The community doctor looked at the child, put his hand under his chin, and said calmly: "If the child is not crying, vomiting or drowsiness for a while, it is not a big problem." ”

The mother-in-law walked out of the clinic with the child in her arms, Li Xiaocan blamed herself so much that she didn't dare to say anything, and her son was still crying, but it was no longer the heartbreaking it was before, and it seemed that the pain had been reduced.

"You are so careless, how can you be a mother? How can there be such a big-hearted mother, looking at him can make him fall! A hundred people can't pick out someone like you! When will your carelessness be corrected? The ancestral graves are buried in carelessness! The mother-in-law walked to the front with the child in her arms, and greeted Li Xiaocan's ancestors by the way.

Mother-in-law's poisonous tongue, Li Xiaocan has not been taught, but she is not easy to resist, after all, the fault of this matter is in herself. Once she resists, her mother-in-law will say that she "loves face and can't listen to half a word of criticism".

Li Xiaocan sighed heavily in his heart, in this family, there is Zhang Gang, who absolutely supports his mother-in-law, and his father-in-law, who is too cowardly to say a word, and no one will help him.

She can't be like Zhang Yuling, who can fight fearlessly and quarrel without scruples, because Zhang Yuling has an economic foundation, a mother's family to support, and parents to take care of children. But Li Xiaocan didn't, once she tore her face with her mother-in-law, she had no way out.

Only forbearance, no matter how much disgust you have, you have to press it in the bottom of your heart. It is necessary to earn and save money, otherwise, she has no weapons at all.

The mother-in-law carried the child into the door, and said to her father-in-law: "In the future, we will both come to take the child, don't go out to do things", and turned to Li Xiaocan, and said in a commanding tone instead of a negotiation: "Xiaocan, in the future, you will give me and your father 2,000 living expenses every month, and the two of us will take the child and watch the child every inch 24 hours a day, so that there will be no mistakes." If you are careless like you, the child is too sinful! You don't feel sorry for your son, I still feel sorry for my grandson! ”

Li Xiaocanmu was there, and quickly calculated it in her heart - her monthly salary is 5,000, renting a house is 1,000, living expenses are 1,000, milk powder is 2,000, diapers are 500, living expenses, water, electricity, Internet fees, transportation and phone bills add up to 500, plus her in-laws' 2,000, the monthly salary is completely insufficient! Isn't that what a strong man does?

Li Xiaocan's own living expenses, before her in-laws came, she bought vegetables and cooked for only 600, and her parents-in-law didn't pay rent and miscellaneous expenses, only ate, how could she need so much money?

Li Xiaocan's account can't match, and he is worried for a while, how difficult it is to make money in this society! It is easy for the mother-in-law to open her mouth and "ask for money", but it is not easy for Li Xiaocan to quickly increase her salary from 5,000 to 7,000! Only the supervisor has this salary, but how many people are eyeing the position of the supervisor! How many old employees are staring, not to mention that she has been delayed for more than a year to give birth to a child in the middle.

Li Xiaocan's face was embarrassed, and her mother-in-law saw it, and her mother-in-law thought that Li Xiaocan was unhappy, so she changed her words: "It's valuable to hire a nanny now, the salary of the confinement sister-in-law is tens of thousands, and it is not as intimate as I brought it myself, right?" If you don't want to, then when I don't say anything, you can take care of the children yourself! But if something goes wrong with the child, don't cry in front of me! ”

The mother-in-law used this kind of thing to scold Li Xiaocan again. Zhang Gang does not regard taking care of children and doing housework as his scope of responsibility at all, but his father-in-law is different, his father-in-law is self-employed, he does half a day off, buys vegetables, cooks, washes dishes, mops the floor, and holds the children when he is free. Although my father-in-law has a cowardly personality, he is very hardworking and has a good temper, and can help his mother-in-law with most of the housework.

If Li Xiaocan took the child, she had no helper, and she was the only one who turned the axis 24 hours a day, so Li Xiaocan didn't dare to answer, so she had to say: "Then I'll discuss it with Zhang Gang." ”

The child stopped crying, and fell asleep after eating the milk and playing for a while. There was nothing out of the ordinary, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

After dinner, Li Xiaocan hid outside and called Zhang Gang and told his mother-in-law what he proposed, Zhang Gang said without thinking: "Well, okay, Dad is old, and the work outside is too hard, so it's not bad for them to take care of their children at home!" Now that the old man is in good health, it is equivalent to earning us money! It's not that you don't know, now as soon as you get sick, you go back to the pre-liberation period. ”

Li Xiaocan didn't expect that Zhang Gang, who had always felt sorry for her, actually agreed with his mother-in-law's opinion, and finally found a breakthrough after suffering a stomach of resentment from his mother-in-law, so he asked Zhang Gang again and again: "My own monthly living expenses plus rent are only 1,000 and 6, your parents don't have to pay rent, they spend 2,000 a month, have you calculated my expenses and salary?!" You have to be filial to your parents, please don't pull me up! If you can get up to 2,000 yourself, I'll say nothing! ”

When Zhang Gang heard this, he exploded: "Li Xiaocan, my parents have worked hard to bring us children, what's wrong with two thousand a month?" Two thousand for two people is not too much! How much they have paid for us, it is appropriate to give two thousand hardship fees! ”

Li Xiaocan sneered for a while, and said sarcastically: "Hmph, your parents give a lot!" My cousin got married, and her in-laws paid 600,000 yuan; My cousin got married, and her in-laws paid 300,000 yuan. Our minimum down payment of 170,000 yuan, and we have to repay hundreds of thousands of foreign debts ourselves, plus housing loans and car loans, your parents don't think about us at all, how hard we are living now, don't you know yourself?! ”

"Li Xiaocan, I'm really blind, I didn't expect you to be so selfish and only care about yourself! How many people in this world dislike their parents for giving less? My parents are tired of taking care of our children, and you are still here to say that they are not good, do you have a conscience? Zhang Ganggang yelled, and his voice became louder, as if he was going to blow through Li Xiaocan's eardrums, and he couldn't wait to jump out of the phone and quarrel with Li Xiaocan.

