My in-laws have been working together for 55 years, giving birth to three men and one woman, and my husband is their eldest. Since I knew them, I never saw them with red faces in my memory, and I always sang with them like that.
The father-in-law is one year older than the mother-in-law, and this year he is seventy-six. It was only in the first two years that the state implemented the subsidy policy for private teachers, and I learned that my father-in-law had once served as a private teacher in a small village and was a person with some culture. My mother-in-law only attended night school for a few days, but she was very studious. Whenever I watched TV with her, she would read it quietly along with the subtitles. When you encounter words you don't know, you are always not ashamed to ask. At this time, of course, we are happy to be teachers.
He has been married to his husband for twenty-eight years and lived with his mother-in-law for more than ten years, but he has never eaten the dishes made by his mother-in-law. Because, the mother-in-law is not good at doing housework at all. In the words of the gentleman: the mother-in-law belongs to the vegetable garden in the field. When I just left the city and left the vegetable garden from the field, my mother-in-law was very unaccustomed to it and her hands were itchy. Later, she finally found a small vegetable field not far from home, planted a few cabbages and a few peppers plus some onions and garlic, which was also very busy.
Since the mother-in-law is outside, the father-in-law has no choice but to be inside. The father-in-law is very neat and often cleans up the house and the outside. The most valuable thing is that the father-in-law makes a good dish. One year, on the first day of the Chinese New Year, the school leadership team came home to drink, and I don't remember which dishes my father-in-law fried at that time, which impressed the principal at the time. At a certain table several years later, he couldn't help but sigh: The dish fried by Li Gonggong was delicious!
After leaving the city, the in-laws and mothers-in-law brought up several grandchildren, but they never left the mother-in-law and did not leave the public. Their lives are very regular: pick up and drop off children together, go grocery shopping together, walk together.... In short, no matter what you do, you have to add the word "together" before their daily behavior to be the standard answer.
In the blink of an eye, they had been out of town for fifteen or six years. The accumulation of daily life "together" makes them even more inseparable from each other, and also makes them, especially their mother-in-law, completely lose themselves.
Once, when we called, it was my mother-in-law who answered. Only to hear the other party shout vigorously: "You come soon, they have called, come and answer the phone!" "It feels like you're on the verge of a great enemy. In fact, our phone was called to them, not "him.". After investigation, the mother-in-law even took a phone call alone and lacked self-confidence. In fact, in addition to answering the phone, the mother-in-law refuses to even go shopping alone on weekdays.
After all, the father-in-law is a man, and in principle, he can be alone. But sometimes his performance is also worrying. That time, my father-in-law was doing cardiac intervention in Guangzhou. At that time, my husband, daughter, uncle and sister-in-law were all by my side. Although the husband repeatedly stressed that this was a small operation, before entering the operating room, the tearful father-in-law still insisted on calling his mother-in-law who was far away at home, and told her mother-in-law very seriously that he was going to enter the operating room, as if he was saying goodbye forever.
The list goes on and on. Two old people, able to always be gracious and loving, is of course the blessing of children and the blessing of children. However, what we worry about is, if the two can't carry each other to old age, what will happen to the one who stays? So we started encouraging them to go out as far as possible, especially to encourage their mother-in-law to be as independent as possible. However, our bitter mouths do not seem to have obvious results. We can't do anything to provoke the two old mouths, all we can do is wait, wait for an opportunity.
Finally, once, my mother-in-law whispered to my father-in-law on the side: "I want to eat that kind of sugar-free cookie, he won't buy it for me." ”
I listened, laughed, and deliberately said loudly: "You are not rich, he does not buy, you will not buy it yourself." ”
Actually, I am asking this very unauthentically and knowingly. Because, I do hate iron not steel. Everyone in the family knows that in addition to the annual food fee we give to the father-in-law at one time, we give it separately for other festivals, but every time, the mother-in-law always tells us to give it all to the father-in-law. Even if she personally accepted the red envelope one time, she would hand it to her father-in-law.
"The money is in his hands." The money that went into his pocket, no one should think of getting it easily. The mother-in-law bravely glanced at her father-in-law and said.
Indeed, the father-in-law is good at everything, just too frugal. My mother-in-law has diabetes, and the snacks we usually prepare for her are low-sugar or sugar-free. Occasionally, she saw something she liked, and it was normal.
I immediately took out a few hundred yuan and handed it to my mother-in-law, and said loudly: "You put this money away, you can buy whatever you want to eat, but you can't give it to your father anymore!" ”
The father-in-law on the side smiled: "I didn't buy it for her." I said at the time that I told her to buy it herself, and if she didn't go, who could blame her? ”
The gentleman next to him also smiled and said to his mother, "I gave her all my money." Who told you not to pay attention and take away your financial power? The "she" in his mouth is me.
After that, every time we gave money, we still divided it into two parts as always. But every time, the mother-in-law still grinned as always, "Give it to him!" This "he," of course, is the father-in-law.
Some things, for couples who have already embarked on the golden wedding road hand in hand, may already be deeply rooted, right?
I like Xue Xiaofeng's "The Last Time": I ask you one day, we will all grow old, who will be the one who stays? You foolishly said that you want me to leave first, because people who walk away will have less heartbreak to remember...
No matter how loving the couple, no matter how much reluctance, no matter how much thought, in the end, there should always be one who will leave first, right? Only wish: the years are quiet, the heavens are willing, the in-laws and mothers-in-law can really be gracious and loving, love and love like a shadow with a white head and grow old.