Chapter 65 Summer Tomb Sweeping
Chapter 65 Summer Tomb Sweeping
Two siblings stand before their mother's grave during a summer tomb-sweeping day.
The younger sister was burning paper money, and the older brother pretended for a while before standing next to her, surveying the layout of the cemetery.
It was only a month ago that Lu Ren earned enough money to arrange this burial plot for his mother.
Lu Youhe burned paper money, while Lu Ren brought his mother's favorite food, green grapes. His mother loved eating green grapes. Suddenly, he thought of green grapes, and some images came to mind. It was probably when he was in his mother's arms that the woman peeled the green grapes and put them to his mouth.
But he couldn't quite remember his mother's face. He looked at the photo on the grave, and the blurry memory became clearer. When he saw his mother's photo again, he thought, "Oh, this is what a woman looks like." He had no other thoughts, and surprisingly, he wasn't very sad. Was he being a little heartless?
"Cough, cough, cough!" Lu Youhe choked on the smoke and turned around to yell at him, "Lu Ren! Come over and burn some paper money too! What are you just standing there for?"
Lu Youhe felt it was unfair that he had done the work while his brother hadn't.
Lu Youhe was never a well-behaved little sister. When they were little, they would argue and fight over who did more or less work, who ate more or less.
Especially during the transition from elementary to junior high school, because boys and girls develop at different times, Lu Ren was not even as tall as Lu Youhe, and he had never beaten her.
As a result, Lu Youhe's height stopped growing and remained at 160cm, while Lu Renzhe jumped to 182cm, thus establishing her status in the family. Not to mention that she has shrunk to 140cm now, haha!
Lu Ren objected: "I just had a fever."
"You only burned a little bit, I burned all of these."
"You've almost finished burning it, why don't you just keep burning it?"
"Huh?! You've been standing there staring for ages! Look at my face, it's covered in smoke."
"Well, since your face is already blackened, just keep burning it. It's better for one person's face to be blackened than for both of us to be blackened."
"Lu Ren!"
"What? You want to fight?"
"Holy crap—!!"
The two siblings actually started fighting in front of the grave.
Lu Youhe pulled his face, so Lu Ren pulled his hair.
After a fierce struggle, Lu Ren, with his stronger physique, trampled Lu Youhe underfoot.
Lu Youhe could only squat there, feeling wronged, and continue burning paper money. He whispered to his mother that she should only bless her from now on, and not his brother.
"Thump—"
Lu Ren casually punched her on the head. Lu Youhe had two large tears hanging from the corners of her eyes. While wiping away her tears, she asked her mother to also bless her brother.
"Waaah... Mom, since you're not here, Lu Ren bullies me every day..."
"He even bought rat poison; he wanted to poison me, boohoo..."
"You must appear in his dream tonight and give his brother a piece of your mind."
The little girl cried and said a lot more. Lu Ren thought to himself that he hadn't hit her that hard. He couldn't help but sigh. Girls really aren't strong enough. He was almost beaten to death yesterday and didn't shed a single tear.
It was cloudy all day. As soon as they finished burning the paper money, it started to drizzle.
The little girl brought an umbrella, but Lu Ren didn't. So Lu Youhe ran off alone with the umbrella, and even mocked him.
"Ha! Everyone said it was going to rain today, and you wouldn't bring it when I told you to!"
Lu Ren chuckled and shook his head, then took two steps forward and snatched her umbrella.
"You knew it was going to rain, so why didn't you bring me one?"
"Lu Ren, give it back to me! Cover me up... If you run away again, I'm really going to get angry!"
"I'll cover you if you catch up."
"Lu Ren!"
Lu Youhe chased after the rain for a while, then stopped seeking shelter and suddenly squatted down on the ground, covering his head.
"Hey, crying again?"
He turned back, squatted down, and bent over, trying to look up at her face.
As a result, the girl took advantage of his approach and quickly got up to snatch his umbrella.
But she couldn't react as quickly as him; Lu Ren grabbed the umbrella and ran away again.
"Brother, I was just kidding! Brother!"
Cover me up!
"Ughh ...
Lu Youhe covered his head and chased after them frantically in the rain.
"Lu Ren, you're so annoying!!"
Lu Ren ran all the way to the outside of the cemetery, where a luxury car worth more than eight million yuan was parked.
Today was a rest day with no training. Jiang Yueying had promised yesterday to go to the mall with them, so the person who came to pick them up wasn't from the Shen family, but rather Jiang Yueying's family driver.
"Yu, Yuhe, why are you so wet?!"
"Waaaa, Xiaoying, Lu Ren bullied me..."
"Let me wipe it off first, and I'll help you get rid of the moisture."
Inside the car, Jiang Yueying found a towel and handed it to Lu Youhe to wipe her down. Then she used her water element to dispel the water from her body. This ability to manipulate elements without using any skills was the result of their learning over the past period.
However, as a fire mage, her control over water elements was somewhat lacking, and she could only dispel about 70-80% of them.
Lu Ren also helped to mobilize the water and fire elements to dry her clothes.
With high elemental affinity, you can manipulate wind, fire, water, and earth even without skills, but the power will inevitably be less than when using skills.
Lu Youhe glared at Lu Ren and said fiercely, "If you can control water, you didn't need an umbrella at all!"
"It's not that simple. Using elemental affinity to mobilize it takes time, and by then the rain will have already soaked you."
"Then, don't you have the Alchemy skill? With your Rule Affinity of over 60, can't you use the Alchemy skill to separate the rain?"
"The principle of mastering this technique is to act on objects, which requires me to accurately capture them. One or two raindrops are fine, but I can't stop a dense mass of them."
"Then, what about your psychic power? With a psychic power of over sixty, you should be able to block the rain, right?!"
"hey-hey."
"Heh heh? What... what do you mean?! You were doing this on purpose after all!"
"Hey?! You were probably about to swear just now? Lu Youhe, let me tell you, if you dare to swear in front of me..."
Lu Youhe was really angry this time, and even bit someone. It seems he was pushed to the limit.
"Are you a dog? You'd better open your mouth."
Lu Ren could use hardening to break the child's teeth, but he couldn't go too far in bullying his sister; he had to coax her occasionally.
He kept apologizing the whole way before he finally got her to relent.
When he got off the bus in the city center, Lu Ren sighed helplessly as he looked at the row of teeth marks on his arm.
Jiang Yueying didn't miss the chance to kick someone when they were down: "Who, who told you to bully Xiao Youhe again? You deserve it..."
"You have so many clothes! You never wear the same thing twice."
"Oh yeah, I was just thinking of saying that in the car, Xiaoying, your outfit is so cute!"
"Yes, my sister picked it out for me."
Although Jiang Yueying has a somewhat gloomy temperament, she is actually super cute. Her skin is the best among the girls, fair and smooth, so her face will turn red immediately when she is startled, which is amazing.
Today she was wearing a red, slightly Lolita-style dress, thick white stockings over her calves, and a pair of little shoes. She had her ever-present bag slung around her waist. She was so petite that you just wanted to pick her up and kiss her face.
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