The husband's son-in-law

When the caravan went to the Central Plains, Gu Zhao was not idle.

Road construction has been going on, and after the large area has been repaired, there are still details to be dealt with, especially the arrangement of sewage tanks in Zhaozhou City, etc., but this does not need Gu Zhao to keep staring and ordering, just check and collect. .

After the summer in Zhaozhou, Gu Zhao was worried about the heavy rain. There was too much rainfall, and it was easy to cause flood disasters in succession.I asked the local agricultural officer. In the past ten years, there have been several disasters, but in recent years they have been normal.

Normal means that it has not reached the level of disaster, but the continuous rain has affected the rice in the fields to a certain extent, and the houses of the people are leaking.

"My lord, during the rainy season, it will fall more often from March to June. After that, the weather will be hotter and a few torrential rains will disappear. At most, the house will leak. Everyone is used to it." The agricultural officer reported.There is no way around this, the sky is going to rain, even if Mr. Gu is capable, it is impossible to stop it, unless Mr. Gu is really a god.

What Gu Zhao is afraid of is the impact of heavy rain, landslides and houses being washed away, so we should pay attention to these.Even if nothing has happened in recent years, we still need to pay attention to precautions.Therefore, during this period of time, take people to the nearby villages to check the situation. For those near the foot of the mountain, it is best to collect firewood, cut side branches, and don't cut down big trees.

The paddy field needs to be drained.

If the house is low-lying, the walls should be strengthened. The men in the family check the house frequently. In some villages that are too poor, the house is just a handful of thatch, and the yellow mud wall looks crumbling. After a few heavy rains, Gu Zhao was afraid that the house would be destroyed.

Then he said: "The people who built the road before bought cement to strengthen the house, and the cement is half the price."

"Or go to work in a cement factory and get a bag of cement for free for ten days."

Either buy, or work instead of money.It is impossible for Gu Zhao to repair houses for big guys for free. They cannot repair them. There are hundreds of villages outside Zhaozhou City, and there are only a handful of better houses in the villages. Generally speaking, the houses are similar.

Some people were immediately happy when they heard it, and naturally they were willing to spend money to buy cement to repair houses. Some time ago, the road repair family saved a lot, and they wanted to tidy up the house a long time ago. Cement sells them for half the price.

That's great.

He knew that the cement was good when he built the road, and the rain couldn't wash it away, so it was so strong.

There are also some people who are not willing to do it, like the house that is about to collapse. They have never repaired roads before, and they are not willing to work in the cement factory. When Gu Zhao asked why, this person knelt down in front of him in fright. Leng didn't speak and only begged for mercy. His clothes were ragged and unkempt, and he looked very pitiful at the young and wimpy.

Gu Zhao asked the village chief what happened.

"He's just a lazy man. His parents took care of him in the early years. This house was built by his parents. Later, the old couple married a wife with a lot of bones, and he was too lazy to stop working... ..."

The parents were dragged to death, and the daughter-in-law had to go out to work and eat in the field, and she had to take care of the children.

Is it a replica of Uncle Wang?

"A few years ago, all the men in every household in the village went out to build roads. It was good for him to let his wife go to build roads. No one came to see the baby. The baby almost fell into the pond and disappeared. It was the old people in the village who picked it up." The village head The more you say it, the hotter it gets.

Gu Zhao thought the man in front of him was over 40, but after listening to it, he didn't expect it to be less than 27, about [-] or [-], because he didn't clean up the mess, his hair was messy and his face was hard to see, and he didn't know how long he hadn't washed his face.

The child is only four years old, a girl.

When the woman came back from the field with the child on her back, the woman's face was washed, but she looked older, like a person in her 40s, with wrinkles around her eyes and chapped hands.The child has a big head and a small body, with a bunch of bones supporting his head.

An illiterate woman has to work to support a family of three, and her tired eyes are muddy. Seeing a group of people surrounding her house, as well as the yamen official, the baby has not been unloaded, and he knelt on the ground first. I don't know who to kneel to, but when I kneel, I kowtow and beg for mercy.

"...help him up first." Gu Zhao asked the yamen servant to help him.

The village chief roughly explained it in local dialect. The woman only went there for two days to build the road, and her baby almost died because she was drowned. She was worried and came back, and she didn’t have money to buy cement to repair the house. The cement factory was too far away. She can't go, she has to see the baby, and she has to come back to take care of the man and cook for him.

