Chinese New Year's Eve returned to her mother-in-law's house, opened the door, there was no one in the house, the ice pot was cold, and a layer of dust had accumulated on the dining table, as if no one had lived in it for a long time.
Husband Dalin said suspiciously, "What's the matter?"At this time of the previous year, they had already cleaned their homes clean, put up lights, and had a lot of food, but what happened this year?”
Dalin hurriedly hit **, and his father-in-law's voice came from the earpiece, "You're back, alas!."I didn't want to tell you. , Your mother has Xinguan pneumonia and has been in the hospital for 13 days, and she hasn't seen her well, and she thought she could be discharged before you came back. ”
Dalin said angrily, "Dad, why don't you tell us?"”
My father-in-law sighed and said, "I'm not afraid that you will be worried, I didn't expect to be so annoyed, it's been almost two weeks, and I've been inhaling oxygen, otherwise my chest is so stuffy that I can't breathe." ”
More than 20 minutes later, we rushed to the hospital, only to see that the two elderly people were emaciated, their hair was unkempt, especially the mother-in-law's face was gray, holding her husband's hand and crying.
Once, I thought that I would be unwavering in front of her, but at this moment, I gave birth to compassion. This person I once hated is now so old that I can't let go?
I walked up and said, "Mom, we're back, don't worry, let's make arrangements to make sure everyone has a happy Spring Festival." Dad, I see that you must not have rested well these days, let Dalin watch here, you go back with me, take a bath, and get a good night's sleep. ”
When Dalin heard this, he nodded hurriedly and said, "Yes, yes, Dad, you can go back." ”
On the way home, my father-in-law and I chatted with each other, and I was very emotional.
My husband has two children in his family, and there is a younger sister under Dalin, and everyone says that they are patriarchal, and their family is patriarchal.
Dalin helped out in his father-in-law's restaurant at the age of sixteen, and fell in love in his 20s, and his father-in-law gave him 200 yuan of pocket money every month. When my husband heard it, he felt that it made sense, so he didn't care about it anymore.
As for my younger sister, she has been pampered since she was a child, has a delicate heart, a clever mouth, and often coaxes the two old people to smile, and the delicious food and use at home are close to her.
After we got married, my in-laws didn't break their promise and really passed the restaurant to Dalin.
Although we got a restaurant, but it has not been renovated for one or two decades, it is tattered, we have discussed, saved enough money, and put the hall inside and out, not to mention how luxurious, at least it must be neat and clean.
In the second half of the year, the money earned replaced the old antiques in the kitchen that had been used for decades.
During the Chinese New Year, I didn't have so much money to wrap a big red envelope for my parents, so I was gossiped by my sister, "The restaurant is given to you, so I will give my parents this money, I really spend a magpie with a long tail, and I forgot my mother when I married my daughter-in-law." ”
Soon, the old sister met a young man in the back kitchen, and the two secretly fell in love.
The young man was very scheming, and deliberately played right and wrong in front of his sister, saying, "This restaurant originally relied on your father to make a name for itself, and you should pay your parents a salary every month, which is called naming rights." ”
It is often said that ten lobbyists are not as good as one chopping customer. Every day in front of my sister**, my sister brought words to her parents, and slowly the hearts of my parents began to be unbalanced.
In addition, I later gave birth to a daughter, and I was scolded by my in-laws all day long, cutting off his family's incense, and not waiting to see us.
During the Spring Festival of another year, the in-laws announced that your sister is now married, and in order to show fairness, this restaurant is jointly owned and operated by brother and sister.
In this way, our investment in the past two years has become owned by two families, and Dalin angrily argues with reason, but his in-laws are not moved at all.
The two families run together, and the mother-in-law is responsible for buying groceries. My mother-in-law is worthy of doing business for many years, and she often overreports in it, and she reports a fee twice, and when I bring it up, my mother-in-law swears by the curse, saying that I wronged her, and crying in the restaurant.
My sister-in-law took the opportunity to jump out and add fuel and vinegar, making me a well-known evil daughter-in-law.
Seeing that the situation goes on like this, this store has to be yellow, so we took the initiative to split up and prepare to use the funds to open a store elsewhere.
As soon as these words came out, his sister shouted, "This restaurant originally belonged to my parents, you didn't give your parents a penny back then, why should we give you money." ”
My husband said, "If you don't give money, I'll transfer the shares to someone else." ”
How dare you?The in-laws also jumped out to help, and the family became a pot of porridge.
In the end, the old man said, "You have purchased some things, and you have used them for the past few years, so I will give you 2,000 yuan." ”
That's how we were sent away.
We ran away in a bad mood, Dalin first worked as a chef in someone else's restaurant, and I also applied for a waiter, and after a few years of hard work, I finally had a deposit of 30,000 yuan in my hand.
We started from a small shop, after more than ten years of hard work, the restaurant is getting bigger and bigger, Dalin also brought a group of apprentices, we finally bought a house and a car, and our daughter was admitted to a key high school, everything went well.
Unexpectedly, one day, my father-in-law, who had not seen him for more than ten years, suddenly came to the door and said with tears in his eyes, "I am so happy to see that you are developing so well now." And took the initiative to admit that he was sorry for us back then.
Speaking of my sister, the restaurant closed down a few years ago, and the two of them went to work in other places early, and there has been no news in the past few years.
With this apology, blood is thicker than water, although Dalin cried a lot, he quickly forgave his parents, left his father to live in our house for a week, and often went home to see it in the future, and bought some New Year's goods to go back for the New Year.
I have always been reluctant to go home, I don't want to meet my mother-in-law and his sister, and Dalin didn't force me.
This year, Dalin did my job again, saying that his parents were seventy or eighty years old, and they saw one side less. Considering Dalin's feelings, I still agreed to go home with him for the New Year.
In the next few days, I divided the work with Dalin. One cooks at home, and the other goes to the hospital to take care of her mother-in-law.
In the second year of junior high school, my sister and her family also came back with big bags and small bags. Regardless of my previous suspicions, I took the initiative to greet them and gave each of their two children a 500 yuan red envelope.
My sister is still so eloquent, she has to give me a box of cosmetics.
Time flies, tomorrow is the seventh day of the new year, the restaurant will open, and we are ready to go back to our home. So today, I specially hired a nurse for my mother-in-law, brought it to my mother-in-law's bed, and explained the matter.
Before leaving, my mother-in-law took my hand and stuffed a box into my hand, I opened it and saw that it was a five-piece set of this year's **, and I hurriedly postponed it.
The mother-in-law said awkwardly, "When you and Dalin got married, I promised to buy you a set." I forgot about it later, and now I'll make it up for you. ”
I laughed, and my mother-in-law smiled shyly......