Hearing her husband relent, Tang Yushi's heart leapt with joy as she quickly calculated the accounts.
"That loss-making good-for-nothing is already ten years old. If we sell her to a wealthy family as a maid, we'll get at most Ten Taels of Silver, but if we sell her to 'that kind of place,' with her looks, she'll be worth at least thirty or forty taels."
With those Forty Taels of Silver, not only could they clear the Ten Taels Loan with interest, but there would also be enough for Tang Daya's and Tang Erya's dowries. They could even build a spacious adobe house and send their youngest son, Tang Bao, to school for an education.