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Yelena doesn't care, hair is not very important to her.
The aunt in the back is concentrating on manipulating the delicate scissors in her hands, clicking, clicking, and the sound of repairing is endless.
Bored White Rabbit, look at the picture frame on the tool table.
There are a lot of framed photos, but isn’t the number of people in them a little unusual?
Yelena counted carefully and found that the aunt who was cutting her hair actually had 6 children!
This is simply too...
But after thinking about it, it seems quite reasonable.
Scorpion once told himself that people in poor third world countries usually have the idea that the more children they have, the more they can help themselves when they grow up and the more they can earn.
So I held my breath and worked hard.
But this often creates a problem.
Although the population has grown, social resources are still in the hands of a small group of people, and nothing has changed.
The people at the bottom are getting poorer and poorer because the limited resources are allocated to more people.
This makes it even more difficult to centralize resources, leading to increasingly serious class consolidation.
"What should I call you?"
"I take my husband's last name, my last name is Griet."
"Okay, Ms. Grit, where are your children? Have they gone to school?"
"They went to work." The hand cutting the hair at the back paused, and then continued to work.
Yelena understands very well that even with a formal store, it is very difficult to maintain the expenses of a whole family in a developed city like Victoria.
"Actually, we were not originally locals. We used to work on the farm, but now the farm has closed down. We followed the migrating army and came to the city."
This is the work of a certain scorpion. A large number of farms went bankrupt and a large number of lands were annexed.
A large number of farmers flocked to the cities in search of a way to survive.
"Where is Mr. Griet?"
"He went to work in the Scorpion Group's mine and only came back once every half a month."
"My children all do small jobs to make ends meet. The most promising one is my sixth daughter!"
As if she was talking about something proud, Ms. Grit's tone behind her became cheerful.
There was silence after the fresh water, and finally all the infinite words turned into a long sigh.
"When my daughter was on the farm, she was noticed by a big shot. He said that she had precious Originium skills that only noble men had, and he wanted to send her to school."
Origin Stone skills are very precious and rare. Normally, ordinary people cannot be special to others without systematic training.
The easiest way for ordinary people to obtain their own Originium skills is to infect themselves with ore disease.
However, this does not guarantee that one has the Origin Stone skill, so one can imagine how precious it is.
If an ordinary person's family had a congenital user of Origin Stone skills, it would be like smoke rising from the ancestral grave.
It’s just one step away from becoming famous.
So they make people happy as a family.
But until the staff who came to recruit said that they had to bear the study expenses alone.
It's like killing a thousand cuts.
The hope of the whole family's revival rests on the little sixth sister. The whole family sells everything and finally sends his youngest daughter to college. However, in the end, the head of Gerrit's family is fired by the owner because the farm goes bankrupt.
They suddenly lost their family's main source of income.
The sixth sister, who could not afford the tuition, had no choice but to return home and accompany her family on their journey to the city.
"There is a big problem with this staff. I remember this should be subsidized. I am a teacher. How come I haven't heard of this?"
Kasheena checked the policy of the college that Ms. Griet mentioned and found that they did have a subsidy for poor students.
Not only are meals and accommodation fees free of charge, but it also provides students with work-study opportunities, and there is also a certain amount of appropriate subsidies for families.
After all, the future growth limit of users of congenital Origin Stone skills is relatively high. It is impossible for Victoria officials to pick up the sesame and lose the watermelon.
Although the nobles at the top of the hierarchy are still very corrupt, they do not care about education at all, because they know the importance of talents better than anyone else.
Especially in this world where the power of a single person can grow to terrifying levels.
There is a reason why the University of Victoria can become one of the top universities in the world.
Although the nobles were corrupt and some were even irrational, they were not stupid or old-fashioned.
"That staff member probably deducted your daughter's bonus and subsidy. This is not a new thing in Victoria's academic world."
After hearing this, Ms. Grit did not answer, but hid her words in the movements of her hands.
