01
One Spring Festival four years ago, Shen Ping came to my house with her daughter Yangyang.
38-year-old Shen Ping, less than one meter and six meters tall, is still a little fat, but she has an outdated brown curly hair, shoulder-to-shoulder bangs, not at all.
She said that she was going to Dongguan to open a supermarket with friends and let us take care of Yangyang on our behalf.
As soon as I listened, my heart cried out that it was not good.
She went on to say that one child is a waiter, and two children are also a waiter. When I take my newborn daughter, I will take care of XiaYangyang by the way.
Before I could refuse, my husband Shen Hai took over this hot potato.
He actively went to vacate the study, and generously stuffed a red envelope of 10,000 yuan to Shen Ping, saying that it was not easy to start a business. This series of operations came down without consulting me at all.
02
I coaxed my daughter to sleep in the bedroom, feeling depressed.
From the bottom of my heart, I resisted doing this. As soon as Shen Ping left, I directly dragged Shen Hai into the room to argue.
The door may not have been closed, but suddenly it was blown open halfway by the wind, and I saw Yang Yang sitting alone on the sofa in the living room, his head buried low, constantly breaking his five fingers.
My heart trembled, and her thinned figure made me very sad.
Forget it, I'm not in the mood to argue at all. Anyway, I know, I mean Shen Hai, the Voldemort, can only try to comfort himself again.
You know, Shen Ping called every three to five minutes to ask Shen Hai for money, either two or three hundred at once, or one or two thousand, always endlessly.
I saw the urgency in my eyes.
In the past, I was a supervisor in a foreign company, and the husband and wife were financially independent, so I turned a blind eye. But after I became a full-time mom, my family's income was much less. How could he still give money so generously and unrestrainedly?
I have also persuaded and persuaded, said and said, but Shen Hai said every time that his sister is not easy, her husband left early, and he was sad when he saw that she was not good.
Now, Shen Ping wants to start a business to make money, I should be happy. If she succeeds, our family will be able to get rid of her from now on.
But I was so naïve, and her next brazenness simply surprised me.
03
In the three years that Yang Yang was at home, her clothes, shoes, miscellaneous expenses and medical treatment were all spent on our money.
I come and go in the wind and rain.
When the price of apples and pork rose to the most expensive, I bought them hard. My child is growing, what can I do? Besides, my daughter also wants to eat, I can't always buy it back and hide it and secretly feed my daughter to eat, right?
There is one more person in the family, and the expenses are completely different.
Shen Hai's face is thin and fat, especially afraid of heat, her daughter often has eczema recurrence, and the two of them are inseparable from air conditioning in the summer.
And Yang Yang lives alone in a room, I can't be treated specially, deliberately go to buy a fan for her to blow, right? Although she didn't dare to turn on the air conditioner every time she slept, her hair was sweaty, and she basically helped her turn it on when I went to see if she slept.
After a month, the electricity bill is six or seven hundred, which is enough to choke.
None of this is said, as a guardian, I still have to always care about and pay attention to Yang Yang's emotional changes, seeing her increasingly inferior and taciturn in school, I am anxious and anxious, very afraid that when the time comes, I will become a back pot man.
I felt like I was going to get an anxiety disorder, all kinds of broken hearts.
Looking back at how Shen Ping behaved?
After she left the child to me, she didn't care to ask, occasionally remembered, just call over to ask if the food is good, whether nutrition has kept up, learning can not be relaxed, the mother makes money hard, it is not easy for you to go to a good school, and so on.
However, he never gave me a penny, not even a polite word.
04
Maybe I've been a good guy a few times.
For example, when my daughter was half a year old, she remembered that I had just given birth to a child, and I didn't know where to find a wormwood plant, and I sent it to SF Express. She said that she used to eat this boiled egg after giving birth to Yangyang, which was very nutritious, and asked me to find a pot to raise it, and from time to time I could pick a few leaves and boil it to eat.
Although I don't like to eat this thing, but I am sad about the courier fee of more than twenty yuan, I still raised it.
As a result, in the event of heavy rain, this "yellow grass", which was already a bit withered, died the next day, and I was not in the mood for several days.
There was also a Spring Festival, she said to send me some pistachios, do not go to the supermarket to buy expensive ones. She bought a lot of goods, and the store was also selling, only charging me a cost price.
I said yes.
As a result, she sent me a sack of uneven quality, and in the end it was not calculated according to the retail price. Coupled with the shipping costs that hurt my flesh, I felt more expensive than buying it at the supermarket.
For my birthday, Mango Melaleuca is my favorite and essential every year.
After Shen Ping saw my circle of friends, a phone call came and said that Yangyang may not have told me clearly that she was allergic to mango. He also asked me to buy a chocolate cake again to celebrate, and that Yang Yang also liked to eat it.
