Nowadays, there are many students, but the number of people needed in the workshop is limited. It is not easy to enter the workshop of the college. Only the top one or two students in the training class are qualified to compete.

Yuan Meiniang has good hands, she is smart, and she learns things quickly. She knows that this is her only ability to make a living, and whether the mother and daughter will live well in the future will depend on her ability, so she is better than all others.

Everyone has to work hard.

In addition to taking classes, she could also practice sewing machines for a period of time after class. She never wasted this time. The sewing machine room was closed, so she just thought about it in her mind.

The two daughters probably suffered too much in the Sun family, so they are very sensible at a young age. Especially Daya, who did a lot of things when she was in the Sun family. Now that she has followed her mother here, she has lived a life where she is no longer

Not to mention how happy I am on days when I am beaten and scolded. I don’t have to worry about my mother at ordinary times, and I take good care of myself and my sister.

When Yuan Meiniang saw it, she felt particularly sad and studied harder.

The calm and peaceful days always passed quickly, and the one-month training period passed quickly. Yuan Meiniang won the first place in the exam.

The first place can enter the workshop and work.

When you work in a workshop, you get a fixed basic salary, and you will also receive a part of the bonus based on the workload. Compared with renting a sewing machine to take orders, your income is more stable. And with the workshop to rely on, you are not afraid of the Sun and Yuan families coming to make trouble.

Yuan Meiniang naturally chose to enter the workshop.

Mrs. Ma and Mrs. Wen were very happy for Yuan Meiniang when they heard that she had won first place and stayed in the workshop.

Yuan Meiniang settled near the college.

She still rents the original room.

Although you have to share a courtyard with other people, you have company, and others know that this is a courtyard rented by the college, so you don't dare to cause trouble, and you don't have to worry about safety issues.

Otherwise, her reputation would be completely ruined if the young woman she divorced and her two children turned out to be a gangster.

While working during the day, she would take her daughter to the college to take literacy classes in the evening - the Women's Technical College held literacy classes in the evening, specifically for female students. The fee was not expensive, only 20 cents, and she could study for a month.

If you pass the exam, you will be issued a diploma.

Yuan Meiniang worked quickly and diligently. When she received her wages at the end of the month, she received three hundred coins.

The rent is not expensive, and all meals are eaten in the college's cafeteria. The college's cafeteria is somewhat charitable in nature and only seeks to balance the income and expenses, so eating well is not expensive.

After excluding these expenses, she was still left with half of the remaining money, earning back all the tuition fees and daily expenses she paid some time ago.

Taking the money, Yuan Meiniang cried and laughed.

Such a good life was beyond her wildest dreams.

When her life was getting better, she remembered her natal sister Lan Niang.

The parents gave birth to three daughters before they gave birth to a son. She was the eldest, Lan Niang was the second, and the third was given away directly, I don’t know where.

In the eyes of their parents, she and Lan Niang both exist for their younger brothers.

They have to work for the family since they can walk; when they get older, they will be given a sum of money as a gift, which will be saved for their younger brother to marry a wife in the future.

When they get married, their parents still hope that they can get money from their husband's family and send it back to their parents' family to spend on their parents and younger brothers.

This is the whole meaning of her and Lan Niang's existence.

When her parents chose a husband for her, they did not consider the husband's character, family background, or whether their daughter would have a good life after marrying him.

They only look at whose family gives more betrothal gifts.

Widow Sun was mean-spirited, and Sun Baogen was a mama's boy who was incompetent and unpromising. Both mother and son were famous in their area.

But just because the bride price they gave her was high, her parents married her into this family.

Her days in the Sun family are Lan Niang's future.

When Yuan Meiniang was in her natal family, she and her younger sister worked as cattle and horses for their parents, while her younger brother worked as cattle and horses. After she got married, the only family member who remembered her was Lan Niang.

So now that her life is better, she wants to pull Lan Niang out of the fire pit. She is worried that Lan Niang's life will be ruined by her parents.

After much deliberation, she took the time to go to the Women's Federation and told Mrs. Ma and Mrs. Wen the situation.

The Women's Federation has only been established for a year. Although it has used many methods to promote the concept of women's independence, the inherent ideas are not easy to change. Many women are obviously being abused at home, but they are unwilling to accept the help of the Women's Federation.

People like Yuan Meiniang only think of fighting when they are forced to do nothing.

Now that she has come to her senses and wants to help her natal sister, Mrs. Ma and Mrs. Wen naturally support her.

Mrs. Wen is responsible for Yuan Meiniang's affairs, and naturally she is also responsible for Lan Niang's affairs.

She asked: "How do you want to help your sister? Are you willing to pay or do you want to help?"

"I am willing to pay for her to study at the Women's Technical College, and I will cover all the room and board expenses during the training period. Once she learns, she will be able to earn money to support herself and save some money for a dowry. It is better than staying at her parents' home and being enslaved by her parents.

