"I'll go find him."
Chen Xiaoying wiped her tears angrily and was about to go back to Lijia Village to settle the score with Li Pingwang.
Li Yutong hurriedly pulled her back: "Grandma, this is a big deal. If you run back like this, and my grandfather refuses to admit it, what can you do to him?"
"He will also say that you are crazy and don't even recognize your own daughter."
You need to stay calm and think it through first.
After being persuaded by her eldest granddaughter, Chen Xiaoying's mind gradually became clear.
Yes, without any evidence and Li Pingwang not admitting it, she would be making a fuss in vain and would be laughed at.
"You're right," she said hoarsely.
Li Yutong added: "Grandma, don't be sad. You are so old now. It's not worth it to hurt your body for these people."
Chen Xiaoying listened to the advice and slowly sat back down: "Yes, I'm already so old. If I get mad at them to death, my rebirth will be in vain, and your dad and the others will be bullied to death by your grandpa."
The eldest son, Li Hongwei, is very concerned about his reputation and values relationships. Even if his biological father quarrels with him a hundred times and makes him feel disappointed a hundred times, just because he is the biological father who raised him, as long as Li Pingwang cries and begs him once, he will soften his heart again.
The villagers would also constantly use moral blackmail on him.
"That's your father. He's old. How long can he live? If you don't hurry up and be filial to him, you'll regret it when he's gone."
"Yes, no matter how wrong he is, he is still your father. He is unkind because he is old and confused. How can you be so ignorant at such a young age?"
"Your father is pitiful. Your eldest sister is wrong, but that is her business. You have to do what you should do as a son, so that others will not poke your spine."
These were the few words that everyone said to Li Hongwei when she was lying in the coffin.
At that time, Li Hongwei was angry and sad. Li Hongyan also interfered in her funeral and instigated the third brother Li Hongqiang to stab him. He was heartbroken.
Others still advise him like this?
Why did you persuade him instead of Li Hongyan?
Because Li Hongyan knows how to behave in public, she is very friendly and nice to outsiders, but to her own people, her true nature is revealed.
Since others are on good terms with Li Hongyan, of course they all side with her.
Moreover, her three sons were all promising at that time. Li Hongwei's family was poor, and most people were willing to associate with capable people. Those honest people had no future. Even if you were kind and honest, people would look down on you from the bottom of their hearts.
Li Hongwei knew clearly that everyone in the village looked down on him, so they all spoke for Li Hongyan.
When Chen Xiaoying thought about the situation where he had no one to turn to, was isolated, and was blamed everywhere, she couldn't help but feel heartbroken for the boss.
She shed tears: "Xiao Yu, in the last life, grandma really took the drug, your grandfather was a beast, and my brain has become like a pig's."
Li Yutong didn't know how to persuade her.
In her previous life, she was also dissatisfied with her grandmother, but she knew clearly that her grandmother was thin and timid, while her grandfather was strong and powerful, and her grandmother was once forced to drink pesticides to commit suicide.
An uneducated and illiterate old lady from a farming family relies on her husband for a living. Her husband is her heaven. If she says no, her husband will beat her.
She had no way out, and her brothers from her natal family would not support her. If she left the Li family, she would only die.
In order to survive, she subconsciously obeyed Li Pingwang's wishes and did whatever he wanted. She didn't say anything, just like those women who were brainwashed by patriarchy.
Before the men even said anything, they started to fight for men's rights:
A woman must give birth to a son. A woman who cannot give birth to a son is not a qualified woman.
Sons are the ones who carry on the family line. Daughters belong to others even when they grow up. Giving them to women means the son-in-law gets them for free.
Without a son, a woman will be inferior to others and cannot hold her head up. If her in-laws beat her and humiliate her, it is because you owe them something and you should bear it.
A son is the hope of a family.
Her grandmother was brainwashed by her grandfather. She believed that whatever the eldest daughter, Li Hongyan, did was good and whatever she said was right. She believed that the eldest daughter was filial and worthy of the old couple's lifelong sacrifice. The other sons were not ambitious in anything they did and disappointed them, so they didn't want to pay attention to them.
That……
"Grandma, then... is Li Hongyan my grandfather's biological daughter?"
Chen Xiaoying paused while wiping her tears, her face full of confusion: "I don't know."
She really didn't know anything.
When a woman gives birth to a child, her belly will become so big that it cannot be covered at all, and a baby will fall out of her belly.
But for a man to have a child, he only needs to have an affair with a woman once secretly and he can have a child without anyone knowing.
Thinking of this, Chen Xiaoying felt sick: "It must be his daughter, otherwise, why would he love Li Hongyan so much and spoil this daughter from childhood to adulthood."
Li Yutong blinked: "But, grandma, didn't you say that Liang Xiuqing looked down on him and never even held his hand? How could she... be willing to let him touch her?"
After she finished speaking, she felt a little embarrassed. As a granddaughter, it seemed inappropriate for her to talk about her grandfather's romantic affairs when he was young.
But now, there was no one else except her to analyze this matter for her milk.
Oh my god, who is this person?
How could you do such a shameless thing? You are so old that your face has fallen to the bottom of your shoes.
Chen Xiaoying was also embarrassed for Li Pingwang and cursed with gnashing teeth: "Shameless beast!"
She also felt that Liang Xiuqing was too arrogant and there was no way she could have anything to do with Li Pingwang.
Besides, at that time, Liang Xiuqing was still dating the village chief’s son Li Jianzhong.
As she thought about this, she suddenly felt something was wrong.
She married Li Pingwang in 1958. At that time, educated youth were sent to the countryside. She even participated in the welcoming ceremony for them. Those educated youth lived in several mud houses in the brigade headquarters.
She didn't care at the time. She had just married Li Pingwang. Four or five months later, she discovered from the gossip of the villagers that Li Pingwang, the team leader, had helped the fair-skinned and pretty Liang Xiuqing with work several times and assigned her easy tasks.
She began to become suspicious. She asked during the day for fear that her parents-in-law would interfere, so she asked Li Pingwang at night why he took such good care of Liang Xiuqing.
Li Pingwang scolded her for being sick and thinking too much.
She felt aggrieved, but she had no way to hold Li Pingwang back. She couldn't stop him from doing anything.
Moreover, she also saw that Li Jianzhong was close to Liang Xiuqing. Some people in the village said that they saw the two of them hugging each other in the woods at the entrance of the village.
Li Pingwang was married, so he certainly couldn't divorce her. At that time, people in the village only talked about dead wives, not divorce. Li Pingwang was timid, so he didn't dare to beat her to death.
With her around, there was no way Li Pingwang would have been able to marry Liang Xiuqing.
Liang Xiuqing also obviously preferred Li Jianzhong, the son of the village chief, who owned five brick and tile houses. Once Liang Xiuqing married Li Jianzhong, Li Pingwang no longer expected anything.
He was too timid to try to steal Li Jianzhong's girlfriend.
Li Jianzhong is a very bad guy. He has a bad temper like Yang Jiangang, the eldest brother of Yang Xiaohui, the fourth daughter-in-law. He will beat anyone who provokes him.
But later, Li Jianzhong married the daughter of Zhao, an accountant from the next village. Liang Xiuqing and Li Jianzhong became estranged, and she hadn't seen her for a long time. The educated youth who lived with her said that she was sick and had to go out to see a doctor occasionally...