"Dad, are you okay?"

The fourth son's wife Yang Xiaohui asked with concern, and also mentioned Chen Xiaoying: "Mom is really old and confused. How can she think of divorcing you at such an old age? What will you do in the future? Who will cook for you and wash your clothes?"

Li Pingwang and Chen Xiaoying had four sons and three daughters in their lifetime. Except for the eldest daughter Li Hongyan, only the fourth daughter and her husband had ever asked for money from the stingy old man Li Pingwang.

For example, if the child has no money to pay tuition or is sick, you have to spend money to buy something.

Usually, Yang Xiaohui would ask for things from the old house, but this time, she even bought two buns for her father-in-law Li Pingwang.

At this time, she didn't know that her sister-in-law Liu Lanxiang was laughing at her: "Just wait and see, she will definitely go to ask the old man for money, thinking about his half of the couple's property?"

The fourth son's wife, Yang Xiaohui, is said to be the most shrewd among the sisters-in-law, but to put it bluntly, she is the most shameless.

As a strong young person, she had the nerve to ask her two elderly parents-in-law for money. One or two hundred yuan was not too much for her, and ten or twenty yuan was not too little for her. Even when her mother-in-law Chen Xiaoying went to the market to buy two pan-fried buns, she would open her mouth.

"Mom, Yumeng has been wanting to eat pan-fried buns for a long time. Give me one and I'll give it to Yumeng."

Chen Xiaoying was very poor at that time. She spent fifty cents to buy two. Her daughter-in-law asked for one, so she seemed stingy if she gave her only one, so she gave them all.

I gave them to the fourth son’s wife, Yang Xiaohui. She ate one and the child ate one.

She was a greedy person and was even fatter than her third sister-in-law Zhao Xueyan. Most of the money that the fourth child earned from working was lent to her parents' home, and the remaining half was all eaten. She was the fattest person in the whole team.

"You are the only one who talks too much. Stop talking from now on."

Li Hongwei knew that his wife's failure was due to her mouth. She talked too much and said things that made others feel uncomfortable.

Liu Lanxiang snorted and continued working in the fields.

Not far from next door is the land of Li Honggang, the fourth family. An old woman in her sixties was sitting on the edge of the field taking a rest.

She couldn't help but say, "There are only two mu of land at home. Yang Xiaohui sits at home all day. We should hire someone to hoe the land and see if the corn harvest is enough for her to hire someone."

After deducting what you eat and what you pay as public grain, how much is left?

She actually hired someone to do it?

Li Hongwei had seen it just now. The person hired was an old woman who was notorious for being sneaky and dishonest in the village. She sat down at the edge of the field before she had worked for half an hour.

A day passed by in a hurry. How many days would it take to finish this acre of land?

The wages are calculated based on the number of days worked.

If she works for a few more days, all the harvest from this field will belong to this old woman.

"Why do you care about her?" He didn't listen even after being told. He would take a detour when he saw him. What's the point of him caring so much? Others even blame him for caring too much.

I won’t say anything about Liu Lanxiang.

Just as they thought, the buns given by the fourth brother's wife were not given for free. After saying a few words, she started to ask Li Pingwang to borrow money.

"Dad, lend us some money. We'll pay you back when Hong Gang comes back."

Li Pingwang's smile suddenly disappeared: "Where do I have the money?"

"Dad, didn't my mom just give you 15,000? I don't ask for more, just give me 200 yuan. I don't have any money right now. Yumeng's clothes are too small, and I don't have money to buy her. The oil and salt at home are all bought on credit from the grocery store." Yang Xiaohui, the fourth son's wife, was very thick-skinned.

"If I don't pay them a little, they won't be willing to sell me on credit. What will my children and I eat?"

She has a lot more reasons.

"I don't have any money." Li Pingwang said, "The 15,000 yuan just passed through my hands and I used it to pay off my elder sister's debt. How can I have any money left?"

