The old couple had a feeling of being looked down upon by their daughter-in-law. This feeling was very subtle. Only the person involved would feel that indescribable feeling. It was as if some city people said that everyone is equal.
Yes, but I despise country bumpkins in my heart.
It's always a terrible feeling, especially for the old couple, who are going to visit their son, help their daughter-in-law give birth, and even bring money with them.
But all the situations they encountered after arriving made them have an inexplicable feeling: they were not their son's elders at all, but old servants of his son's family! They were also old servants who made the hostess feel very unhappy.
It's really sad! As parents, instead of getting respect from their daughter-in-law, they are treated like old servants. This gap is huge and unacceptable, but they have to endure it. Who told them to come?
Help your son.
They can't just turn around and go back now, right? At this time, they discovered a problem. Even if they wanted to leave early, they couldn't because the flight back to China had been booked long ago. It was a round-trip ticket. If they wanted to leave early,
, you need to refund the ticket first and then book the ticket.
If you want to go through this procedure, you need to contact the relevant airlines, but here it is completely different from that in China. They can't do it. You need to let your son do it, because they have a complete language barrier with the outside world and are somewhat out of touch.
Because of their professional titles, the couple didn't learn relevant foreign languages. It's just that they didn't use them for many years after learning them, and basically forgot about them.
Even if they didn't forget, it would be of no use, because when they got there, they discovered that there was a certain gap between the foreign languages in books and the spoken foreign languages. They had been learning dumb foreign languages and couldn't speak them at all.
Even if they can find a place to practice their foreign language speaking, they will still find accent problems. There is still a big difference between the spoken language they learned before and the spoken language in reality. Sometimes they speak the same foreign language, but find that they are completely different from each other.
Can't understand.
This situation is really not friendly to the elderly. Even if they want to learn a foreign language, they will find it really difficult. The memory of the elderly is obviously not as good as that of young people. It can be said that the disadvantages of old age and language barriers have made them never
I didn't think about going there to work.
How do they work? They signed a family visit visa, which lasts only a short time. There is no place where they can work, which means they have to go far away to work. For people in their 60s and 70s to work, it’s hard to say.
Even when he has some free time during the week, his son has to drive to a nearby supermarket to buy food and other necessities for the family. The food is very cheap.
But after living for many years, they have their own pensions and enough opinions, so they simply refuse to live in this completely unfamiliar place. They still can't see their son while living in a nursing home, but it is more likely that they call Tiantian because of the language barrier.
If you don't respond, the earth will not work.
Ling Xiao's mother's eyes widened and she didn't know what to say. This really confirmed the folk jingle: magpies have long tails; when they marry a daughter-in-law and forget their mother, they throw her into the ravine and her daughter-in-law puts her on the bed.
Close the door, block the windows, run around and drink noodle soup.
After returning home, the couple breathed a sigh of relief. While Ling Xiao's mother was helping to cook, she remembered that her nephew had called the couple. After learning the news, her aunt and uncle thought for a moment, as if they knew something.
Because people live in different eras, they often have different views on each other. If it is just an ordinary relationship and they do not live together, even if there is some generation gap, it is easy to solve it. Seek common ground and ignore differences.
"This is the first time I have called in such a hurry, hey!" Ling Xiao's mother looked at the couple after hearing this. The second sister said helplessly: "The child is still good, but doesn't he still have a daughter-in-law? I'm afraid."
At this point, she didn't want to continue talking.
One thing they revealed during their conversation with Ling Xiao's mother was that the two of them brought nearly 10,000 dollars in cash for living expenses, but didn't spend much. They planned to leave it to their son's family, but the son didn't want it, but the old couple decided to keep it.
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Upon hearing this, the nephew said: "I'd better wait for them to come back before calling!" After that, he hung up the phone. Ling Xiao's mother didn't pay attention, but quickly cleaned the room and left.
Seeing that the son could not keep his parents, he drove them to the airport to leave. When the plane landed at the Capital Airport, the two finally felt relieved. Their aunt called her sister, Ling Xiao's biological mother.
, ask her, who holds the key, to prepare it.
After returning home, she talked to her husband about the call from her nephew with some curiosity. If the couple had hoped that their daughter would be successful, they stopped insisting after seeing what happened to her second sister and felt that her daughter would not be a bad guy.
Just fine.
Seeing this, the old couple really feels sorry for their son. His son works very hard and has to support the family. He is not very rich in money. When shopping, he always chooses and leaves good things for his wife and son. They don't eat them.
Yes, it’s my son’s turn to eat.
I really feel that the two of us are not suitable for living abroad. Not only are we not familiar with the place, but we also don’t understand the language at all. How can we support ourselves in old age? I don’t know if we have a chance to live in a foreign country.
They didn't know that many foreign nursing homes later revealed that the elderly were abused and sexually assaulted. They really spent money and did not receive services, but lived in a very humble way.
It can be said that my cousin single-handedly caused the elders in Lingxiao to lower their requirements for their children. Parents do not expect their children to be too promising. Anyway, parents are not the kind of people who are too promising.
Why do you require your children to become dragons and phoenixes?
