Although Li Sihan was only a baby of seven or eight months old, she had already learned to recognize people. When she was held by a strange old woman, she was scared and pouted her mouth. She didn't dare to cry, and her tears were blocked in her eyes. When she suddenly saw Li Hongli, she burst into tears and stretched out her arms for her to hold her.

Ma Xiufen was reluctant to part with her granddaughter, but Li Hongli took the child away from her arms anyway: "I'm willing to let you hold her. I'm already giving you face. What's wrong? Do you want to hold her forever?"

"Don't forget, Xu Xiaodong wrote a letter of severance of ties with my daughter because of the baby in Yu Xiaona's belly. Even if he gets old and can't afford to eat, he will have nothing to do with my daughter."

Her tone was full of sarcasm and complacency.

Look at how Ma Xiufen fawned on her and her daughter. In the past, she would only look down on and curse her when she saw her. Even her own daughter was called a money-losing commodity by her.

Now that Yu Xiaona and Xu Xiaodong are in trouble, I think of this child. It's so funny.

"Hongli, Xiaodong is the child's father after all, and I am her grandmother. We are a family, and even if our bones are broken, our tendons are still connected..." Ma Xiufen ignored Li Hongli's ridicule and humbled herself to speak nicely to her.

"Pah!" Li Hongli spat on the ground, then walked away with the child in her arms with disdain.

Ma Xiufen was so angry that tears welled up in her eyes: "What an injustice, what an injustice!"

She grabbed her sleeves and began to wipe her tears, feeling extremely sad.

Li Hongli is too arrogant. If something hadn't happened to her Xiaodong, this damn girl wouldn't care about a penny from her no matter what she said.

Li Hongli took the child to the store outside the hospital and called Zhaojia Village.

Now that Zhao Pengfei is doing business and has money, he has also installed a telephone at home. A call can be made to his home.

Zhao Faliang answered the phone.

Li Hongli didn't think much of it and said, "Brother-in-law, where's my sister? Ask her to answer the phone."

Zhao Faliang turned around and looked at Li Hongyan, who was lying on the kang. She hadn't even cooked today and seemed to be half dead. She looked haggard, as if she had suffered a great blow.

But no matter how I asked her, she wouldn't say anything.

There was nothing he could do.

"Give me Hongli's phone number." he said.

Li Hongyan was stunned for a moment, then got up from the bed: "Hongli's?"

Just as he was about to go downstairs to answer the phone, he remembered something and asked again, "What did she call me on the phone? Did she call me by my name, or did she call me sister?"

Zhao Faliang was puzzled: "She is your sister, if she doesn't call you sister, what else can she call you?"

Li Hongyan then felt a little relieved and was willing to call her "big sister", which proved that she was still willing to recognize her as her big sister.

When she answered the phone, Li Hongli said, "Sister, our dad is in the hospital. Why didn't you go to the hospital to check on him? He's crying so hard. He's so pitiful."

Li Hongyan struggled: "I want to go, I am willing to go, but I am afraid that my mother will dislike me."

Li Hongli said: "You are serving Dad, why would she dislike you? She has divorced Dad, so she won't care about Dad's affairs."

Li Hongyan thought for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll clean it up right away."

Zhao Faliang then learned that his father-in-law Li Pingwang was in the hospital: "What happened? What's wrong with him?"

Li Hongyan said as she put on her shoes: "Hemiplegia."

Zhao Faliang's eyes widened. "What? He's paralyzed? How serious is the paralysis? Can he walk on his own?"

Li Hongyan shook her head: "Half of my body is out of control."

Zhao Faliang had nothing to say about this.

It's really serious.

But he was also unhappy in his heart: "There are so many people in the county, and you are the only one missing? Do you have to go?"

Zhao Faliang had been feeling uncomfortable for a long time.

My mother-in-law Chen Xiaoying bought houses for all her children. My father-in-law Li Pingwang said he was standing up for his family and wanted to buy a house for them, but so far nothing has been seen.

Things were not done, Li Hongyan went to the county town in waves, but she was always courteous but did not gain any benefits.

Zhao Faliang was unhappy and turned his face away. Li Hongyan was already feeling uncomfortable and had to look at Zhao Faliang's face, so she scolded him, "What do you mean? Do you mean that my dad is sick and I, as his daughter, can't go and take care of him?"

"I didn't say that." Zhao Faliang didn't admit it, but he still said a few more words: "There are seven children and four daughters-in-law. All the benefits are theirs, and all the disadvantages are yours."

Li Hongyan's expression changed: "Didn't my parents send all the good things to our family in the past?"

"That's all in the past." Zhao Faliang said impatiently, "How can a few worthless things compare to a house now?"

Zhao Faliang's words were purely those of an ungrateful ungrateful person. He took advantage of others with a clear conscience.

Li Hongyan burst into tears: "Zhao Faliang, do you have a conscience? In the past few decades, if my parents hadn't helped us, we wouldn't have been able to pay for Pengfei's tuition. Add it up yourself, is it enough to buy a house?"

"That's why my mom didn't want to give it to me, because she said she had given it to me, but I didn't buy it myself."

Zhao Faliang frowned, "How would I know how much money you asked your parents for? You've already spent it on Pengfei and the others. When Pengfei and the others become successful in the future, they will naturally be filial to them. I work hard on the farm all year round, and I'm exhausted. I don't eat or drink from them, so don't ask me for so much."

Such cruel and heartless words made Li Hongyan feel like she had fallen into an ice hole.

An ungrateful person. I knew from a young age that Zhao Faliang was not capable of taking responsibility and was very good at making excuses and evading his responsibilities.

But just because you have children doesn’t mean you can just get a divorce. If you do, you’ll be laughed at.

Besides, if she gets divorced, which capable man can she marry again?

She could only serve and live with Zhao Faliang.

Li Hongyan felt wronged, so she crawled on the kang and cried until she was hoarse.

"Dad, what happened to my mom?"

In the next room, the brothers Zhao Pengbo and Zhao Pengle, who were listening to their quarrel, put down their books and walked over.

"Who knows what happened to her? It's none of your business. Just go and have fun," said Zhao Faliang.

In fact, the yard is only this big, and they heard everything their parents said in the quarrel just now.

The two brothers looked at each other and went back to their rooms.

Zhao Pengle lowered his voice and said, "Second brother, I heard from them that our grandpa is in the hospital. He seems to have hemiplegia, and it's quite serious. Should we go and see him?"

Zhao Pengbo thought about the quarrel between his parents about his grandpa's house and felt uncomfortable: "Listen to mom. If mom asks us to go, we will go. If mom doesn't say so, then we won't go."

Zhao Pengle hesitated.

Their grandparents had always been very good to them, even though they were divorced. His grandmother hated his mother and would either scold her or chase her away whenever she saw her, but she didn't change her attitude towards them brothers.

Without their mother knowing, I would give each of them 800 yuan at the beginning of each school year so that they could spend more easily at school and have enough food to eat instead of going hungry.

In comparison, his grandparents had no conditions. All they gave him and his brother was a few fruits picked from the trees, a few cooked corn cobs, and a few candies bought from the convenience store when they were young.