The door of the simple room was pushed open from the outside, and a family of normal Ailan Hill civilians appeared. During dinner, the room was filled with the faint aroma of rice.
Being able to have a full meal is already one of the benefits they receive under the rule of this empire for the people in the edge areas of Ireland.
They didn't have such a good life in the past, and of course they didn't bother to improve their food.
It's different now, they can eat something every month that they couldn't even imagine before.
At the beginning, they worked hard to get some Bude pickles. These pickles were cheap and plentiful, giving them hope of living in poverty.
Later, after eating pickles for more than a year and finding that food was becoming more and more abundant, the people, whose income had doubled several times, finally began to work hard on eating.
About half a year ago, vegetables began to appear on people’s tables, and sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes began to increase in number.
Then, people who had the pursuit began to buy cheap canned ham, canned fish, etc. Although they knew that most of the space inside was filled with starch, the taste was really good and enough to make people happy for many days.
Of course, time is still moving forward, and society is also developing. Nowadays, decent families are beginning to eat fresh meat and eggs.
They can occasionally consume some cooked food, such as fragrant roast chicken, roast rabbit, stewed large pieces of meat from mountain animals, etc.
Fatty meat and meat skin have also begun to appear on people's dining tables, which also shows that most of the areas ruled by Ailan Hill have initially solved the problem of food and clothing for the people.
The boy who had just returned home from get out of class at the best local No. 1 senior high school was dirty. He threw off his sneakers and ran to the kitchen table filled with plates. Mobile version::
Then, a slightly disappointed voice rang out. This strong boy was obviously dissatisfied with the dinner prepared by his mother: "Ah?...Eating canned fish again..."
This kind of canned fish is produced in coastal areas. The brands are naturally similar, and the taste is also the same.
At first, he liked the taste very much, but over time, he was no longer satisfied with this kind of canned product that had nothing to do with freshness.
As the saying goes, a boy who is half-grown will be poor. This is the time when his body is growing, and a boy can eat several bowls of rice at a meal. His favorite is the row of rice noodles in the supermarket two streets away.
Roast chicken cooked food.
"What did you learn in school today?" Mother was cutting a piece of tofu in the kitchen. This white and tender food from the Seris area is becoming more and more popular among the common people.
After she got home from get off work, she started preparing dinner and has been busy until now without even taking a break.
For this mother, getting her children back from school with a hot dinner is a top priority.
The boy threw his schoolbag on his little bed and went back to the kitchen to get the best benefit for his mouth: "Mom! We have been eating this canned fish for three days in a row. I want to eat roasted fish."
Chicken!"
"The roast chicken in the supermarket is too expensive. Your father is just an ordinary factory worker. How can he have the money to let you eat several roast chickens every month." His mother's helpless voice came from the kitchen, with a hint of emotion in it.
A little tired.
The most proud worker profession in the past has become less popular. News of layoffs is often heard in large factories, and competition is fierce in small businesses.
As a textile worker, this housewife's textile factory has also been trying its best to reduce costs recently. Compared with those big cities that have developed, the only advantage of a small town like theirs is cheap labor resources.
Factories in big cities are becoming automated and numerically controlled...the original workers are in danger of being eliminated, and traditional skilled workers can no longer keep up with the progress of the times.
I heard that many factories in Seris have been completely robotized, with only a few managers inside, and labor costs have been reduced to close to zero.
As a result, those small businesses with no technological advantages began to move to the periphery of the empire. Today, they are surviving here, and tomorrow they will move to farther and poorer places to exploit those poor people who have not yet escaped poverty.
In the ordinary family in front of us, men and women are the lowest level of the labor force. They are the type of people who are about to be eliminated by the times. Although their lives have improved a bit, they are destined to not make any qualitative leap.
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"You haven't told me about your courses in school, where are they?" Mother, who had already budgeted for the money she had, obviously didn't prepare today's roast chicken, so she continued to ask.
The boy pinched a fish tail out of the can and hung it into his mouth. While chewing it, he boasted: "Mathematics is my strong point. I have mastered all the things I have learned recently. The teacher said that I can take the dragon falling test."
