Scumbag Handbook

Xiao Le held a weed in his right hand and a pot of water in his left hand. He was pale and didn't hold any farm tools. It looked like he was going for a walk instead of working.

"sister in law."

Seeing Zhang Lijuan coming out, Xiao Le greeted her with the same expression as usual, and did not look too much into the red eyes of the other party.

"Hey, are you going?"

Zhang Lijuan tried her best to make herself look more natural. After all, there was a conflict in her family, and her family's ugliness was not publicized.

"I'm going to pick up my parents."

Xiao Le grinned.

"Oh, oh," at the dinner table, Zhang Lijuan heard Li Laosan and the others ask about the family members of the two brothers, and Xiao Mocheng said that the parents would come a day later.

"Then I'll go first."

Xiao Le waved to Zhang Lijuan, Zhang Lijuan nodded, watched him leave, then looked at the place where her husband was, gritted her teeth, turned and walked home.

When passing by Xiao's house, I saw Xiao Mocheng weaving bamboo mats in the yard, and the bamboo was cut from the small bamboo forest in the back room of Xiao's house.

When Mo Cheng saw Zhang Lijuan, he also called his sister-in-law.

Zhang Lijuan responded, she just felt that the new family she moved to had a really good temper and treated people very politely, and when she thought about her brother-in-law and sister-in-law, she only felt a severe headache.

Xiao Le's "parents" are characters derived from the system according to the needs of the task world. Xiao's father is a high school teacher who has just retired, and Xiao's mother is the head nurse of a hospital who also just retired this year.

"Dad, Mom! Here it is!"

Xiao Le, who saw the elders from a distance, ran over there and yelled at them.

Xiao's father was pointing to the opposite mountain forest to tell Xiao's mother Feng Shui, and he didn't hear Xiao Le's voice at all, but Xiao's mother heard the young son's voice and turned to wave to him.

"I'm telling you this..."

"What is this, Lele is here, didn't you see it?"

After Xiao's mother said so, Xiao's father saw the young man who was getting closer and closer, "Oh, I really didn't pay attention! Come on, Lele, come and see this mountain. Does it look like the golden hook grid mentioned in Fengshui books? ?”

Seeing him pointing at the opposite mountain with excitement, Xiao Le also followed his fingers and looked over with great interest, "How should I put it, I think it's almost there."

"Where is the difference?"

Father Xiao hurriedly asked.

"This mountain is not curved enough," Xiao Le gestured, and then looked at the sun above his head, "Dad, let's go home first, be careful of heatstroke in such a big sun, it's better to wait for a walk when the weather is cooler. "

"Lele is right, hurry up and go."

Xiao's mother was so hot that she drank more than half of the water Xiao Le brought over.

Not long after passing the creek, Xiao's mother almost fell down. Hearing the three people's voices, Li Hongbing felt ashamed for a while.

It's not that I'm ashamed that I quarreled with my wife just now, but that I'm ashamed that I didn't let my parents live such a leisurely life.

Listen, the old lady in the city who has never walked on a dirt road almost tripped over the weeds.

Li Hongbing's mood was very complicated, and he worked even harder.

"Dad, Mom," Mo Cheng heard their voices, and came out of the yard to pick them up.

"Chengcheng seems to be a little darker."

The address of Mother Xiao made Xiao Le chuckle, Mo Cheng turned his head to look at him, Xiao Le covered his mouth and ran into the main room.

"No, I've only been out for a few days, and I didn't get tanned so quickly."

Mo Cheng said helplessly to Xiao's mother who kept saying that she was cheating.

"It looks dark to me, but it's better to be Lele, she's so white," Father Xiao patted Mo Cheng on the shoulder.

Xiao Le was their biological son, and Mo Cheng was adopted by them in the orphanage. After the two brothers came out, their parents struggled for a long time, but they still admitted their relationship.

This is probably the background of their family.

Xiao's father's disgusting words did not make Mo Cheng feel bad, instead he said with a smile, "I'm like my father, if I don't expose myself to the sun, it will turn dark."

