Border Cook

Chapter 38 Ignorance
These two brats at home are never satisfied with what they eat every day and have gained so much fat for nothing!
Zhao Dahu and Zhao Erhu naturally noticed Lu's disdainful look. They looked at each other and sighed at the same time.

Mother is disliking them both again!

But then again, it's not the first day that I've disliked you, so don't take it too seriously...

All the iron pots, bowls and spoons were pulled back, washed and boiled.

Jiang Zhuguo still works diligently and efficiently.

Xia Mingyue was more and more satisfied with him. "You should go home first and tell your mother. Pack two sets of clothes and bring some personal belongings. Come early tomorrow morning and you can officially start the work."

"The wages are calculated at 500 yuan per month, including food and accommodation. The monthly wages are paid at the end of the month, and there are two days of rest every month."

Five hundred dollars!

The worker who washed tea bowls at the Qingfeng Teahouse was paid 200 yuan per person for washing bowls all day long. Her cousin, who could read and do accounting, only earned 500 yuan per month by working as an accountant.

The price here is five hundred dollars.

God!
Jiang Zhuguo was excited and grateful. She rubbed her hands together, not knowing what to do. She simply knelt down in front of Xia Mingyue and said, "Thank you, Sister Xia. Thank you, Sister Xia."

Xia Mingyue was startled by Jiang Zhuguo's action, and quickly reached out to help her up, "But let me make it clear first, I'm paying you to do the work well for me. If you don't do it well, I won't do it."

You can give a high salary, but you have to get enough results.

Xia Mingyue was well aware of this, so she naturally said it in advance.

"Don't worry, Sister Xia. I will do my job well and make you satisfied." Jiang Zhuguo responded quickly.

This is five hundred dollars!
No matter what, you have to do your job well.

Xia Mingyue smiled and said, "It's getting late. You should go back earlier and come earlier tomorrow morning."

"Oh, okay!" Jiang Zhuguo agreed repeatedly.

But before leaving, he took out all the bowls and spoons that were cooking in the pot and wiped them clean, filled the water tank in Xia Mingyue's house with water, and even helped Xia Mingyue pick and wash the leeks.

Xia Mingyue became more and more satisfied with Jiang Zhuguo.

Jiang Zhuguo walked all the way home from the county town.

Because I was so happy, I almost jogged the whole way, even jumping and skipping.

Even when she got home, she didn't even have time to take off the backpack behind her. She went into the adobe house that was almost as tall as her and came to Tian's side, "Mom!"

Seeing Jiang Zhuguo's excitement, Tian's dry and withered face showed a slight smile. She reached out and touched Jiang Zhuguo's sweat-soaked hair on his forehead, "What are you so happy about?"

"Didn't I tell mom that I was going to the county town to find a job? Now I've found a job!"

Found a job?

Tian was immediately delighted. "Is this the teahouse you mentioned? Can it really give you 200 yuan a month?"

"No, it's the home of Sister Xia who bought our black vegetables that I told you about earlier." Jiang Zhuguo said with a smile, "Sister Xia has opened a wonton stall now, and the business is booming. She and Sister Lu are too busy to handle it, so they wanted to hire someone to do the work. Knowing that I was looking for a job, she hired me."

"Sister Xia said that if I work hard, she can give me 500 yuan a month!"

"Five hundred dollars?" Tian was also very surprised. "So much?" "Yes, so much money." Jiang Zhuguo was quite proud. "Mom, I can make five hundred dollars a month. From now on, you don't have to take the medicine for two days and stop for two days. You can ask the doctor to prescribe a cheaper prescription and take it for a longer period of time."

"Even if you earn 500 yuan, you can't spend it carelessly." Tian advised, "I have an old illness, and the medicine is useless. Don't waste the money. You should save it and leave it for your father. This is the serious matter."

"But dad can also make a lot of money by copying books..." Jiang Zhuguo bit her lip and defended herself in a low voice.

"But if you copy books all the time, it will delay your father's studies. And if you copy books all the time to sell, it will seem a bit shabby to outsiders, and you will lose face in front of your classmates."

Tian explained, "Besides, your father is a scholar, so his daily food and clothing are bound to be better. Moreover, he has to drink and compete with his classmates in poetry from time to time, so naturally he spends a lot of money."

"You are still young and don't understand the ways of the world. In short, scholars need to be more respectable, otherwise they will be looked down upon by others."

But she had also seen scholars with patches all over their clothes, eating steamed bread, and setting up stalls on the streets of the county town to write letters for others and earn money.

He always read books in his spare time. His life was not decent at all, but no one around him looked down on him.

Do scholars really have to be respectable?
Jiang Zhuguo didn't quite understand.

Seeing her daughter's bewildered face, Tian spoke more earnestly, "We have to eat worse and wear worse because of our hard work, but your father's hard work is all in his heart, which outsiders cannot see. Your father studied for the sake of our entire family. If your father can pass the imperial examination and become an official in the future, we can also live a very good life."

"Live in a big house, eat delicious food, have a car when you go out, and have servants to serve you at home. You will be a daughter of an official family. Didn't mother always say that only by enduring hardships can you become a superior person? The harder your life is now, the sweeter your life will be in the future."

"Zhuguo, mother knows you've been working hard these days, and now you have to work for others, but mother still says that a woman should obey her father at home and her husband after marriage. Your father is mother's husband and your father. You have to think about your father no matter what. Only when your father has a promising future, our lives will be better."

but……

That's for later.

Now, with a father who only comes home from time to time to get food, their lives are not easy.

Jiang Zhuguo hesitated, and the words that were about to slip out of his lips, but he didn't say them in the end. He just took off the backpack on his body and said, "Mom, you must be hungry. I'll go cook some vegetable leaf porridge."

The spinach that grows very lushly in spring is picked and washed, mixed with some cornmeal to make it a slightly sticky porridge. It is not very filling, and for someone with a large appetite like Jiangzhuguo, he needs to eat three bowls of it in one meal.

Jiang Zhuguo added more corn flour tonight.

Tian saw all of this action.

This kid...

He is very stubborn. He must have heard the gossip from people in the village again.

Those people have nothing to do all day long. They are always gossiping about other people's affairs. They are always restless. Now they must be afraid that her Jiang Yihe will be successful and her family will live a good life, so they say all kinds of nonsense in front of Zhuguo.

What a gossip!

Jiang Yihe was right. She was going to be an official's wife in the future and couldn't always be with those ignorant village women.

I have to teach Zhuguo well in the future, otherwise he will seem petty when he follows Jiang Yi to live in the county town.

The next day, just after dawn, Jiang Zhuguo arrived at Xia Mingyue's house.

　Thanks to 130901104, Hepan Chunxiao, BB990114, and book friend 20220702074407672 for their monthly tickets, thanks to Kusakabe Maru for the reward, and thanks to the cute little ones for their support~
　　
　
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