"Grandma, how's my third uncle doing?" Li Yutong asked about Li Hongqiang. It has been more than ten days since her father and second uncle Li Hongjian passed away. It is time for them to come back.

Chen Xiaoying snorted: "I'm back."

"You're back." Li Yutong was not surprised, but she was very curious: "How much did it cost?"

During those days, according to her father, Li Hongqiang was discovered when he was riding someone's motorcycle. The person held him back and wouldn't let him go, shouting to call the police. He pushed the person hard, causing the person to fall on a rock and suffer a bleeding head.

He took the opportunity to run away, but was caught by the police at the train station.

The car owner himself did not have any serious problems, but he was a local and had acquaintances in the hospital, so they added a concussion item to his medical record. The car owner wanted Li Hongqiang to compensate for the medical expenses, and the money he asked for was not small.

Otherwise, Li Hongqiang will be sued and put in jail.

"Your father said that the other party wanted 30,000 yuan. He tried to persuade them, and the police also advised him a few words. In the end, he paid 22,000 yuan." Chen Xiaoying said coldly.

She was extremely disappointed with the third brother, Li Hongqiang, and no longer cared about his affairs, and of course would not give him a penny.

"Then this money..."

It’s not that Li Yutong was reluctant to spend the 22,000 yuan, but she felt it was not worth spending it on someone like Li Hongqiang.

The place where he committed the crime was a county town that was a little more backward than Kaiyuan City. The local housing prices were only about one or two hundred yuan, and you could buy a house for twenty-two thousand yuan.

The car owner himself was fine.

But now is not the time to pursue this. Who asked Li Hongqiang to steal someone's motorcycle and gave him the opportunity to earn this house?

"I don't care. I'm just keeping it to myself and haven't even asked." Chen Xiaoying sighed. She was also worried that the boss would pay for it himself.

In recent years, the boss has supplied peppers to the food factory and leased more than 100 acres of land. With the expansion of the food factory, Li Hongwei was also asked to grow some peanuts, sesame and other crops.

He has made a lot of money in the past few years.

Li Yutong thought for a moment and said, "What about my third uncle? Where is he now?"

"In his own house." Chen Xiaoying said.

After her grandmother said this, Li Yutong knew that Li Hongqiang did not return to the village. Most people went out to work after the New Year, but he came back after just a few days. Something must have happened to him. He couldn't tell anyone when they asked him, so he simply didn't return to the village.

He lived in the house that Zhao Xueyan had been paying the mortgage for.

How could he have the nerve to live there?

"Did my third aunt say anything?" she asked.

"I don't know. I've taken a few days off." Chen Xiaoying sighed.

Li Yutong didn't know what to say.

Her grandmother didn't want to take care of Li Hongqiang anymore, but Li Hongqiang, as the third brother and husband, was a burden to her other sons.

"Grandma, let me call and ask." She said, "This matter must be made clear, otherwise, he will dare to do such a thing again in the future."

Chen Xiaoying nodded: "Then ask."

Li Yutong called back to the village, but no one answered for a long time. She looked at the time on the phone and realized that it was not the time to cook or eat. Her parents were usually working in the fields at this time.

"Forget it." Seeing Li Yutong worrying about these things, Chen Xiaoying felt uncomfortable: "You have your own things to do, don't worry about their messy things, go back to school, grandma will take care of these things herself, and will never let your parents suffer."

To be honest, the losses suffered by Li Hongwei and Liu Lanxiang were indirectly caused by Li Yutong.

How could Li Hongwei have earned the 20,000 yuan that Li Hongqiang had saved? In the beginning, in order to pay the 100 yuan tuition for his child, he had to go to the illegal coal mine to pull coal. He planted peppers, peanuts, and sesame seeds. It was because of Li Yutong's relationship that the food factory gave him special seeds to plant, and took them away directly after he planted them.

Other people don't have such good things at all.

Seeing her grandmother's resolute look, Li Yutong had no choice but to agree: "Okay, grandmother, you decide. I'll go back to school."

After Li Yutong left, Chen Xiaoying thought about it and decided that this matter really couldn't just be let go in such an unclear manner.

Zhao Xueyan never came again after Li Hongqiang came back. When asked about Li Yujie's parents, she just said impatiently, "I don't know, don't ask me."

After much thought, Chen Xiaoying decided to go back to the village.

When Chen Hongping came back from the store in the evening, she heard that Chen Xiaoying was going to Lijia Village tomorrow. She couldn't help asking, "Mom, do you want me to go with you tomorrow?"

On the day Li Hongwei and his friends came back, the siblings had already met each other. Of course, she did not see the third child, Li Hongqiang. He said that he went straight back to his home after getting off the train and did not come to their mother's place at all.

She had never met Li Hongqiang, but after seeing what he had done in the past few days, she felt that even if this person had no bad intentions, he was not worth associating with.

Too cold and indifferent, or too confused.

He made a mistake, and his eldest and second brothers brought him back with money. When he arrived at his hometown, he didn't even go to visit the paralyzed old man in the village, and he didn't even come to apologize to his biological mother. If he had gone to his own home, it would have been fine, and no one would have bothered with each other.

But this house was bought by their biological mother Chen Xiaoying.

How could he sleep when he lay there in this house?

Zhao Xueyan hasn't been here for a few days. I don't know what's going on at her home or what Li Hongqiang is doing at home.

"Go back." Chen Xiaoying thought: "It's a good opportunity to go back to the village and let everyone in the village get to know you."

I heard from the eldest daughter-in-law Liu Lanxiang that most people in the village knew that Li Pingwang had swapped her child with someone else's on the day she gave birth, and now her biological daughter has been found.

Then take this opportunity to let everyone in the village see what her biological eldest daughter looks like and who she is.

When people in the province mention her eldest daughter, they only remember Li Hongyan.

Chen Xiaoying did what she said, and the next day, the mother and daughter rode their bicycles back to the village.

There is always a group of people with nothing to do at the entrance of the village. They sit there all day long, playing cards, chess, sewing shoe soles, and chatting.

Before Li Pingwang became paralyzed, he had become a frequent visitor here when he was in his fifties. Whenever he could not be found at home, he would be here.

There is no such thing as retirement for rural people. As long as they are able to work, even if they are eighty years old, they will go to the fields and do some work within their ability, such as planting seeds, weeding, and breaking corn.

But Li Pingwang relied on the fact that he had four sons and retired on his own in his fifties.

Seven or eight people were chatting when they suddenly saw two people riding bicycles coming up the road. The sharp-eyed people immediately recognized them: "Isn't this Chen Xiaoying? Xiaoying? Xiaoying!"

They were all old men and women, about the same age, so they just called each other by their names.

Chen Xiaoying got off her bike and greeted everyone around her with a smile: "Everyone is taking a break. Are you busy at home?"

"Not busy, not busy. I haven't seen you for a long time. Is there something that brought you back?"

"Yeah, hey, you are a big boss after all, why are you still wearing this kind of clothes? Buy yourself something nice!"

"That's right, it's time to enjoy your life."

Chen Xiaoying always dresses simply, and everyone is quite friendly when they see her.