Chen Xiaoying has stood up and is ready to leave.

Li Hongyan's face was frozen, as if she was sitting on the chair: "I'm not going!"

Chen Xiaoying turned around and stared at her: "What did you say?"

When she saw her posture, Li Hongyan's heart skipped a beat and she even felt scared for a moment.

Her father Li Pingwang said, "Forget it, forget it. If she says she won't go, then she won't go. She keeps making trouble like this, which makes people laugh."

"Who dares to laugh at me? When she laughs at me, look at whether she has wiped her own face clean?" Chen Xiaoying exploded.

Over the years, she has heard so many things about how one cannot do anything well or will be laughed at, and it seems like she has been brainwashed by this old man, thinking that she is a servile person and just likes to please others.

But why does she live her own life and care about other people's faces?

She doesn't live her life like a TV drama for others to watch.

"Mom, what's wrong with you? You were yelling at my dad and at me. Are you feeling unwell? I'll take you to the hospital." Li Hongyan suddenly remembered.

There was such an old lady in her village. She usually had a good temper, but later she suddenly became fierce and disliked everyone. She either cursed at home or sat at the entrance of the village and cried to everyone she met.

Finally, the family took the child to the health center for a check-up, and they said that he had Alzheimer's disease. Sometimes he couldn't recognize people and thought there was a thief in the house. Sometimes he forgot where he hid his money and thought that his daughter-in-law had stolen it, which was why the family couldn't live a good life.

Li Hongwei was stunned, and then looked at Chen Xiaoying: "Mom?"

Could it be true?

Chen Xiaoying was furious: "I have a clear mind, unlike the daughter-in-law of Lao Hei's family in your village."

She had also heard of this, but in her previous life she had Alzheimer's disease when she was eighty years old.

"Hongyan, are you leaving or not?"

Li Hongyan burst into tears and looked at Li Pingwang: "Dad, what's wrong with my mom? She has something on her mind, so she keeps talking about it. Why is that?"

"When did I ever offend her? I worked so hard to buy you clothes and shoes. Whenever I came back, I didn't even have time to drink a sip of water. I cleaned up the cabinets, swept the floor, and wiped the table for you. Look around the whole village, how many married daughters are as filial as me?"

"You are still not satisfied, so what do you want to do?"

"That's enough, old woman. If you don't want to go, then don't go. The money you deposit in the credit union may be stolen by rats." Li Pingwang was partial to his eldest daughter. When he saw that such a strong person like Li Hongyan was made to cry by her mother Chen Xiaoying, he immediately became angry again.

Chen Xiaoying suddenly understood what a cunning person was. Her eldest daughter, Li Hongyan, was just like that. You said one thing and she said another. If you talked to her about reason, she would talk to you about feelings. If you talked to her about feelings, she would talk to you about reason.

No matter what the words are, once they enter her mouth, they can always be twisted into fallacies that are beneficial to her.

"Let me ask you, why is your name written on your father's passbook?"

Li Hongyan remained calm: "You need an ID card to deposit money. My dad forgot to bring it with him at that time, and I happened to have it with me, so I used my ID card to deposit the money for him. I didn't give the passbook to my dad. If you don't believe me, take out the passbook and have a look."

"Where's the money inside?" Chen Xiaoying asked.

"I don't know." said Li Hongyan.

Chen Xiaoying glanced at the dead old man Li Pingwang and found that Li Pingwang didn't even move his eyebrows. He was concentrating on rolling the paper for the dry tobacco, carefully moving the tobacco foam to the center of the paper. If there were any tobacco leaves as big as sesame seeds, he would scoop them up with his fingernail and put them up.

A man who loved money like his life and lived frugally all his life, didn't even raise his eyelids when he heard his eldest daughter say that she didn't know whether the money in the passbook was there.

He really trusts his eldest daughter.

"Li Pingwang, did you hear what your eldest daughter said? She said she didn't know whether the money in the passbook was gone?" She couldn't help but shout.

