Shen Li distributed the small gifts she brought from Beijing to her sisters-in-law who came to visit her.

"Sister Li, you're really wasting money." Sister Narcissus looked at Shen Li and said, "You brought so many local specialties for us last time, and you brought even more this time. It's too much. You should save some money. Your money didn't come from the wind."

"These were prepared by my father and my brother for everyone. I didn't spend any money on them." Shen Li said, "Everyone also prepared a lot of gifts for me before."

She opened the box of Daoxiangcun and distributed the cakes inside to everyone. Then she opened the lid of the crispy candies and distributed 5 crispy candies to each of the sisters-in-law sitting at the table.

"That's too much!"

"Yeah, I couldn't eat so much candy in the past!"

"What kind of soup is this? It looks so good!"

"It smells better than White Rabbit candy!"

Everyone looked at the candies in their hands with curiosity.

"Sisters-in-law, you try it." Shen Li said with a smile.

"I still compensated her. I'll take this candy home to feed my children. It's not enough for an adult like me to eat it." Said Sister Narcissus, looking at the candy in her hand.

"Sister-in-law, don't think so. You have five candies in your hand. At most, you can eat one and give the child four." Shen Li said, "Children are important, but you shouldn't sacrifice yourself for them. Mothers like us should also eat and drink."

"As a woman, especially a mother, you should love yourself first, and then love your children or husband. Only when you love yourself can you be happy and have more energy to take care of others." Shen Li said.

This was the first time Sister Narcissus heard these words.

Sister Narcissus always heard all kinds of strange things from Shen Li.

Love yourself?

The education that Sister Narcissus has been instilled with since she was a child is that women, especially mothers, should be good wives and mothers, love their children well, take good care of their husbands and children at home, cook hot meals for their husbands, do housework and educate their children well... She has always completed and done these things according to these standards, and has always required and restrained herself as a good wife and mother.

At home, when eating watermelon, her husband and children eat the watermelon flesh, while she eats the little flesh inside the watermelon rind left by them. The same is true when eating mango. She peels the mango and dices the blood orange for the children and husband, while she eats the little flesh inside the mango core.

This also applies to mealtimes. She stays at home to look after the children, and then prepares the meal. Her husband eats first, and she feeds the child. By the time the child has finished eating, the meal is cold, so she has to eat the leftovers.

So many people have come through this.

Not only herself, other women are like this too.

When a woman keeps the house clean and tidy, takes care of her children so that they are healthy and study well, does all the housework, serves her husband well, and takes good care of her mother-in-law, everyone will praise this woman. But in fact, those compliments do put invisible shackles on this woman's body.

No one has ever told Sister Narcissus that a woman should first be good to herself and love herself.

"No one has ever said these words to me before." Sister Narcissus murmured.

"Try it." Shen Li opened a piece of crispy candy and dripped it onto Sister Narcissus' lips.

Sister Narcissus ate the candy, and she felt a little guilty and uneasy, as if she had eaten alone outside without telling her husband and children.

She had never been like this before. Whenever there was anything at home, she would give it to the elderly first, then the children, and then her husband.

Finally, it’s herself.