Li Yunqiang hurried home, he hadn’t been out for such a long time before. He missed his wife.

When he got home, he saw his wife with a long face, and she wasn’t happy about his return.

Li Yunqiang’s passionate heart felt like a basin of cold water was poured on it, quickly cooling it down.

The three children were very happy to see their dad back.

"Dad, is the tractor factory big?"

Li Yunqiang forced a smile, "Very big, extremely big. You must study hard, go to school, and work at the tractor factory in the future.

Let me tell you, there are many engineers there, I couldn’t even understand what they were saying."

The three little ones giggled.

Liu Cuilan didn’t glance at Li Yunqiang nor speak, just focused on her meal.

The children were used to their mom like this, so they didn’t find it strange.

The anger in Li Yunqiang’s heart grew stronger, but since the kids were at home, he didn’t make a fuss.

Because he took a tractor, he was very dirty, and seeing the look on his wife’s face, he lost his appetite, so he directly found his clothes, realizing the dirty clothes he left were still unwashed, his anger reached its peak.

He still found his clean clothes and went outside to shower.

Liu Cuilan was angry now, upset with Li Yungui, Qu Xiaoli, and even angrier that her husband wasn’t home.

So, when Li Yunqiang came back, she didn’t pay him any attention.

But she felt really wronged inside, he saw her angry and didn’t even try to comfort her?

The three kids ran off after eating, and by that time, Li Yunqiang had finished his shower too.

When he entered the house, he found that the table had already been cleared. There was literally no food for him.

Suddenly, Li Yunqiang felt exhausted, really exhausted.

So, without saying a word, he turned around and left.

But standing on the street, he didn’t know where to go. Eventually, with his head hanging low, he went to his second brother’s house.

Li Yungui was having an afternoon nap but got up when he heard his brother’s voice.

"Yun Qiang, come in, why aren’t you resting?"

Li Yunqiang just sat on the edge of the kang with his head down.

"What’s wrong?"

"Second brother, I’ve had enough."

Li Yungui was taken aback for a moment, "At our age, what’s the point of saying this?"

"Second brother, I was out for all those days, but when I came back, there wasn’t a word, just a cold face.

And my clothes that I took off before I left weren’t washed. After my shower, I had nothing to eat.

Second brother, what’s the point of living like this?"

Li Yungui understood. "This is being directed at me.

A few days ago, she came looking for your sister-in-law, wanting the quota from my family, probably for her nephew.

The next day I said at the meeting, the fifty permanent worker quotas in our village, besides the five for Xiao Wei, can’t be given out.

She’s probably acting up because of this."

"Second brother."

"What? Do you blame me too?" Li Yungui immediately glared; he hadn’t been angry in years.

Li Yunqiang was startled, "No, absolutely not."

"Yun Qiang, what have you become? Ignoring your own nephews and nieces, just for your own sons?

Fine, go back, in the future we can just interact like ordinary people."

Li Yungui felt really disheartened. Their parents died early, the eldest brother was good at studying, so he had been managing the household.

Since they each started their own families, the brotherly bond had faded more and more.

Li Yunqiang, seeing the disappointment on his second brother’s face, hung his head low. He said nothing but didn’t move either.

When did it start! That’s right, just after getting married. The eldest brother already had a family then. Every time he came back, he went to the second brother’s house; his wife always said the eldest secretly gave things to the second brother.

After one or two times, he believed it too and distanced himself from the eldest brother?

Only interacted like ordinary relatives. The eldest brother grew more distant from him.

So the relationship reached this point.

He felt awkward seeing the eldest brother’s three kids. Since starting in the village, they’d never eaten a single meal at his house.

The second brother was right. How did he turn out like this?

Li Yungui, seeing his brother sitting there, couldn’t be hard-hearted. Qu Xiaoli came back from getting shoe patterns and was startled, "Yun Qiang, what’s up with you?"

"Second sister-in-law, I haven’t eaten yet."

"Wait a minute, it’s sorghum rice for lunch today. I’ll fry a couple of eggs for you."

Qu Xiaoli said as she went to cook. Li Yunqiang was four years younger than Li Yungui and had lived with Qu Xiaoli for quite a few years. He knew the second sister-in-law was genuinely kind.

"Second brother, I’m going to send Liu Cuilan home, I’ve had enough."

"That’s something you’ve let happen all these years."

Li Yunqiang didn’t speak anymore. When Qu Xiaoli brought in a small basin of fried sorghum rice,

Li Yunqiang then felt truly hungry.

He just buried his head in the food, without saying a word.

Qu Xiaoli felt the awkward atmosphere, so she took the shoe patterns and went out.

After finishing his meal, Li Yunqiang cleaned the basin and left.

Back at home, seeing the main gate locked from the inside, he kicked it open.

Lying inside, Liu Cuilan, who was still angry, was terrified, thinking something had happened. She sneaked a look through the window crack and saw it was Li Yunqiang.

Now she felt both angry and afraid, remembering last year’s quarrel.

She also regretted inside; her husband came home, she should’ve been nice instead of throwing a tantrum.

Li Yunqiang went straight in, looking coldly at Liu Cuilan on the kang, "Pack your things and leave quickly. This won’t be your home from now on."

Hearing her husband’s words, Liu Cuilan refused immediately, "Why?"

"Because this is the Li Family."

"Li Yunqiang, you heartless man. I’ve been with you for so many years, given you four sons, and now that you’re doing well, you don’t want me?"

"I’ve said this before, you weren’t like this earlier.

No more to say, just leave quickly."

"I’m not leaving," Liu Cuilan said loudly, suppressing her fear.

"Fine, if you don’t leave, I will. I won’t come back to this house anymore."

With that, Li Yunqiang turned around to leave.

Now truly scared, Liu Cuilan jumped off the kang, grabbing hold of him.

"You can’t leave, you can’t abandon us."

"How do you expect me to react with how you treat me?"

"I was just angry, okay?"

"Then keep being angry. Liu Cuilan, I’m telling you, it’s over for us."

Seeing the determined look in Li Yunqiang’s eyes and his expressionless face, Liu Cuilan was truly frightened.

"Yun Qiang, don’t be like this, you promised to be good to me."

"You also promised to be good to me. I was away for such a long time, and you didn’t wash my clothes, I came back to no meal, and you gave me attitude?"