From Chapter 262 onwards, she is a child of the Li family!
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In order to help Li Shiliang have a child of his own as soon as possible, Zhao Min, who used to sleep on the same kang (a heated brick bed) with Li Shiliang and Xiaoya, has been voluntarily letting Xiaoya sleep with her third aunt these days.
Third Aunt was naturally happy about this. Although she genuinely regarded Xiaoya as her own beloved granddaughter, she still hoped that Li Shiliang could have a child of his own.
Regardless of gender, having a child not only ensures Li Shiliang has an heir, but also provides him with someone to rely on in the future.
So, Li Shiliang sat on the kang and washed his feet with the water Zhao Min had used to wash them. After drying his feet, he asked Zhao Min if she needed to urinate. When Zhao Min shook her head, Li Shiliang put on his outer robe and went out to pour out the foot-washing water.
If Zhao Min agreed that she needed to urinate, he would bring the chamber pot into the house.
As for the matter of having a chamber pot?
Because Liujiatun is located near Daheishan Mountain, it not only gets cold earlier than Qingsong Town and Sanshan County, but also gets extremely cold at night after winter sets in.
It's no exaggeration to say that a drop of water can freeze instantly.
At night, people try not to leave the house; most of them don't want to go out.
So, that's why chamber pots came about.
After all, everyone has to go to the bathroom sometimes, and you can't just keep holding it in, can you?
It's just that Zhao Min is very clean, so she usually goes to the outhouse to relieve herself before going to bed, and then goes back to her room to lie down.
So, Li Shiliang, who had poured out the foot-washing water and put on his outer robe, returned and bolted the door. When he turned around, he saw that Zhao Min had already laid out the bedding on the kang (a heated brick bed).
After taking off his clothes, he got onto the kang (a heated brick bed), blew out the candlelight, and embraced the warm, soft body of the woman, enjoying the spring sunshine on the bed.
The woman's soft moans mingled with the man's low growls. After a bout of lovemaking, Li Shiliang recovered and threw off the covers to get out of bed.
"Sanlang?"
"I'll go to the kitchen to get a bucket of water to wash you. I know you find it sticky, so wait here."
Zhao Min called out to Li Shiliang, even though the room was dark. She was too embarrassed to look up at him and whispered, "Sanlang, wait a minute, wait a bit before you go."
Li Shiliang thought Zhao Min was feeling unwell, so he leaned down close to her and asked anxiously, "What's wrong? Did I hurt you just now?"
Let me see, come on, let me see.
As he said this, Li Shiliang reached for the small table on the kang (a heated brick bed) and tried to get a tinderbox to light the candle.
This made Zhao Min even more embarrassed. Seeing that Li Shiliang had already gone to blow on the tinderbox, she quickly spoke up and said to him, "I asked Aunt Chun, and she said that you should wait a while after intercourse before washing to increase your chances of getting pregnant!"
It took Li Shiliang a couple of moments to realize what Zhao Min meant. He immediately turned around, crawled into the quilt, and hugged Zhao Min, pressing his face against hers. He said in a muffled voice, "Then let's listen to Aunt Chun. Wait a little longer, and I'll go get you some water."
Zhao Min married into the family in July, and now it's December.
Although a woman's pregnancy doesn't happen in just three or five months, there are women who don't have children even after three or five years of marriage.
But Zhao Min was a little anxious. She really wanted to have a child with Li Shiliang. She felt that Li Shiliang was good to her, good to Xiaoya, and good to her third aunt. The days after she married Li Shiliang were the best days she had ever lived.
Li Shiliang did all the heavy work at home; he wouldn't even let her do the laundry.
She only cooked meals every day, but later she brought it up herself. Li Shiliang knew she liked to work, so she went to the inn to cook for people and earn money.
Since she married Li Shiliang, they weren't exactly inseparable every day, but they had to be together every two or three days. And this wasn't just once; it took two or three times.
But she still couldn't get pregnant, and she still had her period every month.
She was too embarrassed to tell her third aunt, so she took the opportunity to ask Li's mother, since she knew that Li's mother was a capable herbalist after she married into the family.
When Li's mother asked about their sex life, she heard that Li was a clean person and would wash herself after sex. Li's mother told her to wait a while before washing herself, saying that this would make it easier to conceive.
Therefore, Zhao Min told Li Shiliang to "wait a moment" this time.
