When my aunt married into my uncle's family, her maiden family was a prominent family in the local area, and her parents brought her a rich dowry. On the day of the wedding, her belongings even required four vehicles to move. My small yard is filled with beautiful mahogany furniture, and the guests are admiring and complimenting me one after another, and my grandmother's smiling face is blooming like a sunflower.
My aunt's father runs a small brick factory and has a good business. And her brother is a contractor for building houses in the local countryside, and he has a lot of money and earns a lot of money. This aunt is eloquent, good at clever words, sleek and sophisticated. Coupled with the strong background of her mother's family, she became the mainstay of the family, and my aunt and grandmother revolved around her.
However, in this family, my aunt was particularly dismissive of my mother. My mother's family is the poorest in the village, and the four siblings are barely making ends meet. My grandparents have no ability at all, and my uncles are honest farmers who only know how to farm. The whole family struggled all year round.
My mother is the eldest of four siblings, and she has been helping the family with farm work since she was ** years old, and she also has to take care of her three younger brothers. She has developed a good temper since childhood. When I first married my father, my grandmother treated her quite well, because my mother was diligent and obedient, good at housework and willing to work in the fields, and was obedient to my grandparents.
But with the addition of my aunt, everything changed. My aunt kept praising my mother, but in fact she treated her coldly. At the instigation of her aunt, she succeeded in getting my grandmother to change her attitude towards my mother. As a result, my mother became an isolated lone star in this big family, full of sarcasm and ridicule, and no one in the family seemed to care about her existence except for my dad who was kind to her.
My aunt married a veteran and after graduating from high school, she successfully entered the city bank to work. She and her uncle are both national dual-income workers and enjoy relatively high wages. In the difficult economic times at that time, they lived a very happy life. However, my aunt has a strong personality and has a clear preference for the rich and poor, and looks down on the poverty of my mother's family, and even more disdainful of her.
Under the power of my eldest aunt to become the village party secretary, the status of the family has also risen. Everyone respects her, and at the same time, they elevate her aunt to the point of being invincible. And my mother has become an insignificant little person in this family, and she is treated coldly. In this huge family, only my dad treats her well, while the others are indifferent and even treat her unfairly.
My aunt has only one daughter, and she has enjoyed a privileged life since she was a child, with no worries about food and clothing. Every time the beautiful new clothes pile up, they are eliminated after a few months, and then my aunt carefully sorts them out and distributes them to my cousin and my uncle's family. Our three sisters are about the same age, and my cousin's clothes are often shared between me and my cousin, but my aunt always picks out the latest and most expensive ones for my cousin, and I get the rest.
My aunt is very fashion-conscious, and every piece of her clothing is worth a lot of money, hundreds of dollars a piece. When she didn't wear them, they would go back home and be worn by my aunt and uncle, never leaving a single one for my mother. My aunt always reasoned that my mother was working in the fields and was in the dirt, so good clothes were useless to her.
Due to the poverty of the family, my mother rarely buys new clothes throughout the year, and summer clothes are even sold at the stall, a few yuan a piece. The padded jacket in winter can be worn for three or four years, and she never looks poor in front of outsiders. She has a quality of self-esteem and ambition in the poor, she does not compare or feel inferior, she just wants to live the best life.
My dad only graduated from primary school, and his education level was not high, so he could only rely on manual labor to support the family. In contrast, my uncle graduated from high school and had a flexible mind, and he had the support of my aunt's family to contract some construction projects. So, my uncle led a group of people to start his own business and became a small bag foreman. In this process, my dad has always been my uncle's right-hand man, responsible for the heavy work, and has made a lot of sweat contributions.
However, my aunt thought that our family was because my dad mixed well with my uncle, otherwise my dad wouldn't even be able to find this job. She thought that my dad would only do small jobs, and that on construction sites, small jobs were harder. Although my dad is the one who contributes the most, my aunt thinks it's all her husband's aura. She always instructed my mother to command, and her attitude was high-minded, even one by one"Sister-in-law"I don't bother to use the title, just use it"Yikes"instead. My mother is a kind person and does not want to deal with her, for fear that it will affect family harmony.
Three generations of our family live in the same yard. The main house is made up of three blue brick houses, the east house is where the grandparents live, and the west house is the aunt's residence. We ourselves live in the West Wing, a yellow mud adobe house, and all three families share a single meter.
My mom grows a lot of spinach on an acre of land, and when winter approaches, she starts to sell them. She always toiled alone in the fields, not asking her father to help, in order to earn more hard-earned money. In the morning, she goes to the market to sell vegetables, and in the afternoon she returns to the field to harvest. Sometimes, she was busy until dark, carrying home the spinach that she hadn't had time to harvest.
We had an open-air electric light in our yard and my mom would turn it on at night and sit in the yard picking up spinach. The weather was very cold in winter, and my mother's hands were frozen and cracked, and the back of her hand was swollen like steamed buns, and it was itchy and painful as soon as it warmed up. No matter how busy they were, my aunt and grandmother never reached out to help. My aunt even disliked her mother for wasting electricity by picking up vegetables at night, and often nagged her mother. There was even a time when she ruthlessly closed the electric switch, which made her mother feel very embarrassed.