Shen Hai listened, and immediately drove to the nearby cake shop to buy a chocolate cake and came back, I was half dead, and I didn't want to think about my birthday at all. At that time, Yang Yang was embarrassed and did not dare to eat a bite of cake, always pushing that he had eaten a lot of food.
After two years of birthdays, I simply didn't pass.
What if you don't?
In case you buy a mango mille-feuille and come back, it will make Yangyang feel embarrassed. If a child can't stop eating and something goes wrong, they will only blame me.
In the past three years, I have been cautious and stubborn, and every day I am eager to pry open the screen of my mobile phone and pull the time a little faster.
05
The good news came in the third year of the first year of yangyang's junior high school.
Affected by the epidemic, Shen Ping's small supermarket doubled its fruit and vegetable meat business. I heard from relatives and friends that she often boasts that she has tens of thousands of bills every day.
What was frustrating was that the wind and water on her side were rising, but Shen Hai's side was dead. The restaurant has been closed for several months, and business is getting colder.
As I expected, the family's economy plummeted, and the standard of living was greatly reduced. Every day, I calculate the price of vegetables, meat and fish on major online platforms, stay at home, and have to carefully calculate the water and electricity and rice oil and salt in every place, and my life is tight.
Fortunately, in two months, Yangyang graduated from junior high school.
I plan to live in high school next year and ask Shen Ping to send her to school accommodation. She now earns a decent amount of money, and accommodation fees are no longer a problem for her.
On the contrary, the economic situation in our family is not very optimistic.
My daughter is also almost three years old, and I want to take her to kindergarten and then go out and find a job.
Unexpectedly, Shen Ping was anxious to say on the end of the video phone, don't look at her business now, when opening a store, she swiped a lot of credit card money, which must be repaid every month. And where are the dividends so much? Let me stop listening to the nonsense of those relatives.
She has constant conflicts with her partners, and now she wants to borrow some more money to do it herself. If Yang Yang went to live in the school, she could afford it.
He also said that I actually wanted to go out to work, YangYang did not have more than one mouth, and how much meat a teenage child could eat me, and did not waste much money on me. Besides, let Yang Yang live alone in the school, there is no adult discipline, what if the learning with others is broken?
Three years of high school is very important, she can only ask me to watch more, she also wants to take it with her, but there is no way to make money.
After hanging up the phone, I looked at Shen Hai with an ugly face and asked him to make a decision happily, anyway, I don't do this!
06
Shen Hai brought out his clichéd explanation again.
I'm tired of listening, enough is enough! In the end, I simply made a decision for him directly, saying that either Shen Ping sent Yangyang to the residential school, and in the future, whether it was accommodation expenses, tuition and miscellaneous living expenses, etc., it would not belong to us; or she would still live in this home for three years, and Shen Ping would pay us 2,000 yuan per month.
Isn't that too much, right? She just went outside to find a babysitter, and it wasn't worth the price!
Shen Hai had never seen me lose such a big temper, afraid that I would get divorced, and called Shen Ping privately.
The next day, the money was turned around, but I cried.
I collapsed on the bed with my hands covering my headache head, not knowing whether to run to Shen Hai for a fight, or a phone call to go over and find Shen Ping to make a big fight.
My heart was so tired that I didn't want to do anything, I didn't want to say anything.
Shen Ping transferred 2,000 yuan to me, but she said that she knew that I cared in my heart, and she was not a stingy person, which was to supplement Yang Yang's living expenses in my family for three years.
Although I didn't ask for it, she would be human. The next three years of high school will trouble me, and when the Yangyang college entrance examination is over, she will transfer another 2,000 to me.
I really want to cry without tears.
Dare to love Yang Yang in these three years, the money for a meal is not worth two yuan? Are you kidding! Two or five consecutive steamed dumplings can't afford it!
And all the other expenses, I didn't bother with her, my labor and time is so cheap?
The point is, did she misunderstand? I told Shen Hai about the three years of high school, 2,000 yuan per month for food, not 2,000 yuan for three years!
In the three years of junior high school, I have already volunteered myself.
But now she actually misinterpreted my original intentions like this, and I felt that if I endured it any longer, I would be a big pig's head!
07
Since my struggle is ineffective, I can only fight back with all my might.
I worked all night to draft a three-year exemption agreement and a schedule of yangyang after school hours.
At dawn the next day, I sent it directly to our three groups of people, and I also struck Shen Ping three times in a row.
This agreement said that in the past three years of Yangyang High School, if there is a decline in grades, physical illness, malnutrition, bad learning with people outside, or psychological problems, etc., we are all exempt from responsibility.
The schedule stated that as long as Yangyang was on vacation, he would have to help me with the children and do housework, as well as help my daughter's kindergarten homework, so as to offset all the costs she spent at home, effective immediately.
The last point is that I am ready to have a second child, if I am pregnant and give birth to a child, no matter how busy Shen Ping is at that time, she must come and wait for me to confinement, a total of 42 days, only food and housing, no salary.
