Hearing his wife say that he loved her, Gu Yanzhang sat on the kang and said with a smile, "Wife, you are my wife, if I don't love you, who else can I love?"

"Are you hungry now? I'll pour you a cup of hot tea so you can eat and drink at the same time..."

Chen Xuanxuan heard it and waved her hands repeatedly, "Boss, no, no. We have to eat dinner now!"

As she said that, she got out of bed and prepared to make another pickled mustard dish.

Gu Yanzhang saw her start to get busy, so he quickly put several kilograms of snacks in a cupboard.

These snacks cannot be left open, otherwise, those mice with sharper noses than dogs will sneak over.

After putting everything away, Gu Yanzhang walked out of the bedroom door with great interest.

When he saw Chen Xuanxuan cooking seriously, the smile on his face immediately lifted.

"Wife, I'll go wash the vegetables."

Chen Xuanxuan smiled and said, "Do you really need to wash the vegetables? The third and fourth brothers gave all the vegetables to them. Moreover, they said that when they went to wash cucumbers and eggplants, they met the eldest son of our clan leader. That man used a grass carp weighing several kilograms to exchange three cucumbers and a large eggplant weighing two kilograms with our third and fourth brothers..."

Hearing Chen Xuanxuan's mumbling, Gu Yanzhang did not have the slightest impatience at this time. Instead, he listened with relish.

In fact, this kind of life was what he had dreamed of.

Without her saying anything at this time, Gu Yanzhang took the initiative to start killing fish.

Without Chen Xuanxuan noticing, Gu Yanzhang carefully cleaned a fish that he had killed.

When Chen Xuanxuan finished cooking the eggplant fried with minced meat, Gu Yanzhang very easily passed the fish bowl with grass carp to her.

Chen Xuanxuan smiled at him and started frying the fish.

...

Tonight's meal is quite rich. Fried eggplant with minced meat, a pot of milky fish soup, a thick millet porridge, a large plate of pickled cucumbers, and a small plate of smashed cucumbers.

The six things were placed on the table, which shocked the two new daughters-in-law, Jiang Huigu and Ma Daya, and they didn't know what to say.

When they had such a rich breakfast in the morning, they were still thinking in their hearts that they were newly married girls after all. The husband's family would swell up their faces and pretend to be big for their own face and to show off their strength.

After all, it was their first proper meal.

However, looking at this family, seeing such a rich meal, their faces were filled with happy smiles, and they didn't seem to have any intention of forcing. Jiang Huigu couldn't help but wonder in her heart, is it possible that the people in the Gu family eat like this every day?

Chen Xuanxuan has always been willing to use oil and salt when cooking. And she will also add a lot of seasonings. Ginger, vinegar, garlic, light soy sauce, onion, star anise, pepper and bay leaves... Therefore, the dishes she made are fragrant and delicious.

Jiang Huigu's family only had two meals a day. Sometimes, when the family was really broke, they only had one meal.

And that one meal was just to get by.

They poured a few buckets of clean water into the moldy old rice, and then started to cook it in the big pot. When it became soup, they could drink it.

As for good things like oil and salt, to be honest, they didn't eat them often.

In the whole year, they ate them a dozen times, and that was only when there were distinguished guests.

Thinking that her family was a scholarly family, and that the life of scholars was not as good as that of peasants, Jiang Huigu stood up for her grandfather, father, and uncle.

She thought that people who had connections with the government would have an easier life.

Thinking of how much information she had gotten out of her two brothers-in-law today, Jiang Huigu secretly sighed in her heart.

She never thought her mother-in-law would have such a good life...

When the family had eaten and drunk their fill, there was nothing left on the table.

After asking them to go back to their rooms, Chen Xuanxuan prepared to boil water, wash their faces, hair, and feet.

She cut her hair again today.

Cut it to shoulder length. It was

a cool autumn day and she wouldn't catch a cold after washing her hair.

When Chen Xuanxuan wanted to brush her teeth, she forced Gu Yanzhang to take a bath and wash his hair.

The couple worked hard and finally finished all the work before eight o'clock.

When they were refreshed and lying on the clean bed to sleep, Chen Xuanxuan suddenly grabbed Gu Yanzhang's arm and whispered in his ear.

"Boss, do you think we should build a yard?"

Gu Yanzhang was interested when he heard it. The longer he spent with her, the more he understood her character.

He knew that his daughter-in-law never spoke without a purpose.

She said today that she wanted to build a yard, which meant that this thing must be done.

However, before getting this thing done, he had to find out the reason why she wanted to do this.

So, Gu Yanzhang asked in a low voice, "Why do you want to build a yard?"

In a place like the countryside, who has extra money to build a yard for themselves?

Building a courtyard requires bricks, stones, mud, and other materials, which all require manpower, material resources, and financial resources. If the courtyard is built too high, it will be particularly conspicuous. When the time comes, when robbers come down from the mountain, the first family they will rob will generally be the one with a high courtyard and a particularly grand house.

Of course, if the courtyard is built too low, that won’t work either.

Because here, they are right next to a large forest with many animals.

If this place has a heavy snowstorm like the one that happened more than ten years ago in the winter, then the jackals, tigers, and leopards in the mountains, that is, those man-eating beasts, will run into the village to eat people.

Gu Yanzhang remembered that when he was a child, people in some villages within a ten-mile radius were dragged away by tigers and eaten by wild wolves. Even those particularly large black bears would sneak into the villagers' houses in the middle of the night and eat them alive...

Thinking of the tragic things that happened in the past, Gu Yanzhang suddenly remembered the winter two years ago when his family almost couldn't survive.

At that time, he was so hungry that his eyes were blurry and his hands and feet were weak. He was thinking in his heart that if the whole family could not hold on, they would definitely starve to death, freeze to death, or be eaten by wild animals...

When he was extremely hungry, he really planned to wait for death.

Thinking of this, Gu Yanzhang said to Chen Xuanxuan in a serious manner, "Wife, you are right. You have good vision. Our family is different now. We really need to build a yard and a wall..."

Chen Xuanxuan was very happy when she heard his voice of approval.

She felt that her greatest luck after traveling through time was to meet such a good husband who obeyed her in everything.

He would take everything she said to him seriously. He never said anything, a woman with long hair has short knowledge. He never hit her.