The ten long-term workers were aged between fifteen and thirty. She arranged two rooms for them and then the family of four stayed in a single room.
Afterward, she handed the horse carriage over to Uncle Yuan and Aunt Yuan and gave them fifty taels of silver to go out and buy their daily necessities such as cotton, cloth, pots, pans, and so on.
These people arrived with nothing, so she had to provide everything for them to fully settle in before they could start farming.
Then, she sat down with the broker to discuss the matter of the shop.
"Shops in Beijing are quite expensive. To say that you snagged this farm at a bargain wouldn't be an exaggeration. To buy a shop in Beijing, the kind that is ten feet long and around seven feet wide starts at three thousand taels." Ten feet is equivalent to more than seven meters, and an area of ten by seven feet is approximately thirty-six square meters.
