"I want to build a house for my second son and bring his wife back from her parents' home," she said calmly.

"Let her die. A married woman runs back to her parents' home. She should just die." Li Pingwang felt only anger when he mentioned the daughter-in-law who ran back to her parents' home and made him a laughing stock in the villagers.

"Does the second son need you to repair his house? I will support him for his whole life?"

What he meant was that he already regarded the money from selling the sheep as his own.

She spent money to renovate the second son's house, but in his eyes, it was the same as spending his money to renovate it.

"I don't care, I just want to fix it for him." Chen Xiaoying was not as scared as before, and whatever he said was what she did.

"Give me the money." Li Pingwang scolded his eldest son Li Hongwei.

He didn't take Chen Xiaoying's stubbornness seriously at all.

Li Hongwei looked at his mother hesitantly.

"You are not allowed to give it to me. If you give it to me, you will kill me. I will die now. I will hang myself or jump into the well. I just want to build a house for the second brother." Chen Xiaoying went crazy and screamed and cursed.

She would never tolerate this selfish old man again. She had tolerated him all her life, and that was enough.

When Li Hongwei heard this, he grabbed the money and said, "Dad, my mom said to fix it, so let's fix it. Anyway, the second son's house is in a bad shape and can't be lived in."

"I'll beat you to death, you damned old woman." Li Pingwang was furious. She actually dared not listen to him. He told her not to do something, but she insisted on doing it. "I think you've gone crazy."

He picked up the broom from the yard and ran towards Chen Xiaoying.

"You can hit me, you can beat me to death. My eldest son is here. I don't think you can hit me." In the early years, she had the support of her eldest son, so she should not have been afraid of him.

Zhao Xueyan was terrified. This father-in-law seemed to smile and be honest to outsiders, but at home he was very violent and aggressive. Scolding people was the least of his worries; beating people was even more cruel.

"Dad, what are you doing!" Li Hongwei rushed over, snatched the broom, and threw it out of the courtyard wall in anger.

"My mother is so old, I ask you to beat her up, and you will serve her?"

Li Hongwei was furious and felt sorry for his mother. She was beaten when she was young and she was beaten again when she was old. She had never enjoyed a single day of happiness with him in her life, and now she still had to be beaten by him?

Li Pingwang was furious: "Okay, okay, you and your son are teaming up to piss me off to death."

"Whoever dares to make you angry to death will be beaten to death." Li Hongwei shouted louder than his father.

His son didn't listen to him and even yelled at him. Li Pingwang was so angry that he was about to tremble.

"Big brother, go call your first uncle and second uncle and settle all the accounts of the family over the years." Chen Xiaoying took a deep breath and calmed down: "I will not only build a house for the second brother, but if the money is enough, I will also lay the foundation for the third brother."

The homestead was obtained ten years ago when the homestead was being divided in the village. The eldest son stepped forward to request it for the second and third sons. The second son built two houses with half earth and half bricks, and the fourth son built a brick and tile house.

Because the third son lives with the old couple, his land is still a wasteland. If they don't build a foundation, in two years, the people building a foundation next door will secretly occupy it.

In the previous life, their family secretly occupied almost two meters of land here. For these two meters, the eldest brother and that family grew up together. The second brother and his friends were working in other places. It was the relatives and brothers from the eldest brother's wife's side who helped to mediate and prevented the eldest brother from suffering a big loss.

"I think you are crazy." Li Pingwang pointed at her and cursed: "I won't allow you to do that. I earned all the money. If I don't give you money, how can you afford to repair it?"

"You also get half of what I earn. It's called marital property, half each." Chen Xiaoying lived to the 21st century in her previous life and knew what marital property was.

He is the one who earns money, but she raises children and takes care of the housework at home, so she also contributes, and the law stipulates that she gets half.

She was determined to share his money.

Li Pingwang was extremely angry: "Tell your son to go and call, tell him to go and call, I just won't give it to you, let's see what else you want to do."

Li Hongwei didn't want to go and didn't want to make a big deal out of it: "Mom?"

"I'll go call." Zhao Xueyan said suddenly.

Chen Xiaoying, Li Pingwang and Li Hongwei all looked at Zhao Xueyan in surprise.

Zhao Xueyan was also a little afraid that her father-in-law would get angry, but as long as they had laid the land for the house, they could build a house in two years, and she would no longer have to live under the supervision of her parents-in-law.

Thinking of this, she felt that she had unlimited courage.

"I'll go. I can ride a bike too." She avoided her father-in-law's angry eyes, quickly rode the bike, and ran away.

"Everyone is trying to piss me off to death." Li Pingwang felt that his authority as the head of the family was completely gone. One by one, they were trying to make trouble.

Chen Xiaoying closed her eyes. "Who can be mad at you? You should be the one to make others mad. You are a father. You should be able to build bright and spacious houses for your four sons. Who wouldn't say you are capable? But you don't. You hold on to money. Can money make money?"

"Your son is having a hard time, your daughter-in-law is suffering, your grandchildren can't hold their heads up high, and your descendants of the Li family have been unsuccessful for generations. Are you happy about this?"

"I raised them, can I still support them for the rest of their lives? If they have no future, it's because they have no ability!" Li Pingwang didn't think he did anything wrong.

Chen Xiaoying sneered. Is giving them food considered raising children?

There was no way to reason with a stubborn man like him, so she didn't want to talk to him anymore.

Li Hongwei looked at his mother here and his father there, and didn't dare to leave. If he left, they would start fighting again, and his mother would suffer.

Chen Xiaoying’s parents’ home is not far away, in Chenjia Village, west of Lijia Village.

Because after she got married, she had never cried out before except for the time when she took the medicine. But she cried out again this time. It must be something big that happened, and the third son's wife didn't explain it clearly.

The two old brothers Chen Xiaoping and Chen Xiaorong came here on their bicycles in a hurry.

As soon as I entered the fence gate of the yard, I saw my sister's shabby courtyard. My brother-in-law was sitting under the eaves, with a sullen face, smoking a pipe.

The eldest nephew Li Hongwei sat in front of his mother Chen Xiaoying with a confused look on his face.

"What happened? What happened? I asked Xueyan, but she refused to say anything. She said she couldn't explain it clearly. We were scared to death along the way." I was afraid that the girl had taken the drug again.

"Big brother, second brother." Chen Xiaoying greeted.

"What's wrong with your head?" Chen Xiaoping frowned when he saw the white cloth on the girl's head, and looked at Li Pingwang: "Why did you fight with my sister again? She is already old, and you beat her up and made her sick. What should I do?"

"I didn't hit you!"

Li Pingwang shouted that it was not him who beat him, and he was justified.

Li Hongwei said, "It was hit by a sheep. I took it to the pharmacy and it's fine now."

"The sheep have bumped into each other." Chen Xiaoping and Chen Xiaorong glanced at the empty sheep pen, then looked at each other. They understood each other's meaning in their eyes.

Seeing this look, Chen Xiaoying realized that she was stupid. Not only did the people in the village know it, but even her family members in the neighboring village knew it.

"Uncle, uncle, please sit down."

Li Hongwei brought two chairs and asked them to sit down.

Zhao Xueyan quietly parked her bicycle, moved a small table over, and poured two cups of tea on it.

The tea leaves bought by the poor families in the village are bitter and astringent, but they are just for adding flavor to the water when you drink it.