Chapter 826: Substitute Bride Sister 41

Chapter 826: Chapter 826: Substitute Bride Sister 41

Mrs. Li said with a bitter face, "Your two brothers also have a hard time. Their children need to go to school, get married, buy houses; everywhere requires money. Your two brothers are just small contractors, and they don’t earn much throughout the year."

She handed the money to her eldest daughter, "Hong Chun, don’t think it’s too little. This money is the private savings your mom has painstakingly saved over many years. You take it to rent a house and live there, then find a job and work earnestly. Life will get better and better."

Li Hongchun held the money tightly, crying like it was raining, "Wah, Mom, I’m already over forty years old, and you still want me to rent a house. How can I have the face to do that? My big brother and second brother have all bought houses, but I’m the one without a house. Wah... It’s all my fault for making mistakes. I am useless and ineffective. At this age, I have nothing, and still need you, Mom, to secretly provide for me. Wah, I am not fit to live in this world. I might as well just die and save Mom from being burdened by me."

Li Hongchun cried and yelled about wanting to jump into the river.

Mrs. Li pulled her back, "Hong Chun, don’t make a fuss. Now that you’re out, just live your life well. If you want to buy a house, then earn money steadily to buy it yourself. I really can’t help you much. Even giving you these three thousand yuan can’t be known by your brothers and their wives, or else they would distance themselves from me."

Over the years, despite Mrs. Li’s pain for her eldest daughter, she had come to understand one thing: she’s already old, and her future retirement has to rely on her two sons, not on her eldest daughter.

She couldn’t risk offending her two sons for the sake of her eldest daughter.

To ask her two sons for money to buy a house for her eldest daughter wouldn’t be agreeable not just to them and their wives, but even the old man wouldn’t agree.

Moreover, her two sons keep crying poor every few days; their finances are tight—where would they find that much money?

Mrs. Li hugged Li Hongchun and cried for a while, then took her to a small restaurant for a meal, specially ordering a bowl of pig’s trotter noodles to dispel bad luck for her.

After eating, Mrs. Li took Li Hongchun to a brokerage office and helped her rent a small one-bedroom apartment with a rent of only one hundred yuan per month.

Li Hongchun paid three months’ rent in one go.

Afterward, the mother and daughter went to the department store to buy a bunch of daily necessities and things like pots and pans for Li Hongchun.

Once Li Hongchun was settled, Mrs. Li then went to Li’s home and had her eldest son, who had just gotten off work, ride his motorbike to take her back to Tufang Village.

Li looked surprised to see her, "Mom, when did you come to town, and why didn’t you come over to eat at noon?"

"I just bought some things and took a stroll." Mrs. Li instinctively hid the fact that Li Hongchun had been released from prison and hurried him, saying, "Quickly take me back. Your dad should be coming back from the fields. I need to hurry home to make dinner for him."

Li got on his motorbike, muttering, "I’ve told Dad several times to rent out the family’s land and stop farming, but he just won’t listen. He’s still working in the fields at such an old age and doesn’t even feel tired."

"Your dad has farmed all his life. Asking him to stop farming and come to the city to enjoy life, he can’t bring himself to do it. In the village, all the old men his age are still working hard in the fields, even more energetic than young people."

Li opened his mouth to argue several points, but considering his mother’s age, he decided to let it go.

The moment Li Hongchun was released from prison, Yuan Chun got the report from 007, and that night, wearing all white, long hair flying, with lips painted bright red, she went to visit Li Hongchun’s home.