After Gu Yanzhang washed up, he lay down on the bed and fell asleep. He

had a dreamless night.

When Chen Xuanxuan got up the next morning, she found that the whole family had gotten up.

Moreover, someone had prepared breakfast for her.

After Chen Xuanxuan tidied up, Gu Yanzhang brought her the breakfast he had prepared. "Wife, the weather is pretty good today. I went to see the crops we planted in the field, and they are growing well. There are no insects, and no dead crops."

"By the way, I've already had breakfast. I plan to work at home with my father for another day or two, and then call other people to go to the surrounding towns to sell the pickled cabbage and kimchi at home. We can earn more money so that we can pay taxes later."

It is now the first day of the fifth lunar month. In a month or so, the people of Gujiagang will have to pay all the grain they need to pay with Chenjia Village.

Especially the household tax and the head tax. They have to pay in cash.

Thinking of this huge expense, Gu Yanzhang, as the head of the family, felt very worried.

These days, life is not easy for everyone.

Farming not only does not make money. Sometimes, it is not even enough to support the family.

Gu Yanzhang felt that the burden on his shoulders was extremely heavy.

His eldest son and youngest son are now more than ten years old. At most, in one or two years, he will have to spend a large sum of money to find a wife for them.

After getting married, they will have their own children.

When there are more people in the family, the house will definitely not be enough. At that time, he will have to spend a large sum of money to build a few more houses for Dazhu and Erzhu.

Thinking of the many things that have happened at home in the past few years, Gu Yanzhang frowned and sighed softly.

"Wife, this morning, my father, Dazhu and I chopped a lot of firewood and picked a lot of wild vegetables. Later, we plan to go to the river beach upstream..."

A few days ago, it rained heavily outside. Today, the weather is finally clear, and Gu Yanzhang feels that there must be a lot of good things on the river beach upstream.

Because after every heavy rain, there will always be some river clams, river shrimps and crabs left on the river beach.

These things are all good things. Because they all have meat on them.

In this remote rural area, as long as there is meat, the villagers will basically not let it go.

Gu Yanzhang and his family went there early.

After they arrived at the upstream river beach, they found that there were actually more than a hundred people there.

People from several surrounding villages came.

Some of them were on the river beach, looking around. Some jumped directly into the river.

Others were very brave and went directly to the swamp.

Because of the heavy rains in the past few days, a lot of water had accumulated in the swamp.

When people stepped in, the mud sank directly to their knees.

But even so, those poor people who came here to find food were not afraid.

Many of them held hands and moved forward carefully in the swamp.

When they found a suitable place, they would slowly loosen their hands and keep groping in the mud.

Some people were luckier and found a lot of food in the swamp.

Like the river clams, river shrimps, snails, frogs, toads, fish, and all kinds of wild fruits, as well as wild bird eggs, were all hidden in this swamp.

Gu Yanzhang was lucky.

He caught more than ten eels in the swamp. And these yellow eels were particularly large. On average, each one weighed about one or two kilograms.

He even caught two water snakes that were more than one meter long.

These things were all meat. When Gu Yanzhang brought them home, many people along the way couldn't help but come over to watch the excitement.

Some people even asked him, "Brother Yan, where did you find the eels?"

Gu Yanzhang pointed in that direction and said with a smile, "I caught all the eels in that field. If you want to catch eels, you have to go to another place."

Gu Yanzhang caught more than ten eels, and the sons he brought with him caught a lot of crabs, shrimps, and snails.

In short, dozens of kilograms of things piled together are still quite scary.

The villagers who were looking for food here together were particularly jealous when they saw that Gu Yanzhang and his family had only been here for two hours and had brought back so many things.

Some people couldn't resist the temptation in their hearts, so they suggested walking deeper into the swamp. Because those places, generally speaking, no one has ever set foot on them.

There must be more things in places that no one has set foot on.

However, some old people couldn't help but scold them on the spot. They thought that those young people didn't know how to live or die...

...

Gu Yanzhang and his group, who were already on their way home, didn't actually know what happened on the beach in the upper reaches of Xiaoyue River.

On their way back, they also picked a lot of wild fruits.

The wild fruits on the mountain have been exposed to wind and rain, and bitten by snakes, insects, rats and ants, so they usually look particularly ugly. Moreover, they are also particularly sour, or particularly bitter.

In fact, not many people eat these wild fruits, and not many people pick them.

But Chen Xuanxuan had warned them before that as long as the wild fruits were not poisonous, they should take them all home.

Because she could make them into dishes.

Gu Yanzhang and the others had long known Chen Xuanxuan's abilities, and they knew in their hearts that Chen Xuanxuan's cooking skills were amazing.

So, Gu Yanzhang and the others listened to her and took all the sour wild fruits they could find in the mountains back home.

When the seven of them returned home, it was already very late.

Chen Xuanxuan quietly looked at her watch and found that it was already past seven o'clock in the evening.

By this time, she had already prepared a sumptuous dinner.

Five large bowls of dishes were placed on the newly prepared table.

Four meats and one vegetable, plus the pot of mixed grain porridge that was cooking on the stove, were enough for a family of ten.

Seeing that Gu Yanzhang and his friends had returned with a full load, Chen Xuanxuan's smile became even more cordial.

"Are you all back? You must be tired after a day, so wash your hands with warm water quickly, and let's have dinner as a family."

After Gu Yanzhang and his friends put down their food, they picked up their bowls and chopsticks and started eating.

It only took them three or five minutes to finish the meal because they were so hungry.