the child has finished eating, the meal is cold, so he eats the leftovers.

It has been like this for so many years.

Not only her, other women are like this too.

When a woman can keep the house clean and tidy, take care of her children to ensure they are healthy and study well, do all the housework, serve her husband well, and take good care of her mother-in-law, everyone will praise this woman, but in fact those praises do serve as invisible shackles on this woman.

No one has ever told Sister Narcissus that a woman should first be good to herself and love herself.

"No one has ever said these words to me before." Sister Narcissus murmured.

"Try it." Shen Li opened a piece of crispy candy and dripped it onto Sister Narcissus' lips.

Sister Narcissus ate the candy. She felt a little guilty and uneasy, as if she had eaten alone outside without telling her husband and children.

She had never been like this before. Whenever there was anything at home, she would give it to the elderly first, then to the children and then to her husband.

Finally, it was herself.