Compared with other women in Taizi Village, She Yufen's discipline of her children is several times more severe.

In her case, any bad habits – such as lying, stealing from home or neighborhood, not studying well, being rude to elders, are red threads that must never be touched.

So compared to those children who were raised by their parents or pampered, Mei Yali and Mei Hongwen have always been smart and cute.

Corresponding to the strictness of education is her material love for children.

In Mei Yali's last life, her family has been poor for a few years, but her mother has never shortened her and Mei Hongwen's food and clothing.

When many children in their village were dragging their long noses, wearing torn, patched, and even shorter clothes, running around the village like mud monkeys, She Yufen had already begun to change her ways to give Mei Yali and Mei Hongwen good food and clothing.

Because the family had no money, She Yufen tried her best to make new clothes for them by hand, instead of going directly to the market to buy ready-to-wear clothes.

For the same price, other children's children can only wear a new dress, but She Yufen can change her own children from the inside out.

In their Taizi village, most housewives do this.

In addition to doing farm work and housework, they will also have a rare leisure time throughout the year to make the family's clothes, shoes, socks, pillows and bedding.

There are only five or six housewives who really don't know how to make clothes, shoes and socks in the entire Taizi Village.

The reason why there are a small number of children in the village who are dressed in tatters is because some housewives are either poor or lazy.

The poor are the poor who find it difficult for the good women to cook without rice, and the lazy ones would rather let the family be compared to the children who ask for food, rather than work their hands and feet and the needle and thread at home.

Let's talk about eating.

In their Taizi Village, and even in the entire Heigang Township, more than ninety percent of the people eat very simply.

After the autumn harvest and before the spring ploughing, because of the Chinese New Year, every household will basically have a little oil and water to eat, but in the half year between the spring ploughing and the autumn harvest, the farmers eat very rough and simple.

In Mei Yali's previous life, she had heard Zhao Huiying laugh at this family in their village more than once, saying that people ate pig food every day.

Although the term "pig food" is both exaggerated and insulting, it is not enough to win the trust, but the farmers have no oil and water for three meals a day, and the variety is single, and Mei Yali has seen it with her own eyes a few times.

In Taizi Village, the vast majority of peasant families eat millet porridge, corn flour cakes and pickles in the morning, and at noon and evening they eat small rice, corn flour cakes, pickles, potato stewed eggplant or beans, and then green onions, cabbage, cucumbers, radishes, koji hemp cabbage, mother-in-law (dandelion) and other dipping pickles.

A very small number of people like Zhao Huiying are willing to spend money on food, and they are willing to make it themselves, and they will add dumplings, noodles, steamed buns, buns, flatbreads and other precious foods that need to use white noodles and oily meat.

And She Yufen is different from everyone else.

Her family's foundation is thin, and she will be careful when she spends every penny, so naturally she will not give up too much money on food.

But She Yufen has one good thing, that is, she is extremely good at changing tricks to improve the food for her family.

She never uses only cornmeal to make the cornmeal tortillas that the farmer often eats.

After she added an appropriate amount of sugar, white flour, and eggs, the taste of the tortillas immediately increased by several grades.

When making a large stew, she also adds a few slices of pork to the dish.

There are also all kinds of vegetables grown in the vegetable garden, and she doesn't just take the sauce for the family to dip in.

What to shoot cucumbers, mixed vegetables, sweet and sour radish, mixed shredded cabbage, vinegared cabbage, fried potato chips, cold shredded potatoes, tomatoes mixed with sugar, stewed vermicelli with cabbage and pork, egg and mushroom sauce, cabbage pork pie, leek box, celery pork stuffed buns, vegetable egg cakes...... But as long as there are home-cooked meals with complete materials, She Yufen can make them for her family to eat.

In addition, she will also bring flour, sugar, and eggs, and make a special trip to make biscuits for Mei Yali and Mei Hongwen to eat.

The place where the biscuits are made is on the side of Mei Zhiqing's daughter-in-law's mother's house, thirty miles away from Taizi Village.

Mei Zhiqing's daughter-in-law is also a child, and these two concubines will let Mei Zhiqing or Mei Zhijun drive a carriage every month or so to send them to make biscuits for the children at home.

Because of this, Zhao Huiying cursed Mei Zhijun and She Yufen a lot for being "losers", "not knowing how to live", and "being used to children", but because she didn't dare to go to Mei Zhijun's house to scold, Mei Zhijun and She Yufen didn't take her scolding seriously.

Compared with food and clothing, She Yufen obviously attaches more importance to the education of her two children.

Because Mei Yali was brought by her aunt, she was exposed to the first and second grade courses of primary school early, and she often took exams for others because she studied well.

This incident inspired She Yufen, and at the same time, it also greatly stimulated her enthusiasm to teach her two children to read and write.

However, Mei Hongwen is still young after all, and there are very few things she can teach Mei Hongwen.

In this way, she spent most of her enthusiasm for teaching her children on Mayali.

In this regard, Mei Yali is happy to see it.

At least, whether it is old textbooks from grades 1 to 5 of primary school, or various stationery such as pencils and erasers, her mother will meet her needs 100%.

After the autumn harvest, the weather is getting colder, and the leaves of the most common poplars, elms, and willows in Taizi Village all begin to turn yellow and fall off.

Because they had more spare money in their hands and there were indeed a lot of places to use their cars, Mei Zhijun and She Yufen decided to take the time to buy an agricultural tricycle in the city.

Over the years, their family has raised more and more rabbits, sheep, and chickens, and since last year, Cheng Yufeng's tricycle has not been able to pull all the animals they want to sell to the city at one time.

After Mei Zhijun and She Yufen went to the big market in Heigang Township a few times, the rabbits and chickens that Cheng Yufeng couldn't pull away at one time were all sold by them piecemeal.

However, this year, the scale of their breeding has expanded, and if they don't buy a car for their own use, they can only work for Cheng Yufeng to make one more trip.

Although Cheng Yufeng himself doesn't care about this little thing at all, in the eyes of Mei Zhijun and She Yufen, there is an essential difference between letting the family take a trip and letting the family run a special trip.

Rather than causing this trouble to their relatives, they would rather buy a new car themselves.