Li Hongyan felt that her mother's words were not right, but she did not take it seriously: "Mom, I sell sheep for you, and you are still worried? How can I lose money from you?"

Chen Xiaoying said nothing. She walked forward and looked at the six sheep in the sheepfold. There were four large and two small ones. If they were sold, they would get more than a thousand yuan, which was a huge sum of money for her.

"Are you still going to sell this sheep? If not, I'll go to the house at the entrance of your village." asked the man who wanted to buy the sheep.

"Sell! Sell! Why not sell it? What's the price?" Li Hongyan said immediately.

The buyer of the sheep did some calculations: "There are many sheep being raised in the village these past two years, and the price has not gone up. I only have four big ones, and the remaining two are only two months old, so there is not much meat. I won't weigh them, so I'll round it up to a thousand yuan for you. How about that?"

"Okay, okay, one thousand is one thousand, you can take them all away." Li Hongyan didn't even ask her mother Chen Xiaoying's opinion.

Chen Xiaoying suddenly interrupted her and said, "No, one thousand is too little. The minimum is one thousand and fifty. If you want it, you can take it away. If you don't want it, I will raise it for two more days. The sheep can be raised for two more months and eat some grass. Then the price will not be this high."

"Mom, what are you doing? You still want to raise sheep, but don't you see what you have become?" Li Hongyan became furious when she heard her mother was ruining her plan. She was just an old woman, what did she know?

"I raise sheep, and I can sell them however I want."

Chen Xiaoying no longer listens to her as much as she used to. Her eldest daughter has been smart since she was young, and none of the more than a dozen people in the family are as smart as her.

She is just an ordinary old rural woman who has never seen the world and can't even understand what she watches on TV. Her eldest daughter is smart, so she listens to her in everything.

Whatever she says, that's what it is.

But now, she doesn't listen.

"Mom!" Li Hongyan raised her voice.

"I'm not deaf, just speak a little more quietly." Chen Xiaoying also frowned and scolded her.

Li Hongyan's eyes widened. Her mother never spoke to her like that.

"Okay, okay, one thousand and fifty is one thousand and fifty." The man who was buying the sheep saw that the mother and daughter were arguing, and he didn't want to delay the business, so he agreed.

I had originally hoped that the eldest daughter, who had never raised sheep and didn't understand the sheep market, would deliberately lower the price. As a result, the mother looked honest and was hard to fool.

When Li Hongyan heard that she had sold it for 50 yuan more, she didn't bother to get angry with her mother and said happily, "Okay, okay, then it'll be 1,050 yuan."

She smiled as she watched the people buying the sheep start to count the money.

Chen Xiaoying was also watching from the side, counting silently.

After collecting the money, the person who bought the sheep subconsciously handed the money to Li Hongyan.

Li Hongyan took it and began to check the authenticity of each one.

Chen Xiaoying watched from the side. When she died, mobile payment had become popular. You could just take a smartphone and scan some code in the convenience store, and the money would be transferred.

There is no need to count or worry about receiving fakes.

"Is it okay?" the sheep buyer confirmed with her.

"No problem." Li Hongyan agreed readily and stuffed the money into her pocket.

But the money hasn't even warmed up yet.

Chen Xiaoying stretched out her hand: "Hongyan, give me the money."

Li Hongyan didn't care and didn't even look at her: "Mom, I'll deposit it for you in the city. You don't know the way and money, don't let others cheat you."

Chen Xiaoying said, "I won't be cheated. Give me the money."

"Mom, why don't you understand what I'm saying to you? How old are you? You can't take so much money." Li Hongyan was already very impatient. What was wrong with her mother today? She kept asking her for money.

"I can, just give me the money." Chen Xiaoying's eyes had already become stern: "Don't you understand what I'm saying?"

Only then did Li Hongyan realize that something was wrong with her mother.

At this time, the six sheep, four big and two small, were already bleating and were pulled onto the tricycle at the door.

In the yard, apart from Li Yutong, who made herself a bowl of steamed buns with hot water and was about to go to school, there were only Chen Xiaoying and Li Hongyan, mother and daughter.

Li Yutong looked curiously at her aunt and grandmother fighting over the money to buy the sheep.

"mom--"

Li Hongyan frowned and looked sullen, still unwilling to give it.

She had too many places to spend money. She was planning to build two houses for her eldest son, and she was going to marry him off in two years, so she was short of money.

"You don't want to give it to me, right? If you don't give me this money, don't even think about entering my house again in this life."

Chen Xiaoying was angry.

She knew how arrogant and domineering her eldest daughter was. She had fallen out with her parents-in-law and brothers in the first three years after her marriage. She relied on her family members to help her at home and outside.

If she is not allowed to enter her parents' home, she will never be able to stay at her husband's home again.

When Li Hongyan heard that her mother didn't even plan to acknowledge her as her daughter in order to get the money, her eyes immediately turned red with grievance: "Mom, you know that I gave birth to many sons, and my parents-in-law don't help me. I can't make ends meet. Can't you help me?"

"Over the years, I bought you clothes and food... During the Chinese New Year, I even gave you tofu and fried dough sticks..."

"Give me the money." Chen Xiaoying didn't want to listen to her anymore. This was the same repetitive words that she had heard so many times in her previous life that her ears were callused. What she paid was always what she paid, and she should just ignore the efforts of others.

The tofu and fried dough sticks that were given to her, weren’t they the soybeans and rapeseed oil that she brought back from her?

Taking her things and giving them to her as a gift, is that also considered as her filial piety?

"Here, here you go." Li Hongyan angrily took out the money, stuffed it into Chen Xiaoying's pocket, and ran away angrily.

Chen Xiaoying finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the huge handful of money in her hand. Her body, which had been holding on for so long, finally couldn't hold on any longer.

"Xiaoyu, come and help me."

Li Yutong quickly put down her chopsticks and helped her sit down on the chair.

"Xiao Yu, stop eating. Go to the field and call your dad back. Grandma has something to say to him." Chen Xiaoying said.

She knew that her eldest daughter was calculating and always wanted to make life better for her family.

She not only takes money from her, but also asks for money from other places.

Because her family has so many places to spend money!

It was around this time the year before last that she bought her eldest son a car to run a taxi. Then, her eldest son was going to get married, so she had to build a house, give the daughter-in-law a dowry, and hold a wedding with chicken, duck, fish and meat. The year after next, she would have her eldest grandson...

Her second son will go to high school and her youngest son will go to junior high school, which will cost money.

The second son graduated and went to college, and the youngest son went to high school, and then to college after graduation, which also cost money.

Later on, they repeated their eldest brother's path, building a house, getting married, and having grandchildren...

They all cost money.

It was still a huge sum, too much to even imagine. So much money to pay in, she couldn't even calculate it. How much would it cost?