"We are grown men, how can we do these things?" Lin Yongnian said confidently, "Liu Qin just married into the family, there is no reason for her to do housework right after entering the house."
Old Lady Li sneered, "I am just a lowly person. I am the old workhorse and servant of your Lin family. Even if I am so angry that I am sent to the hospital, you still have to keep me here to clean up the mess."
"You..." Lin Yongnian was speechless for a moment, "Who treats you as a workhorse or a servant? Didn't you do all these jobs before, and I never heard you complain. As soon as Liu Qin came in, you complained. Do you hate Liu Qin so much?"
Lin Yongnian thought that she was acting like this because she was not satisfied with Liu Qin as her daughter-in-law?
I didn't think there was anything wrong with Liu Qin, and I respected my father-in-law very much.
This damn old woman is really good at diverting conflicts. She clearly said that it was their problem. When she went to the hospital, they had to save their work for her. This was clearly a family conflict between her and her uncles, but she turned it into a conflict between her and Liu Qin, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
"I don't hate Liu Qin, I just see through you masters. These years I have to go to work, and I am the one who does the laundry and cooking at home, and I am the one who takes care of the children. If I don't do these chores at home, no one will do them. You masters don't have the slightest gratitude for my contribution to this family, and instead think it's natural..."
"It's only natural!" Lin Yongnian interrupted her rudely, "Which family doesn't have women doing these things? A little girl should be more diligent. If she doesn't work at home now, and she gets married and becomes lazy in her husband's family, won't people say that we, as parents, didn't teach her well?"
Old Mrs. Li looked at Lin Yongnian with disappointment. She even tried to make sense with him.
Lin Yongnian spoke again, "Besides, you are not working now, and you are the only one in the family who is doing nothing. If you don't do these jobs, who will do them?"
Old Mrs. Li was so angry that she was shaking all over. She grabbed Lin Yongnian's water cup on the table and threw it to the ground, "I am eating for free, I am eating for free..."
As she spoke, she picked up everything she could get in the living room and threw it on the ground.
"I am a freeloader! I am a freeloader!"
In her previous life, the four words "eating free meals" followed her almost for the rest of her life.
She has no job, no salary, no pension, and even though she helps raise her children and lives in her son's house, she still does housework. But no matter in the mouths of the old man or his son and daughter-in-law, she is a freeloader and is disliked.
Because she was a freeloader, she could not express any dissatisfaction, she could not be picky, and she was not qualified to express any opinions on anything.
Even though he was told by his son and daughter-in-law to his face that he was a freeloader, he still had to force a smile to please them.
She worked hard for her children and family all her life, how could she end up eating for free?
Lin Yongnian had no idea what this old woman was doing madly again. Seeing that she was about to smash the thermos, he quickly hugged her.
"Li Shuping, what are you doing crazy about? You want to get beaten again!"
Lin Xiao was terrified, afraid that her father would beat her mother, so she quickly dropped her book and grabbed her father, "Dad, you can't beat my mother."
"What's going on?" The neighbors in the yard heard the noise and ran over to gather at the Lin family's door.
Before Lin Yongnian could say anything, Old Lady Li sat on the ground, patting her chest and burst into tears.
"Ahhhhhhh, ahhhhhh..."
The crying was mournful, as if someone had suffered a great injustice, and it was really sad to hear.
"Mom, Mom..." Lin Xiao hugged her mother and cried together.
Lin Yongnian was stunned. This old woman was going crazy and even started crying.
"Lin Yongnian hit Shuping again?" Aunt Wang squeezed into the kitchen and glared at Lin Yongnian angrily.
It turns out that a dog will never stop eating shit, and a man will never stop beating his wife!
"Who hit her? She just went crazy all of a sudden." Lin Yongnian felt extremely wronged, but he didn't move at all.
Li Shuping stared at Lin Yongnian with tears on her face, "You didn't hit me, but you said something that could kill me."
"Since I married into your Lin family, I have been filial to my parents-in-law, gave birth to children for you, and taken care of all the housework at home, and I also have to go to work. There are sons and daughters at home, have you, Lin Yongnian, ever worried about them? You, Lin Yongnian, have never helped me with my daily life. It's not that I don't work, I'm the same as you, I also work, I'm a seventh-level lathe operator in a garment factory, and I get 80 yuan a month!"
"Now I'm giving my job to you so that you can get married. In this family, in your mouth, Lin Yongnian, I, Li Shuping, am just a freeloader!"
"I am a freeloader. I, Li Shuping, am a freeloader of the Lin family!" Old Mrs. Li slapped her chest hard, tears streaming down her face, her heart breaking.
"I'm not saying anything wrong, Old Lin. Even though Guodong's mother is unemployed now, she is the only one who runs the household and takes care of her grandson. When you come home from get off work, you have hot meals, clean clothes to wear every day, and a clean and tidy home to live in. How can you say that people are eating for free?" Old Liu, a welder who works in the same workshop as Lin Yongnian, looked at Lin Yongnian disapprovingly.
Old Liu's wife didn't have a job either. After she got married, she took care of the household and raised the children. Now that the children have started their own families, she has never said that she was a freeloader.
"That's right. Ren Shuping has worked so hard for your family and you actually said such things. It's really hurtful." Aunt Zhao glared at Lin Yongnian indignantly.
Aunt Wang pointed at Lin Yongnian's nose and said, "Lin Yongnian, if we talk about how much contribution you have made to this family, Shuping has contributed just as much as you have. Over the past decade, she has been working, taking care of the kids, and doing housework. When your mother was sick for half a year, it was Shuping who took care of her for several months and gave her a call."
"What have you done, Lin Yongnian? You just work, and when you go home you sit there and wait for food and drinks like a boss. What qualifications do you have to say that Shuping is eating for free?"
Lin Yongnian: “I…”
"Old Lin, stop quibbling and apologize to your wife right away."
"That's right, apologize quickly. Shu Ping has taken good care of your uncle, and you guys are just making a fool of yourself."
Lin Yongnian was so frustrated by his neighbors that he had to hold back his anger and apologize, "It's my fault, old lady. I shouldn't have said that you are a freeloader. I'm sorry. Don't be angry."
놛This is the first time I have apologized to someone in my life. 놛I hope Li Shuping can stop while she is ahead and not get ahead of herself.
Old Mrs. Li raised her head and glared at her fiercely. She admitted her mistake and shouldn't have said that she was a freeloader. But she knew that she still believed this in her heart and would not change.
After all, in the following years, she had said these words many times, and she felt that she was being supported by her and her sons.
She suddenly realized one thing. In fact, the children's attitude towards her was completely influenced by Lin Yongnian.
She never took her own responsibility and thought that whatever she did was her duty. She spoke to her in an impatient and lecturing tone, saying that she did not do well here or there, and she never avoided the children.
The children also followed suit, and the two daughters-in-law followed the children. After all, if the sons don’t respect their own mothers, how can the daughters-in-law respect them?
"You're not wrong..." Old Lady Li shook her head and said, "It's my fault. I was blind to marry you, Lin Yongnian, and I humbled myself to be a servant and a nanny for your old Lin family."
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