However, she was able to achieve the current effect thanks to the beauty pills Jiang Mengxue sent her. She didn't know what they were made of, but she ground them into powder, added water, mixed them evenly, and applied them on her face. After a period of time, the results were very gratifying.

The eye wrinkles and spots that have troubled me for many years have improved a lot.

Before, she also insisted on applying vanishing cream, but apart from having some effect on skin whitening, it might take several years to see any effect on removing spots and wrinkles.

But for older people, this situation will occur more frequently as they get older, and the effect of vanishing cream cannot keep up with skin aging.

"Haha, maybe I'm just naturally fair, plus I've been using vanishing cream for several years, so that's why it's having some effect."

Of course, you can't tell others about the gift your daughter-in-law gave you. Otherwise, if she asks you to use some of it, it would be awkward to refuse. If you don't refuse, you will feel bad, so it's better not to tell anyone.

"Aunt Wang, you can stay at home and enjoy playing with your grandchildren. Your mood will improve and your complexion will naturally improve. As long as your attitude is good, your skin will improve."

"Haha, I wish it would be better, but at my age, it doesn't make any difference."

Aunt Wang originally boiled snow water, which was not very hot to begin with. Now it has been left outside for half a day and has become freezing cold.

My hands were already red from scrubbing the diapers that had been changed overnight in the basin.

Jiang Mengxue thought that if it were her own family, she really couldn't bear to see them do this.

Don’t talk about your mother and mother-in-law. In her opinion, unnecessary suffering should be avoided if possible.

There are so many painful things in life. There is no need to publicize the suffering when you can treat yourself well. No one will feel sorry for you except your own physical discomfort.

Jiang Mengxue didn't say anything about boiling some hot water to wash. Her family didn't care, or rather, she herself didn't care, so she naturally didn't have the right to do so.

What's more, you can't use firewood or charcoal to boil water, and Jiang Mengxue can't help others with the money, so there's no need for her to say anything from the moral high ground.

"Aunt Wang, be careful not to get frostbite on your hands, otherwise it will be troublesome if it recurs every year."

Wang Qun now has frostbite on his hands. He used to soak his hands in frostbite, but it is really uncomfortable after his hands are frostbitten.

"It's really not a big deal. It's freezing every year, but there's nothing I can do. I have to do my housework. I used to ask my brother to pick some frostbite for me and boil water to soak my hands. This is the only way."

Jiang Mengxue had just learned that people in the north would use Dongqing if their hands and ears were frostbitten, and it was quite effective.

Jiang Mengxue washed her face and went back to the house to apply lotion. There was a stove burning in the house, and she slept on the kang at night, so she felt particularly dry and dehydrated.

In addition, it is cold in winter and I don’t want to use facial masks, so I can only use lotion and milk to deal with it.

"Xiaoran, it's easy to get dry if you sit in the house every day. Drink more water. I remember I brought a few glass bottles from the hospital. Take them back and fill them with hot water to warm your hands."

The thing the hospital has the most of is glass bottles for IV drips. Last time, Gao Xiulan, who came to the city for training, was asked to bring a few to the Jiang family so that they can warm their hands when they are at home.

"Xiaoxue, should we put the fried sauce directly into the pot? Or should we heat it up separately?"

The mixed sauce is packed in a canning bottle, which contains lard, which has now solidified. If you want to eat it, you must heat it to melt the oil.

"Let's cook the noodles down below, add two spoonfuls of mutton soup, and put a steamer on top to heat up the meat sauce. Also, heat up the mutton offal as well."

I cooked a little too much mutton soup. After eating a few meals, there was still half a basin left. After eating, there were still a lot of mutton bones that could be cooked again.

"How's my cooking? Are the noodles rolled to an even thickness and cut to the same thickness? My knife skills are no exaggeration. Even our army's top chef, Lao Gao, can't compare to me."

Luan Huiying was very satisfied with her masterpiece no matter how she looked at it. Combined with Jiang Mengxue's soul meat sauce, it was simply a perfect pot of noodles.

"It's such a pity that your father is not here, otherwise I would have to show him what talent is. He can't catch up with it just by working hard.

Xiaoxue, can you tell me if I can dry the noodles in the bowl and cook them for your dad when I get home?"

Luan Huiying felt it was a pity. The noodles she cooked before were not tasty not because of her poor skills, but because of Gu Zhenhai's poor cooking skills. The base soup he fried was really hard to describe. Now look at it, combined with the skills of her daughter-in-law, the abnormal strength was brought out to the fullest.

Jiang Mengxue has always known that her mother-in-law might be a very easy-going person, but why is she becoming more of a funny person now?

"Mom, don't bother. We still have several bottles of fried sauce. You can bring some back and make the same noodles as now."

Luan Huiying sighed, "You don't know how hard your father and I lived. The delicious food you sent to me was found by your father's comrades. They were like a bandit's den. They looted everything and left behind a bunch of receipts. The key is, can those meat tickets compare to the delicious food you made? Of course not.

That’s why I didn’t bring any back. If they enjoyed it enough, they might even suspect that I was hiding it.

You don’t know, but after that raid, they actually helped me find my watch and two pens that had fallen under the bed.

I used to say that it was taken by Fangzi from my office. After she found out that I had wrongly accused her, she blackmailed me for a meal of braised pork.

The point is, my two pens don’t even cover the pound of braised pork she ate. How come I didn’t realize she had such a big appetite before?

Jiang Mengxue's mouth twitched. They must be foodies, right? The key point is that everything she sent was made by herself. Her cooking skills are not that good, right?

"My cooking skills are only at the level of home cooking. Is it really that delicious?"

Luan Huiying gave him a look that said, "The key is that canned and bottled food is easy to carry and can be kept for a long time. They can open a can when they get together."

Although they are in this position and their rank is not low, their daily supplies are only slightly better than those of ordinary soldiers. They are lucky to have meat once every ten days or half a month. Usually, they only open a can of food when they are free to get together.

Even their military supply and marketing cooperative does not have canned food available every day. As soon as it is put on the shelves, it is sold out.

Not everyone is as lightly burdened as Luan Huiying and Gu Zhenhai, who only have one son and don't have to worry about him.

All of Gu Zhenhai’s comrades-in-arms have large families with many children and grandchildren, and they all need the help of their elders. Only a few of their children will be promising.

Jiang Mengxue also understood that if she and Gu Qingbei didn't have cheats, their lives would actually be only slightly better than those of ordinary people.

Nowadays, many people have money but cannot spend it. What’s the use of having money without tickets?

"Comrade from Public Security, who are you looking for? Has someone committed a crime in our hospital?" Li Xiuying's voice sounded outside.

Jiang Mengxue and Luan Huiying looked at each other, not knowing what was going on.