On the day when Zhang Min and her husband returned to their parents' house to spend Father's Day, Zhang Min received an inexplicable warmth. The mother expressed her importance to the festival in an unexpected way, frequently urging them to go home. This made Zhang Min a little surprised, because her mother usually doesn't care about holiday romance, but pays more attention to all aspects of practical life.
While debating whether to go home for Father's Day, Zhang's husband expressed concern that the family was not financially well-off, but ultimately decided to go back because Zhang Min speculated that his mother might have plans to sponsor his younger brother's schooling.
Zhang Min and her husband prepared some gifts in order to slap their swollen faces and become fat, including laptops that her husband had worked hard to save. This made Zhang Min feel guilty, because she knew that her husband bought a computer to fulfill his dream.
At the family dinner, the parents asked Zhang Min and his wife about their work and life. When Zhang Min answered truthfully, she seemed to see a hint of distress in her father's eyes, while her mother was telling about the family's financial pressure and worries about her younger brother's college education.
The father suddenly interrupted the mother's words and shouted in a low voice: "If you don't have any money, let him work and study in the university, what is the matter with a boy to suffer a little, what is there to say." ”
The mother kept her mouth shut, her face full of unhappiness.
Zhang Min hurriedly said: "Dad, you have a holiday today, let's not be angry." You see, my brother is going to college, and we have prepared 5,000 yuan for him, so don't worry about him not being able to eat well at school. ”
Zhang Min stuffed the money into his mother's arms, and then said: "Our brother's grades are so good, he will definitely be able to take a test, and when he graduates from college, it will be your turn to enjoy happiness!" ”
The husband urged Zhang Min to go home, for fear that there would be some money to be paid in the future.
Before leaving, my father came out with a coat, saying that Zhang Min had left it at home during the Chinese New Year and asked her to take it back and put it away.
When he returned home, Zhang Min received another text message from his father, who told Zhang Min to touch the pockets of his clothes.
Zhang Min touched her pocket but took out a wad of money, her eyes suddenly turned red, and she buried herself in her husband's arms and cried.
My father sent another message saying: You work hard and are under a lot of pressure, and you will take the 20,000 yuan to repay the mortgage first.
Zhang Min's parents are honest rural people, but his father seems to be a lot more silent.
Since she was a child, Zhang Min rarely saw her father working outside, and what she saw in front of her was more of her mother working hard for her, her younger brother and this family.
Zhang Min spends more time with her mother, so emotionally, Zhang Min is closer to her mother, but unfortunately her mother is more partial to her younger brother, which causes Zhang Min to often feel aggrieved.
From childhood to adulthood, Zhang Min rarely let his parents worry about life or study, and now he is married and has children.
Zhang Min and his family came out of the countryside, and without the help of their parents at all, they saved money to buy a house together, worked hard to pay the monthly payment, and waited until the child was born, the pressure was much greater.
But no matter how great the economic pressure is, the matter of human relations and filial piety to parents cannot be left behind.
Zhang Min and her husband love face, every time they go back for the New Year, the red envelopes they give to their parents and younger brothers are very thick, which leads to them having face in front of their relatives, but in private, a family of three has to live a long time before life can be relieved.
At dinner today, Zhang Min finally couldn't help but confide in front of her father and complained, her father felt sorry for her, but subsidized her a lot.
Zhang Min always thought that his father favored his younger brother like his mother, and he had no intention of caring about her.
Now she finally understands that just because she has been gritting her teeth and refusing to cry out that she is tired, her father has always thought that she is really doing well.