I went to send 350,000 yuan to my son, and my daughter-in-law was angry because I ate a bite of durian, so I immediately went home
I'm Wang Yuqin, and I'm 58 years old this year. My wife is three years older than me and is 61 years old this year. We are home-grown farmers and have always made a living from farming. But with the change of times, our living conditions have improved a lot, and we even bought a building in the town. This allowed us to work in the fields in the summer, while we could spend the winter comfortably in the building.
We have more than a dozen acres of land in the countryside, mainly planted with vines, and a two-acre yard. As soon as spring came, we moved from the building to live in the village bungalow.
The yard is filled with peach, date, apricot, prunes and peaches, and a small plot of land with tomatoes, peppers and eggplants. In autumn, there are so many fruits and vegetables that you can't eat enough. I can only hope that the children will come back on the weekend and take away some fruits and vegetables.
Sometimes we can't run out of fruits and vegetables, so we go to the market and sell some, and we also raise some chickens, ducks and geese. In our rural area, there are many families raising free-range chickens and ducks, and their meat is very delicious.
My wife is gentle, hard-working and experienced in growing vines, so we have a good income in good years when the grapes are sold. In addition, the wife also raised more than 30 sheep, which on the one hand increased the family income, and on the other hand, the sheep manure also provided good fertilizer for the vines. As a result, our grapes require almost no chemical fertilizers and are of very good quality. In addition, Xinjiang has abundant sunshine, and the grapes are particularly delicious and sweet when they ripen in autumn.
After graduating from high school, we were admitted to a local normal school and worked as a teacher in a middle school in the city.
He had a good job, so we negotiated to help him buy a three-bedroom house in the city as a down payment.
After buying the house, we urged our son to hurry up and find a partner, but two years later, my son has not moved, which makes us both really anxious.
In desperation, we had to use the power of relatives and friends to introduce the object to our son, although we went on a blind date twice, but they all ended without a problem, and if we delayed, my son was 28 years old.
However, fate turned out to be a strange arrangement, and then the son met his high school classmate on the train on a business trip, a girl who worked as an accountant in a company in the city. The two liked each other, so they soon started a relationship, and the talk of marriage gradually surfaced.
The woman's family is also from a rural area, and when we got married, we gave a bride price of 100,000 yuan and purchased three golds, and we have prepared the house.
Considering that we have spent a lot of money on buying a house for our son before, plus the cost of decoration and appliances, as well as bride price and other expenses, our savings on hand have almost bottomed out. So, in order to save money, we decided not to hold the wedding at the hotel, but chose to hold it at home. The daughter-in-law was a little hesitant at the time, feeling that it was not decent enough, but the parents of both sides had no objections.
In order to make our daughter-in-law happy, we gave another 30,000 yuan to her and her son after the wedding to travel to the mainland. This made the daughter-in-law finally smile.
More than two years later, my daughter-in-law became pregnant, and we were ecstatic about it. I prepared eggs and chickens in my hometown early, and I bought a lot of pigeons. To this end, I made a small mattress and a small quilt, and then went straight to my son's house with these gifts, ready to take care of my daughter-in-law.
At my son's house, I asked my son to make a list of the foods and seasonings that my daughter-in-law likes to eat, and carefully prepare the food for my daughter-in-law to enjoy every day.
A month before my due date, I even washed my daughter-in-law's socks and underwear and put them next to her bedside. When our daughter-in-law gave birth to a chubby little girl, we were ecstatic. I gave my daughter-in-law 150,000 yuan as a gift to thank her for giving birth to a new generation for us, and the daughter-in-law happily accepted the money.
During the confinement period, my mother-in-law also came to help, and although I had planned to let her take care of the confinement child, she was busy harvesting cotton because the workers at home needed her to cook.
However, as time went on, my daughter-in-law began to be picky about the meals I cooked, sometimes salty, sometimes too bland, and complained that I didn't clean them. She even said that I was talking too loudly and that it was noisy to her, and all kinds of dissatisfaction made me feel depressed.
Once I accidentally broke a bowl, my daughter-in-law got angry and said that I could do it if I wanted to, and if I didn't want to do it, I would go home. I had to go home early and leave 5,000 yuan for them.
When I got home, I cried quietly, and my wife comforted me and said that it was good to come back, and my daughter-in-law was not at work anyway. More than half a year has passed, my son and daughter-in-law brought my granddaughter to pick me up to see the child, and my daughter-in-law's maternity leave has ended, and she is going back to work.
I relented and went to my daughter-in-law's house again, taking special care of my granddaughter, for fear that she would catch a cold or sweat. However, I accidentally fed my granddaughter too much milk, and as a result, my granddaughter vomited and diarrhea, and my daughter-in-law was very angry about this, saying that I was looking for children and treating them to the doctor.
For the sake of my granddaughter's health, I had to rush my granddaughter to the hospital, went through some examinations and **, and spent more than 1,000 yuan. My daughter-in-law scolded me loudly in front of many people in the hospital.
I had to tell my son to ask his mother-in-law to help me because I needed to go back to my hometown to take care of something. After that, for more than two years, my son and daughter-in-law never returned to my house, and I could only contact them through **.
After consulting with my wife, we decided to help my son solve the problem of his children's schooling. We have some savings, plus a sum of compensation for building the road, which is about 350,000 in total. I didn't tell my son the exact amount.
During the Chinese New Year, he wanted to give his son a sum of money, but neither he nor his daughter-in-law came back. After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, we decided to go to our son's house to see our granddaughter and send the money over. My wife has something to do temporarily, so I can only go alone.
When I arrived at my son's house, my daughter-in-law was in the bedroom, and my son was playing with my granddaughter. My son poured me a glass of water and took out the sliced durian. Just as I was eating, my daughter-in-law came out and accused me with an unkind face, saying that durian is very expensive, not eaten casually, but prepared for children.
Feeling sad, I went to the bathroom, pulled out my bank card, and told my son I was going back. Before going out, he gave his granddaughter a pre-prepared red envelope of 2,000 yuan.
My son didn't keep me, he just sent me downstairs. I insisted that he not be allowed to drive.
When I got home, I didn't say anything, I just told my wife that we should save the money first for future retirement. My wife saw my uneasiness and silently took the bank card. I didn't change my clothes, so I just lay down.
So far, my son and daughter-in-law have not called.