Mu Yuanxiu and Li Xingmao, together in the fields, supervised the hired short-term workers planting rice seedlings.
Li Xingmao led people to tidy up a marshy patch in front of the house and expanded some dry land. Now the Li Family has over ten mu of paddy fields and thirty mu of dry land, all relying on short-term workers for help.
In Taohua River Village, families with little land, after managing their own fields, often go out to find other jobs to increase their income.
Working as short-term workers for families with lots of fields is their regular job.
Easier tasks pay sixty wen a day.
For high-intensity work like planting rice seedlings, it's eighty wen a day, and for those who are quick and do well, it's ninety wen a day.
The wages for short-term workers at the Li Family are settled on the same day after the work is completed.
Moreover, they provide a lunch and tea.
People in the village compete to do the job.