Gu Zhaoting had a long bag on his forehead, "What kind of food will such a man give him? It's better for me to make the decision. The two of you reconcile and leave."

"Ah?" The village chief struggled to hear it, but Heli understood it, and immediately knelt down and said, "No way, how can we be reconciled, the lazy man is lazy, but he is also a baby's father, how can he be with you?" Can't get away from it."

"That's right. Since ancient times, there has never been a woman who doesn't want a man from her family. Marry a chicken as a chicken and marry a dog as a dog."

"Without her man, and without tiles to cover her body, once she leaves, the baby will die, and she will die outside. There is no place to bury her when she dies."

The villagers said in one go, including the woman, who understood what the official said, and they were crying and would rather die than reconcile.

"Who said you can't bring a baby? If the child is willing to be with you—" Gu Zhao hadn't finished his sentence when he saw the woman with a dead face, and really hit the wall.

Fortunately, the people next to him stopped him quickly.

Not to mention that the villagers were dissatisfied with his words, even the yamen servants who came with him were not happy, thinking that Mr. Gu was a foolish official who almost forced him to separate from He Meimei's family.

Gu Zhao: ...

Later, this matter can only be put aside for the time being.After walking a few more villages, the situation of the lazy man's family also happened. Although it was not as perfect as this family, the family struggled to survive.There are two kinds of poverty. One is that most of the people today are not smart, ordinary people have no other strengths, and their ancestors have no wealth.

Affected by natural disasters and family members' illnesses, in short, objective reasons accounted for the majority.

These people, whenever they have the opportunity to earn some money, are mostly hardworking and willing to do it.This kind of poverty can be saved.

There is another kind of poverty, that of lazy people. Opportunities are in front of them. They are lazy and don’t want to work hard, so they just wait to suck the blood of others and become a burden.This kind of poverty is not good.

When August falls, the weather is hot, the rainstorm is less, and there are no disasters.Gu Zhao originally planned to build two government schools, but now he has surrounded a vacant wasteland in the location of Zhaozhou City, and plans to build another relief home for women and children.

'Jenny Spinning Machine' also came out.

The carpenter of Su Jizi was surnamed Yang, and this loom was called Zhaozhou Yang Ji.Call it that for now.

Gu Zhao had traveled to hundreds of villages outside Zhaozhou City for more than a month before. He went to take precautions in advance to understand the people’s conditions. it's the same.

Logically speaking, the lives of the people who are closer to the city are slightly better.Not here.

The advantage of the people outside Zhaozhou City is that the terrain is relatively flat, there are not many mountains, and the grain produced by growing grain is more than that of the five prefectures and counties below. Like Jiting, the land suitable for farming is not as good as Zhaozhou City Hundreds of villages outside the country produce a lot of food.

Climate and land are all factors.

Gu Zhao thought before that when Su came out of the textile machine, he could open a textile factory. Now the plan has not changed, but the policy can be slightly adjusted.The cotton yield in Zhaozhou is not high, nor too high, and the environmental factors are not suitable for large-scale cotton cultivation.

The cotton grown is enough for the people of Zhaozhou City, so it is not suitable for expansion.If there is a lot of rain in one year and the cotton is bad, then the entire cotton and linen textile factory will have to stop working, and the workers will drink from the northwest wind?

There is not much land suitable for growing food for the common people, and this cannot be occupied.

Gu Zhao then thought of planting mulberry trees in Annan, where he planted mulberry trees. The two prefectures and counties could raise silkworms and draw silk, while the people outside Zhaozhou city could harvest hemp silk and grow all kinds of nettles, which are shrubs. , The wasteland with gentle slopes and small hills that is not suitable for farming can be planted, and large areas are still alive.

Finally, it is blended to make silk and linen fabric.

Gu Zhao wanted to make high-end silk products by raising silkworms and weaving satin, but they didn’t have the skills for a while. As far as Boss Wang of the silk workshop was concerned, most of the products sold by Wang’s family were sold in Mozhou and Shaozhou. The quality of silk was average. For southerners who have never seen high-end products, it is not bad.

It's really high-end technology, the fashion trend is in Liangzhe, and people's craftsmanship is already proficient.

