An Hua was quite satisfied, and Zhou Meihua was also amazed.

She even picked up Dongdong and asked, "Child, is your mother pretty?"

Dongdong said without thinking: "It's beautiful. Mom is beautiful too." Her voice was soft.

An Hua burst out laughing and touched her little girl's face lovingly.

Zhou Meihua was jealous. How did she raise such a cute son? She wants it too.

Next, I went to buy cloth.

Apart from the military barracks and factory areas, the tallest building in the county is the Supply and Marketing Building, which has three floors and is crowded with people.

Especially at the fabric counter, there was not only a long queue, but when it was An Hua's turn, there were only some old-fashioned navy blue and dark gray materials left.

She hesitated for a long time before buying six pieces of dark gray material at the urging of the salesperson.

"Sister Meihua, do you know anyone who can buy these hot-selling items?" An Hua asked Zhou Meihua in a low voice.

Although she did not grow up in this era, she knows that there are some unspoken rules that exist in every era.

Zhou Meihua shook her head, "I always wear clothes made of homespun cloth and never buy this kind of cloth."

An Hua gave up and after thinking about it, she decided to buy a few sets of ready-made clothes to wear.

The higher the premium on ready-made clothes, the fewer people will buy them.

The white shirts were made of fine fiber, all of common styles. An Hua bought three of them at once, with only slight differences in details. I also bought three pairs of pants, black, gray, and khaki.

Dongdong's clothes are mostly small shirts and small suits. An Hua bought him a few sailor shirts and vests, which are durable and resistant to dirt.

The goods in the county town were not abundant, so after buying what they needed, they returned home.

An Hua had her hair cut, and the difference from before was quite big. As soon as she entered the family area, people came up to her to look at her.

"Oh, it's really pretty, like a little girl."

"Your hair is cut nicely. What were those curls before? If you don't know, you might think you are the same as the one from Teacher Chen's family."

"That's right, our cadres' families are playing with those foreign things, what a mess!"

An Hua smiled as she listened to everyone's discussion. After hearing the end, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Although everyone was nice to her on the surface, some people still complained about her appearance in private.

This hair cut is right.

Zhou Meihua didn't understand anything else, but after listening to what they said, she figured out something. "Don't tell me, you really should cut your hair, otherwise they will privately group you and Wen Xueman together and talk about you every day."

An Hua asked, "They talk about Master Chen's wife every day? What do they talk about?"

Zhou Meihua is popular in the family quarters, but her only true friend is Liao Sanmei. But ever since Liao Sanmei's mother-in-law came, she has been controlled by her every day and has little chance to chat with her.

Now An Huan came. Although she was young and a city girl, her personality was quite compatible with his, so Zhou Meihua already treated An Huan as a younger sister.

Zhou Meihua immediately started gossiping about her leader's family to An Huan.

"Wen Xueman is from Shanghai. When she first arrived, she would cuddle and dance with people at home every day. She led several family members in our family compound astray. Later, Commander Chen had a big fight with her, and she stopped making trouble."

Zhou Meihua curled her lips.

"Now she is still so high and mighty, looking down on us military families who come from the countryside. Last year, when we were having a reunion dinner in the cafeteria, we were all making dumplings together, but she refused to eat a single bite, saying she wasn't hungry. But when she got home, she asked the nanny to cook noodles for her... In the end, she thinks we are dirty."

This... is a bit hard to justify.

Zhou Meihua followed An Hua into the yard and muttered gossip for a long time. In addition to Wen Xueman, An Hua also listened with great interest about other family members and let her talk to her heart's content.

When it was time to leave, Zhou Meihua was reluctant to leave and made up her mind to visit An Huan more often to chat in the future!

An Hua is welcome. No matter what environment you are in, understanding information is an important condition for survival.

Gossip is the most primitive way of spreading information.