Chapter 70 Wanting to be a nanny
With Uncle Lu's attitude being so good and Lu Sitian's sweet talk, the awkwardness between them disappeared within the time it took to finish a meal.
After they had eaten and drunk their fill, they formally began to explain the purpose of their visit.
My second uncle looked embarrassed and embarrassed: "This, this, oh, I, I, oh..."
Lu Sitian said frankly, "I heard that a nanny can earn a lot of money in a month just by wiping tables, sweeping floors, washing clothes, and cooking, so I want to find a nanny job."
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The Lu family of four was stunned.
Ping An Ji Xiang, perhaps sensing its owner's surprise, stopped running around and obediently squatted down at Lu's parents' feet, panting heavily with its tongue lolling out.
My second uncle's dark face turned a deep red, and after a long pause, he finally said, "That brat, she's got money to burn."
"Tiezhu's eldest granddaughter from our village works as a nanny outside. She came back a while ago with a lot of money, and many young women in the village have been tempted by her."
He pointed at Lu Sitian: "Her family had already arranged a boyfriend for her, but she refused and insisted on going out with someone to work as a nanny to earn money."
"If I hadn't woken up early that day and discovered it, that brat would have run off with someone else."
“She’s determined to become a nanny, but she doesn’t know if the people outside are reliable. So I thought I’d ask you, second brother, to help me see if you know anyone who is looking for a reliable nanny to help her find one.”
"Sigh, I really don't know what this girl is thinking."
"Isn't a nanny just a maid or servant from before Liberation? She could have been married off and become someone's wife, but she didn't want to. She insisted on serving others."
Lu Sitian retorted, "What's wrong with serving people? I can work as a nanny and they still pay me a salary."
"Isn't being someone's wife also about serving a whole family? I go and serve my husband's family, but they don't even pay me. No matter how much I do, it's all for nothing."
"Anyway, being a nanny just involves cooking, washing, and cleaning, which I do every day at home too."
"I'm not stupid. Since both jobs involve serving others, why wouldn't I choose the one with a salary?"
"Besides, isn't my desire to earn money for our family?"
“Look around our village, who hasn’t built a new house? It’s just our family, we still have those same few mud-brick houses.”
“I’ll be getting married and moving out eventually, so an adobe house is fine, I won’t be living here for many more years anyway.”
“But my brother is already sixteen, and he’ll be getting married in four years.”
"You can't expect my brother to get married in our mud-brick house, can you?"
"You, as a father, don't care about your son, but I care about my brother."
The second uncle blushed deeply, unable to utter a single word, after being confronted by his daughter's sharp tongue.
Jiang Jiani was very impressed with her younger cousin.
It is said that this little cousin stopped going to school after finishing elementary school. According to her, she stayed at home doing housework, working in the fields with her parents, and didn't particularly enjoy reading.
Unexpectedly, despite not liking to read, their thinking was so advanced.
Even thirty years from now, this girl's thinking will still be avant-garde.
However, there is one strange thing.
Given her advanced thinking, why would she still want to build a house for her younger brother?
However, it was inappropriate for Jiang Jianni, as her niece-in-law, to ask this question.
Lu Xiangyang, without any reservations, frowned and said, "You're a young lady, you can keep the money you earn yourself, you don't need to worry about your brother."
"Your brother is younger than you, but he's still a man. He'll grow up eventually."
"In our Lu family, there is no reason for men to spend women's money; it would be a laughing stock if word got out."
My second uncle looked ashamed: "It's my fault for being incompetent..."
Lu Sitian's eyes lit up: "Brother, don't you think it's shameful for women to go out and do manual labor?"
Mr. Lu frowned: "How many years have we been chanting the slogan of gender equality? Haven't they heard that women hold up half the sky?"
"Women are much more capable than many men, so how is that shameful?"
Lu Sitian looked on with sympathy: "That's right."
"Second Uncle, you don't know, the people in our village are getting more and more backward as they get older."
"Just a few years ago, everyone was equal, but now they've started to favor sons over daughters again."
"Isn't there a one-child policy now? Many couples drown or abandon their baby girls."
"You remember the ditch on the west side of our village?"
“Every few days, people go to the ditch to bury children.”
Jiang Jianni was stunned: "This, this, this is too exaggerated!"
Before retiring, Aunt Lu was a nurse who dedicated her life to saving lives. Hearing that many baby girls died at birth, her eyes immediately welled up with tears, and she said emotionally:
"How could they do this? Aren't girls human beings? Won't their sons get married in the future? Why don't they bury their own mothers and grandmothers? They are women too."
Lu Sitian said expressionlessly, "They are the ones who buried the child, they are the ones who said girls are useless and will belong to someone else's family sooner or later, and they are the ones who refused to die."
The Lu family of four: "..."
My second uncle was shocked: "You brat, how many times have I told you? Don't say things like that in public! Are you just pretending not to hear me?"
Lu's father glared at him and slammed his fist on the table: "Am I an outsider? Lu Erdan, you're saying I'm an outsider?"
My second uncle was terrified: "No, no, no, I, I, I didn't mean that..."
Lu's father is much older than his second uncle.
When Lu's father joined the army, his second uncle was still breastfeeding.
Later, he met his cousin no more than five times in total, and he both respected and feared this most capable cousin.
He wouldn't have dared to visit her in person if he didn't really want his daughter to go out with random people.
Mr. Lu snorted coldly: "By the way, where's your wife?"
"From what I've heard you two talking about, this girl is talking about her brother. Where is your wife?"
"My son is still young, but my wife is not."
"Why don't you let your wife stay home to take care of the children and go out to earn money?"
“Many construction sites outside are filled with migrant workers from other places. If you go out and work on a construction site with the people from your village for a few years, you can save up money to build a house for your son.”
"Why would your daughter, who is so young, need to plan for her younger brother?"
"Sons are children, and daughters are children too."
"Second brother, you can't be biased."
Lu's father's words were full of deep meaning.
There's nothing he can do; he only has four sons and no daughters.
He was so desperate for his daughter that he didn't appreciate his second son's filial piety. He even wanted to take her away and bring her home himself.
He was speaking with great satisfaction, unaware that his cousin's expression darkened the moment he asked, "Your wife."
Lu Sitian, on the other hand, remained calm and patiently listened to her father finish speaking before smiling and saying, "Second Uncle, I don't have a mother."
“She ran off with someone before my brother could even walk.”
"So I don't have a mother! There are only three people in my family: my dad, my brother, and me."
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