Gu Zhao, a man of science, can he still ask him to draw new trendy patterns for Weaver Girl?What a dream.Therefore, high-end silk really cannot compete with Zhejiang and Zhejiang provinces, but it can go to the middle end.

Clothes made of silk and hemp, the harder the hemp fabric is, the more uncomfortable it is to wear next to the body, but adding silk makes it different, soft, sweat-absorbent, breathable, very suitable for women's clothing in summer, or underwear, or handkerchiefs, in short With a "silk", ordinary families who could not afford to wear silk and satin before can now wear it.

The idea is to explore slowly and improve slowly.Gu Zhao also asked the Wang family to borrow a skilled weaver girl to try it first and see if it would work...

Jiting County.

Li Zhouzhou was talking to his elder brother who was dressed in cloth and brown. He was a child of the Li family. He just passed his 13th birthday this year. He only sat on half a chair, put his well-behaved hands on his knees, and spoke loudly. Also soft.

"I want to learn from Madam."

"what's your name?"

"Li Lin, there is a forest under Yuzi, and everyone in my family calls me Brother Lin."

Li Zhouzhou called Brother Lin and said, "Are you literate?"

"After a while, the family invited a master to teach the third brother, and I listened to it, and I will copy "Women's Precepts."

Li Zhouzhou hadn't heard what women's precepts were, but he could probably guess that it was to teach boys and girls to obey the rules, how to serve their husbands, mothers-in-law and father-in-law when they married, and how to be a good wife.

Seeing Brother Lin's soft-spoken voice, his courage is smaller than Brother Yu's, his docileness, and his love to paint bright and beautiful clothes, he definitely doesn't like Fourth Brother's dressing up like this, and he is running outside like this Husbands come and go.

"Did your family force you to come here? Tell the truth."

Li Lin lowered his head and squeezed his fingers, and said honestly: "Madam, please don't tell my father, I don't want to come here, and I'm afraid to talk to men, and I don't like doing business in public, I like to paint and make clothes, but my father said, Let me come to Madam's side to serve and learn to do business, the family is good, I have fed and clothed the family for so many years, it is time to help the family."

To be honest, I said everything in one go.

"Ma'am, don't drive me away now? I, I will study hard. I can do it even if I don't wear beautiful clothes."

Seeing this little brother, Li Zhouzhou was afraid that his family would say it, so he thought for a while and said: "Then you stay for a few days, and I will find an excuse to send you back after a while. My family Fubao is playing."

"It's not hard, thank you Ma'am." Brother Lin was happy.

The fourth brother was shocked after hearing this, turned around and muttered, "Why does he still like to wear that monkey's butt-like clothes, how ugly it is."

"If you don't like it, there are people who like it. You can't force all brothers to be like you." Li Zhouzhou didn't think there was anything wrong with Brother Lin. It's not demure at all, and you feel pretty good about being a man among the men."

Li Zhouzhou originally wanted to tell the fourth brother that everyone has different temperaments and should be respected, but the more he talked about it later, the fourth brother's eyes were shining, and he was enjoying himself, thinking he was praising himself.

"The situation in your family is different from his, and you have a different temperament. If you can't play with him, then just don't bother each other and don't bully others."

After Li Zhouzhou said something, he changed the subject. He didn’t want to stay with Brother Lin, and if he didn’t care about it, he wanted to leave. He told the fourth brother that the goods of the two factories needed to be inspected, "There are also guards from each family, Check the base to see if there are any dirty hands and feet."

"I know the boss."

Li Zhouzhou counted the days, "We will stay in Jiting soon, and when the goods are ready, we will return to Zhaozhou. I don't know what happened to the two people in Beijing. There are only two bodyguards, so we need to recruit more." people."

It's almost the end of September now, and counting the 20 days on their way back, it will be at least the end of October when the people from Beijing come back. It's too late to wait for Meng Jianyun, Su Shiyi to come back.

So after the two factories had all the goods ready, they first arrived at Zhaozhou City. There was a crowd of twenty chariots and horses. When they entered the city, the people gathered and watched. The merchants who heard the news also arrived, thinking that they would leave immediately. I didn't expect to stay in Zhaozhou City for a few more days.

"What are you waiting for?"

"There are so many convoys, we definitely can't be in a hurry like last time, we have to clean up."

"That's right. There are so many products. I don't know what coconut soap and coconut flakes are. I still want to buy them for home use."

