Chen Xiaoying knew that it was not easy for the Yang family to come up with two thousand yuan.
Even though most of the salary of the fourth brother Li Honggang was taken to his wife Yang Xiaohui's parents' home and given to her mother to support her eldest brother's family, he should be able to get two thousand yuan.
But the key point is this should.
Yang Jiangang has an impulsive temper. He likes to compete with others, is competitive and loves to fight.
Part of the Yang family's money was spent by Yang Jiangang on fighting, and part of it was spent on his wife Chen Xiaoqiao, who loved dressing up.
So, thinking about it as a whole, the Yang family should be poor.
"If she wasn't so confused, she wouldn't have taken out the two thousand yuan. The fourth child is in the hospital, so she, as a daughter-in-law, has to take out the money, right?" Chen Xiaoying thought.
Liu Lanxiang also thought it made sense. If fourth brother's wife Yang Xiaohui wanted to live a down-to-earth life, she should use the money to pay for fourth brother's medical treatment and stay away from her vampire family.
Liu Lanxiang has never seen a lazier woman than Yang Xiaohui. If the fourth brother divorces her, she will definitely not be able to find a good family to marry into next.
Early the next morning, Chen Xiaoying went to the hospital to see her youngest son Li Honggang.
Just as he arrived at the hospital with the lunch box, he was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that Yang Xiaohui and her daughter Li Yumeng were sitting next to him.
"Mom." Seeing Chen Xiaoying, Yang Xiaohui stood up awkwardly.
Li Honggang had medical tape on his face. After a night, his face, which was bruised and swollen from the beating yesterday, was now swollen and looked even more terrifying. One of his eyes was so swollen that he couldn't open it.
"Mom, you're here." When Li Hong first saw his mother Chen Xiaoying, he felt like he had found his backbone.
Chen Xiaoying nodded and glanced at the rice bowl on the table next to her, which contained millet porridge: "Have you eaten yet?"
Li Hong was about to shake his head, but when he tilted his head, he felt pain. He said angrily, "I didn't eat it. I won't eat the food she brought."
When Yang Xiaohui heard Li Honggang say this, if it were in the past at home, she would have started scolding.
"If you don't want to eat, feed it to the dog. I serve you and you don't want to. Who do you think you are? The emperor?"
Now she didn’t dare. She wiped away her tears with red eyes, turned her face to the side and didn’t say anything.
Chen Xiaoying looked at Li Yumeng and said, "Today is not Monday, Xiaomeng, you are not going to school?"
Li Yumeng felt uncomfortable and made an excuse: "My face is swollen. My teachers and classmates will laugh at me if I go to school. I won't go."
Chen Xiaoying frowned: "What's wrong with saying a few words? No, why is your face swollen?"
She hurried over to check, and sure enough, she saw that Li Yumeng had some abrasions on the left side of his face and a small swelling on his left face.
Li Yu dreamed that her grandmother cared about her, and she immediately started crying and complaining: "Brother Goudan and brother Pidan beat me, wuwu."
Her mother Yang Xiaohui was embarrassed and quickly pulled her aside: "Stop talking."
Li Yumeng didn't listen to her and cried even harder.
Li Honggang was panting angrily: "You just watched your child get beaten?"
Yang Xiaohui felt wronged and almost cried: "At that time, I was also beaten. My sister-in-law pushed me to the ground and beat me..."
Li Honggang didn't like what he heard and sneered, "Didn't you say your sister-in-law treated you very well? Why did she beat you up?"
Yang Xiaohui always suppressed Li Honggang's temper and immediately said, "Isn't it because you caused my brother to be detained in the police station?"
As soon as she finished speaking, she immediately realized that she had said the wrong thing.
Mother-in-law Chen Xiaoying's face had turned ugly, and the husband Li Honggang also became annoyed: "Yang Xiaohui, let's get a divorce."
divorce?
This was the second time Li Honggang had said this. Yang Xiaohui thought of her own messy family that treated her like a nobody, and thought that the man in her husband's family didn't want her anymore, so she started crying immediately: "You are forcing me to die. Can you bear to leave my child without a mother?"
She cried so hard that it was unpleasant to hear. There was someone in the bed next to her, looking at her with curiosity.
Chen Xiaoying said coldly: "Don't cry, come with me if you have anything to say."
Yang Xiaohui held back her tears, glanced at her child Li Yumeng, and then went out with her mother-in-law Chen Xiaoying.
Chen Xiaoying took her to a secluded place in the corridor and asked bluntly, "What do you want to do with Hong Gang? Are you here to serve him, or to ask him for money?"
Yang Xiaohui bit her lip and lowered her head: "...I don't want money."
No money?
Chen Xiaoying was relieved, but asked again: "Yang Xiaohui, I know everything about your life at your mother's house. Tell me, can you live with Hong Gang? If you can, stay away from your mother's house in the future, and don't give all the money that Hong Gang worked hard to earn to an ungrateful person. If you can't, make it clear as soon as possible, and don't torture Hong Gang like this. He is also a human being, Xiaomeng's father. Do you want to tire him out and find a stepfather for Xiaomeng?"
In the village, most stepmothers and stepfathers are not good people.
Why? People in rural areas would rather avoid divorce if possible. Once they do divorce, it is mostly because one of the spouses has problems and the couple cannot continue to live together.
Then, those who remarry, because the villagers are poor, at least they have the advantage of being young and decent-looking if they get married early. But by the time they remarry, most of them are in their thirties, and they look old due to the hard work in farm work. So, do you expect such a man to marry a young girl?
Isn't it because he is looking for a divorced woman or a woman with some problems who can't get married according to his conditions?
After a woman has her own child, will she still be good to other women's children?
If this happens to men, some men are just beasts, since they are not biological children anyway...
Thinking of this, Chen Xiaoying made a decision in her heart: "Even if you and Hong Gang are divorced, you can't take Xiao Meng away. You are young, your parents won't support you, and will let you marry another one. Xiao Meng is a girl, and she will grow up slowly. It's impossible for her to live with a strange man under the same roof..."
When Yang Xiaohui heard her mother-in-law say this, she panicked and said, "Mom, I won't get a divorce."
From the very beginning, she never wanted to leave.
It was just an excuse of divorce to scare Li Hong into giving money to her parents' home.
Yang Xiaohui said she didn't want a divorce, so Chen Xiaoying looked at her carefully and said, "It's OK not to divorce, but there's a prerequisite."
Yang Xiaohui felt uncomfortable: "You say."
"I still say the same thing. You are not allowed to take the fourth brother's money to your mother's home again." Chen Xiaoying said.
Yang Xiaohui blinked her eyes and thought about what happened at her mother's house yesterday. It was so disheartening. Her sister-in-law beat her, but her mother only protected her sister-in-law.
She knew that her mother was afraid of favoring her. Her sister-in-law was going to divorce her incompetent elder brother. At that time, Chen Xiaoqiao would definitely abandon her two sons and remarry. She was restless to begin with, and she dared to flirt with men when her brother was at home.
If Chen Xiaoqiao left, my brother would never be able to find a wife.
She understood it in the past, her mother had told her this, so she felt sorry for her mother and had always taken money from her own family to support her mother, just to make her mother's life easier under the watchful eye of her eldest sister-in-law.
But yesterday, Xiao Meng was beaten. She was still a child, and her mother didn't even look at her. Thinking carefully about all the biases she had shown in the past...