Cai Xiufen felt pained for her daughter, sensing that having a husband or not made no significant difference in Li Bao’s life after marriage.
True, she wasn’t lacking money, and her three kids were sensible and obedient, but with her husband not by her side, if someday she fell ill... she couldn’t bear to think further. Cai Xiufen dreaded that the more she thought about it, the more pained she would feel and thus might grow resentful towards her son-in-law whom she had never met.
"What? Stay there overnight?"
Kang Li hadn’t considered staying over at the research institute, but now, hearing her mother’s words, her eyes, fox-like, widened in surprise.
"What do you mean ’what’? It’s settled, you don’t need to come back tonight!"
Silly girl, barely seeing her son-in-law a few times a year, isn’t she worried their relationship might become estranged?
Moreover, relationships need nurturing. Don’t tell me a country old lady doesn’t know this. Just think, a couple who hardly sees each other all year, how familiar can they get?
Without familiarity, how can there be affection?
Without affection, how can the couple continue their life together?
Does she expect her daughter to merely act as a "nanny"?
If that were the case, Cai Xiufen wouldn’t accept it.
And the reason she initially strongly opposed her daughter marrying far away, only to agree later, though persuaded by her husband’s arguments, was primarily because she believed the heavens wouldn’t be cruel enough to deny her Li Bao any children.
In other words, she hoped her precious daughter could have a child of her own.
Whether a boy or a girl, as long as it was her daughter’s own child, it was enough.
Only then could she rest easy and close her eyes forever when her time came.
Of course, Cai Xiufen thought this way not because she found her three step-grandchildren unreliable, but out of a subconscious belief that a blood connection would make the mother-child relationship more secure.
"Then have you guys ever..."
Cai Xiufen couldn’t bring herself to finish her sentence, even in front of her daughter, how could she ask if they had done what couples do.
"Do you really not understand what I mean by ’sharing a room’?"
Frowning, Cai Xiufen worriedly didn’t know what to think.
Her daughter remained silent for a long while, her cheeks visibly reddening. Cai Xiufen found it amusing and tapped her daughter’s forehead, "Just tell me, have you or haven’t you?" Cai Xiufen knew her beloved daughter must have understood her meaning, otherwise, she wouldn’t be blushing so intensely.
Bearing the embarrassment, Kang Li lied, "...Yes." Once she told the truth, her mother would surely worry over her excessively.
Cai Xiufen, hearing this, secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It’s almost eleven now, if you’re going, you’d better hurry!" After a short pause, Cai Xiufen added:

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