Mother-in-law slapped me hard in the face. I was confused at that time. I never dreamed that things would develop to this point. I wanted to escape, but I had nowhere to escape...
My wife and I met on a university campus. We spent a wonderful time in love together. There was no concept of you and me between each other, but the edge of ideals always had an opposing conflict with reality. We faced choices like other couples.
We originally wanted to break up after graduation like other lovers, and our love would also come to an end. It was my wife's persistence that made me rekindle hope.
My wife’s family cannot accept me, not just because I am from a rural area, but because I don’t have money in front of me, they can’t see the future in me.
Her relatives, her friends, and her mother did not want her to marry a person like me. In the face of reality, I have nothing to say, and I have no say.
I think our love is fragile and helpless, but my wife's persistence makes it indestructible. The mother-in-law, who has always been opposed, had to change her mind. It was she who gave us some money, which gave our love a dignity that could barely be maintained.
We used that money to buy a house as a wedding house. Of course, only my wife's name was left in the house book. After all, I still want a trace of dignity.
We used our own salary to simply decorate, and finally saved tens of thousands of yuan. We discussed giving her parents to her when we got married. Even if it was a betrothal gift, we wanted to use this little money to block the mouths of those relatives so that our marriage would have a decent start.
But my mother-in-law didn't ask for that money. She said that since she agreed to be together, she would not be afraid of relatives and friends going around. It was from then on that time that I began to look at my mother-in-law differently, and I also made up my mind that after getting married, I would definitely want to treat them the same as my parents.
Our life after marriage should be considered happy and fulfilling. I also cared for my mother-in-law. Gradually, she accepted me and I was no longer so inferior in front of her. Every time I went home, I rushed to go to the kitchen to cook for them. My wife and I discussed with each other to give the shopping cards and benefits to her parents. Whenever the family gathers, my mother-in-law would praise my son-in-law for being sensible in front of relatives and friends. In fact, I know that she is also looking for face for me.
Although my mother-in-law didn't make any embarrassment to me when she got married, she put forward a condition that my wife's younger brother was admitted to university and asked us to provide him with him until college graduation.
When my wife discussed with me, I agreed without any hesitation, because in my eyes, I couldn’t spend much money to go to college.
But I was wrong, my idea was wrong, my vision was wrong.
My vision is too limited. I cannot measure others at the cost of going to college, nor can I ask others at the time when I went to college.
My wife’s younger brother is my brother-in-law. The cost of one semester is more than that of my wife and I. The tuition is only a small part of it. What’s even more terrible is the living expenses. In my opinion, it is a bottomless pit, and it seems that it will never be filled. We work hard to make money, but we can’t keep up with him asking for money crazy.
At the beginning, we still had some savings. When my brother-in-law asked for money, I reminded my wife to give him more, because after all, I just started school and I still have a lot of things to buy. Besides, if my brother can help me, I am not stingy about what I am doing.
Not long after, our savings were almost done, so my wife told me whether to reduce my brother-in-law's monthly living expenses. I told her that she still had a salary. The salary of our two people should be more than enough, but my idea was too simple. My brother-in-law had to take half of our salary every month.
Recently, my brother-in-law asked for money has increased and he said that the laptop configuration he bought last year was lagging behind and wanted to change to a higher configuration. My girlfriend asked him how much money he needed. He said that in order to save us some money, he would not be good, just buy a 1.5W one.
When he said it, we were all stunned. What kind of laptop costs so much? But no matter how I said that, I gritted my teeth and transferred the money to him.
My brother-in-law said that the pixels of the phone were too low and wanted to change to a phone with a higher pixel. My wife suggested that she buy a camera (that is the kind of ordinary camera). He was quite happy. Soon after, he sent a bunch of connections. My wife was shocked when she opened it. Those links were all about SLR cameras, and the cheapest ones cost tens of thousands of yuan, so my wife obediently bought a mobile phone for my brother-in-law.
My brother-in-law seems to have figured out the rules of our salary. He usually doesn’t ask us for money or contact us, but he will definitely contact us within one or two days after the salary is paid.
I am really convinced. If he contacted him a day earlier, I would have reason to refuse him, because I really didn’t have money at that time, and I could push him back.
Even so, we can’t say anything, because when we got married, we agreed to our mother-in-law that we would provide our brother-in-law with us until we graduated from college, not to mention that the house we lived in was bought by others.
My wife said she wanted to discuss with her mother-in-law and ask her to take care of her brother-in-law and stop spending money like this.
I advised her not to go, but she said she had to go, and she said otherwise our lives would be affected.
Actually, I want to talk to her parents too.
As usual, we brought a lot of things when we went there and prepared the fish and meat we needed to cook.
