"Oh, I don't know that. If I knew, I would have come and have a look sooner."
Chen Xiaoying thought of the situation of Xu Hongjun's mother. His mother was also an unlucky person. Every few years, she would have some health problems. She would have surgery, stay in the hospital, and then go home. After a few years, she would become ill again.
The whole family was greatly burdened by this. Liu Juxiang was already sick in her forties, and Xu Hongjun had earned a lot of money in his life, but he spent it all in the hospital.
"It's just a fracture, not a serious matter, so I didn't tell anyone." Liu Juxiang explained.
Seeing that the old woman only greeted others and ignored him, Li Pingwang felt sad and called out eagerly: "Xiaoying, why did you come just now, wuwuwu."
Started crying again.
Xu Hongjun found it somewhat funny to see how pitifully he cried. He was already old, yet he was crying like this.
Besides, there is no need to cry. It was all his own stupid behavior.
"Auntie, now that you're here, I'll go see my mother," he said.
Chen Xiaoying quickly thanked him: "Thank you for taking care of me for most of the day."
"It's okay, we are all family." said Xu Hongjun.
The two men left.
In the hospital corridor, Liu Juxiang said with a sullen face: "How could my elder sister have such a foolish old man?"
As mentioned before, Chen Xiaoying's eldest daughter-in-law Liu Lanxiang is a good person, but she can't keep things to herself and tends to speak her mind.
Li Hongyan had already complained to her family about the fact that she had borrowed money from a loan shark but tricked her father Li Pingwang into putting his fingerprints on the loan and signing it, and then shifted the debt onto her eldest son.
I have never seen such a black-hearted daughter. She wants to send her parents and brothers to a dead end.
"We don't know what's going on in other people's families, so don't meddle in it," Xu Hongjun said.
Liu Juxiang nodded: "I know, I'll go to the door and make a phone call to tell my fourth sister."
As a result, when Liu Juxiang called Liu Lanxiang to report the news, the village party secretary of Lijia Village who answered the phone said.
"Oh, we all know about this. Zhaojiacun called us at the time. Li Hongwei and your sister and her husband have already rushed to the county town."
"Okay, uncle, thank you." Liu Juxiang felt relieved.
Liu Juxiang was a married woman from Lijia Village, and the village party secretary also knew her. He then hung up the phone.
Liu Juxiang did not go back either, but waited for her fourth sister Liu Lanxiang at the gate of the county health center.
Li Hongwei and Liu Lanxiang rushed over in a hurry and saw Liu Juxiang first.
Liu Juxiang was afraid that they would be too anxious. If anything happened, she would rush to them immediately and said, "Fourth sister, brother-in-law, the doctor said it's fine. You can go home after three or four days of observation in the hospital."
After hearing this, Li Hongwei was completely relieved: "Okay, okay, then I'll go take a look."
Liu Lanxiang fell back a few steps, her face as gloomy as a rainy day: "Is my sister-in-law still there?"
Liu Juxiang said: "Yes, when I came, I was so scared that my face turned blue and I cried a lot."
"Why is she crying? How can she have the face to cry? The trouble she caused almost killed her father. If you have the nerve, why don't you just die yourself?" Liu Lanxiang was furious. She and her elder sister-in-law Li Hongyan were mortal enemies.
When Li Hongyan plotted against her from behind, pinned her down in the wheat field and beat her severely, she no longer considered Li Hongyan a family member.
Liu Juxiang sighed, "Fourth sister, I know you are angry, but don't argue with her in front of your father-in-law. If you argue in the hospital, others will laugh at you."
"No matter what, you are living a good life now. You have bought a house in the county town, and you also own half of the small restaurant."
Even though she said that, Liu Lanxiang became even angrier: "My father-in-law is plotting against me for these little things of mine. He said that if we don't sell the house or the restaurant, we should sell blood to pay off Li Hongyan's debt. Is that what a human being would say?"
Liu Juxiang didn't know what to say.
After all, she had only seen this kind of confused old man, her fourth sister's father-in-law.
Liu Lanxiang cursed fiercely for a while, and her anger finally subsided a lot. Seeing her younger sister Liu Juxiang's haggard face, she asked: "No one wants to change hands with you?"
Her mother-in-law had broken her bones again, and her younger sister had to take care of her when she went to the toilet, wipe her butt and hold the urinal. Alas, she was even worse than the maids in the old society. It was hard to describe.
Her mother-in-law had given birth to three daughters before, but they all came to take a look and then left. No one came to lend a hand.
Liu Juxiang is kind and honest, and she doesn't say these things: "My mother-in-law has only one son, my husband. If it's not me, her daughter-in-law, who else can serve her?"
The two sisters each have their own difficulties.
Everyone had their own sufferings, and after talking for a while, they went their separate ways.
In Li Pingwang's ward, he was crying and telling his wife Chen Xiaoying how powerful those debt collectors were.
"… They smashed everything in Hongyan's house. They smashed a huge hole in the flour jar." He raised his two arms to gesture, "… They threw all the clothes out, and the oil barrels were thrown in the yard. The good rapeseed oil spilled all over the ground."
"Woo woo, not a human."
He kept crying.
Li Hongyan also wiped her tears: "Dad, please don't say anything. It's useless to make mom angry. There's nothing you can do."
Now that the debt collector was gone, Li Hongyan was no longer panicked. Her mind became clear and she started to think crooked thoughts as usual.
Sure enough, when Li Pingwang heard this, he started crying and forcing his wife Chen Xiaoying again: "Is money so important? If I wasn't lucky today, I would have died there. Are you happy about that?"
Chen Xiaoying looked at Li Pingwang again and again, but her expression was icy: "You cry and scold, but you still have something to say. It seems that you are not in any serious trouble. Then let your eldest daughter serve you. I am still busy in the store."
Having said that, she was about to leave.
Li Hongyan hurriedly grabbed her and said, "Mom, can't you help me think of a solution at all?"
"What can I do? Don't expect me to sell the restaurant and pay you back." Chen Xiaoying said ruthlessly.
Li Hongyan was anxious. Thinking of the vicious black dog's appearance, she knelt down to Chen Xiaoying and said, "Mom, for the sake of my dad's life, please pay off this debt for him. Okay? I'm kneeling down to you."
Li Pingwang was also anxious. He struggled to get up from the bed and grabbed Chen Xiaoying's collar: "Old woman, I have never begged you in my life. This time, I beg you to pay back the money for Hongyan and promise not to borrow again in the future. Okay?"
The father and daughter, one said he was paying back the money for her father, and the other said he was paying back the money for his daughter.
On the surface, the father and daughter seem to have a deep affection for each other, but in fact, Li Hongyan is the one who has evil intentions, which makes Chen Xiaoying, as a mother and daughter-in-law, seem cold-hearted.
Li Hongwei was so angry that his face looked ugly. He was not good at speaking and didn't know what to say.
Liu Lanxiang had been listening at the door for a while and couldn't help asking, "How can we pay it back? Big sister, you borrowed so much money, how can our mother pay it back?"
"Get out of here! You are not from the Li family. You have no right to speak here."
Li Hongyan knew that Liu Lanxiang was determined to ruin her plans, so she pointed at the door and told Liu Lanxiang to get out.