Li Pingwang is a man with a bad temper. He means what he says. Everyone in the family is afraid of him except the eldest brother Li Hongwei.

He doesn't want to cancel the engagement anyway. Just because you say you don't want to marry him, he won't?

Our family is poor, so it's hard to find a wife. We finally found one who can work, and you still dare to be picky?

Li Hongqiang had no choice but to agree.

But what happened in the middle? Why didn't he marry her in the end, but Zhao Xueyan?

This brings us to Li Hongyan again.

She is a very capable person, extremely arrogant.

The girl was originally unhappy when she heard that Li Hongqiang didn't want to marry her because she was ugly.

When these words reached Li Hongyan's ears, this is what she said.

"How hard can it be to find a wife? There are so many in the surrounding area! Just flick the whip and you can get a bunch of them."

It's like herding sheep. The wife is a beast, just a stone picked up on the road, just a sparrow in a grass nest in the middle of winter.

You just crack your whip and a large crowd of people gather together?

The girl couldn't stand this, so she sent the engagement gift and clothes directly to Li Hongyan's home and asked to cancel the engagement.

Li Hongyan turned around and went back to her parents' home, where she made a mess of the woman's situation.

The marriage was called off. What was even more outrageous was that Li Hongyan could wear the returned clothes. She told Liu Lanxiang and Wang Xiaoqin about it.

"People always say the clothes I return are not good, but I don't care about that, so I just wear them."

"Do you want me to take it off for you if you want?"

What can Liu Lanxiang and Wang Xiaoqin say?

Liu Lanxiang was disgusted. You messed up the third brother's marriage. How dare you occupy these two sets of clothes? Where's your face?

Wang Xiaoqin was timid and didn't even dare to extend her hand.

Later, he married Zhao Xueyan. Zhao Xueyan was ill, so she never worked in the fields. She was fair-skinned and much prettier than the previous man, who was big and strong.

"…You were willing to do it. Who forced you to marry Xueyan?" Chen Xiaoying brought up everything that happened back then and questioned Li Hongqiang.

Li Hongqiang's face turned red and he couldn't say anything.

"Mom, why are you still talking about this? So many years have passed." Li Hongyan was also embarrassed.

"What about what he said now that he doesn't have a son?" Chen Xiaoying glared at her.

"Mom, this has nothing to do with me. Who knows what the third son is thinking? Even if he doesn't pay the money, my sons can't lack his uncle for food in the future." Li Hongyan said with great confidence.

Chen Xiaoying listened to them and tears of sadness fell on the spot.

"You can talk nicely, but you only have a bite to eat. Even if you squat on the street and beg for food with a broken bowl, you still have enough to eat. This is not the way to support your parents in their old age."

"When you are old, you need your children and grandchildren to accompany you and care about you. When you are sick, you need to spend money to treat it..."

The older people get, the lonelier and more afraid they become. If their children and grandchildren watch over them more, they can feel at ease and live a comfortable life.

If you only want to eat when you are old, what is the difference between you and a dog? Dogs in the village can still play in groups.

Li Hongyan felt that her mother was too difficult to deal with. "I won't talk to you anymore. It's Chinese New Year and I came to wish you a happy new year. Look at what's happened at home."

"I'm not a popular person here, so it's okay for me to leave, right?"

"Why are you leaving? Let's talk after we eat." Li Pingwang hurriedly greeted them, and turned to Zhao Faliang, who had a sullen face, and said something nice: "This matter has nothing to do with you. You are all useless. You just know how to yell in your house. You don't live a good life. You just spend the money you earn to burn."

This was a deliberate insult to his wife Chen Xiaoying.

Chen Xiaoying didn't want to bother with this old man.

Li Pingwang spoke, and although Li Hongyan had just spoken in anger, she immediately sat down and had no intention of leaving.

Chen Xiaoying was extremely angry, but if she drove her eldest daughter and her family out during the New Year, they would definitely be the laughing stock of the village. Moreover, they brought their three sons with them, so the scene would definitely be very ugly.

She could only swallow her anger.

"Xueyan, come here and help me cook."

Zhao Xueyan cried and wiped away her tears.

