Chapter 7: In-laws
With the resolution of the contradiction between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, the contradiction between husband and wife, especially in the face of the seven-year itch, Xia Yu felt that he and Zhang Shan had been arguing constantly for half a year, and they were very depressed anyway. Sometimes the contradictions between husband and wife between in-laws are also excessive, and there is a tendency to become more and more intense, which further proves the universality of contradictions, and there are contradictions from time to time, and there are contradictions in everything.
At noon the next day, mother-in-law Li Man asked Xia Yu's family to go over for dinner, and after Xia Yu entered the room, she helped her mother-in-law Li Man serve food and vegetables, and she ate well, but her mother-in-law Li Man accused her heinous husband in front of her son and daughter-in-law.
Mother-in-law Li Man put down her chopsticks and complained to her own son Zhang Shan with a sad and aggrieved face: "Xiaoshan, your father is really not a thing. Not only do I not do anything every day, but I am lazy to do it. ”
Xia Yu agrees in his heart, doesn't he? Your son is also so industrious.
Mother-in-law Li Man: "Zhang Gui, this old thing, is selfish and ruthless, and often scolds me loudly and yells at me for no reason, and loses his temper at every turn, I think he has mania and can't be saved." The noise is so loud that the whole building knows how to raise its voice, and the neighbors are talking about it, and I also want to be embarrassed. ”
Xia Yu ate the bamboo shoots without saying a word, nodding in his heart, isn't it? Otherwise, why did you insist on separating, isn't it that it is really difficult to get along with Zhang Gui and Li Man, thinking that it is good to live far away, and the well water does not interfere with the river water
In fact, father-in-law Zhang Gui is not as unbearable as his mother-in-law Li Man said, father-in-law is sometimes very generous, no matter how his mother-in-law complains, his father-in-law is silent most of the time.
The mother-in-law is still complaining: "This life is really unbearable, Zhang Gui, I will tell you today that this house was bought for me by my son, and it has nothing to do with you."
You get out of here, whether you go out to work or live on the streets, I don't want to care about you, I'll cook by myself. I was really blind at the beginning, just to marry you, a selfish and lazy man, I have been tired all my life, I have not lived a light life, everything I have now is given by my son, and it has nothing to do with you. I'm in my sixties now, I don't want to be a free babysitter for you, and I won't use a penny from you, you get out. ”
Xia Yu laughed secretly in his heart when he heard it, Mother-in-law, you seem to have forgotten that I also paid for it. But mother-in-law, we are really all like-minded people, I have wanted to kick your son out and live with you many times, and sometimes I really don't want to serve your son anymore and be a paid nanny.
Xia Yu has been muffled and silent, Xiaoyuan watched cartoons in the living room and gnawed chicken wings, Zhang Shan has always been Li Man's strong backer, and he has always stood on the same front of Li Man and began to criticize his father: "Dad, you have been self-centered since you were a child, it's really not good, you see that you have gone out to work for so many years in your life, do you have any old friends to get along, none of them."
This is where you are a very bad person, and you are very bad with people outside, and you know that you are in the nest of the house.
Mom has been so fortunate all her life, can't you be considerate? Do you have to make the whole building hear it? If you make a fuss like this, others will listen to your family as a joke, do you think it's okay? ”
Zhang Gui was very depressed under the joint criticism of his son and wife, and at the same time he was not convinced: "You know that I just scolded your mother twice, and you will have to pay it back ten times and a hundred times, and you have been talking all morning, which one is the murderer?" ”
Zhang Shan: "You are like this, you can never see your own shortcomings. I know that I don't do anything at home, I remember now, when the farm was busy in the past, you went to play cards, and my mother went to do farm work alone, and you went home at noon and made a lot of noise, why didn't my mother cook for you? Is there a man like you? has no sense of responsibility, if you don't do, you have to eat ready-made, and if you can't eat, you have to make a lot of noise.
It's clear that you're wrong, and you don't realize it or admit it, you think you're the king. Why do you want others to serve you, and if you don't do a good job, you have to endure your random abuse? Grandpa used to be like this, it's genetic, you really have to change it. ”
When Xia Yu heard this, he raised his head and looked at his husband squeezing his eyebrows, raising his chin and nostrils facing the sky, and smiling meaningfully, the subtext was: You also know heredity, you had better reflect on what you said about your father.
Zhang Shan obviously fell into a realm of self-centeredness, and actually said to Xia Yu shamelessly: "What are you laughing at, I know what you have to say, you listen and reflect on your own situation." ”
Xia Yu competed with each other: "I want to say this sentence to you, you are lazy and arrogant, let me tell you, if it weren't for my good temper and broad-mindedness, I would have divorced you thousands of times." ”
As soon as Xia Yu said this, Zhang Gui, who was not careful, and Li Man, who was full of resentment, couldn't help laughing, and they also felt that it was a little inappropriate to be like this in front of their daughter-in-law.
Xia Yu smiled and said: "Mom and Dad, if you are tired and annoyed and don't want to cook, come to my house, anyway, the food for three people is cooked, and the food for five people is also cooked."
If you are really unhappy, you will go shopping to buy clothes and eat out, so that you will always feel better.
