Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 754: Losing Face While Dividing Money (3)_1

Chapter 754: Chapter 754: Losing Face While Dividing Money (3)_1

To earn more silver, each household sent two laborers to work. Some strong villagers specifically chose the hardest and most exhausting tasks so that they could earn more labor shares.

However, the peasants didn’t fear hardship or fatigue and all hoped to earn more labor shares. Once a few individuals took on the tasks that came with more labor shares, others felt discontent. Later, Tang Xin thought of a method: she selected those willing and able to do the arduous work and let them take turns.

This method gained unanimous approval, and it was eventually adopted to arrange tasks, resolving the minor frictions among the villagers.

Since the Mo Family had contributed thirty acres of land and had also paid the most silver for greenhouse materials, and with Tang Xin overseeing the greenhouse vegetables, the Mo Family didn’t contribute laborers. Their labor shares were calculated as two laborers, based on the average of everyone’s labor shares.

The Mo Family wasn’t lacking one or two hundred taels of silver, and although growing greenhouse vegetables was aimed at accumulating merit, they were not so generous as to refuse their share. Mo Yan originally thought of calculating it as one person’s labor share, but the other thirty-five households felt uncomfortable, believing they were taking advantage of the Mo Family. They insisted on counting two laborers for the Mo Family, and at the highest rate at that. Mo Yan didn’t agree but ultimately accepted the average labor shares.

Tang Xin’s accounting was well done, recording clearly what everyone did each day, how many labor shares they earned, and the final totals. It was even easier to record daily revenues and expenditures in the ledger, with no errors occurring.

Mo Yan reviewed each household’s total labor shares to calculate the silver they would receive and found only two mistakes. Nodding her head, she praised Tang Xin, "The accounting is very good. After correcting these two errors, we’ll send it to the village chief to have a look. If the village chief has no objections, we’ll let the villagers come to our house to divide the silver."

Dividing the seven hundred and thirty-eight taels and five qian of silver, the household with the most labor shares could receive twenty-five taels, and the one with the least could receive nineteen taels. In a month, the thirty-five households would be able to build brick and tile houses for the coming year.

At this, Mo Yan was very happy. The more silver the villagers divided, the better their lives would become, and the more merit she would accumulate. She wished for Space to upgrade to level ten sooner, so Xuetuanzi could come out earlier. Every time she heard it yearning for the outside world inadvertently, her heart felt very uncomfortable, so she only asked the five beasts to spend more time playing with it.

"Alright, I’m going now!" Tang Xin replied and, taking the ledger, went back to her room to make the corrections before heading to Yang Bao’s house.

Yang Bao took this very seriously, quickly sending his eldest grandson to call back the other three overseers from the fields. This wasn’t to say he distrusted Tang Xin or the Mo Family, but rather because the issue involved dozens of households, and they couldn’t afford to be careless.

If there were errors in the accounts and disputes arose, it would reflect poorly on everyone. They also worried that such issues could upset the Mo Family, leading to the end of their partnership in growing vegetables. After all, the Mo Family was not short of silver—why should they go through the trouble of doing good deeds if they had to put up with grievances?

Among the four, only Yang Bao could recognize a few characters. As he read from the ledger, the others calculated silently in their heads. When they heard that they had earned over seven hundred taels of silver in just half a month, they became so excited that they kept miscalculating.

By the time Yang Bao read that the first household would receive twenty-one taels of silver, the others almost bit their tongues in disbelief.

The reader, Yang Bao, was also thrilled; with two capable sons in his family, they were now set to receive twenty-four taels and six qian of silver—more than what his entire family could earn in three years.

Once all the accounts had been read, the four men regained their composure. After confirming there were no mistakes, they stamped their handprints below the accounts. Should problems arise later, they would be the overseers’ responsibility.