Zhao Pengbo delivered his message and left.

Li Hongwei stood there and pondered for a while, not knowing whether to go or not.

"Are you going?" His wife Liu Lanxiang, a straightforward and impatient person, asked immediately.

Li Hongwei thought for a moment and said, "Go."

He had to go.

His father was waiting for him there. If he didn't go, he didn't know how the villagers would frame him. Besides, his eldest sister Li Hongyan was also there. Who knew what the father and daughter had discussed.

Liu Lanxiang was a little hesitant. If she was not allowed to go, she couldn't give a reason. But if she went, she subconsciously felt that it would not be a good thing.

Li Hongwei asked Liu Lanxiang to look after the New Year's goods and wait for him by the motorcycle.

Wait until he comes out, and then go home together.

Shilixiang Mutton Restaurant serves authentic mutton soup at a cheap price. People from all over the country who come here will definitely come and have a bowl of hot mutton soup with red pepper oil.

Because it was built on the land of their home, the owner directly built two floors. Apart from the two bedrooms for their own family, tables were set up for the rest of the place, and two large pots were cooking mutton soup in the backyard.

The lobby was already full of people. Li Hongwei was also an old acquaintance, so he immediately said, "Hongwei, your father and his family are in Room 3 upstairs. Go by yourself."

Li Hongwei agreed with a smile and went straight up the stairs.

Unless the villagers had serious business to discuss, they basically ate in the lobby and then left.

The higher Li Hongwei went, the more uneasy he felt.

It was not easy. He felt like he was facing a formidable enemy. After hearing what his elder sister Li Hongyan said, he was a little stunned.

He stared at his elder sister Li Hongyan with a suspicious look: "Sister, are you serious?"

I want him to mediate and help his mother and the third child reconcile.

This is indeed a good thing, but he has watched coldly over the past few years. His mother is not a heartless person. She must have her reasons for ignoring the third child.

Think about it, his mother is a mother, who raised this son, the third son, with great difficulty. Before his mother did anything to the third son, she must have been grateful for giving birth to him, right?

But how did the third brother treat their mother?

As early as the first year, when the third child refused to bow his head to wish their mother a happy new year, he had advised him.

But what did the third brother say?

He was very impatient: "Brother, you don't have to worry about my business, just take care of yourself."

During the second year's holiday, he still didn't go. He got angry and called the third brother an ungrateful person.

What did the third brother say?

He still didn't care: "You are just my eldest brother, not my father. My father didn't say anything, so why do you say that to me?"

"Besides, I didn't talk to our mother, so you think it's my fault? Our mother is not wrong?"

Ask him, "What did our mother do wrong? She knew you were doing hard labor in the lumber mill, and she couldn't bear to see you suffer, so she went to see you in person. She also bought you a house, wanting to bring you back home, so that you can work in your hometown and live an easier life. What did she do wrong?"

The third child actually said to him directly: "Our mother is just forming cliques among her children. She bought houses for all of us, so why didn't she buy one for my eldest sister?"

Li Hongwei was disappointed again and again and simply ignored him.

But this year, eldest sister Li Hongyan tried to mediate and wanted them to reconcile?

Li Hongyan said to Li Hongwei: "Of course I am sincere. We are a big family, we should live in harmony and reunion, that is the good atmosphere of life. Our mother always doesn't talk to the third child, how can this be possible?"

"The third child knew he was wrong, but he was afraid that our mother would beat him or scold him, so he didn't dare to go."

"Go and tell our mother to forgive the third child this time. The third child is also my biological son and a piece of her flesh and blood. How can she not feel sorry for him?"

From what she said, it was clear that Chen Xiaoying, as a mother, did not feel sorry for her third son who had to work hard outside.

Li Hongwei was not a man who would play tricks on others. He did not hear the dissatisfaction with their mother Chen Xiaoying in Li Hongyan's words. He thought for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll ask mom later. If she doesn't want to, then I can't do anything about it."

Li Hongyan was very dissatisfied with this reply: "Big brother, you have to be more careful. Do you know how people have been talking about you behind your back during the years when our mother stopped talking to the third brother?"

Li Hongwei was stunned.

He was a man who never did anything wrong and thought he had a good reputation outside. Suddenly, he heard from his elder sister Li Hongyan that some people were talking about him behind his back.

He was stunned for a moment, then got angry: "What are you talking about me?"

He acts conscientiously and has no regrets. Who is talking about him behind his back?

"As the eldest brother, you clearly saw that there were problems between your own mother and brothers, but you didn't even consider the family ties and tried to mediate between them. It's obvious that you have selfish motives. Boss, don't you think so?" Li Hongyan did it on purpose.

Li Hongwei felt that he was wronged: "What selfish motives do I have? I have been trying to persuade Mom and the third child for several years. Did the third child listen to me?"

He looked at the third brother, Li Hongqiang, and said, "Third brother, tell me yourself, did I persuade you several times in the past two years?"

The third brother, Li Hongqiang, you say he is stupid, he knows he cannot admit this matter.

If he admitted it, it would become his fault. He was the one who didn't listen to advice, so he deliberately stopped interacting with his biological mother.

"You just said it casually, how would I know what you meant?" he said.

The eldest brother Li Hongwei's eyes widened: "Old Third, what do you mean by that? Do you mean that I did it on purpose?"

Li Hongqiang kept his head down and said nothing.

Their eldest sister Li Hongyan said, "Big brother, it's not your fault that everyone thinks that way. If this happened to someone else, wouldn't they also talk about it behind their back? As the eldest brother, he deliberately allowed the relationship between his own mother and brothers to deteriorate, just to let his own mother occupy more of the family property after she dies?"

Li Hongwei was about to explode with anger: "I never thought of it this way. All the money my mother earned was hers. She said long ago that she could spend it however she wanted and give it to whoever she wanted..."

"Okay, boss, stop shouting. The louder you shout, the more people might think you are guilty," said Li Hongyan.

Li Hongwei looked extremely unhappy as he looked at his father Li Pingwang.

Li Pingwang rolled his eyes and snorted at him, making it clear that this is how he thought of his boss.

Li Hongyan added: "Now is an opportunity. Let the third brother and our mother reconcile. If the brothers are fair and just and live in harmony, then everyone will stop thinking of you like that, right?"

Li Hongwei felt that he was a clean person, but he was splashed with such dirty water that he could not face anyone.

He was an upright man, and he had never thought of deliberately destroying the mother-son relationship between the third child and their mother in order to get a larger share of his biological mother's inheritance.

He really hadn't thought about it that way.

Seeing that the eldest brother Li Hongwei's face turned red with anger, Li Hongyan secretly kicked the chair leg of the third brother Li Hongqiang and winked at him fiercely.

Li Hongqiang looked at her fearfully, then hummed and said to Li Hongwei like a mosquito: "Brother, I'm sorry to trouble you with this matter."