When Jiang Cheng had told his sister he'd rebuild Lotus Pier with his bare hands if he had to, this was not quite what he'd had in mind - but even with every workman in a 20 mile radius hired to help, there still weren't enough hands to make the progress he wanted before the winter.

So here he was, hauling lumber in stacks a non-cultivator couldn't begin to lift while flying on his sword and directing the men around him - he'd have to check who had to be paid and who was working and who was slacking off and the budget, the progress - but for a moment, his thoughts are all on the weight on his literal shoulders and the way his home is laid out below him, growing out of the lake like new lotus pods.

(A decade later, Jin Ling will climb the wooden walls to hop around on the roof, and Jiang Cheng will have a moment of painful nostalgia when he climbs after him before he screams for his nephew to come down before he breaks his neck, and Jin Ling will retort that the roof is flawless so he'll jump around where he wants, jiujiu, so there!)