Lu looked at him quietly and said leisurely: "Even if you don't want to, there are many men in the tribe who are willing."
Yan's eyes widened and he opened his mouth to retort, but in the end he was speechless.
The tribe had more men than women. Not only were there beautiful, intelligent, and capable women like Yu, but even the dumber, uglier, and even widows, were still being married. It was common for men in their twenties to marry women in their thirties with children.
Someone like Yu will never have trouble finding a husband.
No one else would say anything. Liushui admired Yu so much that as long as Yu nodded, Liushui would be delivered to his door overnight.
"Think about it carefully and give me an answer as soon as possible." Lu didn't want to push too hard.
This matter needs to be figured out by my grandson.
After Lu finished speaking, he fell asleep, and his snoring made the mountains roar.
Yan couldn't sleep. He thought about how the men in the tribe would laugh at him if he went to live with Yu. Then he thought about how the men in the tribe would laugh at him for giving up a beautiful and capable woman like Yu, and how he regretted it. He tossed and turned all night, unable to sleep. The next morning, he woke up with panda eyes.
Seeing him like this, Lu knew that he had been thinking all night, so he asked him, "What have you decided?"
Yan said, "I can marry Yu. But I won't go to her house, and she doesn't need to come to mine. She and I will live in a separate cave. After all, every child in a family lives in a separate cave after marriage, so there's no need to specify who goes to whose house. She can take some of the meat back to feed the mountain, and I can take some of the meat back to feed you. We are both equal, and there is no question of who is superior or inferior."
He was careful not to raise the question of who would stay at home to take care of the children in the future.
Yu was a woman anyway. There was no way she'd go hunting with the others while pregnant, right? It was even more impossible while she was breastfeeding. If she kept giving birth, she'd be stuck at home taking care of the family. There was no need to bring up this topic now; it would only add to the conflict.
As for Shan and Xiaoquan, they wouldn't be a burden to them for long. Xiaoquan would be able to go hunting in the mountains in a year or two, and he would naturally take care of his father. And Yu, as the leader, was the one who came up with the traps and snares. Even if she didn't go hunting, everyone would definitely give her a share of the meat. So there was no need to bring up this topic.
Yan thought that this request was not excessive, so he nodded and said, "Okay, after you go up the mountain, I will go to Xunshan and discuss this matter with him."
Yan went to the open space to gather without worry. He felt happy when he imagined the envious looks on the faces of the men in the tribe when they learned that he was going to marry Yu.
Seeing Yan's panda eyes, the lively Liushui joked with him: "Yan, what did you do last night? Why do you have two dark circles on your eyes?"
Qiao Yu happened to walk over and heard this. She glanced at Yan and saw that he had a pair of panda eyes.
Yan wished he could strangle the flowing water to death.
He secretly looked up to see Qiao Yu's reaction, but saw that Qiao Yu ignored him and walked straight to Hei and Man and asked, "Is your team here?"
"No." Man said unhappily, "Qinglang hasn't come yet."
Everyone was so enthusiastic these days, eager to gather before dawn and set off at the crack of dawn. Only Qinglang was always late. He wasn't really late, just a little later than everyone else, which made everyone feel dissatisfied with him, but they couldn't say anything.
It would be fine if it were any other time, but today Yu went up the mountain with them to dig traps. And Qinglang came so late, wasn't that embarrassing for their team?
"Shanshi, go and urge him." Man turned to Shanshi and said.
Shanshi agreed and ran to call Qinglang.
Seeing Qiao Yu was free, Yan thought she would look at him. But Qiao Yu was busy talking to Man and Hei, not even looking at him.
He couldn't help feeling depressed.
"Is our team here? Let's go." Today, Shu was appointed by Qiao Yu as the captain of the first team. Seeing that everyone was here, they were ready to set off.
Yan took one last look at Qiao Yu, and seeing that Qiao Yu still wasn't looking over here, he could only follow the crowd angrily.
Only after the first and third teams set off did Shanshi run back panting.
"Qinglang said he might have caught a cold last night and has a headache, so he won't go today," he said.
Man got angry when he heard this and was about to complain when he heard Qiao Yu say, "Let's go." He quickly shut up and trotted to catch up with Qiao Yu.
Without the blue wolf, the atmosphere of the second team was quite good. They brought back a lot of prey that day and set two traps.
As soon as Qiao Yu entered the cave, Xiaoquan began to whisper to her: "Sister, I came here today to discuss your marriage with Father."
Qiao Yu was stunned. He walked to Shan's side and asked him, "Lu is here? What's going on?"
Speaking of this, Shan sneered: "He said that if Yan came to our house, the men in the tribe would definitely laugh at him. So Lu proposed a compromise, that is, you two can open a cave to live in separately, and there will be no discussion about who will go to whose house. In the future, you can bring back some of the meat you hunt to support Xiaoquan and me, and Yan can also take some of the meat he gets back to support his family. This is more fair and better for everyone."
He was not someone who wanted to burden his daughter, so he didn't necessarily have to keep Qiao Yu at home. If Yan was willing to make sacrifices for Qiao Yu, he would take the initiative to propose such a solution in order to save Yan's face.
But he felt unhappy when the man's family took the initiative to propose it.
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