When the second son, Li Hongjian, heard this, he said, "Oh, my eldest brother showed you here. I thought it was my eldest sister who showed you here. Are you in a hurry to repair the house?"

"My eldest sister needs money. The third brother and I have agreed that we will transfer the money to her after we get our salary this month."

As for what his elder brother did, he was in no doubt about it and thought it was his elder sister Li Hongyan who helped. Chen Xiaoying knew that it must be something Li Hongyan told him when she called him.

Li Hongyan is a smart person. She can make the whole village know about the small things she does, so that everyone knows how much effort she has put in.

"It was your eldest brother who paid for the medical expenses." She said loudly and angrily.

She gave birth to four sons in total. Except for the eldest son who farmed in the village, the second, third and fourth sons all worked in a wood factory and received a salary every month.

They are uneducated and only do hard labor.

"My eldest brother." The second brother's tone sounded quite confused.

"It was eldest brother who did it. Your eldest sister lives in Zhaojia Village. How much blood do I have to shed before she can take me to see it? You don't even have a brain to think about it." Chen Xiaoying tried her best to restore the eldest brother's image in the eyes of the second brother and others.

The eldest son is a filial son. He is much more filial than those others who all travel far away and can only see their children two or three times a year.

The second brother, Li Hongjian, felt embarrassed: "Okay, okay, I get it."

Chen Xiaoying then talked about Li Hongyan's borrowing money: "Your elder sister's borrowing money from you, let's talk about it later. She is not that old, doesn't she know how to earn money on her own? It's not easy for you to earn money outside."

"I'm your mother, and I'm in urgent need of money to repair the house. The old house is no longer habitable. Are you going to ask your father and I to sleep on the street? You and the third brother, transfer the money to me first. I need one thousand yuan."

Now the second and third sons are working, earning about 300 yuan a month, with food and lodging provided. They do hard labor and are now suffering from a lot of illnesses.

Since she doesn't need to renovate the old house, she can't get the money back.

The money was either given to Li Hongyan for safekeeping or they lost it while playing cards with others.

"If you don't send me a thousand dollars, I will call you every day and call your boss to tell him that you are unfilial and don't want others to use you."

Hearing his mother's tone of voice was not right and she was very angry, the second son Li Hongjian felt very embarrassed: "Mom, what's wrong with you? I'll give you 20 yuan, you can spend it first, can't I? You have to have so much money."

Chen Xiaoying heard that his tone was particularly embarrassed and she knew that he was now penniless.

A surge of anger suddenly rose in his heart. Needless to say, he and the third brother returned all the money they had earned in the past few years and gave it to Li Hongyan for safekeeping.

In the previous life, the eldest son’s wife was so angry that she brought up old stories one by one, and this incident was the one she mentioned.

As a result, these fools refused to admit it and kept saying: When did you give it to my eldest sister? No, we spent it all ourselves.

Don't wrongly accuse my elder sister.

As a result, it was clearly given and it is already being given now.

When she died, these things, which she had earned from working for decades, at least thirty years, were all handed over to their eldest sister Li Hongyan for safekeeping.

You kept it until the end, have you returned it?

No!

So the second son’s two mud houses were not repaired and collapsed completely. Because of this, his wife also ran away.

The third son’s wife fell ill and had no money to treat her illness, so she died at the young age of thirty-something.

The fourth son's wife's mother was smart. She gave her a suggestion that she should first borrow a lot of money in the village. When the fourth son was being pressed for debt, he started to use his salary to pay off his debts without letting Li Hongyan spend it.

"Stop talking so much nonsense. Just tell me, are you going to give it to me or not?" Chen Xiaoying decided to push her sons.

Money has to be spent sooner or later, so it’s better to spend it on themselves.

"Okay, okay, I'll give it to you. I'll ask my boss for an advance on my wages later." Li Hongjian had no choice.

Li Hongwei, who was listening nearby, widened his eyes.

Old Wang also found it very strange when he heard it.

The old couple of the Li family were well-known for only helping their eldest daughter and not their son. They were a big joke in Lijia Village.

Seeing their sons living in a miserable state, the couple still tried to help their eldest daughter and happily showed off to others: This is the new clothes my eldest daughter bought for me, this is the pancake my eldest daughter bought for me, this is the tofu my eldest daughter gave me…

Her eldest son-in-law drove a tricycle to her field to pull soybeans, and her eldest daughter led people to her house to pull sheep. Everyone in the village saw it.

I have never seen such foolish parents.

Today, I see that Chen Xiaoying has finally come to her senses.

"How much?" Chen Xiaoying asked after finishing the call.

"Done? Five minutes. It's a long-distance call within the province. It's 60 cents a minute, or three yuan." Old Wang came back to his senses and looked down at the call time displayed on the landline.

"Would you like some more bread?" he asked.

"Yes, yes." Chen Xiaoying said. After she fell like this, she didn't intend to continue to cook for the old man and serve him like she did in her previous life.

"Give me money." Li Hongwei took out five dollars.

"I have money. I just sold a sheep." Chen Xiaoying's nose felt sore. She knew it wasn't easy for the boss to earn money.

The eldest child has a cold face, but a warm heart, and is the most filial of the children. It's just that she was blind in her previous life, so she couldn't see it.

"Take it. I'm here and can ask you to spend it." Li Hongwei tried to avoid the money she earned from selling the sheep, for fear that if he got even a little bit of it, he would be suspected of coveting his mother's money.

Chen Xiaoying took the bread and went out.

"The second son's house is leaking so badly that his wife got beaten up by him because she asked him for money to repair the house. Now she has gone to her parents' home and hasn't come back yet."

"Big brother, I thought, let's use this money to repair the second brother's house and call his wife back. Only then can we have a complete family. Chaochao also has a mother, don't you think?"

In the previous life, it was this year. During the winter, there was heavy snow and part of the house collapsed. The second son’s wife felt that life was really meaningless and passed away in despair.

Later, she went out to work with people from her village, and I heard that she got married and moved to another place.

These days, household registration is not so strict. If someone leaves, they leave, and there is nothing the second brother can do.

But the family that the second son’s wife later found was also poor, and they beat his wife, so her life was very miserable.

As for the second son, no woman was willing to be with him in his life. He worked all his life but remained a pauper. The house that collapsed under the snow was never rebuilt by him until she died.

She has been raising her only son, Chaochao, since he was five years old. As an orphan, he did not study hard and went out to work when he was seventeen or eighteen years old.

She wanted to repair the second son's house first so that he could use the money on his own home in the future, and the three of them could live a good life.

She knew that the eldest brother was kind-hearted and hoped that his brothers would live a good life, help each other, and be respected in the village.

The eldest brother had no idea about the money from selling the sheep, so he nodded and said, "Okay, I'll ask someone to check the house and see how to repair it and how much it would cost."

"That's right. If it can't be repaired, we might have to rebuild it, and we definitely won't have enough money." The eldest brother was a little worried, afraid that the money wouldn't be enough.

"It's okay. I know your father has hidden a lot of money." Chen Xiaoying thought of the dead old man. He was stingy all his life. When she died, the money for her coffin was shared by her sons.