"Aunt Wu, have you gotten used to your daughter-in-law after she got married? Do you dislike this or that? After all, she is the daughter of the owner of a fabric shop in the town. She must not be used to living in the countryside like us, right?" A sneaky middle-aged man The woman leaned close to Wu Shichu's ear and asked in a low voice.
Wu Shichu glanced at her and said, "She is not a wealthy woman. Her mother's family owns a small fabric shop and can earn some living expenses. She is a little better off than ordinary people. But it is impossible to be rich. As for whether she is dissatisfied She dislikes our family? If she dislikes it, why did she marry us? "
When the woman heard what she said, she nodded and said, "You're right, she wouldn't have married her if she disliked her. But your family, Han Ji, is a talented person and a scholar. He is about to be admitted as a scholar. Your daughter-in-law Marrying him might bring her luck in the future."
Wu Shichu didn't want to talk to her about his daughter-in-law anymore. He picked up the bamboo basket in his hand and said, "I have to go home to cook. I won't tell you anymore..."
"Hey! You are already a mother-in-law, why are you still cooking?" The woman shouted from behind. Wu Shichu pretended that he had not heard and ignored her.
The original owner was a widow. Her husband fell ill and died early after losing all the family's money. She was left to depend on her son Han Ji. Fortunately, she was good at embroidery and could barely support herself and her son. Just because she had been doing it for many years As for embroidery work, she was only in her thirties, and her body and eyes were not in good condition.
However, what makes the original owner happy is that his son Han Ji is very talented in reading. He was admitted to the Tongsheng Examination at the age of fifteen. He is eighteen years old this year and is about to prepare for the Scholarship Examination. According to the teachers in his academy, he There is a 70% to 80% certainty of being a scholar in the examination, basically 80% or 90%.
What made the original owner even more happy was that Zhang Luoyi, the youngest daughter of the owner of a fabric store in the town, fell in love with Han Ji. The owner of the fabric store wanted to bet that Han Ji would have a bright future, so he went to Han's family to discuss marriage. .
The original owner had great expectations for her son and believed that he would definitely pass the Jinshi examination. Therefore, her ideal daughter-in-law must at least be a daughter-in-law from a noble family. She would not consider girls from merchant families, so the Zhang family sent someone When she came to discuss marriage, she didn't agree.
However, when his son grew up and had his own ideas, Han Ji was very happy with the marriage that the original owner did not like. It turned out that when he was studying at the college in the town, he often went to the bookstore next to the Zhangjia Fabric Shop to get married. He did some copying work to make money to support his life. If he went there frequently, he would naturally meet the lady from the fabric shop. So as they went back and forth, he and Zhang Luoyi would look at each other.
When Han Ji learned that the beauty also had feelings for him, he was too late to be surprised. How could he say no? Therefore, he tried his best to persuade the original owner, and finally got the original owner to agree to the marriage, and he couldn't wait to marry Zhang Luoyi before taking the exam to become a scholar.
It was now the fourth day after Han Ji and Zhang Luoyi got married.
When Wu Shichu returned home, Zhang Luoyi and Han Ji were playing and laughing in his room. It was obvious that the newlywed life of this young couple was very sweet.
However, they were sweet, but Wu Shichu felt a little irritable because it was already late, but the kitchen was still cold and the stove was still cold. Obviously, they were busy being sweet and had no time to cook, so they were waiting for her to come back to cook.
Wu Shichu sneered and put the bamboo basket filled with vegetables on the cupboard, and she left the kitchen without hesitation and went back to her room.
There is all kinds of food in her companion space, so no one can starve her. Since no one is cooking, she won't do it either.
It's not that Wu Shichu is careless or doesn't want to see his son and daughter-in-law loving each other, but because in the original world plot, Han Ji and Zhang Luoyi left all the housework to the original owner as a matter of course, and never thought about helping the original owner to share some of it.
Han Ji didn't do housework because he was used to it by his original owner, because he thought he was a man, so how could he do housework? What's more, his main task is to study, so in order to let him concentrate on studying, the original owner took care of all the chores.
After Zhang Luoyi got married, she had no intention of helping with the housework. This was because her mother-in-law had a mother-in-law who did odd jobs, and her father opened a small fabric shop. There is no problem with the living mother-in-law, so she has never done housework since she was a child.
So the original owner had to continue to be a working mother. For the sake of her newly married daughter-in-law, she did not let her work immediately. But as the days passed, the daughter-in-law did not realize it at all, so she just I couldn't stand it anymore, so one day I finally started calling Zhang Luoyi to work.
This shouting stirred up a hornet's nest. Zhang Luoyi said that she had never worked in her parents' family, so why did she have to work in her husband's family when she married? Isn’t marrying for happiness? Why does she have to endure hardship when she gets married? So he cried and complained to Han Ji.
Han Ji felt sorry for his newlywed wife, and felt that as a girl who had been pampered and raised by her family, she had to work when she married him. Wouldn't that make him useless as a husband? So he tactfully hinted to the original owner that Zhang Luoyi was the most pampered eldest daughter of the Yue family and should not suffer in our family, so he still felt sorry for his mother to suffer more for the sake of her son...
This is a typical example of marrying a daughter-in-law and forgetting about her mother. Han Ji thinks it's just housework, how tiring can it be? Hasn’t mother been doing this all the time before? Why can’t I do it if I have a daughter-in-law? Coupled with the wind blowing by Zhang Luoyi's pillow, he gradually began to complain about his own mother.
The original owner never expected that her son would not be on her side. In order to support her son's education, she did embroidery day and night, which damaged her body and eyes. But now her son, who was raised by her with all the hard work, showed no signs of improvement. I don't understand her hard work, but I think she wants to show off her mother-in-law's authority by calling her daughter-in-law to work.
So the original owner, who was resentful, couldn't bear to blame his son, so he resented Zhang Luoyi. He felt that she was a vixen who had alienated him and his son. Therefore, his attitude towards Zhang Luoyi began to change drastically. Not only did he insist on forcing her to work, but he also corrupted her outside. She was said to be lazy and greedy, unwilling to do anything, and she was asked to serve her as a mother-in-law...
Zhang Luoyi had no choice but to learn to do housework. Gradually, she changed from a young lady who had never touched the spring water when she first got married, to a little woman who knew how to wash, cook, raise chickens and feed pigs, but she did not do these tasks. It was not voluntary, and even if she did it, she would have to complain and complain in front of Han Ji, saying that her mother-in-law was teasing her.
But the original owner was not idle either. Sometimes she had to work in the fields, and sometimes she had to do embroidery to earn money for her eyes that were almost dying. After all, the little dowry money Zhang Luoyi brought was not enough to pay for Han Ji to be a scholar.
