In front of so many people, Li Hongqiang couldn't just ignore it, so he could only say with a straight face: "Give it to me."

After hearing these two sentences, Chen Xiaoying immediately settled an account with him.

"Okay, then I'll calculate based on your three hundred dollars a month. You have to give half of it back as living expenses for your wife and children, and give me and your father another fifty dollars for retirement. As for the remaining one hundred dollars, you can spend it on others or on playing cards. We won't care."

When Li Hongqiang heard this, he immediately refused to do it: "Mom, how can I have so much money?"

The money I earned in the past few years was either given to my eldest sister for safekeeping or lost in card games. How can I have so much money to give to my family now?

Chen Xiaoying couldn't help but mock him: "But from what you said just now, I thought you had hundreds of thousands of assets, so you didn't care about the land."

Li Hongqiang blushed and stopped talking.

He didn't say anything, clearly intending to evade responsibility. His mother Chen Xiaoying's attitude became even tougher: "Third brother, I'm not kidding you when I tell you so much. If you want to continue living with Xueyan, you can return half of her salary. This is what she deserves."

Li Hongqiang was furious: "The money I earn..."

"If you don't listen to me in the future, don't enter my door." Chen Xiaoying interrupted him. What she said was nothing more than the same as what his father Li Pingwang said. I can spend the money I earn however I want. I married a wife and gave birth to a child, but you don't care about her life or death, and just want to enjoy yourself? You wish.

"Second brother, fourth brother, you too, give it to me like the third brother."

The second brother Li Hongjian and the fourth brother Li Honggang, neither of them can escape.

Chen Xiaoying finally figured it out. When the money was in their hands, they would either ask Li Hongyan to "borrow" it or spend it all themselves. In her previous life, the fourth brother's money was not borrowed.

But the fourth son's wife, Yang Xiaohui, was a spendthrift. She was never seen buying clothes, but the children still had no money to pay for school tuition, so the children had to pester them for money. The money that the fourth son sent back was still spent all over, leaving not a penny. You can imagine who the money ended up in the hands of.

Everyone was talking about the salary handover, but no one mentioned the boss.

The third brother, Li Hongqiang, was not convinced: "Why don't you talk about my eldest brother?"

"Your eldest brother gave him food. Besides that, he has half of the capital for the shop we opened now, and half of the profit. Are you still worried that he can't afford the alimony?" Chen Xiaoying really didn't know what the third brother was thinking.

As soon as these words were spoken, even Li Hongwei was stunned. Thinking about it, it seemed to be true.

Her mother said from the beginning that the money earned would be split in half with his family.

Liu Lanxiang did borrow 500 yuan from her mother's family, but she has already paid it back. Her eyes flashed, but she didn't say anything. She knew in her heart that her mother-in-law was biased towards her family at this time and said this for her family's own good.

The ownership of the store is now clear: Chen Xiaoying and the Lao Da couple run the business together, and the profits are split in half.

As soon as the words were made clear, the room suddenly became quiet, with everyone having different expressions.

Chen Xiaoying sighed. That was true. Before this was made clear, everyone thought that the shop was hers and that they would have a share of the money earned in the future.

Now that we have made it clear, we don’t have to worry about it later.

Just when everyone was silent, Li Hongli suddenly spoke up: "Mom, what are you going to do for me and Hongxia? You build a house for my brother and his family, but we will get married in the future and don't need a house."

Li Hongxia couldn't help but look at Chen Xiaoying.

Chen Xiaoying glanced at her and said, "I will also give you a dowry. The amount of the dowry will depend on how much your partner's family is prepared to give you as a betrothal gift."

"I don't want that. Our family is poor enough. We have supported you two to go to college, and then you marry someone who is even poorer than ours."

Supporting them to go to school means hoping that after they have studied and gained knowledge, the government will assign them a good job. When they earn a salary in the future, they can give back to their families and make their lives easier.

They don't get married right after graduation, but marry someone who is even poorer and can't even take care of himself.

"Okay then." Li Hongli said nothing more.

She only thought that Xu Xiaodong could give her a betrothal gift of tens of thousands of yuan. Then, she could ask her mother for a dowry of tens of thousands of yuan, and then she wouldn't have to worry about her good life after marriage.

Li Hongxia was also very happy. There was no such thing as a dowry in rural areas nowadays, especially for families with many children and those who were so poor that they could not even afford meat. It was already a great gift to give a few wardrobes and tables as a dowry when getting married. Some stingy families would just give two washbasins and two thermoses and that was all.

This was the first meeting held by the Li family in their lives.

No one said anything, as if they all knew the answer and agreed. However, Chen Xiaoying knew that some people were still not convinced.

Li Hongwei and his family went back happily.

The second brother, Li Hongjian, didn’t say anything. He was a simple-minded person and didn’t feel that he was at a disadvantage.

The third brother, Li Hongqiang, is stupid, but he always thinks he is smart. He thinks opening a store is a good thing, but why didn't he ask Xueyan to help at the beginning? Isn't he partial to the eldest brother and wants the eldest brother to have an easier life?

As for building a house for him, he felt that since his other brothers had one and he didn't, his mother said it was his, so it was his.

The fourth child, Li Hong, had just returned. He didn't say anything, but Yang Xiaohui said, "You might as well not go out to work. Go to the county town and help our mother sell fried skewers."

"I'm not going." Li Honggang said with his head down.

"Why don't you go? If you go, your mother can give you a little more money. If you don't go, you will get nothing." Yang Xiaohui felt uncomfortable: "Our house is old, and your mother doesn't want to help us rebuild it. She also wants us to return the money for building this house to the second and third sons."

“Isn’t this bullying?”

She couldn't help crying, "Why should the second and third children have new houses to live in, but we only have the old one to live in? And we still have to give them money?"

The fourth son, Li Honggang, was most afraid of trouble, especially when his wife cried and made a scene with him: "Then what do you say we should do? They didn't have a house at that time, and when you lived in the new house, weren't you very proud?"

"That was all in the past. Now this house is old." Yang Xiaohui didn't care how happy she was when she lived in the new house.

The eldest one has two mud houses, which were brick and tile houses built only seven or eight years ago. The second one has two mud houses, which are no longer in good condition and were only repaired a few days ago. The third one has no house at all.

As soon as I entered the house, I was given a three-room bungalow to live in alone. There was a shed in the corner of the yard with a big pot and a stove underneath. Everything was available. I didn't have to look at the faces of my parents-in-law or work in the fields. I lived a very comfortable life for the past five or six years.

But now everyone has a new house, and she only has this old house. And you still want her to pay off the debt?

"It's fine to live in the old house, but I won't take responsibility for the debt."

The fourth child, Li Hong, thought for a moment and said, "Didn't our mother say that we would give them compensation? My second brother and I helped us build the house. Now that my mother has given us the money, we can use it to pay them back. Isn't it still a profit? It only cost a little over ten thousand to build the house."

Yang Xiaohui was crying. When she thought about it, it was true that they had earned it.

But: "Your mother also asked me to go back and ask my brother for money, but my brother doesn't have any money."

Li Honggang was aggrieved: "At the beginning, you clearly said it was a loan, didn't you ever think about paying it back?"