"Are you using it, or thinking about something else?"

I won't mention this, everyone smiled tacitly, and passed away after a haha.Some people really want to see the coconut soap with a hundred words, and more want to figure out how to make it.

But more than 20 vehicles and horses were tightly packed, except for oiled paper and wooden boxes and jars, who could see what was inside?Someone asked about it and wanted to buy it for their own use, but the head of the caravan said: "It's all packed and accounted for. If the big boss doesn't ask, how dare we make an arbitrarily unpacked package and sell it to you."

"big boss?"

"Boss Li, we feel as at ease as the biggest boss of one or two factories."

These stewards are docile and obedient, and there is no contempt from the first delivery.The merchant who inquired to buy heard about it, and wanted to provoke a few words, but was humiliated by the manager, and broke up unhappy.

Mingming used to whisper to him behind his back about what kind of business Mr. Fulang was doing, why didn't he see each other for so long, this changed a lot?Open your mouth and keep your mouth shut about the big boss, and obey the big boss's words. With so much goods, and one piece of coconut soap missing, can Boss Li know if it's going to work?

The two remaining bodyguards in Zhaozhou City are now following. These are experienced guides leading the way to the Central Plains.Gu Zhao was still worried, there were too many goods this time, and in the end he transferred five yamen servants from the yamen to let the guards go there together.

Gu Zhao actually wanted to transfer soldiers to watch the city gate, but he remembered that the war was about to start, so he decided to forget it.

But the war is fought in the north, and it has nothing to do with the south. Forget it, it's better to be careful.

Li Zhouzhou led the team out of Zhaozhou City again. This time, there were a lot of people watching. Li Zhouzhou was sitting on horseback, dressed very ordinaryly. The people had never seen Mrs. Gu before, and they just watched the excitement. The leader is Fu Lang.

The merchants in Zhaozhou City deliberately concealed the past, and went back to tell their family members that Mrs. Gu, a husband, led a team to the Central Plains.

Therefore, everyone in Zhaozhou City knows the truth, but the rumors have reached the ears of ordinary people. There is no taboo of Madam Gu's name, only a husband leads the team.

Isn't it surprising.

Regarding the exclamation from the curious mouths of the uninformed people, those who know should treat it as if they don't know, and just nod in agreement.

"That's right, it's really unheard of, Fu Lang leads a caravan."

"It's really amazing for a husband to manage so many people."

"I look like a man, no wonder I'm so powerful."

"It's amazing, it's really unlucky for anyone to marry such a husband."

I thought to myself knowingly, Mr. Gu is not only not unlucky, but also very powerful, you know what a fart.Naturally, there are insiders who think that Mr. Gu is not a coward, who let a husband climb on his head to show off his power, and has no masculinity.

……

How can the prejudice of the world be eliminated because of a momentary event? The prejudice has been formed for hundreds of thousands of years.

Not urgent.

Gu Zhao stood in the crowd with Fu Bao in his arms and watched Zhou Zhou leave the city.Fu Bao was tearful and reluctant to part with his father, but he didn't cry, hugged his father and said, "Dad, I want to sit up high and look at my father."

"Success." Gu Zhao put Fubao on his shoulders, "Hold on tight and don't drop it."

Fu Bao grabbed his father's hair with his small hands, very steady.

Gu Zhao: ...the scalp is a little tight.

"Father, daddy is so powerful, many people look at daddy, daddy is very powerful." Fubao still did not forget to teach his daddy.

Gu Zhao: My son.

"That's natural. Your father is so powerful. He is good-looking, with a slender waist and long legs and pectoral muscles. He has the ability to learn everything quickly." Gu Zhao was bragging about his wife in pain.

Zhou Zhou's personality is like water, seemingly gentle and inconspicuous, but he can't lack anything without water. He is very tolerant, and he can adapt to any environment and live well.

"Father is awesome, daddy saw Fufu, daddy waved to Fufu."

Gu Zhao thought it was impossible, so far away, and shouted from below: "Wave, just wave, stop dancing on your father's head, I will be bald by you, calmly restrain Li Zhaoxi!"

Fu Bao grows up so old and calls him Fu Bao. He was stunned when he heard his father calling Li Zhaoxi, but he didn't panic anymore, but asked doubtfully, "Father, who is it?"

