Chapter 103

Lu Weiguo barely finished his meal, wiped his mouth, and realized it was still early. He then started talking to Shi Tingyu about the dinner at Captain Han’s house yesterday.

“Next time when we have time, I’ll take you to visit their home,” he said.

Shi Tingyu nodded in agreement.

Thinking about Captain Han’s children, Lu Weiguo sighed, “Children are really hard to raise.”

If not handled well, it’s tough for both the children and the parents.

Shi Tingyu agreed with this point.

Children don’t just grow up on their own; they need nurturing and education besides just care.

Seeing his wife’s expression, Lu Weiguo cautiously asked, “Do you like children?”

After considering for a moment, Shi Tingyu replied, “I like children who are beautiful and well-behaved.”

Lu Weiguo fell silent for a moment, contemplating a question – if they had children in the future, how would it be if they looked like him?

Having a son would be fine, but if it were a daughter who inherited his face, how would she find a partner in the future?

Seeing Lu Weiguo’s silence, Shi Tingyu curiously asked, “What’s wrong? Do you want children?”

After they got married, she always rushed to clean up after intimacy, and because of this, her menstrual cycle was always on time every month.

She hadn’t thought about having children; it’s just that she couldn’t stand feeling sticky and had to clean up quickly to be comfortable.

Lu Weiguo held her hand and shared his true thoughts, “I do think about it a bit, but I feel like now is not the right time.”

He continued, “I hadn’t considered having children before, but I started thinking about it last night. I think we should wait a bit longer to have children. Once I become a captain, the number of mission deployments will decrease, and I can be there for you from pregnancy to childbirth. It’s not easy for women to give birth.”

Shi Tingyu was somewhat stunned, not expecting this to be his reason.

Suddenly, she looked him up and down, then asked, “If you didn’t think about having children so soon, why did you… last night?”

Lu Weiguo blushed at her straightforward question.

Meeting her curious gaze, he whispered in her ear, “I just… couldn’t control myself.”

Shi Tingyu blushed slightly.

She thought Lu Weiguo made some sense. They could wait to have children, and at least then he could be there for her during pregnancy. She said, “Let’s wait a bit longer before having children.”

She was still young, with many years to go before reaching the age of advanced maternal age, so they could postpone having children.

With this in mind, she thought to herself, “I should start paying attention to contraception from today.”

Lu Weiguo hesitated a bit and said, “Should I be more careful next time?”

He wasn’t sure if he could control himself at the last moment.

Seeing his hesitant expression, Shi Tingyu thought of how men often lose control at crucial moments and blushed slightly.

That night, they tried to be more careful.

In the end, Lu Weiguo managed to stop himself only after a lot of effort, but Shi Tingyu couldn’t.

She instinctively hugged him, and he surrendered.

They looked at each other like that, and in the end, Shi Tingyu spoke up, “Should we forget about contraception?”

It wasn’t that he couldn’t control himself; it was that she couldn’t control herself.

Lu Weiguo chuckled softly at her frustrated look and then lifted her up to go wash up.

In the following times, Lu Weiguo managed to hold back at crucial moments.

Yet, Shi Tingyu still felt a bit uncertain.

After continuous exploration and testing, their life together remained harmonious.

One day, as Shi Tingyu was leaving school, she noticed someone standing at the school gate where a mural was painted.

The person had a good figure, wore glasses, and upon facing her, Shi Tingyu realized it was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old child.

Han Wei, feeling someone looking at him, looked up and was captivated by Shi Tingyu’s beauty.

Of course, he didn’t have any intentions towards her; he just thought her face was exceptionally beautiful and suitable for painting.

Shi Tingyu nodded at him and left, occasionally hearing students bid her goodbye as “Teacher Shi.”

Han Wei was taken aback. Teacher Shi?

If he remembered correctly, the teacher who painted the mural was surnamed Shi.

Could it be the beautiful teacher he just saw?

He had loved drawing since he was young, and no one knew the impact seeing the mural had on him.

He had been standing there for over two hours.

From the color coordination to the spatial presentation, everything about it was breathtaking.

He never imagined that there was such a talented person hidden in this compound.

Time passed quickly, and it was almost time for Shi Tingyu to give a lecture to the soldiers.

Lu Weiguo decided to take her to Captain Han’s house while they still had time.

Captain Han and his sister-in-law asked numerous times.

Both of them were not empty-handed, but they didn’t want to buy anything expensive, considering that Captain Han is Lu Weiguo’s immediate superior now.

If someone saw them bringing expensive gifts, there would surely be gossip.

So, at Lu Weiguo’s suggestion, they picked some vegetables from their own garden and brought along some cookies baked by Shi Tingyu before setting off.

It was the first time Mrs. Han had met Shi Tingyu.

She was so impressed by her appearance that she forgot to decline the gifts brought by Shi Tingyu.

It wasn’t until Shi Tingyu started calling for help that she came back to her senses.

Seeing what they brought, she exclaimed, “Oh, you’ve come, but why bring gifts? If the old Han sees this, he’ll surely have something to say.”

Lu Weiguo replied, “Sister-in-law, no need to be polite. These vegetables are grown in our yard, and these cookies were baked by my wife. We didn’t spend any money.”

After hearing this, Mrs. Han felt reassured, but seeing the quality of the gifts, she couldn’t help but comment, “These are all good things. It doesn’t look like you didn’t spend any money. Making cookies requires sugar and flour, right?”

She didn’t know how to make cookies, but she knew they needed sugar and flour, so it must have cost something.

While the three of them were chatting in the yard, angry shouts from Captain Han could be heard from inside the main room.

“You little rascal! Today you must throw away this mud. Look at what you’ve done to your room!”

Mrs. Han knew trouble was brewing and hurried towards the room.

Even before she reached the main room, she saw a lump of mud thrown on the floor.

Lu Weiguo and Shi Tingyu exchanged glances, and Shi Tingyu signaled with her eyes, indicating that it might be better to leave now.

Lu Weiguo said, “Wait for me in the yard. I’ll go in and check. Captain Han has a quick temper. If he gets really angry, his sister-in-law won’t be able to stop him.”

True to his words, the next moment, Shi Tingyu heard Mrs. Han’s anxious voice from inside the room, “Han, what are you doing! Speak nicely to the child!”

When Lu Weiguo entered the room, Captain Han was about to use his belt on Han Wei.

Mrs. Han couldn’t hold him back anymore.

Seeing this, Lu Weiguo immediately stepped forward to pull Captain Han away.

“Han, what are you doing? Can’t you talk things out calmly?”

Captain Han tried to break free from Lu Weiguo’s grip but couldn’t. He wasn’t a young man in his twenties anymore. Perhaps in his younger days, he could have matched Lu Weiguo, but now he was no match for him.