Li Pingwang looked at Li Hongyan in confusion, and said to Chen Xiaoying: "She must be here, the memorials are all with me."

Chen Xiaoying was speechless.

Li Hongwei, who was standing by, was watching his elder sister Li Hongyan's various statements, and suddenly he realized that the money might really not be in the passbook, so she didn't dare to take them to the credit union to check.

Just thinking, what should he do?

He also had no evidence to prove that Li Hongyan took the money.

"My sister-in-law said that if you deposit money, you can go to the credit union with your ID card and household registration booklet and tell them that you lost your passbook. Then you can withdraw the money anyway." Zhao Xueyan spoke quickly and dryly, saying what she had drafted seven or eight times in her mind.

My sister-in-law said?

When Li Hongyan heard this, she finally found an opportunity to break her impasse. She burst into tears again, "Mom, how could you listen to Liu Lanxiang and suspect that I'm not a human being? Steal my dad's money? Am I your daughter, or is Liu Lanxiang your daughter? Can't you tell the difference?"

"Wow, Liu Lanxiang, she is not a human being. I was so good to her, Li Yutong. I gave her lucky money every year. When Li Yutong was out of confinement after childbirth, did I make her a bright red cotton-padded jacket to wear?"

Li Hongwei glared at Zhao Xueyan angrily.

Zhao Xueyan shrank her neck in fear and stopped talking.

Li Pingwang was also angry: "I knew it, the whole family was instigated by Liu Lanxiang, she is such a bad person, who does she think she is? It is her turn to speak about my family's affairs. Even if my daughter spent the money, it has nothing to do with her."

Li Hongyan heard this and said, "Dad, Liu Lanxiang has been disgusted with me for the past ten years, so I might as well not come here anymore."

As she said this, she wiped away her tears and was about to leave.

"Don't go. Ask your mother to cook and have lunch before going back." Li Pingwang felt that his eldest daughter was wronged and wanted to coax her.

"I won't eat it. My mother doesn't like me, so she might as well poison me to death with rat poison." Li Hongyan turned her head and shouted angrily.

Chen Xiaoying's anger was finally vented by Li Hongyan's scolding. She was so angry that she cried: "Li Hongyan, Li Hongyan, among the seven children I gave birth to, you are the worst. You coaxed all your father's money away. You also asked your brothers to send back the money they earned from working outside for you to keep."

"Tell me, how can you be so cruel? You only care about your own life and don't care about the life and death of your mother's family?"

"Why do you care about Liu Lanxiang? She married into our family and was already wronged. She was expecting the brothers to help her family, but what did they do in the end?"

"Whenever the farming season is busy, the brothers always help your family, and her family never gets any benefit."

Li Hongyan stiffened her neck and said sternly: "People help their relatives, who would help outsiders?"

Never repent.

Chen Xiaoying was sad and looked at Li Pingwang with tears in her eyes: "You are nothing either. You only favor your eldest daughter Li Hongyan. Did you pick up your six children from the side of the road or from the cracks in the rocks?"

"You're still scolding Liu Lanxiang. How has Liu Lanxiang done anything wrong to you? She married your eldest son and worked from dawn to dusk. She never enjoyed a single day of happiness. Every day you scold her, a biased old man."

"What's wrong with me scolding her? She deserves to be scolded. This family is in chaos. It's all because of her instigation." Li Pingwang also refused to accept the decision.

Chen Xiaoying was sad: "You are such a despicable person. My mother raised her daughter and she never ate a bite of your food. Why do you scold her?"

Li Pingwang had a stern face and said nothing.

Chen Xiaoying wiped away her tears. This father and daughter were truly father and daughter, they were equally selfish.

No matter how good Liu Lanxiang is or how difficult her life is, in their eyes, she is nothing.

She began to think of the past.

"I remember one day, when Xiaoyu was five years old, Hongwei went out to work for someone else. He hadn't come back for more than half a month. The wheat in the village was ripe, but the weather was bad and it was about to rain. Every household was in a hurry to harvest the wheat..."