Li Hongli was caught off guard and was slapped twice hard by her father Li Pingwang, leaving half of her face numb.
She was completely dumbfounded.
Ever since she entered high school, she could sense in advance when her father was about to hit her and just ran away. If he didn't hit her, she just let it go.
She never dreamed that he could beat her whenever he wanted, even though she was married and had children and was a mother.
"Li Pingwang, what are you doing?" Chen Xiaoying stuffed the child to her third daughter-in-law Zhao Xueyan, who was also dumbfounded, and suddenly pushed Li Pingwang.
Li Pingwang almost fell down and pushed Chen Xiaoying backhandedly: "What do you think I did? She is my daughter. If she doesn't obey me, I can beat her."
"Even if I beat her to death, the police wouldn't bother me."
"I'm her father!"
Li Pingwang is not well educated and is very arrogant. He acts as an honest man and smiles in front of outsiders. When others bully him, he also smiles and says nothing.
But people like him will vent the resentment outside on their own family members.
From childhood to adulthood, of the seven children born to Chen Xiaoying, only the eldest, Li Hongyan, was never beaten. He never even scolded her. But he beat all the other six.
"Mom, Mom!" Zhao Xueyan was frightened and wanted to support her mother-in-law Chen Xiaoying, but she was holding the child in her arms.
Li Hongli turned pale with fear and subconsciously stepped forward to support her mother from behind, so that Chen Xiaoying did not fall on her back.
Chen Xiaoying was furious. With hatred in her eyes, she stared at Li Pingwang and said, "You dare to hit me?"
"What's wrong with hitting you?" Li Pingwang didn't think he did anything wrong.
Chen Xiaoying turned around and wanted to go to the kitchen to get a kitchen knife, but looking at the frightened and bewildered employees standing beside her, she realized that if the commotion continued, the situation would be dire.
She gritted her teeth and tried to calm her anger: "Call the police."
"Call the police?" Zhao Xueyan was stunned.
Li Hongli was also shocked: "Mom, do we really need to call the police?"
Chen Xiaoying couldn't beat Li Pingwang, and her store still had to do business, so she had no choice but to call the police.
Zhao Xueyan was anxious to call the second brother Li Hongjian and others.
Chen Xiaoying stopped him: "No need to beat them, call them here, this lunatic will beat them too."
In Li Pingwang's eyes, his children are all his own and are his children. They must listen to him and read his face. Anyone who disobeys is undisciplined.
Then he will beat anyone.
The second brother, Li Hongjian, has arrived, and it will take some time to take him away, so things will definitely get even worse.
Li Pingwang was not afraid of Chen Xiaoying. He had beaten the old woman for decades until she was bruised and swollen and couldn't get up from the kang. Her brothers from her mother's family didn't care about her.
She called the police, and they knew they could take care of her family affairs.
Just as Chen Xiaoying was about to dial the number, another person came into the store: "Sir, you're here?"
It turned out that the eldest granddaughter Li Yutong was on winter vacation and she came back.
He was holding a suitcase in his hand, and it was obvious that he had come directly to the store after getting off the train.
Li Yutong was not stupid. When she entered the room, she saw her grandfather Li Pingwang standing there with a sullen face and looking very angry, as if someone had provoked him.
Her second aunt Li Hongli had half of her face swollen and red, with tears in her eyes, and stood aside with a look of grievance and fear. Her third aunt Zhao Xueyan was also a little scared, but her face was expressionless, and it was obvious that she had been wronged.
"Grandpa, please come upstairs for a moment. I have something to tell you." Li Yutong went to pull her grandpa Li Pingwang.
Don't cause trouble in the store.
"I won't leave!" Li Pingwang felt that it would be embarrassing if he left.
"Grandpa, I really have something to tell you. It's related to my aunt." Li Yutong said.
Li Pingwang was stunned, and immediately followed Li Yutong upstairs.
The second floor is now used as staff dormitories, there is also an office, and there are a few chairs in the living room outside.
Li Yutong asked Li Pingwang to sit down, but she didn't mention her aunt Li Hongyan's matter. Instead, she said with a bad face: "Grandpa, what's wrong with you? Why did you come to my milk shop to cause trouble?"
"My grandma is so old, it's not easy to run a business, how could you do such a thing?"
Because she is a granddaughter, and the type that Li Pingwang is more satisfied with: she is hardworking, can endure hardships, is obedient and honest, can earn money, was admitted to a good university, and knows how to be filial to him and buy things for him.
When she asked him at this time, her tone was soft, so Li Pingwang did not lose his temper with her.
But towards Chen Xiaoying, she was very resentful: "Your second aunt is divorced and has a child. This is all because of your grandma."
"You shouldn't have been allowed to marry Xu Xiaodong in the first place."
He also kept talking about Li Hongli's divorce.
"I've lost all my face in the village. I can't even raise my head. What's wrong with me slapping her twice? Your grandma dared to fight with me. What wife dares to fight with a man?"
Li Yutong understood why her grandfather did this.
Her grandmother Chen Xiaoying protected her daughter, but ended up hurting her grandfather's self-esteem.
Her grandfather has always been this kind of person. Reputation is more important to him than life.
"Grandpa, have you forgotten that my grandma divorced you and you two are no longer related?" Li Yutong said, "My grandma wanted to call the police just now. If the police come, they will really arrest you for the crime of provoking disturbances. What will you do then?"
"You are old, over 70 years old. If you go to the police station, you will be the first in our Lijia Village. You will be embarrassed then." Li Yutong analyzed with him carefully: "Grandpa, don't use violence when you have something to say in the future. My second aunt is 23 years old, and you hit her in the face in front of so many people. She is a mother, you have to consider her feelings. She is a living person with feelings. You insult her, and make her feel more sad than if someone else insults her."
"What father doesn't love his daughter and instead beats and scolds her?"
Everything Li Yutong said made sense.
In fact, she was extremely disappointed with her grandfather.
In his previous life, when he was dying, he stuffed the 200 yuan under his pillow into his aunt Li Hongyan's pocket: "Spend it, don't let the eldest brother and the others know..."
Until her death, she knew only that her eldest aunt Li Hongyan was her only daughter.
The other six children seemed to have been picked up from outside.
Li Yutong didn't dare to compare her elder aunt Li Hongyan with her second aunt Li Hongli, because her grandfather was getting more and more confused as he got older.
He must have been talking about the same old things over and over again, like how her eldest aunt was filial, so he was partial to her, and the second aunt was disappointing and unfilial, so he didn't like her.
Anyway, he has his reasons.
It's not an equal distribution of water, but it's really unacceptable to watch the children on the other side die of thirst while constantly sending water to the daughter on the other side who has no shortage of water at all.
I really don't understand why her grandfather is so partial to her eldest aunt?
Li Pingwang kept his head down and didn't say anything, but after a pause, he asked, "What did you just say? What's the matter with your aunt that you want to tell me?"
Li Yutong sighed, "Grandpa, I just found an excuse in a hurry to call you up here. Otherwise, you would still be arguing with my grandma and my second aunt downstairs. You are so old, aren't you afraid of having a stroke like that guy in our village and being completely paralyzed on the kang?"
"My grandma is divorcing you, so who will take care of your poop and pee?"
"You can't even drink water..."
Li Pingwang suddenly felt that his granddaughter's words were becoming more and more unpleasant to hear: "Humph, I have been supporting your father, your eldest aunt, and your uncles all my life, a total of seven people. If they dare not come to serve me when I am old, I will go to court to sue them."