Throughout the winter, Gu Yanzhang's family had been robbed.

Chen Xuanxuan took inventory and found that she had lost nearly 200 large pumpkins weighing 100 kilograms each.

The clansmen in Gujiagang actually knew that things could never happen more than three times.

No matter how poor the family was or how hard their life was, they would only ask Gu Yanzhang's family to borrow food three times at most.

However, Gu Yanzhang would always guarantee that they would eat their fill after coming over, and would let them take a few kilograms of food back...

There were more than 20 households who came to borrow food, and over time, the Gu family had lost 2,000 to 3,000 kilograms of food.

Chen Xuanxuan felt that she had lost too much this year, and she thought this was really not a solution.

At the beginning of this spring, Chen Xuanxuan announced to the villagers that her family could rent the swampland in the upper reaches of Xiaoyue River to the villagers for them to reclaim. However, the renters had to pay her family 10% rent every year.

The people of Gujiagang were very good at calculating.

When they heard about this, they all rushed to the home of the clan leader Gu Yuxi to ask if this could be done.

After listening to this, Gu Yuxi pondered for a while, then nodded and said, "In this matter, logically speaking, we are still the ones who get the better deal."

"Those of us who have no connection with the government, if we want to rent government land, we must pay 50% rent. Moreover, this rent has to be a fair price given by the government. If we actually pay rent, it should be 55% to 60%." "

However, through the relationship with old lady Liu, in addition to paying 10% rent to her family, we only have to pay 30% to the government. So, we can at least get a 20% rent advantage."

When the Gu family heard that they could get a 20% rent advantage, they all immediately rejoiced.

Even the experienced elders of the clan could not help but nod their heads and said, "Clan leader, this is great news, great news!"

"This year my family plans to reclaim twenty acres of land there."

"My family too. We have many people and children. We plan to reclaim thirty acres of land!"

"Then my family will reclaim fifty acres!"

"..."

Seeing these noisy people who treated their own main room as a vegetable market, the clan leader Gu Yuxi used the crutch in his hand to hit the yellow earth hard.

"Everyone be quiet!"

"That piece of wasteland is limited, you can't open as many acres as you want. There are many poor people in our Gu family, this time, such a good thing must come to those people first. We must ensure that those dozens of families can rent a few acres of land. As for the rest, we will divide it slowly among those who are living well these days."

"I plan to take you there now. First measure the wasteland and see how much land can be opened."

After the clan leader Gu Yuxi made a series of arrangements, the people of the Gu family seemed to have found a backbone, and they stopped thinking about other things at that time. Every morning before dawn, they ran to the clan leader's house, and then followed the clan leader to the swamp in the upper reaches of Xiaoyue River to check every day.

After the Gu family members had allocated the wasteland for development, everyone started to work.

They worked from morning till night, carrying hoes and going out before dawn, and returning to the house in groups in the middle of the night. This

lasted for three to five months, and these people were busy all the time.

These people had something to do every day, and they were busy around the fertile land in the swamp... One day at the end of May, Chen Xuanxuan suddenly discovered that her life seemed to be much quieter than before! !

Once the days were quiet, Chen Xuanxuan couldn't help but start to worry about her family's affairs.

Recently, matchmakers from a hundred miles away have come to her house.

They said they wanted to introduce some good marriages to her Dazhu and Erzhu.

One of the matchmakers, surnamed Huang, said that she was a relative of Captain Huang and wanted to introduce her niece to the matchmaker.

Chen Xuanxuan had to give in to the matchmaker.

She made Miss Huang sound like a fairy. Sometimes Chen Xuanxuan couldn't help but wonder if she was really that good.

Of course, there was more than one matchmaker named Huang who was so enthusiastic about the matchmaking. Even the matchmaker Gu, whom she knew, came to the matchmaker's house.

As soon as this person came over, he clapped his hands and shouted, "Third sister, congratulations! This time, your family has a great thing coming to them!"

"There is a very rich old man in Tongzhen who said that he wants to marry his precious daughter to a decent family like this. The dowry is ready. It's a full twenty-eight taels!! The fertile land for the dowry alone is five acres! If your eldest son marries such a daughter with a rich family and a generous dowry, he won't have to worry about his future!"

Looking at the excited and enthusiastic expression on the face of the matchmaker Gu, those who didn't know the inside story might have mistakenly thought that her son was getting married!

...

There were too many matchmakers who came to propose marriage, and Chen Xuanxuan was a little embarrassed at the moment.

She had no experience in this area. I don't know the family situations of those girls.

The matchmakers said so nice things. Not only did they say her sons were the best in the world, but they also said those girls were rare in the world.

In the matchmakers' mouths, her sons and those girls were a perfect match...

Thinking that this matter was a bit difficult, Chen Xuanxuan hesitated for a moment and decided to throw these things directly to Gu Yanzhang, Gu Dazhu and Gu Erzhu.

Gu Yanzhang is the father, so he will check for his son.

Gu Dazhu and Gu Erzhu are going to get married, and they will decide for themselves when the time comes. Anyway, in the future, they will live with their wives.

If they don't like the girls she picked, or even hate them, wouldn't she be harming those girls?

Let her son find someone he likes. Then, when they have conflicts, the son and daughter-in-law won't say that it was her, the mother-in-law, who was secretly causing trouble.

Thinking of her two sons getting married, Chen Xuanxuan started to think about renovating a new house again.

As the saying goes, the fragrance is far away, but the near is stinky.

The mother-in-law should stay away from her sons and daughters-in-law.

Although they are still a family, Chen Xuanxuan sincerely thinks that they should not live together.

Living separately will reduce conflicts. Life will be quieter, and people will age more slowly.

Thinking of this, Chen Xuanxuan said to Gu Yanzhang that night, "Boss, we have to give Dazhu and Erzhu a few gifts this year and marry them off as daughters-in-law."

"I calculated that after we harvest the glutinous rice this year, we will have a large sum of money. Then, we will let our daughters-in-law marry in, and we will build two new houses!"

Gu Yanzhang hugged her and said good things to her.

Since the relatives of the Gu family have received the benefits from his daughter-in-law, no one in the village dared to embarrass him in person.

Some people even enviously said that he was lucky to marry such a capable daughter-in-law.