"I feel much better today, I can manage on my own, you go ahead and do your thing."
The man glanced at her palms, which were red from being rubbed raw by the sickle.
"If you don't wear gloves, your hands will get blisters if you keep rubbing them for a while. It will be excruciatingly painful, and you won't be able to move at all."
Ye Zhiyu's eyes widened, her hands clenching together in shock. "Really?"
Lu Chen nodded with a blank face. Ye Zhiyu looked at her hands, then at Lu Chen, and said solemnly, "Then I won't be polite. Thank you, Lu Chen. You're such a good person."
Lu Chen, who had just been given the "friend zone" card, paused for a moment before continuing. He felt terrible; last night, his dreams were filled with her sweet, soft voice, and when he woke up this morning, he kept despising himself.
After breakfast, I inexplicably felt like visiting her again. She's such a pampered young lady; she couldn't even walk yesterday. I wonder if she'll cry today.
Seeing her squatting in the grass, looking like she was about to cry, I felt that someone like her was born to live in a beautiful, clean house and dress smartly, instead of doing manual labor here.
He didn't know what he was thinking; he just wanted to spend more time with her, so he made up an excuse.
But I didn't lie to her; blisters really do appear, I just exaggerated a bit.
Ye Zhiyu was unaware of his thoughts. At this moment, she was still making grand pronouncements to Lu Chen, "Lu Chen, you have helped me so much. If you need my help in the future, or if you want anything, just tell me and I will definitely satisfy you."
Lu Chen lowered his eyes: I'm afraid you won't agree.
"Second Brother? What are you doing here?"
The two were in a good mood when a little girl's surprised voice came from behind them.
Looking back, it was Lu Yun.
She put down her basket, and in the blink of an eye, the pretty lady disappeared.
She thought she would cut some grass first, and then come back to find the pretty lady to give her the grass.
I never expected to find my fierce-looking second brother here.
Why is he called "Fierce-Faced Second Brother"? Because he has a scar on his brow bone, which looks quite scary. Every time I see him, he has a dark face, which makes him look even fiercer.
It wasn't that Lu Chen was frowning; he just wasn't a smiley man. Every time he went home, Tian Hongfang would nag him endlessly about the wedding, which annoyed him to no end, so naturally his expression was unpleasant.
But Lu Yun wasn't afraid of him, because her second brother would always bring her pretty hair ties and delicious food when he went out, and he would also avenge her if anyone bullied her.
Lu Chen casually made up an excuse: "Didn't you take her candy yesterday? I'm paying off your debt."
Lu Jun looked at him unhappily, "I helped the pretty lady mow the lawn, okay? Look, there's already so much."
She showed him her basket, and Lu Chen glanced at it, saying, "You should keep what you have for yourself." He gestured for her to look at what he had cut.
Lu Yun followed his gaze and saw that the basket was already full, and her second brother was still pressing it down.
She lowered her head in frustration.
Ye Zhiyu gave Lu Chen a reproachful look, then quickly comforted the little girl, patting her head, "Niu Niu, don't listen to your second brother's nonsense. He clearly came to help you because he felt sorry for you being too tired, but he made it sound so rude."
Lu Yun looked up at her second brother expectantly, "Really?"
Lu Chen snapped out of his daze after Ye Zhiyu's glance, opened his mouth to say no, but saw Ye Zhiyu looking at him warningly. He swallowed the words back and nodded stiffly.
Ye Zhiyu smiled with satisfaction, "Look, your second brother has already nodded, but Niu Niu, I'll take this half-basket of grass today. You can't do that again. I gave you candy because I like you, not to help me with chores. If you do that, I'll think you don't like me."
Lu Yun hurriedly waved her hand, "No, Niu Niu likes her older sister."
Taking the opportunity, Ye Zhiyu made a request: "Then how about you don't help your sister with chores anymore, otherwise your sister will be sad."
Make a gesture as if you've been hurt.
Lu Yun sensed something was wrong, but seeing Ye Zhiyu like this, she couldn't care less and simply agreed, "Okay."
"Shall we pinky swear?"
He hooked his arm around the little girl's hand and shook it in the air, saying, "Pinky promise, never to change for a hundred years, whoever changes is a dog."
"Come on, stamp it." The two thumbs, one big and one small, are placed together.
Lu Chen watched them gently from the side.
After that, Lu Chen did the work while the two of them, one big and one small, chatted on the side.
“Lu Chen is actually your second brother? I never expected that. No wonder I felt familiar when I saw you yesterday. Now that I look closely, I can see that he has a scar on his brow bone. Otherwise, you two would look even more alike.”
Lu Yun happily swung her little feet. What she loved most was hearing others say that she and her brother looked alike. She excitedly told Ye Zhiyu about the origin of Lu Chen's scar.
When Lu Chen was eighteen, he had just graduated from high school and was at home guarding the cornfield to prevent wild animals from coming down and damaging the crops.
Once, for some unknown reason, a bear came down from the mountain. The night watchman was so frightened that he ran away to call for help.
People did come, but no one dared to attack. A group of people kept throwing things at it, and the bear got annoyed and started attacking indiscriminately.
Many of the village's able-bodied men were injured that time. It was only after Lu Chen took a bow and arrow and risked his life to shoot the bear in the eye that it was defeated. The scar on his brow bone was left from that time.
At that time, a commendation ceremony was held for Lu Chen.
Ye Zhiyu's eyes lit up as she looked at Lu Chen with admiration. "Wow, Lu Chen, you're amazing!"
Lu Chen's ears turned bright red under her gaze, and he felt extremely uncomfortable.
She felt inexplicably ashamed to have her own sister tell her these things.
Lu Yun said proudly, "Of course, my second brother is the most powerful."
It's obvious he often shows off to his friends in the village.
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