It’s a strong sell.”

After hearing this, Mrs. Wen was very satisfied.

The Women's Federation is not a charity, and there are thresholds for helping people. If Yuan Meiniang is desperate and can't get any money from the Sun family, the Women's Federation can provide a sum of money to help her. But this is not possible for Yuan Lanniang's situation.

Now that Yuan Meiniang is willing to pay to help her sister, it will be easier.

The next day Mrs. Wen went to the Yuan family and told the Yuan family's parents that Yuan Meiniang had found them and said that she had paid 200 Wen to the Women's Technical College to support Yuan Lanniang in studying technology.

If the Yuan family agrees that Yuan Lanniang should study, the money will be effective; if the Yuan family disagrees, the Women's Technical College will return the money to Yuan Meiniang when she comes to ask for it.

When they heard that it was their eldest daughter who had given the money, the Yuan family's parents were immediately overjoyed.

In the past two months, they had been asking everywhere about Yuan Meiniang's whereabouts, and from time to time they would squat at the entrance of the Women's Federation, but they returned without success.

Unexpectedly, there was news about the eldest daughter and she was willing to marry to support her younger sister.

"We are willing, we are willing," Mother Yuan said.

There has been no news for two months, and now the sponsoring sister does not come forward in person, but through the Women's Federation. Yuan's mother knows that her eldest daughter has made up her mind to break off the relationship with them.

Yuan Meiniang has made up her mind, and she has the support of the Women's Federation. They want to get the fifteen taels of silver from Yuan Meiniang and marry her again to earn the bride price, but they may not be able to do it.

If there is any benefit now, it is natural to seize it quickly.

Since Mei Niang is willing to help Lan Niang, it means that she still has her sister in mind. In the future, Lan Niang can ask Lan Niang to find out the news about Mei Niang, and then find out more about it.

"That's okay." Mrs. Wen didn't care what Yuan's parents had in mind. She told Yuan Laniang to register at the Women's Technical College tomorrow, then stood up and left.

Yuan Lanniang sympathized with her sister's plight and regretted that she could not help her. Now that her sister had taken care of her just after she settled down, she was very touched in her heart.

She also knew what her parents were planning.

So she went to the Women's Technical College without looking for Yuan Meiniang or asking for news about her. When her parents asked, she only said there was no news.

However, Yuan Meiniang secretly met her sister a few times.

Yuan Lanniang knew that she was not as capable as her elder sister, so she did not learn to sew. Instead, she directly learned how to use a textile machine, and a month later she joined a textile factory and became a female worker.

The textile factory was far away from home and she had to work overtime. She used this as an excuse to live in the dormitory of the female workers in the textile factory. She only went home during holidays.

The Yuan family's parents asked her to hand over all her wages. If she didn't pay, they wouldn't let her go to work.

But the textile factory had already signed a contract when Yuan Lanniang entered the factory, and she would have to pay liquidated damages if she didn't leave halfway. As soon as the manager of the textile factory went to the Yuan family to tell her, the parents of the Yuan family honestly let their daughter go to work.

Yuan Laniang was freed from the control of her parents. Even if her family proposed marriage for her, she would not pay attention to it. Instead, she found a marriage by herself through a coworker.

Yuan Lanniang saved some dowry herself, and she could still make money after getting married. Therefore, the man also valued her and was willing to pay a lot of money as a bride price. The Yuan family's parents knew that they could no longer control their little daughter, so it was good that the man was willing to pay these gifts.

Yes, they agreed to the marriage.

"Mei Niang, is this Mei Niang?"

Yuan Meiniang, who was taking her two daughters shopping on the street, heard the sound and turned around to see that it was Dong, the daughter-in-law of her neighbor when she was at Sun's house.

Dong's situation in her husband's family is similar to that in Sun's family. They are also similar in age, so they were relatively close before and had a good friendship.

"Sister-in-law Dong." Yuan Meiniang felt relieved when she saw Dong alone, called her, and asked her two daughters to call someone.

Mrs. Dong saw that Yuan Meiniang and her two daughters were all wearing new clothes. All three of them had become whiter and fatter, and their faces were full of smiles. They were very different from when they were at Sun's house. She couldn't help but ask: "You...are you married?"

"No." Yuan Meiniang said, "I work in a textile factory."

To avoid trouble, she didn't tell the truth.

"Can you really support yourself by working...?" asked Ms. Dong.

"Yes." Yuan Meiniang hoped that Dong could resist fate like herself, and told Dong about the treatment in the textile factory and other conditions.

After Yuan Lanniang got married, the two sisters moved around frequently. Yuan Meiniang was very aware of the situation in the textile factory.

"I have something else to do, so I'll leave first." After saying that, Yuan Meiniang left.

Looking at Yuan Meiniang's retreating figure and her two daughters who were chattering much more lively than before, Mrs. Dong's face showed a resolute expression.
Chapter completed!