Chapter 496 - 323 Won the Match_2
For them, a hundred taels per household was already a substantial amount of money—you must realize, it was pure profit after deducting labor and fertilizer costs.
Though a hundred taels might sound like a small earnings to them by now, hadn’t their years of hard work earned them far more than a mere hundred taels?
Besides cultivating Bull Power in the mountains, they also planted rice and vegetables on those fields, growing crops all year round, resulting in a considerable harvest.
Initially, they thought buying the estate was expensive, but more than three years had passed, they had long since recouped the investment, and even made some profit.
As long as it wasn’t a loss, they would continue to plant, and with previous experience, they had plans to cultivate more medicinal herbs besides Bull Power.
They also raised seedlings. This year, while still planting Bull Power, the family leased a few more hills to cultivate other medicinal herbs like chrysanthemums and honeysuckle, which were easy to harvest.
Moreover, they gathered herbs used for treating bruises and wounds, like Panax notoginseng, along with other medicinal wild grasses from the mountains to plant, aiming to organize a medicinal herb cultivation base.
Ever since Ye Shiqi obtained a Medical Book that year, she had been diligently studying each medicinal herb, thus she drew specimens of common herbs found in the mountains, those used for treating bruises and wounds.
This created a use for some villagers who couldn’t work at the estate or factory, like children and the elderly.
Since the opening of the wood mill and the bicycle factory at the entrance to their village, not only the young men and ladies had work, but also women needing to provide for their families.