When they arrived at the cafeteria, it was peak mealtime, the busiest period.
Zeng Jingrong had already claimed two tables and served his meal.
Li Weiyan saw his aunt arrive again and sat down with his food: "Aunt, did you come in to handle some matters?"
"Yes," Tian Jing nodded. "I'm done, and I'll be going back this afternoon."
Li Weiyan didn't believe his aunt for a second. He didn't pry further and gestured for Xiaoxiaohui to sit next to him.
Xiaoxiaohui turned its head and went to sit by Li Wanting.
Li Weiyan pointed at it: "When Ranran gets back, you'll be in trouble."
Xiaoxiaohui remained seated, unmoved.
Li Wanting went to get food, and Li Weihao followed to help.
Zeng Jingrong raised an eyebrow at Tian Jing: "What's going on with Haohao?"
"Guess."
"I guess something is going on."
Tian Jing nodded at him and then chatted with Ji Shiyi next to her: "Don't wait for him anymore in the future. Come and eat if you're hungry."
Ji Shiyi smiled: "I didn't wait for him. I ate at more than ten o'clock, and he asked me to come and eat with him again."
Tian Jing nodded: "Your appetite seems good. Are you throwing up?"
Ji Shiyi shook her head: "Just occasional sour water, but no vomiting."
Tian Jing praised her unborn baby for being considerate.
Ji Shiyi glanced at her husband and indicated she was worried it would be a girl.
"What's wrong with a girl?" Tian Jing glared at Zeng Jingrong and comforted Ji Shiyi, "He was destined to be a bachelor his whole life anyway."
"To have a beautiful wife and then a cute daughter would be reaching the pinnacle of life."
"Yes, yes, yes," Zeng Jingrong agreed, "As long as it's your child, I don't care if it's a boy or a girl. Don't always think about these random things."
Ji Shiyi gave him a chiding look: "I'm just worried you won't have anyone to carry on the family lineage, am I?"
Zeng Jingrong offered himself to comfort his wife: "I even planned to hand over the family registry to Tiantian, but she trapped me with a verbal trick, and I fell right into the pit she dug."
"So, you can give birth to anything, and it will be able to carry on the family lineage."
Li Weiyan heard this and laughed heartily: "Haha, anything will do? Sister Shi, give him a bird's egg."
With that, he picked up his bowl and ran.
"Bang!" But a stream of water doused him from behind.
He turned around and glared at Zeng Jingrong: "Captain, you're leading the charge in breaking the rules."
Zeng Jingrong calmly looked at the furious Li Weiyan: "I'm the boss here, I make the rules. If you speak out of turn, you deserve punishment."
Li Weiyan, holding his food, sat back down: "Hmph! I'll work hard to take your captain position. Then I'll break the rules every day against you."
Zeng Jingrong provocatively said "You're welcome to try" to anger him.
Li Weihao, after settling Ji Qing and Ji Xiang, sat back at the table: "Li Weiyan, don't you feel redundant?"
"No," Li Weiyan shook his head at Li Weihao, who was sitting at the table next to them. "You are the redundant one. You should be training Xiaoxiaohui to eat on the floor."
Li Weihao picked up his bowl and gestured for his mother to eat, ignoring his cousin who was calmly eating despite being soaked.
After eating, Zeng Jingrong took his wife back to the administrative building and then returned to ask Tian Jing to help him find the reason for his slow cultivation.
Tian Jing took him to the large lake in the hot spring valley.
She explained the principle of exchanging energy with plants: "Try to fuse and exchange energy with the water here first."
"If it works, I suggest you go to the river or sea to cultivate."
Zeng Jingrong nodded repeatedly. He had tried cultivating in rivers and seas but had never tried to fuse or exchange energy with the river or sea water.
Seeing that he understood, Tian Jing left him and went down the mountain.
After all, Zeng Jingliang was not far away in the hot spring valley, so he wouldn't starve.
...
Li Zhengguo received a text message from his wife and took another half-day off to stew meat at home to nourish her.