"Yeah, yeah, it's just like him." Xiao's mother covered her mouth and smiled, and pulled the frustrated Xiao's father around the yard, "When I saw the photos, I thought this yard was good, and there was a bamboo forest in the back , there is a vegetable garden in front, and it would be even better to make a swing outside the east wing."

"We've been making swings in the past two days," Xiao Le said after taking out two cans of ice water, and Xiao's father and Xiao's mother took over.

"Then you have to choose good wood. If I want to grow orchids here, gardenias are also good."

"Now is not the time to grow these."

"There are a lot of wild orchids on the mountain. A young girl in our department likes to go up the mountain to look for orchids when she returns to her hometown. It can be planted anytime, anywhere, regardless of the season..."

Listening to their parents talking about how to make the yard look better, Xiao Le and Mo Cheng also started to get together to talk about how to clean up the backyard, only to hear Mrs. Li cursing from the direction of Li Hongbing's house.

"Ouch, I was taken aback!"

Xiao's mother caressed her heart, looked at Xiaolu over there, "Is this... a curse?"

"It seems to be," Father Xiao took off his glasses, listened carefully with his ears sideways, and concluded, "It seems to be scolding his own daughter-in-law, a little bit..."

unacceptable.

What lazy stuff, if no one wants it, you can only enter your own house.

"I gonna go see."

Xiao's mother is the family mediator in their community. Although she came to the countryside, when she encountered this incident, she subconsciously went to mediate.

Xiao Le and Mo Cheng didn't stop them either. After all, they were men, and it would be very inconvenient for them to intervene in the target person's family.

"Back when you said that your elder brother was disabled, and you asked our red soldiers to come to your door, I remember clearly! I told the matchmaker that I didn't want this marriage, but what about you? You sneaked in with our red soldiers and insisted on marrying Come into our house..."

Mrs. Li's heartbreaking words made Zhang Lijuan, who was protecting her daughter, very uncomfortable. The burden on her family was indeed heavy.

Dad was born weak, and the family was supported by his mother. "! Mountain! Yu! 冫! ク!", there is an elder brother who was born with a handicap, and his work is always weaker than normal people.

The elders wanted her to recruit someone to take care of her parents and elder brother, but those who were willing to come were not good people.

Li Hongbing fell in love with her right away, and asked a matchmaker to come to her to talk about marriage, but he didn't think their family wanted to recruit a son-in-law. Of course, Mrs. Li and the others disagreed. Li Hongbing has always been a filial person.

Originally, the two should have no intersection.

Unexpectedly, Li Hongbing rescued Zhang Lijuan three times later, once when she fell into the water, once when she was almost bullied by gangsters, and once when she was bitten by a snake. Li Hongbing carried her to the town health center.

No one knew about the first two times, but it was seen the last time. It is impossible for no one to see such a big battle.

Xu felt that the two were destined, and after discussing with Zhang's parents, they decided not to recruit a son-in-law, so they let Zhang Lijuan marry.

After being married to the Li family for so many years, her husband loves her, but he loves his parents even more.

The character of filial piety is always ranked above the three of Zhang Lijuan, and every time she gets angry and can't go back to her natal family, whether it is her parents or her brother, she is advised to be more generous.

In their view, a filial man is good, and a filial man is a good man.

Zhang Lijuan looked at the old lady who was full of obscenities, and covered Li Xiaomei's ears with both hands. The old lady was frightened by her eyes.

He actually picked up the stick next to the chair and was about to hit Zhang Lijuan!

"Ouch, old aunt, what's the matter? I heard the movement of your house from afar," Xiao's mother came quickly, followed by Xiao Le.

She walked over and stood in front of Zhang Lijuan's mother and daughter, stretched out her hand with a smile and snatched the stick from Mrs. Li's hand.

"Who are you?"

Mrs. Li was so angry that she was naturally unhappy to be blocked.

Xiao's mother put the stick out of Mrs. Li's reach, and said to Zhang Lijuan first, "Sister, I'm a little thirsty, please pour me a bowl of water."

The hand on the side also made a gesture to Zhang Lijuan.

