Chapter 73: Quietness Comes When The Child Stops Making A Fuss
In the 1980s, in the poorer rural areas, women would use cloth for their periods. They would wash and reuse them. Families in slightly better financial situations, like Li Nuanchun’s, preferred rectangular sanitary napkins. The paper was a bit hard and uncomfortable, but the price was indeed very affordable.
Only women like Yu Shiya could afford to use sanitary napkins. To them, these were considered luxury items, items that were disposed of after a single use. Why should they use such good stuff?
They reasoned that it would be better to save some money and buy a few pounds of meat instead.
Of course, although hospital nurses did not earn much, they had a tendency to compete with each other. Most of them also used sanitary napkins. Chen Yanmei would always make sarcastic comments behind their backs whenever she saw them. They were in no financial position to afford such things!
Tong Yao, seeing that her reasoning wasn’t working, had a sudden idea and said, "Sister-in-law, buy them for me. If I do get pregnant, I’ll give the sanitary napkins to you to use."
"Ah?" Li Nuanchun was stunned. All her persuasions had gone out the window. She was overjoyed, as if she had won a lottery. Her smile leaked into the corners of her mouth, "How could I accept something so expensive from you? Buying these things is more expensive than buying pork. How many packs are you buying? Do you have a particular brand preference?"
Li Nuanchun had lived for many years but had never used sanitary napkins before. The young nurses all praised their usefulness, but she always claimed to be unaccustomed to them. In reality, she simply couldn’t bear to part with the money. After all, who wouldn’t want to use a good product if it was free?
Li Nuanchun didn’t have a job and relied on Dai Liwen’s support. Although Dai Liwen was not stingy with his money, his expenditures were mostly spent on trivialities and necessary items.