Chapter 541: Talking about my mother-in-law's house
The sisters finally turned over their bags, from the inside to the outside, from top to bottom, and even the latest silk flowers on their heads had several, and finally re-folded and packed up neatly and put them in the bags with satisfaction.
"Fourth sister! Let's say hello to the third sister and go back! ”
"Let's go back first! The third sister is talking to the second aunt! I haven't seen them for so long, and it's probably going to be a long time, so let's not interrupt them. ”
The mother and daughter in the back room did have a lively conversation, and whoever went in to interrupt them, I was afraid that the mother would not be happy.
"So your mother-in-law doesn't have any elder shelves? Then you're really lucky, even I'm afraid I can't treat my daughter-in-law as equally. However, you have to remember that no matter how kind your mother-in-law is, you must not forget that you are a junior, and you can't have no rules in your attitude of speaking and doing things. ”
"Mother, don't worry! He told me everything, mother-in-law, she is easy to say anything, but she is very disgusted with people who are not satisfied, he asked me not to think about it in front of my mother-in-law! The other mothers-in-law didn't really care. However, I'm not a fool, my mother-in-law is good to me, of course I won't be ignorant, I have to have nothing to do with my mother-in-law. ”
Lingzhu Niang happily only patted the back of her daughter's hand: "Girl! If you can be so reasonable, you won't be sorry for your mother and me for teaching you for so many years. You are really a blessed life, at that time, the two sisters of your cousin's mother's family lived so well in the Wang family, I don't know how many mothers I envied. When your cousin-in-law asked me to help you find a mother-in-law, I silently thought that it would be good if I could marry into the mother-in-law of her two younger sisters. Later, the Wang family didn't know when they were already optimistic about you. Your cousin-in-law just told me that the family she introduced was the Wang family that her two younger sisters married, and I was excited to come back immediately to tell you about this great good thing, and she later told me about other things in your mother-in-law's family. I didn't listen very carefully."
Jiang Lingzhu: "Hehe! Laughing, she still remembered that incident, and her mother ran back in a hurry, grabbed her, looked at her face and laughed violently, laughing silly and terrifyingly. Her mother's almost crazy appearance scared her a lot at the time. It's still funny when I think about it.
She smiled as she took out a stack of silver tickets given to her by her mother-in-law, counted thirty silver tickets of one hundred taels, and handed them to her mother: "Mother! This time, my mother-in-law asked my husband and I to come over to live here for a while. He also gave me 10,000 taels of silver tickets for living expenses. In addition to buying a little gift from your father and my grandfather and grandmother, I spent less than a thousand taels of silver tickets, and nine thousand taels of silver for us to live on. You know, even if we have a few guards. I don't need such money. I will leave 6,000 taels for living expenses, and these 3,000 taels will be used for you as private money. ”
Lingzhu Niang saw her daughter take out so many silver tickets at once, and she was stunned at that time, and when she saw her daughter fluttering, she wanted to give herself three thousand taels of silver tickets. Although I was happy in my heart, my first reaction was that this silver was the living expenses given to her daughter by her mother-in-law, and she couldn't ask for it no matter how much or how little she gave.
"Spirit Beads! Your mother-in-law is rich and generous, and is willing to give you so much money to live, but you can't be too lavish. This is also given to that, and no amount of money can withstand you being so bad. My mother told you before. The family is not short of money, and you don't need to give your mother money. ”
Jiang Lingzhu saw that her mother's attitude was resolute, and she couldn't react for a while, and said sneeringly: "Mother! I just want to honor you, not to others! ”
Lingzhu Niang said to her daughter very strictly: "If you really want to honor your mother and me, just use the money you earn, and your mother and I will never shirk." It's just that if you take the living expenses given to you by your mother-in-law to honor your own mother-in-law, you will only be looked down upon, and I will be looked down upon by people even if I receive your money. If my mother can't live anymore, I may want your filial piety out of desperation, but our family really doesn't need this kind of life. You put away the silver bills, and every penny you spend in the future must be accounted for, not to avoid suspicion from your mother-in-law, but mainly to let your son-in-law know that you are not spending money indiscriminately. Sometimes husbands and wives will turn against each other because of money, and you must pay attention to this. ”
Jiang Lingzhu heard what her mother said, and she was a little anxious: "It's not what you said!" My mother-in-law said that our family does not have the habit of giving out monthly money, so she gave me so much at one time and spent it myself. If I don't have enough money, I will ask my husband first, and she will give it to me when I go back. My mother-in-law also said that at the end of the year, the annual income share will be put into our respective hands, and she will not care about our living expenses in the future. ”
Lingzhu Niang was shocked, "What! Your mother-in-law is about to break up? ”
"It's not a separation, it's a division of income. The way my mother-in-law takes care of the house is different from that of my grandmother and grandfather, and all the income of our family goes to the public account, and each person pays a monthly bill. But my mother-in-law's approach is that before starting a family, you can ask your mother-in-law for money if you want to spend money, and there is no share. After we got married, we kept seven of our annual income as storage, and the remaining three were equally divided into our small families for daily life and spending. We'll start this year and get a share at the end of the year. Although my mother-in-law also said that the accounts of our small family should also be recorded clearly. However, she didn't mean what you said, to avoid suspicion. She simply gave us a place to come from or go in the money, and she said that the bigger the family business, the less we should be confused about money. ”
"My mother! Your mother-in-law is really enough to open up, not only do you not take your mother-in-law's money in other aspects, but you also don't control you in this money, this is not an ordinary amount of energy. I heard that your mother-in-law has been in charge of the family since she arrived at the Wang family, and she is still in charge of the affairs of the Wang family until now, which is not unreasonable. With your mother-in-law's bearing, even the prime minister who can support the boat in his belly is nothing more than that. ”
Lingzhu Niang is a daughter-in-law who has lived in the hands of her mother-in-law for more than ten years, and she is still begging for a living in the hands of her mother-in-law until now. This compliment is also a heartfelt sigh, and she thinks she can't do this.
