Chapter 385 - 0385: Lion’s Mouth Opens 1_1
Working as a servant in the Lu family means housing and food are taken care of and there is a monthly salary to supplement their own family. Even if it amounts to two or three dollars a month, it’s better off than having a son farming for a living in their hometown, pulling at the yellow soil daily. Therefore, it’s considered an honor for families to have their daughters work as servants in the Lu family, a chance to learn to conform to certain etiquettes and standards.
Better to marry a maid of a wealthy family, than a girl from a poor family.
This means, even the maids of wealthy families are more worldly than the poor farm girls, and when they reach marriageable age, there are typically many suitors, assuring their parents they would find a good match and even collect a decent dowry.
The mother of Feng Qingxue, Fengying, and her aunt Fengmei, both worked as servants in the Lu family.
Only Wang Fengqiao, who was weak and sickly since childhood, did not work as a maid in the Lu family. However, she often visited the Lu family, and her name too was given by the old lady of the Lu family; just like Daya, the head maid of the Lu family, she was named after her older sister.
Due to Wang Zhengguo’s face, Fengmei, who was Feng Qingxue’s aunt, along with Fengying, the mother of Feng Qingxue, followed the old lady of the Lu family and learned a lot. Later when Wang Zhengguo’s brothers got married, except for the youngest, they all married maids from the Lu family. The private savings they had accumulated over several years of service was considerable, and they were each rewarded substantially when they were married off.