Li's mother had her own ideas, "With Minmin helping you, I can go to work."
"Is your body really up to it?"
Because of Li Min's 'injury,' she couldn't be sent to work yet, and her mother-in-law's enthusiasm couldn't be dampened.
"I'm fine. If I'm not, I won't push myself. My health is most important, and I still want to hold my grandchild."
"Cough, cough, cough." Tian Jing choked on her saliva, prompted by the sudden, indirect mention of grandchildren.
Before she was with Li Zhengguo, it didn't matter. Now, she and Li Zhengguo wished they could be together every moment. Being prompted again felt rather delicate.
As soon as she entered the yard, she heard Tian Jing's sweet coughing. Li Zhengguo rushed into the kitchen and patted Tian Jing's back, "What's wrong?"
She coughed a few times and was fine, but her man's concern for her, under her mother-in-law's teasing gaze, made Tian Jing, who considered herself thick-skinned, blush. "I'm fine."
"Really fine?" Li Zhengguo was still worried.
Li's mother quietly withdrew. The better her son and daughter-in-law's relationship, the sooner she'd hold her grandchild.
"I'm fine, I just choked on my own saliva." With her mother-in-law not around, Tian Jing became more at ease.
Li Zhengguo indulgently pinched her earlobe, "Such a little dummy."
Tian Jing was displeased, "I was startled by mother-in-law mentioning grandchildren."
Li Zhengguo bent down and kissed her pouting lips, "We will have them in the future. My mother is too anxious, I'll talk to her."
"Don't say anything, it's better to have hope. Don't shatter her hope. I, I..."
"If you have something to say, just say it." Li Zhengguo squatted in front of her, helping to sort out wild vegetables.
"I, I want to wait until I've avenged her before having a baby, okay?"
Li Zhengguo looked up in surprise, threw down the wild vegetables, and hugged her excitedly, "Tiantian, whenever you're willing, we can have one."
His Tiantian thought about their baby, wanting to spend a long life with him. He was happy.
Listening to his pounding heart, Tian Jing grumbled inwardly that this man was being silly again, making her heart ache.
"Zheng-ge, I just can't bear for the baby to suffer and be looked down upon. If we leave them, I'll miss them too."
Li Zhengguo let go of her, lifted her chin, and kissed her lips forcefully, "I said, any time is fine, you don't need to feel guilty."
"I don't want my mother-in-law to worry too much. You, you'll be thirty by then."
Li Zhengguo was stunned for a moment, then suddenly stood up and pulled her, "Come on, let's discuss it in the room."
Entering the main hall, Li Zhengguo called out to the east room, "Mom, Tiantian and I have something to discuss."
"Alright, I'll start cooking," Li's mother replied.
Closing the bedroom door, Li Zhengguo kissed his Tiantian.
After a long while, he carried her to the kang and sat beside her, "Tiantian, do you remember which year family planning was fully implemented?"
Tian Jing: "..." She had forgotten about family planning.
"Was it around the time she left?"
"At that time, it had already been integrated into national policy. If you want one, we won't be in a hurry. If you want more, then, then..."
Li Zhengguo felt a little embarrassed. Although he and Tiantian had confessed their feelings and were currently in a romantic relationship, they hadn't reached the stage of being husband and wife yet, and he was getting sidetracked.
"Pfft," Tian Jing couldn't help but laugh. This man was actually making himself shy.
"Tiantian~"
Li Zhengguo was sidetracked again. His Tiantian was beautiful and adorable, he couldn't help himself.
He kissed her again, and Tian Jing kissed him back.
Li Zhengguo felt his self-control weakening.
"Zheng-ge, let me think about it again." Tian Jing leaned into Li Zhengguo's embrace. She was too selfish.
"Hmm, think slowly. There are still five years."
Tian Jing lightly hit him. Reminding her of the time, was it to make her think slowly?
Li Zhengguo grabbed her hand and kissed it, "I mean, we can still have at least two."
"Then how many do you want?"
"Ours, we can have as many as we want."
Tian Jing could tell that he really liked children, liking them more the more there were.
"Big brother, sister-in-law, it's time to eat."
Outside, Li Min called them to eat. The two of them left the room.
In the afternoon, Li Zhengguo was busy repairing buckets, while Tian Jing sped up knitting a sweater.
In the evening, under the dark and windy sky, the two of them had to act like thieves to transport cement.
Using the same woven mesh bags, the two of them made many trips.
In the middle of the night, Li Min woke up to check and was held back by her mother. When she woke up the next morning, she found the cement pile in the main hall gone and almost cried.
Li's mother grabbed her ear and whispered a warning, "Your brother and sister-in-law took it away, don't make a fuss."
Li Min's tears turned into a smile, "Mom stopped me from checking, did you know?"
"Of course. With your sister-in-law's strength, do you think a thief could have gotten in? Use your brain."
Thinking that her sister-in-law wanted twice the amount of cement for the floor, Li Min understood. Her brother and sister-in-law had brought it into the mountains. She wondered what they were tinkering with in the mountains.
In the morning, Tian Jing and Li Zhengguo continued with their tasks, and another hundred bags of cement arrived.
Tian Jing instructed the delivery person, "Go back and tell Ouyang Lei to give me more bricks for the side walls of the plastic sheds."
Over the next three days, not only cement, bricks, and tiles were delivered, but Ouyang Lei also brought two hundred baskets of sand.
The sand was piled in the yard, the cement was still moved into the main hall, and the bricks and tiles were piled on the three mu of land outside the yard.
Tian Jing secretly planted optimized kudzu seeds under the pile of bricks and tiles, and coiled the kudzu's growth-stimulating disk around the pile, making it look like dry ropes binding the pile.
Although she was the only one in the village with red bricks and blue tiles, it didn't mean there weren't people who wanted to steal a few bricks. She didn't want to make a big fuss about catching a thief over a few bricks, she just wanted to catch them.
Within these three days, Li Zhengguo's sweater was finished. After wearing it, he gave his Tiantian a kiss to express his gratitude.
"Don't knit the trousers for now, let's go to Qingshanyan?"
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The two of them went into the mountains again. Li's mother attended the village meeting.
The Chen family also didn't compete for the plastic sheeting, so Grandpa Chen went to the meeting, and Chen Suozhu came to the Li family to accompany Li Min in guarding the bricks and tiles.
Xiao Song hadn't seen Tian Jing for several days. When Tian Jing went into the mountains, it complained that Tian Jing had forgotten it.
Tian Jing comforted it with a chat, then busied herself with helping to mix cement mortar.
The sand was, of course, secretly brought in, and the soil was sourced locally.
Although Li Zhengguo hated to let Tiantian help, in this weather, even mixing cement by the hot spring would freeze quickly. He could only let Tiantian help mix small amounts while he worked quickly.
The g-shaped wall of the ten-plus square meter hot spring pool, with a circumference of only about twenty square meters, was completed in one day with Tian Jing's help.
"Tiantian, tomorrow, you can bring clothes to bathe."
"Mm." Tian Jing excitedly looked inside the wall, "We still need to make two wide benches, use a shovel to dig, and make a small corner cabinet for toiletries."
"Okay." Li Zhengguo agreed to everything.
Of course, the task of making these small items was assigned to Chen Suozhu.
The walls of the three hot spring pools were all built, and Chen Suozhu's small items were also made.
Tian Jing planted wild roses around her hot spring pool, which she had optimized and modified into climbing roses.
"Zheng-ge."
"Hmm?"
"Do you think we should let these roses climb up the three rooms of our house?"