But day after day passes, and nothing goes as planned.
The two of them agreed that if Han Yi gets married and has children in the future, they would pay to buy a house for the child.
At that time, when they heard that Xiao Yi was getting married, they privately picked out an apartment, a unit building, over twenty square meters. A newly built corridor building, Hu Bin managed some connections and negotiated the price down to two thousand yuan. It seemed quite cheap.
But when they excitedly went to their mother to ask for money. Yet the mother kept coming up with various excuses, ultimately just didn’t want to give it.
Shen Qing was very angry at the time, yelled at the mother: Why won’t you give us our own salary card? This is clearly ours, what right do you have to hold onto it!
Over the years, she didn’t feel good inside, owed the children so much, found no way to compensate them, and this was a bit of comfort, but yet she was manipulated by the old mother, unable to speak out.
She knows her mother-in-law is usually very domineering, just from her demanding our salary card, but this time she seemed a bit softer, as if she’d done something guilty, and I got angry as well, shouted at her, and she froze. She’s always had a good temper, never lashed out at her.
Seeing me , the old mother got anxious too, said she’d give it to us in a few days, said she couldn’t find where she put it, needed time to search. We agreed, didn’t push her to give it on the spot.
A few days later, the old mother finally gave me the passbook. The two hurriedly, excitedly went to check. In the end, his passbook had only thirty yuan, the daughter-in-law’s had only twenty yuan.
The two saw this situation, their faces turned dark, Shen Qing almost fainted, for these seven or eight years, their wages kept rising, after deducting all those years’ expenses, they thought there’d be at least more than three thousand yuan. Yet it was only this much, the two angrily went looking for the mother to question what was going on.
The old mother said she spent it, the family was large, expenses were high and such, the two children don’t eat for free, Lijuan is quite the glutton, always eating the good stuff, Xiao Dung has a big appetite, the rice, noodles, meat, and vegetables at home all cost money.
She also said it’s not easy raising a son, what’s wrong with spending your money, the old mother’s words nearly angered them to death, even with a large family, expenditure shouldn’t be that much, moreover, without dividing the family, only spending their household’s money isn’t fair, their children are around every day, they should know the situation?
In the end, what can be done, seven or eight years of hard work amounted to nothing, never again will she give the passbook.
But the house for Xiao Yi couldn’t be bought, because of this, Xiao Qing cried at home for several days.
If it weren’t for them having to attend Han Yi’s wedding, Xiao Qing would still be crying at home.
Hu Bin was disheartened too, he knew, over these years, the money from his brother’s family only came in and never went out, tightly controlled by his sister-in-law. The old mother favored them, not all the family expenses were theirs.
Spending money was tolerable, but they didn’t get equal treatment, over the years as the children grew, there were quite a few complaints behind their backs.
He knows about this incident, Lijuan got into college, the eldest niece failed, the mother said Lijuan was young enough to wait a year for another try, wanted the eldest niece to take Lijuan’s spot, he didn’t agree.
Didn’t expect the mother actually hid Lijuan’s admission letter, both of them disapproved, unexpectedly today the mother started causing trouble again. Even raised her hand.
Seems she’d forgotten the beatings from previous years.
Over at the side, Hu Dong and Hu Lijuan listened with eyes flushed red, they’d had enough too. Tired of living . They also wanted new clothes, new backpacks, new pencil cases. They also wanted to eat snacks and treats. But in this home, all they could do was look, not eat.