"Then what do you say we should do? She doesn't have it!" Li Pingwang shouted at Li Hongwei.
Li Hongwei's eyes turned red, and his heart felt like it was cut by his father with a knife: "Dad, you have been partial to my eldest sister all your life. You gave her everything she wanted. You picked us sons up on the street and we were unwanted, right?"
"What are you talking about? They are all my own children, so who am I partial to? I am not partial." Li Pingwang's voice was louder than his.
I don't know how many times I have argued about being biased.
Li Pingwang doesn't admit it, who can do anything to him?
"Li Pingwang, you and Hongyan, you two father and daughter have caused this matter, so you two should deal with it yourselves. Don't expect others to pay for you. It's impossible!" Chen Xiaoying said this today.
Thinking of the third brother Li Hongqiang: "Third brother, I know that you regard your eldest sister as closer than me, your biological mother. You want to help pay it back, right?"
The third child, Li Hongqiang, said with an embarrassed look: "Mom, we are all family."
Chen Xiaoying sneered: "Okay, we are a family. You two are a family. You two and your father are a family. You and I, your eldest brother, are not a family."
"It's twenty-eight thousand. Pay it back."
"Hongwei, let's go home."
She knew that she would not be able to get the money back today: the money given to the woman as a betrothal gift, the money for the engagement banquet, the money for buying clothes for the woman, and the money for the engagement gold ring and gold necklace, all must have been spent.
"Ask someone who has the phone number of Laowagou Village and inform Hei San. Anyway, it's impossible for my mother and I to pay them back. If he wants to repay the debt, he should go to whoever lent it to him."
Upon hearing this, Li Pingwang and his daughter Li Hongyan became a little anxious.
"Where do I get the money?" Li Pingwang shouted anxiously.
"Mom, my dad is so old, you're going to let the debt collectors drive him to death." Li Hongyan was also anxious.
Chen Xiaoying turned around and looked at her with disappointment: "Li Hongyan, why do you always treat your family members as fools? Do you think you can cheat them however you want?"
"I'm your mother, what do you think I am?"
"You are trying to force me to death. Is there any daughter like this in the world? You are a jackal and a beast."
"You also tricked your father into borrowing money from a loan shark? You were the one who forced him to die!"
Li Hongyan's face changed when she was accused, but in an instant, she found an excuse and started crying: "Mom, there's not much money, can't you pay it back for me?"
Twenty-eight thousand? Not much money left?
That's because it's other people's money, so she can be so generous.
Chen Xiaoying was extremely disappointed: "It's not a question of how much money it costs, it's a question of whether this matter will never end."
"I work hard outside to earn money, working from dawn to dusk to run that small restaurant, all for the sake of giving my family a good life, building houses for your brothers, and giving them something to do."
"In the wood factory, they had to carry wood. That was a heavy job. They would have been exhausted early. And you could just stand by and borrowed several years' wages from them. You didn't even pay them back. How could you be so cruel?"
Li Hongyan was anxious: "I can help you make money, I also want to make money, you don't care about me."
Didn't she ask for the secret recipe of sesame cakes before? Her mother didn't give it to her, and now her mother blames her for plotting against her.
Chen Xiaoying took a deep breath, but Li Hongyan still didn’t think she was wrong.
"Forget it, Li Hongyan, let me put this to you. The money that Hongwei and I worked so hard to earn from the store we opened together was not earned for you. We are not working for you."
"Don't even think about asking us to pay you back."
"Mom, can you and Hongwei just watch my dad die?" Li Hongyan was extremely anxious. What would she do if her mother and brother Li Hongwei didn't care?
"That's his fate, he asked for it!"
Chen Xiaoying glared at Li Pingwang coldly, then turned and left.
"Why are you in such a hurry? I haven't gotten up yet." Li Pingwang didn't know what the old woman was crazy about. If she had the money, she could just pay it back first. No matter whose money it was, she was a family. Did she have to wait until someone died before she would agree?
Besides, if she had lent money to Hongyan earlier, how could Hongyan still take him to Laowagou Village to borrow money?
"What are you doing up? Are you here asking your daughter to be filial to you? Didn't your daughter always tell you that she would take care of you and be filial to you when you are old? None of your sons are fighting for it. They are all fools and a joke. Your daughter is the most promising one. You just live here." Chen Xiaoying didn't even turn her head.
"Mom? Mom!" The eldest brother, Li Hongwei, hurried out: "You really don't care about my dad?"
"Can you afford to do that? He asked you to sell the house to pay off Li Hongyan's debt. Will you sell it?" Chen Xiaoying looked at him.
Li Hongwei felt aggrieved. If it was owed by his father or spent by his father, he would be willing to sell everything he had.
However, it was his elder sister Li Hongyan who cheated him out of the money. She gave it to her son to marry a wife. It was none of his business. Why should he pay it back? Moreover, she cheated him out of the house by calculating means. He definitely didn't want to do that.
Li Hongwei stopped talking.
The third child, Li Hongqiang, ran out in a hurry: "Mom, what's wrong with you? You don't care about my dad anymore?"
"Are you leaving or not? You can stay here if you don't want to." Chen Xiaoying looked at him.
Li Hongqiang was a little timid. He didn't want to live in someone else's house because he had to look at his brother-in-law's face, which would be inconvenient for eating and sleeping. His brother-in-law Zhao Faliang treated him indifferently and didn't like to talk to him.
"What about my dad?"
"Hasn't your elder sister always wanted to be filial to your father? This is an opportunity." Chen Xiaoying had already climbed onto the bed of the tricycle with the help of Li Hongwei.
"Hongwei, drive," she said.
Li Hongwei bent his waist, started the machine with the crank, and sat in the driver's seat.
The third child, Li Hongqiang, took one look and turned around, only to find that his father, Li Pingwang, was staring at them with wide eyes in disbelief, like a child abandoned by his parents.
Damn it, Chen Xiaoying is so cruel.
An old man who had lived a lifetime just threw it away like that.
"Mom, please don't leave." Li Hongyan rushed out, jumping anxiously: "My dad can still move, why should I serve him? You two are arguing, don't leave my dad here with me."
"I'm busy all day, so I don't have time to cook for my dad."
Chen Xiaoying didn't move, didn't even look at her, as if she didn't hear anyone talking.
"Third brother, please tell us about our mother. Why has she become like this?" Li Hongyan urged the third brother Li Hongqiang to speak for her.
"Walk."
Chen Xiaoying didn't want to listen.
Li Hongqiang took one look and quickly grabbed the car and flipped into the truck bed: "Sister, let our dad stay with you for a few days, I will pick him up in a few days."
The tricycle started moving. There were four people on it when it came, and three people on it when it went back.
Li Pingwang's old face was filled with tears, full of sorrow: "Hongyan, look, look, your mother is such a person now, she doesn't care about my life or death at all, what am I going to do with my life in the future?"