Chen Xiaoying wanted to leave, but turned back to look at Li Hongqiang and said, "Give me how much money it is."

No matter how hard he tried, it would eventually fall into Li Hongyan's hands.

"Mom, I take care of my own business. Please don't interfere." Li Hongqiang stiffened his neck, looking like a dead pig that is not afraid of boiling water.

Otherwise, Chen Xiaoying could only grit her teeth and turn away.

In the kitchen, Zhao Xueyan felt sad, but didn't know what to do. She was peeling garlic, her sleeves wet with tears.

While cutting vegetables, Chen Xiaoying said, "Don't worry, if the third brother continues to be like this and doesn't live with you steadily, if you have any ideas in your mind, I support you."

Zhao Xueyan understood immediately, but she couldn't help crying: "Mom, if we get divorced, who can I marry?"

Chen Xiaoying had nothing to say.

The women in the village have never seen the world in their lives. Zhao Xueyan only went to primary school for a few years. If she divorced the third brother Li Hongqiang, a woman who had remarried would still be sick, and no one would marry her.

As for her, she was spoiled by her biological mother since she was a child and was lazy and gluttonous. Because she was sick, her stepmother did not dare to be harsh when she asked her to do some work and deliberately did not give her food.

Zhao Xueyan was hungry, very hungry, so she shamelessly went to eat. Her stepmother did not dare to let people accuse her of deliberately abusing the daughter born to the previous woman, so she let her eat.

This is how Zhao Xueyan's personality was developed.

Divorce, at least for now, is a dead end.

Her third son, Li Hongqiang, was short, thin, dark-skinned, and not very eloquent. He divorced Zhao Xueyan and also couldn't find another woman willing to be with him.

"What's going on?" Chen Xiaoying chopped the chopping board hard with a kitchen knife and said to Zhao Xueyan, "It's okay. If you don't want to leave, just raise Jiejie diligently and mom will never let you down."

"When Jiejie grows up, she will be able to support you until you are old, and you will be able to make a name for yourself in life."

When Zhao Xueyan thought about it, she remembered her second sister-in-law Wang Xiaoqin.

Wang Xiaoqin married here and brought her mother with her. It was her mother-in-law who approved. Her father-in-law was unhappy, but he didn't say anything. If the mother was willing to live in his own home, then she could go back. If she was willing to help her daughter take care of the children here, then she could take care of the children and live a comfortable life.

Isn't the purpose of life just to eat?

"Mom, I will never be lazy again. If there is any work, as long as I can do it, just call me."

Zhao Xueyan became angry and wanted to stand up on her own.

Chen Xiaoying breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay!"

The reunion dinner was eaten quietly, with only the sound of dishes and chopsticks. After the meal, Li Hongyan and her family were ready to leave.

"I'll give you five dollars each." Li Pingwang smiled and gave five dollars to each of his three grandsons.

"Grandpa, I'm grown up, what else do I want?" Zhao Pengfei was twenty years old, felt embarrassed, and quickly declined.

Zhao Pengbo doesn’t want it either. He is in his third year of high school this year and will take the college entrance exam next year: “Grandpa, I don’t want it either.”

Zhao Pengle saw that his two brothers didn't want it, so he felt embarrassed: "I don't want it either."

"How can I refuse it? I can't give less New Year's money." Li Pingwang stuffed it into her pocket, forgetting at all that he almost never gave New Year's money to his granddaughters.

Watching the family get on the tricycle, Zhao Faliang drove the brand new tricycle away with a clattering sound.

Things were going terribly wrong today, and Li Pingwang went back to lie down on the kang with a sullen face.

Chen Xiaoying glanced at Li Hongqiang who was about to go out to play cards and asked: "How much money did you give to your elder sister?"

"Why do you always care about me?" Li Hongqiang didn't even look at his mother Chen Xiaoying.

Chen Xiaoying sneered: "How much money have you put into her savings account over the years?"

"I told you not to bother me, but you keep talking." Li Hongqiang just didn't say anything.

Chen Xiaoying's tone turned cold: "Are you not going to build a house?"

How could this son be so hopeless?