[Era + Isolation + Mutual Favoring]
Lin Xiaoman of the Red Star Production Brigade is a famously strong girl. She holds three acres of thin farmland and an adobe house in her hands. Although her life is not rich, she still lives happily. The only thing that frightens her is Shen Qinghe, the "sick rice planter" next door who faints from hunger on the field ridge every two days.
Others thought Shen Qinghe was a loser because he couldn't lift his shoulders or lift his hands, but Lin Xiaoman saw something different: this boy had thin skin and tender flesh, nimble fingertips, and was as meticulous as his hair when doing work, just like a delicate walking porcelain doll. One day, seeing him starving with hunger again, Lin Xiaoman slapped his thigh and said, "Anyway, my family needs someone to cook, sew, and wash. If you live with me, you will have enough food!" Then he took him home.
Since then, the Red Star Brigade has had one more wonder that people can talk about:
In other families, women would circle around the stove, but Lin Xiaoman would run across the fields with a hoe. When he got tired, he would turn around and shout, "Qinghe, do you want to eat wild vegetable pancakes or corn paste today?"
In other homes, the man earned his share of work to support the family, but Shen Qinghe sat on the threshold holding a sewing basket, mending Lin Xiaoman's frayed trouser legs, and tidying up the house more neatly than New Year pictures.
When Lin Xiaoman's unique brain circuit encountered Shen Qinghe's real ability to "eat soft food hard", this "weird" couple in the 1950s turned their miserable and poor life into sugar and honey while everyone was stunned. Not only that, they also broke the old rule of "men lead the outside and women lead the house" and quietly launched an unexpected "big career" in the Red Star Brigade - after all, they live their own lives, how can there be any fixed rules?
Reader comments
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The subject matter is very good, but the writing is very problematic. The whole process is about others finding fault, and the heroine refutes and then slaps her in the face.
You can take a look at Shu Huang
The subject matter is very good, but the writing is very problematic. The whole process is about others finding fault, and the heroine refutes and then slaps her in the face.