Assured
Editor: Henyee Translations
The cooking utensils, rice and flour and daily necessities were bought. They could buy vegetables themselves, and also could raise chickens and ducks. In this way, they would be able to settle down properly.
Five liang could make them buy a lot. The family could easily live on it for three or four months.
Ding Erzhu did not turn the money down. He had nothing in his hands!
Feeling burdened, he sobbed as he held the money in his palm. "Nephew, and Niece-in-law, please count it against our salary. We can't ask you for any more money!"
Qiao Xuan smiled. "In that case, count two liang out of it as wages. The house building is not counted. When the house is torn down at the end of the year, we can still use the wood."
A piece of wood with a width of thirty centimeters and a thickness of two centimeters cost less than twenty wen. Three tales of silver, including labor and roof, was enough to cover a simple wooden house for their family of three.