The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 104: Reconciliation between Mother-in-law and Daughter-in-law
The carpenters completed all the work yesterday at noon, and Zhou Lingying paid them the wages.

Then in the afternoon, she would go to the market to buy meat bones for Jiang Changhe to make soup. Zhou Lingying had no job and could not even take odd jobs. When Jiang Cheng was not around, she was actually happy when she went out for a walk or chatted with her neighbors every day.

Yesterday afternoon, Zhou Lingying was going to the vegetable market, and the wife of Zhang Yang, her neighbor across the street, said she would go with her. At the vegetable market, Zhang Yang's wife also helped Zhou Lingying pick up rotten vegetable leaves so that she could feed the chickens.

Then they saw someone selling popsicles at the market, so Zhou Lingying treated Zhang's wife to a popsicle. It was the cheapest popsicle, only one cent each, but it was sweet.

After returning home, I cooked dinner and stewed all the more than two and a half kilograms of meat bones I bought. Although they are called meat bones, there is actually very little meat on them. To what extent is there very little meat? Some of the meat bones need to be removed with something to get a small amount of meat.

Only a few pieces have more meat. When you go to buy meat bones, they won't let you choose. They will give you a good mix, not all with only a little meat, nor will they give you a lot of meat.

When stewing bones, people don’t just eat the meat, they also try to eat the marrow and bone juice inside the bones.

But even so, the meat and bone marrow removed from the meat bones are less than three pounds, and you can't eat much. After all, you don't need a ticket, and the total price is only a little more than half a pound of meat. If you want to eat a lot, everyone will buy the meat bones to eat.

Last night, Zhou Lingying also ate two pieces of meat bones. Because of this, her mother-in-law Zhao Yuxia scolded her again. She said that the hospital had written a prescription for Jiang Changhe to buy the meat bones to nourish his body, and you ate them too greedily.

The key point is that she didn't blame Zhou Lingying when they were eating, but when they were going to bed at night, Zhao Yuxia came to the room and told her about it. She also knew that she invited the neighbor across the street to eat a popsicle, and accused her of spending money recklessly.

Zhou Lingying has been living very cautiously these past two days. She didn't dare to offend her mother-in-law, Zhao Yuxia, and was also afraid that she would criticize her for something she bought.

The key is that Zhou Lingying can't tell who is right and who is wrong. It seems that everything Zhao Yuxia said is reasonable. She feels wronged because she can't refute it. Adults really don't want to eat a one-cent popsicle. It can buy a pound of cabbage. Only when children are greedy will they buy it for them.

Many people in the yard live very frugally. There are many people in a family, but only one or two of them earn money, so they spend every penny as if it were two cents.

After returning from the hospital today, Zhou Lingying paid another 2.2 yuan for treatment. After returning home, Zhou Lingying didn't want to manage the household anymore. Jiang Cheng gave her a lot of money when he left, but now she is worried that her mother-in-law will know what she buys.

In the room, Zhou Lingying counted the remaining money. Apart from the small savings she had when she was not with Jiang Cheng, she also bought a flashlight, a pot, towels, soap, matches and other things from the last time she went to the supply and marketing cooperative with Jiang Cheng.

Adding the recent daily hospital expenses, there was still more than 37 yuan. So Zhou Lingying decided that she would not support the family anymore and would just give the money to her parents-in-law. She would do whatever they asked her to do in the future, and they would never say anything to her again.

Moreover, the popular saying of this era is that if you lose your wife, you can remarry. You only have one father and mother. In addition, everyone attaches great importance to filial piety. Zhou Lingying is also worried that if she does not perform well, Jiang Cheng will come back and her mother-in-law will complain about her.

Zhou Lingying put her own money away, then took the remaining money and went out to the side room.

Jiang Changhe's illness has improved significantly after these days of treatment, but the doctor said that such an illness cannot be considered cured until it is completely cured. Unlike some diseases, when the disease is almost cured, there is no need for further treatment and the disease will slowly recover on its own.

Now Jiang Changhe's lower body is strong again, but not very strong. He can stand up. He needs to recover slowly if he wants to walk. The hospital said that he can go every three days. After a few days, he can stop acupuncture and do massage.

In the side room, Jiang Changhe was sitting on the bamboo bed while Zhao Yuxia was cleaning.

After the carpenter finished his work, there was no more wood to pile up, and many things were moved to the main room. The side room was no longer messy, and the main room was still spacious, after all, there was no wardrobe, desk, or dressing table.

"Yingying, it's not sunny outside now. There is a tree outside the yard. Please bring a stool and help me sit outside." Jiang Changhe said to her with a smile when he saw Zhou Lingying come into the house.

In the past two years, due to health reasons, Jiang Changhe has long lost his former dominance. He no longer takes charge of family affairs and does not express his opinions on many matters.

But now I can stand up again, my energy and spirit are completely different from before, and I have become more optimistic.

"Hey." Zhou Lingying responded, but she still took the money and walked to Zhao Yuxia and said, "Mom, I'm not very good at managing the household. This is the money Jiang Cheng gave me when he went out of town, and there is still so much left. I'll give it to you. I can just give you money to buy groceries in the future. I won't spend money recklessly."

"This~~." Zhao Yuxia put down the rag and hesitated when looking at the money in Zhou Lingying's hand.

Zhao Yuxia didn't think about forcing her daughter-in-law Zhou Lingying to do anything. According to what her neighbor Li Meihong told her, the daughter-in-law should be disciplined and obedient. Only with an obedient daughter-in-law can the family live smoothly without quarrels.

