Li Yutong didn't care and immediately left the house with the Wang father and daughter.
Zhao Pengfei hurriedly chased after him.
At the entrance of the alley, Li Hongyan had already knelt down in front of Chen Xiaoying, crying and begging. A group of onlookers had gathered around her: "Mom, I beg you, please be kind and let Pengfei marry this daughter-in-law. I will discuss with her and give you the betrothal gift to deal with the emergency. Is that okay?"
People who don’t know might think that the grandma is calculating the bride price for her grandson’s wife.
This hand is stretched too far.
"Let me go." Chen Xiaoying just scolded Li Hongyan a few words. She was just very angry, but she didn't really want to shout all these family matters out in the street and make people laugh at her.
She runs a small restaurant. Maybe some of the people watching have eaten at her restaurant before. They should point fingers at her in the future.
"Mom, woo woo, let's just forget about it this time, okay?"
Li Hongyan knelt down, holding her mother Chen Xiaoying's legs, making her unable to move.
Li Yutong hurriedly shouted, "Grandma, I've called Uncle Wang. Let's go to the credit union to withdraw money. If we delay any longer, it will be time for him to get off work."
Wang Jingjing's father also walked over. Seeing Li Hongyan's behavior, he was scared.
Fortunately, my daughter has not been married into this hell. If she had had a bold and cruel mother-in-law like Li Hongyan, who knows what kind of miserable life she would have had to live.
"Aunt, don't kneel here anymore. It doesn't look good. Let's talk about your child's marriage to my daughter later." After saying that, he was afraid that Li Hongyan would get involved with his family, so he said, "At least deal with your family's affairs first, then talk about it."
"Pengfei, help your mother up." Chen Xiaoying called Zhao Pengfei over.
Zhao Pengfei was so angry that his mother knelt down and begged his grandmother in public, but his grandmother did not waver. She was simply heartless.
"Mom, let's not beg my grandma. She doesn't care whether you live or die."
He went over and pulled Li Hongyan up.
Li Hongyan still wanted to argue: "Pengfei, don't worry about me first, go and explain to Xiaojing. Mom can swear to her that the debt I owe has nothing to do with you two, and I will never ask you to pay a dime in the future."
She believed that the Wang family was afraid that Wang Jingjing would have to pay back debts after marrying into their family, and they did not want to suffer any loss or let their daughter suffer, so they did not agree to the marriage.
In fact, Li Hongyan, a leader among the lower-class people, has accumulated a lot of such survival wisdom in the market.
Uncle Wang is indeed worried about this.
If he is that kind of cruel and heartless father, the betrothal gift has already gone into my pocket and belongs to my Wang family. Whether you borrow money from a loan shark or not has nothing to do with my betrothal gift.
You borrowed the money yourself, so you have to figure it out yourself.
Wang Jingjing is a living person. After getting married, she only cared about eating and drinking, and did not make money to fill this bottomless pit. Li Hongyan, the mother-in-law, could do nothing about her.
But it is obvious that Uncle Wang loves his daughter and does not want her to live in such a family for the rest of her life, so he can just say to take out the betrothal money so straightforwardly.
Let’s settle this marriage first.
"Mom, forget it, they won't listen." Zhao Pengfei saw more and more people gathered around him, and he felt embarrassed: "Mom, at worst, I won't get married."
He said all this.
When Wang Jingjing heard this, she had no more regrets and urged her father: "Dad, let's go."
Chen Xiaoying also urged Li Hongyan: "Let's go. The interest on those high-interest loans you borrowed will increase by 100 or 200 yuan if you delay for one day. You should fill this hole as soon as possible."
Li Hongyan's face was pale and she was supported by Zhao Pengfei.
The group arrived at the credit union. There were so many people that the credit union security guard thought something was wrong.
As a result, it was really a fun show, with people coming to withdraw money to return the betrothal gift.
Uncle Wang took out the money and gave it to Li Hongyan, asking her to write a receipt. She said her handwriting was not good and refused to accept it. Zhao Pengfei's self-esteem had been hurt, so he wrote it himself.
Li Hongyan couldn't stop him.
After writing the receipt, he made the decision, stuffed the money into Li Yutong's pocket, and said to Chen Xiaoying, "Grandma, I'm returning the money to you. I don't owe you anything anymore."
After saying that, he took his mother Li Hongyan and left.
After hearing this, Chen Xiaoying felt like she had fallen into an ice hole.
Tears are falling.
When Zhao Pengfei was not in primary school, Li Hongyan was busy with work and had no time to take care of the child, so she sent him back to her parents' home. She watched him grow up.
This child has been difficult to coax to sleep since he was young. The more he wants to sleep, the more noisy he becomes and he cries endlessly. Many dark nights, when the whole village was quiet, she would still carry him on her back, hold him in her arms, and circle on the ground like an old donkey pulling a millstone, to coax him to sleep.
Only when he finally fell asleep could she put him on the kang and take a nap with him.
When he stopped making trouble when sleeping and was four or five years old and could run and jump, he was like a bandit. He rummaged through all the contents of the drawers and threw them on the floor. He even threw the pillows and mattress on the kang on the floor. Not only did he waste things, but he also made the floor look like a garbage dump.
He chased chickens and dogs, climbed onto the table and kicked over the dishes, and even climbed trees to rob bird nests.
She was exhausted, and looking after him was harder than looking after her own seven children.
He did not return to his own home until he was six or seven years old. Now that he has grown up, he has not asked for any thanks to the grandmother who raised him. Instead, he has said such words several times, calling her "other person".
Who is he being sarcastic about?
Chen Xiaoying felt heartbroken.
"Grandma, let's go. We have to ask someone to send the money over to pay it back quickly." Li Yutong looked at her grandma Chen Xiaoying, tears of grievance welling up in her eyes and her expression was miserable. She couldn't help but step forward to comfort her and change the subject.
Chen Xiaoying came back to her senses: "Okay, okay, let's go, but we're still short of more than 20,000 yuan, and I don't know if they want this 5,000 yuan."
Li Yutong was unsure. In all likelihood, based on the working habits of those people, they would definitely not want to accept the money. If they accepted it, it would mean losing the interest of 5,000 yuan. That was just the amount they had borrowed. To them, the 5,000 yuan was like a loss.
Zhao Pengfei rode a tricycle and took his mother Li Hongyan away.
He didn't care about Chen Xiaoying and Li Yutong, the grandparents and grandchildren.
Wang Jingjing's father couldn't stand it anymore and asked, "Aunt, how about I ride my bike to take you back to the village?"
Chen Xiaoying shook her head: "Uncle, thank you very much. I will go to the store later and call my family. I am fine."
Only then did Wang Jingjing's father take Wang Jingjing home.
Both the grandfather and the grandson felt heavy in their hearts. They didn't have any acquaintances in this gray industry, and as it was getting dark, they didn't dare to just go.
Li Yutong took her grandmother on a bicycle and returned to the house in the staff quarters. She had just sat down for a short time and hadn't even had a sip of water.
There was a knock on the door.
"Who is it?" Chen Xiaoying was old and her family had so much money, so she was a little scared: "It can't be a bad guy... is he chasing me?"
Li Yutong shook her head: "Grandma, in this family compound, if we shout, the other units can hear it. The bad guys can't even get out of the family compound."