After finishing the work at Su Wanping's house, Li Hongyan also made great efforts today, so Su Wanping gave her a small silver ring: "Hongyan also made great efforts today, you take this."
Just now, when she was standing with her hands on her hips, arguing with Zhu Dahong's family, every word she said pierced their hearts and she felt refreshed just listening to it.
If it were her, she would be tongue-tied and wouldn't know how to curse out loud.
Her cousin actually gave her a silver ring.
Li Hongyan immediately smiled happily: "Aunt, I knew you were the best to me."
Thinking about how she hadn't gotten a penny from her biological mother in several years, she couldn't help feeling sad and looked at her biological mother Chen Xiaoying with resentment.
She deliberately fiddled with the silver ring to show it to Chen Xiaoying: "Mom, my cousin gave it to me. Doesn't it look good? None of your rings are as pretty as this one."
Even though it's made of old silver and is small and not worth much, it's still free, right?
Su Wanping smiled and shook her head. Her cousin Chen Xiaoying's eldest daughter, Li Hongyan, was the most greedy for money. She was very happy about this.
A small silver ring made the eldest daughter Li Hongyan so proud. Chen Xiaoying glared at her angrily: "Why are you taking your cousin's things?"
Li Hongyan put it in her pocket unhappily: "Mom, if you don't give it to me, you're still unhappy?"
Chen Xiaoying was speechless because of her blocking.
After thinking for a while, she sneered and said, "There is something I have wanted to tell you for a long time. Return all the silver coins and jewelry I hid in the cabinet to me."
Li Hongyan was dumbfounded: "Mom, what did you say?"
"Don't play dumb with me. No one touches my cabinet except you." Chen Xiaoying glared at her unhappily. Although the things were few, they were her gift to her other daughters and daughters-in-law in the future. She still had so many granddaughters, and there were not enough to go around.
She has been thinking about this matter in her heart, but she has no time to argue with her about it. Today is the perfect time.
"mom!"
Li Hongyan became furious. If she had known this would happen, she would have not come today.
"Don't call me. There were so many things in there, but you took them all away in a bag without leaving anything for me. What's the difference between you and Wang Hongxiu?" Chen Xiaoying scolded angrily.
Li Hongyan was stunned.
"Wow--"
Who the hell is Wang Hongxiu? She is worse than pigs and dogs, but in her mother's eyes, she is just Wang Hongxiu?
Li Hongyan ran away crying.
Su Wanping, Ma Guoxi and others didn't know what to say.
"Don't bother with her." Chen Xiaoying felt upset when she heard her eldest daughter crying.
In her previous life, the eldest daughter Li Hongyan did a much better job than Ma Hongxiu.
Li Hongyan is good at talking and she takes advantage of you, but in turn makes you feel that she is not taking advantage of you, but you are actually suffering a loss.
For example, he took away so many of her jewelry, which she said were kept for safekeeping. Even when she was lying in the coffin in her previous life, she never took them out. Instead, he instigated his brothers to quarrel with his wife, asking her to take out the half silver dollar or something she had given him, and put it in the coffin for her to take away.
Even though she is very stingy, she still wants others to think that she has contributed the most and must be the one who receives everyone's praise.
Chen Xiaoying knew what was going on. Su Wanping sympathized with Li Hongyan and ran away crying, but she didn't say anything.
After the lock was changed, Chen Xiaoying directly distributed the jewelry that she had promised to give them in front of them.
"It's not safe to leave it with me. Don't let the thief pick the lock again."
Ma Shuai was embarrassed to take it, so his father Ma Guoxi sighed and took it: "Okay, I'll keep it for you. As long as you are well, I will send it back to you whenever you need it."
The villagers who go to work in the fields cannot take these with them, and they would be even more distressed if they were lost.
Chen Xiaoying also said: "Even if you keep it with me, it's still yours."
After sending Su Wanping back to the hospital, Chen Xiaoying went back to her home to rest. Li Yutong had also been running around all day and was exhausted.
Chen Xiaoying was thinking about how to arrange these things, as her house was not big.
Li Yutong took a look and estimated it based on the current silver price: "Nana, it's actually not that much money."
Yes, most of them are silver, and only two or three pieces are gold, which are worth a little money.
Her grandmother Chen Xiaoying said: "At that time, my grandmother's family was just an ordinary country gentleman. It was good enough for them to save so many dowry jewelry for their daughter. They were not a wealthy family with real officials."
Li Yutong thought about it and agreed.
"Grandma, come with me." Li Yutong thought of a good place, where she used to hide things.
At this moment, there was no one in the room except the grandparents. Li Yutong took her grandmother to her bedroom and found a wooden board in a corner of the cabinet. There was a gap behind the board. "Grandma, put it here."
Some time ago, she had no place to hide the gold hairpin her grandmother gave her, so she found this place specifically.
Chen Xiaoying couldn't have imagined that something could be hidden here. Even if the Japanese invaders entered the village, they wouldn't be able to find such a place to hide treasures.
Li Yutong took out some cement slag and made the space bigger. She put the small cloth bag containing the jewelry in it and restored it to its original state. The cabinet was made of mahogany and had many grains on it. She traced it with a pen and could not see that there was a loose board at all. Then she put clothes and other things on it.
It's completely invisible.
After putting the things away, Chen Xiaoying breathed a sigh of relief.
"The matter is finally settled. I wonder what Wang Hongxiu is going to do in the end. Your aunt has already filed a complaint. The lawsuit will probably take a long time."
Li Yutong thought for a moment and said, "My aunt wants to break off relations with her, but from what Wang Hongxiu said, what if she drags her feet and refuses to respond to the lawsuit?"
"If she runs away and returns to her country, my aunt won't be able to do anything about it."
Chen Xiaoying frowned: "What should we do? This is your aunt's knot. She really doesn't want Wang Hongxiu to go out and say that her father is Ma Guoming and her mother is her."
Li Yutong didn't know what to do: "Grandma, let's hold a court session first and see how exciting it is."
"Besides, there's an old lady in the health center waiting for her and Zhu Dahong to pay compensation."
"Oh, there is this matter, I almost forgot about it." Chen Xiaoying slapped her thigh. She had been troubled by the Wang family these days and had forgotten about it. Wang Hongxiu even pushed the old woman and she is still lying in the hospital.
"Grandma, let's just take it one step at a time. Anyway, my aunt is in good health, so there's no need to rush." Li Yutong said.
"I'm afraid Ma Hongxiu will run away." said Chen Xiaoying.
The two pondered for a long time, and Li Yutong said, "Grandma, I think in Wang Hongxiu's eyes, nothing is more important than money. She probably doesn't want to return to the United States empty-handed. Maybe she will use the termination of the relationship to continue to threaten my aunt for money."
"I learned about houses in the United States. It is common for people to pay a down payment and then continue to repay the mortgage to afford a house. The real estate market is hot there. She also told my aunt that she wanted to speculate in real estate and make a lot of money."
"I can see that she was speculating in real estate over there and couldn't make ends meet, so she came back to China to ask for money. Otherwise, why didn't she think of coming back to sell the house in the past 20 years?"