Chapter 40 Mother-in-law's Relatives
It turned out that Jin Weiguo's father, Jin Mingde, was living well. Because he worked hard during the war years, he was demobilized and worked in the province, and he was also considered an important official.
After Jin Mingde and Teacher Wu got married, he traveled around the country, while Teacher Wu quietly took their son back to their hometown to take care of the elderly and children. She also worked as a Chinese teacher in a junior high school.
When Jin Weiguo was seven or eight years old, Jin Mingde was injured and hospitalized. It happened that liberation was about to happen, which gave Jin Mingde time to recover.
At that time, Jin Weiguo's grandmother was old and happened to fall down. She was lying in bed and needed someone to take care of her.
When Teacher Wu heard that her husband was injured, she was also very anxious. She took Jin Weiguo to the hospital to see Jin Mingde. Knowing that the injury was not serious and his life was not in danger, she explained the situation to the people in the hospital. There was an elderly grandmother at home who was injured and lying in bed and needed someone to take care of her.
Jin Mingde knew the seriousness of the situation. He was in the hospital, and the hospital and the organization would assign someone to take care of him. They wouldn't leave him alone. Besides, at his level, he already had attendants. On the other hand, his own mother needed his wife's care more. So, after taking Jin Weiguo, who was less than nine years old, to see him, Teacher Wu returned to her hometown to care for her.
Most of the family members knew about this incident and knew that Jin Mingde Hospital had staff to take care of him.
But Teacher Wu didn't know that he had a cousin among his relatives. After hearing about this incident, he pretended to be Jin Mingde's family member and came to the hospital again, and disappeared as soon as he left.
This cousin is really a talented person. She is the cousin of Teacher Wu’s aunt. Her name is Hu Xianglan. She always likes to be competitive and compete with her cousin.
Hu Xianglan herself disliked studying and married at sixteen. Within two years, she had two children, a son and a daughter. Unfortunately, her husband was lazy and gluttonous. He worked as a loader in a factory and would come home and beat his wife and children when he was unhappy.
Hu Xianglan had heard that her cousin's husband had become a high-ranking official. She also heard that her cousin's husband was injured and hospitalized with no one to take care of him, and her cousin had to take care of the old lady at home, so she had a bad idea at that time.
She first broke up with the man in her family and had a big fight with him, then she complained to the Women's Federation, saying that she could not live anymore and that divorce was the only way to save her life.
Later, the Women's Federation stepped in to seek justice for her and allowed her to divorce. After the divorce, her son went to the man and she took care of her daughter.
The two children were only six or seven years old, and were old enough to take care of themselves. After the divorce, Hu Xianglan took her daughters and disappeared overnight. No one knew where she went.
When the old lady was almost recovered, she urged Teacher Wu to go back to the province to see her son and let her daughter-in-law take her grandson to reunite with her son's family. Two or three months had passed.
When Teacher Wu took Jin Weiguo to the provincial capital and entered the family compound, some people looked at her strangely and asked, "Jin Mingde's family? Hasn't his family been here taking care of him all this time?"
Teacher Wu saw that everyone looked strange, so he asked about the building that Jin Mingde was assigned, but it was Hu Xianglan who opened the door.
Hu Xianglan acted like a hostess and invited her cousin in. Teacher Wu was a noble person, so he took Jin Weiguo and left. From then on, no matter what Jin Mingde said, she refused to see him again.
When they got home, Teacher Wu pretended Jin Mingde was dead and didn't mention any of this to the old lady. After all, she had spent more time with her mother-in-law. It could be said that since their marriage, Jin Mingde had only spent a few hours at home, which could be counted on one hand. But the old lady and her mother-in-law had lived together, going through many hardships together. It wasn't an exaggeration to say they were like a real mother and daughter.
The old lady gradually heard about it and called her son to come and scold him. Every time he was scolded, Jin Mingde said nothing, but only said one thing: I will not divorce, and I will not drive away Hu Xianglan and her daughter!
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