At this moment, Zhao Min, who was being held in Li Shiliang's arms, did not dare to move at all. She could feel that Li Shiliang's penis was still pressed against the base of her thigh.
Suddenly, Zhao Min heard Li Shiliang whisper in her ear, "Mother Min, don't worry, even if I have my own child, Xiao Ya will still be my child. I will raise her well and give her..."
Li Shiliang, who originally intended to say "marry off," remembered what Li Shiyue had said in the ancestral hall earlier that day, so he quickly paused and changed his words: "...we'll find a good man to marry into our family!"
When Li Shiliang didn't hear Zhao Min's reply, he called out, "Minniang?"
Zhao Min still didn't respond, so Li Shiliang called out again, "Minniang?"
Zhao Min was finally brought back to her senses by Li Shiliang's shout. After hearing Li Shiliang's words, Zhao Min started thinking about the things that had been on her mind for some time now.
"Sanlang, tell me, is it okay if Xiaoya takes your surname?"
Before Li Shiliang could answer, Zhao Min emerged from his arms, sat up, and fumbled to put on her clothes, saying as she did so, "Xiao Ya's biological father doesn't like her because she's a girl, and her father, who died young, didn't care much about her when he was alive."
"From the time I was born until now, only after I married you have we had such a good period of life."
At this moment, Li Shiliang also got up and lit the candle. He didn't say anything, but just sat and listened silently to Zhao Min.
“Back then, my family led their clansmen to rob me of my dowry and forced me to take my daughter back to my parents’ home.”
But the dowry never came back to me; my parents took it.
They divided my dowry among my two older brothers. My mother said that otherwise, Xiaoya and I wouldn't be able to stay at my parents' house.
My two older brothers had four sons and two daughters. My daughter was the youngest in the family, and she never got to eat anything at the table.
If it weren't for Sister Cuihua's kindness, I wouldn't be able to go out with her to cook for others and get food. I would always take Xiaoya out and hide from people to feed her.
It's not that I don't want to give it to my family, it's just that my little girl is so small, she can't even eat two bites of a slice of melon at the table.
Thinking of how Xiao Ya used to go hungry, Zhao Min choked up, "I had no choice but to share my food with Xiao Ya. She felt sorry for me and only ate a few bites before saying she was full."
Sanlang, she's so young, yet she already knows how to care for me.
From then on, I shamelessly begged Sister Cuihua to take me out to work. I didn't want wages, I just wanted some food to take back to Xiaoya.
In the candlelight, Li Shiliang could clearly see the tears on Zhao Min's cheeks, which broke his heart.
"Minniang, let Xiaoya take my surname!"
She is my biological daughter!
When I get back, I'll ask Mr. Jiang to give the little girl a proper name!
Later, when the little girl grows up, we will send her to school to learn to read and do accounting.
In the future, we'll find her a husband, and she can live right here in front of us!
Is it alright, Minniang?
"Sanlang! Thank you! Sanlang! You're so kind!"
Li Shiliang and Zhao Min, who were embracing each other, then snuggled back into the quilt.
By the time the two were embracing and panting, it was already late at night.
After waiting for a while, Li Shiliang put on his outer robe, went to the kitchen to fetch water, and came back into the house.
This water is certainly not freshly boiled water; it's just something you add a piece of firewood to when cooking dinner, to keep the water at the bottom of the pot slightly warm.
But that's already quite good, after all, in Zhao Min's opinion, she had never heard of anyone who would fetch water and wipe his wife's body after sex.
At least her ex-husband, who died young, would just turn over and fall fast asleep after they were done, and he didn't care if you felt sticky or uncomfortable.
Therefore, Zhao Min truly felt that Li Shiliang was perfect in every way during her second marriage!
The next day, Li Shiliang told his third aunt that he wanted to go to the Jiang family to ask Jiang Huai to name the little girl, and also said that he wanted the little girl to change her surname to Li.
That's great!
While the little girl is still young, let her take your surname now, so that she can hold her head high in the village in the future.
From now on, she's a member of the Li family!
This is a good thing!
Mr. Jiang is a scholar, a man of great talent. If you ask him to name your child, you'll need to bring four gifts and pay him a proper visit.
"I was thinking of asking them about this matter again when they come back in October."
If things go smoothly in October, I'll go to the Jiang family before the New Year to deliver New Year's gifts to Mr. Jiang, and then ask him to name the little girl. That way, when we pay respects to our ancestors during the New Year, we can simply register the little girl under my name."
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