The husband went out to work, and the woman stayed at home, so what are these women doing at home? These three women tell the truth.
1. Ms. Zhang, 36 years old
Ms. Zhang, a 36-year-old left-behind woman in a rural area, has been farming and taking care of her children since her husband went out to work.
Ms. Zhang's home is in a remote rural area with inconvenient transportation, and most of the strong men in the village work outside the village to earn money, and those left in the village are those like her who have children to take care of, as well as some elderly people.
In the countryside, Ms. Zhang said she rarely leaves the village throughout the year, except to go to the street to catch a market. Her family has more than one acre of paddy fields and three acres of dry land, and she did not let them go barren. She grows a round of rice in the paddy field every year, and can harvest more than 2,000 catties of rice, and her family basically does not have to buy grain. In dry land, Ms. Zhang uses it to grow buds, peanuts, and soybeans. bud grain, which she used to sell; Peanuts and soybeans are used to extract oil. She also fed twenty or thirty chickens and five or six geese. Ms. Zhang said that her children can't win eggs when they can't eat them, so she takes them to the town market to sell them, and the money from the sale is used to buy the vegetables she wants to eat.
Ms. Zhang said that in rural areas, as long as you work, there is basically no rest time, and you need to take care of the fields, home and outside.
Second, Ms. Li, 32 years old
Ms. Li, a 32-year-old accompanying mother, has a son who attends a middle school in the county. In order to accompany her son to study, Ms. Li became a left-behind woman.
Ms. Li was originally with her husband, and she had to choose to stay for the sake of her son's studies.
Ms. Li, who stayed with her to study, did not only cook for her son all day, but found a job with more free time, accompanying her to study and going to work at the same time.
Ms. Li said she didn't want to be alone at home, it would be boring, and she didn't want to play mahjong because she wouldn't.
Ms. Li said that it is very suitable for accompanying the mother to find a job with free time, which can not only take care of her son, but also enrich her life and income.
3. Ms. Wu, 34 years old
Ms. Wu, 34, is also a left-behind woman, staying at home, taking care of her two children at school and her sick mother-in-law. In addition to these two jobs, Ms. Wu also takes some manual work home to do in her spare time. Ms. Wu said that staying at home to do a little manual work, although it does not make much money, but it is also her own labor income, and every time she receives money, she will be very happy, because this is her labor income.