When you are working hard on other people's crops, why don't you think that they are outsiders?

Then, when they need money for their retirement or to relieve their illness, they scold their children for being incompetent and unfilial, saying, "Don't you see how promising the brothers of your eldest aunt are?"

Li Yutong thought, my second uncle and third uncle just don’t understand the truth that there is no gain without investment.

Why do their children have no money and no abilities?

Because when you were young and needed to be raised, you went to raise other people's children. Without the crops that were carefully cultivated, it was good enough for them to survive and grow up. How much food do you expect to be able to produce to support you when you are old?

Li Hongjian continued, "My dad is right. Pengfei is the first person in our family to do things. We must make things very lively for him and not let others look down on him."

In Lijia Village, "doing things" is the local lingo. No matter it is a happy event or a sad event, it is all called "doing things".

When we talk about getting things done, we mean getting serious and getting serious about it.

Chen Xiaoying couldn't help but spit at him: "You are a fool. Pengfei's surname is Zhao, and his name is Zhao Pengfei. He is the first person in the Zhao family to do things. What does he have to do with our Li family? The first person in our Li family to do things was Xiaoyu, and that was ten years later."

"Mom, that's my sister's child. It's so hurtful for you to say that." Li Hongjian still refused to give in.

"Why are you sad? Think about who you're going to rely on when you're old. You're going to rely on Chaochao, so can't you save your money and use it on Chaochao? Will Chaochao not get married?" Chen Xiaoying yelled, "You can only make a little money, but I'm giving it to you. Don't you see that the money you're using to repair your house is from the money I earned from selling sheep? Why don't you pay me back? I'm old, and you have the nerve to give money to others?"

"What am I?"

"Your wife, your children, what do they count for?"

"You support Zhao Pengfei, but Zhao Pengfei has no father?"

Li Hongjian was scolded and frowned, but after thinking about it, it seemed to be true. However, "As uncles, how can we not show some appreciation?"

"What do you mean?" Chen Xiaoying said coldly, "I'll calculate the money you sent me later. She'll pay back the bulk of it, and the rest will be a token of your gratitude as her second uncle."

Li Hongjian was completely stunned: "Mom, is this okay?"

"Is it appropriate to ask for money when we haven't given it to someone who needs it?"

He was quite reasonable, so Chen Xiaoying laughed: "Now that you are renovating your house, isn't it the time when you need money? Why doesn't she give you some? She keeps your money, but she doesn't think about taking out the money when you need it. Instead, she keeps asking you for it. What does she mean?"

"I treated you like a fool, and you were taken advantage of. Don't you understand?"

Li Hongjian was completely stunned by the scolding.

Li Hongwei felt relieved watching from the side. Even if his mother hadn't said it, he would have said it.

Li Pingwang couldn't listen any longer: "Hongyan really doesn't have any money. If she had money, she would have given it to her. Why do you keep forcing her to pay? She's not an outsider."

"If she hasn't married yet, she's one of ours. But now that she's married, she has a husband and three sons, and she has to find ways to live a good life. That's her family. In her eyes, we're outsiders." Chen Xiaoying turned around and yelled at Li Pingwang.

Li Pingwang was so angry that he didn't even eat his meal. He threw down his bowl and said, "I don't care, I don't care, do whatever you want."

"Why do you care? Don't you see if you still have money?" Chen Xiaoying mocked him.

The 3,000 yuan in the passbook had most likely been taken away by Li Hongyan. From the very beginning, Li Hongyan had kept the money in her own name, otherwise she wouldn't have driven back a brand new tricycle some time ago. The old one was given to his brother by Zhao Faliang.

Liu Lanxiang asked around and learned from someone outside that it would cost eighteen hundred yuan, which was something his family couldn't earn in the entire year.

She took most of the remaining few dollars, leaving him with only a little over a hundred.

Li Pingwang has no money and can hardly speak rudely. For Li Hongyan's case, a hundred yuan is just a drop in the bucket and can't help.

Li Hongjian was speechless after being scolded by him. He could only frown and said, "It's probably impossible to ask for money at this critical moment."

"If you don't go to ask for it, I'll take Xiaoqin with me." Chen Xiaoying said coldly: "Otherwise, when her eldest son builds a house and gives a dowry to his wife, do you think you still have the money?"

Li Hongjian thought for a while and said, "Mom, this is my eldest sister's business. I don't need the money for now, so what if I ask her to use it? Chaochao is only six years old, still young. It will take him 20 years to get married. By then, Pengfei will be old, so just give me the money."

Chen Xiaoying was so angry that she couldn't even eat: "One thousand yuan now can't be compared with one thousand yuan in twenty years. Now a house in the county can be bought for thirty or forty thousand. Twenty years later, it will cost at least four hundred thousand."

"Mom, how do you know? People say that house prices can be reduced." said Li Hongjian.

Chen Xiaoying choked up and said, "Why do you care how I know? You might as well just do nothing tomorrow and go to her house to ask for the money."

Li Hongjian felt extremely aggrieved. He subconsciously felt that he would not be able to get the money back, but he did not want to fall out with his sister and was a little afraid that his sister would scold him.

It is a big deal for Pengfei to get married, and everything costs money.

But he had no say in that.

Chen Xiaoying said that she would take him to ask for money tomorrow.

Wang Xiaoqin was standing aside, secretly happy in her heart. Now that the house was repaired, she could send Chaochao to school next semester. She could farm in the house while her mother cooked for her. How wonderful.

The next day, Li Hongwei started to repair the house.

Chen Xiaoying forced the reluctant Li Hongjian to go to Zhaojia Village to collect debts.

Li Hongyan could never have imagined that her mother would treat her like this, forcing her to pay back the debt when she needed it.

Zhao Faliang, who was standing by, was so embarrassed that he could not hold his face. Zhao Pengfei also felt that his grandmother was a little unkind. His own siblings and his second uncle's family did not need the money for the time being. When the time came, instead of asking his mother to pay it back, could he pay it back?

Chen Xiaoying said, "Pengfei, grandma knows that you really want to pay me back. But when Chaochao gets married, 20 years later, the money you pay back will be different from the money you are using now."

Zhao Pengfei felt that he couldn't explain it clearly to his grandmother: "Then I can go to the credit union and add the interest, right?"

Chen Xiaoying shook her head: "Your second uncle is waiting for the money now."

Except for her who was reborn, no one present knew that things would become more and more expensive in the future. The interest on money deposited in a credit union now could not keep up with the speed of price increases, especially housing prices, which were rising at a rocket speed.

Li Hongyan cried again, feeling all kinds of grievances.

Anyway, in the end, he agreed to pay back 200 yuan first, but Chen Xiaoying refused: "You took at least 3,000 yuan from him, you should at least pay back 1,000 yuan."