By mid-October, the guests had moved out, and Qin Yao's family was ready to start construction on a new study, finally beginning.
The materials had already been ordered by Liu Ji, and a mute was in charge of contracting the work. Five or six people were called together, firecrackers were set off, and with the first shovel, the construction commenced.
This time, it wasn't just Qin Yao's family building a house; most of the village was repairing houses, intending to reinforce them all before the first snowfall.
The reason they could do this was that everyone now had money on hand.
There were plenty of workers from the village, one or two in each family, working at the stationery factory. If it was a couple, they'd joined during a large recruitment drive five months ago and had each earned over three hundred coins, totaling six hundred for the pair.
Over five months that would be three taels of silver, enough for simple repairs and strengthening of the house.
