"A few nights ago, I heard your grandparents hiding in the house with your dad and talking about this matter. They are a family, but they still want to hide it from me, their daughter-in-law."
When Gu Dongmei mentioned this, she revealed a hint of resentment. She had always thought that her parents-in-law didn't think much of her, but at least her husband was on the same side as her. That day, after eavesdropping and returning to the house, she waited for Dahai to tell him about this, but in her husband's heart, his parents were still the most important.
"Your grandparents saved more than 7,000 yuan in their lifetime. Not only did your second uncle's family take away 2,000 yuan, they also left the rest to your brother so that he could buy a big house in the capital. They never thought of leaving a penny for you. Mom feels sorry for you." In front of her beloved daughter and her doting mother, Gu Dongmei finally couldn't hold back the grievances she had felt these days. Tears flowed down her face and she kept wiping her tears with her sleeves.
"That's enough." Zhao Hong slapped the low table on the kang and looked at her beloved little daughter, wishing she could stuff her back into her stomach.
She thought she had made it clear that time, and her daughter had been behaving pretty well over the years. However, she didn't expect that she hadn't changed at all, and was getting more and more obsessed with it.
"If you don't want to live a good life, Mom will take you to divorce Dahai right now. At worst, Mom will support you for the rest of your life, so that Dani's children won't be abused by you."
“Grandma!”
"mom!"
Gu Dongmei, Dani and others were shocked by Zhao Hong's words. How could she be so serious as to want a divorce?
"Dani, go to the next room and call your father and Xiaobao. Let your uncle and brother-in-law stay next door, and don't let them come over without my permission." Zhao Hong said decisively, pointing at her eldest granddaughter.
She was too soft-hearted back then, and the family should sort out those things clearly. There should be an explanation as to whether they should live a good life or just endure it in confusion.
Zhao Hong looked at her daughter deeply, and a feeling of powerlessness filled her whole body.
"Stop, Mom, what do you want to do? Do you want to force me to death?" Gu Dongmei held her daughter and refused to let Dani leave. If her husband told her parents-in-law what she had just said, she would really have no choice but to divorce.
"If mom really indulges you again today, that will really drive you to death." Zhao Hong ignored Gu Dongmei's crying and frowned as she said to Erni, "If you want your family to be well, just listen to grandma and call your dad and Xiaobao over so that the whole family can talk it out."
Erni looked at her mother who was begging desperately, thought about what she had just said, and decided to listen to her grandmother and go next door to call her father and Xiaobao over.
"mom--"
Gu Dongmei watched Erni leave with a sharp and high-pitched cry.
"Remember I'm your mother? Listen carefully." Zhao Hong glared at her. As the most authoritative old lady in the family, she had an extraordinary deterrent power over the children. Gu Dongmei wanted to howl again, but she choked back.
"Mom, what's the matter that you asked me and Xiaobao to come here?"
Jiang Dahai walked in with his son and asked puzzledly as he looked at his daughter-in-law with red and swollen eyes who tried her best to avoid his sight.
"Dahai, please sit down. Xiaobao, come to grandma." Zhao Hong sat inside and said to Jiang Dahai and Jiang Yilu.
"What's up?"
Jiang Dahai scratched his head, looking at his silent daughters, and became more and more uneasy. He didn't seem to have done anything to offend his daughters-in-law, so why was it treated like a struggle session?
"Oh sea, I'm sorry for you."
As soon as Jiang Dahai sat down, Zhao Hong said this to him. Jiang Dahai jumped up as soon as his butt touched the kang: "Mom, why do you say that? You are so kind to me and Dongmei, but Dongmei and I are incompetent and cannot honor you like your second brother." Jiang Dahai was panicked. What happened?
Jiang Yilu, who was sitting next to Zhao Hong, carefully observed the expressions of everyone in the room and felt a chill in his heart.
"Today, Mom wants to ask you, do you still want Dongmei as your wife?" Zhao Hong asked, looking into Jiang Dahai's eyes.
"When" Jiang Dahai answered without thinking. They are both over 40 years old and have five children. They have lived half of their lives, so how can they not live like this?
But before he could finish his words, the old lady interrupted him: "Don't rush to answer, wait until you hear what I have to say next."
"mom!"
Gu Dongmei looked at Zhao Hong's pleading eyes and felt almost going crazy. She regretted bringing up this matter in front of her mother today. She had thought that she would get a lot of approval and her mother and daughter would join her in denouncing the old couple of the Jiang family. But now things were going in a direction that was not in her favor.
"Have your parents discussed buying a house in the capital for Xiaobao?" Zhao Hong asked directly. Jiang Yilu, who knew nothing yet, was shocked and quickly looked at his father beside him.
"Mom, how did you know?" Jiang Dahai was also surprised. He had not told anyone about this.
As if he had thought of something, Jiang Dahai quickly looked at his wife who was evasive.
