Strict Wife of the ’70s Manages the Household

entire script memorised just by reciting it several times.

He also helped Lin Lan to change her tone and speak it in a more colloquial way.
This would result in the members understanding and accepting her better.

Lin Lan tried out his suggestion.

The first program was Liu Chuncai’s talk show, which spoke about having a certain type of family.

“There lived such a family where the old lady practised foot-binding(4) and she didn’t wash her feet all year round.
She insisted that a few very specific dates were the only days she could wash her feet since those were the days the Lord of the Underworld purged sins.
Any other day would cause her feet to be gnawed off by little demons.
As a result, she didn’t wash them once for a long, long time.
As that prolonged, her feet started to get smellier.
It wasn’t that bad since it was binded, but when the cloth unravelled, the stench was so overpowering that it spread for 18 miles.
And then…”

(T/N: Foot-binding is an ancient Chinese practice that girls would have to go through even until adulthood.
They purposefully bind their feet with tight cloth and wear shoes that are sizes smaller just so they can alter the shape of their feet.
It was considered attractive and also symbolised girls/women’s willingness to obey their husband, but it became banned in the last century as it was very harmful)

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“There was another family that consisted of a young couple.
One was lazy and the other was greedy…”

“Liu Chuncai, what happened to that stinky foot lady? What happened next?” A member of the commune anxiously asked, “What happened to her stinky foot?”

Liu Chuncai answered with a straight face, “What else was there? With stinky feet like yours, we’re all already dying from suffocation, so what do you expect from hers? She died from the stench, sighh…”