The old woman cried tears of joy. She instantly put her hands together and bowed. "I'll certainly be back to thank you," she said and staggered away.
Ling stood in the hall and exclaimed, "There's… There's really a Kau Chim stick!"
That young boy looked deeply at Jiang Huailu.
"Hey, pudgy, what's your name?" The young boy looked at that pudgy girl. She was really short, like a ball.
"You're pudgy. Your whole family is pudgy. Your wife will be pudgy. Your kids will also be pudgy!" Jiang Huailu was enraged and her face turned red. She immediately climbed up and stood on the chair as she shouted and made threatening gestures.
What made her more frustrated was that, damn, she was still half a head shorter even if she was standing on the stone chair.
"Aren't you called pudgy?" The young boy glanced at her.
Jiang Huailu gritted her teeth. How rude!
"Aren't you going to tell people your name when you ask them theirs?" Jiang Huailu was so furious her face flushed. That chubby little face looked even cuter. The young boy inexplicably felt his palms tickling and he gently clenched his fists.
She asked his name?
Nobody in the world dared to ask his name.
"We'll say our names together." Jiang Huailu saw that he didn't look so friendly, so she immediately acted like she wouldn't tell him her name if he didn't tell her his.
The young boy smiled in disdain. That was childish.
Even those Generals, who had command over a large number of soldiers, were scared to death when they saw him and those powerful court officials were also like mice seeing a cat.
"I'm Lu…"
"I'm Lulu…"
Both of them spoke at the same time.
Then, they paused for a while.
The young boy was also startled. He had never thought their names would have the same pronunciation. He then said, "I'm Lu Jiang."
Jiang Huailu's eyes rolled. "I'm Jiang Lu."
The young boy snickered as he lowered his gaze, so nobody could see his expression.
"It's fate. When your name is reversed, it'll become my name," Jiang Huailu yelled as she pretended to be surprised. Ah, she didn't say the word "Huai" and it became so similar to the name of this douchebag. Hm!
Lu Jiang smiled. You and I weren't meant to be. Luckily, I said one word less.
They weren't destined to meet.
The two of them were only smiling on the outside.
As they spoke, a ray of sunshine rose from the horizon, breaking through the dark and bringing light.
Sunlight shone.
Jiang Huailu seemed to have sensed something. "I need to go back. My mother is calling me." After that, she immediately disappeared.
There was no trace of her at all, as if she had vanished.
After she was gone, Lu Jiang's face darkened.
"How dare you think about trapping me here!" He then walked towards the door of the hall.
…
When Jiang Huailu opened her eyes, rays of sunshine shone through the window. The sun was blinding, so she rubbed her eyes with her hands.
Once she lifted her hands, that big apple instantly rolled onto the ground.
Xiao Huailu immediately hid under her blanket and her eyes were full of astonishment.
She could bring something out of her dream?
Then, it wasn't a dream?
What about the young boy called Lu Jiang?
"You little lazybones, why are you still sleeping? I've already made you breakfast. Quick, your brother brought it here for you." Jiang Huaian entered the room with a bowl of hot porridge.
There were even a few pieces of chicken at the bottom of the bowl.
"Auntie is lying in and grandma is too old to work in the kitchen, so mother is doing everything now. Let me help you put on your clothes." There was a bit of anger in Jiang Huaian's eyes.
His mother was the daughter of a noble family, so she had never done any chores in her entire life.
And now, she was responsible for everything, including the clothes of the whole family and the food they ate.
Today, his grandmother went to kill a chicken, but left nothing for his mother.
She only let the men in the family have some soup. With her new grandson alive right now, he seemed to be left out as well, even though he was her first grandson.
Jiang Huaian guessed that the old lady still treated him fairly in the past probably because he was her eldest grandson.
And now, their relationship became worse because of his sister, so the old lady even showed her bias towards his uncle more openly.
"Eat it quickly. Something seems to have happened to Lady Zhu from next door. The neighbors are going there to help. I'll take you there to have a look later."
Jiang Huailu's eyes brightened.
That old woman she saw last night lived next door to her!