Chen Xiaoying shook her head: "I can't help you. The child you are carrying is from the Xu family. If something happens to you in my house, how can I explain to the Xu family?"
This was what happened in her previous life. Li Hongli was not used to living in her husband’s house, so she insisted on moving back to her parents’ home.
After moving to her mother's house, she took advantage of her weak health and the dangerous pregnancy and did nothing all day, letting her mother bring all the meals to her on the kang.
She took care of her daughter so attentively, fearing that something might happen to the baby in her belly. If she couldn't keep the fetus, not only would she never be able to have children again, but even her own life would be in danger.
She was so attentive that even the hot-tempered Li Pingwang chose to just scold his second daughter for her laziness and arrogance. In the past, he would have slapped her twice.
Finally, Li Hongli gave birth to the child safely in the health center. However, because it was a girl, Li Hongli's mother-in-law Ma Xiufen was unhappy. She cried and said that she had calculated that her Xiaodong was destined to have a son. She asked if the Li family had done something wrong and that retribution was coming to the Xu family.
This is pure bullshit.
The son-in-law Xu Xiaodong also had a sullen face all day long, as if his father-in-law and his family owed him millions.
Li Hongli has a bad temper and cried like a child during her confinement period.
She had no choice but to take the initiative to go to Xu's house to take care of her during the confinement period.
The people of the Xu family did not thank her at all.
Ma Xiufen said: "She is serving her own daughter, why should I thank her?"
It was obvious that when she was cooking, she also cooked for the Xu family. This meant that in addition to taking care of her own daughter's food and drink, and making diapers for the child, she also served as a nanny for Ma Xiufen's family.
But Ma Xiufen was not grateful and even complained about the food she cooked, saying it was either too salty or too bland.
The villagers have never eaten any good food and they don’t know how to cook.
She was clearly just a rag picker at the bottom of society in the county town, but she still looked down on her who had a house and land in the village.
In order to ensure that her daughter Li Hongli could have a good confinement after childbirth, she endured everything and even washed the underwear of her son-in-law Xu Xiaodong.
As a result, Li Hongli, her mother, suffered so much injustice for her, but not only did she not speak up for her, she also complained about her with her in-laws.
"My mother-in-law said that it was because the food I ate when I was pregnant was not nutritious, so the child was born so weak and was sick every other day."
"Mom, it's all your fault!"
She could still feel how heartbroken she was at that time by touching her chest now.
She was stupid to bring Li Hongli home again and serve her humbly.
Li Hongli was dumbfounded by Chen Xiaoying's ruthless words: "Mom, I am your daughter, you don't care whether I live or die?"
"You still know that you are my biological daughter, so do you take me, your biological mother, seriously? Have you ever considered me? Think about yourself, you are pregnant with the Xu family's child, and it is the duty of Ma Xiufen and Xu Xiaodong to take care of you." Chen Xiaoying refused completely.
"Mother-in-law, what are you saying? The child belongs to our Xu family, but the one who is pregnant is your daughter. Are you not going to care about her?"
Ma Xiufen now says that she doesn't want to serve Li Hongli at all. Why? She is not her daughter. She has never served her own daughter.
Li Hongli is such a fool. She is willing to let her mother serve her. Why would she miss this opportunity?
"Mom. Woo woo." Li Hongli felt that her mother-in-law was right: "Besides, even though the child I'm pregnant with is from the Xu family, isn't it also your grandson?"
Chen Xiaoying still shook her head: "Grandson, you also said that it is a grandson. This child belongs to the Xu family, Xu Xiaodong's child. You are also Xu Xiaodong's wife now. If something happens to the two of you, I have to give Xu Xiaodong an explanation. What can I give? With my own life?"
Chen Xiaoying was angry. Her eldest daughter Li Hongyan was anxiously waiting for her mother Chen Xiaoying to help her think about Pengfei. She also said to Li Hongli impatiently, "Second sister, stop making trouble. It is Xu Xiaodong's responsibility to take care of you because he can't. His mother is helping him take care of you, which is considered helping her son. What's the matter with you running to your mother's house?"
And what her mother said was so right. If something really happened to Li Hongli, the Xu family would definitely blackmail the entire family.
Li Hongli was dumbfounded. This was the first time she felt the inequality between men and women in this society.
What exactly is the relationship between a woman's husband's family and her own family?
Although she was born to her mother, because she married Xu Xiaodong, it seemed as if she became the property of the Xu family. If something happened to her, the Xu family would have to settle accounts with her parents.
But she was born by her mother. Even if something happened to her, at most she would have to give her mother a life, right?
There is also the child in her belly. Although it belongs to the Xu family, it is growing in her belly. If something happens to the child, if it is not her mother's fault, why should she cause trouble for her mother?
Chen Xiaoying knew what her daughter was thinking. This world is so unreasonable.
Once a woman marries into her husband's family, her parents' family no longer has a say. Even if the daughter is born from her mother's womb, the mother cannot say what is right.
What's more, Li Hongli is an extroverted girl who bullies the weak and fears the strong. Her parents' family love her, so she takes advantage of that to bully them to death. When her husband's family bullies her, she turns around and helps her husband's family bully her own family.
Chen Xiaoying must have done something wrong in her previous life that she gave birth to such a daughter.
"Second sister, don't be so unreasonable. Just stay at your house and be quiet." Li Hongyan said, holding Chen Xiaoying's arm and walking out: "Mom, let's go."
Li Hongli felt extremely aggrieved: "Mom, mom?"
Chen Xiaoying didn't even turn her head.
For the first time, Li Hongli felt a little regretful because she had a very harsh quarrel with her mother before getting married.
Li Hongyan felt that her second sister was not satisfied. She had taken all the benefits, the betrothal gift had been returned, and the house had been given to her as a dowry. Since she was pregnant, it should have been the time for her husband's family to help, but she let her mother do it again.
As she walked, she said to Chen Xiaoying, "Mom, do you still remember Caiyun from our village? Her husband's family wouldn't let her take care of her child, so her mother from her natal family left her in the village to take care of the child. As a result, when she was picking corn cobs, she didn't pay attention and the child fell into the river next to the field and drowned. Her husband's family smashed her natal family home, demanding that her mother pay for the life of their grandson and divorce Caiyun. Guess what happened the next day?"
This incident caused a big stir at the time, and people in the surrounding villages knew about it.
Of course Chen Xiaoying also knew that Zhao Caiyun's mother-in-law was similar to Ma Xiufen, or even more so than her. She was eloquent and always smiled at everyone she met, but everyone knew that this person was good at taking advantage.
All of her grandchildren were raised by their daughters-in-law's mother. She never worried about them and even told her daughters-in-law with confidence that she wanted to treat them equally, so she would not take care of any of her grandchildren.
She planned well. Her mother from her natal family helped out and her family got the advantage for free. Her eldest grandson even said bad things about his grandmother everywhere, saying that she wouldn't let him eat this or that. But her grandmother treated him well and bought him whatever he wanted to eat at the grocery store. She loved him the most.
But in the end, something happened to her little grandson, and she made a big fuss.