"You, big name Li Zhaoxi, who are you?" Gu Zhao took advantage of Fu Bao's stupefied and pulled him down, and hugged him in his arms. The good guy was a long, heavy guy. He was as tall as him and Zhou Zhou, and he would also be big in the future. "It's heavy."

"Fubao is not sinking." After Fubao's rebuttal, he quickly said: "Father, Fubao is still called Li Zhaoxi? It's so nice, Fufu's name is so nice. I have to tell Dad, let's go find Dad Let's go~"

This is a different way to get him to take him to find Zhou Zhou.

Gu Zhao saw through the little kid's 'trick' and said, "Your daddy knows that daddy chose this name for you. Don't play tricks in front of me. Your daddy and I can see clearly that there are many tricks." !"

Fu Bao doesn't know what it means to be scheming, but he knows that his father is definitely not praising him.

"Fufu is not."

"Nor is Li Zhaoxi!"

He is neither of the two names.Fubao is proud.

With this interruption, the sadness of father leaving again disappeared. Although Fu Bao still missed and hated father, he didn't make trouble, but he became clingy to many people, clinging to grandpa and clinging to his father.

During the day, Li mostly took it with him to watch, and at night, Gu Zhao took it with him.

Fubao was not sick this time, and his appetite was good.

Li Zhouzhou led the caravan on the road a little slower this time. There were more caravans, and there were a few rains on the road, which delayed the goods a bit. The goods did not dare to get wet. It was already early November when they arrived in Tangzhou.

I walked for a whole month, seven days more than before.

Fortunately, it finally arrived safely.

After entering the city to pay the tax, I walked for three quarters to the front of the house, but the door was locked.

"Boss locked the door."

Li Zhouzhou saw it, "Go and ask the nearby residents."

The people below went to inquire, and came back after a while and said: "Boss, I heard from the people next door that there are people in this house during the day, and people go back to eat in the evening. As for whether to stay at night or not, they said no." Noticed."

"Break the lock." Li Zhouzhou said.

The people below had to break the lock, open the door, and remove the threshold to facilitate the entry of cars and horses.The fourth brother ran fast, went in and checked around first, and reported to the boss, "I saw the guy in the front concierge with bedding, eating and drinking water, the first floor of the house was dusty, and the furniture was dirty. I didn't clean it up, I was just being lazy."

Li Zhouzhou didn't treat them harshly when he recruited them, even the work here was easy, no one cared about him, and he left food money for him. He thought that he would do so generously. really—

"Unload the goods first. It's getting late. You take the two of you to a nearby restaurant and order food to be delivered. Order more meat and less wine. Then go to the clothing store to buy some bedding. Let's make do with this hard work." It's late, let's talk about it tomorrow."

The weather is getting cold, people from the south must not be used to it when they first arrived in the Central Plains, so drink some wine to warm up.They have all arrived in Tangzhou city, and it is a big house on the street, so they are not afraid of any small robbers.

The reason why the fourth brother is asked to run errands is because the fourth brother is with him, and now he can speak official language, so it is no problem to deal with the people of Tangzhou and buy things.

The fourth brother took the money when he got the word, and went to work quickly, and even took a carriage to facilitate the pulling of the bedding.

They came here this time with a total of 30 people, and there are so many goods, it is not convenient to stay in an inn, and the house is much safer.

Li Zhouzhou's complexion did not change, and he arranged things one by one.

The fourth brother made the last bottom of two food shops. Most of them are pasta, pancakes and buns. They don’t need soup and water. The ones brought here are not delicious. There is no extra meat in the snack shop. .

Since the boss said that he wanted more meat, the fourth brother knew that the boss was not stingy about the food money. The food shop was close, so the fourth brother pointed the way and asked the shop to deliver it.

For such a large deal, the owners of the two food shops had their Coke broken, so they agreed in a hurry.

The fourth brother was left alone to watch, and he led people to drive the carriage for a longer distance, and went to the restaurant, "Roasted chicken, roasted duck, and any other pork will be served, as much as you want."

The shopkeeper is so happy, he said yes, please let the fourth brother sit down.

"I won't sit anymore. Is there any bedding nearby? I want ready-made ones."

The shopkeeper: "If you buy too much, you must go to Xishi Neighborhood. The shops there are so big that you can buy them all, but they are far away."

