Wang Chunting sneered, her eyes full of disdain: "She can stay at home for the Lantern Festival, but we have to come here with ambition to ask for a birthday party. How is that fair?"
"I told you during the Lunar New Year that it would be inconvenient for me to come over because I was pregnant. What are you making such a fuss about?"
Xiang Liguo really doesn't understand his wife's train of thought.
He just felt that his wife was just looking for trouble, and that a one-year-old birthday party could cause so much trouble.
Besides, it's not like Mom didn't agree to the birthday party. Didn't she say we wanted to do it properly? No matter how many people Wang Chunting invited, Mom agreed. What's there to argue about?
Wang Chunting was unhappy. She hugged Xiang Youzhi to comfort him, but she was not forgiving: "I just can't stand the third daughter-in-law being idle at home, so we have to fawn over and please mother. Mother is biased!"
What's the point of an eight-month pregnant woman not melting the snow? People are coming on a big day like the New Year!
It's impossible to talk to her.
Xiang Liguo had no other choice but to stop trying to reason with Wang Chunting and just focus on coaxing his daughter.
Wang Chunting was very unconvinced and said, "I was more than seven months pregnant at the time, and my mother still made me go to work. I asked for the job myself. Now An You's belly is just as big as mine, so why should he be able to stay at home?"
She started to talk about the grievances she had suffered:
"We aspire to be the eldest son and grandson! If we hadn't come to us with such humility, would Mother-in-law have given us a birthday party? She has no such intention at all, and you still think you're being fair!"
What's wrong with Anyou being pregnant? I'm also going to work while pregnant, and she can't even come to eat? She's so spoiled!
And you too, mom bought them bicycles, but I gave birth to my eldest son and grandson, and mom didn't even give us a bicycle. How is that fair?"
Xiang Liguo had endured everything else, but when he heard this, he couldn't help but retort: "Then why don't you say that our house is bigger than the third brother's?"
The two of them lived in a three-bedroom, one-living-room apartment in the steel plant, while the third child, Xiang Lidang, could only live in apartment 202.
The baby is about to be born in eight months, and we don’t know where to take care of it because there is no room for Anyou’s mother to stay and it is inconvenient to take care of the baby in the middle of the night.
"That's because the third brother is incompetent. He didn't get a house himself. It has nothing to do with me. Besides, as soon as I married in, mother was in charge of your money. It was only after I gave birth to two children that mother gave it to me. Why should An You be able to control the third brother's money as soon as she married in?"
Wang Chunting has always been concerned about this.
Is she a mean person? After fighting for several years of treatment, An You's mother-in-law gave her the same treatment as soon as she entered the house.
In the biting cold wind, Wang Chunting cried with tears streaming down her face.
It’s like a person who has worked for two years, completed several projects, and finally became a veteran employee, but unexpectedly, a new person comes in and gets the same salary and benefits as himself.
It's even better. Why does An You have a car and a house, but she doesn't even have a car!
The resentment and resentment made her feel uncomfortable.
Seeing his daughter-in-law crying, Xiang Liguo had no choice but to hold his daughter with one hand and wipe her tears with the other.
He softened his tone and soothed softly, "Alright, why are you crying over such a small thing? Everything is fine now, we're all family, why bother with so much?"
Xiang Liguo is the eldest brother in the family. He has a mild temper and rarely quarrels with his younger siblings. His wife used to be like this, but now she seems a little twisted.
Wang Chunting brushed off Xiang Liguo's hand and said aggrievedly, "You're always so careless. Wasn't it for you that I tried so hard to give birth to a boy?"
When she mentioned this, Xiang Liguo thought of how she risked her life to give birth to Xiang Youzhi, and how she almost suffered a severe hemorrhage during childbirth. Even if she had no credit, she had worked hard.
He felt even softer in the heart. The scar on his wife's belly did not scare him. Instead, he felt that it was proof of his wife's love for him.
Xiang Liguo came over, hugged his wife with a satisfied smile, and said, "Yes, my wife is the best to me. Don't be angry with mother. We are living a good life now. How about we think about buying something for our son's first birthday party?"
The original practice of "Zhuazhou" (grabbing the week-old child) at the first birthday party has been simplified to parents giving something to express their thoughts.
Wang Chunting spoke out everything in her heart, and she felt much better. She was a little shy at the moment, so she whispered, "What do you want to give as a gift?"
There aren't many things you can buy for a boy.
Xiang Lidang said proudly, "When I was one year old, my father gave me a wooden sword. Why don't we give our son a fountain pen now?"
He still keeps that wooden sword and paints it regularly for maintenance.
The items for the first birthday party are very important in meaning, and families with a little means will try their best to buy good things for their children.
A fountain pen symbolizes culture, and your child can use it when he or she grows up. It is a very good first birthday gift.
Wang Chunting's eyes flickered as she mumbled, "Youzhi is the eldest son. How can we just send him away with a pen? How about getting him a gold lock?"
She felt that Youzhi was the eldest son and grandson in the family, so his first birthday party should be something different.
Her mother Ming Erni gave her job at the gold and silver counter to her niece Wang Huilan. Now the Xiang family has 15 apartments for rent. It's not too much to ask her mother to spend some money to buy a gold lock, right?
Xiang Liguo objected immediately when he heard this: "A gold locket must cost at least several dozen dollars. It's too expensive. No, no, a child can't hold it."
He didn't expect that his wife was setting her sights on Zhang Jidi.
I just thought Wang Chunting wanted to buy a gold locket for her son to show off and make him look good.
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