Chapter 168

Xu Wen nodded, "You are both right. Since you have this attitude, there is nothing more for us to discuss."

After she finished speaking, she turned and went back to the house.

These people from the production team came in a group, about 10 to 20 people in total. There was no room for them in Xu's small house, so they could only stand in the yard and chat.

When Xu Wen entered the house, no one stopped her. The two people near the door even made room for her.

One of them even grumbled, "Ask this girl, how well behaved and quiet she was when she was on the production team? Why is her mother speaking so harshly now?"

The people around nodded, "Who says it's not true? It's also because she married a soldier that other people can't say anything. If it were a normal girl, she would run back to her parents' home all day after marriage, and her children would have to be raised by her mother. If this gets out, people will laugh at her!"

"She just looks a little quiet. But when you talk to Wenwen, she never suffers any loss!"

"So what? No matter how powerful a woman is, after getting married and having children, she still revolves around the pot and the man, right? Of course, the man she married is special, so she doesn't have to revolve around the man. It's not her turn as a married woman to give orders in the Xu family. As long as Qiushi agrees, it's fine!"

"That's right!"

Several people surrounded Xu Qiushi while discussing.

The chattering made Xu Qiushi uncomfortable. "Isn't it good to farm? Why are you all running outside? We don't understand what they say! We are not used to the food they eat. Let's not talk about other things. Can you imagine what tofu pudding with sugar tastes like?"

"Brother Xu, you say that the outside world is so bad, why do you keep going out one after another? Your son went out and took his daughter-in-law away. When your son and daughter-in-law came back, they took their daughters and sons-in-law away. If the outside world is not good, how can you do this?"

"That's right! Uncle Qiushi, we are all neighbors, it's not right for you to earn money and eat meat without even bringing us a sip of soup!"

"That's right! Lao Xu, you say that the outside world is so bad, but you still give us enough food and money when you come back. If you really think that the outside world is bad, then let me ask you, after the New Year, will you still go out?"

Xu Qiushi frowned: "I'm going out to help my children! If they don't need me anymore, I will definitely not go out!"

No matter how good the outside world is, it is not as good as your own home.

"Okay, okay, even if you really don't want to go out, your children will still go out next year, so why don't you take us with you?"

"That's right, uncle. We are relatives of Wufu after all. Please take me with you."

“…”

Seeing that he couldn't persuade everyone, Xu Qiushi was too lazy to do it anymore and pointed into the house. "You all heard what my wife said just now. If you want to go with me, you have to agree to her request."

"Really? Qiushi, you are the head of the family, and you listen to the nonsense of a married woman? You just listen to what she says?"

"What's wrong with a married-out daughter? She is also the daughter of a man named Xu. Her name is Xu Wen!" When Xu Qiushi heard them say bad things about Xu Wen, a hint of coldness appeared in his eyes and he looked annoyed.

The person who was speaking slapped his own mouth. He almost forgot that Xu Wen had been held in the palm of the Xu family's hand since she was a child. If he said anything bad about her, the whole Xu family would be anxious. He quickly apologized: "Qiu Shi, don't be anxious! I said the wrong thing. But the conditions proposed by Wen Wen are indeed difficult for all of us to accept.

Look, who doesn’t leave their hometown to make money? The first sentence is that there is no guarantee that you will make money. Who can accept it? "

"Then tell me, what's wrong with this sentence? Does our Xu family owe you? What guarantees that you will make money? We only agree to take you out, but you still have to rely on yourselves after you get out.

Let’s not talk about the distant past. We are all farmers. Now, if you touch the spoon in the same pot, you can’t tell the difference. What about in the past?

In the same world, the same seeds, the same soil and water are managed by different people. At the autumn harvest, some people can harvest 1,000 kilograms of grain per mu of land, while others can only harvest 600 kilograms per mu.

Besides, even after sowing the seeds, there are still natural disasters and man-made disasters! Who can guarantee that you will have a 100% harvest of food in the fall?

Ask them, what's wrong with not guaranteeing that everyone will make money? Although I didn't go to work, I heard a lot about it. It's not a free-for-all in Pengcheng, the more you work, the more you get!

If you work harder, you will definitely make money. But if you are lazy and slack off at home, you will never make money!"

After Xu Qiushi finished speaking at such a length, his mouth was dry and he waved his hands, "Let's all go! Go back and think about it carefully. Going out to work is not something you can do just because you are impulsive. It's just like farming. We sow seeds in the hope of harvesting food, but we must also be prepared for not getting any harvest.

You can't just see that our family is making money and then just ignore it and spend it.

It would be fine if we made money, but if we didn't make money and there was trouble at our house during the New Year, wouldn't that mean we did something bad with good intentions and got ourselves into trouble?"

