Li Honggang is now working at his niece's hot pot restaurant and his attitude towards Li Yutong has improved a lot. However, he is a little reluctant about this matter and said awkwardly: "Your third uncle is a difficult person to talk to. I never care about his affairs."
Li Yutong knew what kind of person her fourth uncle Li Honggang was because she had experienced it in her past life.
Her grandmother was already lying in the coffin. Her eldest aunt Li Hongyan and third uncle Li Hongqiang accused her sarcastically of being unfilial to their eldest brother, saying that it was all her father's fault that her grandmother was gone.
Because her father did not take her grandmother Chen Xiaoying to the hospital for examination when she fell.
Rural people are poor. They fell down and got up by themselves. They can eat, sleep, jog, speak and work normally. Who would spend the money to go to the hospital for blood tests and X-rays?
This became the main reason why her aunt and uncle attacked his parents.
What her second uncle Li Hongjian said: "I don't care about anyone. One is my eldest sister, my third brother, and the other is my eldest brother. It would be wrong for me to side with anyone. I just don't care about anyone."
She didn't say anything. Her father was the eldest son. Many relatives and friends said to her father behind his back, "Who told you to be the eldest son? If you are the eldest son and don't care, who will?"
They just bully honest people. Her second uncle's house collapsed and his wife ran away. Her third uncle's wife died and he had no house. Only her fourth uncle was left.
But her father is the eldest son, and the bungalow his father just built is spacious and bright, with snow-white tiles, a soft fabric sofa, a TV cabinet, snow-white tiles, a large chandelier hanging from the ceiling, exquisite wallpaper, and the cross-stitch "A Harmonious Family Brings Good Fortune" embroidered by her mother in her free time.
Place the coffin here, burn incense and paper money, and it will be so bright and spacious.
Her fourth uncle's house was old, and he was the youngest son. The elders, relatives, and friends thought it was not right for the coffin to be placed in the youngest son's home.
Her father had no objection. He was the eldest child and had been working since he was young, taking care of his younger siblings and taking care of his parents in their old age. He was aware of this.
But he couldn't stand being accused by his elder sister and brother for deliberately not taking his mother to see a doctor, so his mother became seriously ill because of his carelessness and died.
No one spoke for her father, except for her fourth uncle Li Honggang.
From beginning to end, she just smiled at this person and that person without saying anything. When there was a conflict, for example, when her third uncle picked up a fruit knife to settle the score with her father, her fourth uncle would walk a step slower than others.
Her fourth uncle knew how to mind his own business and not meddle in other people's affairs.
He was trying to protect himself, but Li Yutong felt disappointed again.
However, she at least made clear her attitude towards her third uncle and her grandmother. Don't say that she and her father are heartless and ungrateful in the future, because they did care about her.
"My dad meant the same thing, but my third uncle has always had a problem with my dad, so even if my dad asked him to come back, he definitely wouldn't come back."
"My grandma said that my third uncle is not doing well. It's understandable that you don't want to care about him. So forget it. My third uncle is also 30 years old, not a child."
After Li Yutong finished speaking, she turned and left.
She made this trip because she felt sorry for her grandmother, but she didn't expect that she had already forgotten the coldness of the past and felt it again at this moment.
Li Honggang felt a little uncomfortable when she saw her niece leave.
"Xiaoyu."
He shouted.
Li Yutong looked at him puzzledly.
Li Honggang frowned and thought for a while: "Forget it, I'll go ask your second aunt."
"But I guarantee that your second aunt will be able to come up with a solution. Your second aunt's brain is not as smart as you think."
This is an accident.
Li Yutong has already given up.
"Okay, Fourth Uncle, you go now. My grandma will know the news in the evening," she said.
Li Hong just nodded and rode away on her bike.
Li Hongli continued to stay at her husband's house as usual, not working and being picky about food. Her mother-in-law Ma Xiufen, who tried to coax her into taking out her passbook, became increasingly impatient.
"When a daughter is married off, the capable families not only give a house, a sewing machine, a TV, but also arrange a job for the son-in-law. Isn't your mother very capable? Why didn't your mother arrange a job for your son-in-law?"
"Hongli, I'm not being picky about you as a mother-in-law. I've never seen a daughter-in-law as lazy as you in my old age. Go out and take a look. Whose breakfast is made by their mother-in-law? Whose daughter-in-law dares to yell at her mother-in-law?"
Li Hongli said impatiently: "Stop talking, it hurts my ears."
"I don't want to say it, but can you please move a little? You stay at home every day, asking me to serve you like an old Buddha. Which mother-in-law can stand this?"
"People say that pregnant women should move around more. I just asked you to wash two dishes."
Ma Xiufen was furious.
Li Hongli ate melon seeds while glancing into the dishwashing basin: "Are those two? That's at least ten. I won't wash them."
"Why don't you wash it?" Ma Xiufen threw the rag on the table and rolled up her sleeves.
Li Hongli snorted coldly: "I pay fifty yuan a month for living expenses, so I won't wash it."
Ma Xiufen was so angry that she fell backwards. Fortunately, she was quite happy when she gave birth to two sons. She thought that when the two sons married, they would be able to serve her, the mother-in-law, comfortably and she could enjoy her life.
As a result, Li Hongli came first, like a queen, doing nothing, nothing at all!
Just when Ma Xiufen was getting angry, the gate opened: "Is anyone there?"
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law looked over and saw that the yard was very small. After going down the stairs and walking a few steps, they reached the gate of the yard.
They both saw it clearly.
"Fourth brother, why are you here?" Li Hongli greeted him.
Ma Xiufen also recognized him. This was Li Hongli's fourth brother who sold buns but was reluctant to give even one to his sister.
Look down.
Li Honggang saw it all and smiled: "I just bought a few apples at the intersection, don't be disgusted."
Li Hongli was eating melon seeds and was thirsty, so she grabbed it and said, "I'll eat it."
Ma Xiufen put the idea to bed as soon as it occurred to her. She said with a fake smile, "Hongli, apples are cold in nature. Eating too much is not good for you. Eat less."
Li Honggang felt embarrassed, he didn't know that pregnant women couldn't eat apples, but he remembered that apples were not cold in nature and could be eaten by men, women, young and old.
"Delicious." Li Hongli took a bite of the apple, and asked Li Honggang to sit down without any hesitation, "Fourth brother, why did you come to see me all of a sudden? What's the matter?"
Li Hong just glanced at her mother-in-law.
Ma Xiufen put on a sullen face and started washing the dishes, pretending not to see anything.
Li Hongli said, "Don't worry about her, just say it."
Unable to avoid her mother-in-law, Li Honggang couldn't explain it clearly: "Your third brother can't make it in the factory. People bully him. We asked him to come back, but he refused. We have no way. Hongli, please think of a way to call him back."
Li Hongli always thought she was smart and had many ideas, and when her brother suddenly came to her for help, she felt it was time to show off her intelligence and talent.
"Just tell him that our mom is in the hospital and is dying, and ask him to come back quickly to see her for the last time."
She lies without hesitation.