"Let's go, everyone go back." Chen Xiaoying was trying to get everyone to leave. There were so many people that the ward was so crowded that no one could move around.
"Lanxiang, keep it here. I want to talk to her."
When she heard that Liu Lanxiang was going to be kept and the others were to leave, Li Hongyan's dissatisfaction reached its peak.
"Mom, there is something that we can't listen to. You have to tell her."
Chen Xiaoying looked at her coldly: "If I need you to teach me how to do something, I have to listen to you?"
Speaking of this, Li Hongyan is really not used to it.
When my mother was still in the village, everything big or small in her family had to be done with her permission. And was there anything that she didn't give some advice on without her permission?
Now not only does her mother not listen to her anymore, she also does things behind her back and hides everything from her. How can she accept this?
"Mom, that's not what I meant."
Even if that was what she meant, she wouldn't admit it.
Li Hongyan is the kind of daughter in the village who is like spilled water once she is married. Under this influence, her own thinking is a little old-fashioned. She knows that it is wrong for her to repeatedly interfere in her mother's family affairs.
But she had reasons to convince herself. It was because her parents in her natal family were confused and her brothers were not ambitious. So after she got married, she had to worry about her natal family.
The ability to distort unreasonableness into a situation where she is at a disadvantage is not something that most people have.
"I plan to talk to Lanxiang about the things in the store. Do I need to tell you one by one?" Chen Xiaoying didn't look at Li Hongyan, but looked at her other children.
Li Hongli was not satisfied, but she knew that her words were useless.
The second oldest, Li Hongjian, didn’t think there was anything wrong: “Just say whatever you want to say. No need to say anything.”
The eldest brother Li Hongwei felt aggrieved. What position did the eldest sister have? Did she dislike his mother for letting Lanxiang speak?
After everyone left, Chen Xiaoying said to Liu Lanxiang, "I have to take care of Honggang these few days, so you can look after the store. We agreed that Xiaoyu owns more than half of the store. She is the one who got the secret recipes for the steamed buns and the hot pot ingredients. I am managing it for her. She is busy with school and I can't get away. It's time for you to step up."
This eldest daughter-in-law is not stupid, and she is efficient at doing things, but she is sometimes too timid. She is quite cheerful in the village, but becomes timid when she arrives in the city.
Liu Lanxiang felt uneasy when she heard what her mother-in-law said: "Can I do it? Xueyan is here anyway."
Chen Xiaoying said angrily: "You have to learn everything you don't know. What are you doing in the village?"
Since her mother-in-law said so, Liu Lanxiang could only nod and say, "Okay, I'll try."
Liu Lanxiang left the hospital and went to the store.
She looked at the brand new storefront. The main store was over 100 square meters in total. It was now two o'clock in the afternoon, and there were still about ten tables of customers eating inside, selling hamburgers and coke, and there were also several tables of young people.
Liu Lanxiang has just arrived and is responsible for collecting the money.
Zhao Xueyan, the third brother's sister-in-law, asked her about the fourth brother Li Honggang's injury, and whispered to her secretly: "I don't know where Yang Xiaohui ran off to. She just came to me to borrow money, and I was dumbfounded."
When Liu Lanxiang heard this, she asked hurriedly, "Did you borrow it?"
The third brother's wife, Zhao Xueyan, shook her head: "No, why would I borrow? I have no money. I have to pay the mortgage every month. The third brother doesn't care whether I live or die, and I have to raise the children."
Liu Lanxiang heaved a sigh of relief: "It's better not to lend it. If you lend it, you won't be able to come back."
Zhao Xueyan heard something wrong in her tone and asked, "What happened? Did you hit her so hard?"
Liu Lanxiang said: "Not human-like."
"Oh my god." Zhao Xueyan felt so painful after hearing this, she looked like a nobody. He must have been beaten too hard. "We are still a family after all."
Liu Lanxiang's biggest problem is her quick mouth: "The Yang family doesn't consider the fourth child as a family member. They don't even think about where the fourth child has suffered all these years since he married Yang Xiaohui."
Li Honggang is timid and honest, but a little narrow-minded. He keeps silent when his parents favor him. As the seven children of the Li family, except for the eldest child Li Hongyan who takes advantage of them openly or secretly to get benefits for herself, and the fourth child who gets some of the leftovers, the others cannot get any of them.
Then he took all the money he worked so hard to earn, whether it was rice, flour, grain, oil or salary, and moved it to Yang Xiaohui's mother's house like a moving mouse. Li Honggang didn't get any better off. When he arrived at his mother-in-law's house, his mother-in-law said that the technology of this rapeseed oil workshop was not good, because there were so many oil residues in the dishes.
Li Honggang felt aggrieved and helpless. What could he do?
Don’t you want this daughter-in-law anymore?
Liu Lanxiang has relatives in Yangjia Village, and this is what her relatives told her.
My third brother's sister-in-law, Zhao Xueyan, said, "Yang Xiaohui is just being unappreciative of her good fortune. But where on earth did she go?"
She looked at Liu Lanxiang, and Liu Lanxiang looked at her: "How should I know? I didn't see her when I came."
Everyone in her husband's family was missing Yang Xiaohui. They didn't know where she had gone. Yang Xiaohui was like a candle burning at both ends at this time.
She had to comfort her crying mother, and at the same time, she was worried about Li Honggang who wanted to visit the health center.
Her man Li Honggang was really beaten too badly.
Staying in the county town was not a solution. The police station would not let Yang Jiangang out, so she and her mother had no choice but to come back.
It just so happened that Yang Jiangang's beating caused quite a big stir, with so many people watching. Someone from Yangjia Village saw it, came back and spread the news throughout the village as if it were news.
Yang Xiaohui's sister-in-law knew about it.
"Yang Jiangang is a piece of shit. He promised me that he would never fight outside again, but he still fights? How can I live with a man like him?" Her sister-in-law Chen Xiaoqiao cried and screamed, sitting on the ground and kicking her legs: "It's over, it's over, just let me die."
After saying that, she got up and ran against the courtyard wall.
There were so many neighbors watching, even those who were pretending to be friendly all came up to pull her up.
"How can a young man want to commit suicide? The police station will release Gangzi later."
"Yes, it's a fight. It's not the first time for Gangzi to do this."
Some people are weird and they don't dare to look at anyone from the Yang family.
"Yang Xiaohui, you are such a jinx! You have caused so much suffering to our family." Chen Xiaoqiao was pulled back, steadied her feet, and turned to rush towards Yang Xiaohui.
Before Yang Xiaohui could react, her sister-in-law Chen Xiaoqiao grabbed her hair and slapped her in the face.
"It hurts so much, ah, ouch, let me go, Mom, Mom." Yang Xiaohui was beaten and cried. She grabbed her sister-in-law's hand, her scalp was almost torn.
Her mother was so scared that she opened her hands but didn't dare to come over. She advised Chen Xiaoqiao kindly: "Xiaoqiao, this is all a misunderstanding. Gangzi will come out later. We promise you that we won't fight again. Ah, let go."
"Yang Xiaohui, you are the one who started all the trouble. You said you were looking for money for your brother to build a mushroom greenhouse, but our whole family is eagerly waiting for your money. But where is the money? If you don't have the ability to get it, then don't tell me." Chen Xiaoqiao cried and hit Yang Xiaohui. She was so strong that she pushed Yang Xiaohui to the ground and grabbed her.
Yang Xiaohui struggled desperately in pain, and the two of them rolled in the dirt.