Wang Xianbing nodded in agreement. Only families of regimental commanders or higher could afford a nanny, and a 24-hour live-in one started at forty or fifty yuan a month.
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Mrs. Chu had specially taken the day off to come to the factory grounds. Although her son and daughter-in-law were participating in the collective wedding, their marital home still needed to be decorated and stocked with all sorts of odds and ends. Plus, she'd heard there were two families in this very building celebrating a wedding.
'When their colleagues come over to celebrate, won't they inevitably make comparisons?'
Mr. and Mrs. Chu both worked in the education system, but Mrs. Chu came from a military family. And since the Bright Machinery Factory was a former military unit that had been collectively transferred to civilian work, she had her own channels for information.
