"The potatoes are almost all harvested. There are thirty or forty people, and each household only has one man, so it won't affect the farmland. Don't worry!"
“Yes, the winter wheat in the fields will take several more months to mature, so we don’t need to worry about it for now. We just harvested potatoes in this field, so the soil is much softer. Losing a man won’t affect the planting of medicinal herbs.”
"You should go early. Once the medicinal herbs are sold and the money is earned, the whole village will feel at ease."
This wasn't just polite talk after eating the big meat buns from Shuiqing; it was genuine sentiment from every household!
After all, every family has someone working at the herbal medicine shop, earning more than 600 coins a month, which covers clothing and lunch. If the herbs aren't sold, how will they make up for it?
Even if the water was cleared at the end of last year, if there's nowhere to sell it this year, let alone the monthly salary for working, even the medicinal herbs in the fields will only be edible.
The village finally had a way to make money, and no household wanted to lose it.
Shuiqing didn't expect the elderly people to be even more anxious than she was.
Actually, she was doing well. Even without Bai Manshan and Ling Ce's thanks, the income from the herbal medicine shop alone was quite good.
Last year, the herbal medicine shop only sold herbs twice, but each time it sold for more than 900 taels, totaling more than 1,900 taels, almost 2,000 taels. The monthly wage for the herbal medicine shop was 21 taels, the food expenses were a few taels of silver, and the clothing only required payment for the fabric, and this expense was only required once throughout the winter, not every month.
All things considered, the total expenditure so far has not exceeded two hundred, and after the dividends from the Ding family, there is still a little over one thousand taels left.
The profit of over a thousand taels of silver was only from the income from selling two batches of medicinal herbs, so it can be said that the herbal medicine shop was indeed profitable.
She smiled and said, "No, it's not just about men, we also need donkeys."
"donkey?"
Shui Qing nodded: "Yes, my land is plowed, the horses, oxen and donkeys are idle, the medicinal herbs are not too heavy overall, and the oxen walk slowly, so we left them behind."
Six horses pulled the cart, which was loaded with medicinal herbs, while the others rode donkeys. This way, they were less tired and could travel faster. A round trip to Yuhang would take about a month.
My family's horses and donkeys are definitely not enough to carry all the men in the village; the men will need to bring their own donkeys. The potatoes are almost harvested, and the plowing should be finished in about ten days. We won't need donkeys for planting medicinal herbs later, so the group should be able to set off for Yuhang around mid-February.
"Oh my, it's so far! I thought it would only take a little over a month to walk there and back, but I didn't expect it would take more than a month to ride a donkey," Grandma Xu exclaimed.
No wonder Shuiqing had to wait until the fields were plowed before going. It's such a long way, and she had to walk the whole way. Without a donkey, when would she ever be able to come back?
"Good heavens, this has really been a long trip!"
"That's enough to brag about for the rest of your life!"
The men were shocked and overjoyed, wishing they could go themselves.
Previously, we thought that it was a long trip for the villagers to go to Nanning Prefecture and back in three or four days. Now that they have been away for one or two months, it really feels like they have gone on a long trip!
Shuiqing saw the envy in the old men's eyes, but there was nothing she could do. These days, it's really not easy to go out and see the world.
Especially given the turbulent times, it is even more difficult for the elderly to go out.
She changed the subject, saying, "I'm thinking of charging one hundred coins a day for one person and one donkey. Do you think that's a good price?"
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