When she was young, she relied on the fact that her four brothers from her mother's family listened to her. She only had to wave her hand and four laborers would come to work for her, and they would provide her with food without charge.

This made everyone in the village envious.

They are all rural people, and they all serve the land.

When you are busy working in the fields, others are also busy with their farming work.

Even if a woman has many brothers from her mother's side, none of them would work hard for her daughter before they finish the work on their own land.

Li Hongyan happened to be the first one.

Her biological father Li Pingwang and his four brothers would finish her work first, and then go back to work on their own. At that time, in order to make money, she felt that her family had more labor, so she also cultivated other people's land, a total of more than 20 acres. For a period of time, for more than a month, her brothers worked for her.

As for her mother's family, I heard that one time, Li Hongyan's older brother Li Hongwei went out to work. Seeing that it was raining, he thought that since his father Li Pingwang's wheat had been harvested, and his family's land was right next to her, he would definitely harvest his wheat as well.

But he never expected that his wife Liu Lanxiang, with her big belly, was also helping his father to harvest wheat. After harvesting, his father-in-law and his three brothers-in-law left without looking back and ran to Zhaojia Village to collect wheat for Li Hongyan's family.

At that time, it was about to rain.

If the wheat is soaked in rainwater, all the seeds, fertilizers and labor for the year will be wasted, and the whole family will go hungry.

Liu Lanxiang cried anxiously. She was pregnant with her second daughter, Li Yuhan.

The eldest daughter, only four years old, was helping to harvest the wheat in a clumsy way.

The people in the village couldn't bear to see this anymore. Those who didn't grow wheat at home joined her family in a race against time to deliver the wheat to her home before it rained.

We are all farmers and cannot bear to see food being wasted.

It was at that time that Liu Lanxiang completely hated Li Hongyan!

She resented her father-in-law Li Pingwang for being partial and not treating her husband Li Hongwei as his son.

——They are treated as animals.

When there is work, he is pulled to work like a workhorse, and when there is no work, he is thrown aside, and all the benefits are sent to Li Hongyan in Zhaojia Village.

This happened more than ten or twenty years ago, and everyone in Zhaojia Village knows who Li Hongyan is. Now, they are just making fun of Li Hongyan on purpose.

A few years ago, her mother Chen Xiaoying suddenly came to her senses. She earned money by selling food in the county town, built houses for her children in the village, and also bought a house in the city.

In the past, all the benefits must belong to her. Li Hongyan, whose brothers could not even drink the leftover soup, and her married and unmarried twin sisters, Li Hongli and Li Hongxia, all had houses.

But I just don’t buy it for her.

Those who dislike her have had enough of her jokes in recent years.

People are gloating over her misfortune. Li Hongyan is not someone you can easily mess with.

"My mom is rich. Although she didn't give me money, she gave money to my sons. My mom paid for the tuition of my second and third sons. Does your mother have the ability to give you money?"

Li Hongyan snorted and left angrily.

Surrounded by a group of people, they were jealous again.

Doesn’t spending money on grandson mean saving money for Li Hongyan?

Is this old lady confused?

"Forget it. I think the old lady really made a lot of money and couldn't bear to see her grandson drop out of college, so she just helped him out."

"If her mother really loved her, she would have bought a house for her eldest son Pengfei who is eager to get married. Didn't Li Hongyan say some time ago that she was going to buy a house? She didn't mention it recently, probably because it's fallen through again."

"Don't mention it. She's just too smart. She's always calculating this and that. Do you remember what happened a few years ago? When her husband Pengfei was getting married, she didn't get any money from her parents, so she went to Laowagou Village to borrow money from a loan shark. She asked her elderly father Li Pingwang to put his fingerprints on the loan and put the debt on the old man. She used the money to get married, but the people in Laowagou Village smashed her house and forced her mother to divorce her father. There's no daughter like this in the world."

"Yes, she was struck by lightning. She instigated her own parents to divorce, saying that this was the only way to legitimately possess the money her mother earned, because it was marital property. In the end, her father Li Pingwang used the little money they had to pay off her loan sharks."

Li Hongyan used to be envied by many people, but now she is ridiculed by many people.

When she returned to the village angrily, she found Zhao Faliang was also at home. On the stage, gongs and drums were beating loudly, and the loudspeakers were transmitting the opera to every corner of the village. Outside, people from nearby villages had come to the temple fair.

There are all kinds of snack stalls, as well as those selling clothes, shoes, hardware and groceries, and ice cream on bicycles. There are more of them than at any other market.

Almost all the people in the village went out, either to watch a play or to go shopping.

Zhao Faliang was alone at home, seemingly sulking.

"Why are you at home? Don't you like to eat the mutton offal noodles sold at the stall at the west end of the village? Why don't you go to eat it?" she asked curiously.

Zhao Faliang said with a sullen face: "What are you eating? You are so angry."

After asking again, Li Hongyan found out that someone had also mocked Zhao Faliang in front of him for his mother-in-law being so rich and why she didn't buy an apartment for his son Pengfei.

"These people are just idle. What does this have to do with them? Why do we need them to gossip about our wives?" Li Hongyan also became angry.

One by one, they were all laughing at her.

"My mom just donated 300 yuan to the temple fair, they are just jealous."

Zhao Faliang knew that they were jealous. They were jealous of him when he was helped by his father-in-law's family in the early years.

Now people are just making fun of him because his wife has no house.

He also couldn't directly ask Li Hongyan to use her former abilities to force or coax her mother to buy a house for his family.

Just when Zhao Faliang was feeling depressed, an old man slowly came to the gate of the courtyard. He was wearing an old gray shirt and a towel with holes in it around his neck. He came with his back hunched and his hands behind his back.

"Dad, you're here. Have you eaten?" Her father came. Now Li Hongyan's only hope for her mother's family is on her father.

Li Pingwang looked at his son-in-law Zhao Faliang with a smile, and Zhao Faliang had no choice but to call out "Dad".

"Oh," Li Pingwang responded, and then said, "I've eaten. I went to the stage and drank a bowl of fermented glutinous rice soup. It tasted okay. A lot of sugar was added."

"Dad, then you sit down." Li Hongyan didn't care. Her father would usually come to her house to sit down when he had nothing to do.

Li Pingwang sat down and Li Hongyan poured him some water.

Li Pingwang didn't drink the water, so he took out a plastic bag from his waist pocket and opened the bag layer by layer. There was a small handkerchief inside. He opened the handkerchief layer by layer and found a roll of money inside.

"Dad, what are you doing?" Li Hongyan knew at a glance that her father was here to give her money again.

She was curious about how many there were, so she stared at it, but found that there were not many.

It looks thick only because there are so many rolls.

She was a little disappointed.

Zhao Faliang also saw it and stretched his neck to take a look.

Li Pingwang said, "Here, take it and save it for Pengbo and Pengle's tuition."

Li Hongyan took a look and counted it in her hand. It was a total of two hundred yuan.

She understood that this was the monthly pension money that the brothers gave to Li Pingwang.