Everyone was silent for a while, and then the eldest son Li Hongwei asked: "Mom, what do you think?"

Chen Xiaoying said, "My idea is that if you owe someone a house, you should build it. If you have a house but it's not good, I will make up the difference. Fourth brother, your house was built in one go, and you owed the second and third brothers a lot of money. You have to pay them back."

Yang Xiaohui's face suddenly turned ugly: "Mom, the fourth child is weak and can't do heavy work. Our life will be difficult in the future."

Among the daughters-in-law, Yang Xiaohui is the most cunning.

Chen Xiaoying was not happy with her: "Don't tell me these things. When the two families were talking about the marriage, you and your mother knew the situation of the fourth child. Think about how much money you asked for as a betrothal gift? When did your eldest brother pay back the 3,000 yuan he borrowed at that time? Go back and ask, I need this money now."

The fourth son's wife is a traitor.

The family made a barrel of oil from rapeseed, and she would pour out half a barrel to send to her mother, regardless of whether her family had enough to eat for the year. In short, she would send half of whatever she had to her mother, regardless of whether her own life was good or not.

In my previous life, I watched TV and saw that after getting married, a woman who was devoted to helping her brothers from her natal family, regardless of the life or death of her husband and children, was called a "brother-supporting demon." But she was a real "brother-supporting demon."

"Mom, my brother doesn't have much money." Yang Xiaohui said quickly.

"So you want to default on your debt?" Chen Xiaoying glanced at her and continued to say to her sons, "Do you have any objection to what I just said?"

Boss Li Hongwei had no objection.

The second son, Li Hongjian, had no objection either.

The third brother, Li Hongqiang, buried his head and muttered, "They said the house won't be repaired."

"Li Hongqiang, tell me, are you not going to care about your wife's life or death?" Chen Xiaoying stared at him: "You don't want to live in the new house, but your wife and children still want to live there."

"How big a room can they live in?" Li Hongqiang was unhappy and felt it was a waste.

"According to you, when you come back, you don't plan to live in this house, don't eat the food your wife cooks, and don't rely on Li Yujie for your retirement in the future?" Chen Xiaoying asked.

Li Hongqiang was speechless. Having a wife to cook and wash clothes for him was different from being a bachelor.

Chen Xiaoying saw through his thoughts at a glance. He disliked Zhao Xueyan, beat her and scolded her. In fact, he was taking advantage of the fact that Zhao Xueyan was sick and there was no other place to take her except here, so she didn't dare to run away!

"It's my money, I can spend it however I want. If you don't want to, when the house is built in the future, just pretend it doesn't exist and don't live in it," said Chen Xiaoying.

At the end, Chen Xiaoying did the math: "…Now we only have a little over 20,000 yuan. Since you all have houses to live in, only the third child has none. This money can be used to build a house for the third child first. Third child, you don't know much about building a house, so your eldest brother can help you. That should be okay, right?"

Li Hongqiang had nothing to say, but instead muttered: "With this money, I can even help Pengfei find a wife."

Chen Xiaoying didn't even want to look at him.

"Also, I have to add one more thing. You are all curious about how much money I made by opening a store in the county town. In fact, in the final analysis, this money has nothing to do with you."

"Because my eldest brother and his wife helped me, my eldest granddaughter Li Yutong came up with the idea and did odd jobs for me after school. As for the rest, you all worked outside. Who lent me a hand?"

"As a mother, I am building a house for you out of my responsibility as a mother and want you to live a good life. Don't be ungrateful and want something extra."

When Chen Xiaoying said this, no one else had any objections and they all nodded.

Yang Xiaohui said, "Mom, it's not that I don't want to help, it's that you don't want me to help."

"The store doesn't need any help now, so why are you asked to help?" Chen Xiaoying looked at her and said, "When I was selling sesame cakes at the market, it was hard work, why didn't you try?"

