Only a fool in the mountains would throw a daughter born by a woman into the ditch.
A truly smart person is the one who gives birth to a son but still says he likes girls. If he doesn't have a daughter, he will be like the old deadbeat in Lijia Village who goes to great lengths to adopt a daughter. She can be raised by just adding an extra bucket of water to the pot.
Before getting married, she can help with housework and work in the fields. When she grows up, she can pay back the betrothal gifts to her brothers. Isn't this a ready-made way to make money?
The person Li Laizi learned from was Li Genwang from their Lijia Village.
Li Genwang raised his four daughters, and with the dowries from these four daughters, he built his house, bought a house in the city, and married his son. When he was old and sick, there were people taking turns to take care of him in the hospital.
He is now the most envied person in Lijia Village.
It's just pity for his four sons-in-law. Who could have thought that they could marry a wife who, after marriage, would be so poor that her family could barely make ends meet and would spend every penny on her parents' side to build a brick house for them and buy a house for her younger brother. What kind of wife would she marry? She is such a "brother-worshiping demon" that she doesn't even care about her own children.
As for why Li Hongyan wanted to adopt Li Hongli's daughter, it was not because she really liked her daughter. She also thought that at least she would not have to receive a betrothal gift, but she would have a daughter to take care of her by her bedside when she was old.
Chen Xiaoying stared at her straightly: "Li Hongyan, tell me, how come you are so calculating? All the people in the entire Li family combined are not as calculating as you, and none of them are as good at digging flesh and sucking blood from their relatives as you are. Don't you think your sister is not pitiful enough?"
"And this child."
Li Hongyan was a little embarrassed: "Mom, what are you talking about? Why is Hongli pitiful? After divorcing a man like Xu Xiaodong, she can find her own happiness again. Even if she has a hard time in the next family, she has a daughter who can take care of her in the future. How can she be pitiful?"
Can a divorced woman who cannot have children find a good man?
Someone can find it, but Chen Xiaoying doesn't think Li Hongli can.
Li Hongyan is lying with open eyes.
"You're trying to adopt Xiaoyu again, right?" Chen Xiaoying said sarcastically.
Li Hongyan felt uncomfortable all over: "Mom, that's all in the past, why should we do anything about it?"
"You are the one who takes advantage. You can let it go if you say so, but the Li family is the one who suffers. The eldest son and his wife can't let it go. In addition to getting money from them, you also asked your father for money to buy a car, all in the name of raising your child." Chen Xiaoying saw through her: "This time, you saw that Li Hongli still had more than 10,000 yuan and a house to live in, so you calculated this on her, didn't you?"
Li Hongyan's face turned pale. "Mom, why do you think so bad of me? The adoption of Yuhan in the past was all a misunderstanding. The eldest brother's wife didn't like me and spread lies between me and my eldest brother, which caused the relationship between us to deteriorate. Hongli and I are sisters, there is no way such a thing would happen."
Li Hongyan explained that she could tell lies without changing her expression and could even deceive herself.
Seeing that her elder sister didn't come out, Li Hongli came in to look for her.
When she heard from her mother that her elder sister would cheat her out of money, she immediately became alert.
She had the savings of more than 10,000 yuan and was still thinking about spending it on herself.
Li Hongli looked at Li Hongyan. When Li Hongyan saw her coming in, she quickly laughed it off and pulled Li Hongli out.
Chen Xiaoying watched from a distance. She had already given enough reminders, so she wanted to see what Li Hongli was going to do.
Li Hongyan went out and complained to Li Hongli.
"Our mother hates me. She thinks I have ulterior motives no matter what I do. I am your eldest sister. I just want to help you. How can I harm you?"
As she spoke, Li Hongli held the child and stopped talking. Her elder sister has always been shrewd. From childhood to adulthood, her elder brother Li Hongwei and others had quarreled with her father Li Pingwang countless times because of her affairs.
It was my eldest sister who moved things from her parents' home to her husband's home.
Even when her mother bought cloth for her and Hongxia at the market when they were young, and wanted to make clothes for them, Li Hongyan would rummage through all the boxes and drawers when she returned to her parents' home, pack them up and take them away.
Li Hongli thought carefully about what her elder sister had done. On the surface, it seemed like nothing, but in fact it was extremely selfish. She felt uneasy.
She was inclined to let her eldest sister adopt the child because her eldest sister said that with Pengfei's three cousins protecting her, the little girl would not suffer any harm when she grew up.
When she was a child, her older brother Li Hongwei protected her and they had countless fights.
Now her elder brother Li Hongwei has only two daughters. Li Yutong is very shrewd and has a bad temper. She will definitely not take care of her younger sister. Li Yuhan looks honest, but she listens to her elder sister Li Yutong.
The two elder sisters cannot be relied upon, and her eldest sister-in-law has two daughters, so one of them will definitely be boring and no longer cared about, and will not be as good as her eldest sister.
Li Hongli pondered for a long time and could only say: "Sister, since mom doesn't agree, I will think about it again."
Her elder sister is short of money, but her elder brother Li Hongwei is not short of money. Instead, he has more and more money.
Li Hongli knew the importance of money. She was able to fall in love with Xu Xiaodong at the beginning. After their divorce, she wondered why she fell in love with Xu Xiaodong at that time. After thinking about it carefully, she finally figured it out.
She was just trying to take advantage of the situation at that time.
Xu Xiaodong gave her some hairpins and bracelets, which were actually not worth much. He also took her out to a small restaurant outside the school, which actually didn't cost much.
She was bewildered by his generosity.
Li Hongli regretted it, so Li Hongyan could only let it go.
It is said that Xu Xiaodong and Yu Xiaona returned to the Xu family. When Yu Xiaona was working for her mother-in-law Ma Xiufen at the Xu family, she did not think the dirty and smelly environment of the Xu family was bad.
Now that I am about to move in, I realize it is so dirty and messy everywhere that I can’t stand it.
The dirt on the ground could not be washed away even with several basins of water. There were marks of water seepage on the roof, spider webs hanging in the corners, and dried chilies rolling on the pillars, all covered with a layer of dust. A corner of the steps was piled with dirty, broken and smelly shoes.
When eating, the table legs were crooked and needed to be padded with wooden boards. The chair plates were covered with patina, and the small dining table was covered with oil and water, but my mother-in-law didn't even wipe it.
Yu Xiaona couldn't bear it. She had lived in that warm and clean collective housing building since she was a child. At most, the corridor would get a little dirty and dusty when someone piled coal there.
Yu Xiaona is sweeping the yard.
Ma Xiufen hurriedly pulled her aside: "Why are you so tactless? Xiaodong and his two brothers are drinking. Go boil some water for tea."
Yes, after Xu Xiaodong came back from the wedding banquet, he and his two cousins set up a table at home.
A plate of fried peanuts, a plate of cold tofu skin, a plate of pig ears, a plate of cold black fungus, four cold dishes, a bottle of white wine, I have been drinking for most of the day...