Yu Xiaocao acted without delay and called over Widow Li and her son and the family of the matron, whose husband broke his leg when the Yu Family just bought the plantation. After the husband’s leg recovered, he had a slight limp, but it didn’t affect his ability to work. The two families were very grateful to the owners for they took care of them, and thus they were more loyal than the other tenant farmers. 

In particular, Widow Li and her son, who were divided three mu of land last autumn, had tended the fields meticulously. When it was time for harvest, they even got first place in the village. With an average yield of six hundred eighty catties per mu, they were awarded with one tael per mu by the masters. In addition, there were also over one thousand catties of fine wheat kernels. They had earned an income of thirteen taels within half a year.

Allegedly, the masters would also buy the kernels of corn, which would be harvested in the latter half of the year, back at market price. In this way, they could make at least twenty-something taels in a year. This was something that Widow Li and her son had never dared to imagine. After working for a few more years, her son would have enough money to get married! 

When Widow Li and her son and Liu Dazhuang’s family (Author’s...