"Dad, you gave me 15,000 yuan. Have you given it all?" Yang Xiaohui was anxious.

"I've given it, I've given it. What if you don't pay? Those people in Laowagou are watching you. If you don't pay back the money, they'll smash your eldest sister's house and she won't be able to live." Li Pingwang sighed, still feeling sorry for what his eldest daughter Li Hongyan had encountered.

It's still the same idea. If the old woman Chen Xiaoying had lent money to the eldest daughter earlier, the eldest daughter Li Hongyan would not have ended up in this desperate situation. She would not have borrowed this loan shark and lost two thousand yuan in vain.

Yang Xiaohui's face turned dark and she turned around and left.

Without saying a word, he turned hostile and before leaving, he even took away the two buns on the chair.

Li Pingwang's face also darkened. He knew that the fourth son's wife was sneaky and could not be trusted at all. It was a pity that he was happy that she knew how to be filial.

Chen Xiaoying and old man Li Pingwang's 42-year marriage finally came to an end today. From now on, they will go their separate ways.

Although she only had a few hundred yuan left in her savings, Chen Xiaoying was still very happy. From then on, she lived only for herself.

Of course, she will not forget the promise she made to her sons.

"Grandma, are you really okay?"

Li Yutong didn't think anything would happen if her grandparents divorced, but she was afraid that her grandmother would feel unhappy. After all, she was born in the old society and her ideas were not as modern as those of later generations. If they couldn't make ends meet, they could divorce if they wanted, and no one would say anything.

Chen Xiaoying was chopping vegetables skillfully: "Stop asking, one by one, asking me all day long. I've already said I'm fine, but you still ask."

Okay, Li Yutong won’t ask anymore.

Chen Xiaoying looked at her well-behaved granddaughter and couldn't help but feel tears welling up in her eyes: "It's still useless. It's been more than three years, and all the money I earned is gone."

My granddaughter was thinking of opening a hotpot restaurant, but now she has no money.

Li Yutong smiled and said, "Grandma, if you lose money, you can earn it again. Talent is the most important thing."

Chen Xiaoying nodded with tears in her eyes.

"Grandma promises you that next year I will open a hotpot restaurant for you," she said.

Li Yutong thought for a while and said, "Grandma, don't be anxious. Let's take it slow and steady. Then we won't be afraid of not being able to do it."

Whatever happens, it’s better to let nature take its course.

When it was time for dinner, the restaurant became busy.

Li Yutong helps out here during holidays. While she was busy, she suddenly saw a girl with gray clothes at the door, looking inside.

"Hey, isn't that Xiaojuan? Is she here to eat?" Chen Xiaoying saw it first.

Li Xiaojuan saw Li Yutong looking at her and immediately gave Li Yutong a big smile.

"Grandma, I'll go out and take a look." Li Yutong put down the rag and hurried out.

The store could still be busy without her, so Li Yutong took Li Xiaojuan directly to the senior citizen activity center not far away, and bought her a bottle of soda from the nearby store. Li Xiaojuan gratefully pushed the bottle away and said no, but Li Yutong insisted, so she took it.

The two of them sat down on the chairs at the door.

"Xiaojuan, what do you want from me?"

Li Xiaojuan's adoptive parents were very poor and lazy. There were five people in the family, a couple and three sons, and none of them worked. They all relied on Li Xiaojuan to serve them from morning to night.

She does the work in the fields, cooks three meals a day, feeds the pigs, and washes clothes. She works from morning to night, from dawn to dusk, and does not even have time to drink a sip of water. Her foster mother scolds her for being lazy every day and says that it is a waste to raise her.

How did she have time to come to the county town this time?

Li Xiaojuan blinked her eyes after hearing Li Yutong's question, and couldn't hold back her tears any longer: "My mother picked someone for me and asked me to get married."

Li Yutong's heart skipped a beat. What was supposed to come finally came.

But she still pretended not to know and asked, "Who are you talking about?"