He Turns Out To Be My Brother-In-Law
"AHHHHHHH!!!!"
Xiao Yue screamed when she discovered the originally snow-white puppy, all dirty from mud in the middle of her little farm. She ran right into the mud and chased after the puppy. Frightened, it yowled and ran out, crying all the way for its master.
"DON'T RUN, YOU!!! HOW DARE YOU DESTROY MY PLANTS!!!"
Xiao Yue swiftly went on a chase. She kept her gaze down, eyes like those of a hunter aiming for his prey. Because she did not pay full attention to her surrounding, she ended up bumping into someone while trying to snatch the tiny animal. A pair of hands grabbed her shoulders to stop her from falling down.
"Wahh, Big Sister, you look a lot healthier now!"
Xiao Yue looked up to that grinning handsome face, and she instantly decidedly ignored him. She had to hunt that naughty dog!
The puppy whined and hid between the folds of the young man's robe. He laughed and picked it up before Xiao Yue could grab it.
"Why is Big Sister so fierce? It is just a small dog."
Xiao Yue barked, "Is it yours??? Very well, you better compensate me for all the precious herbs that it destroyed!!!"
"Will two hundred gold coins do it?"
Xiao Yue fumed. Two hundred gold coins were enough but it still could not return her farm to its original state. Xiao Yue opened her mouth, about to ask for more.
"Third Madam! Third Madam, wait for us!!!"
Behind Xiao Yue, the poor maids finally managed to catch up with their mistress. As soon as they sighted the young man in front of Xiao Yue, they gasped and immediately bowed.
"Greetings to Second Young Master!"
"…"
It turned out that the impolite brat that she chastised by the lake back then was none other than Long Zhao Xue's younger brother.
Xiao Yue was not sure how to address this brother-in-law.
The young man chuckled.
He put his puppy back on the ground and cupped his hands in front of Xiao Yue in respect.
"Greetings, Sister-in-law."
The Long family ancestry line was known to produce generations of proficient military adept descendants. The fathers passed their skills to their sons, their sons to their grandsons, and so on.
Every generation additionally made contributions by writing down their war experiences, thus enriching the capability of later generations even more. Long Zhao Xue's father had two sons with ten years of age difference between them.
Long Zhao Xue being the elder and Long Zhao Feng being the younger. Both were trained in military skills and knowledge. After Long Zhao Xue's father passed away, the general position was handed to his eldest son without any objection.
At that time, Long Zhao Xue was only twenty-five years old. Not only did he have to follow in the footsteps of his father, he was also responsible to take care of his only brother, who was only fifteen at that time.
The success on the battlefield as well as in his private life was what made Long Zhao Xue considered accomplished. Long Zhao Feng was the brother who Xiao Yue ran into for the second time since she was revived.
The arrogant, snotty brat with an eternally mocking expression on his otherwise handsome face. This brat just off-handedly reduced her painstakingly-managed garden to a mere sum of two hundred gold coins.
"Two hundred gold coins are not enough to compensate for all my efforts to build the garden!" Xiao Yur announced, turning her nose up for once.
Long Zhao Feng raised an eyebrow. Still cuddling the puppy to his chest, he then asked, "So what does Sister-In-Law want to compensate for her loss?"
Xiao Yue's lips curled up in a smile. She knew that she would need some martial art skills when she one day came against Long Zhao Xue. Who better to teach her this other than his own little brother, the one who received the same amount of education in the Long family?
"I want you to teach me some martial art."
Everyone, including her own maids gaped at her. Yu Fen quickly objected.
"Young Lady, this... martial art is not something that you should learn."
Xiao Yue knew what Yu Fen wanted her to do : just continue doing the womanly things she had been doing and everything would be fine. Xiao Yue shook her head stubbornly.
"You have to teach me." she emphasized, nodding at Long Zhao Feng.
Despite the initial surprise, he quickly recovered from this absurd request.
"Alright," he answered with a broad smile. "I will teach Sister-In-Law some martial arts."
They thus agreed that whenever Long Zhao Feng had time, he would come by to teach her. This did not happen immediately. The next time he came, he did not come to teach her. After Long Zhao Feng paid the two hundred gold coins, he seemed to think that he partially owned the little garden in front of Xiao Yue's manor. He made changes to the arrangement of the plants as per the latest Feng Shui practice, and drove Xiao Yue's blood pressure when she found out.
"You CANNOT put these two plants together!" she screamed one day, out of patience.
Long Zhao Feng made an irritated face at her.
"Why not? Look, according to the sector element..."
"I don't care about all that!" Xiao Yue snapped. These two have opposite nature! One is of fire element and the other one is of water element! If they grow together, they will affect each other severely!"