Chapter 15: She Didn't Admit What She Did



"At that time, she was still pregnant with her second child. She was pregnant and took Xiaoyu with her to your field to help you harvest the wheat. She wanted to help you harvest the wheat. Her family's wheat was right next to you. You see, for the sake of her help, she could also take the second child and help her harvest her wheat."

"We are a family. She was already in difficulty, carrying a big child and a baby in her belly."

"What's the result? Do you still remember what conscienceless thing you did?" Chen Xiaoying stared at Li Pingwang with tears in her eyes.

"How should I know?" Li Pingwang knew, but didn't want to say it. After that incident, the eldest son's wife cried and made a fuss again. She was always troublesome, so how could he not remember it?

Chen Xiaoying wiped her tears with her sleeves: "You know, I'm telling you right now, you are a heartless person. Liu Lanxiang, with a sweaty face and a big belly, helped you harvest the wheat, and you turned around and took the second child and a few others to Zhaojia Village to harvest wheat for Li Hongyan."

"It's only one person who can make Liu Lanxiang cry. It won't be long before it starts to rain."

"She was so anxious that she was crying while working in a panic. It was only because the villagers who had nothing to do helped to harvest the wheat that she was able to collect it."

"Xiaoyu is so young, but she knows to help her mother pick up wheat. She is nothing, and we all feel sorry for her. How can you just watch her? Don't you care about her life or death?"

“It’s raining, it’s raining, but it won’t rain in Hongyan Village?”

Li Pingwang refused to admit that he was wrong.

"There are four laborers in Hongyan's family. Who is in greater difficulty and needs your help the most?" Chen Xiaoying said angrily: "Even if you take the second and third children with you and leave the fourth child behind to help Liu Lanxiang harvest the wheat, she will still think well of you. What have you done? You are not even a human being at all."

Li Pingwang particularly cherished the three grandsons born to Li Hongyan, but not his own granddaughter.

Even Li Yutong, his first granddaughter, he had never hugged her, and the rest he just glanced at were considered flattering.

Chen Xiaoying felt sorry for Liu Lanxiang and couldn't stop crying.

Li Hongwei couldn't help but touch his face, his eyes turned red. They were all his father's biological children, but he was so biased that he refused to admit it even after being told.

Li Pingwang frowned and said, "It's all in the past. Why are you talking about it?"

Li Hongyan also felt a little guilty, but she was tougher than his father: "I don't know about this. If I knew, I would definitely not ask my father to help me."

Li Hongyan always uses this kind of excuse. She always has a reason and will just cover up the advantage she has taken by saying "I didn't know".

"You know, how could you not know?" Chen Xiaoying scolded her: "Later, if you were in the village and spread the word that if Liu Lanxiang dared to go against you again in the future, you would still have a way to make her life miserable?"

Li Hongyan said sternly: "I didn't say that. Go find whoever said that."

Anyway, once she said it, it would be gone as soon as the wind blew. What could her mother do to her?

This is just being a rogue.

Li Hongwei clenched his fists in anger, but he had no choice but to open them again.

When Chen Xiaoying heard this, she calmed down instead.

In her previous life, during the last twenty days before her death, she saw clearly the true colors of her seven children. Her eldest daughter was hopeless.

Even when they were discussing how to divide the money for her funeral, she didn't contribute a penny. The only thing she contributed was the clothes and quilts that a daughter should buy. She didn't contribute a penny more.

When she meets guests who come to pay their respects, she would show them the things she had bought, and say: No one cares. The clothes and mattresses I bought for my mother were all the best.

How can she be so shameless? This is a custom in the countryside and every daughter has to buy it.

It's only one or two hundred yuan at most, and the bulk of the money is spent on buying the coffin, holding the funeral and entertaining the guests.

Moreover, if other girls bought these things, no one would gossip about them because the family property was left to the sons, and it was enough for the married daughters to do their best. But what Li Hongyan did was too conscienceless.

