Didn't Want It

Jiang Xia said, "Isn't Second Uncle selling bamboo baskets also doing business? You usually take the chickens you raise at home, the peanuts and sweet potatoes you grow, and so on, to the market to sell. Isn't that doing business too? Selling seafood at the market is the same."

"That's different. How can what I do count as doing business? Besides, if Second Uncle goes out, who'll farm the land at home? We can't stop farming. Every year, we have to hand over quite a lot of grain tax. If we don't farm, we won't have grain to pay the tax."

Second Uncle was afraid that if he went into business, he wouldn't make any money and would end up unable even to pay the grain tax.

He knew that doing business carried risks.

Jiang Xia said, "The farmland at home can be entrusted to someone else, or you can let people from the village help cultivate it. Have them pay the grain tax for you. I believe many people would be willing to farm it. If Second Uncle dares to take a gamble, you can work together with your cousins, or go with Eldest Uncle. The two families can share one stall, or each have a stall of your own."

Jiang Xia explained everything to them in detail. Whether they listened or not was up to them.

Second Aunt's horizons were different now. Before, she had also worried that no one would farm the land at home. They had to pay grain tax, and they couldn't stop farming.

She had never thought that they could hire someone else to farm the land, or let someone else farm it and have them pay the grain tax on their behalf.

She immediately said, "Old man, go! Go into business! Xiao Xia