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n” Of course, I am Mai, sister what are you talking about? If it’s not me then who will it be?” responded Yu Mai as he raised his head causing Yu Dong’s head to swoon.

nIt wasn’t that she was overreacting, but the condition in which Yu Mai has returned home was indeed swoon-worthy —— the boy seemed to have gone to the shallow pond that was filled with mud after the rain from last week and while the pond wasn’t dangerous for little kids to play in, it was indeed a nightmare for the parents because their kids returned home while dripping with mud like Yu Mai was. Not only was his clothes soaked with dirty mud, but his face, hair and maybe even his teeth also seemed to have been coated with mud.

nHonestly, this was the last thing she wanted to deal with after coming back home from work.

n” You naughty boy,” she pinched the back of Yu Mai’s collar and picked him up from the floor as if he was a wet little kitten. ” Just because your second brother-in-law is not here to rein you, you are running around as you please huh? Don’t think that I will not complain to your second brother-in-law about what you have been up to just because he isn’t here, just wait till he returns, I am going to tell all your legendary acts just you wait.”

n” No, don’t sister!” Yu Mai was the most scared of Ye Liu in the house when it came to dirtying one’s clothes, since Ye Liu was in charge of washing the dirty laundry, he will get really upset when he saw clothes that were dirtied while playing. One time when Yu Mai went to play with his friends and returned with mud sticking to his clothes Ye Liu specially cooked bitter capsicum for him to eat and kept cooking it until Yu Mai swore that he wouldn’t do it again. But now that Ye Liu was gone the one who was in charge of washing the clothes was Yu Dong, at first Yu Mai was very careful about not dirtying his clothes but when he saw that his sister wasn’t saying anything he got more and more bold and started to play around without any care in the world because he was sure that he would not be punished by his sister but now it looks like he seemed to have crossed the line.

nYu Mai indeed crossed the line, Yu Dong didn’t say anything because she knew that the kids were bored out of their minds because no one was in the house to play with them and that was why she was willing to slide Yu Mai’s new habits of coming back home with dirty clothes but tonight he really crossed the line. Does he have any idea how long will it take for her to clean this gooey mess that’s sticking to his clothes? It will nearly break her fingers before she would be able to get rid of this gunk!

n” Why not? You don’t seem to care about what sister has to say anyway—— didn’t I tell you not to dirty your clothes and not go to play with the kids in the shallow pond? It might not be dangerous but what if you get stuck in it? Does it really feels so good while throwing with mud balls?” Yu Dong shook Yu Mai and watched as a pile of mud fell from his clothes, her eyes started to twitch at the sight of the amount of mud and then she shook her head as she put Yu Mai down. ” Now we will only have dinner when you are done cleaning yourself, if you don’t wash your clothes clean then there will be no dinner for you.”

n” W..What?” For Yu Mai food was equivalent to breathing and his sister punishing him by revoking his dinner was similar to asking him to stop breathing. ” Why? I did not do it deliberately, everyone was playing in the mud as well, I wasn’t the only one who got dirty, my friends were dirtier than me!”

n” Really?” said Yu Dong

n” Really,” affirmed Yu Mai with a serious expression.

nYu Dong smiled as she picked Yu Mai from the back of his shirt and then took him out of the house, Fang Chi who was cutting the cabbage looked at the siblings but didn’t say anything, he already knew that Yu Dong was going to be pissed the second he got the first glimpse of Yu Mai, so he returned his gaze back to the cabbage and continued with his work.

nOnce Yu Dong and Yu Mai were out in the courtyard, they could hear the loud cries of children and their daddies shouting at them for getting their clothes dirty. Yu Dong opened the door and pointed at their neighbour’s house as she said, ” Look there, Mai.”

nThe neighbour’s daughter was friends with Yu Mai and Lang Ru, thus, she would often come to take Yu Mai to play with her every time she went out of the house, today as well, she came to the Yu house, enjoyed a couple of strawberries and then took Yu Mai out to play. If Yu Dong wasn’t wrong this little girl was the ring leader of all the kids in the village and every kid followed her order.

nBut even the most daring man has his own bane.

nFor this neighbour’s daughter, her bane was her daddy who would play her like a band every time she made a mistake and tonight, her mistake was the most fatal one because she was being chased around the house’s courtyard by a thick wooden rod.

n”So what will be it? Do you want to get beaten by hand, shoes, roller or that thick rod? You can make your choice, I am listening,” said Yu Dong generously as she gave out the options to her brother.

nYu Mai: “…..” No, thanks I will wash my clothes.

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