Chapter 1553: Even So

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

As expected, before Tao Zhen could answer, the others all said, “He’s right. Just two or three copper coins a day will do.”

He was afraid that one or two coins would be too little and Jiang Yue wouldn’t believe him, so he said two or three coins.

Even so, Jiang Yue did not believe it.

Jiang Yue and Xue Yan looked at Tao Zhen.

Tao Zhen now roughly understood the temper of his two benefactors. Naturally, he told the truth. “Usually, if you work for someone, it’ll be like this. As long as you don’t go further than the county, it’s about ten coins a day.”

This was similar to Da Ling.

Jiang Yue and Xue Yan looked at each other, and then Jiang Yue said, “Then we’ll make it ten coins a day. My husband and I still have some things to prepare. You can start handling the missing person notice tomorrow.”

Jiang Yue and Xue Yan would see how many people they could hire in Stone Village.

Because the village had planted all the things that needed to be planted in the first half of the year, they only needed to take care of the crops. Therefore, there were quite a lot of free people.

They would hire one or two people from each family. In the end, there were a total of 45 people.

It was also because Stone Village did not have a large population that they managed to quickly gather these people up.

Then, Jiang Yue said to the 45 people who were hired, “Come to my husband and I’s place tomorrow morning. You’ll have to take a carriage to the town or county to post and issue missing person notices. Don’t forget to post them on some roadside trees. They must be noticeable. As long as someone passes by that area, it must be known. Later, my husband and I will go to town to hire some carriages for you.”

These people all said, “There’s no need to take the carriage. We’ll get up before dawn. We’ll just walk.” They were all afraid that their benefactor would spend too much money on them.

Jiang Yue said, “I will bring the carriages. It’s too far. It’ll be too early to walk. It’s easy to lose energy during the day.”

That was true…

In addition, they wanted to help their two benefactors do a good job, so these people had no objections. They all agreed to go to the village entrance on time tomorrow to take the carriage.

At this moment, the seeds were distributed.

Zhang Shoushou and Zhang Dazhu carried the seeds and hurried back. They wanted to clean up the courtyard next door. The thatched cottage was for Jiang Yue and Xue Yan, the two benefactors.

People from every household in the village came to help clean up.

Jiang Yue and Xue Yan followed him to this courtyard. There were a lot of people helping to clean up, and they were so enthusiastic that they could not get involved at all.

They could only size up the courtyard. There were a few small houses. The mud walls were extremely mottled, and the thatch on the roof was overloaded. It felt like it was about to hang down. The walls did not seem that high, but they were not that short either. They were the height of a normal house.

Because no one had lived in it for many years, no matter which room it was, it was covered in dust.

There was only a brick bed under the window of one of the rooms. The brick bed looked very mottled, but because it was built thick at the beginning, there was no need to worry about it collapsing.

Some of the windows had holes in them. Fortunately, although the window in the room they slept in was very old, it was not damaged, so there was no need to re-paste the window paper.

There were cabinets, tables, and stools as well. They were all very simple and old. Someone brought water over and several people helped clean them neatly.

They even carried it out and placed it under the sun. The sun was shining very brightly today and it dried very quickly.

The kitchen was small. Not to mention other things, the pot itself looked like it had not been used for many years. There was a lot of embroidery, and an aunt was helping to finish it.

There was only this small pot on the stove.

There was a big tree outside the courtyard wall. The branches of the big tree extended in and could cover more than half of the house on the side of the woodshed. The courtyard could also be covered a little.