There is also a discordant point here, that is the third brother Li Hongqiang.

For several years, he had never shown his face in front of his mother Chen Xiaoying, not even once, not even during the Chinese New Year.

Speaking of this, Li Hongyan felt that she had to say a few words.

"Mom, are you still not going to meet the third child this year? The third child has already known his mistake. As a mother, can't you feel sorry for him and forgive him this time?"

Chen Xiaoying looked at Li Hongyan coldly: "Did he ask you to come to me and tell me?"

If he wants to admit his mistake, then he should do it openly and let his elder sister Li Hongyan speak. What's the matter?

Is this his sincerity in making peace?

The third brother, Li Hongqiang, is brainless. He is willing to be a stepping stone for his eldest sister Li Hongyan, and he is willing to do so. He is the kind of person who can't help himself.

Chen Xiaoying had long lost interest in her third son.

In his heart, his biological mother is not as important as his older sister Li Hongyan.

He couldn't figure it out before, but later, when he thought back on many things that had happened, he understood.

The third child is sensitive and inferior, and has the same vanity and arrogance as his father Li Pingwang. He wants people to look up to him, but he doesn't do things that would make people look up to him. As his mother, she wants to straighten this crooked tree, so she won't follow his heart. If she follows his heart, she will fall into the ditch.

As for Li Hongyan, the ideas that she instilled in him were exactly what he thought.

Several of his nephews are grown men. One, Zhao Pengfei, is now running a fruit business with others, two are already college students, and his own daughter, Li Yujie, is still a disobedient and stubborn junior high school student. He looks down on his own biological daughter.

He was willing to support his nephews. He liked them and was happy about it. Like his biological father Li Pingwang, he felt that Zhao Pengfei, Zhao Pengbo and Zhao Pengle brought them honor and made them promising, and they were benefiting from it.

I don’t know what benefit I got from it!

Li Hongyan plucked up the courage to bring up this matter, but her mother's attitude remained cold.

She lied without hesitation: "Mom, even though the third brother didn't say it, I know that's what he meant in his heart..."

In fact, the third child, Li Hongqiang, had no intention of looking for his biological mother Chen Xiaoying at all.

He was still waiting for his biological mother, Chen Xiaoying, to take the initiative to care about him and find a way for him to step down because she couldn't bear to part with her son.

"If he really wants to do this, then he can do it himself. He's a grown man in his thirties. Does he really need you to dictate everything to him?"

Chen Xiaoying sneered. She didn't believe Li Hongyan's nonsense at all.

In her previous life, when she died, he was the one who took a fruit knife and went to settle the score with the boss.

My dear brother, how could he be so cruel and vicious?

She was so angry that she died at that time. Her soul was floating. She was relieved when she saw her other sons in the house holding the third son Li Hongqiang. Otherwise, her third son killed her eldest son, and she would die with regrets.

Later, when she was reborn, she did not hate the third son very much. Instead, she reflected on herself first and realized that these things happened because she was an unqualified mother and had not raised her son well.

She worked hard to earn money and improve the lives of her sons. The eldest, the second and the fourth sons all showed signs of changing for the better. No matter what they thought in their hearts, at least on the surface they were moving in a positive direction.

Only the third brother, Li Hongqiang, totally disobeyed her and refused to follow the right path.

He worked as a laborer in a lumber mill and earned some money. He gave half of it to his elder sister Li Hongyan and kept the other half for himself to gamble, drink and look for women.

For his own good, she wanted to help him again, so she took Li Hongyan on a train and went to another city to look for him in person.

She saw him playing cards, drinking and flirting with indecent women, and when she asked him to go with her, he refused to listen.

She was really disappointed with the third brother and never paid any attention to him again.

Then, he didn't care about Li Hongqiang. He never called her and never asked anything about his biological mother. He only came back during the Chinese New Year every year.

Then why did you come back?

The sawmill was closed, the surrounding restaurants were closed, and everyone went home to celebrate the New Year. He had nowhere to go, so he returned to his hometown to celebrate the New Year.

But when he returned to Lijia Village, he continued to drink and play cards as usual, and left immediately on the fifth day of the New Year.

She never said that she wanted to come and see her biological mother.

His wife Zhao Xueyan tolerated him for the time being and didn't want to divorce, but his biological mother Chen Xiaoying was completely disappointed in him. She would never forgive him until he changed for the better.

"What happens between me and the third brother has nothing to do with you. You don't need to act as a messenger." Chen Xiaoying drove her away directly.

Zhao Pengbo and Zhao Pengle also realized that their grandmother treated them the same as always, but she was completely cold-hearted towards their mother. Why?

Is it because they borrowed money from their uncles to go to school?

Zhao Pengbo felt sorry for his mother and couldn't help but say, "Grandma, when we get a job, I'll pay my uncle back."

Before he finished speaking, his mother Li Hongyan suddenly pulled him and said, "Shut up! What's the matter between me and your uncles got to do with a kid like you? Just take care of yourself."

Li Hongyan was aggressive and ferocious.

Zhao Pengbo and Zhao Pengle have been afraid of their mother Li Hongyan since they were young.

After being yelled at by Li Hongyan, both of them shrank their necks and dared not say a word.

"If you keep showing off in front of me, get out of here."

Chen Xiaoying is not blind and can see what Li Hongyan means.

If the debt owed by the brothers for decades was placed on someone who truly wanted to pay it back, and finally raised his sons, then when they graduated from college and could earn money, the whole family would have to pay off the debt.

But listen to what she said. She doesn't want her son to interfere in the affairs between her and her brothers?

As a rural woman who cultivates a few acres of land, she cannot pay off the debts of more than ten or twenty years, but she does not let her sons pay it back. What does she mean?

There is only one meaning: to default on a debt.

She said she would pay it back, but in fact she didn't, and she kept refusing to pay it back until she died, so she no longer had to pay it back.

This is why she was disappointed with her eldest daughter.

In her previous life, she succeeded.

Stepping on the hard-earned money of his brothers, he led his family to climb up the social ladder. He built houses in the village for his three sons, married them off, and bought a million-dollar house each for Zhao Pengbo and Zhao Pengle.

She happily brought her five grandchildren with her, which was a unique event in Zhaojia Village because she had a fortune of several million.

The eldest son is a businessman, and the second and youngest sons earn more than 10,000 yuan each month.

But what about her brothers? Some are poor, some are sick, some are divorced, and each one is more destitute than the other. Now that she has money, how will she repay her brothers?

She didn't! Not only did she not pay back the money she owed to her brothers over the years, but she also became cold and distant to them at the first opportunity.

In the words of the eldest daughter-in-law Liu Lanxiang: "She doesn't need them now. They are old, poor and sick. She hopes they will get out of here. How can she be nice to them? What if they start to rely on her? Li Hongyan will be scared to death..."

I have to say that the eldest daughter-in-law's sarcastic words are really right.

When Li Hongyan needed these brothers, she was overbearing and conceited. But when she didn't need them anymore, she looked down on all of them.