When the two of them established Li Mai as a merchant, they had discussed it beforehand. In order to avoid affecting their families in Zhoujia Village while doing business, they used Li Mai's name to establish the merchant.

However, Zhou Quan's name is still registered in Zhoujia Village.

After they got married, Li Mai's household registration hadn't been processed in Zhoujia Village yet. But at the beginning of this year, Li Mai registered it directly in the town and set up a business. Lu Qian accompanied them to do it. With the Lu family's help, Li Mai's establishment of her household and business went very smoothly.

On a page of the Zhou Quan family genealogy in the Zhou Family Ancestral Hall in Zhoujia Village, it is written that Zhou Quan's wife was Zhou Li, but Li Mai's name is not found in the specific household register.

When Zhou the matchmaker helped them with the marriage certificate, she only processed the marriage certificate. The household registration process couldn't be completed in a day or two, which is why Zhou Quan and Li Mai are in their current situation.

Originally, Zhou Quan didn't care about these things, but when he saw that there was no blank space after Li Mai's name, Zhou Quan thought that one day he should transfer his household registration to Li Mai's household registration so that they could be considered a real family.

In the apocalypse, many rules disappeared, and there were no more concepts like marriage or household registration. All that remained were identity tokens from various bases. When someone joined a base, they would receive an identity token infused with supernatural energy, and wherever they went, the base would have a tracking signal.

In this ancient era, as long as you spent money, things like household registration were meaningless; anything could be done, so they didn't pay much attention to them back then.

Now, thinking about how Zhou Lin's name will be followed by his wife's and children's names after his marriage, Zhou Quan suddenly felt a little itchy. His child will be born next year, and he also wants to move his name over as soon as possible so that it can be written together with Xiaomai's.

After finishing their business, Zhou Quan took Zhou Lin back to the mansion in Zhenbei. The two discussed their next steps and then returned to their respective shops.

When Zhou Quan saw the pomegranate shop, he suddenly felt excited and impatient. He wanted to tell Xiaomai that he also wanted to transfer his household registration to be with hers.

He didn't know why, but at this moment, he really wanted to tell Li Mai that he wanted to do this.

Back at the shop, Zhou Quan didn't see Li Mai there. Puzzled, he asked Zhou Tao, "Where's your sister-in-law?"

"Sister-in-law just went out with Brother Lu," Zhou Tao said, busy attending to customers.

Zhou Quan turned and went to the restaurant next door. He asked the manager, who said that the young master had not returned.

Zhou Quan went outside and stood at the door of the shop, looking at the bustling street. Suddenly, he felt a little empty inside. Where did his wheat go?

Although he knew that Xiaomai would be alright and wouldn't go too far, he just really wanted to see him right now.

He turned and went into the backyard. He leaped onto the roof, then onto a tree, soaring through the treetops and releasing his divine sense to investigate the direction of Li Mai's aura.

With a few leaps, he arrived at a courtyard, where he saw Li Mai and Lu Qian standing outside, talking to several people.

Li Mai glanced in his direction as if sensing something, and Zhou Quan knew that Li Mai had sensed his arrival.

He found a secluded spot, climbed down from the tree, and pretended to be passing by on the road. When he saw Li Mai, he walked over to her.

When Li Mai saw him, she smiled, giving him a half-smile.

Without batting an eye, Zhou Quan walked to Li Mai's side and stood beside her, waiting quietly.

After Lu Qian finished speaking with someone, he saw him and quickly greeted him with a smile, "Brother Quan."

Zhou Quan nodded at him without saying anything.

They exchanged a few more words, and then the group went into the courtyard. Lu Qian and Li Mai turned and walked towards the street.

Zhou Quan remained by Li Mai's side.

"Xiaomai, are you still going to buy a shop?" Zhou Quan asked softly.

"Yes, I told Lu Qian that if anyone in town is still selling shops, please ask them for us. We want to buy one."

"Oh, so, how much are they asking for? Which location is it?" Li Mai asked.

“This shop belongs to a relative. It’s a large shop, diagonally opposite our Red Pomegranate Shop. They’re asking for 1,300 taels,” Li Mai said softly.

Lu Qian then asked, "Sister-in-law, this shop is indeed worth the price. Shall we go back and take another look later?"

Li Mai smiled and asked Lu Qian, "Do you know what I'm going to do with this shop?"

Lu Qian shook his head.

Li Mai smiled and said, "Lu Qian, I'm giving you a task: negotiate this shop down to nine hundred taels within three days, and there will be a surprise."

"What surprise?" Lu Qian was clearly very interested in Li Mai's surprise.

Li Mai didn't tell him, though. "There's no need to go look at that shop. It's only nine hundred taels. You can't afford to lose money. Just negotiate with them at that price."

“Alright, I’ll give it a try. Judging from their tone just now, they’d give me at most a hundred taels. Giving me four hundred taels will probably be difficult,” Lu Qian said, smacking his lips.

Li Mai smiled and said, "I can tell you that this surprise is related to Xiao Tao."

Upon hearing this, Lu Qian was immediately invigorated and made up his mind to negotiate and get the four hundred taels of silver.

"Don't worry, sister-in-law, I'll take care of this," Lu Qian assured her, patting his chest.

Li Mai smiled and nodded, giving a soft "hmm".

Seeing Zhou Quan staring at him, Lu Qian coughed lightly, "I have something to attend to, so I'll take my leave first?"

Li Mai nodded.

Lu Qian strode away, and Zhou Quan casually reached out his arm, his hand under his sleeve taking Li Mai's hand.

Li Mai turned to look at him. "What's wrong? Why are you so emotional?"

By chance, her fingers landed on his pulse point, and she asked him.

Zhou Quan said softly, "Xiaomai, I've done everything you asked me to do."

Li Mai nodded. "Yes, thank you for your hard work."

“Xiaomai, let’s get my household registration booklet done when we go back to the village this time. I want my name and yours to be on the same piece of paper.” Zhou Quan leaned closer to her and whispered.

As he said this, he glanced at Li Mai with a slightly shy expression.

Li Mai was a little confused. This was normal, what was there to be embarrassed about? Why did he have that expression?

“Sure, is there anything else?” Li Mai asked him.

Zhou Quan shook his head, "No, that's all." He was happy to hear her agree and grinned.

"Shall we go back and prepare for our appointment at the Xu family's restaurant later?" Zhou Quan asked Li Mai after laughing for a while.

“Okay!” Li Mai replied, then stopped when she saw the group of people walking towards her.

Across the street, Jin Shi was patrolling with several people. When he saw someone fall, he had his men go up to help the person up, brush off the dirt, and tell them to be careful.

Upon looking up, Jin Shi saw Li Mai and Zhou Quan. He quickly walked over to them and bowed respectfully, saying, "Greetings, Brother Quan and Sister-in-law!"

Zhou Quan's lips twitched. "You're three years older than me."