After he finished speaking, he suddenly felt something was wrong, and he quickly coughed and changed the subject: "When we get to school tomorrow, let's ask her what she plans to do."
Shen Jiaze nodded indifferently, and the two of them rode away on their bicycles.
When Li Yutong returned home, her third aunt Zhao Xueyan had already fallen asleep with Li Yujie. Her grandmother Chen Xiaoying was in the living room with paper and pen on the table in front of her, and she seemed to be calculating something.
He had a gloomy brow, as if he couldn't figure it out.
Li Yutong put the bedding on the sofa and went back to her room first. Seeing that Li Yuhan had also fallen asleep in bed, she tiptoed out.
"You're back, go take a shower and go to bed." Her grandmother Chen Xiaoying saw the quilt she was holding and asked in surprise, "Are you not going to live in the dormitory?"
Li Yutong nodded: "No, there are not enough beds in the dormitory. Some students live with relatives in the county town, which is not convenient. We happen to have a house, so I might as well move out."
Chen Xiaoying thought: "Alright, something happens, we can discuss it together."
She told her what old man Li Pingwang had talked to her about today.
This had a great impact on Li Yutong. The letter drawn by He Mingliang only conveyed clearly what her grandfather wanted to do, but failed to include the words that her grandfather had said.
The younger generation always has a filter for the older generation. For example, if something seems difficult to a child, she will subconsciously think that her parents will be able to solve it.
She always thought that her grandfather, Li Pingwang, was a simple-minded person who was easily deceived, timid, soft-hearted, and proud, and a bit of a bully.
He is actually not a bad person!
In his previous life, when he was in his seventies or eighties, he rarely saw her. Every time she went to see him, he was eager to give her delicious food.
But she never imagined that one year, she would equate her grandfather with the word shameless.
"Grandma, have you figured it out?" she couldn't help but ask.
Chen Xiaoying shook her head: "How can I calculate it clearly?"
She didn't know how to use an abacus and could only count numbers below one hundred. Her granddaughter Li Yutong helped her calculate the restaurant's bills. Every time she added the number on the passbook, she knew how much money she had saved.
"Then I'll calculate it for you." Li Yutong said, and took the paper and pen with the account book next to it.
Rent, water, electricity, gas, vegetables, rice, flour, oil, etc., all kinds of expenses, it is very complicated to calculate, but Li Yutong calculated very quickly.
The living room was quiet. Chen Xiaoying heard the snoring of her third daughter-in-law, Zhao Xueyan. Zhao Xueyan was a little fat to begin with, and after working in the restaurant, she ate better than before, and she became a little rounder.
I also took out the passbook and did the calculations.
Chen Xiaoying said, "I'm afraid your grandfather doesn't believe this account at all. How much should we give him? Or, your aunt tells him how much it is, and he will ask us how much we want."
Li Yutong understood what her grandmother meant. She was telling her that if she let her grandfather achieve his goal, it was very likely that even if they gave all the money they had earned in the past few years to her grandfather, it would still not be enough.
This is nothing.
After all the hard work and exhaustion, in the end, it all went through her grandfather's hands and was "presented" to her aunt Li Hongyan.
"Grandma, um, is my aunt your biological daughter? Or, is she just my grandfather's biological daughter?" She really couldn't help it.
Her grandfather was too biased. He believed everything her aunt said unconditionally. Even if she was talking nonsense, he thought she was right.
Chen Xiaoying was frightened by her granddaughter's words: "Why do you think so?"
Li Yutong was a little embarrassed: "At that time, I watched a lot of TV dramas, such as the real and fake daughters. The nanny swapped her own daughter with the daughter of the host family. Her own daughter enjoyed the good life, and she took the daughter of the host family to the countryside to suffer."
In order to avoid being overheard when speaking carelessly, the grandfather and grandson always used the three words "at that time" instead when talking about their past lives.
Chen Xiaoying thought about it carefully and said, "I don't think so."
She recalled the past: "When I gave birth, it was your grandmother who delivered me. There were no health centers at that time, so I gave birth at home. I was so tired that I fell asleep right after the baby was born."
So there was a chance to take her child away.
but.
"This is impossible, this is something that only happens on TV." She simply couldn't bring herself to believe it.
Li Yutong didn't know what to say: "Grandma, on the day you gave birth to my aunt, was there any other woman who gave birth to your child on the same day? Was it a girl?"
"It's a girl, that's for sure. When I gave birth to her, I heard your grandmother say it was a girl." Chen Xiaoying thought, "There are indeed two families who gave birth to children on the same day. One family gave birth to a boy, that is Li Ping'an from our village, and the other family gave birth to a girl. Her mother is from another place and ran away after giving birth to the baby. The man in that family is not a decent person, and the mother-in-law is also very powerful. She beats and scolds her all day long."
"What about the child?" Li Yutong couldn't help but worry.
Chen Xiaoying didn't take it seriously: "It was stillborn and buried long ago."
After more than forty years, he would have been reincarnated long ago.
Li Yutong blinked.
Chen Xiaoying couldn't help but sigh: "At that time, medical conditions were poor. There were very few people like me who could raise all the children. Many people could give birth to seven or eight children, but in the end they could only raise four or five."
"Let's not talk about this anymore, let's talk about the divorce with your grandfather." She thought: "Your aunt is really cruel, what do you think we should do?"
Li Yutong naturally knew that her eldest aunt was cruel. She had at least 20,000 yuan in her hand that she had borrowed from loan sharks, and she refused to pay it out. Over the years, her grandparents' savings had also been kept by her eldest aunt. The combined six or seven years' wages of her second and third uncles were also in her hands.
She has been showing off and being confident over the years. That's because she is really rich, which is why she has the temper of saying "I'm not short of money, I'm more capable than you".
Li Yutong was worried.
"Grandma, don't worry. It's getting late. Let's go to bed first and I'll think about it tomorrow." Li Yutong said this when it was almost eleven o'clock.
Her grandmother Chen Xiaoying had been busy all day and was tired: "Okay, let's go to sleep."
At night, Li Yutong couldn't help thinking about how to solve the problem of her grandparents. She didn't know when she fell asleep and woke up to the sound of the alarm clock the next day.
She was in a daze for a while before she remembered that she was not living in a dormitory.
"Sister, you came back and slept last night, why didn't you wake me up?" Li Yuhan said as she put on her clothes quickly.
"You're already asleep. I need to wake you up. You won't be able to sleep after all the excitement." Li Yutong said casually, and got up to dress and comb her hair.
There were three school-age girls living in this house. The sisters were busy packing when Li Yujie pushed the door open and said, "Sister, my mom asked you to take me to school."
Her mother Zhao Xueyan had to help prepare breakfast in the small restaurant. In the past, she would send Li Yujie to school and then return to the store. Last night, Li Yutong went home, so she was asked to send her off.