Cheng Muhai stared in surprise and asked, "Have you encountered this before? Quite a few?"
"Yes!" Ahu said dullly: "At the neighborhood committee in our hometown, and... at my mother-in-law's side."
Xue Ling knew that he had helped Wang Qing's family a lot over the years, so he was embarrassed to ask too many questions. He turned around to wash his hands and took a kettle out of the kitchen.
Ahu had already taken out a cigarette lighter and whispered quietly to his godfather.
"Whenever the neighborhood committee at my home has something to do, whether it's a household in difficulty or repairing an aging water pipe, they all have to call me and ask me to help. As for people, if you can help, I'll do it.
I'm still willing to help. It's just that I came here again and again, every once in a month or two, which annoyed both Ah Qing and my mother."
"We work hard outside. When I opened a wholesale store, I would go out every day before dawn. I couldn't eat three meals on time. I occasionally encountered incoming goods. I stayed in the warehouse in the middle of the night, occasionally picking up cartons and sleeping.
After a quick sleep, I turned around and had to get busy again. Making money is not something you just pick up on the side of the road. Every dollar is hard-earned money. It's not easy!"
"Some people think that when you are rich, you have to help others and do some charity. We like to do good deeds and help others, but we don't do everything. If you give, you are generous. If you don't give, you have no conscience or morality.
What we think is, now that I have the ability, I will try my best to do what I can, and I will help if I can. But you can’t force me, right? I have to have the right to decide how much I want to help, right? Hey!”
Cheng Muhai nodded in agreement: "That's true...it's not their money. They may not be happy to give it to them. They even take it for granted. If they don't give it, they will scold them non-stop."
Xue Ling washed the cup, took out the small tea bag that she brought with her, and prepared to make tea.
"One kind of rice feeds a hundred kinds of people. There are all kinds of people. There is no need to worry too much about them. Live your own life first. If we don't live well, we will be laughed at by others, especially this kind of people."
"That's for sure!" Ahu sighed helplessly: "There are even people waiting for you to go bankrupt!"
Cheng Muhai asked curiously: "Then your mother-in-law... shouldn't have made things difficult for you, right? I think Wang Qing is a very responsible person and very honest."
"Ah Qing is indeed very honest and responsible." Ah Hu whispered: "But my mother-in-law is not! As long as I stay at their house for a little longer, she will definitely remember that she was young and widowed at that time. It was not easy in every possible way, no matter how hard she worked.
times, and then emphasized it, saying that she had no choice but to sacrifice my brother-in-law for Ah Qing to study because the family really had no money. Anyway, she just wanted to let me know that she even gave up her son's future, just in the hope that Ah Qing could get an education.
, to have a decent job. Who would have thought that after marrying me, Ah Qing had no choice but to suspend her salary to keep her job, stay at home, write books and be a housewife, and made such a big sacrifice for me."
Cheng Muhai rolled his eyes and whispered: "It is the responsibility and obligation of parents to raise their children. How can you say that?"
"Even if she didn't say anything, I would still be grateful to her." Ahu smiled bitterly: "But she had to say it, and she said it for more than half an hour. Godfather, in fact, I have been at Ah Qing's natal family a lot these years.
Spend money. When my brother-in-law buys a house or a car, or even when he gets into a car accident and hits someone, it’s all paid for by me. When he starts a business, I give him the capital and the connections. When my mother-in-law is sick, I’m fully responsible for paying for the medical expenses.
People even rushed back to help take care of her. I thought I did a good job, but my mother-in-law always felt it was not enough."
Cheng Muhai couldn't help but ask: "What would be enough? Why didn't she sell her daughter in the first place? At least you can pay it off in one go, so you know your limits."
Xue Ling and Ahu both laughed.
Ahu whispered: "She always emphasized that if Aqing's father had been alive, the family's economy had been better, and both children could go to school, the lives of his son and daughter would have been about the same, and they wouldn't be so different. We
Now there are more than ten or twenty houses in the provincial capital, and several in the county town, with two cars and several shops doing business. But Ah Qing's brother only has an old house, and the rest were given to him by us.
The big gap between the two siblings was because she really couldn't take care of both of them. Her helplessness and regret always made Ah Qing feel guilty and she always felt sorry for her brother. Ah Qing felt uncomfortable, could I not feel uncomfortable?
? I buy this and that, but my mother-in-law still feels there is a gap and that it’s not enough.”
Cheng Muhai snorted and shook his head: "If she is not satisfied, no matter how much you give her, it will not be enough. I also have a daughter and a son, and I never thought that they two have to be exactly the same. One will marry off, and the other will marry Lingling.
Families each have their own struggles and struggles. Individuals have their own families and individuals have their own happiness. How can it be the same? Is it possible? My daughter-in-law and son-in-law used to eat and drink every day and didn’t have to cook a single serving of noodles at home for several years. I didn’t even think about it.
She is married, so if she can take advantage, she will come to the house to take advantage. Instead, she always comes to her husband's house to take advantage!"
"That's right." Ahu couldn't help but smile bitterly: "So, one person is more likely to die than another!"
Xue Ling made tea and handed each of them a cup.
"So don't compete, otherwise more people will die."
Ahu took it, took a sip, and said "Wow" happily.
"In this world, there are still a few people who are not greedy, and even fewer people who can look away. Most people are easily jealous. When they see that other people's homes are better than their own, they always have a big knot in their hearts. But they don't look at it at all.
Why are others able to make progress on the same starting line? That's because they worked hard! Just like Ah Qing and my brother-in-law, if Ah Qing is still working in the newspaper office and my brother-in-law is working in the factory, their
The difference in salary is only a few dozen dollars, but Ah Qing’s is more stable. If that’s the case, the gap in their lives must not be big. When Ah Qing married me, I earned almost all the money alone, but my mother-in-law was not like that.
I think that my sister is better than my brother anyway, so I will give some points to my brother."
He did an absolutely impeccable job for his mother-in-law and brother-in-law's family. He provided money, a house, a car, and even the skills to make a living.
But the mother-in-law was never satisfied. Every time she openly and secretly pitied her son for his hard life and how much worse he was than his sister.
Once, twice, three or four times... After hearing it too much, he felt really depressed.
Xue Ling smiled softly and said: "You can't change your mother-in-law's mind, so you can only do Ah Qing's ideological work. She sleeps with you and lives with you, so it will be easier for you to change her mind. If you change
If not, then continue to be generous. If that doesn't work, don't let Ah Qing know all your wealth. You can hide the liquid funds. Or tell Ah Qing not to tell her mother-in-law everything about the family. This will be better.
Some. Making the elderly feel unbalanced all day long and dissatisfied that her daughter is better than her son is not good for her health."
Wang Qing's mother has never been in good health. The biggest reason is probably a heart disease. Her mentality is not balanced every day. How can she live a good and comfortable life!
After hearing this, Ahu rolled his eyes and laughed.
"Sister-in-law, you and Ah Qing have the best relationship. She probably has more thoughtful words for you than my husband. How about you help me persuade her when you have time? That - I should talk to my mother-in-law.
Brother-in-law, if you are good, I will definitely not miss you! These will not affect you."
Xue Ling took a sip of tea and nodded happily, "No problem."