After saying this, Xu Qiushi walked into the room with his hands behind his back and locked the door from the inside as soon as he entered.

The people outside were still chattering.

Some people think that if they go out with the Xu family, they should be responsible, and if they don’t make money, it must be that they are not sincere in helping.

Some people also think that Xu Qiushi is right!

Xu Wen stood at the window of the inner room, looking at those people coldly.

Write down the words of those who always try to morally kidnap her family.

These people are all ungrateful wolves who can never be tamed.

Even if they make money, they won't say good things about their family. But if they don't make money, they will still be blamed.

"oops!"

Zhu Meizhen's scream attracted Xu Wen's attention from the window.

"This girl! Why didn't she say anything when you told her she peed? She's usually so delicate and cries when she's unhappy, but she peed so much and it's icy cold! This isn't Rainbow Island, what if she freezes her tummy?" Zhu Meizhen muttered as she collected the wet diaper, "I'll get some hot water, feel her cotton pants to see if they're wet? If they are, change them for her. Cover her with a set under the quilt at the head of the kang."

Winter in the north is really cold. Even if you light the stove and sleep on the kang, it is still so cold that you have to curl up your hands most of the time.

It's okay for adults, but children like this in early summer have to wear open-crotch pants and diapers and suffer.

Xu Wen reached out his hand and touched her pants. It was obvious that her pants were also wet, and her thighs and lower abdomen were cold.

She frowned and reached out to pull out a pair of cotton pants from under the quilt. The reason why she put them under the quilt was to keep them warm inside when she wore them. Otherwise, it would take a while for Xiao Xiachu to wear warm cotton pants.

Xu Wen had just taken off Xiao Xiachu's cotton pants when Zhu Meizhen came in with warm water.

Xu Wen took the warm towel and gently wiped Xiao Xiachu.

The heartless little girl smiled at Xu Wen, baring her only two teeth.

Zhu Meizhen shook her head, amused and angry at the same time: "I don't know which of you this girl takes after! She's so good at making people laugh!"

This question is something that Xu Wen cannot answer.

Zhu Meizhen just sighed, not really wanting to know the answer, shaking her head and sighing, "You brothers and sisters all grew up like this, including Chunsheng. Those naughty boys were okay, I didn't feel that bad. But when you and Xu Wang were little... let's not talk about you, even now, you can see how many people in the production team are willing to use diapers like you? We are all sandy. At that time, every time you and Xu Wang changed the soil, sometimes it was too late and I really felt bad.

"Every little butt is drowned! ! Alas!"

The diapers Xu Wen prepared for Xiao Xiachu were all made of cotton thread and absorbent fabric.

Although she felt that this was not a bit worse than not wetting the diaper, Xiao Xiachu's treatment was already better than other children.

At least it is unique in Taoyuan production team.

In Wei Zhuang Commune, in most people’s homes, children might wear diapers during the day, but most of the time they were “sandbags”.

This kind of sandbag is not a sandbag for boxing.

It is something that women at home sew together with cloth, a bit like a sleeping bag, with a regular bag at the bottom and an open top, and several bags that can be tied around the child's neck.

Often, family members would go to the Yellow River to get some sand and bring it back, then sift it through a sieve several times to remove the small stones and large particles, leaving only the fine sand, and then fry it in a pan.

Stir-fry the water out of the sand, leaving only the whitish fine sand.

When the sand in the iron pot has cooled enough to no longer be hot, put some of it into a sandbag and then put the baby in.

The warm and soft sand is quite comfortable to sleep on.

Even if you urinate occasionally, it will be absorbed quickly and will not soak your butt.

"How about..." Zhu Meizhen took the handkerchief from Xu Wen's hand and replaced it with a clean one for her, "Let your father bring a cart of sand, and we can make a sandbag for Xiao Xiachu?"

Xu Wen shook his head and refused: "Forget it! She has never been used to sleeping in that position since she was a child. Who knows what kind of noise she will make if this is put in!"

Zhu Meizhen said it casually, not forcing it: "That's right! This girl has been used to being clean since she was a child! Besides, sandy soil also has its disadvantages. We still have to change the soil every once in a while.

Otherwise the urine-soaked sand will be even colder."

Xu Wen nodded without saying anything, thinking to himself, this sandbag and urine-proof device are similar in nature.

When Xia Chu was born, Xu Wen had thought about getting some urine to prevent it from getting wet.

She also asked Mo Jing, and Mo Jing said that in fact, diapers had been available as early as the early 1940s, but they were not for ordinary people, but for astronauts.

At present, there are no specialized baby diapers sold in China.

At least not in the Magic Mirror's database.

Before on Rainbow Island, changing diapers wasn’t that troublesome, and Xu Wen was too busy to study how to prevent diapers from getting wet.

