When Gu Yanzhang and his friends came back in the evening, they saw Chen Xuanxuan cooking a pot of corn and pea porridge.

The corn and peas in the porridge were completely rotten.

After Chen Xuanxuan put half a spoonful of spicy snail meat in everyone's bowl, she smiled and said to them, "Hurry up and eat it while it's hot."

Seeing that there was a lot of food at home, Gu Yanzhang couldn't help asking, "Wife, who came today?"

Gu Daya and Gu Erya, who were sitting next to Chen Xuanxuan, were chewing the snail meat hard at this time. While they were eating hard, they said vaguely, "Dad, it was our uncle who came."

"He gave us a lot of things, and that fragrant noodle, so fragrant..."

In the afternoon, mother made half a bowl of noodles for them. There were some seasonings and a few snail meat in it, which was very delicious.

Seeing that Chen Gu's eldest daughter and second daughter were eating happily, Gu Yanzhang nodded happily, "My brother-in-law always brings gifts to our house every time he comes. I feel really bad..."

Chen Xuanxuan just rolled her eyes at him and said, "Hurry up and eat your food!"

"Eat well, and you can gain some weight. Don't get too thin."

"My eldest brother reminded me today that you will have to do labor service in a while. You will have to do heavy, dirty and hard work for more than 20 days in a row. I am so worried."

Seeing that his wife was worried about him, the smile on Gu Yanzhang's face became even brighter.

"Wife, you are so good to me."

Then, Gu Yanzhang finished the bowl of porridge in no time. Without hesitation, Chen Xuanxuan gave him another bowl.

"Boss, I plan to plant some vegetables tomorrow. Can you help me turn over the land in front of and behind the house?"

"After drying the soil in the sun, I can plant some vegetables. After another two months, we can eat them."

It was just turning the soil, how could Gu Yanzhang dare not agree?

"Don't worry, wife, tomorrow morning, I will bring the whole family to plow the land in front of and behind the house."

He didn't plan to go out tomorrow.

Because the wild fruits and edible wild vegetables outside, as well as the reeds in the upper reaches of Xiaoyue River, the edible things have basically been taken by people in and out of the village.

Today, their whole family mobilized seven people, running up and down, looking everywhere, but they only got two baskets of wild vegetables.

If they continue like this, they will be able to get less and less in the future.

...

Early the next morning, Chen Xuanxuan spent one cent to buy several packets of vegetable seeds that are most suitable for this season.

There are genetically modified high-yield cucumbers, eggplants, beans, loofahs, pumpkins, rapeseed, tomatoes, peppers, leeks, peanuts, taro and carrots.

There are 12 packets in total.

There are 100 seeds in each packet.

In order to plant all these seeds and let them germinate well, Chen Xuanxuan also put all the snail shells that she had made earlier into the charcoal fire and slowly roasted them.

Seeing the ashes in the stove getting more and more, Gu Yanzhang quickly threw the ashes behind the house and mixed them with the wet soil. Then, he hung them out in the sun.

There was too much work to do today.

The vegetable plots in front of and behind the Gu family's house were almost two acres.

Chen Xuanxuan planned the two acres of vegetable plots into 12 plots. After three days of sun exposure, Gu Yanzhang and his team broke up the soil of the 12 plots, and then carefully put the hard-earned seeds in.

Then, after sprinkling layers of loose soil, Gu Yanzhang returned to the house.

…

Time flies, and three days have passed before I know it.

During these three days, the most obvious changes are in the children in the family.

In the past, the family lacked food and clothing. The six children were skinny, pale and thin, with protruding ribs.

However, during this period of time, after Chen Xuanxuan treated them to delicious food and drinks, they gradually grew stronger.

Especially the boys Dazhu and Erzhu, they have grown taller.

When Chen Xuanxuan just opened her eyes and saw them for the first time, she felt that her adopted sons were relatively short. They

were only about 1.5 meters tall when they were in their teens.

Now, in less than a month, they have grown to nearly 1.6 meters. Chen Xuanxuan was worried about them because of their rapid growth. She

was worried that they were calcium deficient, so she would put six calcium tablets in the porridge every day when she made breakfast, lunch and dinner.

These calcium tablets were all orange-flavored.

They had never eaten oranges, so they couldn't tell what they tasted like.

In just a few days, Chen Xuanxuan bought herself a pair of leggings with a layer of velvet on the Qiongheihei app.

With this pair of black leggings, Chen Xuanxuan finally slept well at night.

And these men in the Gu family have been working day and night even at home in recent days.

They made more than 20 pairs of straw sandals.

They also made all the dried reeds into mats for the bed.

So starting today, the Gu family could also use that kind of wooden bed.

Chen Xuanxuan laid a pile of straw that had been dried in the sun countless times and roasted by the fire many times on the wooden bed, and then she laid five layers of thick reed mats on top of it with a serious face.

Feeling that the wooden bed was finally a little softer, Chen Xuanxuan couldn't help but tell Gu Yanzhang, "We still need a quilt."

"When my eldest brother comes over in a while, I'll ask him to lend me a quilt. When our family makes money, I can return it to him in person."

Gu Yanzhang listened and nodded vigorously, "This is what I should do, what I should do..."

Tonight, after taking a bath and washing his hair, Gu Yanzhang was ready to lie on the straw pile that had been repeatedly dried and baked.

Chen Xuanxuan felt that there seemed to be biting lice on his body, so she couldn't help but take out the razor she had prepared earlier.

In front of Gu Yanzhang and the others, Chen Xuanxuan shaved off all the dry and yellow hair on her head that was tangled in various knots in just twenty seconds.

Then, she threw the pile of hair that had countless insect eggs into the fire. The dry and yellow hair immediately gave off a burnt smell.

Moreover, it was probably because there were too many insect eggs and various kinds of insects in the hair. The fire made crackling sounds from time to time. It was like a blood-sucking insect that was suddenly burned to death.