Yan Yan's mother, Lu Bingran, didn't look at all like someone who ran a machinery factory.
Lu Bingran was a beauty-loving and very fashionable woman.
Mrs. Yan was very firm, adamant about never leaving the house without makeup.
Such people are common nowadays, but if you look back to the 1970s, there were very few girls who started wearing makeup as teenagers.
It wasn't that girls at that time didn't care about beauty, but in an era of scarce resources, cosmetics simply weren't accessible to every young girl.
Since the day Yanlu Shoe Machine was founded, Lu Bingran had been a beautiful and unique presence in the factory.
She was like a fashionable lady, moving among the dusty workers in the workshop, creating a stark and striking contrast.
From her teenage years, Lu Bingran had often asked relatives abroad to send her cosmetics.
Decades before the birth of Taobao and personal shoppers, Lu Bingran had already mastered the skills and methods of finding "personal shoppers."
