Chapter 385 The Lion Speaks 1
Working for the Lu family, her family won't have to worry about her food, clothing, housing and transportation, and she can use the monthly salary to subsidize her parents' home. Even two or three dollars a month is better than having a son who works hard in the fields at home. They are also proud to send their daughter to work for the Lu family, so that she can learn a little bit about how to behave.
I would rather marry a maid from a wealthy family than a girl from a poor family.
What this means is that even maids in wealthy families have seen the world and are better off than poor farm girls who make a living on the farm. When they reach marriageable age, they will be sought after by hundreds of families and will not have trouble finding a husband, and they can also receive more betrothal gifts.
Feng Qingxue's mother Fengying and aunt Fengmei both worked for the Lu family.
Only Wang Fengqiao had been weak and sickly since childhood, so she did not join the Lu family as a maid. However, she often went to the Lu family to play, and her name was given to her by the old lady. Like the head maid of the Lu family, she was named after her elder sister.
For Wang Zhengguo's sake, Fengmei, Feng Qingxue's aunt, followed the old lady at that time, Fengying, Feng Qingxue's mother, and Lu Jiang's mother, and learned a lot. Later, when Wang Zhengguo's brothers got married, except for the youngest, they all married maids from the Lu family. The private money they saved from working for several years was quite a lot, and they all received certain rewards when they got married.
Wang Zhengguo secretly took care of Lu's father. Except for the youngest brother Wang Zhengjun, the other two brothers and their sister-in-law all knew about it, but they never said a word to anyone. Why? It was because they had all received kindness from the Lu family.
Although Wang Zhengguo's younger brothers had never worked for the Lu family, Wang Zhengguo taught them how to study and be a good person.
Wang Zhengjun was able to go to school outside and gain experience thanks to the subsidy from Wang Zhengguo. Now he is an officer of the Mining Bureau and his son married the daughter of a section-level cadre. He is enjoying great success, but unfortunately his wife's younger brothers and sisters-in-law came to make trouble, making him lose face. He always felt that everyone was laughing at him, and there was not enough food. Remembering that many people said that Wanglou Brigade had a very good harvest in the past two years, he rode his bicycle to find Wang Zhengguo early in the morning and asked Wang Zhengguo to get him a few hundred kilograms of food.
Wang Zhengguo stared at his youngest brother in astonishment, then scratched his ears, "Youngest, what did you say? I'm old, and my hearing is a little deaf. Please repeat it again."
"Brother, please get me a few hundred kilograms of grain. I'll pay for it. Isn't coarse grain only seven cents a kilogram now?" Wang Zhengjun said as he pretended to take money out of his pocket. After a long time, he didn't hear Wang Zhengguo stop him. He couldn't help but feel unhappy. He slowly took out his wallet, took out a big unity and handed it to Wang Zhengguo, "Is that enough?"
Wang Zhengguo was both angry and amused. He had given him face last time and brought his brother and sister-in-law to the wedding because he didn't want the villain to bear a grudge and bring trouble to the Wanglou Brigade. So did he think he was weak and could be bullied?
"It's definitely not enough, youngest brother. The price of grain is 7.2 cents per pound, 10 pounds is 72 cents, and 100 pounds is 7.2 yuan." Wang Zhengguo said seriously, without reaching out to take the old-fashioned big unity. "How many pounds of grain do you want? 100 pounds or 900 pounds? They are all hundreds of pounds. In addition, do you have a grain borrowing certificate issued by the unit? Do you have grain coupons? Although I am the captain of the Wanglou Brigade and also the branch secretary, the reserve grain belongs to the collective, and I can't make the decision alone. The leader said that the more cadres you are, the less you can take advantage of the collective. You are also a cadre, and a cadre in the city, so you must set an example."
Although he announced that he had some selfish motives when slaughtering the pigs and fishing, but when it came time to divide the meat and fish, he and his wife did not take a single piece of meat or a single fish bone. They divided the six ounces of meat and four pounds of fish in full view of everyone, without any deviation.
(End of this chapter)