Mrs. Xu's eyes brightened as she looked at Xu Ruhua and said, "Ruhua, why don't you and your husband move over to our side?
We have factories here, and large greenhouses for vegetables; they're all looking to hire workers.
You and your husband could come over here to work, and you'd make more than one hundred yuan a month."
Xu Ruhua hadn't thought about it that much, but when she heard her sister-in-law say that if she and her husband worked here they could earn more than one hundred yuan a month, she was suddenly tempted.
Although the system of contracting production to households had been established, and they no longer had to turn in grain to the authorities, she and her husband worked themselves to the bone at home and didn't even make one hundred yuan in a year.
They only managed to ensure the family didn't go hungry.
