After Gu Yanzhang entered Jiang's store, he asked the shopkeeper about the earthen bricks.

He learned that the price of his earthen bricks had never changed, and after thinking about it, he decided to order a batch of earthen bricks from him. Thinking of his wife who was always worried that the sorghum stalks on the roof would be blown away by the strong winds in autumn and winter, Gu Yanzhang gritted his teeth and ordered a batch of gray tiles from Jiang's house.

The gray tiles fired in Jiang's earthen kiln are much cheaper than green tiles.

The same size of green tiles cost 120 wen a piece. Gray tiles can be more than half cheaper. 40 wen a piece.

After paying two taels of silver and getting the contract, Gu Yanzhang sold vegetables in Tongzhen for half a day.

Before it was completely dark and the town gate was closed, Gu Yanzhang earned dozens of coins.

He bought a pound of salt according to Chen Xuanxuan's request, then he carried two empty bags and went home with his old father and eldest son.

As soon as he got home, Gu Yanzhang happily told him about this. Chen Xuanxuan reached out and took the contract in his hand. She looked at it carefully from top to bottom, left to right, and looked at it carefully for a while.

She felt that she didn't recognize the words of this era. Chen Xuanxuan felt in her heart at that time that this was really a tragedy.

After coming to this era, she, a college student with higher education, became illiterate. How could ordinary people bear it...

Thinking that she could not be an illiterate peasant woman forever, Chen Xuanxuan thought about it seriously and told Gu Yanzhang.

"Yanzhang, in the future, if we really have the conditions, we will send our child to a private school, let him read a few books, and let him recognize a few words. In this way, it will be very convenient for him to find a stable job in the county or in the town."

"My eldest brother from my mother's side, after all, his godfather is a constable! He has a say in the government office and has some face in the county. If our son can really recognize a few words, write well, recite a few poems, and write a few articles, then he can find a job in the government office. The money in the government office is very rich. Every time during the New Year and other festivals, the yamen runners who serve the officials can get a lot of meat, rice, and sugar. So I say, we should make more money in the future. With money, it will be easier to do things..."

Gu Yanzhang nodded involuntarily when he heard Chen Xuanxuan talking.

Having lived to this age, he has long understood that in this world, money and power are more useful. When

rich and powerful people go out, the people below them all smile and try their best to curry favor with them.

And what about those who have no money?

Who would care about them?

Gu Yanzhang considers himself a poor man with no money, but he is also unwilling to care about poor people!

He feels that he has four sons now.

The eldest son is in his teens. After he gets married and has children, he will definitely make a living by farming at home.

There are only two acres of land in the family. There are

also ten acres of wasteland that he has just opened up.

If all the wasteland is turned into cultivated fields, his family's fields will only add up to 12 acres.

Twelve acres of land sounds like a lot, but it is actually not much.

If the four sons were divided equally, each would only get three acres.

Three acres of land cannot support a person, let alone a large family.

Therefore, as a father, he should plan for his sons in advance. While you are still young, you must listen to your wife and earn more money for your family. If you send your younger son out to study, he might actually be able to find a job in the county government when he gets older.

In this way, the younger son does not have to make a living by farming. And the other sons in the family will be able to get a few more acres of land when the family is divided.

Thinking of this, Gu Yanzhang reached out and gently held Chen Xuanxuan's hands that had just been applied with hand cream.

"Don't worry, my wife. I will work hard to earn money and do more work in the future. When the time comes, we will send the third and fourth children of our family to Chenjia Village and let them study for a year or two. Let them all recognize words, and then we will see who has higher talent. Those with higher talent will continue to study, and those with lower talent will come back early to work in the town or the county. We can earn more money for the family and reduce the burden on the family..." When it

comes to studying, Gu Yanzhang also has an ambition deep in his heart.

Because of the example of the people in Chenjia Village, everyone in Gujiagang knows why people in this world always say, "Everything is inferior, only reading is superior."

In the past few hundred years, Chenjia Village has produced many ruthless people. Among these ancestors, there are scholars who have passed the imperial examinations.

There are also scholars who have become

famous scholars. Although there are not many such outstanding scholars

, every time there is such a scholar with a title in the Chen family, the whole village benefits.

Even if it is a small scholar, after the people of Chenjia Village go out, people from other villages, people in the county, and people in the town dare not look down on them.

Therefore, every year when the clan leader of the Gu family worshipped their ancestors, he would emphasize that if they had the opportunity in the future, they must let their children and grandchildren go to school. Only

by studying can they have a real future.

Thinking of the admonitions of the clan leader in previous years, Gu Yanzhang raised his hands and rubbed his face vigorously.

He felt that if one of his children could be outstanding, and rely on studying to stand out and pass the imperial examination. For example, the title of scholar.

Then he could buy a few more acres of land.

And he would not have to pay taxes on the land under his name. Even

if he did not buy land, the land of those people in the clan could be registered in the name of his children.

In this way, he would not have to farm every year, and he would not have to work so hard. He could just sit at home and wait for the food to be delivered by those people.

Thinking that after his children become successful, he would be able to become a wealthy man who would not have to worry about food and clothing, and wealth. He would not have to work every day and could be happy. Gu Yanzhang could not help but laugh at that time.

He thought that if that was really the case, he would be extremely happy.

By then, those people in the village and those outside the village would definitely respect him very much every time they saw him, flatter him, and say good things about him. They would also think that he was a very capable person, willing to spend money and work hard to raise children...

Thinking about it, Gu Yanzhang couldn't help laughing out loud again.

Seeing such a grown man sitting there and laughing without saying anything, Chen Xuanxuan felt that he was really inexplicable.

This guy is really...

I don't know what good things he is thinking about, he actually laughs so cunningly.

"Yanzhang, what are you thinking about?"

"I called you three times, didn't you hear me?"