Chapter 32: Be independent and strong, save up 10,000 yuan



Of course Li Hongyan didn't want to give it. Giving the tricycle to her husband's brothers would make her look good in front of her mother-in-law and brothers, but giving it to her own family would not bring any benefits.

"Mom, what do you want a tricycle for? My dad can't drive it." She said this deliberately, looking at Li Hongwei with a sidelong glance.

I felt that it must be her mother who asked Li Hongwei for it.

Li Hongwei is not good at speaking and he just kept a sullen face and didn't say a word.

Chen Xiaoying glared at her: "Why are you talking so much? Where did you get the money to buy these two tricycles? You have to force me to shout it out here."

Li Hongyan's face turned blue and white. Her previous experiences told her that if she continued to nag, her mother Chen Xiaoying would really start a quarrel with her again. Once she was told what was going on, she would be too ashamed to face anyone.

"Why do you have to go through all this all the time? Let's see if you can finally go to heaven." Li Hongyan frowned and helped her mother Chen Xiaoying into the car.

Li Hongwei lifted up the bicycle and put it into the truck bed.

"You didn't even block it." She scolded Li Hongwei as usual.

Li Hongwei said with a sullen face: "Can I block it? Even my dad couldn't block it, do you want me to get stabbed?"

Li Hongyan had nothing to say. Her mother Chen Xiaoying took a kitchen knife and chased her father Li Pingwang around the yard. The news spread to Zhaojia Village.

"Mind yourself. Think about when you'll pay back the money I lent to your brothers." Chen Xiaoying didn't like what she said.

Li Hongyan gasped: "Mom!"

"I'm not deaf." Chen Xiaoying helped herself to the tricycle and sat down, then called out to Li Hongwei, "Let's go."

Li Hongwei cranked the handle to start the tricycle, got on and took his mother away.

Li Hongyan was standing at the gate of the yard, frowning as she watched the tricycle go away. Suddenly, she heard a laugh.

She turned around subconsciously and saw the gloating look of her neighbor Mrs. Zhao.

"Hey, did you give the tricycle to someone else?"

"Oh." Li Hongyan was too lazy to pay attention to her, but she knew that the old woman was desperate and had a vicious heart, so she didn't dare to make a bad face and turned around and went back to her home.

After his tricycle was driven away, Zhao Faliang felt embarrassed in front of his mother and his brother and had a sullen look on his face.

He ignored Li Hongyan, and Li Hongyan didn't want to pay attention to him either.

The atmosphere at home has been strange recently. The two children who came home from school to get their living expenses didn't dare to say a word.

Li Hongyan's two sons, the second one goes to Kaiyuan County No. 1 High School, and the third one goes to No. 1 Junior High School. Both are key schools, and both are good students.

Li Hongyan herself was not a good student. After she realized the importance of studying, she paid close attention to her children's studies. She told them that if anyone did not study hard and did not rank in the top three in the exam, he would have to come back and farm with her.

Farming is very hard work. You have to work with your face to the earth and your back to the sky. You get covered in dirt and sweat.

Naturally, everyone wants to study hard, work in a big city, and make a lot of money cleanly.

The children are willing to learn and they learn well. As a mother, Li Hongyan wants to serve as a strong support system so that the children can study well without any psychological burden.

"One week's living expenses are fifteen yuan per person." Li Hongyan was given two yuan a day for living expenses. She worked until Saturday, the first half of the day, and had the second half of the day off. She took the bus back, and the fare was one yuan and fifty cents, exactly fifteen yuan.

Zhao Pengbo took the money and couldn't help but ask, "Mom, why did my grandma take our tricycle? Did my uncle ask her for the tricycle?"

He is sixteen years old this year. He understands everything he should understand and has also heard some gossip.

He believed that it was his uncle Li Hongwei who instigated his grandmother Chen Xiaoying to drive the tricycle.

"Just study hard and don't worry about things at home." Li Hongyan didn't want to hear about these things at her mother's house. It was upsetting.

