Originally, the fourth child in the family was going to get married, and the three of us sisters-in-law were all waiting and watching, hoping that she would find someone capable and able to share the housework.
Unexpectedly, my mother-in-law said that she wanted to find an educated youth who could teach the children to read, and we were all worried.
What use were those educated youth? A large number of them had not graduated from high school, and there were three junior high school students in my family.
Speaking of this, I discovered that, except for him, all of Yang Zi's four brothers graduated from junior high school, and he was the only one who couldn't even get into the second grade after attending several years.
Yang Zi told me: "My mother just wants to find a daughter-in-law who is outstanding in all aspects and easy to handle. It's true that she wants to teach the children to go to school, but it's probably not certain if she will find a daughter-in-law for the fourth child."
What kind of logic is this? I really don't understand it.
I asked him, "Yangzi, is it possible that the fourth child is not mom's biological son? Do you know? Why doesn't he look like mom or you guys at all?"
"How should I know?" Yang Zi's face was a little flustered. "How old was I when the fourth child was born? How do I know if he is his parents' biological son?"
He usually tells me everything he knows, and tries his best to explain to me any doubts I have. But now his expression and the way he speaks make me feel that there must be something wrong.
It must be a shameful thing, otherwise he wouldn't have been so hesitant and not told me.
I tricked him: "You can't tell me whether the eldest brother and the second brother know about it? Will the eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law know about it?"
"How could I know?" Yang Zi immediately retorted, "Even I accidentally did this once..."
Okay, I understand. There is indeed something going on here. I guess except for my parents, Yang Zi is the only one in the family who accidentally saw or heard it at some point.
He smiled bitterly and said, "Wife, please don't lie to me. I really can't tell you about this. If I tell you nonsense, my mother will beat me to death. Please don't ask about it."
"Okay, okay, then I won't ask anymore." I said I understood, but in fact I already had a rough idea of what was going on.
It seems that my mother-in-law has no intention of finding a wife for the fourth son. I guess she just wants to keep a woman at home so that she can control the fourth son. After all, the fourth son now has a lot of allowances.
Another thing I want to do is find a teacher to teach my children how to read and do math, which is just a side thing.
We scolded my mother-in-law countless times behind her back, but we still resigned ourselves to looking for a wife for the fourth son.
After the previous experience of trying to trick Yang Zi, I started to be careful about everything and always care about the affairs of the fourth child in the family.
Especially when some aunts and mothers were chatting, I would just come over and get close to them and be intimate with them.
With me as a young gossip partner, they seemed to have found the fun of chatting and would talk to me about old times whenever they had nothing to do.
During a gossip chat, I pretended to let something slip and said to them, "Aunts, I heard my mother-in-law say before that our fourth child has been eating and using her for so many years, so what's wrong with her asking him for some allowance? She will still hold his wife in her hands in the future. Is there something going on here? Could it be that our fourth child is not my mother-in-law's biological son?"
"So it turns out that Yuanzheng's child is not yours. Your mother-in-law is really evil-hearted. To be honest, Yuanzheng not only doesn't owe her anything, but she actually owes him. She even has the nerve to ask Yuanzheng for an allowance. Her face is thicker than the sole of my shoe."
The aunt kept talking, and the people around her couldn't stop her. After she finished speaking, she finally reacted and warned me, "Yangzi's wife, this is all old news in the clan. The clan leader doesn't allow people to tell it outside. Don't say I told you."
"Don't worry, auntie. I promise I won't tell you. I just asked a few more questions because I felt a little strange."
I said this, but I was worried in my heart.
Since the fourth child is neither my mother-in-law's child nor my father-in-law's child, he was raised in our family as an extra child. In other words, he was adopted by my parents-in-law. How can we say that we don't owe them anything for the adopted child?
Could it be that his biological parents gave the family a large sum of money?
That's not right. Logically speaking, shouldn't the fourth child's parents give money to others to help raise their children? The favor of raising the child is greater, but the aunt said that my mother-in-law owed the fourth child. I really can't understand the twists and turns here.
When I got home, I threw the question directly to Yang Zi, "Yang Zi, tell me honestly, is the fourth child really our child? I heard the aunt in the clan say today that our mother has lost her conscience, and the fourth child doesn't owe the family anything, but it is our family that owes the fourth child. You go and ask clearly, anyway, I can't hold my head up anymore."
Yang Zi didn't dare to ask because the clan leader had told the aunts and mothers in the clan not to mention this matter. If anyone asked, it would probably be useless.
I just said it on purpose for Yang Zi to tell him that I knew it.
Unexpectedly, Yang Zi told me with a look of astonishment on his face: "Our family really owes the fourth child. What they said is right."
It seems like Yang Zi knows more than I thought, but he just won’t tell me. As expected, their relationship has deteriorated after seven years of marriage, right?
What the old people say is never wrong. Men will change over time, and it is impossible for you to always be as loving as when you first got married.
I turned my face away and ran away.
I was thinking to myself, it’s only been a few years and we no longer love each other. If it weren’t for the children, I would divorce you!
I didn't expect that he would bring back the mung bean cake I had always wanted to eat that night, and shamelessly pressed my shoulder, "Wife, don't you know what kind of temper I have? I wouldn't dare to lie to you even if I had ten times the courage. I really didn't dare to say it before, but now that you know everything, I will definitely tell you everything."
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