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When the boys in the village grow up, they go to the city to work. If you grow taller, then school is basically over. At first, unmarried girls would go out to work with their older relatives. After getting married and having children, they could take care of the children at home. During the Chinese New Year, the money the men take home, plus the money from selling grain, is the living expenses for the elderly, children, and women in the family this year. Later, some women who gave birth to children left their children under six months old with their grandmothers, and then went to work in the city... The younger ones went to clothing factories and electronics factories, earning less money than the big workers on the construction sites, but fortunately they were cleaner and more respectable, so they would not be disgraced all day long. Most of the older men worked on construction sites. In those days, most construction site work was done with one arm. If your family is going to build a house next year, you will have to earn more money...