Chapter 825: Substitute Bride Sister 40

Chapter 825: Chapter 825: Substitute Bride Sister 40

From a young age, Mrs. Li pampered her eldest daughter, ignoring her youngest daughter. Originally, it was thought that for the past eight years when the eldest daughter was not by her side showing filial piety, only the youngest daughter cared for her, and her maternal love would lean toward the youngest daughter.

But after Li Hongchun went to prison, Mrs. Li seemed to be agitated, and her exclusive love for the eldest daughter returned.

From beginning to end, the eldest daughter was her dearest treasure.

While the youngest daughter was just a weed; no matter how good she was, she was never treated well.

There’s the saying, the more spoiled the child by the parents, the less filial, and the less favored the child by the parents, the more filial – Li Hongchun and Li Yuanchun are just like that.

However, Yuan Chun is not the original owner.

Emotionally, Yuan Chun feels no mother-daughter bond with Mrs. Li. Mrs. Li is unclear, insisting on blaming Li Hongchun’s matters on her, but she won’t accommodate her.

If worst comes to worst, she’ll just stay further away from Mrs. Li in the future.

However, Li and Second Brother Li’s families are still good; Yuan Chun keeps close contact with them. Whenever the nanny cooks something delicious, she would have the driver send a portion to the two brothers’ homes.

Sometimes, she would buy a few pounds of beef and lamb and have them stewed, then let the driver deliver it to Mr. Li to eat.

Mrs. Li finds the smell of beef and lamb unpleasant and never eats them, so Yuan Chun deliberately chooses to buy beef and lamb each time, prepares them well, and lets Mr. Li enjoy them.

Once or twice is fine, but too often and Mrs. Li starts feeling uncomfortable.

When the holidays come around and Yuan Chun returns to her maternal home, Mrs. Li would deliberately throw things around and make a scene, cursing and complaining, using indirect insults.

But Yuan Chun stays deaf, pretending she hears nothing.

Mrs. Li also doesn’t dare to keep cursing; she always badmouths behind Mr. Li’s back. If Mr. Li hears, he would point at her nose and scold her for being senile.

After feeling wronged, Mrs. Li would visit Li Hongchun, complain to her about Mr. Li’s heartlessness, whine about Yuan Chun’s lack of filial piety, calling her ungrateful...

Every visit to Li Hongchun, Mrs. Li would pour out her grievances.

Li Hongchun would brainwash her, making her believe that of her four children, only Li Hongchun is filial, and the other three children are unfilial.

Li Hongchun also brainwashed her to demand more money from the other three children, find various reasons to ask for money, and deposit all the money in the bank, waiting for her use after being released from prison.

Otherwise, while others are making big money, she is still in prison.

In the future, among the four siblings, they’d all be wealthy, while she’d have nothing.

Li Hongchun continuously brainwashed Mrs. Li, prompting her to find various excuses to demand money from Yuan Chun and Li and Second Brother Li, but Yuan Chun excused herself as a married woman, not obligated to support her parents in their old age, and besides the money for holidays, she wouldn’t give any more to Mrs. Li.

After Mrs. Li tried a few times and failed to get more money, she specifically targeted Li and Second Brother Li to fleece them.

After being fleeced several times, Li and Second Brother Li realized mother’s odd behavior, her extravagant spending. So, the two brothers investigated thoroughly, discovering the issue lied with Li Hongchun.

Thus, the two brothers began to cry poverty in front of Mrs. Li, claiming the children were growing up, education costs rising, food prices becoming expensive, and on and on...

In short, saying they had no money.

And so, twelve years later, with good behavior, Li Hongchun was released early from prison. She asked Mrs. Li for money, and Mrs. Li took out all her secret savings—three thousand yuan.

By then, it was 1997, and three thousand yuan was no fortune, but in the countryside, it wasn’t little, considering an ordinary worker’s monthly salary was only three hundred yuan.

"Mom, how come it’s only three thousand yuan? I’ve asked around, a city flat costs over a hundred thousand. What you gave isn’t enough for a house. Are you planning on letting me live on the streets?"