824 Capable women
So not long after, among the traversers working on Zixia Island, in addition to Li Junming, Wei Dongli and Li Deviagra both had concubines one after another, and they were all single girls in the women's village - all of them were facilitated by Yang Qiaoqiao's matchmaking.
Under the leadership of Yang Qiaoqiao's "Zixia Island Women's Self-improvement and Self-reliance Federation" (hereinafter referred to as the "Women's Federation"), the women in the women's village quickly accepted the concept of Australia - the Australians told them that Australians pay attention to the freedom of marriage and equal rights between men and women, so whether you are married or not, there is no restriction on life dependence and etiquette that you received in the past in the Celestial Empire - Obviously, in the eyes of the self-combing women in the women's village, the Australian view of equal rights between men and women is naturally in line with the concept of self-combing women, and their support for Australians is from the heart- And not just in terms of economic interests.
Obviously, this has also led to an unexpected consequence - the women of the women's village have gradually not rejected marriage, because marriage is for women to live together between men and women, and it is equal - it is so simple, without the restrictions of various etiquette laws, and the reason why the women of those women's villages used to become self-combing women is not based on these concepts? In the final analysis, aren't they just because they want to escape or even rebel against all kinds of etiquette restrictions on women?
Of course, the overall change of concept is also a gradual process.
In short, for various reasons, the women of the women's village have been taken care of in Zixia Island---- in addition to obtaining land on the island, they also include an island specially set aside outside the new Qinzhou Bay in the north as the inherent territory of the women's village - the name of the island is called Nudao, located on the north shore of Xinqinzhou Bay, and the new Qinzhou Town wharf is only separated by a narrow strait, the total area of the island is more than ten square kilometers, which later became the headquarters of the "Women's Federation" of Zixia Island, and is also the factory of many "Women's Federations". The headquarters and home port of the trading company and the trading fleet, of course, that's a story for another time.
The arrival of the girls in Zixia Island in droves began in late October.
At the end of October, a total of more than 300 self-combing girls from four women's villages came to Zixia Island, and together with more than 6,000 male and female immigrants from the Leizhou Peninsula, they arrived at the dock of Zixia Town with the Nicole, which was already the third batch of immigrants welcomed by Zixia Island.
There are more than a dozen women's villages on the right bank of the Xijiang River, which is only a small part of them, and there are more than 600 women in these women's villages, but only about half of them are willing to go on the boat and migrate overseas.
It is the inherent complex of the Han people to leave their homeland, after all, not everyone can adapt to migrating to another country, not to mention that this time it is a long way to go to an unknown world - the fear of the unknown is the underlying psychology hidden in people's hearts, which is not easy to overcome, which does not distinguish between ancient and modern times and gender - however, once people overcome this psychological barrier, then that person's courage and spirit will be sublimated to a higher realm, which is also an indelible truth.
In fact, more than 400 women from these four women's villages actually arrived in Macao at that time, and it is clear that many of the women found Macau also a suitable place to earn a living, so they stayed behind, and they later integrated into Macau society in various ways, including the self-combing women who worked as "volunteers" in Mama Angels's Charity Hall and orphanage.
Of course, there are many women in the women's village who are not even willing to go to Macau, and most of these women are not young but not too old women - around 20 to 30 years old, if these people do not go to other women's villages, then there is only one way to go - get married, in fact, there are indeed many original self-combing women who have re-combed their hair and married.
What was surprising was that the age difference between the self-combing girls who came to Zixia Island was very different, which was very different from the situation they originally thought that the old man would not come.
This group of women can be described as "small and old", and the small ones have babies - the vast majority of them are picked up baby girls.
In addition, there are nearly 100 schoolchildren between the ages of five and 12, including 125 girls under the age of 12 and infants, which is an unexpectedly high proportion of young age - but this is one of the characteristics of the women's village.
Yang Qiaoqiao's explanation for this is: In the women's village, infant death is very common, but once they survive infancy, girls can basically survive, Li Junming They agree with this statement, according to their limited knowledge of human physiology, girls' vitality is quite tenacious, far more than boys, which is probably the reason why there are more girls in the women's village.
Among these women are very old women, for which Li Junming once commented - it can be seen that a person's "pioneering and adventurous spirit" is not inversely correlated with age - compared to the twilight of many people, many old people have an adventurous spirit.
These elderly people are between 50 and 70 years old, and one third of them are over 50 years old.
Of the more than 300 people, most of them are women between the ages of 30 and 50, and women at this age usually no longer marry.
According to the resolution of the last Federal Senate, those young self-combing girls belong to special circumstances, and since they have arrived on Zixia Island, they should try to settle all of them on Zixia Island.
Of course, the Red Mansion also hopes to recruit some orphans from the women's village to study in Sunflower, especially the 35 girls between the ages of five and 10---- because they are all orphans.
The Red Mansion wants the children to be sent directly to the Sunflower School – if the women in the women's village are willing, of course.
After some persuasion by Yang Qiaoqiao, the self-combing girls of the women's village finally agreed to the request to send their children to study, especially some of the aunts in the women's village, they seem to be literate, and the aunts feel that if these girls can go to the Australians to study, it is of course a good thing - after all, the reason why these self-combing women can "comb themselves" is more or less "alternative", most of them do not agree with the concept of "three from four virtues" and "women are virtuous if they are not talented".
Soon after Dai Xiaoshan received these women in Macao, he told Li Junming in advance in a telegram: These women are very self-reliant, and this migration, they brought a large number of living and production materials, and brought much more things than ordinary immigrants.
Dai Xiaoshan praised these self-combing girls for their strong survival ability and courage to face life.
In this regard, Xia Xiaoou from the Red Mansion said in the telegram that it is actually normal to think about this, if this group does not have the brains and courage of Hua, where can they resist this patriarchal society through self-combing?
Li Junming on Zixia Island was very impressed by Dai Xiaoshan's evaluation of self-combing girls, especially Ren Ke, who could see from his own lady that self-combing girls were indeed not simple women.
In the past few months, it has been proved that this Boss Yang of Liping Courtyard is really a capable woman, if you put it in the old world, it is definitely a white-collar beauty and a strong woman in the workplace.
And now Yang Qiaoqiao also has a staunch supporter of the Red Mansion far away - the ladies of the Red Mansion represented by Xia Xiaoou.
Although Yang Xia and the two have never met until now, they both know each other, and they both have a little yearning for each other---- so Li Junming once said to Ren Ke in private, although your wife and my wife are one of the new world and the other of the old world, but I feel that they are essentially the same kind of people, so you have to be careful......