"Zhang Gang, am I selfish? Hmph, I've never seen a parent like your parents who don't think about their children! Parents in the world, how can they ask their daughters-in-law for money? The daughter-in-law is an outsider, so she doesn't feel distressed when she uses the money, right? Don't keep saying that the child is brought by them, this child's surname is Zhang, he is their grandson, he has their bloodline, and they have this obligation! It doesn't matter if they recognize it or not, I can bring it, but the child must have my last name! Will your father and mother treat me as a family in the future? With a child, the calculation is so clear, there are a lot of conditions, and we have to pay off the debts ourselves, and we have to be father-in-law to do nothing, and we have to pay for living expenses! I don't care about living expenses, and two people can't eat much, but that's 2,000 real money, what's the difference between a mortgage and a car loan?! Family, is it interesting to settle the accounts so clearly? ”

"Li Xiaocan, don't 'your father and your mother', you don't treat them as your own family at all, if your parents ask you for two thousand, you will definitely not complain! It's not easy for my parents to raise me! You always dislike them for giving less, it's really cold! Zhang Gang felt that Li Xiaocan had become selfish and unreasonable.

"Zhang Gang, you are really stupid! If you have the ability, you can give it yourself, two thousand a month, sorry, I really can't afford it? You have money, give them 100,000 a month, and I don't mind! Your parents are not so old that they can't move, two people who are not yet fifty years old, with a child more than one year old, is indeed more than enough. Li Xiaocan had no choice but to make money to stimulate Zhang Gang. Since you think it is natural to give money to your parents regardless of the situation, it is also natural for men to earn money to support their families.

"Okay, I'll pay, I'll pay! When I can afford it, I will take my parents over and sell the house in Wuhan, and you can take the child away! Zhang Gang left behind a concise sentence.

"What do you mean?" Li Xiaocan was a little confused.

"I don't need you to raise children, I don't need you to raise parents, what else do I want you to do?! As soon as the house is sold, the money is penny, you take the children, we have our own lives! I've had enough of you! Zhang Gang's anger and heavy economic pressure between his daughter-in-law and his own mother made him unable to digest his negative energy, and he broke out all of a sudden and filed for divorce.

Li Xiaocan was so shocked that she couldn't speak, no matter how noisy she and Zhang Gang were before, Zhang Gang couldn't say the word "divorce", but this time, he really mentioned it!

Li Xiaocan panicked, didn't know how to respond, and said after a while: "You calm down, don't be impulsive!" ”

"Treat your sister coldly! When my salary goes up, I'll go back and sell the house right away! Don't go back, sign it! Zhang Gang was already yelling hysterically.

Li Xiaocan didn't expect that the dispute caused by her in-laws' demand for 2,000 living expenses became the last straw that crushed Zhang Gang. Zhang Gang, who returned you and me a while ago, actually scolded her.

Li Xiaocan held his mobile phone, looked at the traffic outside, and suddenly felt that everything was so unreal. The sounds around him disappeared, like a silent movie. There is a little boy in the alley who is shooting a ball, not far away there is a vegetable stall owner and customers bargaining, the old man on a bicycle, wearing a jacket and riding a small electric donkey quickly The takeaway brother passed in front of her eyes one by one.

Her mind was a mess, why was this happening? What went wrong? Scold now, will there be domestic violence in the future? What about the child? What now?

Countless question marks swirled in her mind, and she was like a person trapped in a labyrinth, unable to find an exit......

I don't know how long she stood like this, but she felt a little tired and sat down. There was a staircase at her feet, and she sat down like this, holding her hands on her chest, like a child, with empty eyes in her eyes, despite the dirtiness of being trampled on and spitting on the steps, and ignoring the eyes of passers-by.

It wasn't until her phone rang that she woke up suddenly, and looking at the pedestrians coming and going, she felt like she had a long dream.

When I looked at my phone, my mother-in-law called, and my mother-in-law's dissatisfied voice came: "Where did you go?" Haven't come back for so long? It's such a big person, and it still worries us! Worry about the small one, and worry about the big one! ”

Li Xiaocan said numbly: "Okay, I'll come back." Mother-in-law's words, on the surface, are concerned, but in fact they are disgusted, because they feel that Li Xiaocan has caused her trouble. Why can't Li Xiaocan understand?

It's just that she doesn't want to say anything more, and it's in vain to say anything. She stood up, only to realize that her legs were numb, unconscious, and shook a few times before she could stand firmly.

Li Xiaocan returned to the rental house reluctantly, and the cramped and crowded space was so oppressive that she couldn't breathe. She suddenly wanted to go to the deserted prairie and roar.

But she finally held back.

"Come, fetch water, find clothes, and bathe the baby." The mother-in-law didn't notice that Li Xiaocan was wrong, and beckoned Li Xiaocan to give her a hand.

Li Xiaocan's thoughts were quickly pulled back to the cumbersome and specific reality in front of him. She went into the bathroom, put down the tub, unscrewed the shower, adjusted the water temperature, and went to the closet to find the baby's change of clothes.

She was as calm as a nobody, and she couldn't tell that this was a frustrated woman whose marriage was on the verge of collapse.