I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

Ning Cuizhi couldn't stop smiling. Although she didn't believe that her son was now capable of standing on his own, the fact that he was ambitious and filial was enough to make her feel gratified.

As soon as she was happy, she agreed to Bai Jingzhou's proposal. "Then you can do it yourself. If you need your father and I to help you, just let us know in advance."

Bai Jingzhou nodded, "Then I'll go to my fifth uncle's house."

If I had told the old lady about my plan earlier, she probably wouldn't have been so determined to commit suicide.

"I'll go with you." Bai Chong was worried about his son going out alone in the dark, so he put down the medicine box, turned around and went to his fifth cousin's house with Bai Jingzhou.

They came back and the Bai family members who had not left yet were very surprised, but before they could ask, Bai Chong and Bai Jingzhou went straight to the room where the old lady was.

Mrs. Wu and her three children were also here. It was getting late, and no new clan members would come to the mourning shed to pay their respects. The Bai clan members who came to help advised Mrs. Wu to rest for a while. Mrs. Wu was worried about the old lady, so she brought her children to the old lady's side.

"Fourth Grandma, Fifth Aunt." Bai Jingzhou stopped at the door, raised his voice slightly, and greeted the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in the room.

The old lady and Mrs. Wu turned their heads to look at the door. Mrs. Wu stood up and walked over quickly to help them open the door curtain. "Third brother, Jingzhou, why are you here?"

Bai Jingzhou followed Bai Chong into the house and said, "Aunt, I want Jingshan and Jinglin to work with me in the future."

As soon as he said this, everyone in the room, including the women in the clan who were staring at the old lady and not giving her a chance to commit suicide, all looked at him.

Bai Jingzhou explained in a gentle voice, "Don't worry, I won't let them do any heavy work."

"In addition to common tasks such as weeding, collecting firewood, digging wild vegetables, cutting grass for pigs, catching insects to feed chickens, and sweeping the yard, I also let them help with harvesting, drying, and preparing medicinal herbs. These are things they can do at their age and won't tire them out."

"Of course, at first I will only let them find some common medicinal herbs in the fields. When they are able to protect themselves, I will take them into the mountains."

"If they do their job well, in addition to collecting herbs, drying them, and preparing them, I can also teach them how to read, count, and practice martial arts."

Everyone was stunned when they heard this. It was the first time they had seen a child hiring another child to do work.

One of the women who was in charge of watching over the old lady asked Bai Jingzhou, "Are you planning to have Jingshan and Jinglin eat at your house in the future?"

Those are two grown boys. If Bai Jingzhou lets them eat out at his house all the year round, isn't he afraid that they will eat his family into bankruptcy?

Bai Jingzhou shook his head slightly, "My family doesn't provide food, I plan to give them food or copper coins directly."

Everyone's eyes widened instantly. The women subconsciously looked at Bai Chong who had been silent.

Bai Chong waved his hand, "This is all Jingzhou's idea. Don't look at me, look at him."

Everyone then looked at Bai Jingzhou again.

Bai Jingzhou calmly looked back at everyone, "Now there are limits to what they can do. I plan to give Jingshan 100 kilograms of sorghum or bean flour a month, and Jinglin half that, 50 kilograms of sorghum or bean flour a month."

The price of sorghum rice and bean flour on the market is basically three to four cents per catty. One hundred catties is three to four hundred cents. After everyone quickly calculated the price in their minds, their expressions suddenly became complicated.

That's three or four hundred coins! Who would spend three or four hundred coins every month to hire a ten-year-old child to do work? Not to mention that Bai Jingzhou also has to teach them skills.

You have to know that even if they are strong laborers between the ages of 17 or 18 and 35 or 36, they go out to work early in the morning and late at night to do tiring and dirty work, and they have to endure being scolded and abused, but people only pay them 15 to 18 cents a day for their hard-earned money.

There are even some cruel people who, as soon as you finish working for them, will ask the servants in their house to kick you out, and will not even pay you the agreed ten cents a day.

They have seen a lot of things like this, and now comparing the two, they naturally envy the good luck of the two brothers Bai Jingshan and Bai Jinglin even more.

"No, this is absolutely not allowed." Mrs. Wu was not someone who didn't have a plan in mind. She waved her hands at Bai Chong and Bai Jingzhou, "Jingzhou, I know that you and your family are all good people, but I can't go against my conscience and drag you down."

It is not easy for anyone to make money. When she sent her two sons over, her family got a big bonus and reduced a lot of burdens, but Bai Jingzhou's family had to spend a lot more money every month.

"Aunt, I'm not giving your family food for free," Bai Jingzhou touched the head of his little cousin who was looking at him eagerly, "Jingshan and Jinglin have to go to my house to work every day. Whatever my parents and I ask them to do, they have to do their best to help my family."

After a pause, he continued, "I admit that I do want to help your family, but I'm not someone who will help everyone. I'm willing to help you because you are all kind-hearted and hardworking. As long as I help you get through this difficult time, you can still live a good life."

The most important thing is that with this income, his fourth grandmother no longer has to commit suicide.

Bai Jingzhou did not say this directly, but the meaningful look he gave the old lady made Mrs. Wu understand quickly.

Mrs. Wu was so excited that tears kept streaming down her face.

Her biological mother died early, and died when she gave birth to her brother. She was a girl and was dispensable in the eyes of her grandparents and biological father. When she had a stepmother and her stepmother gave birth to brothers and sisters, her biological father and grandparents took her even less seriously.

Her stepmother beat and scolded her, and ordered her around. She pretended not to see anyone in her family except her uncle and aunt.

After she finally grew up and was old enough to get married, her stepmother almost sold her to a fool as his wife for twenty taels of silver.

It was her uncle who took the risk and had a big fight with her grandparents and biological father. In order to save face, her grandparents and biological father stopped indulging her stepmother and handed her marriage over to her uncle and aunt.

Her aunt and her mother-in-law are cousins. They had a good relationship when they were in her mother's family. In addition, Bai Jingzhou's fifth cousin was also a simple, hardworking and good young man. So her aunt acted as a matchmaker and introduced her to Bai Jingzhou's fifth cousin.

Out of consideration for her cousin, Wu's mother-in-law was very kind to Wu. Wu lost her mother when she was young, and her mother-in-law was kind to her, so she always regarded her mother-in-law as her own mother.

The mother and daughter had a deep affection for each other, and if there was any way out, Wu would not want her mother-in-law to hang herself in order to save food for her and her three children.