The fourth brother was in a hurry at first, but seeing the shopkeeper’s face, he seemed to have another trick. When he asked, he thought for a while and said, “If there are not many, is there any? I want one nearby, so I need it urgently.”

"Yes, the alley behind our restaurant is full of people, and some people have made a few more new bedding, and the price is affordable..."

The fourth brother wanted it to be an old one, but he wanted it to be an old one and he just didn't buy it.It's too cold here in the Central Plains, it's only the beginning of November, just like their December weather.

Definitely buy a futon to sleep on.

The fourth brother took someone to buy quilts in the back, knocked on the door to say hello, and said why he came, "...don't sell me the old ones."

"Where is it? My family just made a new cotton quilt this year. You have to come in and take a look." The old woman said.

After knocking on the door, more than ten households, almost every family has rich bedding, some are brand new, and some have been made for more than two years, but they are not willing to use them, so they put away the old ones.

The fourth brother spent money to collect the bedding, and when he arrived at the inn, he happened to take some meat food. He was really curious and asked the shopkeeper, "Why do you have new bedding in every household here?"

"That's why life has been better in the past few years. If it was four or five years earlier, where would such a situation be? If you ask, I dare not say who has extra new ones." The shopkeeper is cheerful, "The village People burn kangs in winter, but people in our city don’t like to burn kangs so much, so they make more cotton quilts, and the new cotton is warm enough to survive the winter, otherwise it will snow in the twelfth lunar month, and it will be cold.”

"Our Tangzhou is alright. It's a little warmer. If you go further north, the snow will be heavy. It will probably fall at the end of the month."

snow?

The fourth brother had never seen Xue before, so he was very curious, but he was in a hurry, the big guy hadn't eaten yet, and he didn't care to greet the shopkeeper and ask more questions, so he went back with the visitor.

The two were walking on the road, and the fourth brother was sitting on the frame to drive the car, asking the other party to sit on it too.

"Hurry up, let's go back early, or it will be dark."

"Fourth young master, you are really powerful now."

The servants who came out with the fourth brother belonged to the Wang family.The fourth brother was praised, and said: "I'm still early, but it's just some odd jobs, and it's not a big deal."

He wants to learn from the boss. In the future, he can lead a team into business and manage a team by himself. This is great.

This night, I was busy with non-stop work. Fortunately, the food was good and the hot water was provided. One person who roasted duck and chicken could share a large piece of meat. Even the buns were full of meat. After drinking two sips of wine, my whole body became hot.

I didn't feel any bitterness, so I made the bed whole and fell asleep.

In the early morning of the next day, the two people Li Zhouzhou recruited before came back to 'go to work'. When they saw that the locks were broken and the door was fastened inside, they were terrified and thought they had entered some kind of small shop, but When I thought about it, there was nothing valuable inside, or at least some furniture.

Hey, the furniture is also worth a lot of money.

The two were terrified, one said to report to the police, the other said it would not work, and finally complained to each other at the door, saying why didn't you stay to watch the night, then why didn't you go, there was a lot of quarreling, and the door was wide open.

A few strong men rushed out and tied them up without saying a word.

The two screamed like they were killing pigs, come here, there are thieves, and they are killing people.

When Li Zhouzhou came out, the two of them shut up immediately, knowing that the master came back and arrested them for being lazy. One was lazy this time because the child at home was sick and needed to see the child. He usually worked quickly, and the other said that his wife had legs. not good……

"Everyone, let me make it clear. We are a Zhaozhou caravan. We bought a house and left two people to guard it. We usually don't live in it, and we don't have any goods. Let two people clean it. The last time I left was in August. , It’s November this time, it’s been a few months, the house is covered with dust, and it hasn’t been cleaned at all.”

"Each person pays [-] Wen per month. I bought another rice grain and left [-] Wen for vegetables for the two of them to eat and drink. Now the rice tank is clean and there is not even a single vegetable left."

"I'm not mean, and I'm not afraid of going to court when I say things that are reasonable."

How dare these two people meet the official, they knelt down and begged for mercy.

Li Zhouzhou: "It's impossible for me to use it anymore. The dental office will pay two months' wages."

Sending the two of them to the dental shop and paying for it, being lazy and treacherous servants, the word got out, who would dare to ask these two to work?

The road is not completely cut off. If you can't go to the house of the big family, you will do odd jobs.

That's different, hard work and less money.

The two regret it now, but it's too late.