The holiday had just ended, and the temperature still hadn't risen; farm work was not in abundance, so it could be attended to a bit later without issue. Thus, when the Mo Family sought people to reclaim mountain land, paying able-bodied laborers thirty wen per day, women twenty wen, and even older children could earn ten wen, news spread rapidly throughout the village. Adults and kids alike eagerly descended upon the homes of several village heads, scrambling to be the first to sign up for land reclamation in Liu Yang Village.
Some families had numerous members capable of working, so sending three to five people to reclaim land was no trouble at all. As a result, the combined total of men, women, and older children able to spare the time for this task from several villages reached roughly one thousand two hundred people.