"Yang Xiaohui, I didn't say that I don't want you to take care of your parents' home, but you can't just leave me and the children aside. I have always wanted to live a good life through my own efforts and let my wife and children live a good life, but I don't want my wife to use the fruits of my labor to support her parents' home. You understand what I mean, right?" Li Hong just looked at the noodles on the table and had no appetite to eat at all.
It was a normal thing for a daughter-in-law to do, but when it came to him, it became something he had to get by losing his temper and fighting for it.
No matter what he thought in his heart, he felt sorry for himself.
Yang Xiaohui didn't understand what he meant. She felt aggrieved. "My brother is like this, and my mother is just an old woman who knows nothing. I'm under so much pressure that my head is about to explode, and you're still nagging me. What on earth do you want to do?"
Li Honggang was not good at speaking to begin with, so he was able to say so many things today, all of which were things that had been weighing heavily in his heart for years, and he had thought about them at least a hundred times but had never spoken them out loud.
After he finished speaking, he felt that he had let it go: "It's up to you. If you still can't figure out where you went wrong, we don't know when our days together will end."
Li Honggang was really disheartened. This time when Yang Jiangang got into trouble, his mother Chen Xiaoying gave him another thousand yuan.
He knew in his heart that once he gave the money to the Yang family, he would never expect to get a penny back in his lifetime.
Yang Xiaohui couldn't help crying: "I know, now that you see your mother making money and buying you a house, you want to kick me out so that you can find a younger one who can give birth to a son for you."
"Li Honggang, I'm telling you, this is impossible. I went through the hard times with you. Now that you're rich, it's time for me, your wife, to enjoy the good times with you. Don't even think about dumping me."
Seeing her crying like this, Li Honggang almost softened her heart: "Where do I have money? My money is all given by my mother. You gave all my salary to your parents. How did you renovate your five-room house? How did you lay the tiles in your yard?"
"Your father has been dead for eight years. Your family was poor before. Your eldest brother didn't dare to do anything. He relied on your mother's hands. How could she earn so much money? Wasn't it because I, a fool, asked my wife to give it to her?"
"Yang Xiaohui, our bungalow has been built for ten years. When it rains heavily, the pots and pans in the house make a lot of noise and keep me awake all night. The house is so damp that it takes several days to dry out and the corners are moldy. How can you stand it?"
The more Li Honggang spoke, the more aggrieved he felt. Even a grown man had red eyes. “I’ve never seen someone like you give the meat in your bowl to others and then happily eat your mixed grain steamed bun.”
Yang Xiaohui was stunned by his scolding. It was the first time that Li Honggang spoke so much in all these years of marriage.
She wanted to refute him, but every word he said seemed to make sense.
Just as she was in a daze, an old lady with messy hair came to the door with an anxious look on her face: "Xiaohui, Mom has to go back to see the kids. You should go see your brother right away. The doctor said he can't leave anyone alone tonight. You have to keep an eye on him."
Yang Xiaohui had no choice but to look at Li Honggang and leave quickly.
Li Honggang didn't say anything either.
He couldn't stop Yang Xiaohui from taking care of her elder brother at such a critical moment. He was not a selfish and mean person. He said so much just now because he wanted Yang Xiaohui to think it over clearly and not put all the affairs of her mother's family on his shoulders indirectly. He couldn't bear it!
He didn't want to carry it anymore.
In the health center, such a big thing happened to her fourth brother. Li Hongli also found out about it very soon because she had a mother-in-law, Ma Xiufen, who loved to watch the fun and was eager to see her mother-in-law Chen Xiaoying get into trouble.
Xu Dadong had been released. Li Hongli received half of the money. Her mother-in-law treated her much better and even pretended to comfort her: "It's nothing. It's just that your fourth sister-in-law's brother was injured and is lying in the ward. Your mother gave him a thousand yuan to save his life."
Li Hongli was furious. Her elder sister Li Hongyan had even described Xu Dadong's plan to take revenge on her as being so serious, yet she, as a mother, was so stingy that she gave the money to someone who had nothing to do with her at all.
"That's too much." She couldn't help crying, feeling sorry for her 1,500 yuan. "I'm her biological daughter. How can she be so biased towards boys? She would rather use the money to save her own wife's brothers than save me. How could she be like this?"
"Is she my biological mother? Do you still want me to be filial to her when she is old?"
Li Hongli felt extremely aggrieved.
Ma Xiufen was happy to see Li Hongli hate her mother. The more hateful she was, the more comfortable she felt. Chen Xiaoying, that damn old woman, never gave a penny to her family. She deserved to be taken advantage of by others.
I thought this in my heart, but I still pretended to be hypocritical on the surface: "Hongli, your mother is also trying to save people with good intentions, don't take it to heart."
Li Hongli wiped away her tears and felt her round belly was tight: "Mom, my belly is so tight that it seems to be bursting. Please call a doctor to take a look at me."
Ma Xiufen was very concerned about her eldest grandson, so she went to call a doctor immediately.
As for this doctor, it was a coincidence that he was the doctor in the B-ultrasound department that Chen Xiaoying brought her to for examination. He said that she was pregnant, but the fetal position was not good and the risk was very high. She immediately scolded him, saying that he was a money-swindler and that his level was not good.
Now that the country is developing, the medical level in small counties is not yet up to standard. Doctors with a little ability all have tempers. Because they are respected, they are praised a little too much over time.
It was the first time that the doctor encountered such an unreasonable pregnant woman, and she was even pregnant before marriage. If she had a bad temper, she would have called her shameless. But even though the other person didn't say anything to her, she scolded them.
What a coincidence, she was in the hospital to protect her pregnancy, and the doctor assigned to her was him.
That was so embarrassing.
Li Hongli is timid. Whenever she feels something wrong with her stomach, she has to call someone over immediately. After a long time, she has become impatient.
The doctor came with a stern face. He examined Li Hongli's stomach and looked at the records on the bedside.
"Doctor, when will I give birth? I'm in so much pain." Li Hongli couldn't bear it anymore. Her waist ached terribly, no matter she was lying down or standing.
Doctor Zhang ignored him: "You still have two weeks this month, wait a little longer."
Li Hongli was really uncomfortable: "My waist hurts..."
"Every woman with a big belly will have back pain, but you are just a delicate one." Doctor Zhang almost rolled his eyes.
This Li Hongli is really too delicate. She suffers from back pain, leg pain and headache, and she can say it eight hundred times a day.
Li Hongli was a little angry and wanted to quarrel, but when she thought about the fact that it was this doctor who delivered her baby, she didn't dare to do so.
Doctor Zhang is the best obstetrician and gynecologist in the health center. He is proficient in both gynecology and obstetrics, and single-handedly supports the women and children in the health center. It was only after Chen Xiaoying begged him in various ways that he accepted Li Hongli, the troublesome pregnant woman, instead of directly rejecting her and asking her to give birth in the No. 1 Hospital in the city.
The First Municipal Hospital was built only a few years ago. It has a large space, new equipment and everything is good. However, people generally think that the doctors there are too young and not as experienced as the older doctors in the health center, so they are still unwilling to go there.
Li Hongli had no idea of the efforts her mother had made behind the scenes. She was just annoyed that the doctor was so vindictive and waited for the people to leave.