Chen Xiaoying knew that it was difficult to explain over the phone, so she rode her bike to the intersection that Su Wanping had to pass to get to the health center and waited there.

Li Yutong looked at her milk and shook her head, not knowing what to say.

Chen Xiaoying waited at the intersection for about ten minutes before she saw Su Wanping coming on a bicycle.

When she saw Chen Xiaoying, she was quite surprised: "Sister, why are you here?"

Chen Xiaoying looked at her silently and said, "Let's go over there and talk for a few words."

Su Wanping hesitated: "Hongxiu called me just now and said something happened and asked me to go to the health center to find her. Otherwise, I will come to you later?"

Chen Xiaoying shook her head: "Wanping, I came here for this matter. Wait until I tell you what it is, and then you can decide whether to go or not."

Su Wanping thought about it and decided to push her bicycle to catch up with her cousin. They parked their bicycles on the side of the road and sat on a chair in the green belt next to them to talk.

"Zhu Dahong was watching my shop. While watching, she was so rude that she picked up some dried sweet potatoes that were drying on a small wooden board next to her and ate them. Those dried sweet potatoes were dried by the most troublesome old lady on that street..."

Chen Xiaoying explained the whole process.

"Wanping, tell me, do you still want to go?"

Su Wanping's heart sank: "I don't want to go, but, but what else can I do, she is my daughter..."

Chen Xiaoying looked at her helplessly: "Wanping, you are too stubborn. Ma Hongxiu is called Ma Hongxiu and took Ma Guoming's last name, but deep down, she is actually Wang Hongxiu!"

"She has never considered you and Ma Guoming as her biological parents. She and her biological mother Zhu Dahong are selfish to the core. They only care about money, not people."

"Have you ever thought about this: if you didn't have this house and this life savings, would she still come back this time?"

Su Wanping looked depressed and was speechless.

Is there any need to think about it?

Ma Hongxiu will definitely not come back again. She came back this time just to take away everything she has and then go abroad.

"Sister, then tell me, what should I do?" She couldn't help crying.

Chen Xiaoying just couldn't figure out one thing: "You want me to help you think of a solution. First, tell me why Ma Hongxiu is such a bad person, but you still can't bear to part with her. What's the knot in your heart that you can't get over?"

"You clearly know that you can't count on her at all. She won't provide for your retirement, and she doesn't care about you. What do you want from her?"

Su Wanping was a little confused and still a little bewildered: "I, I don't know either."

"How come you don't know?" Chen Xiaoying frowned.

Su Wanping didn't know how to explain: "I have never had a child in my life. Guoming died, and I don't know what to do. Every day, there is no hope."

"Sister, when Hongxiu was still a baby, I held her in my arms and cuddled her to sleep every night. I watched her grow up day by day. I held her arm and watched her learn to walk."

"She called me mom, mom in her childish voice."

She couldn't help but burst into tears again: "She is so cute, I made a lot of beautiful clothes for her on the sewing machine, hugged her and spoiled her, I couldn't bear to let her suffer..."

Listening to her cousin expressing her motherly love for Ma Hongxiu, Chen Xiaoying could not help but fall silent.

It turned out that Ma Hongxiu was her cousin's hope, in other words, her spiritual sustenance.

Ma Hongxiu represents her "daughter."

She is a symbol.

Su Wanping poured her affection into her as if she were her own daughter.

Her memories were all about Ma Hongxiu's good side, which made her feel the happiness of being a mother. In her heart, if she had a biological daughter, she would definitely be such a child.

Therefore, she has always been reluctant to part with Ma Hongxiu.

Chen Xiaoying was silent for a long time before she spoke: "Hongyan is my biological daughter. Do you know why I am so cold to her now?"

Su Wanping thought for a moment: "Because Hongyan...she has no conscience?"

"Yes." Chen Xiaoying said, "I never told you in detail before. You only know that she took away my and Li Pingwang's money, as well as food, oil, and cloth in the name of safekeeping. In your eyes, these are all material things that can be bought with money. You probably don't take them seriously. Now you even let Ma Hongxiu sell your house."

"Sister, you don't care about money because you have never lacked money, so you are more focused on your spiritual pursuits. But if I hadn't woken up in time, I would have been like you, pursuing Hongyan's false filial piety to me as a mother. Would I be here today?"

"I was completely deceived by her a long time ago, and I was still happily raising sheep for her in the village. When it was time to sell the sheep, she would come over and take the money from the sale, and I would continue to raise sheep for her."

"In her eyes, I had no self, no pursuit, so I didn't want to wear nice clothes. I didn't want to eat what I wanted when I went to the market. I boiled steamed buns and a dish of chili water every day, and that was enough for a day. Li Pingwang didn't give me money. I had to ask him for laundry detergent when I did my laundry, and he would scold me."

"I worked hard all my life, why did I end up like this?"

Chen Xiaoying didn't know how to convince Su Wanping, so she told her about her nightmarish life for most of her life in a daze.

"Sister, we have to live well before we can talk about pursuing the spiritual world."

"Hongxiu doesn't treat you as a human being, and you can't survive. What else are you pursuing?"

Su Wanping was a little confused: "Alive?"

Chen Xiaoying looked at her and said, "You are an old lady who is getting older every year. If you don't have a house to live in and money to spend, how are you going to live?"

"Are you really going to die when you have nowhere else to go?"

Su Wanping's face turned pale and she said nothing, obviously agreeing.

So Chen Xiaoying pointed to the river in front of them and said, "The water is very deep. If you jump in, you will definitely die. Do you want to try?"

"Or do you want to take medicine, cut your throat, or hang yourself?"

Su Wanping thought that if she couldn't live anymore, she would just die.

But as her cousin told her all the ways to die, she couldn't help but feel the hairs on her body stand on end. Death?

If she was really asked to jump in, she wouldn't dare...

"When you die, if you commit suicide, it will be fine. But if you can give Ma Hongxiu a chance, she can come back and use your body to extort money. Then you can be considered to be doing your best for her for the last time."

"It's just that Wanping, Wang Hongxiu!" Chen Xiaoying directly called Ma Hongxiu Wang Hongxiu. She stared at Su Wanping intently: "She's a vampire, is she worthy?"

Is Ma Hongxiu suitable?

Su Wanping felt cold all over and her eyes were full of struggle.

Chen Xiaoying was sad when she heard what she said: "Think about Ma Guoming and you, you have lived a down-to-earth life and struggled all your life, but it was all wasted on Ma Hongxiu. You might as well donate this money to the government to build bridges and roads. Your names can be engraved on the monument to benefit future generations, and others can thank you again."

She felt sorry for Ma Guoming and Su Wanping.