One hundred kilograms of salt could only be exchanged for one stone of rice, and two hundred stones of rice would take away Xu Siyu's twenty thousand kilograms of salt. Xu Siyu was so angry that she wanted to give birth on the spot.

According to the Zhou family's shopkeeper, this is a price based on family ties. If their family holds back on releasing the grain, the Xu family will have to suffer. After all, they have received the order to support the border areas, and military rations are like military orders. Failure to do so could result in imprisonment.

Of course Xu Siyu couldn't say that she had something to do with Pinxixi, so no matter how angry she was, she had to admit it first.

Xu Siyu simply talked to the owner of Zhou's rice shop and decided to use this base amount to directly exchange salt vouchers for grain, so as to save the two families from transporting the grain back and forth and wasting it on the way.

Xu Siyu calculated that the land she had was still too little, so she continued to buy and bought another 2,000 acres of land around Yunyang Town.

Xu Siyu divided Daxu Village into four areas: east, west, south and north, and reassigned people to be in charge.

He also used a piece of flat land near the town to build houses, and moved the Xu family and the clan school to the town to make it easier for them to take care of the fields.

This year passed in her struggle for food.

Perhaps because he moved around more, Lin Xuan's birth went smoothly and did not cause Xu Siyu too much pain.

The more land was cultivated, the better Lu Tongpan's impression of Xu Siyu became. When his eldest son was one month old, Lu Tongpan sent a set of Huizhou-made study treasures to express his congratulations.

As soon as Lin Xuan was born, his mother moved into Qingyu Residence almost immediately.

Since they got married, she and Lin Yiqing never returned to the Lin family except during the holidays.

Lin's mother doesn't like Xu Siyu, but the days of not seeing each other won't create any more conflicts.

But as they lived closer, the problems between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law became apparent.

Two months after getting married, Xu Siyu added a wall around the second courtyard and Qingyu Residence, and demolished the wall between the second courtyard and Qingyu Residence, allowing Qingyu Residence to blend into the second courtyard, as if it were a small courtyard in the Xu family's home.

This made Lin's mother, who lived in Qingyuju, unhappy.

She was angry that Xu Siyu didn't persuade Lin Yiqing to move back to the South House as soon as possible, and she actually dragged her son to live with his wife's family.

Xu Siyu is the daughter-in-law of the Lin family. After getting married, she did not try to get close to her mother-in-law, but only focused on respecting her mother.

Lin's mother didn't say that it was wrong to respect one's mother, but she felt that Xu Siyu should be more respectful to her.

Then there are the conflicts brought about by parenting.

Xu Siyu was not the kind of mother who would do nothing but take care of her child. When she was lying in bed in confinement, a maid would read the account book to her every day.

Xu Siyu strictly set up a schedule according to her habit as a secretary.

Usually this time is within an hour after lunch, and my son is sleeping, so it doesn’t affect anything.

But Lin's mother was unhappy. She felt that her daughter-in-law did not have the qualities of a good mother, and wanted to take Lin Xuan to the Lin family house to raise him.

Xu Siyu naturally disagreed.

Xu Siyu agreed to let Lin's mother come to Qingyu Residence to take care of her. Her original intention was to see that the old woman loved and cherished her grandson and to complete the family happiness, but she didn't want anyone to snatch her son away.

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After counting all these things, Lin's mother was dissatisfied with everything, and she even started to feel weird towards Xu Wangshi.

Today, Xu Wangshi asked Rui'er to help her go to Qingyuju to see her grandson.

When Rui'er asked her to take Lin Xuan away, Lin's mother scolded her again, saying that she was too beautiful and how could she get close to the young master.

Rui'er already had a grudge about this, and she couldn't help crying and asked Xu Siyu to make the decision.

Before Xu Siyu could make a decision, she heard Lin's mother scolding her for being rude. Rui'er could not stand it any longer and went back to Xu Wang's courtyard and stopped causing trouble in Qingyu Residence.

