"Mom, I'm your eldest daughter, can't you help me?" Li Hongyan now strongly suspects that she is not her biological daughter. Otherwise, why would her mother be so dissatisfied with her?

"I don't owe you anything. You can't ask for anything from me so confidently." Besides, except for the sesame seed cake which was her unique skill, all the others were Li Yutong's own private secret recipes. How could she just give them to Li Hongyan?

"Mom, then I'll buy it from you?" Li Hongyan was very reluctant: "But I don't have any money now, so I can only write you an IOU."

"Mom, how much do you want?"

Chen Xiaoying looked unhappy: "I want 20,000 yuan, will you give it to me?"

"Mom, are you crazy?" Li Hongyan looked incredulous: "Twenty thousand, two hundred is incredible."

Chen Xiaoying was so angry. No wonder she sold the recipe of sesame cakes for only three thousand yuan in her previous life.

Because in her eyes, this was just a piece of cake worth more than two hundred yuan, and when people gave her three thousand, she felt she was getting a great bargain.

"I'm still busy, you can go back." Chen Xiaoying didn't want to talk to Li Hongyan anymore.

Li Hongyan was extremely angry: "I am your daughter, not your enemy, and you are not willing to help me. How can I have such a cruel mother like you?"

"I'm cruel? There are no daughters and elder sisters as cruel as you. You took away all the pension money of my parents from my mother's side, without leaving a penny. You coaxed the money that my brothers earned from working into not spending it on their wives and children, and gave it all to you for safekeeping. You used the money to buy bicycles and tricycles, rent land, hire people, and support your sons in school and pay their tuition. It's been seven or eight years. Calculate how much money you have gotten from your mother's side?" Chen Xiaoying took advantage of the fact that it was four or five in the afternoon and there were no customers, and simply started talking.

Zhao Pengle looked up at his mother in surprise. He had never known that when his mother said she was going to keep his uncles' salaries, it wasn't to be deposited in a credit union, but rather had the money already been spent?

His mother said that several uncles were rich and did not do anything serious. They played cards and drank, and their wives could not control them, so they asked her to keep the money.

If they build a house or marry their son off, she will use the money.

This is how Li Hongyan explained to Chen Xiaoying: "…especially the third brother. The second brother said that the third brother lost more than ten yuan in one night when he played cards with someone last time, and he couldn't stop it."

Chen Xiaoying got angry when she heard this: "Really?"

Among several sons, the third son was the most disappointing. He wanted to spend two money when he had only one. Later, Li Hongyan scolded him for spending all his own money. When she did not take his money, the third son actually felt guilty.

But Li Hongyan did use some of his money to accomplish many things, at least allowing her to support her children to go to college.

The third brother was hospitalized due to a fracture. Li Hongyan asked Zhao Pengfei to drive there and gave him two thousand yuan.

That was when the third brother was fifty years old.

Anyway, with these two thousand yuan, Li Hongyan said that the debt that had been owed for more than thirty or forty years was completely paid off.

"Go back, I have something else to do."

Chen Xiaoying thought that she would call the second and third brothers later and absolutely forbid them to play cards and drink again.

Li Hongyan pestered Chen Xiaoying for a while, but she refused to give her the secret recipe or teach her. It was getting dark, and if they didn't leave now, there would be no bus to the village. So they had to leave with Zhao Pengle, putting on a sullen face.

"All day long, you just do nothing but scheme at your mother's house!" Chen Xiaoying complained.

I don’t know what to feel.

Li Yutong didn't know what to say, so she just told Li Yuhan: "Stop talking nonsense, have you finished the test paper?"

Li Yuhan followed them to the county simply because her parents were busy with farming and she was too young to help and there was no one to take care of her.

Li Yutong can still help and watch her study.

"Sister, I don't want to write." Few rural children in the 1990s truly understood that studying can change one's destiny. The very few who did were forced by their parents who knew this, and they also had their own self-discipline. They wanted to do well in whatever they were asked to do, so they studied hard and waited until they went to a key junior high school, a key high school, and were admitted to a university. Only then would they understand the benefits of going to university.

"If you go to the No. 1 Middle School in the county in the future, you can follow grandma to help here. I'll give you one dollar a day." Li Yutong coaxed her.

After hearing this, Li Yuhan took out her book and continued studying.

Li Yutong told her grandmother Chen Xiaoying about Li Hongyan.

"Grandma, don't you really want to help your aunt?"

After all, she is my biological mother. It must be hard for her to see my aunt in trouble and feel wronged.

Li Yutong only knew that her grandmother was reborn, but she didn't know that after her grandmother died, she didn't reincarnate, and she saw the endings of her children and grandchildren before she was reborn.

"Let's talk about it later." Chen Xiaoying said as she wiped the stall, "When I have money, I can help. I will help depending on the situation."

"Not right now. We are all poor and can't take care of ourselves. Our lives are much harder than your aunt's. Why should we help them?"

Li Yutong thought about it and agreed.

After my eldest cousin graduated from high school, he did not take the college entrance examination and has been idle at home for two or three years. My uncle and eldest aunt are both in good health, which means there are three laborers in the family to support two students in school. They also have money that my second uncle and third uncle gave to my eldest aunt for safekeeping during the past few years, and a brand new tricycle.

As for the Li family, even though they opened the shop, it has only been two months, and they have only renovated the house of their second uncle. Otherwise, they still have nothing.

My second uncle and third uncle received their advance wages, so they had nothing on hand. My second aunt worked on the farm with her mother and had no income. My third aunt was lazy, so she asked her father-in-law to help her farm the land. My fourth uncle's house was built with the help of my second uncle, my third uncle and her, the eldest uncle, and now they are in debt.

So compared to the wealthy aunt, these people are the ones who should be helped.

Now that they have money, it is only natural for them to provide for their grandparents who are no longer able to work and need support in the future.

My eldest aunt had her own parents-in-law. After she got married, she often said, "I am a married woman, like spilled water. I have no say in my mother's family affairs, so don't ask me."

"After raising four sons, you think of me, your eldest daughter who is married? Why don't you ask the sixth and seventh sons?"

The sixth and seventh children are the second aunt Li Hongli and the third aunt Li Hongxia.

The two are twins. They are studying at a technical school in Kaiyuan County. They did not come back during the summer vacation, saying that they were working to earn tuition fees.

Life was difficult at home, and her grandfather originally refused to let her go to school. The two of them cried and complained, and their brothers, who had already been working, scraped together the money to let them go and also gave them living expenses.

As for tuition fees, the government no longer takes care of it, and you have to earn them on your own.

So, looking at the situation in general, the Li family’s life now is so difficult that they have to eat dirt.

My eldest aunt is not reliable at all.

The grandparents packed up the shop and locked the door. There is no night market in Kaiyuan County now.

If there is a night market, business can be done until eight o'clock in the evening.

While the credit union was still open, the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren went to deposit money. For safety reasons, they deposited one money a day. The public security is still good now. The police station is diagonally opposite the People's Market. Many merchants sleep in their own shops at night, so there is no problem for the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren to sleep in the shop.

Although Li Hongyan didn't get the secret recipe of the buns, she didn't get discouraged. The next day, she went to ask her father Li Pingwang.