It can be said that the brothers and sisters of Ling Xiao's age group live more comfortably than those of the same age as his cousin. Who can let a child from another family really live as a person from another family and have no time to pay attention to his biological parents.
In this case, even though they were dissatisfied with their daughter-in-law, they finally swallowed their dissatisfaction and did not say anything because they did not want to put more pressure on their son.
After returning home, Ling Xiao's mother sighed. This son still has some conscience, but he cares more about his wife and children. Is it really useful to have a son?
I answered the phone with some curiosity, thinking it was my second sister and my wife. When I got the call, I realized it was my nephew - the second sister's son. It's really rare!
The second sister said that her son usually only makes two calls a year, so why did he call today? The second sister and his wife had just met their son, right, and had just said goodbye to him? Why did the nephew call so quickly?
It really shouldn’t be possible! My nephew asked his parents directly and found out that he hadn’t arrived home yet. He just called back from the Capital Airport not long ago and asked when he could come back.
Naturally, Ling Xiao's mother would not hide it. Even if she had objections to her nephew, this was not her own child. His parents were both alive, and it was not his turn to be an aunt to teach him a lesson. So he told the truth: "Well, listen to your mother.
They have already gone to the train station and will probably be back tomorrow."
Just as she opened the door and walked in with her large and small bags, she heard the landline ringing. Ling Xiao's mother couldn't help but feel strange, who was calling? Fortunately, she came here today, otherwise she might have missed it.
It can be said that the old couple couldn't wait to return to China when the time came, and the son tried his best to keep them when they left, saying that his visa could be extended and that he could provide them with retirement care. However, the so-called retirement care did not mean living with his son's family, but going to a nursing home abroad.
Elderly care.
Ling Xiao's biological mother sympathized with her second sister and wondered why her nephew was calling. Could something have happened and she needed to communicate with her relatives who had just separated? With some curiosity, she drove to the train station to pick her up, and asked her tired
The couple was sent back to their home.
Ling Xiao secretly shook his head as he recalled this. The reason why his aunt and uncle were looked down upon by his daughter-in-law was because they didn't have enough skills. If they and their husband could casually take out 100 million knives to hit someone, I'm afraid it would be another case.
Being looked down upon by your daughter-in-law? But a harmonious relationship because of money is not very reliable.
The old couple could not complain to their son, so the only way was to go home. Every night while sleeping in the living room, they calculated when they could return to China. At the same time, they also had one thought: they would never come abroad again. These days are really
It’s hard to live a happy life. You can eat fresh green vegetables every day in China and there are many choices. If you ignore the good life and live a hard life abroad, it’s just a mistake.
Hey! It’s really difficult to get along! Two generations who are completely unrelated by blood live in the same place, which naturally causes inconvenience in all aspects. After all, there are too many generation gaps, and they all dislike each other.
In fact, after hearing the mutterings of their daughter-in-law complaining about her parents-in-law not going to work, the aunt and uncle were really angry. They wanted to ask their son what he thought, but they had no chance to talk to him. The son who was busy with work could hardly spare any time.
Time to talk.
The old couple refused repeatedly. They had long been impatient with being abroad. What others said was lavish, but it was better to experience it for themselves. They encountered many problems and were unwilling to stay abroad.
There is a saying that there is a generation gap of three years. Speaking of which, my uncle got married relatively late and had his son when he was in his thirties. My aunt also had her son when she was in her mid-twenties, so the generation gap between them and the son's family is huge.
The old couple left the cash in their suitcase before leaving the apartment and did not tell their son because he never wanted it and would have to push it around if he gave it to them. They planned to tell their son when they boarded the plane, but they were in a hurry and didn't have time.
Tell your son where the cash is.
After receiving a call from her second sister, she learned that the couple had returned to China. Ling Xiao's mother went to her sister's house to open the windows, clean the room, and refill the refrigerator to prevent it from being empty when she got home.
There is nothing to cook or eat.
But living together is a completely different story. Sometimes small things can turn into big mistakes, and this requires everyone to learn to back off, rather than wronging one party. If only one party gives in, it will eventually make that party
One party can't bear it anymore.
This is probably the reason why the aunt and uncle and their daughter-in-law can't get along. The parents-in-law give in, but the daughter-in-law insists on herself and has no consideration for other people's thoughts.
She took everything for granted and did not consider her parents-in-law. She felt that other people's parents would think about how to work and make money when they came to their son's house. Why couldn't her own parents-in-law do the same?
What makes my father-in-law most sad is that because of his old age, his throat is not very comfortable, and he will cough a few times from time to time. It is not a virus, and it is not contagious after meeting him.
After the daughter-in-law found out, she refused to let her father-in-law see the newborn child. She also thought that her uncle was there and her eldest son also had a cold and fell ill. She thought that as long as the child got sick, it was her father-in-law's fault. She regarded her father-in-law as a carrier of the virus. If she had known better, she would not have cared for him at all.
, anyway, the old man is old and in poor health.
The old couple who live in their son's house have to look at their daughter-in-law's face, and inexplicably realize that some old people without retirement pensions are disliked by their children when they need their sons to support them in their old age.