I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

Bai Jingzhou was both happy and unhappy about Gu Wenxuan's behavior. He was happy that Gu Wenxuan did not object to his engagement, but he was unhappy because he knew very well that Gu Wenxuan compromised only because of the situation and did not really have any special feelings for him.

He lay on the earthen kang, looking unfocusedly at the beams, but what emerged in his mind was the scene when he first met Gu Wenxuan.

Like Gu Wenxuan, Bai Jingzhou's father was also one of the pioneer captains of the city defense army, and his mother was the logistics team leader of that team.

One of them was responsible for managing the combatants, while the other was responsible for leading the logistics personnel, and they went out with the pioneer team to collect various supplies.

Their only child, Bai Jingzhou, had been living in the relative safety of the base since he was young. It was not until he was fifteen that his parents began to try to take him on missions.

At that time, they never dreamed that the first time they took Bai Jingzhou out on a mission, their team would actually encounter a mutant willow tree that had never been discovered by humans before and that could disguise itself as an ordinary tree.

The mutant willow tree's sneak attack was both swift and strange. Although the two responded correctly in the first time and sent out a distress signal, most of the people in the team, including them, were killed by the cunning mutant willow tree before reinforcements arrived.

Bai Jingzhou, who had been living inside the base, lost his father and mother in the blink of an eye. He stood there in a daze, heartbroken and at a loss.

Also dumbfounded were several other logistics personnel who had rarely left the safe zone. Because of their lack of experience, they were placed in the safest rear area by the team. When the incident happened, they were still some distance away from the mutant willow tree disguised as an ordinary tree.

Of course, this distance was not foolproof. When people who were closer were killed by the big willow tree, its twisted branches, which were growing rapidly and dancing wildly, immediately stabbed towards Bai Jingzhou and the others with strong winds.

When Gu Wenxuan led the team over after receiving the distress signal, the first thing he saw was the horrifying scene of willow branches split into several strands, stabbing straight at Bai Jingzhou and others.

Without any hesitation, she fired directly at the mutant willow tree. The willow branches that were piercing the survivors were broken, and Gu Wenxuan, who stood upright in the smoke and fire, looked like a god in the eyes of the survivors.

Bai Jingzhou will never forget the great shock that Gu Wenxuan's back brought to him at that moment.

After destroying the mutant willow tree, Gu Wenxuan sent them all back to the safe zone.

The survivors other than Bai Jingzhou were easy to deal with. Although they had rarely left the safe zone, due to their age, they were already capable of living independently within the base.

Unlike Bai Jingzhou, he is not yet eighteen years old and still needs the care and protection of a guardian.

After Gu Wenxuan brought him back to the base, the base officials helped notify his uncle's family, but his uncle's family only wanted the material inheritance left by his parents.

As for his "legacy," which could breathe and eat, they said they didn't want any of it.

The two of them agreed in front of the base leaders, but as soon as they left the mission center, they immediately abandoned Bai Jingzhou, who had no awakened energy.

After Gu Wenxuan completed the task and received her reward, she saw him standing outside the mission center with his eyes out of focus and a wooden expression. She couldn't help but feel sympathy for him.

So she punched the unscrupulous uncle, kicked the black-hearted aunt, and helped him get back everything his parents left behind.

Because he had nowhere to go and his mental state was really worrying, Gu Wenxuan took him directly back to her home because of her friendship with his parents.

Gu Wenxuan's grandfather and parents were very happy to adopt Bai Jingzhou.

Different from the "rebellious girl" in their family who is ten pounds more rebellious than her body weight, and also different from the "rebellious son" in their family who is young but can turn the roof over when he is naughty, Bai Jingzhou is the kind of "other people's children" who will never let them experience the experience of premature death because of raising them.

Not only does he not run out of the base every day like Gu Wenxuan, but he can also subdue Gu Wenxuan's naughty younger brother without leaving a trace, turning him from a wild monkey running around the house into a well-mannered kid.

Most importantly, he was very willing to learn medicine from them, and was very happy to inherit the legacy of his elders. Unlike Gu Wenxuan, who ran away immediately after seeing the medical books, she had a wild temper.

Bai Jingzhou was of course happy to be able to integrate into the Gu family smoothly, but the gap between him and Gu Wenxuan became deeper and deeper. The first time they met was the closest they were to each other. This development, which seemed like a bad joke from God, was one of the things that made Bai Jingzhou most sad.

He used all his self-control to bury all the inappropriate emotions deep in his heart. He thought he would have to live with his secret that could not be seen in the light for the rest of his life, but he did not expect that an ordinary errand running would give him and Gu Wenxuan a new starting point and a new beginning.

Thinking of this, he suddenly felt that his discouragement was completely unreasonable.

After all, he has experienced the worst case scenario, so what is there for him to worry about?

They were no longer "half-siblings". God used the unthinkable method of allowing them to resurrect through corpses to build a solid foundation of about eight thousand feet for the abyss that originally separated him and Gu Wenxuan.

Couldn't he fill up the remaining two thousand feet bit by bit through his own unremitting efforts?

He closed his eyes and began to gather his strength impatiently. He wanted to get better soon, and then step by step towards Gu Wenxuan, to become someone who could stand shoulder to shoulder with her, instead of always being protected by her.

The fifth day after Bai Chong and his wife greeted the Gu family was a good day. Liu, the cousin of Bai Jingzhou's grandmother and the best matchmaker in the area, went to the Gu family with great fanfare at the request of Bai Jingzhou's parents to matchmake for Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou, who had been the subject of much discussion among the villagers recently.

Since the two families had already communicated privately in advance, Matchmaker Liu's visit was just a formality according to custom.

The Gu family readily agreed to the marriage proposal. After receiving the confirmation, Matchmaker Liu smiled and stood up to say goodbye.

Some curious villagers saw Matchmaker Liu coming out of Gu's house, and immediately went over to ask her purpose.

Matchmaker Liu had already received clear instructions from Bai Chong and his wife. When someone asked, she didn't have to ask lustful and gossipy women to help spread the news.

So she smiled and continued talking in response to the other party's questions, and naturally revealed the fact that Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan were engaged.