Chen Xiaoying's eyes suddenly widened. She hadn't done anything yet, but Li Hongli had already started to threaten her.

"I don't count on you, get out of here!"

Seeing her third sister-in-law Zhao Xueyan wiping the table while looking at her with a lofty look, Li Hongli felt humiliated and could only run away in shame once again.

Chen Xiaoying remained calm and continued to calculate her own account book.

The third daughter-in-law, Zhao Xueyan, came over and said, "Mom, if you do this, aren't you afraid that Hongli will hate you? If she wants to eat here, just let her eat."

Our family runs a restaurant, so we can eat as much as you want.

Zhao Xueyan thought her mother-in-law had the old-fashioned idea that a daughter who is married off is like water spilled, so after marrying Li Hongli off, she would no longer care about her, whether good or bad.

Zhao Xueyan is simple-minded and doesn't know what Chen Xiaoying's purpose is.

Her mother-in-law Chen Xiaoying also couldn't understand: "I will treat anyone who has no conscience like this."

Zhao Xueyan was stunned, and suddenly she remembered that when Li Hongli just came back, her mother-in-law asked her to help out at the breakfast shop, but she was indifferent and just wanted to sleep. She was anxious, and she angrily scolded her mother-in-law: "Are you sick? If you don't want to die, go take medicine."

Those words, not to mention the mother-in-law, even she, the sister-in-law, felt chilled for her mother-in-law after hearing them. These were words spoken by a biological daughter to her mother.

Zhao Xueyan felt that she was being nosy: "Mom, I know."

She just needs to mind her own business.

Chen Xiaoying was calculating the bill when someone came in. It was not dinner time yet, so she looked up casually and saw the thinner person in front of her. It was her family's fourth child, Li Honggang. She stood up hurriedly and said, "Did you just get off the train? Have you eaten yet? I'll ask your third sister-in-law to make you some."

Li Honggang nodded and smiled at his third sister-in-law Zhao Xueyan in a simple and honest way: "Well, I haven't eaten yet. The food on the train is expensive, and I can't bear to buy it."

Zhao Xueyan looked at her mother-in-law Chen Xiaoying's expression and smiled: "Wait a minute, I'll make you a casserole dish and bring two steamed buns."

Li Honggang lowered his head and sat down in front of his mother Chen Xiaoying.

Chen Xiaoying looked at her little daughter, who had become much darker after being tanned. She looked like the same skinny person as her elder brother Li Hongwei.

"Have you received your salary?" Chen Xiaoying asked.

Li Hong just nodded: "It's over."

Chen Xiaoying looked at Li Honggang and asked him, "What are your plans? Do you want to go back to the village and rest for a while, or do you want me to find you a job now?"

Li Honggang thought for a moment and said, "Mom, what kind of job can you find for me? Can I do it?"

Chen Xiaoying said: "Why not? As long as you are willing to endure hardships, you can do it."

Li Honggang was curious: "Mom, what do you want me to do?"

Chen Xiaoying glanced at him and said, "Set up a stall and sell breakfast."

Li Honggang's eyes widened: "Mom, I'm not cut out for this."

Li Honggang has been honest since he was a child. He just smiles when he sees people and doesn't like to talk. He sits aside like an invisible person and is a little afraid of meeting strangers.

"It's okay. I'll work with you. You can get the buns from my shop, and we'll split the money equally."

Li Honggang was shy and said awkwardly: "Mom, forget it, I'll find a job another day."

"The jobs you find are all physically demanding. You earn money when you are young, but you have to spend it on medical treatment when you are old. What do you want?" Chen Xiaoying knew what he was thinking: "At the beginning, just think of it as selling for me. You don't need to ask for anything. You just need to do the accounting and collect the money."

Li Honggang was still unwilling, and his resistance was evident on his face.

Chen Xiaoying pretended not to see it.

Li Honggang said, "Mom, where should I sleep at night?"

