Li Hongli was dumbfounded: "Mom."

She received two slaps on the face and fell silent.

She didn't know what to do either.

She sniffed and started crying again, but this time, she didn't dare to let herself cry loudly. She only dared to sob quietly: "Mom, I'm so tired... I have nowhere to go, and the wound on my stomach hurts too."

"Mom, I want to lie down for a while..."

Looking at her pitiful look as she begged for mercy.

At this time, even if Chen Xiaoying was a piece of stone, there was no way to drive her out to the street.

"That room has two single beds. You can use any of them." She pointed to the place where her two grandsons Zhao Pengbo and Zhao Pengle used to live.

The two of them worked in a hot pot restaurant during the summer vacation, and when school started, they went back to school.

Li Hongli went there and just lay down on the bed, unable to get up.

Chen Xiaoying thought about going downstairs, and heard a weak voice from the room behind her: "Mom, I haven't eaten yet, and I'm thirsty now."

Chen Xiaoying closed her eyes and leaned against the wall. Did he really owe her that in his previous life?

"Wait."

She had no choice.

When Chen Xiaoying reached halfway up the stairs, she couldn't hold back her tears.

Her daughter, if you say she is stupid, she knows to hold on to the 30,000 yuan betrothal gift and the house tightly in her hands and not let Xu Xiaodong get a single drop of it. If you say she is smart, she will not let go of that scumbag Xu Xiaodong. Ma Xiufen is a wicked mother-in-law, but she doesn't dare to fight with her.

What should I do after this?

If she had listened to her, she would have lived a stable life long ago.

When Zhao Xueyan heard no movement from above, she stretched her head to look up the stairs and saw her mother-in-law wiping tears. She couldn't help feeling sad too.

She didn't pay any attention and didn't want to worry about it, so she secretly called her sister-in-law Liu Lanxiang.

As for Liu Lanxiang, she is a kind-hearted and hardworking person, and she devotes her heart to the fields.

So, even if she knew that the Li Hongli incident was still going on, she would pretend not to know unless it was brought to her attention.

She always remembered what her mother, Old Lady Liu, had said: You are an outsider, don't make comments casually about Hongwei's family affairs, otherwise people will only blame you.

Liu Lanxiang doesn't care, she just takes care of her own business.

But even so, Li Hongyan still accused her of sowing discord between siblings and instigating her parents-in-law to quarrel with her over the years.

At this moment, Zhao Xueyan called and said that her mother-in-law was crying.

Li Hongwei next to him also heard it.

Li Hongwei is a very filial son. His father-in-law Li Pingwang favors his eldest daughter Li Hongyan. He sends delicious food and drinks to her. He even buys her something for her with ten yuan from a handful of dried herbs.

He felt disappointed many times, but he would still ask her to send a bowl when there was something delicious at home.

During this period, he talked about renovating the house and asked around.

This is the case for his cruel father-in-law, not to mention his mother-in-law Chen Xiaoying, who bought him a house and really loved her son.

Li Hongwei's expression changed immediately: "Hurry up and ask why our mom is crying, who bullied her?"

Liu Lanxiang hung up the phone and sighed: "Besides Hongli, who else can make our mother cry?"

"Isn't she in the hospital for confinement?" Li Hongwei frowned.

"After giving birth, people are discharged from the hospital in three days for normal delivery and stay in the hospital for seven days for caesarean section. Beds are so tight that it's already very good to let her stay in the hospital for ten days. Why does she still want to stay in the hospital for the confinement period?" What Liu Lanxiang didn't say was that the hospitalization fees were paid by her mother-in-law.

He is such a grown-up and has money in his passbook, but he is so stingy that he holds on to his money tightly and tries his best to get benefits from his own mother.

"What's wrong with her?" Li Hongwei felt upset. This sister was not ambitious, and her brother-in-law's family was even less good. They didn't let her get married in the first place, but she insisted on getting married. It's not even a year yet, and the child has just been born, but she's already made such a fuss.