After Zhang Lijuan saw it, she felt even more uncomfortable than when she was scolded just now. Xiao's mother and Xiao Le looked somewhat similar, so Zhang Lijuan naturally guessed the other's identity.

She responded and dragged Li Xiaomei into the kitchen.

I only heard the other party say to the mother-in-law tenderly, "Old aunt, I just moved here. I heard that the house we bought belongs to my aunt and uncle's house. It is really destined."

Xiao Le suppressed a smile, looked at Mrs. Li's angry look, and chimed in: "Mother-in-law, sit down and talk, my mother was the head nurse of the provincial hospital's internal medicine department before she retired, and she was also the head nurse of our community. The mediator of the committee, no, he came here as soon as he heard the movement."

Mrs. Li just heard that Xiao's mother is the head nurse of a large hospital, and she immediately looked very good. She also asked Li Xiaomei to bring two stools and asked them to sit down.

"Thank you," Xiao Le took the stool and smiled at Li Xiaomei. Li Xiaomei nodded slightly and went into the kitchen again.

"The same virtue as her mother," Mrs. Li was a little disgusted, and then looked at Xiao's mother with a smile on her face, as if she was not the one who raised eyebrows just now.

"My second daughter-in-law is also a nurse in the hospital. Oh, it's good to be a nurse. She has a stable job and is very considerate. You are also the head nurse? Isn't that just for the nurses?"

Xiao's mother saw a lot of ghosts and snakes in the hospital, so she could tell who the old lady was at a glance. She smiled slightly: "I also went from a nurse to a head nurse. Which hospital is your second daughter-in-law in?"

"It's just our county hospital! She is very filial. Last month, she brought my two grandsons back to see our two elders, and each gave us a hundred!"

Mrs. Li stretched out her hand proudly and gestured, "The two hundred will be gone, but she doesn't feel bad at all, and she persuades us to eat more good things, it's not like that!"

She shook her eyelids and pointed to the kitchen, "I'm also a kind mother-in-law, but this eldest daughter-in-law is tsk tsk..."

"I think she's fine," Xiao's mother said for Zhang Lijuan, but got fifty and one hundred sentences from Mrs. Li to refute Zhang Lijuan's good words.

Hearing this, Xiao Le wanted to give her the stick next to him, so he simply got up and stood on the edge of the yard to look at the hillside in the distance.

"...You don't know our hardships, you don't have a daughter-in-law yet, do you? You look so young," Mrs. Li envied, looking at Mother Xiao's wrinkle-free face.

"Both my children are young," Mother Xiao just said.

"Ouch, you have two children?"

Mrs. Li was surprised, she only saw Xiao Le, and thought it was just a son.

Li Hongbing didn't like gossip, and she didn't mention the new mover when she got home yesterday, so she naturally didn't know.

"Yes, the eldest son and his father are at home," Mother Xiao pointed in the direction of their home.

Mrs. Li rolled her eyes and mentioned her second daughter-in-law's cousin, "She is a hardworking girl, why don't you let your eldest son meet the girl?"

If they became in-laws, wouldn't they be able to gain the relationship with the head nurse and let the second daughter-in-law follow her to the big hospital?

Thinking of this, Mrs. Li looked at Mother Xiao as if she was looking at a plate of braised pork.

"Braised Pork" is very calm, "It's hard to manage young people's affairs now, and I don't want to manage them. The more I manage, the less close I am. It's better to follow them to do things themselves."

"How can this work!"

Mrs. Li was stunned by Mother Xiao's words, she shook her head and refused, "If my son doesn't listen to me, I won't die of anger, I will kill him as an unfilial son!"

"He alone? Auntie, how many sons do you have? According to what you said just now, you have a second daughter-in-law. Are these two sons?"

"Yes, I have two sons and a daughter. The second child and the youngest daughter are the most promising ones. The elder brother is far from good. Every day makes me unhappy. Fortunately, he is obedient."

Mrs. Li glanced at Zhang Lijuan who came out with the tea again. Zhang Lijuan pretended not to hear her last sentence, put the tea on the high stool, and smiled at Xiao's mother, "It's just brewed, it's a little hot, this tea We fried it ourselves, try it."

