After they finished talking about their own things, they came out of the house. After all, there were so many people outside and they couldn't stay inside all the time.
She would be accused of being unruly by some people in the village. It was obviously a good thing, and she didn't want to wait until the end and ruin her reputation.
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The day of their departure soon came. Those who left were in high spirits, but the parents and relatives who stayed at home were a little sad.
They were a little worried when they thought about their children going to such a far place to work on their own, after all, this had never happened before.
How could they not be worried when they didn't know when they would be able to return? So when it was time to leave, everyone was reluctant to leave.
But when I think of their children, they are going to a better future. No matter how I tell others about it, it is better than farming here.
So although everyone was reluctant, they still let their children get on the bus to the county town.
There were more than 100 people, and even if they used all the ox carts in the village, it was still not enough, so they went to other villages to borrow a few.
"Grandpa, I'll come back to see you during the summer vacation. Then I can be with you for a long time."
Xia Yanbing also sat in the car and shouted: "Mom and Dad, go back quickly and wait for your son to go to the city to make a lot of money for you."
The people in other cars also waved frantically at their parents, and some sentimental people shouted at them:
"Mom, Dad, Grandpa, Grandma, please go back soon. When I make a lot of money over there, I will take you all over."
"Mom, when I make money, I'll bring it back and renovate our house. I'll also build you a two-story building."
"My grandparents are waiting for me to make money, so you guys can just wait and enjoy the good life."
Although the farewell was sad, everyone was talking to each other, expressing their hopes and expectations for the future.
When the parents across the street heard their children's words, tears welled up in their eyes. They just stared at them until they could no longer see them before turning back.
In this way, they sat in the ox cart and slowly entered the city under the reluctant gaze of everyone.
The little girl who was sitting in a carriage with Xia Jin and the others asked timidly:
"Can we really go to the capital? What if I don't do well?"
"I have no education. If I can't learn, will I be fired?"
Xia Jin listened to their words, looked at the anxious expressions on their faces, and said comfortingly:
"Your job doesn't require any education, and it's pretty simple to learn. Don't be afraid. As long as you do your job well, you won't be fired."
"Besides, you're already scared before you even start. You were so confident just now."
"I have no confidence. I was just trying to comfort my parents. I've never been out of the county before. The thought of going so far away makes my heart tremble."
"Me too, me too. I never thought I would be able to go to the capital in this lifetime."
"Sister Xiaojin, can I call you that?"
"You can all just call me Xiao Jin. Going to the capital is no big deal. If you do well and we make money, I'll treat you to a trip to the south."
"When you make enough money, you can bring your parents to the capital to visit. Since you have passed our selection, don't underestimate yourselves."
"Xiao Jin, you are really amazing. You don't know how surprised everyone in our village was when the news about you spread to our village."
"Yes, yes. My grandma always asked me to do this and that before. But after the news about you, Xiaojin, came back, she has become nicer to me."
"Me too, me too. Although I'm still not as good as my younger brother and older brother, I'm much better than usual."
"The status of many girls in our village has changed. Their families no longer think of selling them for betrothal gifts. They now find good husbands for them and no longer treat them like cattle."
"Although no one has said it, we all know that this is your achievement. The girls in the village who have suffered from the patriarchal society can thank you."
Xia Jin looked at them and said with a smile: "Girls, if we have a good platform when we go to work, we will be no worse than boys."
"Just like the farm work you do at home, there's no difference between what your mother does and what your father does. So this shows that us girls are no worse than you."
"Don't feel inferior because you're a girl. Hold your heads up high. Everyone, work hard in that place. Maybe in the future you'll be able to manage boys too."
When the girls in the car heard what Xia Jin said, their faces were all excited:
"Really? That's great."
"I also want to show my family what's wrong with girls. They are no worse than my brothers."
"That's right, they always say we're not as good as them in this or that, but in which job do we do less than them?"
They staggered along the way until they first arrived at the town, then they packed some food that was easy to carry and distributed it to the people in the car.
Because there were so many of them, the car from the town to the county town could not carry them, so they could only take an ox cart to the county town.
Riding an oxcart was actually quite fast, but still not as fast as a bus. They could only rest in the county town at night and wait until the next morning to leave by train.
When they set out for the county town in the morning, it was already past four in the afternoon. They quickly found two guesthouses and stayed in them separately.
This was their last meal here, so I went downstairs to invite them to a restaurant for a good meal.
It is the last meal and also the first meal. After this meal, they will leave here and head towards a better future for me.
Looking at the pots of meat served in the restaurant, those people's eyes almost popped out. In the village, they would never make meat like this.
There is only a limited amount of money earned from farming in a year. If you want to eat meat, you can only do so during the autumn harvest during the Chinese New Year. At other times, people from better-off families can still enjoy some meat, but people from poorer families can get nothing to eat.
Boys are like that, not to mention girls. Many girls cannot eat meat during the Chinese New Year, so they are very happy to see the pots of meat coming up.
But it might also be that their family had given them some instructions when they left, and when they saw so many things coming up, although they didn't react at first, they immediately looked at Xia Jin after they reacted.
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