However, Mrs. Chen's rice fields were in Xianggui Town, and Gu Dagui went to the rice fields in Xianggui Town two days early, set up a shelter there to live in, and with the help of He Wanli, found some local farmers in Xianggui Town to hire them to harvest the rice.
Mrs. Chen was very distressed: "If the rice fields were closer to home, our own family could go and harvest them, there would be no need to hire others. Now just hiring people for the harvest is costing us a lot of money, it's truly a loss."
Third Grandma looked at her penny-pinching ways and scoffed, "Your family has thirty acres of rice fields. If you don't hire people, could the four of you finish harvesting them? You would be exhausted and still couldn't finish the work."
