For the small, eight-person Medicinal Garden, the expenses needed to be calculated first.
In this world, the minimum annual living expense for a normal family of five was 57 Gold Coins.
The situation at the Medicinal Garden was slightly better. Since the land and the property belonged to them, the major expense of rent could be exempted. However, the costs of food, fuel, and clothing were absolutely unavoidable.
Calculated this way, the minimum fixed annual living expense for the Medicinal Garden would be 72 Gold Coins, which equaled 1,440 Silver Coins. On average, this meant a daily expenditure of four Silver Coins.
In other words, they had to earn at least four Silver Coins a day just to keep the Medicinal Garden from going bankrupt.
And that was only the minimum expense. Gaode was now the owner. Naturally, he couldn't keep eating black bread and pea soup every day like a slave; improving the meals was a must. This would be another significant extra expense.