Now that I have come to the north, I have realized the necessity of not getting my urine wet.

Xu Wen helped Xia Chu put on her pants and put her diaper back in place.

Diapers are often folded into a long strip, from the front crotch to the back and tucked around the waist.

At about seven months old, Xiao Xiachu can already sit steadily, but at this stage, he wants to put everything he sees into his mouth.

If he is not given food, he will eat his own fists. And because he is teething, he drools all the time.

Xu Wen gave her two boiled toys for her to grind her teeth on, and then he leaned on the folded quilt, thinking about the possibility of having sex without getting the diaper wet.

Even without a magic mirror, Xu Wen knew the production principle of non-wetting diapers. It is nothing more than polymer water-absorbent material as the main inner material, and non-woven fabric and plastic layer as the base material.

The problem is that knowing does not necessarily mean you can do it.

The magic mirror said that the urine produced on the assembly line is not wet because it is made by machines. Now Xu asked where he could buy the machine?

However, Xu Wen suddenly felt that the problem of what kind of factory to open had been solved, so she decided to make maternal and child products, starting with diapers.

But, this is something to do after returning to Rainbow Island. The most urgent task is to solve Xiao Xiachu’s problem of not getting his urine wet.

What to do?

Xu Wen thought for a long time and decided to hand-sew two diapers for temporary use.

Polymer water-absorbent materials must have been common in my previous life, such as water bombs.

They are often found in toy guns. When you first get them, the blue bullets are not much bigger than a millet grain, but after soaking in water they become slightly larger than a soybean grain.

There are many other places to see it.

For example, if you pour a small bag of scented sand into an ashtray and add a little water, it will fill the ashtray.

Thinking of this, Xu Wen closed his eyes and summoned the magic mirror.

"Mirror, mirror, baby wants to know how water bombs are made."

The magic mirror quickly gave the result, but unfortunately it was not what Xu Wen wanted.

Xu Wen asked again, "Mirror, mirror, baby wants to know how SAP is made?"

SAP is the abbreviation of polymer water-absorbent resin. It has a strong water-retaining capacity and can absorb hundreds or even thousands of times its own weight in water. It is also the raw material of sanitary napkins and diapers.

After careful research, Xu Wenzai began to collect relevant chemical raw materials for production.

I'm busy for several days.

By the time the SAP was completed, it was already New Year's Eve.

Xu Wen made some slight modifications according to the size of the diaper and added straps at both ends to facilitate disassembly.

Evenly spread the homemade polymer water-absorbent resin and cotton wool mixture inside and put it on Xiao Xiachu.

Zhu Meizhen was the first to express doubts, "Is it okay if it's so thin?"

There is just a thin layer of white stuff in the middle of the two layers of cloth, and I don't know what it is.

It's not even as thick as the diapers I usually use, and I pee all over myself.

As it turns out, there was no peeing all over.

Every New Year’s Eve, Zhu Meizhen is the busiest person because she has to cook a big table of dishes.

Xu Qiushi and Xu Wen still had to go to visit their grandmother's grave.

Just in time to catch up with Xu Wang and his wife who came to say farewell to the New Year.

This year is different from previous years. The New Year's goods sent by Xu Wang are particularly abundant.

She now stands tall and straight in her husband's house.

Although her mother-in-law has not handed over the house to her, she has her own money.

Xu Wen, Xu Wang, and Sang Xiaoqing sat together, helping to pick vegetables and chatting.

"My mother-in-law even pressured me to give her all the money I earned this year. She said a family shouldn't have two people in charge of accounting." Xu Wang said this angrily, and he cut a celery stick in half.

Xu asked her: "You didn't fight back?"

"Of course! I said, 'That's right! Mom, how much money did you and dad earn this year? How about I put it all in the bank? It would save the family's money from being scattered here and there.' My mother-in-law was speechless." Xu Wang said this with a proud look on his face.

She would never tell others about such things before. Whenever she came to Xu's house, she would only report good news and not worries.

Now I have completely escaped from the Xie family and have nothing to fear.

"Your mother-in-law compromised with just this one sentence?" Sang Xiaoqing was a little unconvinced.

"Of course it's impossible. She told me that she was the head of the family and I should give her the money. I told her that was unrealistic, I was a businessman and all the money in my hands was capital. I also wanted her to support me a little. Of course she was reluctant to give me any. She complained to my father-in-law and my husband. Unfortunately, no one stood on her side."

Father-in-law Xu Wang has always been a man of status in the brigade, and he couldn't bring himself to ask his daughter-in-law for the money she earned.

As for Xie Dechun, he is of course on the same page as Xu Wang.

