This girl is really not a decent person. She is obsessed with money and only cares about making money from her parents' home. She doesn't care about the lives of her parents and brothers.
But over the years, she and her son-in-law Zhao Faliang have also helped these two uncles do a lot of work.
She was also very kind-hearted when they were marrying off their daughters or daughters. She came before dawn and was busy all day long, washing and scrubbing. She was so busy that she never had time to rest until it was completely dark. She was the last one to leave.
So, she is not such a bad person, she still has her merits.
"Xiaoying, don't say those angry words. How can you just give up your own daughter?" Chen Xiaoping couldn't help but say something fair for Li Hongyan.
Chen Xiaorong also said: "Yeah, look at you now, you are old, divorced, and have severed ties with your daughter, and you are not afraid of people laughing at you behind your back."
The poorer the people in the countryside, the more they care about face and the more they fear being looked down upon.
Therefore, when someone advises people that if they do something, they will be laughed at, most people will hesitate or even back off.
But Chen Xiaoying no longer wants to live in the eyes of others.
"Brother, brother, I know why you are speaking for her. Isn't it because she has helped you a lot over the years?" Chen Xiaoying's face was gloomy: "But you should also think about how she treated me and her brothers over the years. It was nothing but exploitation."
"As the old saying goes, you reap what you sow. I understand how she treats you, and you speak for her. But don't force me, a person who has been repeatedly disappointed by her, to accept her, and don't persuade Hongwei and others to be magnanimous on her behalf."
"Hongwei and his family worked so hard as farmhands for her. You all saw it with your own eyes when they sweated on the ground in the hottest weather. For so many years, Hongwei and his family worked for her family. When did she ever bring Zhao Faliang and her three sons to help Hongwei and his family?"
"She has been borrowing money from the second and third brothers for many years. It's not a small amount. She has never thought about paying it back. Our family can't afford someone like this who is ungrateful, who only exploits her own family members but is extremely nice to outsiders."
Chen Xiaoping and Chen Xiaorong were so embarrassed by what they heard.
It seems that dividing the family property today is impossible.
Neither of them wanted to completely offend their younger sister, who was already rich, for the sake of Li Hongyan, so they just said it.
"Okay, okay, we are old now and can't take care of so many of your affairs. It's getting late, and we should go back." Chen Xiaoping said.
Chen Xiaorong immediately agreed and wanted to leave.
This is my real brother. When he comes to visit, I have to invite him to stay for dinner.
But Chen Xiaoying had already grown cold-hearted and just hummed without any response.
In his previous life, the eldest brother Li Hongwei was forced to the point where he couldn’t bear it anymore.
She has already been buried, and she just wants to invite her two uncles to come and decide how to divide the property for them, how to provide for Li Pingwang in the future, what the standards are for her while she is alive, and who will handle her funeral when she dies.
Generally, people in rural areas have already agreed on who will take care of the two elderly people, or whether they will take care of them together, and how much food and money to give them each year, when their sons get married and divide the family property.
After death, the sons would divide up the funeral arrangements. In some cases, even before the death, the old couple would go to the coffin shop to look for a coffin, order it in advance, and take it home.
The old man and the old woman have clear minds. They should make these things clear while they are still young and confused, so as to avoid brothers pushing each other and fighting, which will hurt feelings.
But she was already dead, and Li Pingwang still didn't agree to split the family. She didn't understand why he didn't agree to split the family.
Anyway, the meaning is that the eldest son Li Hongwei will voluntarily take care of him in his old age. The second and third sons are not at home all year round, so they can't be relied on. The fourth son can't be relied on either. His mother-in-law's family is like vampire vines, they are bothering him a lot, and he has no money.
There is only the eldest brother Li Hongwei.
Li Hongwei said that he wanted to split up the family because he and Liu Lanxiang were both sick, and their daughters had their own families and children, which were a heavy burden. His parents didn't give birth to only him as a son, so he wanted his brothers to help share some of the burden. It was time to get back the money he had lent to Li Hongyan over the years.
At that time, Li Hongyan's three sons, Zhao Pengfei was rich and went on road trips all year round; Zhao Pengbo and Zhao Pengle, Li Hongyan boasted that they earned 10,000 or 20,000 yuan a month, and they all bought houses worth more than one million yuan in the provincial capital.
Li Hongwei thought simply. You didn't have money when you were supporting your sons in school. Now, twenty years have passed, your sons have grown up, and it's time for you to pay back the money.
Unfortunately, Zhao Pengfei himself spends money without knowing how to control it. Zhao Pengbo and Zhao Pengle develop their careers in big cities, but they have to bear a mortgage of five or six thousand yuan and each has two sons. They do earn more than people in small towns, but at the same time, they have wives and children to support in big cities, so they have more things to spend, and they don't have any spare money to pay off their debts.
Besides, Li Hongyan was protecting her sons. She was the first one who refused to pay back the money. She didn't say it directly, but just said, "I don't have money now, I'll talk to you when I have money."
Until Li Pingwang died, the money no longer had to be repaid.
When Li Pingwang was dying, his teeth had all fallen out and he could not speak clearly. He still mumbled: "She has paid back the money. She has already paid it back to me. Don't ask her anymore. Your elder sister has a heavy burden..."
This is clearly a lie for Li Hongyan.
She hadn't paid him back yet, and he knew it was impossible for her to do so.
Li Hongwei felt aggrieved. His parents raised seven children, but in the end, the responsibility of supporting them fell entirely on him. If he had spent his parents' hard-earned money, he would have acknowledged it, but he didn't.
Even when he got angry and didn't want to care about it, the villagers still used moral blackmail to blackmail him.
"Your father is senile and confused. How many days can he live at his age? Just take pity on him and take care of him in his old age."
"You are the son and the eldest son, so you should be the one to take care of your parents in their old age. Hongyan is wrong. She is wrong. Do you want to be like her, who only cares about money and has no human feelings?"
"Don't be so petty. The old man can give his money to whoever he wants. People say that capable sons make money with their own abilities and never think about the old man's money!"
Li Hongwei is the most mediocre and ordinary rural man among the masses. Without the help of his parents, it is impossible for him to make money in the ignored, suppressed and restricted rural environment. He only attended junior high school for one year and returned to the village to help Li Pingwang farm and support his three younger brothers and two younger sisters.
He has these heavy burdens from his parents, and he has a wife and two daughters to support. It is difficult for him to maintain the most basic food and clothing. Where does he get the ability and capital to make a fortune?
But he also realized that the eldest child is supposed to provide for his parents in their old age, and it is wrong to be concerned about the little money that the elderly make.
Li Hongwei doesn't miss it, he just feels uncomfortable.
His father treated him like a weed, letting him grow up on his own. He also treated his eldest sister like a treasure and raised her until she was in her sixties. Their father Li Pingwang still thought about selling the beans from the fields and giving her 500 yuan while she was looking after his grandson in the provincial capital.