This is also the return that when I finished my daughter's life, she directly threw Yang Yang over, and it was time to repay the favor owed to me.
If Shen Ping does not agree with any of them, then I'm sorry, there is nothing I can do, trouble her to come and pick people up these days.
Shen Hai, who had not yet gone out to work, was a bit anxious. He said that he had never known that I, who was usually Sven, would be so terrible to launch a fierce attack.
But he did not dare to provoke me, so he had to make a grievance and pitiful expression in the group, afraid that Shen Ping would be angry with him, and make a play for her to clarify that he did not know about my temporary decision.
Shen Ping was really angry, she directly threw seven or eight 60-second voices in a row, treating me as an enemy, and kept scolding and grinning.
How hard it is to hear, how hard it is to say.
08
She said I was cold-blooded, ruthless, snobbish. She grew up so big, and she had never seen anyone who was such a relative, not only stubborn to the end, but also aggressive.
She didn't give money, she's in a bad environment now, and I forced her so much that I wanted her to die.
Taking care of a high school student is just a matter of having to sign an agreement. To put it bluntly, I just look down on her as a widow.
Then, crying, she pointed out to me and scolded me, saying that if her husband and parents had not died early, she would not have lived so depressed.
In the end, she scolded enough, cried and cried, and made a lot of noise, and when she saw me, she still didn't have any reaction, and she couldn't say it anymore.
She asked Shen Hai to arrange for Yang Yang to take the car to her with her luggage the next day, and after the summer vacation, she arranged for her to live on campus.
Finally, drop a sentence, the fare does not have to work hard to drive your alms, so I quit the group and blocked me alone.
Shen Hai was so angry that his face stiffened when he was so angry that he was so good at us. On one side is his eldest sister, on the other side is his wife, and he is not human.
That's right, at the same time, I let him make a choice.
Either continue to live with me, or get out of the egg yourself, leave the custody of my daughter to me, and go to the Civil Affairs Bureau today for divorce.
He was so frightened that he didn't dare to squeak.
09
Of course, the above deceives them. I don't plan to have a second child, nor do I plan to divorce, I just want Shen Ping to understand that selfishly, she doesn't always kidnap us with family affection, and the affection that relies on squeezing out has long been out of touch.
In the evening, I went to the study to find Yang Yang.
She sat at her desk, knowing that she was leaving, and buried her head even lower. In the past few days, I have tried my best to argue with Shen Hai in the room in a low voice, and I guess she still heard it and hurt her.
That familiar feeling came back, and it was as if I were seeing my childhood again.
I handed her a bank card, took her to the bank two days ago, there were 5,000 yuan in it, of which 3,000 yuan was the labor fee I rewarded her, and she often took the initiative to help me do housework and teach my daughter to read. The other 2,000 yuan was shen ping's living expenses for three years of junior high school.
I asked her to hide it herself and not give it to Shen Ping.
There is also going to boarding school in the future, don't learn from others to spend money indiscriminately. This money can only be used when she is sick and uncomfortable or wants to buy clothes and books that she likes.
Yang Yang looked at me with wide eyes, his eyes were red and wet, and he had cried before I came in.
I shared with her a secret that even Shen Hai didn't know, my life under the fence.
When I was a child, my parents worked outside the home and gave me to my little aunt for three years, and as a result, her in-laws quarreled with her, and finally caused her to divorce. I felt guilty about this for many years, and my personality became sensitive and weak, like a soft persimmon.
To put it bluntly, I suddenly became ruthless, not only to get rid of Shen Ping, but also to redeem myself.
I know Yang Yang too well, she is simply another version of me.
I carefully considered her feelings, that is, I was afraid that she would become inferior because she was sent to the fence.
But in the end, I found that the contradiction between me and Shen Ping still hurt her. She began to learn to lie at school, and began to carefully curry favor with the classmates around her, for fear of being rejected by everyone.
She became more and more like a weak me.
That's another reason why I'm adamant that I don't want her to stay in my house.
It is also why I suddenly changed my temperament and suddenly became less good at bullying.
Just when Shen Ping was blindly calculating Shen Hai, she ignored her doing so, which not only hurt my marriage with Shen Hai, but also caused all kinds of indelible shadows in Yangyang's growth.
And Shen Hai has always been in front of Voldemort, in addition to his own problems, I also have a great reason in it.
If I had taken a tougher stance, maybe the outcome would have been different.
10
A year later, Yangyang called me and told me that she had a very happy life in high school, with top academic performance and expected to sprint to a normal undergraduate university.
Listening to her call, my heart was very warm.
I think that if there were people who could take care of my feelings in this way when I was under the fence, maybe I wouldn't have become so weak and tolerated everywhere in my married life.
The spring breeze is very warm, fortunately, the yang and yang that I have experienced similarly are growing happily in another direction. And I am no longer the one who suffers from injustice, but can only swallow his anger.