Hearing her mother praise her mother-in-law, Jiang Lingzhu was completely proud of it, which was not enough: "Mother! Not only the mother-in-law is generous, but also the uncles and aunts, cousins and aunts, brothers and sisters-in-law, and cousins and sisters-in-law in the family are all generous people. The family values family affection very much, and it seems to be taken for granted to help the brothers do things. I wasn't used to it at first, so I excused myself a few times, and my parents-in-law said that I couldn't be so rusty with the family. ”
The more Lingzhu Niang listened, the more she felt that it was a great blessing for her daughter to marry into the Wang family, and their Wang family was so good to her daughter, of course she also wanted to repay her son-in-law for her kindness. So he discussed with his daughter: "Lingzhu! You and your son-in-law stay at home for a while longer, and your mother cooks some delicious food for the two of you alone in the kitchenette. ”
Speaking of making good food, Jiang Lingzhu remembered what her mother-in-law had explained, and hurriedly said to her mother: "That's right, mother!" You see if there is a good mother-in-law at home, arrange one for me. My mother-in-law said that I can't cook by myself, so I asked you to pick a mother-in-law who is over forty years old and has good rules to help me cook and wash clothes. If you don't have a suitable one at home, you can buy one for me. Young girls must not be sent to my house, or my mother-in-law will be angry. ”
Lingzhu Niang suddenly heard that the young woman couldn't ask for it, and her stomach hurt with a straight smile: "Ouch! Why is your mother-in-law afraid of having a young servant in the house?! If there is really that irregularity, just kill or sell it. Is it so dead to be guarded against? At that time, when your cousin-in-law didn't let me arrange a slave to marry, I thought it was your mother-in-law who was cautious, but I didn't expect her to be really strict enough. ”
Jiang Lingzhu was anxious when she saw her mother-in-law laughing at her mother-in-law's behavior, grabbing her mother's arm with both hands and shaking: "Mother! Don't let you laugh like that, my mother-in-law treats people well. There are two mothers-in-law in the family, and the mother-in-law never scolds them, how can she beat people to death? My mother-in-law said: Water flows to a lower place and people go to a higher place, which is the instinct of all things to survive. Since our family can't give others that luxury, we shouldn't recruit people to our homes to flirt with and transfer people. That will end up hurting others and yourself! Therefore, if we want to find a slave or maid, we must find the kind of middle-aged woman whose heart is basically stable to come to the house. ”
Lingzhu Niang listened to her daughter's words and thought deeply for a while before she sighed and patted her daughter's hand and said, "Your mother-in-law is a really good person, and she looks at things more profoundly than others. You can be her daughter-in-law, which is really a rare blessing among women. ”
The mother and daughter were still muttering and laughing and sighing, Lingzhu's father returned home from a business trip, and heard that his daughter came back to her parents' house with her son-in-law, and after seeing her son-in-law playing chess with the old man in the front yard, he hurried back to his yard to meet his daughter.
"Why are the spirit beads thin? But how are you doing at your in-laws' house? ”
Lingzhu Niang hurriedly replied: "Your daughter is married to the right person, how can she have a bad time?!" She couldn't get used to the summer over there, she couldn't sleep after eating, and as soon as she lost a little weight, her mother-in-law was distressed and asked the couple to come back for a while. ”
Lingzhu's father saw that his daughter also smiled and nodded, without the slightest hint of implicit grievance, so he nodded reassuringly. Then he asked, "I heard that you haven't visited your grandmother since you came back, what's the matter?" ”
"Daddy! I married out and was an outsider, and there was a rule at my mother-in-law's house that I couldn't visit the elderly after lunch. I missed my mother today, so I didn't come from my new house, so I came directly. I didn't expect that it was already past lunch time when I got home, so I didn't plan to visit my grandmother today, and I was going to go to her old man's house with my husband early tomorrow morning to say goodbye. ”
"Oh! No wonder your grandfather was playing chess with your son-in-law's child in the front yard, and haven't you and your son-in-law met your grandfather yet? ”
"Yes! We haven't met our grandfather yet! ”
"Oh! No wonder! ”
Lingzhu's father was still wondering why the old man ran to the front yard today, it turned out that it was inconvenient for the son-in-law to go to see the old man, so the old man ran to the front to accompany his grandson-in-law. (To be continued.) )
ps: There will be a second watch today, but it will be a little late. It's best not to wait, so as not to rest too late and affect your health!