"That's right, we made the tea ourselves, without any processing. If you think it tastes good, you can take a pack."

Xiao Le raised her eyebrows and came over, "Then we will not be polite, thank you mother-in-law."

"Thank you, thank you, our two families live so close, we should, we should."

The old lady Li, who was generous in her mouth but secretly felt that she was at a disadvantage in her heart, glared at Zhang Lijuan again, "Aren't you going to work? The sun is so big, you let the red soldiers do it alone?"

"Yeah, the sun is so big, Li Laosan knows to come back from the construction site to rest, but Li Hongbing looks like he is growing on the ground. Parents don't feel sorry for him. Why should I feel sorry for him? Let him work hard by himself."

Zhang Lijuan, who knew that there were outsiders, and her mother-in-law would not go too far, said.

She was also furious. In the past, she would not refute her mother-in-law so blatantly.

Sure enough, Mrs. Li's complexion suddenly turned ugly, she was ashamed of herself in front of outsiders, how could she be happy?

"Are you going to work in such a big sun? Auntie, I see that your house is in good condition," Xiao's mother looked up at the yard and brick houses. On the way she came, some houses she saw were wooden houses.

"The work in this field is not as important as people's health. In the past, our hospital admitted a lot of patients with coronary heart disease, and they were all exhausted."

"Oh, big sister," Old Madam Li cried out, "My eldest son didn't build this house by himself. The second and younger daughter paid a lot of money for it!"

"Mom said that, as if the two of us managed the money ourselves. Didn't Li Hongbing hand over all the money for selling grain, tea and bamboo to Mom?"

Before the money was seen, it had already been taken away by the old lady.

Zhang Lijuan didn't know what happened to her today, she spoke very aggressively, but this made the old lady angry, and she felt much more at ease when she saw that the other party was angry and didn't want to get angry in front of others.

This time when I went back to my natal family, I was half angry, and half because my brother hurt his hand while working. She went back to help cook and take care of the family.

"What's wrong with me taking care of the money? Is there any old lady in this village who takes care of the money? Do you think I'm dead? I won't care about your money after I die, do you?"

Mrs. Li actually started to cry as she spoke. Xiao Le looked at it carefully, but she was howling hard, but there were no tears.

He laughed and said, "Grandma, the society has changed now, it's not so feudal, the money is managed by oneself, and there is still the atmosphere of the old society, that will be laughed at."

"what?"

Mrs. Li didn't expect that she howled so much, but in exchange for this sentence, when she pretended to cry in the past, her son always obeyed her.

But he forgot that the one in front of him was not his own son.

"Yes, children and grandchildren have their own blessings. Auntie, society is progressing, and people's relationships are different from before. The family is harmonious and everything is prosperous. You can't make a lot of noise because of a little thing..."

Knowing that Mrs. Li would not listen to people like this, Mother Xiao still talked about it. When Mrs. Li couldn't stand it, she suddenly changed the subject.

"Speaking of which, when our hospital recruits nurses, the most important thing is that the family is not in harmony. If there is a fight every two days, then we must not be able to recruit nurses, because it will affect the work."

"That's the truth, that's the truth! My second daughter-in-law's family is very harmonious."

Mrs. Li echoed repeatedly.

"Hey, but you are a family? This hometown is so noisy, can she work with peace of mind as a daughter-in-law?"

Xiao Le looked suspicious.

"Why is this kid so straightforward?" Xiao's mother gave him a smiley look, and Xiao Le also apologized without any righteousness.

"It's because I don't speak well, but what I say is not rough. Family harmony is very important. Outsiders will only read jokes."

It was because she was afraid that outsiders would see the joke, so Mrs. Li endured Zhang Lijuan's "rudeness" to herself.

Originally, she thought that after they left, she would teach Zhang Lijuan a lesson, but now that everything was cut off, she naturally felt uncomfortable.

After Xiao Le and the others left, Mrs. Li looked at Zhang Lijuan gloomyly, "I can't tell, you are quite scheming."

"How can it be compared to my mother-in-law? I still have a lot to learn," Zhang Lijuan said with a smile, "If my siblings know that my mother-in-law is helping her in the future, they will be happy."