As for Zhang Shan, they all said that eating people with a soft mouth and short hands are short, you take my money to eat my food, you'd better give me a softer mouth, don't let me drive you to your parents' house to live. ”
As soon as Xia Yu said that, he successfully transferred the contradiction between his in-laws, his in-laws and Zhang Shan no longer criticized Zhang Gui, and Xia Yu also came to the living room with a meal to feed his son.
Although the crisis of the in-laws has been resolved this time, but after all, they have been married for decades, and the husband and wife quarreled, and directly shook out the things that happened to Chen Sesame and rotten grain decades ago, Xia Yu has almost always remained silent is golden, after all, compared to the mother-in-law who is narrow-minded and loves to hold grudges, it is still easier for the father-in-law and Xia Yu to get along, Zhang Gui is still quite generous, but he is more straightforward and straightforward, and he is not angry with his mother-in-law Li Man who often puts on a stinky face. Zhang Shan unswervingly stood on Li Man's side to bully Zhang Gui.
The most interesting thing is Xiaoyuan, I don't know why this kid is so strange? Every time I encountered my parents arguing with my grandmother and grandfather, I helped my grandfather and father, and yelled at Li Man and Xia Yu with a bored face: "Don't say it, stop arguing." ”
Then he succeeded in making the adults laugh, but he still cared about Zhang Shan's straight male cancer Xia Yu, and he hated it more and more.
When he got home in the evening, Xia Yu was in a depressed mood and was not in the mood to cook, so he sent the father and son away directly with pork balls and noodles. At night, Zhang Shan saw that there was no prepared fruit in the refrigerator, and Xia Yu did not wash his underwear, Zhang Shan washed his underwear and clothes, and felt that his living standard had plummeted, and he had directly degraded to the appearance before marriage.
Zhang Shan understands that this is Xia Yu's silent protest and remembers the hatred of the day before yesterday, aren't you very capable? Don't you despise me? Then do it yourself.
The next morning, while Xiaoyuan was still sleeping, he quietly woke up Xia Yu, pulled Xia Yu to sleep in the small bedroom, and interacted with him, Zhang Shan said gently: "I know that you haven't gone out to relax because of all kinds of things at home this year, I know that you take your children to suppress hard work, I shouldn't say you, you wait a few days, I have annual leave, you search at home, where can we go on vacation?" ”
Hearing Zhang Shan's thoughtful apology, Xia Yu nodded forgivingly: "Well, I want to sleep this morning, you go out to eat." ”
Zhang Shan got up and dressed lightly, and Xia Yu continued to sleep.
When Zhang Shan and Xia Yu arranged the vacation, Zhang Shan's sister Zhang Yan called and said that she would come back to play for a few days in a few days.
Zhang Shan is very happy that his sister is back, Zhang Shan and Xia Yu also understand that my sister and brother-in-law are now taking a junior high school student and going to work every week, which is really hard, Zhang Shan's sister has to go back to her parents' house almost every two months, mainly because she wants to escape from her family's tired and stressful life, and wants to go back to her parents' house to live a day when she has clothes to stretch out her hands and eat to open her mouth, this kind of psychology Xia Yu understands very much, and Zhang Shan also understands.
is also a woman's mother, Xia Yu is very able to understand Zhang Yan's depressed and tired mood, so every time her sister, brother-in-law and niece come back, Xia Yu will buy a lot of delicious things, help her mother-in-law cook, and entertain her sister and brother-in-law to have a good rest. Xia Yu Zhang Shan and his sister and sister-in-law's family are similar in nature, and the property situation is also half a catty, the two families are doing well, there is no sleep who drags down who helps whom, there is no conflict of interest between the two families who are evenly matched, plus the in-laws can be people, the emotional intelligence of the two families is also good, and the relationship between everyone is very good.
When Zhang Yan came back with her husband and daughter, Zhang Yan and her brother-in-law lived in her in-laws' house, and her niece Shishi, who had the best relationship with Xia Yu, followed Xia Yu to live in her aunt's house. Just as Zhang Yan wants to escape from the role of being a mother, her niece Shishi also wants to escape from the arranged and controlled family life. Every time I go back to my grandmother's house, I kiss my aunt, mainly because my aunt will buy Shishi's favorite snacks and fruits, and talk to my aunt, my aunt can agree with her point of view, Shishi has been very close to Xia Yu since she first saw Xia Yu, and this is also the fate of the two.
I still remember that Xia Yu and Zhang Shan had only gone on a blind date once or twice, and the first thing Shishi said when she was only seven or eight years old when she saw Xia Yu was: "Uncle, hello, I'm Shishi." ”
Xia Yu was shocked at the time, and Zhang Shan's family was even more shocked, after all, there were so many blind dates before, and the poems and poems at a young age were always all kinds of dislikes like little adults.
This one is not pretty.
This one is too fierce.
This one is too short.
This one is so untemperamental.
Tong Yan Wuji's poems have helped his uncle Zhang Shan make a lot of choices many times.
Xia Yu didn't know how his ordinary appearance was recognized by the young poet. After Xia Yu and Zhang Shan got married, the relationship between the two was very close, not so much as an aunt and niece, in fact, the two were like best friends.
Xia Yu always listened patiently to Shishi's somewhat childish heart, Shishi always shared with Xia Yu the interpersonal interactions of her classmates and friends, and was willing to respect her ideas and treat her Shishi with an equal attitude. Shishi felt very comfortable here in Xia Yu's house.