Looking at Li Lanzhen who treats her sincerely.

Zhang Yue Niang's eyes were slightly red. She felt so lucky to have met such a good mother-in-law. If it weren't for her mother-in-law, she and the baby in her belly would have turned into dust long ago.

Thinking of this, she raised her head and said, "Mom, thank you!"

Li Lianzhen looked at her with tears in her eyes and smiled, "It's not worth it for us women to take care of ourselves and hurt our bodies. Besides, you are pregnant now, so you have to protect yourself even more. It's not too late to do the housework after you have given birth and recuperated.

You don't need to do heavy work, just sew and mend for children and adults."

Xue Nizi also giggled and patted the dust off her body with a cloth in her hand, "Sister-in-law, you see, I told you not to do it, and mother would scold us if she saw it, but you didn't believe it."

Li Lanzhen said as she followed the children into the cave.

The cave was cleaned very thoroughly by them. The dust and garbage swept out had piled up into a pile, which they had not had time to sweep out.

This cave is really big!

As soon as you enter the cave, there is a very wide hall. As you walk in, it becomes narrower, like a passage. On both sides of the passage, there are two small caves, but they are different sizes, three larger and one smaller. Going further in, there is a very long and narrow passage about one and a half meters wide that runs horizontally against the mountain wall.

Li Lanzhen took a look and saw that the layout was a four-bedroom and two-living-room apartment!

However, the four small caves are not deep, and they look like recessed holes dug inwards. If you want them to be bigger, you can build wooden boards outside to make them into regular rooms.

As for whether to do this, let’s wait until the two sons come back to discuss it.

Clapping her hands, Li Lanzhen said with a smile, "Okay, our family will live here!"

Xue Nizi also said happily, "Mom, you can live in the biggest cave, and the second biggest one will be for my eldest brother and sister-in-law. Han Mingjiang and I will live in this one, and the other one will be for Yuemei."

Li Lanzhen thought about the many children in the family, so she said, "This hall is very big, and we can separate it into two rooms, one for boys and one for girls."

Han Yinan took Li Lanzhen's hand, looked up and said, "Grandma, we need to leave a room for my uncle."

Li Lanzhen lowered her head and met his tearful, dark eyes.

I thought to myself, yes, there is also my little son, and we should have a wedding banquet after they find him.

"Yes, leave a room for your uncle as well. We will decorate it well and use it as your uncle's wedding room. When grandma finds them back, we will hold the wedding banquet."

Han Yinan immediately wiped away two tears and grinned, "Grandma, will there be candy at the banquet? Will there be fireworks?"

Li Lanzhen touched his head and said, "Yes, we will go into the mountains and catch a wild boar, kill the boar, set up a banquet, set off fireworks, and buy you some candy."

Li Lanzhen observed the situation in the cave. Since there were no windows in the cave, it was very dark.

She wondered if she could chisel a hole there and cover it with plastic sheeting to let in some light. If the torch was left burning all the time, the smoke would be too heavy and would irritate her eyes.

Han Yuemei watched Li Lanzhen looking up and looking around, and then she smiled and said, "Mom, don't you see that it's very dark here because there are no windows?"

"Yes, there are no windows. It's too dark in here. It gets darker the further you go in."

Miaomiao said, "Grandma, grandma, there is a crack on the top of this cave that lets in light. My mother said it might leak, so my brothers found a lot of straw and blocked it up."

Li Lanzhen walked over, looked up and took a closer look. It was indeed a crack that should be about three fingers wide, intermittent and irregular, and filled with thatch.

"Just plug it up first. Wait until your father and second uncle come back and see if we need to open it."

She checked the cave again and found that at least three more rooms needed to be built.

Han Yumei said, "Mom, let my little brother use this cave as his wedding room. I will let Miaomiao and Linglong live in one room, and the four boys will live in another room. In this way, we can build two rooms. Miaomiao and Linglong are too young, so I'm afraid they dare not live in one room."

Li Lanzhen thought about it and said to her sensible daughter, "Okay, let's do it this way. You and the two girls live in one room, and Nan, Suchen, Song and Bai live in one room."

The children jumped happily, shouting, "Oh, we have our own house now. My brother and I can live in one room and sleep on the big kang instead of having to sleep with our parents."

Such scenes were played out in every household in the village.

The old village chief's family also chose a relatively large cave. Although he divided the family in a fit of anger at the time, as things stand now, the eldest daughter is gone, leaving behind a child, and the second son's wife is also gone. He discussed with the eldest son, Han Shunde, and decided to live together as a family, help each other, and get through this cold winter first.

The cave they chose was quite spacious, with only two small caves inside, so they thought they would have to build a few more rooms.

There are a lot of dead trees on the mountain. We can build a house after cutting them down. Only three walls are needed.

At breakfast, Li Lianzhen cooked meals for her two in-laws, her parents, Goudan and his grandchildren, and everyone else together.

We will have dinner when the people who went out to the mountains to cut trees and dig wild vegetables come back.

Adults and children gathered around the rice pot, holding their bowls, and talked about their own situations while eating.

Xue Bao gulped down a few mouthfuls of wild vegetable and black flour porridge, then looked up at Li Lanzhen, "Aunt, do you need to build a house in your cave?"

Li Lianzhen looked up and said, "Yes! We need to build a house.

Yuemei and her two little girls lived in one house, and four boys lived in the other house."

Li Erhan said, "Yes, we can live separately. This cave is spacious."

Li Xishui said, "After dinner, I will go up the mountain with my two nephews to cut wood. There are a lot of dead trees on the mountain, all of which are good wood. We can cut them and turn them into boards to build houses, beds, and simple furniture."

Li Lanzhen didn't want to build a bed with wooden boards. She felt that living in the mountains, it would be very cold in winter, and there was no shortage of wood for burning in the mountains. She wanted to build a big kang, but there were no materials to build a kang, and she didn't know what to do.

She wanted to discuss with her father Li Erhan and brothers to see if they could choose some thinner stone slabs to make it.

Tonghua said in a loud voice, "Sister, our cave is just right. There is a big cave with three small caves inside. There is also a long narrow place at the back, which is just right for storing sundries. There is one room for mom and dad, one for Xishui and me, and one for Guangyang. We can just build a room for Lingling."

(My dear children, thank you for following me. Longlong wishes you good health and happiness.)

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