City University, but I think that if my family can spend some money, my score will be almost enough to pass the self-funded Seris University II..."
He is the hope of the whole family. In this typical ordinary family, the only one who is most likely to change the future is him who is still studying.
And this boy has indeed lived up to expectations. His grades are very good in the class, and he is the kind of "good student" who is likely to get into a good university, get a better education, and find a decent job after graduation.
Teachers at school also pay more attention to him, and there are even a few little girls who like to ask him for advice.
The voice of my mother cutting things became weaker: "Serris? Where is the best university, but the cost is too high... A family like ours cannot let you go to Seris to study."
"Mom! If I can go to Seris Second University, it will be easy to find a job after I graduate." The boy sat at the dinner table and acted coquettishly.
"The problem is, the money your father and I make in a month is not enough for you to spend three days in Seris..." The mother weighed the family's savings and felt that it was better to have a showdown with her son as soon as possible for this kind of thing.
, it would be better to let him give up this idea.
That's Serris! It's a place where prices are prohibitively expensive. I heard that the city is so huge that it has 15 districts and 44 subway lines. Just thinking about it makes people go numb.
The only super city in the world is often introduced in the radio news. Even if you have never been there, you know how prosperous and expensive it is.
The cheapest housing prices there are as high as 120 gold coins per square meter, which is enough to buy a decent house in this small and marginal town.
"It's not that exaggerated." Of course the child didn't believe it and muttered unwillingly.
"It's such an exaggeration." Mother shook her head reluctantly: "Your father went to Seris. At that time, his monthly salary was only 1 gold coin. The hotel in Seris cost 70 silver coins a day."
"The time you mentioned was three years ago!" The child did not understand his parents' dilemma and insisted on his own ideals.
"It's more expensive now. Remember Uncle Bud?" Mother asked, mentioning an acquaintance. Bud used to be their neighbor, and he still is. It's just that Bud asked him to find a job to work in Seris.
Washing dishes in a small restaurant in Seris, I heard that I was paid 1 gold coin every day, which is called a luxury.
"He? Didn't his boss open a small restaurant in Serris?" The child heard about Uncle Bud's deeds and nodded immediately.
"Yes, I heard from your father that he sent Bud back to ask an acquaintance to borrow some money to turn around his business." Mother sighed and said.
This is not a fabrication. Bard did come back a while ago, and he did come back to help his boss borrow money. However, 1,000 gold coins is obviously not that easy to borrow in this small city, and in the end Bard had to leave empty-handed.
Return.
"How much to borrow?" The child was curious about such gossip.
"Yes, I asked your father if he planned to borrow 100 gold coins... He actually said that he wanted to borrow 1,000 gold coins..." The mother put the fried tofu on the table and placed it in front of the child.
Said seriously.
The child stuck out his tongue. Three thousand gold coins was really too far away for him. He was very good at mathematics, so of course he understood what three thousand gold coins meant to a family like theirs.
"Okay...I know." The child was unhappy, lowering his head and picking rice into his mouth. There were some sweet potatoes in the rice, which made it taste really sweet.
But when the boy took it into his mouth, he tasted a bitter taste. He had worked very hard, but he was still far away from the world he yearned for.
The girl he likes came here from Seris with his father. The girl's father is a city official with a high income. The girl's grades are also very good, and her knowledge is very enviable to the boy.
The girl has eaten the sweetest ice cream in Seris and touched the mottled door of the old palace with her own hands. As long as she stands there, her aura is different from other girls.
She has a set of beautiful dresses that no girl here has ever seen before, she has a history of the empire that looks very expensive at first glance, she has a beautiful pink bicycle, and she has a pair of shoes that can make people dream of them if they blink.
big eyes.
Today, this beautiful girl told him personally that she will go back to Seris in one year and is expected to be admitted to the Second University of Seris.
"I heard people say that Dothan University is also pretty good." Seeing her son's depressed mood, the mother explained distressedly: "At the end of this month, if we still have some money left, Mom will buy you a roast chicken. What?
Sample?"
"Well..." The boy responded after swallowing the fragrant but unpalatable food in his mouth. There are many, many things in his heart, and before he fantasizes about them, for him, they are already over, as if,
