We're going to be together, it's too formal to keep calling each other "young master" and "young lady." "From today onwards, you'll call me by my name, and I'll call you by your name!"
Bai Nuo choked for a moment. When an ordinary person squats down and looks up at someone, it always looks like they're doing something indecent, which is quite unseemly. However, when Hu Mingmei did this, it was very elegant and didn't damage his image at all. As if possessed, Bai Nuo stammered and changed his name to "Hu Mingmei!"
"..." Hu Mingmei frowned, quite dissatisfied with Bai Nuo's performance. Calling her by her full name still sounded very unfamiliar. She should have called him by his full name. But Hu Mingmei thought about it and decided to just call her by her full name. It was better than calling her "Young Master Hu." He figured she wasn't that familiar with him, so this was already good enough.
He still needs to work harder.
"I can help you with things like this, you don't need to work so hard!" Hu Mingmei said calmly, then buried herself in washing the clam meat in the plate. After thoroughly rinsing it, Hu Mingmei picked up the plate and asked Bai Nuo, "Is this okay?"
Bai Nuo was still in a daze, completely unable to understand what Hu Mingmei meant. When she heard Hu Mingmei ask her, she answered Hu Mingmei instinctively, "Not yet, you have to add some salt and scrub it before you can eat it!"
"Oh!" Hu Mingmei responded softly, then stood up with the plate and walked into the kitchen. Because he was so tall, he had to bend over when he entered the kitchen.
Bai Nuo stood blankly by the well. Hu Mingmei, holding a plate, couldn't find the salt for a moment, so he looked up and asked, "Where do you put the salt?"
That shout completely snapped Bai Nuo back to her senses. As soon as Bai Nuo came to her senses, she saw Hu Mingmei holding a plate in one hand and looking at her with the sleeve of his shirt rolled up, revealing half of his arm.
Bai Nuo strode inside, snatched the plate from Hu Mingmei's hand, put it aside, and then pushed him out. "Young Master Hu, thank you for your help, but you're not familiar with our household, so we won't trouble you any further. Please leave; I need to start preparing lunch!"
Since Aunt Liu came, Bai Nuo has rarely cooked, but whenever she is home, she never bothers Aunt Liu and always cooks for Bai Yu and her grandmother herself.
Bai Nuo pushed Hu Mingmei out and slammed the door shut. Hu Mingmei tried to say something, but the only response was the sound of the door closing.
He stood at the door, annoyed. Why was he angry again? Weren't they just fine a moment ago?
For a moment, Hu Mingmei couldn't figure out why, so she had to ask Lu Ying.
"Lu Ying!"
"Your subordinate is here!"
Lu Ying was summoned by Hu Mingmei for no reason. Moreover, Hu Mingmei, who was such a clean person, actually sat under the eaves. Since the master did this, as a subordinate, he had no choice but to sit down as well.
Hearing Lu Ying's strong voice, Hu Mingmei turned and asked, "How do you usually make girls happy?"
Lu Ying, with a stern face and an air of righteousness, replied, "Second Master, I have no girl that I can make happy." Being a single dog is so tragic. Let alone making a girl happy, Lu Ying doesn't even know what a girl is.
"What if the girl gets angry?" Hu Mingmei asked again, still unwilling to give up. He only had Lu Ying by his side, and she was the only one he could talk to.
“Make her even angrier, and she’ll come to talk to you. Eventually, she won’t be angry anymore!” Lu Ying answered in a serious and methodical manner.
"Now I finally understand why no girl likes you." Hu Mingmei pondered for a moment, finally realizing that Lu Ying was unreliable. He had already angered Bai Nuo, and Bai Nuo was ignoring him. If he made Bai Nuo even angrier, he might just drive her crazy. "Go away, I don't need you anymore!"
"Yes!" Lu Ying disappeared in a stiff and formal manner.
Never mind, he'll go ask a woman!
So Hu Mingmei found Aunt Liu and humbly expressed his problem.
"Oh my, young master Hu, do you have a girl you like?" At that time, Aunt Liu was with her grandmother, helping her make knots. When she heard Hu Mingmei's question, she immediately smiled.
Hu Mingmei pursed her lips and gave a subtle "hmm".
"Auntie!" Aunt Liu said to the old woman with a smile, "Look at these young people nowadays, it's so wonderful when two young people are together."
“That’s right!” the old woman said with a smile, taking such things in stride. “It’s nothing like our time, when we had no idea who we were going to marry. It was all up to our parents. Back then, I didn’t even know what Nuonuo’s grandfather looked like. I got married without really knowing what he was going to do. We were meeting for the first time when we got married. Young people these days are really thoughtful.”
"Yes, that's how it was for me back then. I'd never even seen what the child's father looked like. And just like that, so many years have passed, and the child's father is gone too."
"The dead can't be brought back to life, please accept my condolences! Living well in the present is the most important thing!" The old woman patted Liu Da Niang's hand comfortingly, "Now that you're with us, live with us!"
"Oh!" Aunt Liu wiped her eyes before looking at Hu Mingmei with a smile, "It's all my fault, I've made you laugh in front of me, young master."
Hu Mingmei pursed her lips and remained silent.
"Alright, stop laughing!" The old woman looked at Hu Mingmei with affection, then gave Aunt Liu a reproachful look. "People come to you with questions, asking you what to do, and you just laugh at them!"
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