As Tian Jing entered the inner courtyard, she smelled the aroma of meat from the kitchen.
Her feet turned towards the kitchen.
Seeing the man in the kitchen concentrating on stewing meat, Tian Jing, who had just gone through a unique heart-training experience, felt a surge of emotion.
Li Zhengguo suddenly turned his head and smiled at Tian Jing at the doorway: "Wife, come in quickly."
Tian Jing walked to his side, looked up at him: "Town Mayor Li is becoming more virtuous, and the aroma of this stewed meat is more and more like mother's."
Li Zhengguo didn't mind being teased and asked with concern: "Why did it take so long? Was there a problem?"
Tian Jing nodded, pulled her husband to sit on a small stool by the stove, and told him about her experience in detail.
Li Zhengguo hugged his wife, filled with trepidation: "Don't level up again in the future. This is enough."
"Heh heh," Tian Jing chuckled. "Even if I wanted to, I couldn't. Above level nine, no one knows what it is."
Li Zhengguo knew that his wife had unknowingly reached level six: "Mmm, let's just go with the flow."
The couple leaned together, stoking the fire and chatting about various trivial matters.
...
Kyoto.
For ordinary people, the past month had been ordinary.
However, for some insiders, it had been a turbulent month.
First, the identity of the Yu family's son-in-law was difficult to discuss.
Everyone knew that the Special Skills Team was directly under the higher leadership.
Few people knew the identities of the members of the Special Skills Team.
Except for Zeng Jingrong, the captain.
The main reason was that the members of the Special Skills Team were mostly recruited from the general public.
If their family members could join the Special Forces, it already represented great ability.
But the glory of the Special Skills Team was what they most yearned for.
Who wouldn't want their child to stand out under the top leaders?
However, special abilities were not something one could just have.
Now, the Yu family's son-in-law's identity was revealed, yet it couldn't be openly declared. They could only congratulate Yu Jinghai and encourage their own family members to get closer to the Yu family.
Secondly, the Shen family had invited Captain Tian from Kushan to help grow ginseng.
From now on, the Shen family would hold the Ginseng Foundation Pill.
The patriarchs of various families who knew about this urged their adults and children to get closer to the Shen family.
Thirdly, there was the transfer of the Li family's eldest granddaughter. Many people didn't know where she was transferred, but those with insider information did.
The administrative staff of the Special Skills Team were also part of the Special Skills Team.
The Li family was also in an alliance with the Shen family, so the circle of people to associate with now included the Li family.
These were all considered good news within the circle, and good news for the New Year.
What happened after the New Year was bad news for the Gao family, but still good news for the insiders.
The incident unfolded as follows:
After the Lantern Festival, all units started to operate in earnest.
On this day, Gao Minfei and Gao Mingxue, brothers working at the municipal government, were leaving work.
While waiting for the traffic light, they encountered a beautiful woman being chased by a group of people. The woman panicked and opened their car door, getting in.
The woman pleaded with the Gao brothers: "Please, kind sirs, give me a ride."
Through the rearview mirror, Gao Mingfei saw the beauty of the woman.
A melon seed-shaped face, phoenix eyes, a high-bridged nose, and a cherry-like small mouth. She was like a beauty from a painting.
No wonder she was being chased.
Seeing that the pursuers were about to catch up, and the light had just turned green, Gao Xuefei stepped on the accelerator, and the car sped away from the intersection.
The woman patted her chest: "Thank you, elder brothers."
As she patted her chest, her impressive cleavage, hidden beneath her cotton jacket, became prominent.
Gao Mingfei, observing from the rearview mirror, almost missed the accelerator.
Gao Mingxue, in the passenger seat, turned his head to look, a more direct view.
The woman smiled charmingly at him: "Elder brother, thank you for saving me."
"My home is in the residential area ahead. Would you like to come up for a visit?"
Gao Mingxue immediately shook his head.
Their grandfather had instructed them not to visit strangers' homes casually.
The woman smiled: "Elder brothers, you are both upright and good people. Good people will surely be rewarded. Please drop me off at the intersection ahead."