Mrs. Li didn't care if her words were sarcastic, but instead asked her, "You said that Xiao Le's mother is really from a big hospital?"

"do not know."

"I know it's useless to ask you!" Mrs. Li pursed her lips, then looked at Li Xiaomei, "Little sister went to the field to find some pumpkins and sent them to Xiao Le's house."

Li Xiaomei went out with a basket on her back.

Seeing this, Zhang Lijuan also followed out with a basket on her back. Mrs. Li squinted her eyes and looked at the backs of the mother and daughter.

This time I went back to my mother's house, why did my wings suddenly harden?

And just as she was thinking, the old man Li who had been sitting behind the door of the main room without saying a word came out.

"The Xiao family is not simple."

"That's right, she's the head nurse of a big hospital," Mrs. Li nodded, "We have to establish a good relationship. They bought the house of the eldest brother, and they will definitely not leave for a while."

"The eldest daughter-in-law is also not right. You have to mention it to the red soldiers. Your own daughter-in-law can't control it. It's a shame."

Old man Li's gloomy face, matched with these words, looked gloomy.

"No, of course I have to let the Red Soldiers take care of me!"

Xiao family.

Mother Xiao was talking to Father Xiao and Cheng Mo about the people and situations they had just seen, "A typical feudal old lady, like an old man in the 60s and [-]s, puts all meat and oil in her room and eats a little Take it out."

"How about being the head of the family?"

Father Xiao hadn't seen such a person for a long time. In his impression, only his grandma did this, and his grandma's generation would never do it again.

"This village is too close to the mountains, and it is relatively backward," Xiao's mother sighed, and communicated with Xiao's father about the relationship between contemporary mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

After Mo Cheng received Xiao Le's gaze, the two returned to the East Wing and closed the door.

"How about it?"

Mo Cheng asked Xiao Le.

Xiao Le shook his head, "I didn't say much just now, I have been observing my sister-in-law and that mother-in-law..."

"Wait," Mo Cheng suddenly chuckled, and stopped Xiao Le, "What's the name?"

Xiao Le covered his face and shrugged helplessly, "Mom calls her aunt, so I can't call her mother-in-law?"

"But we are also called Zhang Lijuan's sister-in-law."

Mo Cheng couldn't laugh or cry.

"Ah...then Li Xiaomei still calls me brother."

Xiao Le laughed.

After laughing, Xiao Le felt that it was better to call the other party's aunt, "The old aunt is so partial, she loves those who are not in front of her eyes, and hates those who are in front of her. Everything is good for the second child, the second daughter-in-law, and the youngest daughter. Li Hongbing is the slightest Not good."

"It happened that Li Hongbing was very filial. He did the most work and suffered the most punishment. He also involved his wife, daughter and son."

Mo Cheng tapped the table with his fingers, and seeing Xiao Le imitating his movements, he stretched out his hand and grabbed him directly, "How much is your sister-in-law's favorability?"

"80."

Xiao Le said.

When two people really love each other, they are both 100.

The current situation is that Zhang Lijuan has lost 20% of her favorability in more than ten years, while Li Hongbing still doesn't know anything about it and keeps her 100% of her favorability.

"My identity is wrong." Xiao Le frustrated and squeezed Mo Cheng's fingers, "It's better to listen to you and disguise yourself as a woman so that you can make friends with her."

He is not young anymore, and he is of the opposite sex, so there is no way to get too close to Zhang Lijuan, but...

Xiao Le narrowed his eyes, "Her son is a sophomore in high school this year, only two or three years younger than me..."

"That's easy," Mo Cheng kissed him on the cheek, "Leave Li Hongbing to me, and watch over there."

"Understood! Brother Cheng, please make sure Li Hongbing suffers by himself, and don't drag his sons and daughters along with his wife!"

Xiao Le put his hands together to pay respects to Mo Cheng, but Mo Cheng pinched his fair face.

After discussing with their parents, the issue of seniority was settled. Father Xiao and Mrs. Li were of the same generation, and Xiao Le and the others were of the same generation as Li Hongbing and his wife.

