I am 62 years old this year, my physical strength is okay, the sausages at home are good, I put 20 pounds in the back basket, carried on my back, walked for 3 hours, and finally sent it to my son's house, but my daughter-in-law's words made me ashamed.
Narrator: Wang Ying (pseudonym)
I only have one son under my knees, and in my early years, my wife and I spoiled him like a baby.
My wife and I have been suffering in the countryside all our lives, so we hope that our son will not follow in our footsteps, so I have asked him to study hard since he was a child.
My son lived up to our expectations, went to a good university, and found a good job with a monthly salary of 4,000 in 2010.
One day, my son called back and told me that he was going to bring his girlfriend Xiaoli home for the Chinese New Year and asked me to clean up the house.
His dad and I had a sleepless night, and there were still 20 days before the Chinese New Year, so we began to prepare in advance to welcome the arrival of our daughter-in-law.
Maybe it's too much to look forward to, but these 20 days are like half a century.
Seeing that the Chinese New Year's Eve is thirty, my son said that he would come home this afternoon, we prepared dinner early, there are only 5 hens at home, and his father and I are reluctant to eat them, because eggs can be exchanged for money to subsidize the family.
But when the daughter-in-law came, she was reluctant to give up, so she stewed one, then fried a cabbage and cooked a pot of pumpkin soup.
When it was almost dark, my son arrived home with his girlfriend.
But I seem to find that the girl in front of me doesn't seem to be what I imagined, because after all, my son is so good, (in 2010, the salary of three or four thousand was already relatively high).
I imagined that my daughter-in-law was from the city, fair-skinned, tall, well-read, and most importantly, would honor me and my wife.
But the girl in front of me was not tall, short and fat, and had dark skin, and although she was still polite to us, I felt that she was not worthy of my son.
At the dinner table, I exchanged a few words with her, and after the conversation, I learned that she was from the countryside and only had a junior high school education.
I didn't eat a few bites of dinner, and after the meal, I pulled my wife aside and said, "I'm not satisfied with how my son can find such a girlfriend."
But my wife persuaded me: Although the girls are not very good-looking, they are diligent, and you can see that they have washed all the dishes. As long as your son likes it, we don't interfere.
Me: But she only has a junior high school education, and when her son becomes a big thing in the future, she will not help her son's career in the future.
My wife blames me for thinking too much.
On the third day of the Lunar New Year, my son said that he was going to his girlfriend's house, but in my heart I still felt that this girl was not worthy of my son. So I quietly pulled my son aside and asked him to break up with this girl and find a new one in the city.
The son said, "Mom, why are you so snobbish, aren't I from the countryside?" My girlfriend was chosen by myself, so don't worry about it.
After listening to my son's words, I realized that he had grown up, and I couldn't help my mother, and I couldn't control his thoughts.
So I went with him, not wanting to bother with him.
Two years later, my son bought a house in the city and married Xiaoli, and soon, my granddaughter was also born, and my son invited me to come to the city to take care of my daughter-in-law's confinement, I was a little reluctant, but I still went.
After all, it is my granddaughter, how can I not love, I cook for my daughter-in-law every day, at that time I felt sorry for my son to make money is not easy, so I bought the cheapest kind of pumpkin in the city, 40 days of confinement I stewed a total of 3 chickens for my daughter-in-law, bought 35 pumpkins, my daughter-in-law complained in front of me, can you not eat pumpkin, but I said save money.
My daughter-in-law has been 40 days old, and I will go back to my hometown.
Unexpectedly, my daughter-in-law has not returned to her hometown once in the past few years.
It's almost the New Year, the sausages at home are also good, my son is busy with work, and I don't have time to go home, so I sent it myself, and I asked for 20 yuan to my son's house for a fare, I was reluctant, so I walked for three hours with 20 pounds of sausages on my back.
When I arrived at my son's house, only my daughter-in-law was there, and she saw me sweating profusely and panting.
She said, "Mom, why don't you come by car?"
Me: What about 20 yuan?
Daughter-in-law: How old are you, and you are still saving, can you take the money to the soil? Mom, forget if you treat me badly, you should be kind to yourself, the first time I went to your house, I heard what you said to Daqiang (my son's name), you don't let him be with me, you look down on me, I admit it. You are reluctant to buy me delicious food for me in my confinement, and it is also for the good of your son, I also admit it, but you are old, why don't you treat yourself better?
听了媳妇这3句话，我顿时无地自容，我好后悔。
My eyes began to cry, it turned out that my daughter-in-law was worried about me, and now I know how ridiculous what I did before, and I don't know how to cherish such a good daughter-in-law.
I cried, my daughter-in-law was crying, and I began to blame myself for not knowing how to be nicer to my daughter-in-law.
In the future, I will definitely change my past mistakes, treat my good daughter-in-law like my own daughter, and make up for all the mistakes I have made over the years.
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