Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 120 The Corner Girl
"There is a sister in her 30s who has been in this business for a long time, because when she was young, her husband was involved in the machine while working in the factory.

At that time, she didn't know about compensation and the like, so she was sent away by the factory owner with a dozen copper coins.

At that time, this elder sister was still raising two children. One of them got pneumoconiosis while working with his father in the factory, and died not long after, while the other was fine.

She had no income at the time, and was anxious to work and raise her children, so she got into this business by accident and has been doing it for more than ten years. "

"When I gave her the penicillin, she was very grateful, said a lot of words of thanks to me, gave me directions, and warned me where I could and couldn't go in the downtown area."

"She must be sick. I saw some dark red spots on her arms. Later, when I studied medicine with my dad, I realized that it was a symptom of gonorrhea when it was deeply rooted in the body. .”

"Mr. Chen, she is a very normal person... Except for her status as a corner girl, she is an ordinary person like my mother."

Chen Yan noticed that Green Mingming looked very young, but when he talked about these things, there was an inexplicable anger in his eyes.

These things brought back his memories, and he kept talking about it. The sound of the wind outside the Green Clinic and the sound of fine snowflakes hitting the plastic billboard seemed to be accompaniment to him.

"There is also a sister from the country, hey, younger than me.

She dreams of coming to a big city to make a lot of money—she wants to be an actress.

She didn't know until she entered the city that the reserve actors who lined up behind the theater every day could even line up from the city center to Walker Street.

She was unwilling to be a worker and had no other life skills to make money. She couldn't find a job for a while, so she was introduced to the lower city.

She originally planned to save money while working and go to a vocational college to study acting. When she has a diploma, she will definitely be able to find a job.

She told me that when she came to the downtown area, she only knew that people said she could make quick money, but she didn't know what to do.

She didn't realize it until the guest came into her room.

But by then it was too late. "

Green picked up the emerald mug with the words "Green Clinic" printed on it, took a sip of tea, and continued:
"When I found her, she was already pregnant. She said that it was the child of a wealthy businessman. The rich businessman's first wife was so strict that he didn't dare to have fun in the upper city, so he had to come to the lower city to have fun."

"When the child is born, if it's a boy, she can use the child to ask a rich businessman for alimony, which is enough for her to pay tuition for several courses in the acting department."

"She doesn't care about the child in her womb, Mr. Chen, she doesn't think about the cost of raising a child at all."

Green seemed a little irritable. With fingers that had no place to rest, he took out a few tea leaves from the cup and chewed them twice before calming down the anxiety in his heart.

Chen Yan listened quietly to his narration. These were stories he had never heard before. He was curious about everything in the stories, but when he thought of the fact that these tragic stories actually happened around him, his heart sprouted. Another emotion.

"I did something wrong at that time, Mr. Chen. I was angry because she didn't think about that child. I mixed a little motherwort into the anti-inflammatory medicine given to her...the amount of motherwort was enough to cause her child at that month to miscarry .”

Green lowered his head, regret in his voice.

"I couldn't sleep that night. I realized that I had killed a child. It was a fresh life. Mr. Chen, can you imagine it? At that time, I had just entered a missionary school. At the age of thirteen or fourteen, I only dared to The age of playing with ants and mice..."

He bowed his head and did not speak. The atmosphere in the Green clinic fell into silence. Even the wind seemed to be much quieter. Only the steam hole on the teapot lid was providing weak white noise, so that the tranquility in the clinic would not be suffocating.

Chen Yan originally wanted to ask him, why did he tell me these things?

Looking at Green's dark circles and insane expression, he realized the answer to this question: Life is so stressful, who hasn't had a nervous breakdown?

So he didn't speak, just patted Green on the shoulder in silence.

Green raised his head, with an ugly smile on his handsome face.

"Thank you for listening to my trash talk, Mr. Chen."

Chen Yan nodded: "It's still early anyway."

Green burst out laughing: "You really don't know how to comfort people."

He breathed a sigh of relief, and his spirit seemed to be much better.

"There are still some people... It's not that they are enjoying it, they can't say that they have to rely on it to make money, let alone they are desperate.

They're just uneducated and don't know it's bad...they're not taught about shame or anything like that. "

He told about the daily life of nearly one-third of ordinary women in Yanan City, absurd and miserable.

"Green." Chen Yan interrupted Green's rambling speech.

"Huh?" Green was not angry. He was obviously interrupted so often that he was used to it now.

"Tell me, those women, why did they become like this?"

Green had already thought about this question.

"It's complicated, Mr. Chen."

"There are various reasons, personal, other people's, and social."

Chen Yan looked at Green's beautiful green eyes: "I think it's not good for them to become like this."

Green shrugged: "Yeah, no, everyone knows."

Chen Yan continued to ask: "Can legislation change them?"

Green took another sip of tea: "Mr. Chen, with all due respect, the empire itself has such a law that prohibits women from engaging in such industries."

"But who is going to abide by such laws?

The big men of the Conservative Party only need to make money safely and steadily. They don't want to change anything, and they desperately want to maintain the current social status quo.

The workers who make up the Labor Party can't even get their own wages all day long. Look, those factory owners in the lower city can disintegrate the Labor Party for a month by simply spreading rumors about a salary cut. strike activities.

The Liberal Democrats... Let alone, they are a bunch of waste who only know whimsy all day long.

It's a mess, Mr. Chen, the empire is a mess right now.

Having said that, political parties do have the ability to change this situation. They only need to mobilize some tax money, organize law enforcement teams, and run proper vocational training courses for corner girls, and they can greatly improve this situation——

Although it cannot fundamentally solve the problem, it will definitely improve the current situation.

But who wants to do such thankless things? "

Chen Yan said thoughtfully: "In this case, those corner girls can only save themselves."

He thought of Marina, the woman who was redeemed because of her child. How would she save herself after the child was born?
She doesn't have much money, and she has to support herself and her children. When the children need money for food, drink, and school, where will she get the money?
Relying on the factory's daily wage of less than 8p a day?

Or is it the daily salary of 2 pence a day earned by the child as a child laborer?
At that time, she will return to her old career.

(End of this chapter)