After all, they also call Li Laosan their elder brother.

It was Zhang Lijuan who delivered the vegetables. Her basket was full of vegetables, including pumpkins, cucumbers, green beans, green peppers and other seasonal vegetables.

"Uncle and the others planted green vegetables before. I planted so many vegetables this year that I couldn't finish them all."

She smiled.

"Your name is Lijuan, right?"

Xiao's mother greeted her warmly, and forced her into the yard to sit down. Xiao Le brought scented tea and called her sister-in-law.

At this time, Xiao's mother took the opportunity and said, "I'll just ask you to call me auntie."

Zhang Lijuan waved her hands again and again, and then gently called auntie and uncle.

Xiao's father smiled. He sat beside Xiao's mother and didn't talk that much in front of the guests.

"Your family still has a high school student? My husband happened to be a high school math teacher before he retired. If the child has any questions that he doesn't understand, just come over."

"Thank you so much!"

Zhang Lijuan's ears turned red with joy. Their family is living a tight life. Their son will be in the third year of high school in the second half of the year, and his studies are already stressful. The school asked him to find cram schools for his children, but they had no money. Although the child didn't say anything, but....

Thinking of this, Zhang Lijuan didn't know what to say.

"Sister-in-law, my brother and I both graduated from college. If you are embarrassed to find Dad, you can come to us."

Xiao Le's smile made Zhang Lijuan realize more deeply that they were not joking, but were really willing to talk to their son and daughter.

"Well, if it's not troublesome, after dinner tonight, I'll ask my little sister to come over and ask a few math questions. Like her brother, she can't do math."

Zhang Lijuan said cheekily.

"Of course, when the time comes, you can bring your family over and let's talk."

Mother Xiao patted Zhang Lijuan's hand.

In the evening, when Li Hongbing was carrying a hoe and passing by Xiao's yard, Xiao Le greeted him, "Brother, come and have a seat after dinner."

Li Hongbing didn't know the situation, and just as he stood still with a puzzled face, Xiao Le had already entered the main room.

He had no choice but to go home with doubts.

As soon as she entered the courtyard, Mrs. Li stood at the door of the main room with red eyes, talking in a low voice about Zhang Lijuan's "evil deeds" in the afternoon.

"Mom, don't be angry, Lijuan has no intentions," Li Hongbing quickly put down the hoe and comforted Mrs. Li.

Behind the stove door, Li Xiaomei, who had been listening secretly, pouted her mouth, and sat back at the stove door to stuff firewood inside.

"mom."

"Ok?"

"Do you regret it?"

Zhang Lijuan, who was cutting pumpkin slices, paused. Under the yellowish light, she looked at her daughter's hesitant face, "Little sister, ten years ago, if you asked me this, I would definitely say no regrets. But now..."

In order to give her son and daughter a better life, she did have some regrets.

Her husband refused to listen to her advice, nor did she let her go out to find work. Zhang Lijuan was powerless to do anything for the children when she had no money.

Not long after, Li Hongbing came in.

He helped wash the vegetables first, and then took a few glances at Zhang Lijuan. Zhang Lijuan pursed her lips, "Just say what you want."

"...Lijuan, she is my mother after all, and she is so old..."

"Little sister, come and wash the vegetables," Zhang Lijuan interrupted him directly, "Go out and talk to your parents, we mother and daughter can do the work by ourselves."

"I...."

Li Hongbing was taken aback.

"Dad, look at the door."

Li Xiaomei squeezed him away and said something in a low voice by the way.

Li Hongbing turned his head to look at the door of the kitchen, and saw Mrs. Li's wrinkled face by the door, looking quite scary.

"....mom....."

"come out!"

Li Hongbing looked at his wife and daughter who ignored him, sighed, and dragged his tired body out.

Li Xiaomei looked back at his bowed back, and suddenly said, "Mom, he's getting older, but I think it's his own fault."

"Little sister, don't say that," Zhang Lijuan scolded lightly, with a complicated expression, "There is nothing wrong with filial piety..."

"But his name is Yuxiao!"

Li Xiaomei stared round, "I'm not a child anymore, I know what's wrong and what's right!"

