A Fat Girl from the 1980S: Pickling up My Sweet Days

In the prejudice-ridden countryside of the 1980s, Lin Xiaoman was the "fat girl" who was always criticized. The matchmaker said that she was "wide and fat, making it difficult to marry a good man", and the villagers laughed at her as "a fool with no future". Even the engagement she made fell through because the other party thought she was "not slim enough". But no one expected that this girl, who was ridiculed for being "big-bodied and round-waisted," would pick up jars of crisp, tender and fragrant wild vegetables to create a counterattack and create a sweet life of her own. When she first started her business, she faced the question of "not doing her job properly" and explored the formula in a leaky old warehouse. She used the saved ration money to buy salt, and took her younger brother to the mountains to pick wild vegetables in the rain. Without funds, she went to the supply and marketing cooperative cadre Zhou Mingyuan to apply for a loan; when she was short of manpower, she mobilized women in the village to work in groups and use real wages to break the old concept that "women are inferior to men"; when faced with counterfeiting, she used the trademark registration certificate to defend her rights, making the name "Xiaoman Pickles" more and more popular. From a small workshop at the entrance of the village to a benchmark enterprise in the county, from the shelves of supply and marketing cooperatives to international trade fairs, Lin Xiaoman not only made wild vegetables and pickles popular across the country, but also led the whole village to grow vegetables and become rich, and built a standardized planting base. And Zhao Tieniu, who once broke off the engagement because she was fat, has long been her most solid backing, accompanying her through the order crisis, overcoming the trust crisis, and planting the seeds of love in the fields. This is not a story about a counterattack based on appearance, but an ordinary girl's sweat and tenacity that proves: body shape is never a shackles in life, and a soul that loves life and dares to fight will eventually take root in the soil of the times and bear fruit.