"The Lu family has married a shrew; their lives are about to get tough..."

"commit a sin!"

Qin Xiaozhou wasn't angry at the gossip. She smiled and said, "Uncles, aunts, brothers, and sisters-in-law, why don't you come in and sit down, have some hot water? You're getting thirsty talking so much."

Her smile, with her fleshy face scrunched up, frightened the two children to tears. No one in the village dared linger any longer; they all left, saying they had things to do at home. The courtyard fell silent. Only then did Qin Xiaozhou hear the faint cry of a baby coming from another mud house. She turned to Lu Yunfeng beside her and asked, "Your child?"

Does that mean she became a stepmother the moment she entered the family?

This Lu Yunfeng was tall and strong, with bronze skin and a handsome face, but his brows were furrowed, and he looked worried despite being only in his early twenties.

Lu Yunfeng tidied up the door frame at the base of the fence, which could only be used as firewood. "It's my fourth brother." After thinking for a moment, he added, "He's just ten months old now."

Wow! Are these two guys that far apart in age? "How many people are in your family?"

So poor, surely there are seven or eight mouths to feed! No wonder Qin Xiaozhou knew nothing. Although she had the original owner's memories after transmigrating, the original owner really knew nothing about the Lu family. The original owner was rejected by a betrothal when she was fourteen, and rejected again when she was sixteen. The original owner's mother was so angry that she suffered a heart attack and died after waking up from the depression. The original owner's father married a widow and is now pregnant. He is single-mindedly hoping that the widow will give him a son. He has no time to care about the original owner.

Lu Yunfeng didn't even look up, brandishing his wood-chopping knife and splitting open the door frame. "Including you, there are eight of us."

Wang Lan secretly watched her new granddaughter-in-law for a while. Seeing that she didn't get angry, she felt a little more at ease. They couldn't refuse this official marriage, but if there was a shrew in the family, they really couldn't live like this.

Lu Yunxing carried a bucket of water in and saw Qin Xiaozhou in the yard. He shyly called her "sister-in-law" and felt a little sad that his brother, such a good man, had not been able to marry a good girl. He had just heard the villagers mocking him by the stream.

He is Lu Yunfeng's second younger brother. He is fourteen years old this year. He is thin, small and dark-skinned. Carrying water was originally Lu Yunfeng's job, but Lu Yunfeng had something to do this morning. The water in the vat was used up yesterday, so he took on the responsibility of carrying water.

Standing on a wooden stake in the yard is so awkward. Qin Xiaozhou took the carrying pole and bucket from Lu Yunxing's hands. "I'll fetch it. Where's the water?"

She was afraid that the two buckets of water would break Lu Yunxing's small frame.

Lu Yunxing felt embarrassed, but he didn't dare to compete with this woman. She was like a small hill, and he was just a blade of grass next to it. "There is a stream coming down from the western mountains behind the house."

Wang Lan called out, "Yanzi, lead the way."