"Dad, what did my mom say about the house? Will she give it to me?" Li Hongyan was worried and sat down on a chair nearby. "Pengfei is capable. He has a girlfriend in the county town. Her parents said that it doesn't matter how much the gift is, but he must have a house."

"Dad, Pengfei was very unhappy last time because he didn't get married. He was away from home for several months, which made Faliang and I worried. We couldn't sleep for several days and nights. Now he can't be upset again. It's just a house, isn't it more important than Pengfei's life?"

Seeing his eldest daughter so worried, Li Pingwang felt bad too.

"Your mother is hard-hearted. She just won't give it to you."

Li Pingwang sighed and felt a little helpless about what to do with Chen Xiaoying.

The main reason is that the two have divorced, so even if he goes out to borrow money, he can't get it. People know that he and Chen Xiaoying are no longer a couple, and Chen Xiaoying won't use the money she earns to pay off his debts.

Li Hongyan's eyes turned red: "Dad, what should I do?"

Li Pingwang looked at his daughter Li Hongyan and wanted to ask her if she had saved any money over the years. Then he thought about it. She had three children. The family needed money for food and drink, and the seeds and fertilizers for the land also needed money.

When the children go to school, tuition, books, and living expenses all cost money.

How could she save money to buy a house?

When the eldest granddaughter Li Yutong had no money to pay for her tuition, it was the eldest son Li Hongwei who worked in the coal mine and earned the money with his own shoulders.

The pits in the coal mine were very low, and people had to crawl on the ground, step by step, to get out. Just thinking about it, he knew how much suffering it was.

The conditions on the mountain are not good either, the bedding is damp and there are many mosquitoes.

Zhao Faliang couldn't bear the hardship. Li Hongwei worked there for half a year and earned some money. Zhao Faliang worked there for three days and then came back.

"Why!"

He felt a little regretful about marrying Li Hongyan to Zhao Faliang. However, when he thought about it, Zhao Faliang was very handsome and energetic, and Li Hongyan liked him very much, so she married him when she was only 18 years old.

Li Pingwang had no other options, and Li Hongyan was also a little unhappy: "Dad, how about this? I'll write her an IOU, and when Pengfei buys a house, I'll return the house to her. That should be fine, right?"

Isn’t her mother Chen Xiaoying afraid that she will occupy the house and not return it when the time comes?

She still, she always has nothing to say.

Li Pingwang felt a little worried: "I don't think it's possible. Your mother doesn't believe you at all now."

Didn’t he say that whenever Hongyan borrowed money, she never said that it was borrowed by her?

But she never paid it back?

Otherwise, if they take away a few bags of soybeans, they will get a plate of tofu in return, which will offset the loss.

This kind of loan is more than the actual amount. Chen Xiaoying is not a kind person and will definitely not agree to it.

"Dad, this won't work, and that won't work. What if Pengfei can't get a wife?" Li Hongyan was very anxious. Although she was not very willing to marry this daughter-in-law, she was not as fair and tall as the previous girl named Jingjing, and was even a little dark and fat. But now that it was not easy to get a daughter-in-law, she had to make do with it.

Li Pingwang thought for a while and said, "Why don't you borrow some from Hongwei and the others?"

Li Hongyan did think about it: "Dad, don't even think about Hong Wei. He has never lent me a penny. As for Hong Jian and the others, except for Hong Qiang who still sends me 300 to 500 yuan every month, Hong Jian and Hong Gang are just avoiding me now."

"A house in the county town costs at least 40,000 yuan. They have to lend me 10,000 yuan each so that I can afford it. Hong Jian and the others all said they don't have the money."

That's what I said.

Li Hongyan was worried and worried, and suddenly she came up with a good idea: "Dad, I actually have an idea, it depends on whether you are willing to do it."

"What's your idea? Tell me." Although the question was asked, Li Pingwang was willing in his heart. As long as it didn't involve killing people or setting fires, he would do anything.

Didn’t you go to Laowagou Village to borrow high-interest loans before?

This caused Chen Xiaoying to divorce him, but he didn't care.

Li Hongyan said, "Dad, why don't you just tell them that you want to buy a house? Let Hongwei and the others pool their money to buy you a house in the county. When the time comes, you have the final say over your house. Let Pengfei get married in it, and you can stay there for two days and then come back."

"You still have to raise cattle anyway. You won't be used to living in a county town with such a big yard at home."

Li Pingwang had indeed gotten used to life in the village. Everywhere was so big and vast. But when he arrived in the county town, there was a constant stream of traffic. Most people lived in collective housing that was like pigeon cages. People were getting crowded day by day and had nowhere to go.

There isn't even a yard to walk around in.

Li Pingwang was not used to it.

"Okay, I think this is a good idea. I'll go ask Hongwei and the others for money right now." He immediately thought this was a good idea.

Seeing that Li Pingwang was about to leave, Li Hongyan quickly said, "Dad, Dad! Don't say it was me who said it, just say it was your own idea."

"I know." Li Pingwang waved his hand, then bent his waist, put his hands behind his back, and walked out of the yard.

The big yellow dog tied at the gate of the yard wagged its tail at Li Pingwang and lay down again.

Nowadays, every household in the village has earthen walls, which are a bit low, and most of them have dogs to guard the house.

Li Hongyan was afraid that Li Hongwei would come to confront her, so she quickly chased after him and warned him, "Dad, I'm going back now. I'll come back to see you when the house issue is settled."

Li Pingwang was afraid that his eldest son would cause trouble for his eldest daughter, so he wanted to help her cover up and make up for it: "I know, you should leave quickly, take the small road, his pepper field is on the other side, he can't touch you."

Li Hongyan knew it clearly and had long been thinking about taking the shortcut back to Zhaojia Village.

She returned to the yard and was about to push her bicycle away when she suddenly found a small rolled-up piece of paper under the leg of a chair.

"What is this?"

Her father usually doesn't write or read, so how could he drop a note on the ground?

Li Hongyan parked her bicycle and went to pick it up.

Li Hongyan stopped attending primary school after the second grade, but she learned some words later. She opened the note, read it and recognized it. It was a home address with a zip code on it.

"Whose address is this? Don't you have any relatives in the provincial capital?" Li Hongyan couldn't figure it out.

But she has always been a smart person. It fell in her own yard, and her father was the only one living in the yard, so it must have been dropped by him.

Li Hongyan returned to the house, took out a pencil, tore off a piece of paper, and wrote down the address. She also drew the three unfamiliar words as if they were drawings.

She threw the small note back under the chair and put the copied note in her pocket.

He immediately got on his bike and left.

When she met people from the village, she rode her bike very fast, afraid that others would see her.

But the people in Lijia Village know everyone well. They can tell who someone is just by looking at his outline from a distance.

So, when Li Hongwei heard his father say that he was going to buy a house in the county town, a villager who lived in the same row with his father came to him and passed on the gossip.