Oh no! His rural wife is sweeter than a peach!

"Old Ye, who are they?"

She asked in a low voice.

Old Ye quickly introduced her to the product.

"Third Miss, this young lady is your eldest brother, the wife of Young Master Yuchuan who got married a couple of days ago. You can call her sister-in-law. This young man is her younger brother, but he is a year older than you. You can call him Brother Lu."

After saying that, he hurriedly turned to explain to the slightly shocked Lu siblings.

"Young Madam, this is our family's third young lady, Young Master Yuchuan's younger sister. She is rather timid and introverted, so she doesn't talk much and is rather quiet. She has been staying in her bedroom these past two days and hasn't come out much, so I haven't had a chance to introduce you to each other. Please forgive me."

"Are you my brother-in-law's sister?"

The deer make strange noises when they call out.

His shout startled Ying Sangrou, who shrank back and timidly peeked out from behind Lao Ye.

"When the deer cry out!"

Noticing this, Lu Luozhi called out a warning. Lu Mingshi touched his nose and immediately admitted his mistake, "Okay, okay, I'm sorry, I was too loud."

He then shouted, "But why don't you say that? We're relatives, after all."

She didn't even know that her older brother had gotten married, that she now had a sister-in-law, and that her sister-in-law had a younger brother who was a year older than her.

Ying Sangrou lowered her head again, like a child who had made a mistake. She gripped the fabric of Lao Ye's clothes tightly with one hand, her fingers trembling slightly.

Old Ye sensed her fear and tension, so he subtly spoke up for her and smoothed things over.

"Young Madam, I'm so sorry. I didn't tell the Third Miss about this beforehand, so she didn't know there were two more people in the house. She was quite startled, so please forgive her. However, I never expected that the Third Miss and Young Master Mingshi would be in the same grade and even the same class. It seems quite a coincidence."

As the Ying family's old steward, his words and actions were always very proper, leaving no room for criticism.

"It's alright, it's alright. We just showed up out of nowhere. If anyone should apologize, it's us. It's all my fault for scaring her with my blond hair."

Lu Luozhi said in a gentle voice, "Hi, hello, my surname is Lu and my name is Lu Luozhi. It's nice to meet you."

As she spoke, Ying Sangrou, who had been hiding behind Lao Ye, timidly peeked out with her eyes.

However, he kept his head half-closed, not daring to look at her too closely.

"Hello, I am Ying, Ying Sangrou, Sang as in mulberry tree, Rou as in gentle."

Her voice was so soft and faint that they had to concentrate and listen very carefully to hear what she was saying.

After hesitating for a moment, Ying Sangrou still called out, "Sister-in-law."

It was the first time Lu Luozhi had been called "sister-in-law," and she felt a little uncomfortable.

She scratched her head and smiled, then grabbed Lu Mingshi from the side. "Say hello to her. From now on, she's your little sister. Remember to take good care of her at school."

Lu Ming silently pointed back at himself.

Does she want him to take care of her?

He stared intently at Ying Sangrou.

No way.

Why should he take care of her?

He wouldn't budge even if I tried to bribe him with a single grilled sausage.

Startled by his gaze, Ying Sangrou lowered her eyes again and hurriedly used Lao Ye's body to shield herself.

My heart was pounding wildly for no reason.

There was only one thought in my mind.

He, he, he's so scary...

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Ying Sangrou was so frightened that she only dared to eat dinner in her room.

Lu Luozhi thought she was frightened by her own carefree, yellow-feathered duckling.

After asking Lao Ye about her dietary preferences, she started chopping meat and making fillings in the kitchen.

Finally, I made a bowl of delicious and visually appealing seaweed soup with wontons.

She asked Lu Ming to bring it to her.

He was also instructed to speak politely to people and not to raise his voice and scare them.

"Where did I not speak politely, or where did I raise my voice?"

Holding the small tray containing the bowl of wontons, Lu Mingshi wiped the drool that had come out of his mouth from the aroma and hummed a soft hum.

Ying Sangrou lived diagonally behind Ying Yuchuan's courtyard.

She preferred quiet, so her parents specially arranged for her to live in the quietest courtyard in the entire house.

After walking along the winding path and passing through two round stone archways, he spotted the girl named Ying something-or-other sitting at the desk by the window doing her homework, thanks to his excellent eyesight of 1.50.

She held the pen, her posture upright, two strands of her long hair that were tucked behind her ears fell in front of her eyes, and her pretty face sometimes furrowed in distress and sometimes smiled faintly.

As Lu Ming watched, his thoughts at that moment were—

Good heavens, why is she curled up like that? Why isn't she using her phone at night instead of doing homework?

He strode over to the window.

"Eh—"

His words startled Ying Sangrou, who was engrossed in her homework.

She stared blankly, her eyes still wide with fear, as he handed her the steaming bowl of food through the window and placed it on the table beside her.

"Old Ye said you didn't eat much for dinner, so this is something my sister made especially for you. She asked me to bring it over for you. Eat it quickly before it gets cold."

She was still staring blankly at herself.

As the deer cried out, it crossed its arms, raised its thin, pointed chin, and chuckled smugly.

"I know I'm even more handsome than Edison Chen when he was young, but you can't just stare at me like that, it makes me shy."