"It is said that..." Liu Lanxiang didn't know what to say. It was really because of what Li Hongli had done that she didn't know what to say.

"What are you talking about? Say it yourself." Li Hongwei had a bad temper to begin with, and he glared at Liu Lanxiang.

"Oh." Liu Lanxiang also sighed: "She wanted to go back to the Xu family with the child in her arms, but the old woman wouldn't let her in and snatched the child away. She came back to find our mother and asked her to get the child back for her."

"Isn't this embarrassing for our mother? She is a young woman and she can't beat him. How can our mother, an old lady, beat him?"

Li Hongwei stood up with a cold face, said nothing, and turned away.

"Where are you going?" Liu Lanxiang hurriedly chased after him: "When you go, don't listen to Hongli, just listen to our mother. Do whatever our mother tells you to do."

"Try not to hit others. If you get hurt, you'll have to spend money to treat it."

Li Hongwei left on his motorcycle.

As soon as Li Hongwei left, his father Li Pingwang came over. Liu Lanxiang had just finished drinking the noodle soup in her bowl, and when she saw him coming, she stood up and said, "Dad, have you eaten yet? There's more in the pot."

Apart from raising the three cows, Li Pingwang has nothing else to do. He cooks for himself. He knows how to steam buns and bake pancakes, so he always eats by himself.

"Where's Hongwei?" Li Pingwang put his hands behind his back and looked around as he walked in.

Liu Lanxiang did not hide it. She thought that her second aunt Li Hongli was in such a miserable state, so her biological father should also help her find a solution, right?

Just tell me about Li Hongli's story.

Li Pingwang was immediately annoyed: "What a worthless thing, so shameless, why don't people beat her to death?"

"She deserves to be beaten to death. She's so stupid."

"I told her at the time that girls who are eager to get married are cheap. If the Xu family wants to marry her, they should ask a matchmaker to talk to her. Did she listen?"

"I don't care." Li Pingwang not only doesn't care, he also has a bad temper: "I'm so old, how many days can I live? I've worked hard all my life, but I haven't enjoyed her happiness for a single day. I don't expect her to be happy in the future. Let her do whatever she wants."

Liu Lanxiang couldn't help feeling chilled when she heard this.

They are both his biological daughters, so why can’t he remember what he said when it comes to Li Hongyan?

"By the way, do you know what Hongwei is thinking? When will he repair my house?" Li Pingwang talked about what he was thinking about: "How about this, give me the money for repairing the house, and I will find someone to repair it myself. Anyway, you two are busy."

Liu Lanxiang was not as bold or timid as her younger siblings. When her father-in-law suggested giving him the money for renovating the house, she felt unsafe.

Give him money?

Who knows whether the house will be repaired even if the money is given to him?

Generally speaking, if everything is going well, and my father-in-law suddenly asks for something, my elder sister-in-law Li Hongyan must be behind it.

"He didn't say it, and I didn't ask. You're so old now, so don't worry about it. Hongwei has already inquired for you. Wait until the builders in the village put down their work in the fields and they will go to repair it." Liu Lanxiang had already told Li Hongwei that the wages should be handed directly to the craftsmen and not pass through her father-in-law Li Pingwang.

"I know. There's no need to wait for Old Li and the others. It's the same if we look for them in other villages." Li Pingwang said, "Just give me the money."

He said so.

Liu Lanxiang thought about it for a moment and knew who he was looking for.

For example, when it came to the marriages of his younger brothers-in-law, such a big matter, he gave full authority to his eldest daughter Li Hongyan to handle it. As a big sister, Li Hongyan not only took the money to arrange the marriages of her brothers, but was also very frugal and kept all the money in her own hands.

If she was trying to make money from such a happy event that reflected family unity, what more could she have done by instigating her father to build a house and embezzling some of the money for building it?