Bonnie didn't take her neighbor's words seriously. She didn't care about status or influence. She thought that if you traced your family back three generations, everyone was a peasant. She didn't think anyone was superior to anyone else.

Those noble ones are all stuck in cowsheds, yet they still dare to talk about status? They're out of their minds.

Liu Jiu was very glad that the girl wasn't in her class, otherwise she would have been annoyed to death.

"Mom, I'm going to find Zhou Haiyang and the others. Sanqi, are you coming?"

"Go ahead, but don't play in the sun. You'll get tanned and easily sunburned," Bonnie cautioned, though she wasn't sure if Bonnie would remember.

"No, it's hot." Sanqi waved his hand at his sister; he wasn't going out.

"Mom, I want to take a bath. I feel like I smell like chicken poop."

Sanqi still felt a lingering chicken poop smell on her body, even though it hadn't gotten on her clothes.

"Alright, the water I dried should be hot enough now. Go wash up, or do you want me to wash you?"

"No need, I can do it myself. I'm a boy, and there's a difference between boys and girls." Sanqi quickly ran off, really afraid that his mother might get into a bad mood and want to give him a bath, how embarrassing!

"Haha..." Bonnie laughed loudly from behind.

"What good news? Look how happy you are." As soon as Aunt Zhang entered the door, she heard Bonnie's hearty laughter.

“I teased my son, Sanqi, by saying I was going to give him a bath. The little rascal was terrified.”

Aunt Zhang looked at Bao Ni, thinking she was teasing her son.

"Your baby Sanqi is so small, can she bathe herself? Can she get it clean?"

“He washes himself several times a day and gets him clean. He usually washes with his dad, but his dad has been busy and hasn’t been home for several days. The child is growing up, and he needs to develop an awareness of gender.”

Bonnie and Gu Ye have a clear division of labor: starting from the age of two or three, they need to make them consciously distinguish between genders.

“Really? My kids haven’t said anything like that either. Except for the two older ones, I’m the one who bathes them. Now that you mention it, I need to let them know the difference between men and women. They can’t bathe together anymore, they’re too old.”

Sister-in-law Zhang hadn't realized it before; she thought that since they were siblings, they sometimes washed each other's clothes together to save trouble.

“Sister Zhang, your Hongxia is a year older than Liu Jiu. You need to teach her about the differences between boys and girls, and especially about privacy. Girls especially need to be careful; their private parts must be protected and absolutely no one but their mother can see them. Nobody is allowed.” Bao Ni knew that people in this era didn’t pay attention to these things, but she didn’t expect it to be overlooked to this extent, especially since Hongxia was already nine years old.

Aunt Zhang knew she had been neglecting things too much; her husband had mentioned it once before, but she hadn't paid attention.

When she was young, there were many children in her family. Later, she moved to Northeast China with her parents, leaving her all alone. When she arrived at the Xu family, her mother-in-law was also an illiterate rural woman. With so many children, she was only thinking about how to make a living and didn't know anything about these things.

That morning, Aunt Zhang pulled Bao Ni aside and asked her a lot of questions. She also had a daughter in junior high school, who was fourteen or fifteen years old, and they really needed to be careful.

Bonnie simplified the physiological knowledge she knew and explained it in a way that Aunt Zhang could understand, making it as subtle and easy to understand as possible.

"Thank you, Bonnie. If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known there were so many things going on, especially my second daughter, who's already on her period. I really didn't pay attention to many things. If something goes wrong, it will be too late to regret it."

Aunt Zhang was glad she came to Bao Ni's house today and heard what she had to say; it would be good for the two girls.

"Alright, ask me again if you need anything. If I don't know, there are doctors. This is normal physiological knowledge, don't be ashamed to speak up and let a small matter become a big one."

Bonnie didn't say anything more, afraid that Aunt Zhang wouldn't remember and would get them all mixed up.

"Mom, what's for lunch? I'm hungry." Liu Jiu ran back, her face all dirty, no one knew where she had run off to again.

"You had noodles for lunch. Go take a shower and make the sauce. I'll cook the noodles."

"Hello, Aunt Zhang." Liu Jiu ran to take a shower and, along with Zhou Haiyang and the others, discovered a secret base, which looked like an air-raid shelter. They crawled inside, but there was nothing there except dust.

"Your Liu Jiu can cook?" Aunt Zhang was surprised that Liu Jiu could cook; he's so young!

"I know a few simple dishes, but I don't know how to cook them. It's not that I don't know how, it's just that I can't get the seasoning right. Gu Ye isn't home, so I have to work with Liu Jiu, and I can't eat at the cafeteria every day."

"Your Commander Gu can cook too?" This shattered Zhang's perception. In her mind, men were responsible for external affairs and women for internal affairs, and housework was a woman's job.

"Yes, I can't cook. No matter how hard I try, I can't learn. My grandma and my mom are both chefs, and they both tried to teach me, but I just couldn't get it. Later, I got married, and Gu Ye learned to cook from my grandma. He's very talented and can cook all kinds of home-style dishes."

Bonnie didn't think much of it. She was used to Gu Ye doing housework at home and forgot that in this era, men were basically hands-off.

"Bonnie, I heard a lot today. I'll go home and think about it. It's like listening to gibberish."

Bao Ni thought that Aunt Zhang was a little embarrassed because it was her first time hearing about physiology. After seeing Aunt Zhang off, Bao Ni hurried inside. The broth was ready, and she was going to cook noodles.

"It's such a blessing to have Liu Jiu around!" Bonnie exclaimed from the bottom of her heart.

Liu Jiu didn't say anything, but the corners of his mouth turned up.

"Mom, are you happy with Panax notoginseng?"

“Having Sanqi is a blessing. Sanqi can start a fire. If Mom washes the dishes after eating, she will be even happier!” Bonnie looked at Sanqi with anticipation.

"I know, I'll make you even happier!" Sanqi thought to herself, why did I have to be so nosy? Why did I ask all that? I'm just giving myself something to do.

Liu Jiu chuckled; she was very happy to have her younger brother, San Qi.

Unbeknownst to Bonnie, gossip about her had already spread throughout the compound.

"Did you know that the new brigade commander Gu's wife is a fisherwoman? Because she saved brigade commander Gu, she forced him to marry her. This is such a despicable thing to do."

"Really? I heard she's barely literate and quite uncouth. She's not a good match for Commander Gu at all. Commander Gu is a college graduate, a proper military academy graduate."

"Really? I heard that Commander Gu was attracted to her beauty and used some tricks to get them married. I heard that they were both engaged before, but those engagements fell through."

"You should avoid contact with people like this. If you get scammed in the future, you'll have no one to complain to. If you have children at home, they're likely to imitate them."

...

The harsh words came one after another. At first, they only circulated in a small circle, but later they spread wider and wider. Basically, everyone in the compound except for Bao Ni and a few others knew about them, and even the General's Building next door had heard about them.

As the subject of gossip, Bonnie was completely unaware until Qu Hong and Su Mo came to find her, at which point she learned that she had become famous and renowned!