Title:"Five years later, the daughter-in-law found out that we were still working on the bride price debt, and she decided
My son and daughter-in-law have just been married for five years, gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix twins, and settled in our nearby county.
The daughter-in-law is a kindergarten teacher, while the son works for an intermediary company.
The family of four lived quite happily.
Yesterday, when my son's family returned to our side, my daughter-in-law learned that my wife and I had been struggling to pay off the bride price debt, and she immediately made a decision that moved me to tears.
My name is Su Guixia, 58 years old this year, I live in Cangzhou, Hebei Province, and my wife and I are both natives of the countryside.
My wife didn't graduate from elementary school, and I was a little taller than him, and I went to junior high school for a year and a half.
My wife and I have only one son in total, and we have invested not only money but also a lot of energy in his studies.
My son was more naughty when he was a child, he didn't like to read, and as long as he couldn't see it, he sneaked out to play.
This is very similar to his father, after all, I was forced to give up the opportunity to study when I was young because of my family's poverty.
At that time, my wife and I discussed that if our son continued like this, he might have to go home to work as a farmer before he finished middle school.
In order to save his future, we decided to send him to a closed school.
My son has been in a closed school for more than a year, and his academic performance has indeed improved, but he can only go home to see us during the winter and summer vacations, and his personality has become depressed.
My son's homeroom teacher called me and told us about my son's situation truthfully, and suggested that we rent a house near the school and go to school every day to avoid the child's character defects.
So, at that time, I left my wife alone to work as a farmer at home, and I went to rent a house near the school to take care of his daily life and supervise him to study.
This lasted until my son went to college, after which I left the house and returned to the countryside to farm with my wife.
But it turns out that the son is not a good student to learn.
Despite our continuous efforts, he was only barely admitted to an ordinary two-book school in the college entrance examination and chose the major of marketing.
After the acceptance letter came down, we originally planned to let him repeat it, but he said that he had read enough, so he reluctantly went to this school.
During college, my son was able to go out to earn money part-time in addition to class time, and he didn't use our living expenses much every month.
Therefore, my wife and I discussed and decided that since our son did not need us to provide living expenses, we would not give it to him, but would keep it for him to get married in the future.
My wife teased me for thinking too far ahead, and my son was just starting college and talking about getting married.
However, he didn't expect that not long after his words were finished, his son talked about his girlfriend.
The son's girlfriend was met when he was working part-time, and after getting along for a while, he found out that they were fellow villagers, although they studied at different schools in high school.
They were studying at a university in a foreign country, and they suddenly met people from the same county and felt very kind.
Next, they often see each other and go through some things together.
Over time, feelings developed between them and they eventually came together.
The young couple got along very well, and after graduating from college, they were both willing to return to the county to work so that they could take care of their parents.
After two years of work, they said that they planned to get married, so my wife and I immediately took out all our savings and bought our son a house of more than 100 square meters in the county seat.
The reason why we chose to buy the house in full was because we were worried that they would have a hard time living with a mortgage after they got married.
In our hometown, after the man buys a wedding house, he does not need to prepare the bride price when he gets married.
However, before my son and daughter-in-law were going to get married, when the parents of the two sides met, the other party's mother-in-law objected, saying that their family only had such a daughter, and it was impossible to give it to us for nothing, so we needed to prepare a bride price of 200,000 yuan.
Even though we didn't have that much money on hand at the time, we had to meet their demands for the sake of our son's wedding.
To do this, we borrowed part of the money from relatives and raised the other part by paying interest, and in any case, the wedding of our son went according to plan.
I'm very satisfied with that.
After my son and daughter-in-law got married, they worked in the county town to earn money to support their families, while my wife and I worked hard to earn money in the countryside to pay off the bride price debt we borrowed.
However, over the years, the poor harvest in our hometown has caused us to still pay off our foreign debt of 200,000 yuan, which has been five years.
Yesterday, when my son's family came home, the creditor came to collect the debt, and the other party had a bad attitude.
At that time, I didn't know what was going on, and I blamed my son, thinking that he had bullied his daughter-in-law! Before the son could explain, the daughter-in-law suddenly said, "Mom, don't blame him, it has nothing to do with him."
I was thinking that you two elders had borrowed money to prepare for our wedding, but they still hadn't paid it off, and I really couldn't get over it. ”
I comforted my daughter-in-law and said, "It's okay, child, your father and I are still young, and if we work for another two years, we will definitely be able to pay it off, and we won't hold you back." ”
I'm afraid she'll feel like we need them to pay their debts.
However, the daughter-in-law broke the silence: "Mom, I didn't mean that, I decided one thing now, which is to take out the savings of our young couple and help you pay off your foreign debts, so that everyone can live a carefree life, how good is this!" Hearing my daughter-in-law say this, I was so excited that I burst into tears.
I didn't expect my daughter-in-law to be so sensible, understanding, knowledgeable and polite, and I can say without hesitation that my daughter-in-law is the best daughter-in-law in the world.