Things that are far away smell good but things that are close smell bad. They have been separated as mother and daughter for so many years, she must miss her a lot.

I also want to make it up to her.

"Dad, just write it. Find my poor sister as soon as possible and reunite your family. I will feel better." Li Hongyan began to wipe her eyes: "Last night, I was also upset the whole night. No matter what, I couldn't sleep. My heart... is also sad, Dad, wuwu."

Li Hongyan told him to write it.

Li Pingwang was at a loss, looking at this and that with a gloomy face. Everyone was indifferent to his pleading eyes.

He couldn't help but feel a sharp pain in his heart and tears almost rolled out of his eyes again. This was the "good" son he raised!

They all treat him like this!

OK, OK, he writes.

Li Pingwang was so angry that his handwriting on the notebook almost pierced the paper. The format of his writing was not very standard and there were some typos. Chen Xiaoying was staring at him and asked him to change it because it affected the meaning of the whole sentence.

Li Pingwang wrote these words with tears in his old eyes. He felt that he was not writing but being nakedly humiliated.

When he finally finished writing, the notebook was immediately snatched away by Chen Xiaoying, who said to him, "Li Pingwang, hurry up and find my daughter, or I will use this to sue you."

Li Pingwang regretted it for a moment. If he had asked, it would have been great. At least he would have known where they had taken the child. Did they really throw the child into the stinky ditch behind the village?

After Chen Xiaoying left, Li Hongyan asked a few more questions, but Li Pingwang spoke unclearly. She guessed and couldn't find out anything. He kept crying and complaining about Li Hongwei's unfilial behavior and that they were cruel.

Li Hongyan's ears are covered with calluses after listening to it all day.

She couldn't help but wonder, why the third brother Li Hongqiang hasn't come back yet?

Li Hongyan was wondering why Li Hongqiang hadn't come back yet, but she had no idea that something had happened to Li Hongqiang.

It was a call received by Li Hongwei.

He returned to the village and had just calmed down for a while when the phone rang.

He thought something had happened to his father in the clinic, so he quickly picked up the phone.

As a result, after listening to what the other person is saying.

Li Hongwei was completely dumbfounded.

"How is this possible? My brother is an honest man. He wouldn't dare to do such a thing. Leader, leader, are you mistaken?"

Seeing his face change drastically, Liu Lanxiang was also a little frightened. She quickly stopped cleaning the house and listened quietly to the voice on the phone.

After Li Hongwei listened with an anxious and serious look on his face, he hung up the phone.

Liu Lanxiang hurriedly asked: "What's the matter? What happened again?"

Why do they keep coming in waves, endlessly?

"This useless guy, why doesn't he just die outside!" Li Hongwei was so angry that he yelled and cursed, his eyes turned red.

"What's going on? Tell me." Liu Lanxiang was very panicked.

"The third brother, the third brother was caught stealing things outside!" Li Hongwei gnashed his teeth and cursed: "This useless guy has enough food and drink, why would he steal things!"

Li Hongwei considered himself to be an upright person who would never do any petty theft. However, when he was a child, there was a three-year natural disaster and he was very hungry. The feeling of being hungry was so terrible that he even dug up grass roots from the soil and ate them.

For him, if the third brother Li Hongqiang was hungry and couldn't stand the hunger, so he stole food to eat, he would not think he had done anything wrong.

I've experienced it myself. When you're so hungry that your legs are shaking, but when you see food, you can't control yourself. I can forgive you.

But he has enough food and drink, and he steals other people's motorcycles!

"Tell mom or dad. This is a big deal. Don't worry about it yourself. You can't do anything about it." Liu Lanxiang has had enough of the mess at her husband's house. There aren't so many problems at her own home.

After she finished speaking, she remembered something and couldn't help but look at Li Hongwei's expression.

In the past, whenever she showed any dissatisfaction with his brothers and sisters, he would give her a cold shoulder, as if she had scolded him.

He is sentimental but not reasonable.

But today, Li Hongwei thought for a moment with a serious expression and said, "It's okay to tell our mom, but if I tell our dad, I'm afraid he will be so upset that he will become completely paralyzed."

It seemed that he had no intention of taking the lead, and Liu Lanxiang breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, he no longer does this kind of thankless work. She said that among his three younger brothers, except for the second brother Li Hongjian who could show some kindness, the third brother Li Hongqiang treated him like an enemy, with only hatred but no gratitude. Although the fourth brother Li Honggang was quiet and said nothing, he did not get involved in anything, and his attitude was: If you have any problems, you can deal with them yourselves. I don't know, so don't come to me.

This time it was the third brother Li Hongqiang's fault. Stealing someone else's motorcycle was really embarrassing.

Li Hongwei did not dare to delay, and waited until the next day, then he rode his motorcycle to find his mother Chen Xiaoying.

Chen Xiaoying went to the store to work and the store opened.

She is very busy. Several of her stores do breakfast business. City dwellers nowadays are busy with work, and many of them work overtime at night, so they go to bed late.

If you go to bed late and don’t get enough sleep, you won’t be able to get up in the morning to cook. Most families don’t have elderly people to cook for them, so they have to eat out.

Chen Xiaoying was busy with the employees when she saw Li Hongwei coming.

I didn't expect that the busiest place was this store at the train station.

There are too many people going out to work after the eighth day of the Lunar New Year. The train station square is crowded with migrant workers carrying snakeskin bags and large and small bags, as well as students carrying luggage.

"Hongwei, why are you here?" Chen Xiaoying was surprised when she saw her eldest son.

Everyone has come here, is there something wrong?

Li Hongwei is a person who easily shows his emotions. The expression on his face shows that something is wrong, and it is not a small matter.

"Aunt, go and do your work. We are here to take care of you." He Mingliang's mother, Hao Cailing, is now able to handle the business of a store skillfully, and her temperament is much more lively than before.

"Okay, I'll go out for a while." Chen Xiaoying took off her apron.

I followed Li Hongwei to a secluded place and listened to him tell me about Li Hongqiang.

Chen Xiaoying had a blank expression on her face and didn't speak for a long time.

As early as when the third brother Li Hongqiang started drinking, playing cards and gambling, she knew that sooner or later he would follow the same path as in his previous life. She had thought about saving him and bringing him back on the right path.

But no matter how he treated her, she pulled him to go home with her, to her hometown.

She bought him a house, found him a job, and just wanted him to live a good life with his wife Zhao Xueyan. She didn't expect him to have a bright future.

But he didn't leave.

Her heart had already turned cold at that time.

"He asked you to come to me?" Chen Xiaoying looked at Li Hongwei with cold eyes.

Li Hongwei sighed: "No, he asked me to help."

"Heh." Chen Xiaoying couldn't help but sneer. Look, the third brother is not stupid.

He had a lot of complaints about the eldest brother, Li Hongwei. He always talked about the eldest brother behind his back, saying that Li Hongwei was selfish and didn't care about family affection, that he valued money too much and only had himself in his eyes, and that he was unfilial to their father Li Pingwang. As a result, when he got into trouble, the first person he came to find was Li Hongwei.

Why?

Isn't it just that people only pick on the weak?