Wang Shuyu is 31 years old this year and married her husband Korong three years ago.
Wang Shuyu and Ke Rong have been in love for two years and married for three years. Although they have no children or a house now, they both work in companies and their wages are not low, and they are living happily in Qingtang City.
Three months ago, father-in-law Keyi suddenly moved into their home.
Ke Rong, who had always been considerate of Wang Shuyu, did not discuss the matter with her.
It wasn't until her father-in-law moved into their home that Wang Shuyu was surprised and took the initiative to ask Ke Rong about the matter in private. Ke Rong just vaguely said that his father was old and felt a little lonely living alone, so he asked him to come and stay with the two. Be a companion.
Wang Shuyu felt very complicated about this.
Korong let his father-in-law move into his home without even saying hello, and planned to stay there for a long time, which really made Wang Shuyu feel very uncomfortable.
Moreover, the house is not big, and suddenly there is an elder in the family, which makes daily life even more inconvenient. I have to live a restricted life even at home, which makes me feel a little uncomfortable just thinking about it.
If Koron had discussed with him in advance, the two of them could rent a house for their father-in-law near home and live separately. They could take the old man out to eat together after get off work and take him to the park on weekends. This would be the best solution.
But now that father-in-law Keyi has settled in his own home, if he rents another house for the old man to live in, the old man will definitely think too much.
Even though the old man wouldn't think much about it, Wang Shuyu couldn't bear the old man's sadness because his father-in-law Keyi was not Korong's biological father.
Ke Rong's original name was Hua Rong. When he was five years old, his father died in an accident. His mother was unable to raise Hua Rong independently, so she had to take him and remarry Keyi.
Seeing that Hua Rong was still young, Keyi went to the police station to change his surname after their marriage. Since then, he has treated Co. Rong as his stepson as his own and has never had another child with Co. Rong's mother.
When Koron was ten years old, his mother had a sudden illness and died suddenly.
All the relatives avoided Koron, fearing that the burden of losing his biological father and mother would be on him. There were even rumors that Koron's father and mother were unknown people.
Keyi ignored these rumors. Instead, he was happy that these relatives did not compete with him for custody rights and still treated Keyi as his own.
For twenty-three years, Keyi never married another person. Relying on the meager salary earned from doing manual labor in the factory, Keyi trained Keyi to become a college student, a graduate student, and a small manager of a financial company.
For Koron, Keyi was a kind adoptive father and his only relative.
For Wang Shuyu, facing such a kind old man and the father of his lover, she really didn't want to do anything that would make him sad, so she accepted her father-in-law who lived at home.
However, as father-in-law Keyi lived at home longer and longer, the conflict between Wang Shuyu and his father-in-law gradually emerged.
My father-in-law has been accustomed to being thrifty all his life. Whenever Wang Shuyu and Ke Rong took his father-in-law out to a restaurant, or ordered sumptuous takeaways from the hotel, his father-in-law would always look down on his face and say something about how they had to learn to save money because they didn’t have a house yet. Keep picking at the dishes, criticizing those dishes as not worth the price.
Although he knew that his father-in-law had no bad intentions, Wang Shuyu still felt very unhappy. He tried his best to treat the old man to something good, but he was complained about. It felt a bit aggrieved.
My father-in-law likes to cook at home. Every night when Wang Shuyu and Korong come home from get off work, they will find that their father-in-law has put two or three side dishes on the table, waiting for Wang Shuyu and Korong to come back to eat together.
Koron has been eating the food cooked by his father for more than 20 years. Naturally, he is full of joy and the food is delicious.
But for Wang Shuyu, the taste of the food cooked by her father-in-law is really unflattering, but she doesn't want to offend her father-in-law, so she has to praise her in various ways when eating.
Every weekend, Wang Shuyu, who wants to improve the food, and his father-in-law Keyi, who wants to continue cooking at home, always have to compromise. No matter who wins, because the loser feels uncomfortable, the atmosphere at the dinner table is always not that good. good.
What's even worse is that because he has been doing physical work all year round, his father-in-law is quite addicted to alcohol. He has to drink one or two glasses of liquor every night before he returns to his bed drunk.
Apart from being bad for the father-in-law's own health, being addicted to alcohol would not hinder Wang Shuyu in any way. But the problem is that the drunk father-in-law's favorite thing to do is to curse people.
Her father-in-law had a loud voice. Although he did not mention her by name, every time she heard a series of gnashing of teeth or a series of angry words coming from her father-in-law's room, an unknown fire would instantly rush into Wang Shuyu's head, making her irritable. Couldn't sleep for half the night.
Her husband Koron has long been used to his father-in-law being drunk and swearing at others. According to Korong's explanation, when Korong is drunk, he will always think of the bullying he suffered in the factory when he was young, and he would scold the bad people who squeezed his labor force. It doesn't matter at all.
As soon as the door of their bedroom is closed, Koron will automatically block out his father's curses, and in less than three minutes, he will be able to fall asleep sweetly with the curses.
Even with her husband's explanation and knowing that her father-in-law's drunken swearing had nothing to do with her, the matter still caused great trouble to Wang Shuyu.
Wang Shuyu has sensitive hearing and some neurasthenia. Even if she closes the door of her father-in-law's bedroom and her own bedroom, she can still clearly hear the curses and has difficulty falling asleep.
Earplugs, jujube seeds, sleeping pills... Wang Shuyu tried every possible means, but it had no effect at all. Her father-in-law's scolding at night was like a magic sound, disturbing her and making it difficult to sleep.
Of course, in the past three months, Wang Shuyu had tried to persuade her father-in-law many times on the grounds that drinking was harmful to his body, hoping that he would stop drinking or drink less at night, but his father-in-law was never obedient.
Whenever Wang Shuyu made him anxious, his father-in-law would say: "I am so old, how many days do I have left to live? No matter how seriously injured my body is, there is nothing to be afraid of."
The father-in-law has said so, and Wang Shuyu, the daughter-in-law, can't say anything more. However, Ke Rong, the son, not only doesn't care, but also often supports his father: "My dad has worked hard all his life and only has this hobby: drinking." , wouldn’t it be too cruel for him to be deprived of even this hobby?”
Both of them had the same attitude. While Wang Shuyu was speechless, he also wondered if he was being too petty.
The father-in-law was not a bad person, so Wang Shuyu just tolerated his drunkenness and swearing at night and never had a showdown with the old man.
However, due to a long period of poor rest, thick blue bags under the eyes began to appear on Wang Shuyu's face, and it even became difficult to control her emotions.
(End of chapter)