He is like this to his own mother, let alone his mother-in-law. Moreover, Xu Xiaodong is a calculating and stingy person. There must be no good intentions when he invites her to dinner.

She couldn't even give him this opportunity and let him think that there was a possibility that he was plotting against her.

"I'm old, I don't have a good appetite, I don't like to go out to eat." She said lightly: "Don't invite me, I won't go."

The words have been made very straightforward.

Li Hongli felt very embarrassed: "Mom! It's just a meal, it's a small matter."

"No, no, no." Her mother Chen Xiaoying waved her hand: "Forget it, I said, I won't go."

Li Hongli was furious.

Chen Xiaoying turned and left, but suddenly remembered something and looked at Li Hongli again: "Hongli, as your mother, I have done my best to treat you well. If I find out that you and Xu Xiaodong have teamed up to deceive me again, don't blame me for calling your uncles and your father Li Pingwang to sever the mother-daughter relationship with you."

"If you don't believe it, you can try it."

Li Hongli's face turned pale: "Mom, how can you be so cruel."

"I can't be more cruel than you. The kindness of raising me for more than 20 years is not as good as a man who despises you like a shoe sole. How can anyone dare to be nice to someone like you?"

"You will cheat anyone who treats you well."

Chen Xiaoying's scolding was very rude.

Li Hongli wanted to cry: "You reported Xu Dadong to the police station. Now his elder brother can't come back. He probably wants to invite you to dinner and ask you to go to the police station to say a few good words. Even so, you are unwilling to do so. How can I live in the Xu family?"

"My mother-in-law is always looking for trouble. She doesn't even cook for me."

Chen Xiaoying was indifferent: "You can't cook for yourself? You chose this path yourself. How you live in the Xu family is your business."

Li Hongli watched her mother Chen Xiaoying leave like that. She stomped her feet in anger and left with her big belly.

After returning to the store, Chen Xiaoying went back to the kitchen and was angry.

When the third daughter-in-law Zhao Xueyan saw this, she couldn't help but ask, "Mom, what's the matter with Hongli?"

Even she knew that if there was nothing going on at Li Hongli's house, they would not invite her to dinner.

Chen Xiaoying sighed, "Who knows. But I've already told you, no matter what it is, don't come to me. I'm just an old lady from the countryside, working day and night to earn this little money. I definitely can't help you, so don't come to me."

Zhao Xueyan knew that Li Hongli must be trying to plot against her mother again.

Zhao Xueyan’s guess was correct.

Over there, Li Hongli walked not far with her big belly, and Li Hongyan, who was hiding at the corner, came out: "How is it, what did mom say?"

Li Hongli glared at her elder sister angrily: "Mom didn't listen at all. I told her that Xiaodong invited her to dinner, and she also said that she would not go. No matter what I have to do, don't go to her."

Li Hongyan felt a chill in her heart as she listened to this: "She's not my biological mother, even if she's my stepmother, she wouldn't be so cold-hearted."

Li Hongli was very tired and had a bulging belly. She saw a stone block in the corner and sat down, stroking her big round belly: "Look at me now. She didn't even say she would take me home. Isn't she afraid that something might happen to me along the way?"

Li Hongyan didn't care: "What's the problem? When I gave birth to Pengfei, I was still working in the fields. Who is as spoiled as you? You don't even cook at home. You have to wait for your mother-in-law to bring food to the table before you eat."

"That was a long time ago. I'm pregnant and I don't dare to move." Li Hongli made excuses for herself. She said that, but when she came to pester her biological mother Chen Xiaoying, she didn't think that she was moving around recklessly by walking such a long distance.

"You really don't know where Xu Dadong hid the money? Have you asked your mother-in-law?" Li Hongyan has been running to the county town frequently during this period just for these few thousand dollars.

Li Hongli sighed: "I asked, and my mother-in-law said she didn't know."

"You have to let your mother-in-law think it over carefully. Doesn't Xu Dadong have to pay a fine in this case? I heard from people that as long as the fine is paid and then we look for someone, maybe we can get him released." When Zhao Pengfei was arrested, she was like a headless fly, looking for people everywhere to ask, and finally found out.

Li Hongli was very upset: "There is no money at home."

It was because he had no money that Xu Dadong was not released.

As Li Hongyan listened, she suddenly had an idea that she had never thought of before: "Hongli, Xu Dadong refused to tell her where the money was hidden. Did he force your mother-in-law to find your Xiaodong to find a solution?"

Li Hongli was stunned for a moment before she realized, "That's possible."

Li Hongyan exclaimed: "What's going on? Mom shouldn't have returned the betrothal gift to you, nor should she have given you a house. Now look, something has happened."

"Xu Dadong forced Xiaodong to pay because he saw that his brother had so much money. If your family didn't have so much money, he would have told us where he hid the money long ago."

After hearing what Li Hongyan said, Li Hongli stood up angrily: "Don't even think about using my money. What money does Xu Xiaodong have? We only set up a few tables for the wedding, and I saved a little gift money. I gave it all to him. What money does Xu Xiaodong have?"

"I've already said that I'm using his mother to force Xu Xiaodong. Xu Xiaodong doesn't want to pay, so he's targeting you." Li Hongyan thought, "He's also treating our mother to dinner, but he's using you to target our mother. What kind of person is that?"

Li Hongyan felt that no matter how despicable or shameless she was, she could not go to this extent.

She looked down on them, two grown men, how flirtatious.

Li Hongli was so angry that she cried. Only after she married Xu Xiaodong did she realize how difficult it was to be someone's daughter-in-law or wife.

Although the mother-in-law was very mean, Xu Xiaodong only sided with his mother, saying that it was not easy for his mother to raise him.

She had to wash Xu Xiaodong's clothes and socks, and do the housework. She was pregnant and felt so uncomfortable, but he never cared about her.

A few days after getting married, he went to the provincial capital to work. He came back once every one or two months, but would leave again after just two days.

He hasn't seen a penny of the money he earned. When they met, he just complained about being poor. He said from side to side that he wanted to start his own business, but he didn't have the capital. If he had the capital, what would happen?

She finally had tens of thousands of dollars in her hands and a house, and she could live a comfortable life. Why should she give the money to Xu Xiaodong? What if he lost money in business?

Wouldn't she have to live in poverty again?

"There's no way I'll give him money anyway." Li Hongli said firmly.

Li Hongyan also nodded hurriedly: "That's right, don't give it to him. If you give it to him, you can never get it back. There is no such thing as lending or not lending between husband and wife. If you don't lend it, the money is yours. If you lend it to him and he spends it, what can you do to him?"

Li Hongli is actually very selfish. Even though she was desperate with her mother Chen Xiaoying for Xu Xiaodong and cried and shouted that she wanted to marry Xu Xiaodong, she liked Xu Xiaodong.

But if she had to choose between Xu Xiaodong and herself to live a good life, she would definitely choose herself.