She had no choice. Among her six children, only the eldest daughter, Li Hongyan, could hold her own. She dared to scold and fight, and was good at talking. The others, like Li Hongli, were just smart. They could not fool outsiders, but only their own family members.

People like the fourth brother Li Honggang are even more timid than Li Hongli.

The youngest daughter, Li Hongxia, is filial, but she is well-educated and thin-skinned. She feels ashamed when dealing with her third brother Li Hongqiang's shameless affairs with women.

Among the dwarfs, there is only one who can be a general.

Li Yutong sighed: "Grandma, then it really can only be my aunt who goes."

Since the decision had been made, Chen Xiaoying felt that there was no time to lose so she informed Li Hongyan and planned to go to the sawmill together with her daughter to find Li Hongqiang.

By then, the second brother Li Hongjian will be there to help out, and the two women will not be beaten by the men.

Li Hongyan actually didn't want to go.

She was afraid of being beaten and didn't want to do anything shameful or humiliating.

She found her mother Chen Xiaoying and said, "Mom, please think of another way. We are both carsick. It takes me three days to recover from carsickness. If I get there and no one fights me, I will just lie down first."

Chen Xiaoying knew what she was thinking and stared at her: "Then don't go, I'll go by myself."

"Mom, stop joking." Li Hongyan frowned. Why was her mother so bold?

Li Hongyan couldn't stop him, and she was reluctant to give up the opportunity to get close to her mother and show off in front of her mother, so she made up her mind and agreed to go with him.

Chen Xiaoying was efficient and decisive. She went wherever she said she would, and on the third day she was on a train to the provincial capital.

Two women who had never traveled far took a bus to the train station, and then took a train to the provincial capital. Who knew that after arriving in the provincial capital, they had to transfer to a shuttle bus to the county town, and then to a bus at the long-distance bus station in the county town.

The mother and daughter were in a better condition on the train, but at other times they were vomiting all the time.

Finally I managed to get to the destination.

Li Hongyan looked at the strangers coming and going around her. Most of them spoke the local dialect. The unfamiliar environment made her feel uneasy and powerless. "Mom, let's find a hotel to stay in first."

Chen Xiaoying was also exhausted: "Don't worry, we agreed to wait for them at this bus stop."

The mother and daughter had no choice but to sit down on the curb, staring weakly at the second child, Li Hongjian, who came to pick them up.

There are no mobile phones now, so Chen Xiaoying just told Lao Er when she was in Kaiyuan County that she would wait for him here, and Li Hongjian came according to the estimated time.

After the meeting, Li Hongyan said, "Second brother, find a reliable hotel for me and mom so we can take a rest."

Li Hongjian knew they were tired: "Okay then."

If it were him, he would not be willing to stay in a hotel and would go back to the factory to live in the dormitory. There are also cheap houses for rent nearby.

But his mother and his elder sister came from far away and lived in such a simple place, which was unfair.

When they arrived at a hotel, Chen Xiaoying said to Li Hongjian, "Don't tell Lao San that we are here yet. I will go there myself tomorrow to see how ridiculous he can be."

The second oldest brother, Li Hongjian, had no choice but to nod his head: "But, Mom, you have to be careful. The third oldest brother doesn't recognize anyone anymore. He rolls his eyes when I, the second oldest brother, talk to him."

"He is so rebellious. How dare he do this?" Li Hongyan felt that her third brother Li Hongqiang should never become such a person.

"He gambles, smokes, plays cards, drinks, and looks for women of questionable character. What little salary he gets, he spends it all on these." The second brother, Li Hongjian, didn't want to see his younger brother degenerate, but he couldn't do anything about it. If people listened to him, he was the second brother. If they didn't listen to him, he was nothing.

Li Hongyan was stunned when she heard this. It was too quick for a person to learn bad habits.

The mother and daughter were really tired, so they went out to eat a bowl of noodles and then went to rest.

The next day, when the mother and daughter woke up, it was bright.

Nowadays, there are no toilets indoors in hotels, and all toilets are located in front of the corridor.

Chen Xiaoying washed her face before waking up her eldest daughter Li Hongyan. Li Hongyan was in a daze for a while, looking at the ceiling, before she realized that the bed she was lying on was not her own kang.

"Have a bite to eat and walk around. It's four in the afternoon, so we can go to the lumber mill."

She had already found out from her second brother yesterday that the sawmill operates in two shifts: the morning shift is from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and the night shift is from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Generally, people who get off early shifts have nothing to do after four o'clock.

What the boss meant was that all the work here is heavy and it is easy for workers to get into accidents if they are too tiring, and the amount of money needed to compensate for any accidents is not enough. After get off work ends at four o'clock, the early shift workers all go to rest.

As a result, people like Li Hongqiang played cards with a group of people who specialized in setting up scams in the factory.

Sometimes I would start drinking and playing cards with others at 4:30 and continue until late at night.

I could lose fifty bucks in one night.

Fifty dollars for one night. You can see how much he puts into it every month.

He doesn't rest well at night and doesn't get enough sleep, so he has no energy to work during the day, and his boss is dissatisfied with him.

Chen Xiaoying sighed.

Li Hongyan rarely goes out, and she just goes shopping, but she says, "Mom, I don't have money to spend, I can't afford it, and shopping is meaningless."

She glanced at her mother Chen Xiaoying.

Chen Xiaoying took out ten yuan unhappily and said, "Spend it."

She was giving her a break by providing her with food and lodging when she went out to do business.

Li Hongyan happily took it and went to the first stall. She saw people selling pan-fried dumplings and immediately bought one for one yuan, five in total. She gave the first one to Chen Xiaoying.

Chen Xiaoying was stunned for a moment, then took it in her hand.

The eldest daughter Li Hongyan has always been very good at doing things. She took 10,000 yuan from you and spent 10 yuan on you. She spoke nicely and did things in a way that made it seem like I was very filial and considerate to you.

How could Chen Xiaoying not be confused in her previous life? She was never treated as a human being by the man Li Pingwang all her life. She worked hard, and now when she was old, her eldest daughter was so filial and considerate to her.

So, when she kept raising sheep to earn money to support her eldest daughter, it was not only to support her eldest daughter, but also to satisfy her own lack of love.

Chen Xiaoying, an old woman, suddenly realized this truth.

Her eyes were red.

"Mom, what's wrong? It doesn't taste good?" Li Hongyan took a bite of the food in the paper bag and frowned: "It really doesn't taste good."

She has eaten the buns from her mother's breakfast shop, and you can tell they are delicious.

The filling is rich, unlike this pan-fried bun, which is half dough and the filling is leek vermicelli, dry and salty.

However, we were a poor family and were used to being frugal. We had also experienced years of disasters when I was a child, and the bugs that fell into the big pot of rice were considered rare meat, so everyone scrambled to eat them.

So no matter how bad it tasted, she couldn't bear to throw it away. She chewed it in her mouth and swallowed it. Even though it tasted bad, at least it was made of grain and wouldn't kill her. Once it went down her stomach, it would still fill her up.

"Mom, you're not used to it, give it to me."

Chen Xiaoying really wasn’t used to it, but she swallowed it down anyway: “It’s okay.”

Chen Xiaoying was walking on the street, watching what people were doing on the street. There was a lot of food, and there were three bun shops. She bought buns from each of them, thinking about comparing them with her own buns.