Chapter 32: Settling Down (VI)
When Lu Xiaoxiao arrived at the captain's house, they were just about to have dinner. Dinner was still rice porridge and stewed vegetables, but she saw that everyone looked very satisfied while eating.
Yes, many families are not able to eat enough at this time, and now it is a time of famine, so everyone is tightening their belts to make ends meet. How can they not be satisfied with a bowl of thick millet porridge and stew like this?
After dinner, Wang Gang said to the captain, "I will go back to the city tomorrow. Has your family decided who will go with me?"
The captain tapped his cigarette holder and said, "Xiao Feng, go."
The captain thought about the result reached by the whole family yesterday, which was to let Xiaofeng go. Firstly, the three brothers all have wives and children, and it would not be appropriate for the whole family to go. Secondly, if Xiaofeng was allowed to go, she would promise that for the next ten years, regardless of whether she was married or not, she would hand over all her salary except for five yuan for food to her family. No one had any objection to this result, so it was decided.
Since the result was known, Wang Gang asked the captain to find someone to accompany Liu Xiaofeng. First, Liu Xiaofeng was a woman, and he was worried about letting her go to the captain's house in the city alone with a strange man.
Secondly, the purpose is to let the captain's family watch Liu Xiaofeng start working in the factory, so that they will feel at ease and take better care of Lu Xiaoxiao.
When Lu Xiaoxiao returned to her room at night, she saw Aunt Caihua helping Liu Xiaofeng pack her things. Tomorrow Liu Xiaofeng will go to the city to handle the employment procedures. At that time, Liu Xiaofeng will work there and will not go home, so she has to pack up all the things she is going to take with her.
It didn't take long for Aunt Cauliflower to help Liu Xiaofeng pack up her things. In fact, people nowadays don't really have much to pack when they move. Apart from a quilt and a few clothes, the rest are some small things that they use in daily life. It's not like in later generations when they move and need several trucks to unload all the things.
Aunt Caihua said it was time to go to bed early and went out. Liu Xiaofeng closed the door and went to bed.
When Lu Xiaoxiao saw Liu Xiaofeng getting on the kang, she asked her, "Sister Xiaofeng, are you nervous about going to work in the city tomorrow?"
After hearing what Lu Xiaoxiao said, Liu Xiaofeng said, "I'm not nervous, I just feel a little blocked in my heart. The farthest place I've been to since I was a child is the county, and I went to the county to study in junior high school. I went home during holidays and never visited the county. Now I have to leave home and go to the city to work alone. I don't want to leave home, but I want to go to work so that I can change my life. I don't have to get married and have children early like other girls in the village and live like that for the rest of my life."
Lu Xiaoxiao was really surprised when she heard what Liu Xiaofeng said. Nowadays, many women basically think that if they can marry into a good family, give birth to a few fat boys and gain a foothold in their husband's family, they will feel that their life is very good.
It is rare to find women like Liu Xiaofeng who are so much more advanced in their thinking than women of this era. This proves that she is a very thoughtful and independent-minded person. She is not bound by the ideas of this era and knows how to find opportunities to change her situation and move in a better direction.
Thinking of this, Lu Xiaoxiao said to Liu Xiaofeng, "Sister Xiaofeng, it will be like this the first time you leave home. It's not like you won't come back. The city is not far from the village. You can go home during holidays. It's a good thing to be able to work in the city now. You should be happy."
Liu Xiaofeng laughed after hearing what Lu Xiaoxiao said, and then she said, "I was too obsessed with it before."
Lu Xiaoxiao felt relieved after hearing what Liu Xiaofeng said, so she took out a clam oil from her bag and handed it to Liu Xiaofeng, saying, “Sister Xiaofeng, congratulations on becoming a worker.”
Liu Xiaofeng did not refuse Lu Xiaoxiao's gift this time. She thought that she would also give Lu Xiaoxiao a gift when she got her salary.
Why didn't Lu Xiaoxiao give her vanishing cream instead of clam oil? Because people nowadays are reluctant to buy clam oil, not to mention vanishing cream, which is equivalent to a modern luxury, so clam oil is the most appropriate gift.
Since she has to get up early tomorrow, she went to bed early today, otherwise she was afraid she would not be able to get up tomorrow.
Seeing Lu Xiaoxiao lying down, Liu Xiaofeng turned off the kerosene lamp and went to sleep too.
Today's extra chapter is here. Isn't Huahua awesome and cute? Hahaha
(End of this chapter)
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