No matter how much the dead old man had given her in his life, how much her several younger brothers had given her after working for decades, all the dowry jewelry from her mother, the silver bracelets, silver earrings, silver necklaces, silver dollars from the Republic of China, etc., were all taken away when she was packing her boxes. The money she had earned from raising sheep for more than ten years was also taken away by her in the name of safekeeping.

All in all, it’s about 40,000 or 50,000.

Why couldn't she give away a little when she died? Is her heart made of flesh?

He even whispered to the second son and the others: "When Liu Lanxiang and the others got married, our mother gave them each a Yuan Datou. When the time comes, put all the silver dollars in the coffin and let our mother take it away..."

At that time, the second son's wife had run away, the third son's wife died of illness, and the fourth son was not present. Only the eldest son's wife Liu Lanxiang was present.

The second oldest brother and his friends all had sullen faces and did not openly ask Liu Lanxiang for the money, but they were clearly hostile, indifferent and isolated towards the eldest brother and his wife. They spoke ill of the eldest brother and his wife behind her back, trying to let Liu Lanxiang know that she seemed to have done something "bad" and "unfilial".

When Liu Lanxiang found out that they wanted the silver dollar, she burst into tears and said, "Who gave me a Yuan Datou? The Yuan Datou coins I have at home were given to me by an old woman when Hongwei went out to work. She had no money to pay him, so she used the Yuan Datou coins that are useless now as wages."

"My mother gave me half a silver dollar at that time. If you want it, I'll give it to you."

Yes, at that time she only gave half a silver dollar to her first daughter-in-law, Liu Lanxiang, and gave nothing to the other three daughters-in-law.

Why didn't she give it? It was Li Hongyan who said: Did she not give the betrothal gift or did she not buy clothes for him? I don't know whether I can live a stable life in the future.

Li Hongyan refused to go to the credit union, and she couldn't tie her up with a rope. The passbook was in her name, so the credit union would consider the money to be hers. If she tied her up, she might be charged with kidnapping and extortion, which is illegal.

This account is hard to explain.

Just like in the previous life, Liu Lanxiang asked Li Hongyan: Our father asked you to keep all the money he earned in this life, where did you keep it? The old man also helped Li Hongyan to lie, and she returned it all to me.

Liu Lanxiang asked: What about the money you paid back? Why didn’t I see you spend it?

He said: What do you care where I spent it? I spent it anyway.

The farthest place he had ever been in his life was the market in the next village. How could he spend all his life's money like this?

He is stingy. In the village, there is grain, vegetables, rapeseed oil and soybean oil, but he basically doesn't spend any money except for buying salt and rice.

It’s hard to explain this money.

"never mind."

Chen Xiaoying felt that she had completely given up. In fact, she should have given up on Li Hongyan when she died in her previous life.

"If you don't want to go, then don't go, Li Pingwang." She turned to look at Li Pingwang, "You said that Hongyan borrowed all the money you earned over the years. Now sit here and explain clearly how much was borrowed? My half is in it, give me back my half."

"Mom?" Li Hongyan yelled in dissatisfaction.

Li Pingwang felt that the old woman Chen Xiaoying's reaction was not right: "I didn't keep any accounts."

Chen Xiaoying closed her eyes and was almost angry to death. What a waste! No wonder he was a confused ghost until his death in his previous life.

Li Hongyan rolled her eyes and said, "Mom, don't worry about how much money I borrowed from my dad. Don't worry, when you two are old and can't move, I will definitely not ignore you."

Chen Xiaoying sneered and said, yes, she really didn’t ignore it.

She lay paralyzed in the eldest son's new house for twenty days. The eldest son's wife Liu Lanxiang prepared meals for her, including noodle soup, rice porridge and egg custard, and she fed her with them. The hot water was also boiled by someone else. The only thing she did for her was to change the bed sheets.

What did she serve?


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