After living here for a long time, Chen Xuanxuan had to tell the truth.
Many people in the ancient countryside had really bad living habits.
Washing hands before meals and after defecation is a common understanding among modern socialist Chinese.
However, people here simply cannot do it.
Before every breakfast, Chen Xuanxuan would ask everyone in the family to wash their hands. Moreover, she would personally supervise them and let them rub their hands clean.
However, she could clearly see the impatience and confusion on their faces.
Even Jiang, who Chen Xuanxuan once thought was educated, would dislike her for being pretentious. She felt that she was really wasting water...
Chen Xuanxuan even heard Jiang say in person that she was too good at making trouble!
That time, Chen Xuanxuan was so angry that she almost couldn't speak.
Asking the whole family to wash hands before meals and after going to the toilet, is this acting like a demon?
Then her definition of a demon is too narrow...
Thinking that these people's living habits need years of cultivation, Chen Xuanxuan had to be patient and explain to the family members again and again.
"The main reason why I ask you to wash your hands before meals and after going to the toilet is that it is easy to accumulate bad luck on our hands that is invisible to the naked eye..."
"Let's think about it, what is the toilet?"
"That's the dirtiest place in the world..."
Fortunately, before Chen Xuanxuan could finish her words, her father-in-law Gu Yu'an couldn't help but jump out.
"Daughter-in-law, you always say such things. In fact, I have seen through it a long time ago. You just particularly dislike us country people..."
"As the saying goes, one should not forget the well diggers when drinking water. As human beings, we must not forget our roots. It's not that I say bad things, but you, as a mother, should not be said such things by your children every time. ... You should think carefully about where the things you eat, drink and use come from. Without us country people using such precious feces and urine to fertilize the fields, do you think you can still eat such delicious food now?"
... Chen Xuanxuan was particularly annoyed every time she was lectured by her father-in-law with similar words.
Chen Xuanxuan has realized that her father-in-law is a nitpicker.
He argues with her every day!
It seems that he feels uncomfortable if he doesn't argue a few times a day.
To be honest, she is really unhappy to be with this kind of nitpicker who likes to say that others are not good in this or that way.
Chen Xuanxuan also believes that any normal person who gets along with such a person will stay away from him at the first time.
Chen Xuanxuan actually knows that the reason why her father-in-law argues with her in front of the children is nothing more than to establish himself in front of them as the head of the family.
Chen Xuanxuan, considering his age, was too lazy to point out his thoughts.
So, after she coughed lightly, she said seriously, "Father-in-law, please don't put a hat on me, and don't be so sensitive."
"When have I ever forgotten my roots? As a farmer, I will never give up on myself..."
Chen Xuanxuan sometimes felt sincerely, and she would not say anything
unless she agreed with him. She had known for a long time that she and the old man in front of her had nothing in common.
Because she knew very well in her heart that in the ancient society where productivity was particularly backward, the vast majority of people were uneducated.
In other words, 99.% of people were basically illiterate.
They had never read a book and did not recognize a single word. Some people had never even left the village and lived on that small piece of land all their lives.
People like this actually had no knowledge.
They are traditional, ignorant, feudal, superstitious, and backward. They are also particularly conservative.
People among them, whether male or female, old or young, cannot be exposed to new things. They do not recognize new ideas.
Most of them always say, "Our ancestors once said...", "Our ancestors once did...".
It seems that what those dead people said and did were all right.
People who have not read books are like this. People who have read books, in essence, are actually no different.
Because those who hold a few holy books and read them every day will always say "Confucius said, Confucius said..."
In their view, what Confucius said is right, and what Confucius did is also right.
In short, Confucius is the teacher of all things. The words Confucius once said are the criteria for measuring all their actions.
The longer she lives here, the more Chen Xuanxuan feels. One month is the time when she can clearly feel the obvious sense of confinement.
Sometimes, Chen Xuanxuan even has an extreme feeling in her heart. That is, she feels that her breathing is not very free.
...
Chen Xuanxuan, who really doesn't want to see her father-in-law, deliberately changes the subject because she has always had a high psychological quality.
"Father-in-law, you are an elderly person. If you don't want to wash your hands, don't wash them. Anyway, it's up to you. I can't force you to wash your hands."
After saying this, she began to serve food to the whole family.
Chen Xuanxuan doesn't like it very much. Everyone in the family fights hard at the table to eat more food.
She doesn't like it even more when some people pick and choose in the bowl when they encounter a dish they don't want to eat. It was like washing chopsticks.
Especially when she saw her father-in-law licking the oil off the chopsticks with his mouth, and then immediately using the chopsticks to turn over and over in the food, and when she didn't know what he was doing, Chen Xuanxuan felt the blue veins on her forehead rushing out...
This behavior really ruined people's appetite. She couldn't stand it.
It was too unhygienic.
Although some people said that this behavior was nothing, it was just using chopsticks to turn over and wash the food a little more? ! It wouldn't make the food taste bad or anything.
However, Chen Xuanxuan really couldn't swallow other people's saliva.
Especially when she realized that there were many people here who had never brushed their teeth in their lives.
Thinking about brushing teeth, Chen Xuanxuan thought of a particularly bad habit her family had in the past.
That is, no matter whether they were men or women, old or young, they never wiped their butts...
For them, taking a bath and washing their hair seemed to have become a luxury at certain times.
For the health of her entire family, in addition to her parents-in-law, she repeatedly emphasized to her man and her two daughters that they should take a bath, wash their hair, and change clothes frequently.
In short, personal hygiene issues must be taken care of!
Fortunately, she helped them kill all the lice and fleas in the house several times a few days ago.