At that time, I was in the third grade, and I had already begun to understand the helplessness and bitterness of adults. Mom is so hard. So, I made up my mind to help my mother do more work, at least to make it easier for her. Every day after school, I always rushed home and went straight to the field to help my mother harvest spinach. The winter wind was howling and so cold that it seemed like ice was blowing, my hands could barely stretch out, my feet became numb, and my toes ached from the cold, and the pain was really unbearable.
Mother and daughter were so close to each other that we were busy until dark every afternoon. As soon as we got home, we quickly prepared dinner. At that time, we did not use gas, so we had to use wood stoves. I was in charge of lighting the fire, while my mother was busy chopping and stir-frying. Soon, a dinner was ready. At that time, I felt that it was really a proud and happy thing to be able to help my mother with some things. Despite my young age, I'm already capable of doing half an adult's job.
My mother was a hard-working woman, not only skilled in the fields, but also excelling in the kitchen and cooking skills. This comes from the true story of my grandfather, who used to be a chef. So, whenever my grandmother's house welcomed relatives, whether it was my grandmother's relatives, my grandfather's distant relatives, or my aunt's family, my mother became the best cook in the family. My aunt, on the other hand, put on the posture of the head of the house, pointing fingers at my mother, shouting loudly, and acting as if my mother had been born for this family.
The dishes were all hand-picked by my mother from our family's vegetable patch, and the meat was purchased by my aunt. She didn't make any contribution to the family, just empty words, but she was very careful about my mother and took all her efforts for granted.
She was not only harsh on my mother, but also on me and my brother. Once, when my grandfather suddenly fell ill and was hospitalized, my mother went to take care of him. My brother and I are both in school, I'm in the fifth grade and my brother is in the third grade. Came home from school at noon and no one cooked for us. My mother entrusted me and my brother to my grandmother and decided to have lunch at her house at noon.
On that day, a guest came to the house, a relative of my grandmother, and my aunt also came back with a lot of delicious food, including meat and vegetables. In our day, it was a luxury to have a meal with meat. My brother and I were so hungry that our stomachs were growling, and our salivas were drooling as we watched the fragrant table of food.
My younger brother watched his aunt's cousins feast on the table, staring at the piece of meat with his eyes open, and he also rushed to the table and picked up a piece of meat with chopsticks and prepared to eat it. However, my aunt snatched the chopsticks from his hand and pulled him away from the table. She rebuked him loudly and said, "The adults are eating and chatting, what are you doing with your dirty children?".You and your sister go to the kitchen and wait, and then eat a bowl of noodles and go to school!”
So, my brother and I had to hide in the kitchen and wait. My grandmother was so focused on entertaining guests that she probably forgot about the existence of my siblings. When my brother and I were so hungry that we almost fainted, my grandmother remembered us and hurried out to find us back for dinner. She poured some leftover soup into our noodle bowls, which my brother and I swallowed with tears in our eyes.
I will never forget the scene where my aunt dragged my brother like a chicken and pulled him away from the table. At that moment, the resentment in my heart could not be dissipated for a long time, for a gluttonous child, in that poor era, the sight of meat would make his heart crave, not to mention that he was just a child.
I was 16 years old and entered the first year of high school. I remember a sunny Sunday on my grandmother's 65th birthday. That morning, my aunt and my uncle returned to my parents' house with two large bags full of gifts and ingredients to celebrate my grandmother's birthday.
Two years ago, my uncle skillfully built a small two-story western-style house on our homestead and moved their lives out of this small courtyard. Today, only our family and my grandmother's house are in this tranquility. My grandfather passed away the first year after my uncle's family moved out, and my grandmother chose to live with us and enjoy my mother's meticulous care.
As time went on, my grandmother became more and more aware of my mother's gentleness and virtue, and gradually saw my aunt's sharpness and scheming. Therefore, in the face of my aunt's domineering behavior, my grandmother chose to turn a blind eye. After all, no longer living in the same yard, my mother has also reduced friction and conflicts with my grandmother, and has been less subjected to her unreasonable difficulties and bullying.
My younger brother and I have learned to endure hardships with adults since we were young, and we know how to be sensible. Whether it's academically or in how we deal with people, we can make our parents feel happy and proud. As an excellent student in my class, my mother was very relieved despite the heavy academic load. She firmly believes that only by being admitted to university can she find the right way out for the children in the countryside, and hopefully have a good job in the future, without having to work as hard as she and my dad did. These words became the motivation for my brother and I to work harder to learn Xi.
On my grandmother's birthday, my mom got busy early in the morning. First a chicken was handled, then a duck was handled. The feathers are plucked, the internal organs are cleaned, and after an hour of busyness, the chickens and ducks have become brand new. Next, she took out the fish that my aunt had brought back from the market, disposed of the scales, cleaned the entrails, and was busy chopping and preparing vegetables by ten o'clock.
Because it was my grandmother's birthday, my uncle, my father, and my uncle were all at home with the old lady, and even my grandmother's sister also rushed over. As soon as my aunt and my uncle returned, she rushed to my house and chatted with them. And my aunt was not to be outdone, and joined them, chatting in the hall while munching melon seeds, focusing on TV programs. Unfortunately, no one took the initiative to help my mom and my dad, they seemed to be Xi to my mom and my dad's hard work.