Did she hear everything that happened that day? Even so, apart from the two thousand yuan given by my second brother, she might be a little dissatisfied. Buying a house for her son is always a good thing, right? Why did it get to the point where my mother asked me whether I wanted her or not?
"Dongmei said that she wanted to take out some of the 5,000 yuan your parents gave to Xiaobao and buy a house for Dani." Zhao Hong did not give her daughter any face and recounted Gu Dongmei's words word for word.
"What!"
Jiang Dahai looked at Gu Dongmei as if she were a monster. He was not angry because Gu Dongmei wanted to save some benefits for his daughter, but because of the stupid thing Gu Dongmei did today.
Not to mention the consequences of his parents knowing about this, let's just say what Dani and the others would think now that they knew about this money. Money has always moved people's hearts, and many brothers and sisters have been separated from each other because of that little money. Dani and the others knew that the old man and the old lady in the family only liked their grandchildren, and they were used to it. But now what was in front of them was not fifty yuan, but a full five thousand yuan. What kind of concept is that? How deep must the relationship between the children be to make them not jealous.
Gu Dongmei, as a mother, didn't think about how to make her children get along well with each other, but instead planted a thorn in their hearts. Is that what a mother should do?
"Dad, I don't want that money."
Jiang Dani was the first to express her opinion. She and Qianjin were living well. It was not like she could not afford to buy a house and was staring at her brother's money. She also knew the temperament of her grandparents. If they dared to steal food from the tiger's mouth, they would never live in peace in the future.
But even such a simple truth, Gu Dongmei couldn't understand it.
Maybe she figured it out, but she was pretending to be confused.
"Mom, Dongmei may have thought of something wrong for a moment. I will talk to her when I get back." Jiang Dahai glanced at his wife and said to Zhao Hong.
"She's not thinking wrongly, she's just confused." Zhao Hong shook her head, looking at her daughter with a hint of disappointment in her eyes.
"Da Hai, I don't believe you can't see that Dong Mei, as a mother, and Xiao Bao, as a child, are holding back their anger. She said these words today because she really feels sorry for Dani and her daughters. If that were the case, I would still look up to her. But if she really was a mother who loved her children, she wouldn't have watched Dani and her daughters being ordered around like slaves by your mother. It's because I, as a mother, didn't teach her well that she became so selfish."
"A few years ago, when Xiaobao was not yet born, Dani and the others were so miserable that I, as a grandmother, wanted to take her home to raise her. What were you doing as a mother at that time?"
When Zhao Hong said this, Jiang Dahai felt a little embarrassed and guilty, after all, he was also an inactive father. When they heard about the five thousand yuan, they felt a little uncomfortable. The sisters also felt ashamed, thinking of the hard days. If Xiaobao hadn't been born, they probably wouldn't have been able to go to school, and their second uncle's family would still be showing off their power over them.
Zhao Hong's voice became louder and louder, and she could no longer suppress it. She stood up from the kang and pointed at her daughter: "You can't talk about all the knots in your heart today."
Being pointed at like this by her own mother, Gu Dongmei was speechless.
"I, I'm doing this for the good of the children." Gu Dongmei was silent for a long time before she said this.
"It's for the good of the children. It's also for the good of the children to alienate them. I think you just want to break up this family." Zhao Hong looked at her with regret: "Mom wants you to ask yourself, are you really doing this for the good of the children, or are you just feeling uncomfortable just by looking at the 5,000 yuan in Xiaobao's hand?"
How else could Gu Dongmei answer? She knew that she had a problem. This problem had existed since Xiaobao was born.
Gu Dongmei, who was ridiculed for giving birth to daughters one after another, envied Fan Xiaojuan the most, who gave birth to two sons and could get things from her parents-in-law even if she was lazy and slack every day, and lived a comfortable life.
When she was pregnant with her fifth child, she was desperate, but she actually gave birth to a son. She thought everything would develop in a good direction, but for Gu Dongmei, nothing changed, or perhaps it did not change in the direction she longed for.
With a son in the family, everyone's attention was focused on the baby. The parents-in-law liked the grandson, the husband liked the son, and the daughters liked the younger brother... Everyone focused their attention on the newborn son. No one noticed her, the hero. She still had to do the same work and still didn't dare to resist the orders of her parents-in-law...
Having a son, but not having any change in status, this is the biggest gap and the most unacceptable thing for Gu Dongmei. She did not think about her own lack of struggle, but instead blamed all the mistakes on others.
Over time, even Gu Dongmei herself noticed that her mentality had changed. She was more prone to daydreaming and had a hint of jealousy towards the son she had been expecting. This jealousy became even more justified after she found out that her son didn't kiss her. No matter what the child did, she would misinterpret it with her own thoughts.
But this time she really wanted to make up for Dani's children. Gu Dongmei concealed the trace of guilt in her heart and tried to tell herself that she was not wrong.
Zhao Hong looked at her daughter who had not yet repented, and saw that as a mother, she used her most important child as a weapon. Using the name of love to hurt her was what Zhao Hong felt most disappointed about.
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