Fang Benquan is Fang Caihe's cousin. Fang Benquan's father Fang Yunxi and Fang Caihe's father Fang Yunhe are a pair of brothers. His father, Fang Rendong, had two sons and two daughters. The eldest daughter died of smallpox when she was five or six years old. The second daughter was left behind at the Ningbo dock when she was nine years old and has not been heard from since. Fortunately, the two sons grew up, and after marrying wives and having children, they separated from each other.

Fang Yunxi's son inherited his father's business, and when he was young, he followed his father to Ningbo to learn the craft of shaving his head. During this period, he abducted a little girl with bound feet in the mountains of Ningbo and fled back to her hometown. This little girl with feet is Fang Benquan's mother Zhu Xiuya, she has never been to school for a day since she was a child, and she has spoken a pure dialect of the Ningbo area.

Because Fang Yunxi didn't take the waterway home when he escaped with her, he was driving the mountain road, and the little girl with bound feet suffered a lot when he followed him over the mountains of Siming Mountain, and when she finally walked to her hometown's home, the feet of the little girl with bound feet had become purulent and swollen to the ground. Fang Yunxi treated her quite well, and the two soon got married and had a daughter. Fang Yunxi didn't know her real name when she abducted her, and she was illiterate and couldn't speak Mandarin, so everyone finally found a fellow who could understand Ningbo dialect to talk to her, and only then did they know that her real name was Zhu Xiuya. Zhu Xiuya rarely speaks, afraid that others will not be able to listen to her Ningbo dialect and laugh at her.

When Zhu Xiuya was young, she was also a girl with big eyes and slender face, and her face was very beautiful, and her clothes were also bright. She then gave birth to Fang Yunxi's third daughter and a son. Yunxi named his son Fang Benquan, and he didn't know what it meant? The eldest daughter was named Fang Caizhu, the second daughter was named Fang Caixia, and the third daughter was Fang Caiqin. Now Fang Yunxi has been sick and died for many years, Zhu Xiuya is still alive, and her three daughters and sons are all married and have children.

Zhu Xiuya has been here for more than 50 years from the mountains of Ningbo (where she is from Ningbo for decades, and she has refused to say). What is incredible is that in the past half a century, she has two living habits that have never changed, one is that her pure Ningbo accent has always been consistent; The second is that whether it is cold or summer, whether it is spring or autumn, or going to work in the farmland or living at home in her free time, she is wearing a pair of white thick cotton socks on her feet.

Everyone is very strange, Zhu Xiuya old lady has lived to be more than seventy years old, and she has to go up and down the mountain all day long to do farm work, so wearing white socks is not touched by mud is a difficult thing that no one can imagine, but Zhu Xiuya old lady has done it, and it has been like this for decades, which is confusing. Needless to say, the mud in the field would stain the white socks on her feet, and even the sweat from her usual work would seep into the socks, making them stink. However, few people saw the smell of the socks taken off Zhu Xiuya's feet.

The daughter-in-law Bao Yumei is the eldest daughter of Bao Fuhai in Baojia Village, which is about five miles away from Shanghu Village. Bao Fuhai himself has a very unpopular craft called "Cloth Yarn Deposit Teacher". The rainy monsoon climate in the south of the Yangtze River is a natural plant called 'Worm' that grows in the countryside here, this plant is a perennial plant with strong vitality, and farmers can harvest it twice a year like a leek, as long as it does not dig up its root system, it can continue to grow. Since the fibers extracted from it are excellent materials for making agricultural tools, mosquito nets, ropes, boat cables, etc., local farmers have begun to plant large areas, bringing considerable economic benefits to the majority of farmers. The flax can be harvested in summer and autumn when it is ripe, and after a few days of soaking, fermentation and softening in clear water, women use knives to remove its skin to obtain a layer of white fibers inside, which are dried in the sun and processed into twine by hand for later use, and farmers often weave this fiber into coarse cloth bags. This kind of cloth has a hard texture and very high fiber strength.

Generally, farmers need to use it to make cloth bags for agricultural tools to hold grain, corn, beans and wheat, etc., which are resistant to high temperature and salinity, not easy to break, and durable. Local farmers also use it to make mosquito nets, which have good breathability and are not easy to wear and tear. Seaside fishermen like to buy and make a noose for boat cables, and the sea water will not rot for a long time. Bao Fuhai is a veteran craftsman specializing in the craft of mosquito net cloth bags, with a radius of ten miles and three towns, and many apprentices.

