The village chief of Yangjia Village is fed up.
Anyone who is harassed by a crying person who keeps asking what to do will feel annoyed.
Besides, he had taught her about these things about Yang Jiangang's family.
"It's up to you." The village chief shook his arms and walked away with his hands behind his back.
Yang Xiaohui's mother was dumbfounded.
Fortunately, it was Wednesday and the child had been sent to a classroom at the entrance of the village. She quickly packed up and went to the entrance of the village to wait for the bus.
After much trouble, she finally arrived at the county town. Looking at the people coming and going, she was able to identify the direction clearly, but she had no idea where to find her daughter-in-law who was having a secret meeting with a man.
She got anxious and went to the police station again.
Seeing that she was crying so pitifully, the police allowed her to meet Yang Jiangang and tell him about Chen Xiaoqiao.
Yang Jiangang had already been detained for three days and was furious. He immediately cursed: "This shameless thing, when I get out, I'll strangle her to death!"
The police nearby looked over.
Yang Jiangang didn't think that what he said was wrong.
His mother was still crying: "Gangzi, what do you say we should do?"
"What should I do? Why don't you go find Yang Xiaohui and ask her?" Yang Jiangang yelled, "It was Li Honggang who put me in the police station. Tell her to bring the money and get me out."
His mother recalled that when Li Hong was first carried away, her nose and face were swollen and blood was flowing from the corners of her mouth. She looked quite miserable.
She also remembered that she had slapped her daughter Yang Xiaohui twice and scolded her harshly.
"What if she doesn't care about you?" she said hesitantly.
"Why shouldn't she care? If she doesn't care, you can just hang yourself at her doorstep." Yang Jiangang said.
His mother felt as if a knife had stabbed her in the heart. People of her age are also very sensitive about life and death. She said that she didn't think so, but when others talked about it, especially since it was her own son, she felt uncomfortable.
"Mom, why are you still sitting there? Hurry up and go. Do you have to wait until my wife runs away before you get anxious?" Yang Jiangang spoke politely to his mother, scolding her almost as if she were his grandson.
His mother's eyes were filled with tears, and there was nothing she could do: "Okay, okay, I'll go right away."
After leaving the police station, she cried for a while and then quickly went to the health center to find Li Honggang.
As for talking about buying things and seeking forgiveness, she had never even thought about it - they were all family.
In the clinic, when Yang Xiaohui walked from the door to the corridor, she saw an old woman with gray hair peeking into each ward. She was wearing shabby clothes and had a wrinkled face, looking very pitiful.
Her heart suddenly sank. Isn't this her mother?
When she paused for a moment, her mother looked over and her eyes suddenly lit up: "Xiaohui, it's so hard for me to find you. Come here, I have something to tell you."
Her mother saw how excited she was, but Yang Xiaohui just wanted to run away when she saw her mother.
Seeing the patients and their families in the corridor all looking towards her, Yang Xiaohui could only walk over awkwardly: "Mom, are you here to see the fourth child?"
Yang Xiaohui's mother said angrily: "What am I looking at? Your brother is still here..."
Before she finished speaking, she saw that everyone in the corridor was looking at her. She knew that what she said would not sound good, so she quickly pulled her daughter to the stairs and said, "What are you going to do about your brother's matter?"
Her mother came not for Li Honggang who was almost beaten to death, but for her son Yang Jiangang.
Yang Xiaohui's eyes turned red, and she tried hard to hold back her tears: "Mom, you didn't even go to the ward to see what my brother did to the fourth child?"
"Why did I watch him? If he hadn't treated you as a thief and your brother hadn't stood up for you, would his brother have been locked up in the police station?" Yang Xiaohui's mother was full of complaints. She was totally unreasonable. Even if Li Honggang died, she would still say that it was not intentional and it was all because Li Honggang made her son angry.
Yang Xiaohui felt uncomfortable. She said she wanted a divorce, but she didn't really want to. If she divorced, could she still marry into a good family like Li Honggang?
My mother-in-law is so good at making money, and my husband never beats or scolds her. She lives her life at home and lives the way she wants. She gave birth to a daughter, who is now ten years old, and my mother-in-law didn't urge her to have a second child...
"Mom, you go back." She knew that if her mother met Li Honggang, she would have nothing good to say.
"It's okay for me to go back, but you just come with me to the police station and tell me that Li Honggang is willing to forgive Yang Jiangang. Then you give me two thousand yuan to pay the fine and get your brother out first." Yang Xiaohui's mother gave her the order as a matter of course.
Yang Xiaohui's heart sank: "Mom, I don't have any money."
Even if she had money, she knew that she couldn't pay it. Li Hong had just been beaten, and right after that she used her own money to pay the fine for her enemy and rescue him. If he knew about this, he would be furious.
"Mom, let my brother stay in the police station for two days to calm his temper and let Honggang vent his anger. Otherwise, how am I going to live in the future? What if they don't want me anymore, how am I going to survive?" Yang Xiaohui was not stupid and had a lot of clever tricks. She was just blinded by her own mother and was loyal to her mother's family, so she acted like this.
Look at her eldest sister-in-law Liu Lanxiang. Her family is too reasonable and most of them are educated people. They never speak loudly when they quarrel. Sometimes when her eldest brother gets angry, her sister-in-law is afraid of him because her family will not stand up for her.
My second sister-in-law, Wang Xiaoqin, was a widow who was thin and weak and dared not speak. My second brother Li Hongjian did not take her seriously.
My third sister-in-law, Zhao Xueyan, had a stepmother in her parents’ home. Once she got married, she was like water spilled on the ground, and her parents’ home no longer cared about her.
She was the only one who had the support of her mother. She lived in her own small courtyard, which was requested by her mother from her husband's family. Otherwise, her fate would have been the same as that of her second and third brothers, who had not had a decent home for ten years after getting married.
Yang Xiaohui had already planned on remarrying after the divorce. How could a woman who married for the second time find a good family?
Yang Xiaohui's mother was not afraid that she would not be able to get married: "Nowadays, as long as a woman can breathe, knows to eat when hungry, knows to go home when it rains, and knows to squat when she pees, she can get married, let alone you."
She puffed out her chest and glared, "If Li Honggang dares to divorce you, I will immediately find you a better family and marry you off, so that you won't end up in the Li family's hell and live a life of poverty."
When she was short of money, she thought about why she didn't have another daughter when she was young. If she married another daughter now, she could receive more than 10,000 yuan in dowry.
Yang Xiaohui was dumbfounded: "Mom, what are you talking about?"
She was so angry that her eyes went dark. She knew that there were many bachelors in the countryside and any woman could get married, but...
But what kind of families do these women marry into? An 18-year-old mentally retarded woman marries a poor, dark, thin old man in his 40s; a 20-year-old woman with polio marries a deaf-mute man in his 30s; and only a decent, good-looking, and healthy young girl can marry a man who is also not well-off.
And what kind of family can a divorced woman like her marry into?