The Li family acted quickly. The next morning, the matchmaker came again to exchange betrothal gifts. After seeing the matchmaker off, Lu Yu began to worry again. If the betrothal ceremony did not go smoothly, the marriage would not be possible. By lunchtime, she was even more worried and could not eat.

Qin Xiaozhou comforted him, "It's all about how you do it. Look at me, your nephew and I are an official couple, we don't care about those things and we're doing just fine."

When the government arranges marriages, they only take a cursory look at the ages of the man and woman; as long as the ages aren't too outrageous, they'll make do.

Lu Yu lowered his head and remained silent. Qin Xiaozhou patted Lu Yunfeng and said, "If the horoscopes don't match, go and find out who did the matching. Pay them some money and ask them to change it so that it's a good match."

Lu Yu stared in disbelief, "You can do that?"

I've never heard of the compatibility of birth dates being altered.

"What is impossible?" Qin Xiaozhou was in a good mood and had a good appetite, even taking a bite of a braised pig's trotter. "As long as you really want to accomplish something, there are a million ways. It just depends on whether you really want to succeed. If you've done everything you can and still can't succeed in the end, then you can only say that you've escaped a disaster."

Lu Yu didn't understand, "If your wishes don't come true and you try every possible method but nothing works, how can you say you've escaped a calamity?"

Qin Xiaozhou recalled a story he had once read: "In a small mountain village, there were three strong men who grew up together. The first man accidentally saved someone in the mountains and was rewarded with a hundred taels of silver. He immediately moved to the county town to buy a house, get married, and have children. The other two were not willing to give up and also wanted to save someone, but they had no opportunity. The two tried every means to make money, but they could not find a good way out. After a year, the third man gave up, went home to focus on farming, and eventually got married and had children. His life was peaceful and he had many children. In the end, he enjoyed his old age. The second man was obsessed with getting rich and went astray. Three years later, he was killed by the yamen runners, and his parents were also implicated and suffered."

"In fact, the second person's life is the real life that many people live. There is no overnight riches, nor is there any viciousness. So, when you have done your best and it still doesn't work, you should let it go instead of going astray."

Lu Yu shook her head, "My marriage is different from these three people's. If it doesn't work out this time, then I will..."

"Don't talk nonsense." Wang Lan held her youngest daughter's hand tightly. "Before you, I was pregnant with my second child, but unfortunately, I damaged my body when I gave birth to my first child, and I miscarried at six months. You are someone I took more than ten years to conceive. I first lost your second brother, and then your father and your eldest brother. Now you're saying this. How am I supposed to live?"

Qin Xiaozhou shook his head speechlessly; even a god couldn't save a ghost who wanted to die.

Lu Yunfeng's expression was serious. "Why do you always think the worst about things you don't even know?" He could only soften his tone. "Aunt, your zodiac signs are compatible with Li Yang's, and your birth charts won't be bad either. Even if it doesn't work out, we can change it. As long as Li Yang treats you well after you marry him, everything will be fine. Even if things don't go well, you want to get married now. Do you really think you can't get married? Why trap yourself like this?"

It was rare for him to say so much. In the past, I thought he was the head of the family, and his only thought was to support the family. But now I realize that sometimes, no matter how well he and Qin Xiaozhou support the family, if the family members can't hold on, they will still feel sad and distressed.

Wang Lan offered a few more words of comfort, but Lu Xiaosi, with his big, dark eyes wide open, lay on the table and started eating by himself. Finally, he burst into tears, which drew everyone's attention away.

Taking advantage of the opening, Qin Xiaozhou got up and ran. She hated people who always put themselves in a weak position. Lu Yu could have stood up and lived a good life, but he always felt that he was the weakest and that he was nothing. His mentality of wanting to die at the drop of a hat was really suffocating.

In the past, one could say that Lu Yu was shaped by the world, but since she transmigrated, Qin Xiaozhou has brought a completely different spirit to the fullest extent. If Lu Yu still doesn't have the courage to take a step forward, then she is truly beyond redemption.

Qin Xiaozhou went up the hill behind the house, picked a mulberry and put it in his mouth. He wanted to find a cool place to lie down. He walked along the south side of the orchard, when suddenly he heard faint groans from the grass by the river ahead.

Oh wow.

The groaning was obviously coming from somewhere; in the middle of the day, in the grass by the river, how audacious!

The village is not wealthy, and many families only eat two meals a day during the off-season, one before noon and one after sunset. Only the Lu family is doing well now, and they feel that three meals a day is not enough. At this time of day, the villagers are either escaping the heat or busy with some leisure work. Unexpectedly, there is a pair of mandarin ducks here. I wonder if they are a couple enjoying their time together or wild mandarin ducks.

Qin Xiaozhou had no interest in watching the outdoor battle and was about to leave when she suddenly heard a slight noise behind her. She turned around and saw Lu Yunfeng standing under a jujube tree not far away, his face slightly flushed.

The situation was truly awkward. Qin Xiaozhou gestured for him not to move, then tiptoed back, pulling him along the hillside. After walking quite a distance, she breathed a sigh of relief. "Why are you following me?"

Lu Yunfeng coughed awkwardly, "You don't know anyone in this village, don't wander around." He then explained, "Those two people just now, they weren't a couple."

Honestly, she just wanted to take a walk after her meal; she never expected to encounter something like this. But why was she a little excited? "An affair?!"

Although she was used to it, having witnessed similar things in her village before her transmigration, she still wanted to gossip.

Lu Yunfeng couldn't resist her bright, sparkling eyes and could only nod behind her back, clearly not wanting to say more about it. Qin Xiaozhou thought this man was really not a gossip, so she tugged at his sleeve and pointed to a bayberry tree, "Take a basket, I'll pick these fruits and go back to make wine."

The ground bayberries were half-ripe, perfect for making wine. The ground was covered with chicken scratches, and two tree roots had been dug up. Qin Xiaozhou moved a stone over to weigh down the roots. If they kept digging like this, the ground bayberry tree would die sooner or later. By weighing it down with a stone, the chickens wouldn't be able to dig anymore.

Lu Yunfeng returned quickly, and the two bent down to pick the fruit. They had only picked half a basket when a commotion came from the riverbank in the distance. Qin Xiaozhou immediately understood, "They've been caught cheating?"

Lu Yunfeng quickly finished picking the bayberries and said, "Let's go home."

Joining in on this kind of thing will only get you into trouble.