"Little sister..."

After dinner, all three of Zhang Lijuan came over.

Originally, Li Hongbing didn't want to come here. He was tired all day and wanted to go back to his room to rest, but Mrs. Li and Old Man Li asked him to come and establish a good relationship with the Xiao family.

"One of them is the head nurse of a big hospital, and the other is a high school teacher. It has a lot to do with it. You are the boss. Think about the children of your younger brothers and sisters. You are an uncle, an uncle..."

The old mother's voice seemed to be still echoing in his head at this moment.

Li Hongbing looked at his daughter who was doing the questions under Xiao Le's guidance, and then at the smiling daughter-in-law who was talking with Xiao's mother in the yard, and was about to yawn when he met Mo Cheng's eyes.

His movements froze, but Mo Cheng smiled and sat beside him.

"Brother Hongbing, I heard Li Sange and the others say that our village's filial piety ranks you first, and no one dares to rank second. I really admire it."

Saying that, Mo Cheng gave a thumbs up.

Li Hongbing quickly waved his hands, "There's no admiration for this, my parents must be filial."

"Yeah, I can't do it," Mo Cheng sighed, and lightly tapped Xiao's father's room with his fingers, "My relationship with my dad is not very good, he always dictates my affairs, I am very uncomfortable, he Too bad, it's not the old society now, thanks to him being a teacher, alas..."

Li Hongbing had never heard such "disobedient" words, his expression was very shocked, his mouth was half open, he didn't know what to say.

"And he is biased," Mo Cheng crazily accused the old father, "he likes Lele more than me."

"...They are all his children, there is no partiality."

Li Hongbing has something to say now.

"is it?"

Mo Cheng raised his eyebrows and looked at him with a smile, "You are also a person with sons and daughters, why did you name your daughter the same nickname as your nickname, but you named your son Li Xiangkang?"

Before Li Hongbing could answer, the smile on Mo Cheng's face had disappeared, and he suddenly approached and asked, "Are you also a eccentric father? Are you as patriarchal as people in the old society?"

Li Hongbing was so frightened that he leaned back, but the stool tilted and he fell to the ground.

The movement was a bit loud, Xiao Le walked over like a little old man with his hands behind his back, "What's the matter?"

"Not sitting still, are you?"

Mo Cheng stretched out his hand and pulled the embarrassed Li Hongbing up. Li Hongbing glanced at the "naive" Xiao Le, and didn't dare to say that your brother was jealous of you being loved by your parents.

Instead, he nodded following Mo Cheng's words, "Yes, one accidentally fell down."

Zhang Lijuan naturally also heard the movement in the main room, she turned her head to look over, and saw her husband's red face in embarrassment.

"Look, they're just kidding around," Xiao's mother distracted her attention with a word, "Speaking of which, your burdens are also heavy. One will take the college entrance examination next year, the other will take the high school entrance examination, the other will need money to study in college, and the other will need money to study in college." High school is money too."

Speaking of this, Zhang Lijuan sighed, "No, I want to go out and find work, but Li Hongbing just doesn't agree, he doesn't worry about me alone, and I say two people go out together, and he doesn't worry about the old man."

Xiao's mother looked incomprehensible, "It's not a big reason to worry about the old man. Your mother-in-law has three children. You are not at home. Don't you have a second child?"

Zhang Lijuan softly talked about their family's situation. The house was built together with the money. There was no separation in the hometown, but the second child married a daughter-in-law from the city and lived with the old man in the county, but he didn't come to the house.

"The total number of times my parents-in-law went to my uncle's place can be counted on one hand, and they only stayed for a day or two each time, saying that everything in the city needs money, eating, drinking, and messing are all money, and I don't want them to spend money. "

If the uncle and the others are really allowed to temporarily take over the life of the old man, not to mention whether the uncle and the others are willing, the old man is also unwilling.

They feel sorry for their youngest son Fei Qian.

"But if you continue like this, what will happen to their tuition and living expenses?"

Xiao Le didn't know when he stood behind them, and suddenly said when he heard the words.

"You child, why are you walking silently?"

Xiao's mother was startled, and raised her hand to give him a shot.

