I'm Xiaomeng, 27 years old, working as a Chinese teacher in a middle school. I have a lover Lu Gang who has been in love for three years and he works in a bank.
When I first started dating Lu Gang, my parents didn't agree.
When he was very young, his parents divorced. Lu Gang followed his father, and his sister followed his mother. His mother is from the countryside, and his father has been doing business in the city, and when the business grows, he looks down on his mother, and has an affair, forcing his mother to divorce.
His mother couldn't afford to take her two children away, so she had no choice but to leave Lu Gang with her ex-husband, and she took her daughter back to her mother's home in the countryside.
My parents felt that his family was too complicated and worried that Lu Gang would follow his father. I hesitated, too.
Lu Gang said that he had experienced his father's betrayal, so he didn't want to be like his father, and he would definitely be responsible for the future family and let me believe in him.
I was touched by his sincerity and persuaded my parents to accept him.
Lu Gang and I are about to get married recently, but because of the special nature of his family, I have never met his parents, and I am going to meet his parents with him in the near future.
Before I went to Lu Gang's house, he gave me a vaccination.
His father and stepmother weren't kind to him, so he didn't go to college and went straight to bing. Over the years, he has been in this home for a short time, and he has no relationship with them, and it is estimated that there will be no frequent contacts in the future.
He was worried that my father and stepmother would have a bad attitude towards me and told me not to mind.
I said, "I know what's going on in your family, and I don't care about these things." He is your father after all, and it makes sense that we should all inform them that we should do our own thing and not care about their attitude. ”
But what I didn't expect was that as soon as I entered the door, his father greeted him at the door with a smile, and his stepmother ran out of the kitchen after hearing the movement.
I was flattered. I asked Lu Gang in private, and he was also confused.
His stepmother prepared a sumptuous dinner, and in the middle of the meal, my stepmother stuffed a thick red envelope into my hand and said, "It's ten thousand and one yuan, which means that you are the daughter-in-law of our Lu family."
I was stunned. Lu Gang's eyes also widened.
After we met Lu Gang's father, we went to the countryside to visit his mother.
Lu Gang's mother has never remarried, and she lives with her daughter on a few acres of land, and life is very difficult, but his mother has to save money every year and send it to Lu Gang.
Every time he mentioned his mother, his eyes turned red.
We walked through a row of brick houses to a few mud houses, and we arrived at Lu Gang's mother's house.
We didn't tell his mother in advance, and she was surprised and embarrassed when she saw me, and wiped her hand on her body before she took my hand.
After that, his mother caught an old hen from the yard that was laying eggs, and took a dozen more eggs. I know these things are her income**.
I drank the chicken broth, and my heart was sour.
As we were leaving, his mother took out a crumpled red envelope from her bosom and said it was a gift for me.
I thought that his mother's life was not easy, so I refused to ask for it, but his mother said that this was the rule, and the new daughter-in-law must give a meeting gift when she came to the door.
I opened the red envelope in the car, and when I saw the money inside, tears rained down. The red envelope contains money in various currencies, a total of 1,000 yuan. This was made up by his mother on an improvised basis.
I looked at this red envelope and made a decision in my heart.
Before we got married, we brought Lu Gang's mother to the city. Before the wedding, I revised the flow of the wedding reception.
I put Lu Gang's biological mother on stage with my parents, and I also arranged her place at the main table, and let my father and stepmother sit in the guest seats.
My parents didn't understand my decision.
What had been decided before, such a temporary change, they were worried that Lu Gang's father and stepmother would be unhappy, after all, they were the ones who raised Lu Gang.
And her mother came out of the countryside, afraid of stage fright.
Previously, it was arranged for Lu Gang's father and stepmother to go on stage together.
I told my parents what I thought.
Lu Gang's father has not fulfilled his father's responsibilities over the years, and his behavior of having an affair back then has caused the child to lose his complete family, which in itself is unforgivable.
In addition, he has ulterior motives for me and Lu Gang now.
He heard that my father was in the Education Bureau and wanted to transfer his son to a good school. Although I asked my father to help him, I still felt that this kind of miserable family affection was embarrassing.
And Lu Gang's mother was forced to take away a child. But her maternal love for Lu Gang has never been absent over the years.
My parents understood what I was doing.
I discussed with Lu Gang that after we got married, we would not let my mother-in-law go back to the countryside and let her live with us, and if she was not used to living with us, we would rent her a house in the community so that she could enjoy her old age in peace.
Family affection cannot be measured by money, and those who sincerely pay deserve to be respected.