"How can little people like us sue big people like that? If we really find something wrong, what ability do we have to protect our rights and interests?"
"According to the people in the city, we have to go to court, but we don't even know how to read, and we can't afford a lawyer. And we don't have any evidence, so we can't fight them..."
Yelena lowered her head, that was indeed the case.
People at the bottom don't seem to have that many choices. It's good enough to live a good life.
"Then what is your daughter doing now?"
"She now works as a newsboy on the street and earns two pounds a day, which is a lot of money."
This income is really very little.
Chapter 529 The pink kitten selling newspapers
Kasheena did the math in her mind. The British pound seemed to have enough purchasing power, but it was second only to the rural areas.
Most currency in rural Victoria is shillings and pence.
When converted, it is equal to more than 20 Longmen coins.
In the lower town and where the lower town blends with the upper town, two pounds can indeed cover three meals a day, but it is second only to three meals a day.
There won't be anything left after eating.
But it’s not enough in the uptown area. It costs several pounds to take a taxi in the university town, let alone eat.
Even Yelena, who is diligent and frugal in school, does not only have this amount of expenses in a day.
Some things just can't be saved.
Moreover, as more and more people move to cities, there are fewer and fewer jobs available.
Conflict will break out sooner or later, but I don’t know whether it will break out first in the upper city or the lower city.
If there is no guidance, there is a high probability that the lower area will erupt first.
But for now, Victoria's top brass are smart enough to provide the lower city with plenty of cheap food.
That is, potatoes. Potatoes are the only food crop that will not die if you eat them for a lifetime.
As long as people have the ability to digest potatoes, there will be nothing wrong with eating this single crop for a lifetime. It is full of vitamins, starches and proteins.
Simply the perfect food crop.
This makes Scorpion unable to start.
Because the yield of the potato varieties he cultivated is not much different from that of the potato varieties cultivated in Victoria, he cannot open up the sinking market and cannot use food to control the country.
Huang Cheng was rejected for the first time in the food war, so he could only spend money to communicate with the royal family.
It took a huge price to have the opportunity to open the door to this country.
But all the money that should be earned has been earned, and now some Victorian nobles have begun to regret that they introduced the Scorpio Group into their country.
However, the current situation is still in the hands of those in power and has not yet been out of control.
But really?
The wind of history tells us that when one variable appears, another variable will follow.
There is only one variety of potatoes grown in Victoria.
Because there was only one high-yielding potato variety, this potato variety took root throughout Victoria.
There was even only one potato variety in the entire vast empire.
The high yield of potatoes injected its own strength into this powerful empire, but the history of the previous world tells the people of this world.
Everything has a price.
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"Sir, would you like a newspaper? Only one shilling!"
The little girl with pink hair stood on the dirty cement floor, carrying a basket of thick newspapers on her back.
Her voice is soft and waxy, and her hair is a beautiful and cute pink.
Her name is Susie Griet.
At this time, she was selling newspapers in Xiacheng District.
But this is destined to be a fruitless job. It is very difficult for the people in Xiacheng District to even live. Who cares about national events and the news in newspapers?
It’s not for nothing that he can only earn two pounds a day. The boss deliberately put this pink kitten in the lower area to sell newspapers because he didn’t want to pay more.
The newspapers in Xiacheng District can’t be sold anyway, but it’s impossible not to sell them.
Because the policy stipulates that through the sale of newspapers, the country people who come to the new city can have a sense of belonging to the city.
Therefore, newspaper owners can only make choices.
Of course, if you are willing to pay a little money or something else, it is not impossible to sell newspapers in the upper city.
But this involves selling your body and money.
Susie, who is currently only 13 years old, doesn't know why the newspaper boss always stares at her with a strange look, which is very disgusting.
Even though the kind-hearted kitten doesn't want to speculate on others with malice, the look in his eyes is very uncomfortable...