Yang Xiaohui had nothing to say. When the fourth child went out to work, she said that she would stay at home to take care of the children full-time. She did not do any work in the fields and left it all to her father-in-law.

When her father-in-law couldn't do the work, her eldest brother Li Hongwei and his wife would do it. She would only check the scale when it was time to harvest the grain to see how many kilograms of grain she had harvested this year.

Yang Xiaohui wanted to be idle because she didn't farm. Chen Xiaoying wanted to talk about the land as well. She couldn't let the eldest son work hard and still get nothing in return. She looked at Li Hongjian and the others and said, "Third and fourth sons, you two said that your father farmed the land. When the crops were harvested, he distributed the crops to you. But your father is old and can't work anymore. In fact, your eldest brother did a lot of the work, including watering the land, buying seeds, and buying fertilizers. He was the one who took care of everything. Do you remember your eldest brother's kindness?"

"I will remember, of course." Li Hongjian is a simple man. He knows that his elder brother is good to him, so the first thing that comes to his mind is that he will definitely remember the kindness of that person.

Only the third brother remained silent.

"Third brother." Chen Xiaoying said.

The third brother, Li Hongqiang, just hummed, but there was obvious emotion on his face, as if he was holding back on something and didn't want to say it.

Chen Xiaoying knew at a glance that he must have listened to the instigation of Li Hongyan from Zhaojia Village. In her previous life, she had heard Li Hongyan tell the third brother Li Hongqiang that the eldest brother Li Hongwei helped with all these things just to get people to say a few good things about him and was not really helping.

Two nice words?

Are you going to sweat profusely, run around and work yourself to death just to get someone to say a few nice words?

She lets him say whatever he wants. The eldest son only went to help his parents, who were working in the fields with their backs bent and their backs tired. What do you mean by just to get people to say something nice about him?

Besides, he has worked so hard to do the job, so isn't it normal to say a few nice words to him about his filial piety?

"Third brother, you'd better open your eyes in the future. Don't be so stupid as to let others say what is black and what is white. Check your conscience. Your homestead was won by your eldest brother who almost had a fight with others. And your family's land and the second brother's land, when the land was divided, the team leader took advantage of the fact that you two were not at home and deliberately divided the dry land into you. Your eldest brother pestered others and said many nice things before he kept the good land for you?" Chen Xiaoying said out everything that the eldest brother Li Hongwei had kept in her heart and never said.

Li Hongqiang thought for a moment and said, "I'm working outside anyway, I don't farm, good or bad land doesn't make any difference, why would I make a fuss with others?"

As soon as these words came out, Li Hongwei, who had been holding back, suddenly got angry: "Old Third, have you thought about what you said? You are a farmer, if you don't rely on the land to feed you, what do you rely on? Rely on your current strength? What if you get old? What if you can't work anymore? What will you do?"

"I have money, so I won't buy it." Li Hongqiang just doesn't like to be called brother and talk about him.

"You have money, can you guarantee that you will be rich forever?" Although Li Hongwei has never been out of the county, he does not know how the society outside has changed, but the only thing he knows is that as a farmer, the land is his foundation and his life: "When you grow old, where will you be buried?"

"You are just a lonely ghost."

"Stop talking, I get it." Li Hongqiang couldn't stand it anymore and just thought that he might as well not come back for the New Year next year. It was so annoying to celebrate the New Year.

He didn't want to listen anymore, like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water. Li Hongwei's face turned red with anger. Liu Lanxiang pulled him back and said, "Sit down and talk it over."

Chen Xiaoying sneered: "Third brother, if you still live with this attitude, thinking that you have money but your wife and children won't rely on you in the future, then let's settle the accounts. Your father and I raised you, so don't you have to provide for us in our old age?"

The third child, Li Hongqiang, was very proud and would never admit that he was unfilial: "I know."

"You have a wife and children. They also need to eat, go to school and buy clothes. Do you also have to give them living expenses?" Chen Xiaoying continued to ask.