Xiao Le smiled, and took advantage of the opportunity to sit on Xiao's mother's bench, looked at Zhang Lijuan and continued, "Let's talk about the university I went to, one year's living expenses plus tuition fees, and some living expenses add up to at least [-]. , which is the least."

"It takes four years to study in this university. This is not a small expense. Even if you live frugally and get a scholarship, it will cost tens of thousands."

Xiao Le remembered what Mrs. Li had said again, and continued, "The old aunt is in charge of your money, will you really be willing to let the elder nephew and the younger niece continue to study?"

These words touched Zhang Lijuan's heart, this is not what she was worried about!

"No matter what, no matter what the price is, my children must study. As long as they are the material for reading, I will sell everything and let them continue to read!"

Zhang Lijuan's firm words made Xiao Le smile.

"You are a great mother, but while you think about your children, you also have to treat yourself well."

After leaving these words, Xiao Le got up and went to the main room to see how Li Xiaomei was doing with the questions.

When passing in front of Mo Cheng and Li Hongbing, I heard Li Hongbing explaining in a low voice, "I like my children very much, there is no partiality!"

"Then how do you explain the name?"

"It's my mother who thinks that it's easy for girls to have cheap names."

"You are really filial."

Mo Cheng's words made Li Hongbing feel that it was no longer a compliment, he was not good at words, even though he was a little angry at this moment, his face turned red, but he couldn't say anything angry.

"Brother Hongbing, I thought I was pitiful at first, but I only knew you for two days, but I think you are the most pitiful person I have ever met."

After returning home until he lay down, Li Hongbing was repeating what Mo Cheng said in his mind.

Different from what Mrs. Li said in his head when he went to Xiao's house, what Mo Cheng said made him lose sleep.

You know, he works all day, feels that he has very little time to sleep every day, and has never had insomnia.

Zhang Lijuan was also suffering from insomnia, and she was also thinking about Xiao Le's words.

She also remembered what Xiao Le said when she quarreled with her husband in the afternoon. The content of these two passages had to make her think a lot.

The husband and wife turned their backs to each other, but both eyes were open.

I don't know when they will go to sleep.

The next morning, it was rare for Li Hongbing not to go to work early, but to look at Li Xiaomei who was carrying her schoolbag and was about to go to school.

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

Li Xiaomei looked strange.

"No...Little sister, do you like your name?"

Li Hongbing stared at the expression on Li Xiaomei's face and asked.

Seeing Li Xiaomei's cold face, he suddenly felt very uncomfortable.

"It doesn't matter if you like it or not. Anyway, grandparents are the biggest at home."

After speaking, Li Xiaomei quickly left with her schoolbag on her back. She was studying in a junior high school in the town. It was seven o'clock now, and it was exactly eight past ten when she arrived at school, and she started class at 08:30.

"Li Hongbing," Zhang Lijuan, who had been thinking about it for most of the night, still made a decision. She called Li Hongbing to stop, and said seriously, "I'm going out to find work, and I'm going to do heavy work with Li Laosan and the others on the construction site. Both go!"

"Lijuan, shouldn't we stop talking about this?"

Li Hongbing said with a headache.

"Xiang Kang will go to university in the second half of next year, and the tuition and living expenses are all money. I have to plan for my child's future."

Zhang Lijuan was helpless.

"The money we've saved in my mother's hands over the years is also tens of thousands, so we don't need to go out."

Zhang Lijuan stared at him for a while, making Li Hongbing feel a little uncomfortable, and then said, "Do you really think you can get the money back?"

"What is this nonsense?"

"Don't believe me? Then I'll let you figure it out."

Zhang Lijuan quickly came to the door of the old man's room, knocked on the door twice and said loudly, "Mom, can you give me the tens of thousands of dollars we saved with you before? I have something urgent."

In the originally quiet room, there was a sudden movement. First, there were two old people questioning, and then the door opened.

Mrs. Li pointed at Zhang Lijuan in disheveled clothes and said angrily, "What money? You have already used up all the money! Where is the money left? Why, you are also thinking about our couple's coffin book? Someone like you