Chen Xiaoying thought for a moment and said, "Not close, but okay. Ma Guoxi is an upright and loyal person. He will not sit idly by and watch your aunt being schemed against by Ma Hongxiu and the Wang family."

"In his previous life, Ma Guoxi also said that his brother Ma Guoming worked so hard to study and save up this family business in this life, not for the Wang family and Ma Hongxiu. He would rather burn it all in a fire and let his brother take it to the underworld than let these outsiders get it."

It turned out that my uncle's eldest brother was such a tough guy. Li Yutong felt relieved: "That's good, that's good. As long as there is one smart person in the family, we won't be schemed against in vain."

In fact, if this happened to an old lady who had nothing to do with her, she would at most sigh and watch the fun, and that would be it. But since this happened to her old aunt Su Wanping, who was kind to her, she didn't want her to end up so pitiful.

Ma Hongxiu is a really selfish and cold-blooded person.

At the Ma family, Ma Hongxiu was in the house. In fact, she had not slept at all. Before returning to China, she heard from her biological mother Zhu Dahong that there was a girl named Chen Xiaoying who was a cousin of her mother Su Wanping. Her mother trusted her very much and even at her old age, she still went to work in someone else's breakfast shop.

She felt that there was something wrong with this person and that he must have other intentions towards her mother.

I originally wanted to go and see what he was like, but I didn't expect to see him on the first day after returning home. It can be seen that this person was also keeping a close eye on her mother.

This kind of person probably wants to use her feelings to cheat her mother out of her money.

Su Wanping wiped her tears in the corridor before going back home. She found that her adopted daughter Ma Hongxiu was not sleeping in the room. She was sitting on the sofa with her arms folded and a sullen face.

"Hongxiu, why don't you take a rest?" She felt a little uneasy.

It's only the first day since she returned home and things are already going on at home. It's reasonable for her to be angry.

Ma Hongxiu didn't say anything polite and asked directly, "Mom, what's going on with your cousin? When I was at home, I didn't see you guys interacting often. How come I went abroad and you guys got in touch after so many years?"

Su Wanping breathed a sigh of relief. She thought she was asking something. "I thought you didn't ask, and I didn't tell you. My mom and her mom are sisters. I lived in her house for a while when I was a child. We had a very good relationship. Later, we got married. I married your dad, who lives in the county town, and she married a man from the next village. They had seven children, and she had to do farm work and take care of the children. She was very busy, so we didn't visit each other much."

"Seven children? She's really fertile." Ma Hongxiu's tone was full of sarcasm: "It's not a wild boar, why would she give birth to so many?"

Su Wanping frowned, but before she could say anything, she continued, "Chinese people are particularly ignorant in this regard. The poorer the place, the more children they can have. Parents only care about their own happiness and give birth to children one after another. Have they ever thought about whether they have the ability to bring happiness to these children they brought into the world?"

"These people are just selfish. They don't care whether their children can wear good clothes, eat good food, receive the best education, or eat potatoes dipped in sugar every day."

"The grown-up men go out to work, and the women get married early. They all live at the bottom of society, repeating the fate of poverty. It's really pitiful."

Ma Hongxiu preached so much that her adoptive mother Su Wanping could not listen any more: "Your aunt is different from these people. The older generation is uneducated and thinks that if they get pregnant, they will just give birth to the baby. They don't think too much about it. Besides, your aunt also knows how to struggle. She bought houses for your cousins ​​in the county, and she also opened several stores."

"Mom, stop talking about this." Ma Hongxiu was not interested in listening to Chen Xiaoying's story of making a fortune. What was wrong with buying a house in the county town? It wouldn't be worth much even if she bought it. It was not comparable to her house in the United States.

Seeing that she didn't want to hear it, Su Wanping let it go: "What do you want to eat? I'll make it for you."

"No need, we'll eat at the hotel later." Ma Hongxiucai is active.

Su Wanping was stunned: "Hotel?"

Ma Hongxiu nodded and said, "Michael is not used to living at home. We have booked a room at the New Century Hotel. We will stay there for the next few days when we return to China."

Kaiyuan County built a landmark building a few years ago. It is more than 30 stories high and has rolling colorful lights all over it. The Kaiyuan Hotel, which has a huge square, is the face of Kaiyuan County.

The guests generally received here are leaders from inside and outside the province, so the cost is not low.

Su Wanping felt a chill in her heart: "Don't you want to live at home?"

She prepared so much.

"I told you, Michael is not used to it, Mom. Michael is American, and Americans never live with their parents. He is even less used to living with you, his mother-in-law. He finds it inconvenient." Ma Hongxiu patiently explained to her.

Michael also came out at this time, looked at Su Wanping, and sat next to Ma Hongxiu. He looked at them curiously without saying anything.

Su Wanping was silent for a moment, and couldn't help asking: "Hongxiu, did you come back this time just to see me?"

Ma Hongxiu hesitated for a moment before nodding: "Yes, but there is something I want to discuss with you."

Su Wanping subconsciously straightened up and looked at her nervously: "What's the matter?"

Ma Hongxiu seemed to consider her words for a moment before she looked at Su Wanping and said, "Mom, let me tell you the truth. Although my life in the United States is quite comfortable, it is actually very stressful. We have three children and we want to give them a good childhood. They all go to the best schools."

"It has always been good. Now, if we want to take our lives to the next level, we need to invest more money..."

Su Wanping had a dazed look on her face. In fact, even without her cousin Chen Xiaoying's reminder, she would have had the same feeling in her heart.

Every time Ma Hongxiu called her, it was to ask for money. This time she came back in person, so she must need more money.

Sure enough, she mentioned money.

"…The U.S. economy is booming right now, and housing prices are rising very quickly. We want to buy a few more houses so we can make several times the profit by reselling them…"

House prices are rising, Su Wanping herself knows it. Occasionally, she hears customers who come to the restaurant to eat say that house prices in the county town remain the same every month and have never dropped. They have always been rising.

Ma Hongxiu talked for a long time, and seeing that her adoptive mother looked blank and didn't know what she was thinking, she simply asked directly: "Mom, tell me the truth, how much money have you saved now?"

Facing her adopted daughter's urgent eyes, Su Wanping couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Hongxiu, tell me first, how much money do you want?"

She just wanted to know how big her adopted daughter's appetite was.

Does she have any feelings for her adoptive mother?