Because they always feel that every time their sons and grandsons marry, they have to spend a lot of money from the family...

The five Yu brothers have always felt that the women here are getting more and more expensive.

Thinking that the bride price of those women is getting higher and higher, after their sons marry, their grandsons may not be able to marry. Now, whenever the five Yu brothers have a chance, they will run outside the village and tell some people, "Some families who have a daughter-in-law now like to sell their daughters. This daughter-in-law is about to be sold at a sky-high price of two taels of silver! If this continues, whose son will not be single..."

"In order to find a wife for our son and to continue the family line, our family is almost bankrupt. Look at our new house and this nice donkey cart. We bought all of them in order to find a wife for our son! So, raising a son is too expensive. It's not as easy as raising a daughter-in-law..." Although

they said this, if someone asked the five brothers of the Yu family to have a daughter-in-law instead of a son, they would be so angry that they would curse the other person's ancestors.

Because who here doesn't know that raising a daughter-in-law is a loss? Everyone

has the instinct to seek profit and avoid harm, and everyone has a scale in their heart.

They know clearly in their hearts how to calculate everything.

They worked hard to earn money to support their families and raise their own sons. When the sons got married and had children, they married other families’ daughters who had been raised with great difficulty, but the daughters they gave birth to were sons from their own family.

After the daughters from other families married into their families, they had to work and give birth to sons.

But if they were daughters they raised, when they grew up to be in their teens or twenties, they would have to marry into other families and work like slaves for others…

The five Yu brothers had already calculated the accounts.

They sincerely thought that raising sons was more cost-effective. With more sons, they could become the pillars of the family and earn money for the family. They could also support them in their old age. But daughters of noble families could not do that. They could not do that.

Therefore, the five Yu brothers had stopped having concubines a long time ago.

Even if they had a concubine, any of the five Yu brothers would have thought of all ways to kill the baby girl who was just a few days old and had no time to open her eyes.

Or strangle her with her umbilical cord.

Or put her in a urine bucket and drown her.

In short, the old Yu family would never raise money-losing people, and would never do business at a loss!

Many Chinese people have always adhered to the mentality that if you don't take advantage, you are a bastard.

Moreover, this mentality has involved all aspects of life.

There are many tips for taking advantage.

One of the tips is, it is better to die with a friend than to die with poverty.

In fact, no one wants to have a concubine, but only wants to have a son. The five Yu brothers are in the same situation now.

They all think that they must not be the living cuckolds that are taken advantage of by others. Therefore, after they killed the daughter of the family, they worked hard with their wives to have another son...

Because there were too many sons in your family in recent years, and they were almost unable to support them, their family's finances have been relatively tight, and the pressure on each of them as adult men is particularly great.

Now they suddenly heard Gu Yanzhang say that the land they depended on for survival was going to be taken back by the government, so they felt particularly angry.

"This is going to kill us! This is going to push us to a dead end! If we can't plant that piece of land, how are we going to live in the future?"

Seeing the five Yu brothers as anxious as ants on a hot pot, Gu Yanzhang didn't know why, but suddenly thought of a sentence his wife had always mentioned to him a long time ago.

It's easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it's hard to go from luxury to frugality.

Once these people have a good life with enough food and warm clothes, they don't want to go back to the bad days of not having enough food to eat.

Gu Yanzhang can understand their anger, but he can't accept it.

"As early as last year, what did I remind you? ... I told you to prepare more and find more ways. But what are you doing?"

The five Yu brothers couldn't help but turn their heads and look back at their newly married wives.

In order to give birth to more sons for the family, they ran to the deep mountains and old forests.

In those particularly remote places, they spent some money and married themselves young new wives.