Chapter 497: Revisiting Old Ground?

Those who couldn't afford gloves, their hands were all blistered from toil.

After the grain was gathered in the barn, did you think it was over? Far from it. The agricultural tax was considerable. After paying the public grain, some households, if not careful, wouldn't even have enough left over for next year's seed money.

So, for some families, it really was bustling about all year for nothing.

The life of farmers improved only after the agricultural tax was repealed; but it wasn't repealed yet, so apart from the exceptional Qiao Family Team and Hejia Village, other rural areas were merely subsisting.

Don't be fooled by the now negotiable grain prices; without money in hand, you still couldn't afford to buy.

This was the basic state of farmers at present.