The remaining twin sisters, Li Hongli and Li Hongxia, are twenty years younger than Li Hongyan. One is stupid and incompetent, and the other is honest and introverted. They are no match for Li Hongyan.
So Chen Hongping understood Liu Lanxiang's feelings very well. When she dealt with Li Hongyan in the future, she finally had a helper.
Chen Xiaoying was talking about Li Hongqiang and asked Li Hongwei directly: "The money is all for you, right? How much did you spend this time?"
She not only asked how much money was paid to settle the matter with the car owner, but also asked how much was spent in total on transportation, accommodation, meals and gifts during the trip.
This should not be borne by Li Hongwei alone.
Li Hongwei felt that talking about money with his brother would hurt feelings, so he said, "Mom, don't worry about it. It's over."
And he didn't want to mention it again. He was fawning and saying nice things to people, but the family of the car owner pointed at his nose and scolded him for being uneducated, unsophisticated, and not knowing that he had violated the law. He thought he was great just because he had some dirty money. His eyes were red, and he almost knelt down in front of the family. It was not an honorable thing.
He felt ashamed, and Li Hongqiang also felt ashamed. They hoped that no one would ever mention this matter again.
Chen Xiaoying said, "Why shouldn't I care? I'm your mother. If I want to know the truth, do I have to beg you? Besides, do you think you're spending your money?"
Li Hongwei didn't think there was a problem: "Mom, what's wrong?"
"You spent the common property of you and Lanxiang. When you took out the 20,000 yuan, did you ask Lanxiang for her consent?"
When Liu Lanxiang heard her mother-in-law mention this, she felt aggrieved.
Of course she didn't want her family to pay for it, as Li Hongqiang wasn't worthy. But taking a step back, if there was really no other way and the money had to be paid, the four families would have to share it equally, as Li Hongqiang was not just Li Hongwei's brother.
But Li Hongwei didn't let her interfere.
How much money does he earn? How dare he throw away more than 20,000 yuan like that?
Li Hongwei glanced at the frustrated Liu Lanxiang and frowned: "What should we do? Hong Jian doesn't have much money, Hong Qiang doesn't have any money at all, and neither does Hong Gang. If I don't pay, who will?"
Seeing that he seemed to be quite reasonable, Chen Xiaoying laughed angrily: "What about Li Hongqiang? Did he thank you for the money you paid for him?"
Li Hongwei's face changed and he said nothing.
After Li Hongqiang was released from police station, he never looked at him from beginning to end and always kept his head down. Even when he couldn't hold it in any longer, he only talked to his second brother Li Hongjian and not him.
People who don't understand the situation think that it was Li Hongwei who put him in jail.
He didn't say it, but Chen Xiaoying had already seen that Li Hongqiang's nature was hard to change.
"Hongwei, I don't know when you will be able to wake up. Some people are not worth your efforts. The more you give to them, the more they owe you. Not only will they not be grateful to you, but they will hate you."
"Mom..." Li Hongwei also felt aggrieved and couldn't figure it out.
Why is it that he is so sincere to all his brothers, but only the second brother Li Hongjian remembers his kindness and cherishes his brotherhood?
"Because the more you help him, the more capable you seem to be than him, and the more incompetent and shameful he seems, so he starts to hate you." Chen Xiaoying didn't understand it before, but now after reading books, reading newspapers, and meeting more people, she realized that there are such people in the world.
"But on the other hand, if you are not as good as him and still rely on him for everything, it will satisfy his vanity, and he will try to help you even if he has to eat coarse food, and help you with money and labor."
"Why do you think he listened to Li Hongyan? Because Li Hongyan always needed his help, and she made him feel that he was still a useful person."
Hearing his mother's analysis of Li Hongqiang, Li Hongwei was stunned for a moment, then he couldn't help but frown and try to understand for a long time before he realized that his third brother was such a person.
He has little ability, but he has a big mind. Even a person like him wants others to curry favor with him.
Because he was timid, he didn't dare to blame people outside, he only dared to blame the people at home.
"Since he didn't even say thank you, then he must have said nothing about the money? Does he want to just quietly erase more than 20,000 yuan and pretend it never existed?" Chen Xiaoying couldn't help but press Li Hongwei.
Li Hongwei didn't know what to say.
Li Hongqiang never spoke to him at all.
"Mom, there's nothing we can do even if we go talk to him now. He has no money at all." Liu Lanxiang said with a sad face.
More than 20,000 yuan, enough to build a two-story building in the village.
"Whether you have it or not, you have to say something. You can't just keep silent." Chen Xiaoying said, "No one owes him anything. Besides, Hongwei, you are fueling his ambition. If he dares to commit a crime again in the future, you are willing to clean up his mess behind his back."
Li Hongwei's face turned awkward: "What can I do? He is my brother. I can't just ignore him."
"I am still his mother. He is so cold and indifferent to me that I have long since regarded him as my son." Chen Xiaoying said unhappily, "My kindness in giving birth to and raising me is much more valuable than your brotherly love. So how did he treat me?"
Li Hongwei was speechless now.
Yes, his biological mother Li Hongqiang didn't care at all. He only had resentment towards their mother, thinking that she was biased and selfish. She was still alive, but she was jumping up and down to demand a share of the inheritance. He also said that he deliberately provoked the relationship between him and their mother in order to monopolize most of their mother's inheritance.
Is this what a human being would say?
He was so heartbroken at that time that he couldn't help but kick him several times.
Did he forget Li Hongqiang's shameless and ruthless face so quickly?
Seeing that Li Hongwei had finally come to his senses, Chen Xiaoying sighed, "In the next two days, all of you should go to Li Hongqiang's house and settle the matter."
"Mom, do we need to ask Hong Jian and a few more people?" Liu Lanxiang pouted: "Mom, this money has nothing to do with them, so they don't want to go."
Don't look at them as incompetent. Instead, they are all petty. For example, the second brother, Li Hongjian, used to claim that he was neutral between Li Hongyan and Li Hongwei: One is my sister, the other is my elder brother, they are both flesh and blood, I will not help anyone, you can do whatever you want.
The fourth brother, Li Hong, didn't say anything, but that's what he thought in his heart. He doesn't care about anything and you guys can handle it yourselves.
As for brothers, they are all selfish and only think about themselves.
Only Li Hongwei was so foolish as to think they were brothers.
"If they don't go, wouldn't you have the opportunity to see clearly once again that some brothers are actually like this and cannot be relied upon at all?" Chen Xiaoying looked at Li Hongwei indifferently.
Li Hongwei felt as if a cool breeze ran through his heart. He had had this feeling for the past twenty or thirty years.
"Okay, now that we've finished talking, I should go back." Chen Xiaoying felt that she had said a lot today, and the rest could only be understood by Li Hongwei himself.
After Chen Xiaoying and Chen Hongping left, Li Hongwei still sat on the chair, not moving for a long time. No one knew what he was thinking about.
Liu Lanxiang didn't call him and let him go by himself.
These people have grown up, each married a wife, had children, and lived their own lives.
Why couldn't Li Hongwei understand this and think that they, brothers, could be closely connected for their entire lives?