Alas..., it was a chaotic situation. Sometimes, Xu Siyu didn't quite understand whether Lin's mother, who was held to the standard of being well-educated, virtuous and kind, could understand the true meaning of these eight characters.

She has been tolerant enough. This is her mold. Is it right for her to squeeze into Lin's mother's mold of a perfect daughter-in-law?

Fortunately, Lin Yiqing came back, and Xu Siyu took out her anger on Lin Yiqing.

She said she couldn't stand her mother-in-law's pointing fingers and asked him to send Lin's mother away.

Otherwise, he would divorce her, follow Lin's mother back to the South House, and marry a daughter-in-law who would satisfy her and not find fault with her every day. He believed that Lin Yiqing's body was capable of giving birth to a few more children.

This was the first time Xu Siyu had acted like a spoiled brat, and it frightened Lin Yiqing.

Lin Yiqing didn't expect the problem to be so serious. In his opinion, his mother was a very gentle person, so why couldn't she get along with Xu Siyu?

However, he still persuaded Lin's mother to return to the Lin family with kind words, leaving only the wet nurse that Mrs. Lin had found to help.

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In addition to the income from salt permits, the open trade routes also brought in two to three hundred taels of trade income for each round trip. According to the franchise agreement, half of the profits from the southbound waybills obtained by the Pingfu branch were given to the Xu family, which amounted to more than twenty taels per month.

Many people were interested in this piece of fat meat.

Lin's father and Zhou's uncle wanted to intervene by acquiring shares, but the relatives in the Lin family's north house just wanted to eat for free.

I don’t know where they got the confidence from, but when Lin Yiqing went south with a dividend document, they asked Xu Siyu to sign it.

Xu Siyu also saw what shamelessness meant, and asked Xu Chengyuan to kick the man out.

Xu Siyu had already torn her relationship with him over this matter and originally thought that it was over, but she didn't know that something outrageous was yet to come.

On Lin Xuan's hundredth day, a gambling house came to the door with a fake dividend book and asked Xu Siyu to pay money to settle the debt of Mr. Lin Sanye.

Xu Siyu told him in person that it was a lie, but the people in the gambling house still didn't believe it. They immediately prepared to smash up the Xu family's house and even threatened to rob Lin Xuan.

Fortunately, they were on their own territory. Xu Chengyuan's small guards organized a human wall in time, and the Xu family also surrounded Xu Siyu, protecting the mother and son tightly.

Seeing that the gambling house couldn't make money, it wanted to go to court and ask the government to help collect the debt.

Seeing that the people from the gambling house wanted to handle the matter impartially, Xu Siyu was not worried anymore. From the beginning to the end, she had never signed a deed to distribute dividends to the Lin family, so there was nothing to be afraid of.

The people in the Lin family's northern residence did not understand Xu Siyu's temper, and they had assumed that she would not make a scene outside, but would help them solve the problem and then settle the score inside.

But who knew that this nephew's wife did not care about the clan's reputation, and she confronted him directly, and finally made a fuss so that Lin's father had to stop and pay money to resolve the matter.

But Xu Siyu couldn't handle this matter. It was her son's hundred-day party, but the father was busy outside and didn't come back in time, so a group of relatives who claimed to be elders, together with a group of thugs, came to make trouble.

The happy event was messed up. Xu Siyu was so angry that she hugged Lin Xuan and threatened Xu Chengyuan to harness the carriage. She was going to go to the government office to sue these cousins of the Lin family for forging documents and intending to embezzle other people's property.

"Sister-in-law, don't bring family matters to court." After persuading the left and then the right, the eldest brother Lin Wangyou quickly stopped Xu Siyu, and at the same time signaled his wife Pei to come over and support Xu Siyu.

The Xu family's prestige is growing. At today's banquet, both County Magistrate He and County Magistrate Hong are present. If they really go to submit a complaint, there will be no need to summon many witnesses. The case can be solved in minutes.

He couldn't let this matter go to court.

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