Chen Xiaoping and Chen Xiaorong are brothers from her mother's family. They couldn't just stand by and watch in front of everyone, so they stepped forward to pull Chen Xiaoying.

"Here you go! Here you go! The money is for you!"

Li Pingwang was attacked by Chen Xiaoying with a kitchen knife and had to dodge left and right. He was terrified and felt that he had never been so humiliated in his life. He shouted angrily, which was considered as his agreement.

Upon hearing this, Chen Xiaoying lost her energy and the kitchen knife in her hand was snatched away by her eldest son Li Hongwei.

She sat on the ground, exhausted, gasping for breath.

"Xiaoying, are you okay? Sit up quickly."

"Xueyan, quickly pour some water for your mother."

The women in the village came up and helped Chen Xiaoying up and sat her on a chair.

Chen Xiaoying stared at Li Pingwang intently, "Break up! Didn't you say we should break up? If we don't break up today, we can't live like this anymore!"

Is this the end of life?

The villagers were even more excited because it was something new.

You are old now and your parents are your grandparents, why are you getting a divorce?

"Chen Xiaoying has been feeling aggrieved all her life, and now she is making a fuss."

"I should have turned against Li Pingwang a long time ago. My life is too miserable. I don't even have money to buy vegetables at the market. Li Pingwang is too stingy."

Listening to the discussions of the villagers at the door, Li Pingwang realized that the villagers knew that he did not give his wife money to spend, and they were all laughing at him behind his back.

He earned the money. He was the one who bought the oil and noodles for the family. He didn't let the old woman starve, so what was the point of having the money?

What vegetables should I buy? Are vegetables grown in my own fields not vegetables? Do I have to eat the ones I pay for at the market?

He didn't think he did anything wrong, but now Chen Xiaoying was making trouble for him and they couldn't live without each other because they didn't want to share the money.

When the villagers saw that the family had calmed down, they dispersed.

Inside the room, in full view of everyone, Li Pingwang took out the key tied to his belt, and trembling with anger and shaking hands, he tried to unlock the mahogany box on the head of the kang.

"Did you hide the money here?" Chen Xiaoying suspected him.

Li Pingwang was annoyed: "If not here, where else can I hide it?"

"Hide it upstairs, hide it in the chicken coop." said Chen Xiaoying.

"You must have been bitten by a rat. You keep saying stupid things. With your brain, you still want to manage money." Li Pingwang is accustomed to verbal violence.

Chen Xiaoying was confused.

The scenes she saw after she died seemed to be what she wanted to see. She wanted to see how her seven children were doing, so she saw their entire lives. She never thought about where the dead old man hid his money.

He was dead, and she saw this scene when she saw her children going to look for the money. They searched everywhere but couldn't find where the money was hidden, including the box at the head of the kang, which had no money in it.

"The money is all here, half for each of us." Li Pingwang said as he took out a pair of trousers and a handkerchief from the trouser pocket. The handkerchief contained a roll of money, with denominations ranging from one hundred to fifty cents, all here.

The money is here, but who took the money from the previous life?

Chen Xiaoying was puzzled.

"Are you still hiding the money somewhere? Take it all out." She didn't believe it.

"These are all I have. Hongyan borrowed some and hasn't returned them yet," he said.

Li Hongwei and Zhao Xueyan, who were standing by, heard this and both looked unhappy.

Only Li Hongyan could borrow his money.

Chen Xiaoying knew the old man's thoughts. He had been very concerned about his reputation all his life and he disliked any of his sons. Only his eldest daughter, Li Hongyan, was good at speaking and eloquent. She gave birth to three sons, and they all called grandpa and grandpa affectionately.

She said that this old man is very nice to outsiders.

"I think my grandfather has a people-pleasing personality." In her previous life, the eldest granddaughter Li Yutong told her.

"What is a people-pleasing personality?" She still didn't understand.

Li Yutong told him: "On the surface, there is nothing wrong with being talkative and cheerful, but in fact, you are very inferior inside and feel that you are not as good as others. So you try to please others and want to get their attention and affirmation to prove your own value."

She didn't understand what he said at the time, but now looking at the dead old man, she understood. This is the people-pleasing personality. They sacrifice themselves for others just to get a smile or a nice word from others, regardless of whether that person is worth their efforts.

Li Hongyan is his eldest daughter, but the man behind the scenes is his son-in-law Zhao Faliang, who has a gloomy personality and is difficult to talk to. The old man wants to have a good relationship with him and make his daughter's life easier in her husband's family, so he generously lends money and gives things, such as soybeans, rapeseed oil, cotton, and wheat and cornmeal.

"Including the passbook, the total is three thousand two hundred and forty-three yuan." Brothers Chen Xiaoping and Chen Xiaorong counted the money and looked at the name on the passbook several times with great attention.

There was an eerie silence on both of their faces for a moment, and they all looked at Li Pingwang.

Chen Xiaoying was illiterate and didn't understand, so she went to see Li Pingwang in confusion.

Then, she heard her eldest brother Chen Xiaoping ask him: "Why is your daughter Hongyan's name written on this passbook? What's going on?"

"Is this your money or Hongyan's money?"

When Chen Xiaoying heard this, she suddenly felt weak all over.

Li Pingwang said as a matter of course: "It must be my money, where does she get the money from?"

He also knew that his eldest daughter was poor and had no money.

Chen Xiaoying stared at Li Pingwang. She knew that the money he had was only over 400 yuan, which was from the money he earned from selling grain a while ago.

The remaining three thousand yuan were in two passbooks, both in Li Hongyan's name.

"Then how do we divide it? You have to ask Hongyan to take out the money, then you two can divide it." Chen Xiaoping said.

Divide the money, divide the money.

She took out even the kitchen knife and forced the old man, to whom money was more important than his life, to give in and share the money with her.

In the end, all the money was in the name of the eldest daughter.

If she doesn't take it out, what's the point of sharing it?

Chen Xiaoying had a dark face and looked at Li Pingwang with eyes that made her wish she could pick up the kitchen knife again.

Li Hongwei also had a stern face, not knowing what to say. His parents were just like that. They always favored his eldest sister and didn't care about the lives of their other children.

"Dad! Mom!"

"dad!"

"mom!"

Suddenly, there were bursts of noisy noises coming from outside, and everyone sounded anxious.

Li Pingwang heard the noise and was furious. He cursed sarcastically: "Listen, listen, the eldest son's wife and the fourth son's wife are here. Humph, they are here to listen to me and share the money. They are all starving like ghosts."

"Hongyan didn't come?" Chen Xiaoying suddenly said.

The small sleeping room was already packed with people, making it difficult to turn around.

"Let's all go out and see if Hongyan has arrived?" said Chen Xiaoying.

Li Pingwang quickly locked the passbook back into the box. To deposit or withdraw money with the passbook, one must carry his ID card in person.

Chen Xiaoying didn't know what was the point of locking these two passbooks?

The eldest son's wife, Liu Lanxiang, and the fourth son's wife, Yang Xiaohui, both hurried back home after hearing news from villagers that their parents-in-law had been fighting and had even used knives.

"What happened? Why did they start fighting?" When Liu Lanxiang heard this, she couldn't believe it. How could her mother-in-law, with her courage and confused personality, dare to use a kitchen knife against her father-in-law?

Yang Xiaohui was very thoughtful, and her eyes were rolling. She approached Zhao Xueyan and asked, "Third sister-in-law, what's going on?"