When Gu Yanzhang placed a bowl of steaming glutinous rice in front of Chen Xuanxuan, Chen Xuanxuan asked curiously, "Boss, you went to the county town yesterday, how was it?"

"Is it as lively there as before?"

Gu Yanzhang nodded.

He first urged her to eat the rice quickly, and then he explained slowly, "Something did happen in the county town."

"Our county magistrate said that in order to prevent droughts and our villagers from having no water to drink, he plans to dig 2,000 more wells in our county town."

"Dig 2,000 wells?"

Chen Xuanxuan was shocked by the county magistrate's generosity.

You have to know that this place is not a modern society. It is an ancient society with extremely backward productivity.

In ancient society, there was no mechanization or machines. All materials were invented and created slowly by the hands of the working people.

Digging a well is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and especially expensive!

Even a skilled master would need more than ten people to dig a well for a full half month.

If we want to dig 2,000 wells, how much manpower, material resources, and financial resources will be needed...

When she thought of this, Chen Xuanxuan immediately exclaimed, "Boss, if a drought really happens after we dig wells, our water supply may not be guaranteed."

Gu Yanzhang nodded in agreement.

"Of course."

"However, if there are 2,000 more wells in our county, the water supply problem for many people can still be solved."

"At least, their daily lives will be more convenient."

While the two were talking, Chen Xuanxuan had already finished a bowl of fragrant glutinous rice.

Chen Xuanxuan actually didn't quite understand why glutinous rice in this era was so spicy and fragrant.

It may be a problem with the seeds, or it may be due to the soil and water.

In short, Chen Xuanxuan. The glutinous rice I eat now is round and plump. After cooking, it looks good and has a chewy texture.

After eating a big bowl of it, it is still very filling.

Feeling that if these glutinous rices are fried into that kind of fried rice, the taste should be a little stronger than rice. Chen Xuanxuan looked at the man beside her expectantly and said, "Boss, do you have any glutinous rice?"

Gu Yanzhang nodded heavily, "Yes! There are still a lot! It's enough for you to eat alone."

Hearing this, Chen Xuanxuan said with a smile, "Boss, the glutinous rice you have is only for me to eat? How many days can it last?"

Gu Yanzhang thought about it seriously, and replied seriously, "It can probably last you another half a month."

Chen Xuanxuan heard it, "Boss, then...you can eat it with me."

Gu Yanzhang shook his head, "No. These glutinous rices are specially used to nourish your body."

Glutinous rice replenishes Qi.

Although it is not allowed to be eaten too much, it is still very beneficial for women who give birth to many children.

Gu Yanzhang had never carefully observed those women who gave birth to children before. But after being reminded by his wife, he noticed that those women who gave birth to many children were particularly old.

Some women started giving birth in their teens, and after giving birth to more than ten children, they died at a young age of 30 or 40.

When he thought of those women who had to continue to fight for a son after giving birth to two children in three years, Gu Yanzhang suddenly grabbed his wife's hand, frowned, looked at her with a distressed face and said, "Wife, when I was young, I didn't know anything. I made you suffer at that time."

Chen Xuanxuan smiled gently when she heard it. "Boss, let's not talk about the past. It's good that you know I'm working hard."

"... Sometimes I really think that you are a good person. You are very good to me now. You are especially generous to me when it comes to food. At least you are not as stingy as those men in and outside the village. They are reluctant to spend a penny on their wives."

In the past few years in this village, Chen Xuanxuan has seen some "worldliness".

Every time Chen Xuanxuan saw those men who treated their wives like cattle, horses, pigs and dogs, she felt particularly uncomfortable.

Not having enough food to eat and not having a good piece of clothing to wear were secondary. In fact, what disgusted her the most were those men. As long as they were in a bad mood, they would beat their wives at home.

Of course, some old mothers in their eighties and nineties didn't have a good life.

Last year, Chen Xuanxuan saw with her own eyes that there was an old lady in her 80s in this village.

On New Year's Eve, she was driven out by her own sons and had no home to return to.

On New Year's Day, she was frozen to death at the door of her own sons' room.

You know, this poor old lady gave birth to nine children in her life!

Among them, two were concubines.

The other seven were all sons!

None of the seven sons wanted to support their old mother.

It can be seen that no matter how the court ruled the world with filial piety, some ungrateful sons at the bottom could still do such unfilial acts.

Since the whole village has the same surname.

If such a thing were to be spread to people outside, the entire Gujiagang people would be pointed at and scolded.

Therefore, when such a thing first broke out, the clan leader Gu Yuxi and the elders of the older people were the first to stand up.

They first warned their direct descendants one by one. They told them to shut up and not to tell such things.

Later, they began to repeatedly warn the men in their own clan.

They were told to keep a close eye on the women in their families.

Moreover, they also spread the word that if their wives told their families or outsiders about this, they would immediately open the ancestral hall and divorce the woman!

Due to various threats from the clan leader Gu Yuxi, no one outside knows that such a tragic incident happened in Gujiagang last year.

Every time Chen Xuanxuan thought of this, she felt sorry for the old lady.

Oh, that old lady is so miserable.

She suffered all her life and gave birth to more than ten children. In the end, she raised nine of them.

But with so many children, not one of them took the initiative to stand up and say that she would take care of them until the end of their lives. It can be seen that having too many children is really not good.

Because everyone wants to shift the responsibility of raising them in their old age to others.