"Fine, starting tomorrow, your older brother will go to school, and you can skip it. You want to farm, right? Then go farm. Can you pull out all the weeds from the wasteland by tomorrow?"

Erwa was very confident: "Yes."

Okay.

"As for studying, Da Wa can write characters and earn money by copying books. Da Wa can exchange five stones for each character you write here, which represents five coins. After you clear the wasteland, you have to wait for the crops to grow before you can exchange them for money. Since you are my son, I am taking pity on you and will give you a stone. From now on, if you two brothers want to eat, you will have to exchange the stones I give you. Do you understand?"

Erwa was full of confidence in himself and patted his chest to assure him.

Yin Lan also looked on with amusement. You don't like studying, huh? Very well, she'd like to see how long you can keep this up.

After resolving the matter, Yin Lan remembered that there was still a man at home.

What she just did was anything but gentle. I wonder if this man thinks she's abusing his child again.

Yin Lan turned her head and saw Chen Yourun's smiling eyes. His eyes seemed to have a magnetic pull, staring intently at her, making her heart skip a beat and feel a little uneasy.

What's wrong?

"You really do have a way with things," Chen Yourun said to her with admiration.

If it were Chen Yourun, he had already considered the possibility. If Erwa were throwing a tantrum in front of him, saying he didn't want to study, Chen Yourun really wouldn't know what to do. Besides, the child was so cute that he might soften his heart in the next second. He was still young, so he could deal with it later.

However, Yin Lan did a good job. She didn't confront the child, because reasoning with a child of this age is pointless. She simply let the child experience things for themselves and then make their own choices.

She did a better job raising the child than he expected.

For a boy of this age, simply being kind and tolerant isn't enough. So, on the day he returned, Yin Lan was using the right methods to educate him.

But at that time, he knew nothing and even misunderstood her.

A deep sense of self-reproach welled up in Chen Yourun's heart.

His gaze toward Yin Lan became even more tender.

Yin Lan really couldn't stand his gaze anymore. What was he doing? It was like he wanted to eat her alive. Stop looking! What are you looking at?

Yin Lan quickly slipped away.

She went back to her room, picked out a piece of clothing that Chen Yourun no longer wore, and took it out to Old Liu, saying, "Would you like to try this on and see if you can wear it?"

His clothes were too old and tattered.

Old Liu was extremely grateful. After some polite refusals, the old man, who was genuinely cold, simply changed out of his clothes.

Yin Lan was very pleased.

Back in the inner room, I opened the system and started auctioning off my tattered clothes.

Sure enough, such tattered and worn-out clothes are the most valuable, and they actually sold for two taels of silver!

The baby's four-month leave is finally here!

Yin Lan suddenly realized that she could come up with a way to find a reason to exchange old clothes for new ones in the village. If she could do this for a hundred sets, she would become rich!

Perhaps next time we go to the county town, we can buy a batch of fabric, claim it's unsold stock, and then sell it to the villagers at a low price, and then recycle their tattered clothes. Yin Lan thought about it and thought, "Hmm, that seems feasible."

This junk-collecting system is actually quite useful.

However, there are just too many people in the family now, so the house issue, which wasn't urgent before, has suddenly become pressing.

Fortunately, there was a "long-term worker" in the family.

When Yin Lan went out and told Chen Yourun, he had already started measuring the ground.

The house that Yin Lan sold was supposedly designed and built by Chen Yourun himself, brick by brick, day by day, all for the purpose of getting married. He considered every aspect very carefully. The house was in a good location and the rooms were large and bright.

Unfortunately, it was sold by the original owner when it returned.

Now, he's starting to plan things out outside the little hut again.

"Since we're going to build a house, we might as well do it all at once and plan it out as a whole. If we have rooms scattered all over the place, it will be troublesome to make adjustments later."

Yin Lan agreed.

But, "Can you manage on your own?"

Chen Yourun stood with his hands on his hips, looking down at her. "You think I'm not good enough?"

Yin Lan quickly averted her gaze; she didn't say anything.

"Come here." Chen Yourun tugged at Yin Lan, who was about to leave. In the past, when he was designing, he couldn't ask for her opinion, but now that they were both here, he naturally had to ask for her preferences and thoughts.

"This is the main gate."

Yin Lan thought for a moment and then suggested, "After we come in, let's build a rockery as a screen wall."

However, due to limited resources, it was impossible to build a screen wall as large as those of wealthy families. Nevertheless, there were plenty of materials in the mountains, so Yin Lan thought it would be quite good to make something similar to a screen wall using artificial mountains and wood to maintain the privacy of the house.

Chen Yourun naturally agreed and wrote it down.

Make a small garden and vegetable patch inside, so you can grow some convenient vegetables at home in the future. When you want to eat them, you can eat the freshest ones without having to go so far to pick them.

"Let's plant a few more fruit trees, so we can have fruit whenever we want."

As Chen Yourun watched Yin Lan continue to express her ideas, he added, "Should we plant some more flowers?"

She was so beautiful, and the flowers made her even more stunning.

"Then you go ahead and plant them, I'm not going to do those things."

"Do you like it?" Chen Yourun asked.

"I do like it." Women, after all, are always pleased by beautiful flowers.

“Okay, I’ll do it.” Chen Yourun readily agreed, and Yin Lan was quite satisfied.

“Other bathrooms are a must. You said they need to be warm and clean. We need to build an outhouse inside the house, otherwise it will be too cold to go out in winter. As for rooms, each child needs their own... The rooms should be big, with big windows and good lighting. We also need to build a study, since they will all be studying in the future. Old Liu’s room also needs to be better…” Yin Lan said in a rambling manner.

"Yes, our room is the best," Chen Yourun added casually.

Yin Lan stopped abruptly.

we?

She and him?

Yes, she belatedly realized that they were husband and wife. They didn't have the means to live together now, but once the house was built, they would definitely live together.

Thinking about this, Yin Lan felt a little uncomfortable, and her ears involuntarily burned.

Chen Yourun continued, “Our room is on the east side, next to the bathhouse, and in the middle is the main hall, where we entertain guests and handle daily matters. Next to it is the dining area, and the outhouse is built in the back. There are also vegetable gardens next to it, where you can build some sheds to raise chickens and ducks... Of course, you don’t have to raise them if you don’t want to.”

"Then our room is far away from everyone else?" Yin Lan listened carefully to his explanation. There was nothing wrong with the layout, but... she belatedly noticed this strange point.

That doesn't make sense.