With the old lady Liu, the connections with the government naturally came in handy.

The whole Chenjia Village, including the people of Gujiagang, have been full of energy since this year.

Some men in Chenjia Village even regarded the newly appointed County Magistrate Gao as "a son-in-law from their family." Especially some people who usually looked down on the old lady Liu's style, now said, "Liu had a good vision back then! The men she found were not cowards..."

This person is most afraid of comparison.

Seeing that the old lady Liu is even more charming than before when she is old, and her life is more prosperous than before, some parents have come up with crooked ideas.

Some have more practical ideas in mind.

When choosing in-laws for your children, you should not look for those who are stronger than you, but at least you should not look for those who are weaker than you.

Some people prefer sons to daughters.

They all think that only sons are their own family, and daughters are all money-losing goods raised by others. Therefore, daughters have to be sold at a high price.

For example, sell the daughters to rich families as maids. As long as she works hard and climbs into the beds of the old masters and young masters, and then gives them a few children, then wealth and nobility will come easily, right?

Some parents think that their family does not have the conditions at all, and they think that their daughters will not be so promising. After all, their daughters were dark, ugly, and as thin as sticks. Which lord would like such a woman?

Therefore, they might as well sell them to those old bachelors while they were still young. They could get a high betrothal gift! Then, they could use the money to help their sons get married.

Therefore, during this period of time, Chen Xuanxuan soon discovered that people within a hundred miles were busy with marriages!

...

After that incident at home, Chen Xuanxuan also discovered something that made people particularly unhappy.

The two daughters of her family are now 17 or 18 years old, at the best time for a woman to be beautiful and charming. As a result, a large number of matchmakers who came out of nowhere came to her house to match her two daughters.

However, as soon as these matchmakers opened their mouths, Chen Xuanxuan felt that the smell was unbearable.

They actually said, "Your two daughters are old maids. If they continue like this, they will definitely not be able to get married in the future. In a few years, your daughters may not even be able to give birth to children..."

"Hey, let me tell you, I have such a good family now. His ancestors were officials, and his family is very powerful. Although his parents are farmers now, everyone in their family is hardworking and honest. Especially the son they raised, he is the most honest. He will definitely not be a playboy. He is a real man who can make a living!"

"There are some things I'm going to say that you won't like. What do we women want in this life? We want men to be good to us! A man who is down-to-earth, hardworking and able to live an honest life is better than anything else. It is our duty as a woman to find an honest and capable man. How many of those who are officials or have rich business families are good enough?" "Those

capable men all have three wives and four concubines and give birth to a lot of children. For a family like ours, even if we marry into such a family, how can we have a good life? We might as well be down-to-earth and just find an honest man to marry..."

...In the past three months, Chen Xuanxuan has listened to these words said by the matchmakers over and over again.

Although some people may not say it in such a literal way, their meaning is probably the same.

In short, what they mean is, "Don't be picky, don't choose, don't be so high-profile. Just like this, I'll just find a man for your two daughters to marry!"

However, Chen Xuanxuan feels that marriage is really a matter that cannot be compromised. Especially when choosing husbands for her two daughters, she can't compromise.

During this period, she herself also summed it up.

Those matchmakers have no good intentions.

They all took money from the man, so they must be doing things for the man. Some of them are just to repay the man's favor.

Those mama's boys, those who come from very poor families, those who specialize in picking up shit on the street, those who like to abuse their wives and have beaten one wife to death, those whose parents are particularly difficult to deal with and particularly powerful, those whose families have borrowed a lot of debts and are waiting for the women to come in and pay them back...

Chen Xuanxuan feels that she has encountered all of these during this period.

When she thinks about those men and women who said sourly after she rejected those matchmakers, "What do you think your family conditions are? Do you think your two girls are innocent...", Chen Xuanxuan is furious.

What's the matter? Who stipulated that women should remain virgins for their entire lives?

And who stipulated that after a woman gets married, she must stay with her husband who has no feelings for her for the rest of her life?

In Chen Xuanxuan's view, marriage is sometimes a cage. It traps not the man, but the poor woman.

After a man gets married, he can withdraw at any time.

But what about a woman? Can a woman do it?

Chen Xuanxuan has seriously reflected on herself.

She thinks that if she had not taken advantage of the time travel and became Gu Yanzhang's cheap wife, and had four ready-made cheap sons and two cheap daughters, she might not have looked for a man she liked outside due to moral constraints.

However, she always felt that she was forced to travel through time.

Since it was forced, why should she willingly accept the mess of her original body?

Is the husband of her original body her husband?

Chen Xuanxuan thought about this problem seriously. She thought about it for several days, and during this period she was beaten by her father-in-law. She suddenly felt that the original family was not her family at all.

Because when she encountered this situation, she had no choice.

She was forced to accept such a bad family.

She also felt that after she traveled through time, it was impossible for her to remain chaste for such a husband, such a family, and her father-in-law!

Sometimes she would ask herself, am I wrong?

I met the man I like in this life, and gave birth to a son for my man. Am I wrong?

Every time I think of this question, and every time I look down at my biological son in my arms, Chen Xuanxuan will shake her head firmly, and she is right.

In this life that she has traveled through time and space, she has never let anyone down!

This life of hers, her entire life, can only belong to herself.

She can only live for herself.

She is not Gu Yanzhang's property, nor is she the property of this family. She is also a person with flesh and blood, emotions and feelings.

She raised Gu Yanzhang's six children, took care of her parents-in-law, constantly made money for the family, and constantly made plans for this family.

It was because of her money and effort that everyone in this family did not starve to death.