Zhao Yuxia wanted to take the money from Zhou Lingying but didn't dare to. To be honest, if it was in the countryside, her son Jiang Cheng would have no future. She could take the money, not to mention controlling her daughter-in-law, her son would have to listen to her. Of course, this was just a thought, Zhao Yuxia wasn't really a domineering person.

She is really domineering. When Zhou Lingying went to the countryside and stayed at her house, their relationship would not have been so good.

Now that she has received the money, her daughter-in-law Zhou Lingying is being controlled by her mother-in-law. But in fact, there is a real competition between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law, and it is never about who is stronger or weaker between the two of them.

The key to the strength between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law lies in the son's attitude.

Zhou Lingying didn't do anything wrong. She treated people to a popsicle, ate two pieces of meat bones to compete with Jiang Changhe for nutrition, and didn't save water when washing clothes at the beginning. She seemed to be able to say something about Zhou Lingying, but in fact, they were all trivial matters. She didn't do anything wrong. If Zhao Yuxia, the mother-in-law, told others about it, she might be known as a fussy person.

Moreover, Zhao Yuxia has been targeting Zhou Lingying these days, but Zhou Lingying has actually been very obedient, never talking back, and never saying a word of no. This morning, when she was asked to empty the urine in the urinal, she did it immediately and even cleaned it when she came back.

Looking at Zhou Lingying's cautious appearance, Zhao Yuxia suddenly felt that she seemed to have gone too far.

People are all made of flesh and blood, and Zhao Yuxia didn't know why she suddenly treated her daughter-in-law like this.

These days, Zhou Lingying gets up early every morning, cooks, goes to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, and picks vegetable leaves to feed the chickens.

After finishing everything, she had to accompany them to the hospital. In the hospital, she and Jiang Changhe just had to wait. Zhou Lingying ran around to find doctors and pay bills.

"Yingying, please keep the money. I'm sorry for you. You are a good daughter-in-law. It was my fault. It was Li Hongmei across the street who always told me that you didn't know how to live. I was confused. I can see that you are a filial child. I won't say anything about you in the future. It's my fault." Zhao Yuxia said, holding Zhou Lingying's hand.

People are made of flesh and blood, and sometimes they can be warmed up in an instant.

When Zhou Lingying first came to stay at the Jiang family, Zhao Yuxia felt that it was a bit pitiful for a girl from the city to come to the countryside alone. At that time, she was kind to Zhou Lingying and often invited her to dinner. Now that she has become her own daughter-in-law, she has begun to treat her like a rural daughter-in-law.

Because Zhou Lingying was so cautious in front of Zhao Yuxia, Zhao Yuxia softened her heart and started to think from her perspective.

"Mom, it's okay. You're actually not wrong." Zhou Lingying's aggrieved mood was immediately dispelled by Zhao Yuxia's words "Mom was wrong."

Especially when she heard Zhao Yuxia say that it was her neighbor Li Meihong who instigated her, she felt even less wronged. However, Zhou Lingying did not expect that Li Meihong would talk about her behind her back. She actually had a good relationship with Li Meihong's daughter-in-law Chen Li.

The main reason is that there are many women in the yard, but not many as young as Zhou Lingying. Chen Li is five years older than her, but she is considered a woman of similar age in the yard.

There were also unmarried girls of thirteen or fourteen in the courtyard, but Zhou Lingying felt that although she was only a few years older than them, she could not talk to them.

There is a real difference between women with men and women without men. To be honest, young women like to talk about men in private conversations, and Zhou Lingying is no exception.

Zhou Lingying didn't say what her man was like, but she knew that there was a man in the backyard who couldn't do anything after a while.

Zhou Lingying felt that there was a generation gap when it came to what she could talk about with 13- or 14-year-old girls. They were not interested in talking about how they lived. But now Zhou Lingying was interested in how everyone lived and some topics about men.

"Yingying, move the stool and take me outside to enjoy the cool air." Seeing that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had almost finished their chat, Jiang Changhe said happily.

In fact, during the past two nights, Zhao Yuxia told Jiang Changhe that she wanted to discipline her daughter-in-law Zhou Lingying. He even advised her that it was unnecessary, saying that she was a girl who grew up in the city and she shouldn't use rural methods. But in his situation, he couldn't interfere too much. Now that they have reconciled suddenly, Jiang Changhe is also happy.

"Why are you shouting? Can't I help you over? Yingying married into the family to obey your orders." Zhao Yuxia responded. After the reconciliation, her mind was on Zhou Lingying again. Then she said to Zhou Lingying, "Yingying, there are rotten leaves to pick up at the vegetable market this afternoon. Let's go together."

"Mom, there are some in the afternoon, but not much." Zhou Lingying replied happily.

"We will go even if it's not too long. Your father can move a little now. Let him stay at home alone. We won't take care of him." Zhao Yuxia said happily.

Jiang Changhe was left alone feeling "unhappy". What had he done to offend someone that he was going to be left home alone in the afternoon?

　Without any drafts saved, I might not be able to update it until the early hours of the morning.

　　I wrote this story because my grandma was not easy to serve, but my mom worked hard and never complained. She was the kind of daughter-in-law who eventually became a mother-in-law. I learned from my elders that my grandma was like that. When I was young, she was very nice to me.

　　But my uncles and aunts all said that my mother was the best and took good care of my grandmother, and my grandmother was also very good to my mother. The other children didn't go there and just lived with us and helped take care of us.

　　In my impression, my grandmother was very good to us. If the elders hadn’t told us, we wouldn’t have known that she was a bad-tempered mother-in-law.

　　But I don’t want to write too much hostile content, so let’s make peace as soon as possible.

　　This chapter is 7 words long. You can say it's water or whatever you want, but even if you say I'm watering down the chapter, I still have to beg for monthly votes. The monthly votes may not be doubled after the th.

　　
　
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