As usual, I went to the kitchen to cook. The three of them chatted, but I went back and forth several times, but I didn't hear my wife and mother-in-law talking about my brother-in-law. I wondered why she forgot the purpose of today.
After cooking, I started to take it out one by one. My mother-in-law seemed to feel embarrassed, so she came to help. I asked her if my brother-in-law had contacted her recently. She said that she hadn't called for half a month and she wouldn't have videos.
I told my mother-in-law that my brother-in-law is living a very chic now, and she has no worries about food and clothing. It is normal not to contact the family.
She asked me if I had contacted us. I said I had contacted me almost every week, and as long as I contacted me, I couldn’t do without asking for money.
Mother-in-law asked me what money I wanted, and I told her everything. At the beginning, my mother-in-law returned me a few words. She also knew that my brother-in-law was spending a lot of money, and she also wanted to find time to talk about him, but now he is in another place and sometimes he can go home for half a year or a year, so she has no chance to talk about him.
My brother-in-law finally gave them a video. In addition to caring about whether he has food and clothing, the mother-in-law is concerned about whether he has found a girlfriend. She has long forgotten the fact that he has taught him to spend money indiscriminately, and even reminds him not to be reluctant to spend money and must take good care of himself.
After I brought all the dishes to the table, I sat next to my mother-in-law and prepared to have a meal.
Following the conversation just now, I said that my brother-in-law is a little too uncontrollable now, and my father also said that it was all spoiled by my mother-in-law. My mother-in-law seemed to have a bad face and didn't respond, but I wanted to change the atmosphere, and then said a joke. It was really a joke. I didn't treat my mother-in-law as an outsider. I actually said to her, "Yes, my brother is always trained by you now, and you have made a lot of money!"
"What's wrong with me? Your wife is also trained by me. If you dislike it, you can don't want it!" The mother-in-law changed her face suddenly, and she unexpectedly slapped me.
The mother-in-law slapped me hard in the face. I was stunned at that time. I never dreamed that things would develop to this point, and I was even more at a loss.
The wife and mother-in-law were also shocked. No one would believe that the usually considerate and gentle mother-in-law would do this, but the matter had already happened and no one could save it.
You should know that since I was a child, my mother has never hit me, let alone I don’t think I was wrong, and I still squeezed out the tears of suppression.
I turned around and wanted to leave, wanting to leave this home desperately. It was not because my mother-in-law made me feel so painful, but because her slap deeply hit me in my heart, making me feel pain.
My face no longer hurts, and the moment her hands left my face, it no longer hurts, but my heart is in pain. That kind of pain cannot be expressed in words. It can be said that it is full of anger and helplessness, and it is even more aggrieved.
My wife was scared to tears. I saw that she was confused. She didn't even have time to blame her mother. She rushed over and grabbed me tightly and refused to let me go out.
Actually, I can break free, but I still feel a little reluctant to leave just like this by my wife.
"Don't pull him, let him go. I want to see if he has the face to come back after he leaves!" The mother-in-law said this to her wife, but in fact it was more like saying it to me.
My wife no longer tried to pull my hand, but she didn't let go, and I didn't seem to have the strength to break free. I also want to give myself a step forward, but I still don’t want to give up this family. Fortunately, my wife finally pulled hard and then we hugged each other.
Next I don’t know what to do, I didn’t even eat, and my mother-in-law went back to the house, and I don’t know how to deal with it.
"Okay, okay! It's no big deal, sit down and prepare for dinner!" The mother-in-law breathed a deep sigh of relief, as if comforting me, and then went to the bedroom. I guess he was going to find her mother-in-law.
The mother-in-law is a little sympathetic and still doesn't want to come out for dinner. Actually, I know that she is a bit in the wrong and she shouldn't beat me no matter what she says.
Dad said that my mother-in-law would calm down first, and we had dinner first. I thought it was not suitable. After thinking for a long time, I decided to invite my mother-in-law out for dinner. If I didn't go, I guess the lump would be untied.
I walked to the bedroom door and saw my mother-in-law sitting by the bed sobbing. She also wiped her tears with her sleeves from time to time.
"Mom! I was wrong, I shouldn't have said that! If you are still not satisfied, just slap me again!" I knelt in front of her as I said.
Seeing this, the mother-in-law quickly pulled me up and kept saying sorry to me. She touched my face and asked me if it hurts. I half-jokingly said it hurts, and then her hands rubbed on my face. It can be seen that she still felt sorry for me.
At this time, my girlfriend and dad both came to the door and looked at us with relief.
"Go to have a meal now, otherwise the food will be cold!" Dad urged us to go to dinner at the right time. The mother-in-law took back the hand that touched my face, turned around and wiped her tears secretly, and said embarrassedly: "Eat, eat!"
My wife quickly came over and pulled her up from the bed, and walked towards the restaurant.
