Six years have passed, and without children, you and your wife have borne the brunt of many whispered conversations and jokes. The work on your farm is not going as well as you hoped, and though you and your wife have enough food, you are not getting ahead. Fertilizer has tripled in cost because of increased prices for oil (a major ingredient in fertilizer), and your landlord expects more and more production from your land.
You have seen some of your fellow farmers leave for the city to seek jobs, stimulated by rumors that the government is starting some factories there. You see little hope for grain where you are, as something always happens to destroy your hoped-for profits. Yet the city jobs are just rumors to you.
You and your wife discuss whether to leave your acres here and seek your fortune in the city or to stay and try to make a go of it.
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