Mom worked hard to fry a ** delicacy, but Dad took it away. In this way, one is busy stir-frying, the other is busy handling transportation, and both are busy in full swing. The dining table in the living room was full of people who couldn't wait to get their table open. Mom carefully stir-fried more than 20 dishes, and when she was finally busy, she found that most of the dishes on the table had already been eaten by them. She was so tired that she couldn't straighten up, so she bent over and prepared to come over and eat some hot food on our children's table.
As soon as my mother got to the stool, my aunt called over"Second sister-in-law, go get a pair of chopsticks for your aunt, her chopsticks fell to the ground!"
Mom hurriedly took a bite of food and put it in her mouth, then stood up and went to the kitchen to get chopsticks. As soon as we arrived at our table and didn't sit down, my aunt shouted again"Hey, second sister-in-law!There are no greens, can you eat hot pot without greens?You didn't have any more!Go wash some greens!"
My mother went to the kitchen again to prepare the vegetables, and when they were served, my aunt told her to pour everyone a cup of hot tea.
After all this, my mother finally caught her breath and gathered at our little table, hoping to sit down and have a bite to eat. At this time, the aunt said impatiently and loudly"Hey, don't sit and eat!Seeing that this dish is going to be cold, you hurry up and go to the next table, everyone at this table is waiting to eat!"
Mom answered, and reluctantly left our table and ran to the kitchen to cook noodles.
Not long after, my mother brought bowls of hot noodles and placed them in front of them. The hot rice that has just come out of the pot is a little hot in the bowl. My mother was so hot that she grinned, and when the last bowl was served to her aunt, she accidentally splashed some on her body.
The aunt suddenly screamed"What are you doing!Why are you so careless?Do you know how much my down jacket costs?1,300 bucks!You got dirty as soon as I put it on my body today, and it cost dozens of dollars to wash it at the dry cleaner!You pay for this money!"
Mom blushed with embarrassment and stood there awkwardly. In a hurry, she took out a tissue and tried to wipe the dirt off her aunt's body.
The aunt pushed her mother away and yelled at her"You go away, don't touch me!″
Seeing my aunt like this, I couldn't bear it for a long time. Seeing her push my mom again, I was furious. I gritted my teeth and rushed to them, suddenly grabbed a plate of fish soup and threw it hard at my aunt's face, because I knew that there was a lot of soup in the stewed fish.
The aunt was so hot that she screamed, and her head, face, and body were covered with fish bones and soup. She stood up and scolded me with angry eyes, and my uncle's eyes widened in anger. Without fear, I pointed to my aunt's face and said angrily"I'll make you arrogant!I'll let you bully my mom!What kind of thing are you, pointing fingers at my mom aggressively all day long!Today is the first time to let you taste my power, if you don't respect her in the future, don't blame me for not treating you as an elder. My mom let you, I won't. I'm going to put my words here today, and you dare to speak disrespectfully to my mother in the future, see if I don't tear your mouth and get justice for my mother!"
I was very happy when I said that. My uncle's eyes widened and he glared at me. His eyes pierced like knives, and he asked"Are you crazy!″
My aunt was stunned and was dragged away by my uncle. Uncle, aunt, aunt and uncle all watched this scene in amazement, and I secretly squinted and found that they were not angry, but had a smile hidden in the corners of their mouths.
From then on, my aunt noticed that my mom had become more honest. I heard that she was severely criticized by my uncle, and the past events were revealed, which made her deeply reflect. Accusing her of being too egotistical, emphasizing family harmony, and urging her to learn from my mother Xi. Remind her not to wait for her children to grow up and expect to be respected.
My grandmother praised me privately, calling me a sensible and good child, my mother's right-hand man, and knowing how to support my mother. Although the adults had opinions about my aunt's strong personality, they were reluctant to express it in person. I, the kid, took action to rectify her, which can be regarded as solving the urgent need for everyone.
My brother and I were both accepted into college, and my brother was admitted to a prestigious university, and he has been working very hard. After graduating, he found a job in a foreign company in the provincial capital and earned a decent income. I chose to return to my hometown and work for a sales company in the city, and my performance was good.
My brother helped my parents build a two-story house, and now my parents are in good health. My uncle's cousin did not finish his studies, but he became an enterprising young man. He cared so much about my parents, and my aunt's domineering arrogance gradually subsided. She volunteered to approach my mother, and every time my brother and I came home, she would come to my house to sit down and talk about some family matters.
I don't regret my decision at all. I wondered if if I hadn't taken the initiative to teach my aunt a lesson, would she still bully my mom like she used toNow that I think about it, I would never forgive her.
The change of my aunt made her have a more harmonious relationship with my aunt and my mother, and the three concubines often chatted together and visited each other. The three old ladies are living happily and happily, and our big family is full of laughter and happiness!I wish the older generation good health and happiness every day!May the blessing be like the long flowing water of the East China Sea, and the longevity is better than the old pine of Nanshan!