Double-Cut During the War of Resistance: My Wife Came from 1937

"No...nowhere is it as good as you say!"

Seeing Ma Hongwei praise her so highly, Xia Weiwei couldn't help but blush.

In her view, she was just an ordinary female soldier in the Eighth Route Army, and she even had a bit of a spoiled princess attitude. There were plenty of women better than her.

"Of course!"

Ma Hongwei pinched the other girl's cheek and said very seriously, "You are the best girl in the world, a treasure bestowed upon me by heaven!"

"Pfft!"

Xia Weiwei couldn't help but laugh out loud.

But judging from her expression, she was clearly quite pleased.

Xia Weiwei then asked, "By the way, what is a 'tall, rich, and handsome' man?"

"It means exactly what it says."

Ma Hongwei said, "He has to be tall, over 180 cm, handsome, like a male celebrity, and rich, with assets of at least tens of millions and an annual income of over one million."

"If it's a girl from a big city who's more picky, she might even require assets of over 100 million."

"A former colleague's cousin is a local from Shanghai. Her family owns a house worth tens of millions of yuan and considers herself to be from an A8 family. So she doesn't like any of the Shanghai men that others introduce to her. She insists on being from an A9 family, which means a family with assets of over 100 million yuan."

This was said by Ma Hongwei's colleague himself. That colleague wouldn't spread rumors about his own cousin to outsiders, would he?

There's absolutely no need for that.

"What? Earning millions a year? Assets worth tens of millions, or even over a hundred million?"

Upon hearing this, Xia Weiwei couldn't help but ask, "There must be very few people like that, right?"

"Not just very few, but extremely few!"

Ma Hongwei said, "Even though things have developed so well in later generations, not everyone is rich."

"There are only 70 to 80 people with a pre-tax income of one million. After taxes, they only have about 70 left. And there are only a few thousand people in the whole country who can earn one million a year after taxes."

"Of course, this doesn't include self-employed individuals, business owners, landlords, and stock market speculators; if you include them, the number would be much higher."

"As for those with assets of tens of millions, it's actually easier. For example, many families in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen who received compensation for their demolished homes own more than one property, so their assets are definitely over ten million."

"Just like my elementary school classmates in Fengtai, all the locals became beneficiaries of the demolition compensation. Some went to study in the UK, some in South Korea, some in Japan, and they all became international students."

"People have already eaten Wellington steak when they were in school, while I've only ever heard of it. It feels like it's not worth spending hundreds of dollars to eat just a tiny bit of bread and beef."

"As the saying goes in 'Teahouse,' even a dog is better off being born in the capital! Being born in a big city is an advantage over being born in a small town!"

Xia Weiwei sighed, "By their standards, it'll be very difficult for them to get married, won't it?"

"Of course!"

Ma Hongwei nodded and said, "In the first half of this year, only 327.5 million couples got married nationwide, while there are 1.44 million unmarried men and 0.99 million unmarried women of marriageable age."

"Of the more than 240 million unmarried men and women, only about 6 million get married in six months?"

Xia Weiwei was stunned.

"There's nothing I can do; all the TV dramas and novels these days feature domineering CEOs falling in love with divorced women with kids like me."

Ma Hongwei shook his head and said, "Everyone sets their sights on the richest group, looking down on everyone else. How can they not get married?"

"If you're handsome, can afford the dowry, and can buy a house and a car, I'll make do with you."

"But if you're neither rich nor handsome, you'll most likely never get married!"

Xia Weiwei fell silent.

She didn't know what to say anymore.

In later generations, it was monogamy. There were so few rich people, so how many wives could they marry?

As for keeping mistresses, it's only something to do when they're young and beautiful. Once the novelty wears off, or they get old and lose their looks, they'll probably be discarded like worn-out shoes.

She comes from a capitalist background, so naturally she has seen plenty of things like this.

"Alright, let's not talk about this anymore."

Ma Hongwei said, "Wait for me inside for a while, I'll go buy it for you right away."

After leaving the hut, Ma Hongwei drove his van away from the warehouse.

He drove directly to the Yonghui Supermarket in the city.

Ma Hongwei was a lifelong single before.

Those Indian men you meet through blind dates don't even hold hands, so naturally, things don't progress to the point where you end up buying sanitary napkins.

This was his first time buying sanitary napkins, and he had no idea how to buy them.

So, while driving, Ma Hongwei searched on Xiaohongshu (Little Red Book).

If you don't search, you don't know.

He never expected that all those well-known sanitary napkin brands would actually be involved in such scandals.

Cotton Code, for example, tested positive for thiourea, an industrial bleaching agent. Long-term exposure can interfere with the thyroid gland.

There's also Sophie and Total Age, where insect eggs and such were found.

Needles and insect eggs have also been found in Seven Degrees Space.

Kotex and Always products have been found to contain black spots, foreign objects, and fluorescent whitening agents.

"Damn it!"

Ma Hongwei was furious when he saw it.

How come food safety issues haven't been resolved yet, and now even sanitary napkins are considered safe?

Every year, the 315 Gala only focuses on exposing wrongdoings and imposing fines, and then it stops doing anything else?

Sigh, only heartless people can make big money!

After searching further, he discovered that there were also medical-grade and medical-grade products.

At first, I was thinking of buying just these two, but then I saw other people debunking the rumors.

Medical-grade sanitary napkins don't even exist; the State Food and Drug Administration doesn't even have this category.

Medical and nursing grade, however, is not part of the national standard classification.

To put it simply, these are marketing tactics and selling points created by individuals to promote their products.

Like the previous "Qianhe 0" trademark, it is not truly zero-additive.

These unscrupulous merchants who play word games are equally disgusting.

"Let's buy the sterilized version!"

Ma Hongwei arrived at Yonghui Supermarket and asked the stock clerk, "Which sanitary napkins are sterilized?"

"They're all over there."

The clerk pointed and asked, "Do you need daytime pads? Or day and night pads? Or extra-long night pads? Or panty liners?"

"Forehead!"

Ma Hongwei was stunned on the spot.

He never imagined that there were so many different types of sanitary napkins.

Ma Hongwei replied truthfully, "Sorry, this is the first time I've bought this for my girlfriend, so I don't know which one she needs. Just give me some of each!"

"OK."

The other person responded and helped him select some items.

"It seems like you've started your period; you should drink brown sugar water, right?"

Thinking this, Ma Hongwei went and bought several packets of brown sugar, some ginger, some red dates, some beef, a black-boned chicken, and some fruit.

He didn't buy any fruits with cooling properties, like watermelon, this time.