Yang Erzhu's wife also asked in surprise, "Right, third sister-in-law, even if you're not building this kind of earthen house, you wouldn't need that much, would you? About ten or more taels should be enough."
Building a house here does not cost many silvers, as materials are directly taken from the mountains and labor generally doesn't cost money–each family has built houses before. We help each other; providing meals is enough, and even if you pay for the labor, it doesn't use up that much silver.
Xiaoxiao and Yang Ming exchanged smiles. Xiaoxiao explained, "I plan to build seven large courtyards, each courtyard with ten rooms. We'll probably need to buy about ten acres of land for the house foundation."
As soon as Xiaoxiao spoke, the whole family was astonished. They couldn't even dare to imagine building such a large house, not even the landlord's family had built like this, nor had anyone from the city built such a large manor in the countryside.
