Finally, everyone in the house had left. Zhou looked at Chunxiao holding a pile of IOUs and couldn't help laughing. "Now that the money has been distributed, our family is poorer than before. We used to be able to take out two taels of silver, but now we can't even take out two taels of silver. All we can do is take out this pile of paper."
"Mom, take a long-term view. You will have bread and a house."
"What, what are you talking about?"
"I said we can now farm peacefully and wait for the harvest to turn around in the future."
The next day, it started to rain, just like the mood of the villagers. Zhou said that in the morning, the village was full of crying sounds. She could hear them from a long distance away. It sounded so sad, so she hid here early.
Now their cotton and wheat have been planted, but Dongsheng's and Musheng's families have not yet planted. I originally wanted to go and help today, but with the weather and the feeling of parting, I definitely can't do it today.
I asked yesterday and found out that only five of the twelve farmhands were left. Dashan and Dahe paid the wages of the seven who left on a daily basis. They were worrying about what to do as they didn't have enough manpower. Shuwen and Shufeng took the five farmhands to the farm early this morning. The cotton grown there also needed to be transplanted, so they went over to take a look first. They were afraid that they wouldn't be able to do anything on this rainy day.
"What should we do with this manpower? Should we recruit more in the village?"
"There are so few people in our village now. I'm afraid we don't even have enough manpower to farm our own land. It's probably difficult to recruit this person."
"Then what should we do? Go to other villages to recruit? Other villages aren't much better. Most of the men have left now, so there's a shortage everywhere."
"Why do we have to recruit men?" Chunxiao asked.
The two brothers were stunned. "These farmhands have always been men. When have they ever recruited women?"
"That was in the past. Now there are no people. As long as they can work, what's the difference between men and women?"
"That being said..."
"Do you think women can never work as well as men? Then think about our eldest and second sisters-in-law. They work just as well as you."
"When there's no other way, we can give what you said a try, but we should find a man first, so it's more convenient to work together."
"I'm just making a suggestion. You guys decide for yourselves. Actually, I have another idea. I want everyone in the village who wants to grow cotton to sign a contract with our family. We'll teach them how to grow cotton, but when the harvest comes, they have to sell the cotton to us at the market price. That way, they can earn money and pay it back to us, and their lives can improve."
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