Because of this, her father always held his breath and tried his best to help his brothers and make their lives better.

Not only will you live an upright life, but you will also not be looked down upon by others.

Everyone present had no objection to building the house for the second child first.

Only the head of the family, old man Li Pingwang, snorted: "Let's see what you can come up with. If you can't do it, you will be laughed at by others."

We have to build a house for the second son and a house for the third son. In the end, we certainly can't just use the old man's house for nothing, we have to get something for the eldest son.

When the fourth brother saw that the eldest, second, and third brothers were all taking advantage, he definitely wanted to take one too.

Let’s see what she will do then?

Chen Xiaoying sneered at him: "If you don't want to help, forget it. Stop making sarcastic remarks here."

Li Pingwang glared with anger, his face turned red and his neck became thick, but he, who used to dare to take action, no longer dared to do so. His son and daughter-in-law were like his mother and joined forces to guard against him.

It makes me angry just thinking about it.

He simply walked away with a displeased look on his face, thinking out of sight, out of mind.

"Don't worry about him." Chen Xiaoying looked at her eldest son Li Hongwei and said, "Hongwei, let's go and call the second sons."

Li Hongwei agreed and took his mother to the village grocery store.

He called the public phone at the factory and said, "Please help me call the three brothers Li Hongjian."

The lumber mill where the three brothers Li Hongjian worked was a medium-sized factory with thirty to forty workers, and most of the work was hard labor.

Three men were carrying wood with sweat all over their foreheads. The heavy wood made their shoulders hurt, as if their bones were crushed.

They had to grit their teeth and do it, their faces flushed.

When they heard that there was a call from home, the three of them delivered the wood and then hurried to the factory office to answer the call.

Wait until Chen Xiaoying tells you about building a house.

The second son's eyes widened. It turned out that his mother didn't want money to repair the old house, but to repair his own house. However, he didn't take it seriously: "Mom, why repair it? Just live here. When I make money in a few years, I will demolish the mud house and build a big house."

Chen Xiaoying couldn't help but scold: "It's still a few years away. You've been out for so many years now. What about the money you earned? Apart from the money your eldest sister kept, you spent it on playing cards, right?"

The second, third and fourth oldest are the only ones who dare to play big cards, except for the fourth oldest who is timid.

She later heard that some people in the factory were evil-minded and they teamed up to play cards and cheat them out of their money.

In his previous life, the second and third sons' wives either ran away or died, and their children were useless and even refused to answer their phone calls. The two old men were alone and had nowhere to go, so they ran to find Li Hongyan.

What did Li Hongyan say about them?

"When did I take your money? The money you earned from working was all lost by you two, who were not ambitious, and who looked after dirty women and played cards. Why do you ask me for money?"

The two of them regretted it and realized that their eldest sister was like this.

The second and third sons are not bad people, they are just stupid and dull-witted. They don't think things through and are easily deceived.

Chen Xiaoying got angry when she heard the second brother say that he would make a lot of money in a few years. In a few years, even if he didn't give the money to Li Hongyan for safekeeping, he would ask them to play cards or find other women to spend it.

He never thought about his wife and children at all.

"What's wrong with our mom?" The third child, Li Hongqiang, was puzzled: "Did the eldest brother and his wife say something to our mom again?"

"Who knows?" The second and fourth sons were confused.

Chen Xiaoying scolded the second son for a while before saying, "We are building a house for you. Come back quickly and tell the third son to save his salary and not spend it recklessly. You still have a house, but he doesn't even have one. Building a house will cost more."

The third brother, Li Hongqiang, muttered, "I don't want it. It's not like I have nowhere to live."

Chen Xiaoying heard this and cursed again: "I don't want to live in the same courtyard with you anymore. Take your wife and get out now."

When Li Hongqiang heard this, he immediately asked, "Is Xueyan unfilial? I'll beat her to death when I get back."

Chen Xiaoying was almost angry to death. When she died in her previous life, wasn't it him who picked up the fruit knife on the table and wanted to settle the score with the boss? But he was a fool: "You dare to hit my wife? Just try it. I can't kill you first."

The third brother, Li Hongqiang, was suddenly speechless.

All the sons obeyed.

The second brother also agreed: "Okay, I'll ask my boss for leave in two days and buy a train ticket."

Chen Xiaoying heaved a sigh of relief and hung up the phone.

Now her four sons have no conflicts. They are just temporarily united in facing the outside world. They are holding a grudge in their hearts, thinking that the eldest son and his wife did not take good care of her and the dead old man in the village.

It’s not too late to mend the relationship between brothers now.

"Lanxiang, go get Xiaoqin back." After calling the second son back, Chen Xiaoying planned to call the second son's wife back as well: "The house is being renovated. Move out the things that need to be moved out, and throw away the things that need to be thrown away."

She is the mother-in-law, and it doesn't look good if she asks her daughter-in-law to go home.

Liu Lanxiang showed a hint of hesitation, but she quickly figured it out: "Okay, Mom, I'll go there early tomorrow morning."

Liu Lanxiang also had her own calculations in mind. She didn't want to meddle in other people's business, but when she thought about the second son's wife, Wang Xiaoqin, who was also an honest person, she couldn't help but sympathize with her.

An honest woman lived with the unreliable second husband. Two years after their marriage, the second husband ran away to work, but Wang Xiaoqin did not see a penny of his salary. When the crops in the fields were not grown, she had no money and did not even have food to eat.

Normally, I would sneak my child to my parents-in-law’s room to get some food.

The third son’s wife, Zhao Xueyan, felt that she had no house and had to live with her parents-in-law, which was a disadvantage and she felt very unfair.

But compared to Wang Xiaoqin, when she didn't have food to eat, she could still get ready-made food from her parents-in-law's pot. No matter how dissatisfied the old couple were, they couldn't bear to see their granddaughter Li Yujie go hungry. When Li Yujie came to serve the meal, it was for both of them.

Mother-in-law Chen Xiaoying was extremely angry, but there was nothing she could do as they lived in the same courtyard and could not defend themselves.

Wang Xiaoqin was not so lucky. Her mother-in-law felt that since she had separated the family property from him, she would never be able to rely on him again.

So, when he saw Wang Xiaoqin, he called her a starving ghost.

The second son's wife, Wang Xiaoqin, was not as thick-skinned as the third son's wife, Zhao Xueyan. After being scolded several times, she left crying and dared not come again.

Some time ago, there was no food at home and she was left with no other options, so she went back to live with her widowed mother.

"If Xiaoqin's mother is fine, invite her to stay with us for a while." If possible, it would be fine for her to stay here.

She only has one daughter, Wang Xiaoqin. When she was getting married, she had already agreed with the Li family in advance that she would not ask for much in terms of dowry, and her only requirement was that she would provide for her mother-in-law in her old age.

Their family also agreed, but the second son was a loser. After he married a wife and had a child, he didn't care about anything. When he went out to work, he acted as if this person didn't exist and didn't even give any living expenses to his wife and children.

Liu Lanxiang felt that she discovered kindness from her mother-in-law, which strengthened her determination to follow her mother-in-law in her career and make a lot of money.

Liu Lanxiang did what she said. The next day, she brought her second brother's wife Wang Xiaoqin, her child, and her mother back home.