Chapter 325: Big Brother Is Back

Lu Ying just grabbed a stick, heard Lu Cheng say "Big Brother is back," hurried to the doorway, but there was nobody at all.

Realizing she had been fooled, Lu Ying grew even angrier, raised the stick and was about to beat Lu Cheng.

Meanwhile, Lu Cheng took advantage of the moment and locked the door from inside.

Furious and helpless, Lu Ying could only pound on the door from outside.

"Come out, and I promise I won't kill you!"

"Sister, sister, don't act rashly; rashness is a devil, we are real siblings."

"Today I'm a devil, and I still want to fulfill righteousness by eradicating my own kin!"

Hearing that, Lu Cheng dared not open the door any longer.

"Sister, calm down; it's the New Year, you're making a laughingstock."

"You still remember it's the New Year! The bicycle was just bought, and you lost it again! Quickly open the door, I can spare you a dog's life! Open the door!"

"Sister, dear sister, I really didn't lose it on purpose; I just drank too much and forgot to ride it back…"

Lu Ying ignored her: "Don't explain to me; lost is lost. You just despise it for being second‑hand and don't cherish it at all. Open the door for me."

"I didn't despise it, sister. You should broaden your perspective; it's just a bicycle. In the future you'll be a big entrepreneur, with luxury cars, planes, cruise ships—all will be yours. No need to ruin our sibling bond over a cheap bicycle…"

"You call it light, but it's still a bicycle! I spent two months' salary on it; you say it's lost and it's lost. Quickly open the door, today I'm going to beat you to death."

Lu Ying banged the door with a thudding sound, startling their mother.

Chen Xianglan, with a worried face, shouted: "What's wrong with you two again? It's the New Year, can you let me have a peaceful day?"

"Mom, he lost the bicycle again; do you think he should be beaten?"

Chen Xianglan sighed: "Go ahead, go ahead, kill one, and your dad and I will be reborn."

Having said that, Chen Xianglan, as usual, ignored it.

Lu Ying kept pounding the door: "Open the door for me! You can dodge the first day but not the fifteenth; today you must endure a beating… Brother?"

The pounding stopped abruptly, and Lu Cheng, puzzled, approached the door.

"Big Brother, you're back. Lu Cheng, come out quickly, our big brother is back."

Hearing Lu Ying's excited voice, Lu Cheng laughed.

"Alright, sister, it's all leftover from my play, who am I fooling?"

Lu Cheng wasn't fooled, yet after waiting a long time, Lu Ying never pounded the door again.

It's a stalling game! Stalling is stalling, anyway he's inside, not cold.

Lu Cheng comfortably lay down on the bed.

"You still won't let me sit on your bed clothed? I sat today, I also lie down, lying down with shoes on, comfortable… Sister, spare me, at worst I'll wash your clothes for a month, is that okay?"

I'm actually negotiating with you; if you agree, that's that. If you disagree, I'm not going out anyway, so we'll just keep stalling…

Lu Cheng, lying on the bed muttering to himself, felt increasingly strange as he lay.

Why is sister so quiet now?

Meanwhile, the courtyard suddenly became lively.

"Fengzi, why are you back?" Chen Xianglan, seeing her eldest son enter, was instantly overjoyed, and upon seeing another person behind him, became even more excited.

Lu Cheng didn't mind; after losing the bicycle, Mom would surely side with sister.

"Everyone tries to trick me out, I won't go out."

Lu Cheng was just about to pull his sister's quilt over, ready for a good sleep, when someone shouted "Mom."

Lu Cheng sprang up, because it was his sister‑in‑law Yan Baoyue's voice.

"Mom, I'm here to see you."

"Oh, it's Yue Yue, come inside quickly, Qing'er, miss grandma yet? Yue Yue, this must be my little grandson…"

Chen Xianglan, so excited, didn't know where to put her hands.

"Yes, Mom, just now on the train we were making a scene, now we're asleep, Xiao Hui, wake up, we've arrived home, let's see Grandma…"

"Oh, no need to shout, no need to shout, come into the house, lie on the bed first, come Qing'er, Grandma's hug, oh dear, Grandma's good granddaughter, Grandma misses you."

"Sister‑in‑law." Lu Cheng flung the door open, and when he saw that indeed his big brother had come with his sister‑in‑law's family, he got overjoyed.

"Lu Cheng, why did you just get up?" Yan Baoyue asked with a smile; the baby in her arms was also taken back by Chen Xianglan, who was thrilled.

Lu Cheng rushed forward, grabbed Yan Baoyue's hand: "Sister‑in‑law, you returned just in time; if you were any later, you wouldn't have seen me."

Yan Baoyue pursed a smile: "I just heard your sister was going to beat you."

Lu Ying, while teasing the baby's cheek with a finger, said disdainfully: "Sister‑in‑law, ignore him; he just needs a beating, and today he lost the bicycle again… Oh, so cute, Mom, let me hold him."

Yan Baoyue laughed: "How could you lose the bicycle?"

"It's fine, sister‑in‑law, I filed a report; it should be recoverable."

Lu Ying retorted: "You still have the nerve to file a report?"

"Sister, you're supposed to be an aunt, watch your attitude, set a good example for the two kids as an aunt."

Lu Ying rolled her eyes: "I'll spare you for today; wait, after the New Year I'll settle the score."

Watching the siblings bicker, Yan Baoyue couldn't help but laugh.

"Alright, you two, every day it's either fighting or bickering, making your sister‑in‑law a laughingstock," Chen Xianglan scolded, then greeted her daughter‑in‑law with a smile.

"Yue Yue, come sit by the stove, it's warm here; you must've been freezing on the way… Lu Cheng, why are you still standing? Quickly pour tea for your sister‑in‑law."

"It's fine, Mom, I'm not thirsty; you don't need to hustle, I'll go help Lu Feng get something."

"Oh, you sit still, don't move, let Lu Cheng go."

This is Yan Baoyue's first time visiting her in‑laws in the Capital City; although the countryside is not wealthy, her parents there still dug out their savings to buy many things to bring.

Lu Cheng stepped out of the courtyard gate and saw his big brother unloading large and small packages from a Tricycle.

"Big Brother, you didn't send a telegram in advance, so I couldn't come to pick you up."

"It's Lu Cheng, huh? No need, why spend that money? You're all pretty busy, so just got a three‑wheeler at the station and came over."

"Let me, big brother. Why buy such things? We have everything at home, we don't lack anything."

"Your sister‑in‑law asked me to buy it…"

"Ah, my mother! How are the houses here so good?"

"Exactly. You could say this is the Capital City; it's far better than our mud houses."

Hearing a sudden gasp, Lu Cheng looked toward the Da Za Yuan beside them; at its entrance stood two women dressed in country style, marveling at the rows of Siheyuan.

Lu Feng quickly explained: "These are your sister‑in‑law's elder sister and Er Jie. Didn't we bring Xiao Hui and Qing'er together? The journey is long, and we were worried we couldn't look after them on the road, and her two sisters wanted to see the Capital City, so they came along together."

If it weren't for that letter from Lu Cheng, which mentioned the divorce, Mom and Dad would have gotten upset, and this year would have been hard to get through; Lu Feng truly hadn't wanted to bring the whole family here.

First of all, with so many people, it's not just about how much rice we eat; even where we stay at night is a problem.