Everyone in the brigade thought that he and Xu Wang had made a fortune after going out for a year, but no one knew better than him how he and Xu Wang had spent the year. If Xu Wang had given the money to his mother, she would have used it to build houses for other brothers and even to help her grandson get married.

Xie Dechun also disagreed with this matter and told Xu Wang that doing business requires capital and he could not give it to his family.

His mother was so angry that she started cursing at them and said she would cut off all ties with them and told them to get out.

"Why don't you just get out?" Xu Wen wondered, "What a great opportunity!"

"Of course I don't want to. I discussed with your brother-in-law and decided to split up the family. We couldn't afford to build a house before, but now we have money and can build a few. Unfortunately, my father-in-law scolded my mother-in-law and forced her to apologize to us. We are the younger generation after all, what else can we do?"

Xu Wen felt a little regretful.

Xu Wang said happily: "You don't know, my mother-in-law is regretting it now, especially for letting Dechun and I go out to do business."

"How can I not regret it? Originally you were the only daughter-in-law left by her side to serve her and let her boss her around. She sent you away because she was blinded by money, and she didn't even have anyone to order around. We have already divided the family, and the other two daughters-in-law wouldn't listen to her. As a result, when you came back, not only did you not give her the money, but you even wanted to fly away on your own now that you have grown big enough!" Sang Xiaoqing also followed suit to gloat over the misfortune.

Xu Wang said, "I was just about to tell you about this! How did you know before I even opened my mouth?"

Our two production teams are not far from each other. I heard about it when I went out to visit. To be honest, I have to thank Wen Wen for giving me such a high status in the village. "Sang Xiaoqing glanced at Xu Wen, "Now they all want to follow us to Pengcheng. Our father refused them and said that he didn't care as long as Xu Wen agreed. As a result, many people who offended Xu Wen came to our house to ask Xu Wen for permission, but were rejected. They had no choice but to turn their attention to me. Now I am always the honored guest when I go out!"

"Me too, me too! Many people from our team came to me and said they wanted to work with me. But I didn't let go either, I just said I would make a living with my sister and brother-in-law."

"Someone from my mother's family asked me too! I didn't dare to answer." Sang Xiaoqing sighed, "Originally I would have to answer for the sake of face. But I've seen so many people coming to our house recently, they only think about making money and don't think about not making money. It's good if they can make money, but if they can't, won't they all blame me? I dare not answer."

Especially since they are all relatives from her mother's side, when that day really comes, she will have to pay some money.

She and Xu Wen earned their money through hard work and did not want to do such a thankless job.

"From now on, if anyone comes to look for you, let them come to me." Xu Wen said in a calm voice.

She couldn't reject all of them. She had already decided what kind of factory to open and she would need employees.

"Ouch! Ancestors!" Zhu Meizhen exclaimed, and then began to scold Xu Wen and the other three, "You three mothers, are you so careless? You're just chatting there and not caring about your children! Look at the children, they've peed... Eh? Not wet?"

Xu Wen, Sang Xiaoqing, and Xu Wang put down the dishes in their hands and rushed into the house.

Xu Wen quickly wiped his hands with a towel.

Zhu Meizhen stared at Xia Chu's new diaper with a strange look on her face. "It's obviously bulging so big, but it's not leaking or wet?"

Xu Wen touched it and found it was a little damp inside, which was acceptable.

It was her first time, and she couldn't grasp the right amount of sap to release. After all, the amount of water in the first pee of a baby in confinement is very different from that of a seven-month-old Xiaoxia.

Obviously this can only be installed once, and it won't work next time.

Xu Wen took the diaper off Xiao Xiachu's waist and replaced it with a new one. This time, he spilled a little more, so in order to prevent the polymer water-absorbing material from running around, he put a layer of tape on it to secure it. He reinstalled it and put it on Xiao Xiachu.

Sang Xiaoqing and Xu Wang had never seen him before, so they followed Xu Wen and looked around curiously.

Xu Wen poured out the polymer material inside the used diapers and washed the breathable non-disposable cotton outer layer.

"Let me ask you, what have you messed up again? The child can't even urinate completely?"

"It's called a non-wet diaper, or a paper diaper. The principle is similar to our sandbags, and they are filled with absorbent chemicals. It's better than a sandbag in that you can move around freely, it's not that heavy, and it's easy to change."

"Wenwen, you are really amazing!" Sang Xiaoqing raised her thumb and sighed sincerely. Xu Wen was already tired of hearing this. "You are indeed a college student! Your brain is really good. It seems that there is nothing you can't do."

Xu Wang seemed to be thinking about something. "I think I've seen something similar to yours. But it's not for children. It's for a wealthy VIP customer in our store. She said hers is called..."

Xu Wang frowned, unable to remember.

Xu asked, "Sanitary napkins?"