In fact, as a farmer who has been to the county town and has been doing business for many years, Gu Yanzhang is still quite moved by the big cakes painted by his wife.

From a mud-legged man to the father of a scholar, and the father of a scholar with an official title, it is quite a face.

In their small mountain village, in their small hill with four or five hundred families, a person's face is indeed very important.

Where does face come from?

Once the sons and daughters have a promising future, won't the parents have face?

For example, if the daughter marries well. For a daughter of a rich family to marry, even if she becomes a concubine in a rich family, it is considered very honorable in the eyes of these rural people.

After all, a daughter of a rich family who marries well will bring back a lot of things during festivals. There are food, drinks, and entertainment. The whole family is happy and does not have to endure the same hardship as others. When the villagers see this, how can they not be envious? How can they not be jealous?

Because this son..., if he has a little bit of success, he can go out and hang out.

If he works in a tavern or a restaurant in the county, or some other grocery store, as a waiter or a storekeeper, in the eyes of these farmers, it is much better than working in the fields.

After all, those who work in the county town don't have to endure the wind and rain, nor do they have to go out every day. As for what they wear, they are all very decent. In dealing with people, they are much better than these farmers.

Of course, in the eyes of these people, the most promising son is not the one who makes a lot of money and looks decent, but the one who is truly decent and has a social status.

As long as those scholars study well and pass the imperial examination, they may become officials in the future.

How promising these officials are!

That is really glorious and glorious, and their ancestors will burn incense to burn incense.

In the eyes of these farmers, those officials are protected from the wind and rain. And they have endless money.

They eat delicious food every day. They wear silk clothes every day.

Moreover, they live in a big, magnificent house.

When Gu Yanzhang thought that he might be able to enjoy the blessing of this child in ten or twenty years, he unconsciously put himself in the role of a father.

So, from today on, Gu Yanzhang accepted the child in Chen Xuanxuan's arms from the bottom of his heart.

...

Chen Xuanxuan felt that the time she spent at home taking care of the child passed really quickly.

She seemed to have not done anything yet, and a month had passed so quickly.

Not long after, half a year had passed so quickly again.

When the little boy she held in her arms every day was three years old and could jump, run and walk by himself, Chen Xuanxuan suddenly realized that her home seemed much more dilapidated than before.

In fact, all of her new houses were brick and tile houses. However, they were not made of green bricks. Instead, they were made of earth bricks fired by the people.

Earth bricks are much stronger than yellow mud walls. However, compared with green bricks, they are really much worse.

Earth bricks need to be repaired here and there every five or six years. Just when

Chen Xuanxuan was thinking about what she should do to save a lot of money, the sky outside suddenly changed.

It was sunny earlier, but now dark clouds came from the east.

Gradually, there was a feeling of dark clouds pressing down on the city.

Feeling the strong wind outside, whirring into the house, Chen Xuanxuan quickly carried her son back to the innermost room.

Then, she asked her daughters-in-law to quickly bring back the corn, peppers, and other things that were drying outside.

While packing up, Chen Xuanxuan urged them, "Hurry up!"

"The wheat drying in our goose farm must not be wet by the rain!"

"If the wheat gets wet, it will either mold or sprout. Then we won't be able to sell it even if we want to, and we won't be able to eat it ourselves."

Chen Xuanxuan still attaches great importance to her four daughters-in-law.

It's a pity that the people in the family call them the eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter-in-law.

Gradually, Chen Xuanxuan even forgot their last names.

Her four daughters-in-law also know that their mother-in-law is a person who doesn't think much.

In addition to taking care of her son, she spent her days at home calculating how to spend money and how to prepare meals at home.

To them, their mother-in-law's ability to manage the household was still okay.

Because as long as her mother-in-law was at home, their whole family could eat well every day without going hungry.

365 days a year, today was like this, and at the end of the year, there was still a little bit of savings... I have to say that their mother-in-law was still quite good at living.

After Chen Xuanxuan and her four daughters-in-law hurriedly put all the things in the sundeck outside back into the house, the big raindrops, which were almost as big as small stones, fell down with a crackling sound.

Soon, the sky outside became even darker. There were lightning and thunder, and the rain that fell was like a bucket of water.

Chen Xuanxuan, hiding in the house, boiled ginger soup while looking up at the sky outside through the small window.

It's already this late, why haven't the men come back yet? !

It's raining so hard outside, and I don't know where they are hiding at this time...

but they must not hide under the big tree.

Chen Xuanxuan is really worried about the safety of her husband and others.

It's early autumn now.

Sometimes, the autumn heat is particularly fierce. Sometimes, when God starts to rain, it's particularly fierce.

Just half a month ago, a terrible event happened in their Gujiagang.

That day was also such a stormy day.

There was a man in their village who was hit by lightning when he was hiding from the rain under a big tree.

After being struck by lightning, the man seemed to have died immediately.

The man's whole body was blackened by lightning. His wife tried to identify him for a long time, but she was not sure it was him.

When she thought of the tragedy, Chen Xuanxuan sighed anxiously.

After carefully pouring a small packet of brown sugar ginger tea into the ginger soup, she quickly drank a sip.

It tasted sweet and delicious.

Just as she was about to take another sip, her son, who was taken care of by her every day, jumped out of the house, "Mom, are you drinking brown sugar water? I want to drink! I want to drink!"

Seeing how greedy he was, Chen Xuanxuan quickly fed him a sip.