Chapter 371 - 360 - We Must Have Dreams (Part 1)
Landlord Bai was stingy, but during the busy farming season, he was willing to spend money, so he often paid wages of eighteen or twenty wen.
Before the Zhou Family had started planting ginger and selling vegetables and greens in the county town, Landlord Bai was an important source of income for them.
Working as short-term laborers for Landlord Bai could earn them at least a thousand wen a year, and that was during the leanest times.
Essentially, the money for their mother’s medicine came from there.
Therefore, Manbao subconsciously felt that being a long-term worker would be more profitable than being a short-term one, because they would have work to do more often.
The three long-term workers looked at Manbao with sadness and said, "Miss Man must be joking."
The wages for long-term workers weren’t calculated by the day, but by the month.
Each of them earned three hundred wen per month, including room and board.
During the busy farming season, their meals came from the communal kitchen of the manor, but after that period, the Bai Family would give them some coarse grains to cook whatever amount they needed.
So those who ate less could save some grains for themselves, and those who ate more could use their own wages to buy what they needed.
Manbao did the math and said, "Three hundred wen isn’t too little, how can you not be able to find wives?"