Now, Bao Fuhai himself is gone, and since Bao Yumei married into the Fang family, she has gradually firmly grasped the economic power of the Fang family. Bao Yumei is relatively delicate and delicate, and often smiles when interacting with people, has a beautiful voice, and bows to the spirit. Usually there are not many words at home, but the words that come out are golden rules, and the whole family must abide by them, even her mother-in-law Zhu Xiuya is no exception.

Bao Yumei's high-pressure and strong attitude towards her family members can be seen from several changes in Fang Benquan's life and the high-intensity farming work she assigned to her mother-in-law, Zhu Xiuya. Fang Benquan was born with a high horse, not to mention that he was strong enough to fall a strong cow. is such a strong man in the world, but he was subdued by Bao Yumei.

Fang Benquan was a smoker when he was young, and two packs of cigarettes a day were the basics, and three packs were not a problem. Bao Yumei only gave him five sticks a day at first, and she didn't let him eat if she smoked too much. Choose one of the two, either you go to smoke and don't eat, or you choose to eat and stop smoking. Fang Benquan never dared to violate this rule, and later simply quit smoking.

Before Bao Yumei didn't cross the door, Fang Benquan's smoking addiction was recognized as the biggest person in the village. Since he couldn't afford to buy cigarettes and smoked particularly spicy dry tobacco leaves, he originally had a very beautiful old bamboo pipe, which was so big that it could put a chess piece one or two centimeters thick. The chimney is made of brass, which has a golden and translucent appearance, and the cigarette holder is also made of copper, which is polished by the lips and shiny.

Fang Benquan himself is also very intelligent, I don't know where he got the inspiration, he didn't have any master guidance, he actually groped for his own invention of a hand-cranked cigarette machine, and the cigarettes rolled out by the cigarette machine he invented are as good as those produced by the regular cigarette factory, and the quality is similar, and it can produce a fast and strong tobacco in less than a second. But it didn't take long for his cigarette machine to be confiscated by Bao Yumei.

Fang Benquan also liked to drink some spirits at the beginning, and the amount of alcohol was not bad, a pound of old white burn was not drunk after drinking, and rice wine was never drunk. Mother Zhu Xiuya will make her own glutinous rice wine, and Fang Benquan also likes to drink the rice wine made by her mother, but since Bao Yumei got married, she began to restrict Zhu Xiuya from making glutinous rice wine, saying that her own food is not enough for the family to feed and wrap her stomach, so save the rice to make wine and tide over the difficulties first. Of course, this is just an excuse, and there will certainly be no more to say.

Zhu Xiuya has no other hobbies, and she doesn't like the entertainment atmosphere here, and most of the villagers here like to climb mountains, rowing, basket weaving, mat making, swimming, performing, singing, chatting, dancing, waist drumming, catching up with the market and having dinners and other cultural life. Zhu Xiuya rarely even goes out to the market with her neighbors. In short, she rarely participates in all the excitement. However, the old man Zhu Xiuya likes to make wine, embroidery, paper-cutting, kite making, etc., and she especially likes to sit alone and talk to herself. Few people in rural areas have the patience to learn flower arrangement, paper-cutting and other activities. Bao Yumei now stopped her mother-in-law's craft of making wine, and asked her husband to wear the tools of winemaking with iron wire and hang them on the beams of the attic, and only ordered her to go out every day to do farm work and grow vegetables to provide for the family's daily life.

Fortunately, Mrs. Zhu Xiuya is not unfamiliar with this business. Since Bao Yumei entered the door, she has contracted the work of supplying vegetables to her mother-in-law, Mrs. Zhu Xiuya, by herself. She actually said to Zhu Xiuya's old woman: "The child is his milk, you can do more farm work outside while your body is still strong, which will also have many benefits for you, the first advantage is that you often participate in labor, and your body will become stronger and stronger, so that you can prolong your life; The second advantage is that you are responsible for the management of vegetable planting in the mountains, so that our family will have their own vegetables to eat, which will reduce the cost of buying vegetables and generate income for the family; The third advantage is that you are responsible for feeding the pigs, chickens, ducks, and rabbits in the family, and you are supporting the rest of our family to do their best to be economical. We have to be responsible for the economic resources of the whole family, we must work hard to earn a lot of money, and if the family wants to prosper, we need to continue to make money to control the family's consumption and construction.

I'm making the division of labor in the family clear now, it's not that I'm hard-hearted, I do this maybe you think I'm too strict, but I can't explain it now, and everyone will know in the future that I'm completely for the good of our family, and I'm not selfish.