Zhao Pengbo was angry, but he didn't dare to say anything.

The two brothers went to the village entrance to wait for the bus to go to school. Children in rural areas have to grow up early and go to school by themselves without the need for pick-up.

Zhao Faliang held his breath and said, "Pengfei still has to get married, and the house hasn't been built yet."

Li Hongyan was also upset: "I know."

"You'd better know." Zhao Faliang said, and angrily went to work in the fields.

Li Hongyan was furious: "You are the father, and these things should be your responsibility. What do you mean by saying this to me? Don't you just want me to go to my mother's house to ask for money?"

"When Pengfei becomes successful in the future, will he not help his uncles?" Zhao Faliang never thought that he was taking the wages of his brothers-in-law for nothing. When his sons became successful, they would definitely pay them back. It's not like they didn't want to pay them back, but they had to find ways to come to his house to collect debts and ask for things.

Li Hongyan was very annoyed: "I know, I have also said it, but they don't want to listen. What can I do? They even asked me to pay for the past few years. Where do I get the money?"

Besides, he has a big mouth and can talk a lot.

By then, Pengfei will be able to make money, and he will have two brothers who need to go to school, so he will have to help?

By that time, Pengfei has a wife and children to support, so how can he have the spare money to pay off the debt?

His pig brain won't even think about it.

Li Hongwei drove back the tricycle joyfully, extremely happy.

Liu Lanxiang, Wang Xiaoqin, Zhao Xueyan and others also happily surrounded the tricycle and looked around.

"It will save effort to work in the future. You don't need to pull a cart and dump the goods one by one into the yard."

"That's right. This is nothing. It's just that when it comes to paying taxes, we have to carry 300 to 400 kilograms of grain for dozens of miles from dawn to dusk. We can't come back at night and have to sleep in the ravines with rotten mattresses all night."

"It will be convenient for our mother to go to the market and sell things in the future."

Chen Xiaoying also laughed. It was the happiest thing for a farm to have a tricycle.

Li Pingwang said sullenly, "You will be happy only if you offend all your relatives."

Chen Xiaoying turned her head and glanced at him: "It's good that I didn't drive the new one back. It was bought with my own money in the first place."

"You have no evidence, and it's a joke to keep saying these things." Li Pingwang was not convinced.

Chen Xiaoying knew that she couldn't convince him: "It's up to you. I don't care if we are relatives or not. I just want us to live a good life and suffer less."

Li Pingwang said nothing and turned away.

It would be quiet for him to leave. Chen Xiaoying would definitely not look at him.

The Li family had a tricycle, and Chen Xiaoying asked Li Hongwei to pull it and go to the market everywhere. Zhao Xueyan wanted to follow one time, but ended up getting up early in the morning in the cold wind.

When I got to the market, the wind was blowing hard, and I had to burn firewood, fetch water, and carry things. I never went there again.

Wang Xiaoqin took her mother to farm. As long as they could contribute to this big family, they would have a share of the money they earned, even if they didn't go to the market.

When Li Yutong graduated from elementary school and was about to enter junior high school.

Finally saved up 10,000 yuan.

They went to the People's Market excitedly to rent a good storefront, but, as they had worried at the beginning, even if someone was doing bad business in the shop, it would still be rented out because there was a large flow of people in the market.

After all, the rent is relatively cheap, and some people are willing to take advantage of the bargain.

So, I looked around and found that the only space left was at the corner of the market entrance. Most of the shops in this area sold clothes and stationery. There was a primary school opposite and a very large People's Liberation Vegetable Market.

As for food sales, people have more choices when they go to the market outside the food sales area, and few people buy anything at the door.

The rent is three hundred more expensive.

The only good thing is that the place is bigger and can accommodate about ten tables. The previous owners ran a small restaurant and left behind all the tables and chairs. If they want to do business, they can buy rice, flour and oil and start working now.


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