"You two spend more money, don't waste my property. On his wife's birthday, Uncle Li bought more vegetables to cook and eat with her, and bought her a ring. When he returned home, he was yelled at by his married daughter, and Uncle Li was so angry that he almost kicked his daughter out of the house.
When I was running in the park in the morning, I met Uncle Li, who had retired from the company, sitting on a stone bench on the side of the road and smoking. Uncle Li went through the retirement procedures in 2019, and his wife turned out to be a primary school teacher, who retired 5 years earlier than him. After Uncle Li retired, the old couple went for a walk in the park early every morning.
I felt a little strange when I saw Uncle Li sitting there smoking alone, so I walked up to him and said hello to him, wanting to ask him what was going on? When Uncle Li heard my voice, he suddenly raised his head: "It's Xiao Wang, what did you just say?" I didn't hear clearly. "Uncle Li, why didn't you see your wife this morning? Uncle Li looked at the cigarette in his hand that was about to run out, and after extinguishing the fire on the ground, he walked towards the garbage bin not far in front. I slowed down and followed Uncle Li forward.
Uncle Li threw the cigarette butt into the trash and told me about what happened yesterday at their house as he walked.
Yesterday was his wife's birthday, and Uncle Li thought that he hadn't had a proper birthday for his wife for many years. Yesterday happened to be Friday, and my little niece, who is in the first grade of elementary school, got out of school at three o'clock. After the old couple got up early to send their little granddaughter to school, they went to the vegetable market to buy more, and Uncle Li went to the pastry shop to order a cake. When I went to pick up my little granddaughter at noon, I called my daughter and asked her and her son-in-law to go home early for dinner. The daughter told Uncle Li that they had a party in the evening and would not go home for dinner.
After taking his little niece home, Uncle Li asked his wife to watch his little granddaughter do her homework at home, and he went out to get a cake and buy a birthday gift by the way. Walking out of the house and coming to the street, Uncle Li thought that his wife was in her 60s and had not worn a ** thing. Look at my daughter, on her ears, neck, arms, and fingers, she is wearing either ** or platinum. So Uncle Li went to the bank to withdraw the money and came to the gold store to buy a ** ring of more than 3,000 yuan for his wife.
After Uncle Li put the ** ring on his wife, his wife said that she was a lot older, wasting money, but she was actually as happy as a bride. When lighting candles and making wishes, the wife also put on the red clothes she wore when she got married, which caused the little niece to jump aside and say, "Grandma is going to be a bride."
After coaxing the little niece to sleep at night, the daughter and son-in-law have not returned. Uncle Li urged his wife to sleep, and the happy wife said that he would wait for his daughter to come back and let her see if the ring looked good.
It was almost 12 o'clock, and the daughter came back with her drunken son-in-law. When the daughter helped her son-in-law into the room to sleep and walked out, the wife stretched out her hand with the ring to her daughter and asked her if the ring looked good? The daughter didn't answer, but asked her mother if the ring was **. Uncle Li's wife told her daughter that today was her birthday and the ring was a birthday gift that Uncle Li bought for her.
When the daughter heard this, she pushed her mother away: "You old people are really unreasonable, you are so old, and you still wear gold and silver, what's the point?" My mother, it's not me talking about you, you see that my current salary is two or three thousand yuan a month, and I can't eat. My dad, you two are good, drought and flood to ensure harvest. My mother, you two spend more money, don't waste my family property. ”
As soon as his daughter said this, Uncle Li and his wife were stunned for a moment. After a few seconds, my wife choked up and went into the room. Uncle Li was also very angry, and when he stood up, he wanted to slap his daughter twice and drive the two of them out. But the thought of arguing in the middle of the night will definitely make the neighbors see the joke. So he pointed to his daughter and said a word or two "for nothing", and went back to the room to persuade his wife.
My wife was hurt by her daughter's words, and she didn't close her eyes all night. This morning, Uncle Li cooked breakfast and told her to get up to eat, and she said she had no appetite. Uncle Li also ate two bites casually and came out alone.
Uncle Li told me that when they got married, the old couple bought and renovated their daughter's house in full. Not long after they got married, their daughter said that it was inconvenient for them to come back early or late for dinner while living in a new house. After hearing this, the wife vacated the big bedroom, bought a new bed, and asked her daughter to move in with Uncle Li and his wife.
Uncle Li took out a cigarette and lit it, took a puff and coughed a few times, threw the cigarette on the ground, stepped on it a few times, and bent down to pick up the broken cigarette and throw it into the garbage bin on the side of the road.
Xiao Wang, don't you know, my daughter has been married until now, and she eats and lives with us, and we have never asked them for a penny. We paid for all the expenses for my little niece's schooling. I didn't expect her to say such annoying things last night. I smiled and persuaded Uncle Li: "Uncle Li." Don't be angry, maybe she's joking with you and talking casually. ”
Xiao Wang, this is definitely not a joke! The son-in-law is from the countryside, the family conditions are not good, and he is honest. At that time, my wife and I didn't agree to this family business, and this girl just didn't listen. Later, after discussing with my wife, there is such a daughter, since she likes it, I will follow her, we will help them more, and life should not be too sad. I really didn't expect that we were all still alive, so she began to calculate the family property, and asked us to spend as little money as possible and leave more for her. Tell me, is this a joke? ”
The daughter's words sounded a bit like cursing Uncle Li's old wife. But I can't say anything. I asked Uncle Li what his son-in-law usually has attitude! Uncle Li sighed: "My son-in-law is an honest man, he usually talks very little, and he is still filial to our old couple." But that girl in my family is strong and has a strange temper, and her son-in-law listens to her everything. When they graduated from college, they wanted to stay in the field, and the old woman called them back. The civil servant was not admitted, and now one of the two is working in a supermarket, and the other is working in a stone factory, and the two of them have a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan. To get to this point, it's all because the old woman is used to it. From childhood to adulthood, I have relied on her everything. Hey, we're doing it to ourselves. ”
Uncle Di Li said that he was sad, and took out a cigarette to light it, and I quickly persuaded him to smoke less. accompanied Uncle Li for a while, and Uncle Li said that he wanted to go back to see if his wife had gotten up, and the two of us separated.
I often hear people say that raising a son is famous, raising a daughter is a blessing, and a daughter is always the warmest for parents. But look at Uncle Li's house, the daughter does not warm the hearts of her parents, but chills the hearts of her parents. Therefore, there are no absolutes in the world. Whether filial piety is filial piety or not is not about raising a son or a daughter, the key is the education of the family.