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

Ying Yuchuan was quite busy. He had only finished his meal for less than ten minutes when he was called back to the company by a phone call.

Lu Luozhi breathed a sigh of relief.

I can avoid facing him for now.

Explanation?

What can she explain?

Why is it easier to make money by setting up a street stall than by working a grueling job?

Slightly annoyed, she squatted under an osmanthus tree opposite the guest room and casually picked a blade of grass and put it in her mouth.

Then, a second later, she spat it out again.

What is this? Why is it so bitter?

Her problem was how to return the three thousand yuan to Ying Yuchuan.

Or, how about we write him an IOU and pay it back in installments over a year?

She really couldn't afford to pay him back all at once.

"Sis, are you sitting here counting ants?"

The yellow-feathered duckling found her when it called to the deer, squatted down in front of her, and then asked her.

"Sis, to be honest, you didn't get caught by the city management officers, did you? I heard from my classmates after school that they chased away all the stalls near the school gate. Are our stalls okay?"

"Good... my ass."

Lu Luozhi glanced at him lazily.

"The urban management officers confiscated my vehicle and stall, and fined me 3,000 yuan. My tricycle is still sitting in the urban management bureau's parking lot."

"what?"

Upon hearing this news, Lu Mingshi felt as if struck by lightning.

He slumped onto the stone floor, stunned. "How could this happen? How could they all be wiped out?"

That stall was the culmination of their hard work.

"Stop talking, this is just bad luck."

Lu Luozhi waved his hand, "But it's alright, I can go and get it back in three days. In three days, we'll be heroes again."

She, Lu Luozhi, is an unkillable cockroach.

We will not be discouraged by the small difficulties we face.

The tougher the enemy, the stronger she becomes, hahaha...

Hearing this, Lu Mingshi was no longer worried.

He trusted his older sister.

"Sis, you're the best!"

He sat down next to her, affectionately linked his arm with hers, and showered her with compliments.

"My older sister is invincible."

"But the yellow-feathered duckling,"

She glanced at him with her round eyes and spoke in a very serious tone.

"From now on, you have to behave well in this family. It's best to keep quiet if you can, especially when it comes to Grandpa Ying. Don't upset him."

Everyone says that parents worry a lot, but as the older sister, she has worried a lot too.

You can't use harsh methods on yellow-feathered ducklings; you just need to coax and coax them.

"You don't want me to get yelled at by him, do you?"

At this point, Lu Mingshi felt somewhat indignant.

"Sis, why should we put up with their attitude? Look how infuriating that old man's words are."

"What old man doesn't get angry? Our grandma, that old woman, was always infuriating!"

Lu Ming thought about it and agreed.

Perhaps because they were suffering from illness, their grandmother had upset them quite a bit in the six months before she passed away.

Sometimes he says hurtful things, and when he argues with her, she gets angry and calls him a brat who doesn't respect his elders.

"But older sister..."

His thin face was filled with worry for her.

Are you really happy to have married your brother-in-law?

"Of course I'm happy, why wouldn't I be?"

She grinned and said, "Look at Ying Yuchuan. He's good-looking, he has a great figure, and he's rich. Why wouldn't I be happy? He's the kind of perfect man I could never find, even if I burned incense for eight lifetimes."

"Besides, Grandma said not to be so stubborn, but to strive for success. I finally have a rich man to marry, why shouldn't I seize the opportunity? Haven't you had enough of being poor?"

Yes.

Climb up.

There's nothing shameful about saying this.

A golden opportunity is right in front of you; anyone who pushes it away is a fool.

"But……"

In Lu Mingshi's heart, he always felt that it shouldn't be like this.

He couldn't pinpoint what was wrong with it.

He was at a loss for words and scratched his head in frustration.

Lu Luozhi laughed at him, "But what? What's there to say but? Don't you even listen to your mother?"

"Let's go back to our room. It's so cold squatting here at night."

She pulled him to his feet, and the two returned to the guest room where Lu Ming had stayed.

"Little yellow duckling, show me your homework."

She found several test papers with scores of only two or three points in his schoolbag.

Silence, and more silence.

Although she knew his skill level... Lu Luozhi still found it hard to accept the reality.

When the deer cries out, it stands with its hands on its hips, looks up at the sky, and laughs heartily.

"Sis, aren't I amazing? Haha, I even got 3 points on the test..."

Yes, that's great, fantastic.

I glanced at him, who was beaming with pride.

Lu Luozhi decided to go all out.

"Hey little yellow duckling, how about we make a bet?"

"What kind of bet?"

Lu Luozhi pointed to the test paper, "If you can get 20 points in next month's monthly exam, I'll give you 50 yuan. 50 yuan for each subject, and 100 yuan for 50 points."

Lu Ming gasped.

"Sis, are you serious?"

"Don't want it? Then forget it."

She also simply threw the test paper back onto the table.

"No, no, no, sister, my dear sister, I'll bet, I'll bet."

When Lu Ming called out, his eyes shone like a puppy seeing a bone, and he took her hand in his.

"Really? You'll give me fifty dollars if I get just twenty points on the test."

He wanted to confirm it again and again.

Lu Luozhi stroked his yellow duck feathers.

"Seriously, when have I ever lied to you? I'll get the tricycle back in three days, and then I can make money again. Maybe I'll even reward you with a figurine you like."

No, you have to agree to this bet.

Upon hearing that he liked the figurines, Lu Mingshi became even more excited and quickly made a pinky promise with her.

"Let's gamble, let's gamble, it's decided then."

He was smiling.

Lu Luozhi was also smiling.

Both of them had ulterior motives.

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Ying Yuchuan didn't get back until after 9 p.m.

The house was completely quiet.

Old Ye told him that the old man was a little upset about what happened during dinner and went to his room to rest early, not even drinking his favorite tea.

His grandmother kept comforting him.

His parents went out to meet some friends and will be back later.

He strolled along the narrow, three-person-wide cobblestone path, under the warm yellow light of the wall lamps, at a leisurely pace, towards his courtyard.

The cold dew of the night fell on his shoulders, and as he walked, the lamplight stretched his thin shadow long and long on the ground.

His courtyard is not far from the main house, only a two or three-minute walk away.

He remembered letting Luluzhi move into his room, and he also remembered that his room would henceforth have one more woman, his wife.

As he stepped into the courtyard, he expected to be greeted by bright lights throughout the house. However, when he saw only silence and darkness, he subconsciously furrowed his thick, dark eyebrows, which conveyed a sense of seriousness.

Is the deer basket branch not there?

Or perhaps she's asleep?

The house was dark inside, but four antique-style lantern-shaped wall lamps hung on the exterior wall, their warm yellow light illuminating the courtyard in a half-light, half-dark manner.

He pushed the door open, went inside, and turned on the light.

The lights suddenly came on, and he looked around the small living room he always used to entertain friends.

No.

He then turned left.

I went to his room.

He assumed Lu Luozhi would be asleep in bed.

To my surprise, when I turned on the light, the bed was empty.

Based on the angle at which the bed and pillows were placed, he could confirm that no one had slept on it for the past few days.

His expression darkened, and he turned and went to the study again, but there was nothing there.

There were no guest rooms either.

Not even a single one of her belongings ever appeared in his space.