Chen Xiaoying said, "There is a room upstairs in this store. In the past, people used it for night watch. We don't need it at night because our store has no water or electricity, so it is always empty. I'll take you to have a look."

As she spoke, she led Li Honggang around the back corner, where there was a staircase leading to the second floor.

Li Honggang thought it was a messy, dusty, small room like a warehouse, with probably little light.

When he pushed open the door, he found that there was a single steel bed and a window in the room. It was not big at only seven or eight square meters, but it was enough for him to sleep. The floor was a flat concrete floor, and after cleaning it up, it was much cleaner than the house he rented in the sawmill.

He was immediately satisfied with the place to live.

Chen Xiaoying continued, "As long as you work hard, just like your third sister-in-law, when I make money in the future, I will also pay for the down payment on your house."

Li Honggang didn't think that far ahead, but now his eldest brother Li Hongwei, third brother Li Hongqiang, and second sister Li Hongli all have houses, so he also feels that buying a house is not too far-fetched a thing.

"Okay, Mom, I'll follow you then."

As agreed, Li Honggang went back to the village first, intending to tell his wife Yang Xiaohui about the plan.

When the fourth son's wife Yang Xiaohui heard this, she started to think about it.

When my mother-in-law was jealous of my third sister-in-law Zhao Xueyan for having a house, she told her that she should also go to the restaurant to help, and if she did a good job, she would buy her one in the future.

She agreed at that time.

But when I thought about it, I was so tired from working all day and was under the supervision of my mother-in-law, so I hesitated and didn't go.

One day turned into two days, and two days turned into half a month. After half a month, no one mentioned it, so she just thought it was a mess.

She lived such a carefree life in the village. The fourth brother honestly paid her salary back every month. She slept until she woke up naturally every day, and then cooked delicious meals and meat for herself. She had nothing to do all day except taking care of the children.

Now that her child is in primary school, she has nothing to do all day and wanders around everywhere. She doesn't want to work even if she is just wandering around.

Think about it, it would be okay for the fourth brother to come back, he could do the job and also get a house.

"Okay, go ahead," she said.

The fourth child, Li Honggang, was a little timid: "Mom said she would only help me for a few days, and I will have to sell it myself in the future. I think we can both sleep in that room, so why don't you go too?"

"What about Yumeng? She still has to go to school." Yang Xiaohui thought of a reason and took care of the child to go to school.

Since she had a child, as a rural woman, she has not worked in the fields for a single day. She is busy taking care of the child and has no time to work in the fields.

Yang Xiaohui said to the fourth child, Li Honggang, "You have received your salary, give me 200 yuan."

Li Honggang took out the money and asked, "What do you want the money for?"

Yang Xiaohui snatched it away and said, "I hired people to do the work, how can I not pay them? My mother's birthday is next month, and I have to buy her two sets of clothes no matter what."

Yang Xiaohui always had an excuse for spending money, and Li Honggang was not good at talking, so if she said something wrong, she would make a scene and make life difficult. So she could only nod and say, "Okay then."

Having said that, he couldn't help but ask, "How much money do we have in our savings account? I'm also planning to buy a house in the city?"

Yang Xiaohui was not keen on buying a house in the county town. When she asked her mother-in-law for a house, she actually wanted money. She had already planned that as long as she had a house, she would sell it. Thirty or forty thousand yuan would make sense if she held it in her own hands. What's the point of buying a house in the county town? There's no point in living in the county town if you can't eat or drink.

"Why are you in such a hurry? Didn't your mother say she would buy it for you?" she said unhappily.

Li Honggang said: "My mother also said that if I worked hard for her, she would buy a house for me. My third brother has a house now, but my third sister-in-law is still paying the monthly mortgage in installments."

Yang Xiaohui started to make fun of her third sister-in-law Zhao Xueyan: "I said she was stupid. When buying houses for Lao Da and Hong Li, they all paid in full, but for her, it was in installments. She was still grinning like an idiot. She was clearly losing money."