"Going into the mountains to play?"
Li Min immediately tugged at her sister-in-law, "Sister-in-law, I'm going too, just twice!"
Li Zhengguo couldn't pull his sister away. She was holding Tiantian's arm too tightly, afraid she might hurt Tiantian.
"You stay home and watch the child."
Li Min refused, "Let's take them in together."
Tian Jing saw the children's expectant eyes and couldn't help but nod, "Okay."
"Yay!" Li Min jumped.
"Yay."
"Yay."
"Yay."
The three children jumped along.
Only Li Weihao worriedly held his mother's hand, "Mom, can you manage all of us?"
Tian Jing nodded, "Yes, tell your dad to carry you in baskets."
Li Weihao finally smiled, "We're going to get clothes, Auntie said we can bathe."
Li Zhengguo glared at his sister, telling the children everything.
Li Min shrunk her neck. Her eldest nephew was as mischievous as his uncle.
Even if her mother-in-law stayed to watch the house, it would take two trips, so Tian Jing decided to bring her mother-in-law along. Didn't four children need supervision?
Ouyang Meihua came to the Li family with Le Xia and found the door locked. Her eyes flickered, she coaxed Le Xia back, and then used her internal energy to run to the back mountain.
After a long time in the back mountain, she saw Li Zhengguo carrying baskets. She breathed a sigh of relief, hid to the side, and waited for an opportunity. This time, she was determined to go in.
But the hand that wanted to grab the basket rope was blocked by something.
Tian Jing turned around in surprise, "Sister-in-law?"
Ouyang Meihua continued to reach out, "Great Hero Tian, what is this? Why is my hand being blocked?"
Tian Jing immediately retracted her energy shield. "Aren't there little children here? I was afraid they'd catch a cold from the mountain wind, so I expanded my internal energy to form a net to protect them. How did you get here so coincidentally?"
"I came to catch you in the act. I'm going too."
Tian Jing looked at Li Zhengguo.
Li Zhengguo wanted to kick her, but he couldn't beat her. Going home was impossible, as they had already made one trip.
"You can go, but you must keep your mouth shut."
Ouyang Meihua smiled, "Don't worry, I won't even tell Li Liguo."
Having witnessed Great Hero Tian's speed, Ouyang Meihua finally understood the gap between herself and Great Hero Tian.
It was just that Great Hero Tian preferred to tread on treetops instead of sturdier, easier-to-step-on rocks.
Seeing Eagle Beak Mountain, Ouyang Meihua was incredibly excited, "Is this the Eagle Beak mentioned in the legends of Kuxian Mountain?"
No one paid her any attention.
Upon landing in the hot spring valley, Tian Jing released her, "Bringing you is too tiring, why are you exerting yourself so much?"
"I wanted to make myself lighter to save you some effort!"
"You're being presumptuous. I told you our internal energy paths are different. It's easy for me to bring them, but bringing you is like carrying a mountain."
Li Zhengguo felt sorry for his wife, "Let her go back on her own when we go down the mountain."
Before Ouyang Meihua could answer, Li Weiyan, who had enjoyed the flight, answered for his mother, "Okay, okay, let Mom take you down herself. And you still dare to follow people secretly? If Auntie hadn't brought you, could you have flown up? Hmph!"
Ouyang Meihua glared, "You brat, are you looking for a beating?"
"Hmph! When you taught me, what did you say? There are big wolves in the back mountain, you can't sneak up there casually. What about you?"
"Whose child is this? They must have swapped them."
"As soon as I get the better of you, you say that."
Tian Jing pulled back her excitable nephew, "Sister-in-law, you need to be consistent in your words and actions. Otherwise, you'll lose your authority in front of the children, just like you dislike your own father. Change, don't pass on the same things you disliked since you were young to the children."
"Alright, alright, my son is almost like yours."
"Who told you you lack patience to discipline him?"
Mother Li and Li Min heard the commotion and came over. Seeing the extra Ouyang Meihua, their expressions became peculiar.
Mother Li was worried that one more person knowing meant more danger.
Li Min was happy that someone was there to discuss the beautiful scenery with her, "Sister-in-law, let me take you to see the peonies. They are large and beautiful, and their blooming period is long."
Ouyang Meihua: "..." Long blooming period?
Did she think she had never seen peonies before?
But when she saw the large, blooming peonies, she understood that these peonies must have been cultivated by Tian Jing.
Soaking in the hot springs, admiring peonies, and then nibbling on tart green apples out of season. What a great pleasure in life!
Ouyang Meihua looked at the green apple in her hand. Out of season? Wasn't it just that the temperature in the hot spring area was high, causing early blooming and fruiting?
But could it really be three or four months early?
"Tian Jing."
"Hmm?"
"Why don't you plant watermelons in winter?"
"In the north, only vegetables can be grown out of season in winter. Fruits are eaten cold. Would you want to sit on a heated brick bed and eat watermelon?"
Uh oh~
Ouyang Meihua was choked, unconvinced, "Then why don't you make the watermelons ripen this season?"
"Good idea. Next spring, I'll plant watermelons in the greenhouse and move the vegetables to the next season."
"No, no, Junior Brother said that several paths rely on your out-of-season vegetables to sustain them."
"Then why are you encouraging me?"
"Forget it, I never said anything."
Tian Jing felt a bit suffocated and got out of the hot spring pool, perhaps having soaked for too long.
Li Zhengguo, who was soaking in a separate pool, also came out, "Tiantian, let's go to Green Pine Rock."
"Okay." Before she could hear Little Pine's nagging, Little Pine would be displeased again.
The couple were romantically enjoying themselves on Green Pine Rock when they suddenly heard a loud commotion below.
Li Weiguo looked down and saw Little Black leading a pack of wolves attacking Ouyang Meihua.
He wouldn't intervene. This woman hadn't experienced Tiantian's pressure yet and didn't fear her. Like Ouyang Lei before, she deserved to suffer a bit.
Little Black not only ate exotic vegetables from a young age but also drank half a teacup of core essence and had been subjected to Tiantian's powers. Its size and agility were beyond those of ordinary wolf kings.
In combat, he had never defeated Little Black.
He had even seen Little Black easily defeat a wild boar weighing several hundred pounds. He suspected that Little Black wouldn't fear a bear either.
The battle quickly turned from a siege to a one-on-one fight between Little Black and Ouyang Meihua.
Ouyang Meihua had been dodging the wolf pack with her internal energy for a long time. Now, facing the fierce Little Black, she was beginning to run out of steam.
Mother Li was very worried, "Little Black, stop quickly."
Little Black? The wolf cub that Great Hero Tian had raised before?
Realizing discretion was the better part of valor, Ouyang Meihua quickly waved her hand, "Let's call a truce."
"Awooo." Little Black growled at her unhappily.
Tian Jing and Li Zhengguo 'slid' down Green Pine Rock, "How did you provoke it?"
Ouyang Meihua scratched her head, "I knocked one down."
Tian Jing looked at the one lying on the ground, surrounded by wolves, "Is it dead?"
"No, I saw them run quickly over the wall, and I thought they were wild wolves, so..."
When Tian Jing wanted to check on the wolf, Little Black wouldn't allow it.
She had no choice but to appease Little Black first, "This is Ouyang Meihua. She meant no harm. After all, she's looking after two adults and four children. Please forgive her this time, and forgive me too, okay?"
Little Black wagged its tail.
Only then did Tian Jing go to check on the wolf. The wolf was already spitting blood from its mouth. "Zheng Ge, hold this wolf. I'll take you up."
"Okay."
Little Pine was injured again, whimpering in pain, "Little Black should have just bitten that woman to death. Too impulsive, too violent."