She certainly wished her daughter could stay by her side forever, but for Yunni, remarrying was a better choice.

Qiao Yunni was a little sad. No matter how much her family loved her, and no matter how reluctant she was, she still had to leave this door. Her brothers' children would take care of her in her old age, but how could she trouble her descendants? Besides, her own children were the most reliable. She was a woman, and that was the only path she could take.

She glanced at her daughter again. Lian'er was so smart and resourceful. She hoped that Lian'er would be able to take charge of her own life in the future and not have to rely on others like she did.

After dealing with Matchmaker Liu, Old Lady Qiao picked up her basket again, but there was a hint of sadness in her eyes.

There are some things that even an old woman like her can't do. When she and her husband, who both cherish their daughter the most, pass away, and all three generations of her three brothers are alive and well, Yunni will inevitably have moments of disappointment.

Qiao Yunni and Qiao Xier no longer needed help. Qiao Lian'er lay on the bed, pondering how to survive.

With so many people vying for the mushrooms on the mountain, even if another batch grows wildly after the rainy season, the Qiao family won't get much money.

She felt that with so many people in the Qiao family, and her eldest, second, and third brothers reaching marriageable age, they would soon be living together as a four-generation household. Therefore, the house they built should be more than twice the size of what they had envisioned, and ideally, it should be able to withstand the test of time for a hundred years. So, they needed to use better materials.

Even if you're not qualified to use glazed tiles, using other bricks and tiles of good quality would cost at least four or five hundred taels of silver.

Qiao Lian'er felt that the hundred or so taels she earned from finding mushrooms, even if she could get two hundred taels after the rainy season, would still not be enough.

It's more suitable for long-term household consumption to help prevent disease risks.

She took another closer look at the space. When it first started upgrading, it was filled with ordinary crops, the same ones you can see now, the ones grown in the fields and sold on the street.

Further upgrades include common crops and fruits not found in this world, such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, and strawberries.

The highest level consists of expensive fruits, nuts, and herbs, such as durian, custard apple, macadamia nut, pecan, ginseng, lingzhi, and he shou wu.

Qiao Lian'er's gaze fell on the list of high-end items, and her eyes lit up little by little.

This is the best way to make money.

However, before she can harvest these things, she needs to upgrade, expand her land area and improve the soil quality, and open an orchard, which requires ordinary crops to be exchanged for gold coins.

Qiao Lian'er put the remaining one or two coins into the account, leaving only a few hundred coins as pocket money.

She used the gold coins she earned to buy enough growth promoters and fertilizers, and applied them all.

You can see those crops, originally bok choy, later eggplants, cucumbers, green beans and the like, growing rapidly, climbing vines, bearing fruit, and ripening.

Before long, the space was filled with the bounty of harvest.

Common crops are relatively cheap, but in large quantities they can be exchanged for a lot of gold coins.

On the virtual screen, a button popped up asking if she could collect the money with one click. Qiao Lian'er clicked the confirm button and sold the money with one click. With a whoosh, accompanied by the sound of gold coins, the space immediately collected 100,000 gold coins.

Qiao Lian'er took a look and realized that there was still a long way to go before unlocking the seeds that didn't exist in this world, so she used the gold coins to expand her land and bought some seeds with relatively high selling prices to plant.

The soil has ten levels, and each two levels are further divided into many smaller levels. Larger coins are used to upgrade to larger levels, and smaller coins are used to upgrade to smaller levels. Qiao Lian used the remaining gold coins to upgrade two smaller levels. The harvest and the gold coins depend not only on the type of soil but also on the weight of the soil. The better the soil quality, the more abundant the harvest.

Looking around, the farm's planting area has already reached a considerable scale.

The livestock farm and orchard haven't been unlocked yet either; it'll be a matter of time.

After finishing all that, Qiao Lian'er felt dizzy and went out for a walk to clear her head.

She saw Uncle Qian from the south of the village carrying a heavy string of matsutake mushrooms down from the hilltop, and her eyes lit up.

After thinking it over for a moment, he walked over to Uncle Qian.