"Wait for me? That's impossible." Qiao Yu shook his head.

Lu Yan looked at her with awe in his eyes, without any admiration or love between men and women.

After a year and a half of getting to know this talented young man from the Valley Tribe, Qiao Yu had gotten to know him quite well. He was a man who prided himself on his social status and abilities, and he was quite arrogant.

The reason why he hasn't married yet is probably because his "ex-fiancée" is too outstanding, so that he feels that every woman he sees now is not good enough. If he marries them, he will lose face in front of his "ex-fiancée".

Shanquan probably went back that night and told Shan about his idea. The next day, Qiao Yu watched everyone's training and held another high-level meeting to arrange what the tribe should do next. When everyone left, Shan did not leave. Instead, he said to her: "Yu, I will not marry."

Qiao Yu looked at him.

Jianshan didn't intend to explain further and seemed to want to leave after saying this. Qiao Yu quickly called out to him, "Father."

The mountain stopped.

Qiao Yu asked, "Are you unwilling to marry anyone, or are you just unwilling to marry Bai Xue?"

Shan turned around and said, "I won't marry anyone."

Seeing Qiao Yu looking at him quietly without saying anything, he knew that he had to explain.

He walked back and said, "Since your mother died giving birth to my child, I swore not to marry again. When I was bitten and saw the tiger right in front of me, my only regret was that I couldn't see you two grow up. I swore at that time that as long as I could survive, I would do nothing but raise you two. Later, as I wished, you suddenly became so capable. I have nothing to look forward to in this life. I am very content."

"Besides, my health isn't good, and I don't know how long I can live. If I marry and bring a lot of burdens and troubles to you and Koizumi, will I still be worthy of being a father?"

"As for Bai Xue, when she first approached me, I hinted to her that I wouldn't marry. I ignored her during this period. Yesterday, when I heard you were back, I rushed to see you. She said she wanted to help me make soup. I thought you had suffered so much outside, and now that you finally returned to the tribe, you deserved a sip of comforting broth. If I waited until I welcomed you back and said that before making the soup, it would be too late, and you would starve. So I agreed to her help and said I would give her some yams as a reward."

At this point, he snorted again, "Bai Xue's life is tough, and you asked me to send her some dried meat to help her. For a leader like you, shouldn't she be grateful to you by making you a pot of soup? And you want me to marry her in return?"

Hearing the last sentence, Qiao Yu couldn't help laughing.

"Okay, okay, I get it. You don't want to marry her." She suppressed her laughter and coaxed him like a child, "I didn't ask you to marry her."

"Hmph, Koizumi suddenly ran out last night and told me after he came back that if I married Bai Xue, he would help me support the family. I knew you must have told him something. That silly boy, if you hadn't mentioned it to him, he would never have thought deeply about it. And you still refuse to admit it."

"Okay, okay, I admit I overthink things. But it's not my fault." Qiao Yu spread his hands innocently. "As soon as I came back, a woman followed you in and helped us make soup. She was so attentive. It's hard not to think too much."

Shan waved his hand and said, "I've made up my mind not to marry. Even if I were to marry, I wouldn't marry Bai Xue."

He glanced at Qiao Yu and said, "Bai Xue is Hei Ye's sister. If I really marry her, believe it or not, Hei Ye will come to me tomorrow to ask for favors. By then, I will not only increase the burden on you and Xiao Quan in terms of food, but also cause trouble for you in these aspects. I must be crazy to do such a thing."

Qiao Yu thought of this when he recalled the relationship between Bai Xue and Hei Ye.

But she didn't want to let this little trouble hinder Shan's pursuit of his own happiness. As long as she didn't want to, Heiye couldn't expect to get any benefits from her.

This kind of trouble was easy for her to handle. If Bai Xue resented her or even Shan because of this, that was what Shan had to endure in order to get married. He could coax his wife himself, and if that didn't work, he would just live under Bai Xue's thumb. This matter between the couple had nothing to do with Qiao Yu.

She wasn't the original. She had feelings for Shan, but she didn't care about his father's love like the original owner did. She had always seemed to be a cold-eyed spectator when it came to Shan's marriage.

"Just think it through. Koizumi and I are just expressing our thoughts on this matter. If you want to get married, we will strongly support you; if you don't want to, we naturally won't force you." Qiao Yu said.

Hearing her words, Shan was actually a little unhappy: "Aren't you afraid that I will be snatched away by someone else and you will be without a father."

When other families get married, their descendants make a big fuss. Take Lu, for example. He wasn't very old when his wife died, but when a widow wanted to marry him, his family would make a scene.

Yamamoto should be relieved that Qiao Yu and Koizumi are not making a fuss and are acting so reasonable. But he still feels a little uncomfortable.

The two children didn't seem to care much about him. Weren't they afraid that if he married Snow White, he would only have eyes for his wife and the two children she brought with him, and ignore them?

Seeing Shan's awkward look, Qiao Yu finally couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"Father, why are you acting like a child?"

"Who's acting like a child? Don't be so disrespectful." Shan glared at her in pretended anger, turned around and hurried out the door.

Qiao Yu looked at his fleeing back and laughed.

Since ancient times, people have taken a winter break. In winter, there is no farm work, and people who have been busy all year round can finally take a break.

Although Qiao Yu could not give everyone a winter break and there was still a lot of work to do in the tribe, there was no rush. Therefore, after the meeting, she gave the men who followed her to the Sun Tribe two days off.

During this year and a half, not only the men but also the women in the Dragon Tribe were busy like spinning tops.

Now, apart from the work to be done at the farm, the other team members have also taken a break due to the weather.

During this break, the marriage that I had not had time to arrange due to my busy schedule was put on the agenda.

The integration of the three tribes resulted in a large number of unmarried men and women, as well as widows and widowers. Furthermore, after a period of getting along, everyone got to know each other better, and as a result, there were as many as eleven or twelve marriages in the past two days.

At that time, there was no ceremony for marriage, and everyone lived in the same tribe. The man would just take dried meat to the woman's house to pay his respects, and then take her to his own home, and that was it.

Now that I've joined the Dragon Tribe, there's one more step to getting married: registering with Ming. The tribe now has a simple household registration system. Every family has a nameplate with the names of all family members. A name is added when someone is born, and erased when someone dies.

After getting married, the woman's name would be removed from her parents' nameplate and added to her husband's nameplate.