The labor cost for a day is six or seven Wen coin per person, and with around twenty to thirty people each day, the daily expenditure is over a hundred Wen.
Aside from the two idle months in winter, for three-hundred-days a year, the total cost is over thirty-thousand coins, which is roughly thirty taels of silver.
She could afford this amount even if it were to double.
This year's Mai Shou, there are five hundred acres of fields in the family property, out of which fifteen acres produce inferior quality crops. One acre yields two hundred jin of wheat, adding up to three-thousand jin from fifteen acres.
Furthermore, there are three hundred acres of average quality fields. One acre here produces three hundred jin of wheat. Hence, the yield from these three hundred acres is ninety-thousand jin.
