Chen Xiaoying couldn't stand it any longer and slammed the account book on the table: "It was just fed to the dog!"
Li Pingwang paused for a moment before remembering that, except for the eldest son Li Hongwei, the second son Li Hongjian, the third son Li Hongqiang, and the fourth son Li Honggang, most of the money they earned from working was lent to the eldest daughter Li Hongyan.
Isn't this equivalent to calling Hongyan a dog?
He felt a little uncomfortable, but he still kept a straight face and acted like a father. He glared at the second son, Li Hongjian, and said, "I don't care where all the money you made in the early years went. Now Pengfei is getting married and has no house. As his uncle, can you just sit there and watch?"
Li Hongjian felt very aggrieved and wronged: "Dad, I can't buy a house by myself."
"I don't care. I've already said it. I have to take it back at my age. I can't afford to lose face." Li Pingwang didn't care because he felt that Li Hongjian could afford it.
He suddenly remembered something else: "By the way, you've already bought a house, right? Is your house... an apartment with an elevator?"
Li Hongjian immediately felt something was wrong: "Dad, what do you want to do?"
Li Pingwang never thought there was anything wrong: "If you really can't buy a house, that's fine. Your house is empty, so just let Pengfei get married in it."
"Dad, I leave this house for Chaochao to get married." Li Hongjian thought at first that the house in the village had been built. There were five bright bungalows with large glass windows and cement floors. They looked clean. Why should we buy one in the county town? It was his mother who suggested that we buy one now in the county town while the house prices had not increased. When his son Chaochao grew up, it would be just right for him to get married. That's why he bought it.
What does his father mean?
"I know Chaochao will get married when he grows up. He is so young now. It will take more than ten years for him to finish school and get married. Pengfei will definitely make a lot of money in these ten years. He will move out by then and will not delay Chaochao's marriage." This is what Li Pingwang planned.
It's quite worthwhile to marry two wives with one house.
Chen Xiaoying laughed, but she looked at the second brother Li Hongjian and said nothing.
This is trouble caused by the second brother Li Hongjian's own stupidity. Why doesn't Li Pingwang go to find the eldest brother Li Hongwei?
That was because Li Hongwei insisted that he had no money and would not buy it, so he had no choice.
As for the third brother, Li Hongqiang, he was not in the local area and he couldn't find him.
The fourth son, Li Honggang, has a wife, Yang Xiaohui, who is a troublemaker. Even if they want a divorce, it is impossible for her to give their house to her eldest nephew Pengfei to get married.
Li Hongjian did regret it. He shouldn't have been soft-hearted at the beginning and agreed to buy a house for his father.
"Dad, no, I still have a mortgage on my house. Can Pengfei afford it?" He tried to find an excuse.
"The house is yours, why do you want Pengfei to pay the mortgage?" Li Pingwang frowned, thinking that Li Hongjian was having a nice thought, letting others pay the mortgage for him.
Li Hongjian was depressed. The house he bought was given to someone else to live in, and he still had to pay the mortgage?
And he rents a house outside?
"Dad!" He was completely angry: "If Pengfei wants a house, let him buy it himself. I can't do anything about it anyway."
After saying this, he ran away without waiting for Li Pingwang to speak.
"Hongjian, Hongjian!" Li Pingwang called him angrily.
Li Hongjian ran even faster and disappeared.
Li Pingwang was so angry that he wanted to faint.
"Oh, you're buying a house and a car." Chen Xiaoying laughed at this time: "I won't delay you from buying them, just go ahead and buy them."
Li Pingwang couldn't hold back his anger and walked away with a sullen face.
After watching Li Pingwang leave, the third daughter-in-law Zhao Xueyan, who had been hiding in the back, came out panting: "Mom, what should we do?"
"There's nothing I can do. If he wants to buy it, then let him buy it. I won't stop him," said Chen Xiaoying.
But he knew that Li Pingwang had no money.
He spent all his money on his eldest daughter Li Hongyan. The only things he could make money with were the two cows he raised.
Li Pingwang was not reliable regarding the house matter. When he arrived at Zhaojia Village, he told Li Hongjian's words awkwardly and angrily to the eldest daughter Li Hongyan during her warm hospitality.
"Hongyan, now your brothers don't listen to me. They promised to buy me a house, but now they don't want to buy it. Hongyan, what do you think I should do?"
Li Hongyan's smile suddenly froze on her face.
Zhao Faliang's smiling face also lost its smile.
"Dad, look at what you've done. Pengfei has already told his girlfriend that his family will buy them a house. Now, how can Pengfei tell his girlfriend?" Li Hongyan was furious: "You've lived for most of your life, how can you still be so confused?"
It's over, she has lost face.
"What should I do? I was thinking of buying a house for Pengfei. Hongjian and the others are all ungrateful. Now that their lives are getting better, they don't care about you as their sister. It really makes me so angry." Li Pingwang was really angry, his face turned blue.
But Li Hongyan knew, what’s the point of him getting angry?
He was so angry that he could explode out of the house.
Li Hongyan was so angry that she burst into tears: "Am I really my mother's biological child? My brothers and sisters all have houses, but I don't. Did my mother do this on purpose?"
"I was poor in my early years, and I had three sons. I was under a lot of pressure. I did ask you two for a lot of money, but I also gave you something in return. Why do you say I took advantage of you?"
"I am filial to you. I buy clothes for you, cook for you, send you tofu and fried dough sticks. Whenever I have something in my hands, when have I not thought about you?"
Li Pingwang was scolded and cried by his eldest daughter Li Hongyan, and he couldn't even raise his head.
He felt guilty: "Hongyan, your dad has been an honest man all his life, but I'm not very smart. See if you can come up with a solution. As long as you can think of one, I'll listen to you."
He said this firmly.
He has said this more than once over the years.
Li Hongyan's eyes started to roll as she listened. She had inquired about it before, and she knew that buying a house in the county town now did not necessarily require full payment. One could buy it with a down payment, but one would still have to pay back the mortgage every month. Pengfei didn't have a proper job, so how could he get the money to pay it back?
"Dad, go back first and let me think about it carefully. I'll tell you when I figure it out."
Li Pingwang could only stand up and said, "Okay, Dad will go back first. Don't worry. No matter what happens, Dad will support you."
Li Hongyan felt touched. Her mother Chen Xiaoying gave birth to seven brothers and sisters in total, but her father only loved her.
Everyone has a sense of superiority. From childhood to adulthood, it was because of her father's favoritism that she had the right to speak in front of her brothers.
Wait until Li Pingwang left dejectedly.
Zhao Faliang, who had been feeling aggrieved for most of the day, finally snorted and threw the towel in his hand heavily into the basin, splashing water everywhere. He turned around with a sullen face and went into the house, slamming the door on purpose.
Li Hongyan was startled, put her hands on her waist, and started to curse: "Zhao Faliang, you are not a man!"
"You have the ability to slam the door, why can't you get a house for your son?"
"You're a loser, and your father is also a loser..."
Li Hongyan was also very dissatisfied with her parents-in-law. She thought that so-and-so's parents-in-law in the village had done anything for their son, and so-and-so's parents-in-law could make money, but her parents-in-law were like dead people, not even taking a breath.