dognovel Chapter 289 Only in Loss Do We Realize the Depth of Feelings
Chapter 289 Only in Loss Do We Realize the Depth of Feelings
When I heard the little girl tell me this, I found it a bit unbelievable!
Because most parents try their best to stop their children from eating unhealthy foods.
Few parents would ask their children to buy unhealthy food and eat it with them.
So I asked the little girl with a smile, "What would happen if you didn't buy your dad some delicious chicken cutlet?"
Upon hearing my question, the little girl immediately made a face.
Waaaaah! If I don't buy a chicken cutlet for my dad, he'll throw away all the succulents I've been growing.
My dear aunt, you know how much I love succulents! And you have no idea that Dad was tidying up my succulents while scolding me.
Hahaha! Little girl, if you were my daughter, I would scold you too. Your family is just your old man working hard to earn that little bit of money.
Why do you keep buying all sorts of random things on Pinduoduo? You're a grown woman in your mid-twenties!
You should learn how to save money, especially since you're not going to find a job! So the burden of supporting the family falls entirely on your father's shoulders.
The little girl, who had been smiling at me, instantly felt downcast after hearing those words.
Because the little girl once dreamed of going out and finding a job like those young girls.
I don't want to live such a muddled life like this! But after Jianmei suddenly passed away, my brother-in-law started trying to keep the little girl by his side.
He feared that one day the little girl would disappear from his life like Jianmei. Perhaps this feeling is something those who haven't lost a loved one cannot understand.
During the period immediately following Jianmei's passing, the little girl was not allowed to leave her brother-in-law's sight.
Even if the little girl just goes to the bathroom to relieve herself, her brother-in-law will call out her name in a panic.
When the older brother-in-law called out the little girl's name, she immediately responded to his call while she was using the bathroom.
After hearing the little girl's voice, the eldest brother-in-law was relieved. Another time, Jianying and her eldest daughter asked the little girl to go to the market to play.
Their habit is to go up to have lunch around 10 a.m., then play in the market town for an afternoon before having dinner and going home.
If enough people can play cards, they will play until 11 or 12 at night before returning home.
The reason they were so willful was because Jianying's family had a car. If the little girl hadn't gone to Xiawei with them, they probably would have stayed there!
When they were on their way back from Xiawei in Jianying's car, the eldest brother-in-law called the little girl to ask if she was back yet.
The little girl replied that she was already on her way back and would be arriving in Yongji soon.
After the little girl hung up the phone, Jianying said to her, "I really didn't expect your father to care about you so much."
The young girl didn't respond to Jianying's words but sat silently in the back seat. She didn't realize that her brother-in-law's controlling attitude stemmed from a deep, unhealed wound in his heart.
Seeing this, you might ask, didn't Jianmei's husband ever think about remarrying after her death?
Actually, a year after Jianmei passed away, my brother-in-law's family all advised him to find another wife and live a happy life together!
But no matter how much his family tried to persuade him, his brother-in-law insisted on not finding anyone else to live with.
Even when his brother-in-law's mother tried to persuade him, he would only ask his own mother, "Do you want me to find another wife to argue with you?"
After her biological mother heard her brother-in-law ask her this question, they stopped pressuring him to remarry.
Perhaps this is where the eldest brother-in-law's loyalty to Jianmei was most excessive? In fact, when Jianmei was alive, the couple would often quarrel over all sorts of trivial matters.
Because Jianmei and her brother-in-law's mother didn't get along very well, the couple moved out of their home with the little girl when she was very young.
Some people might say that they don't live outside most of the time, but they always go back to their hometown to spend holidays with their parents-in-law, right?
Even during the Lunar New Year, the couple still stayed at the school with their little girl. However, in the little girl's memory, Jianmei and her brother-in-law would always have a fight every Lunar New Year.
In particular, during the Spring Festival of 2006, the couple put the money they had withdrawn from the stock market before the new year back into the stock market, hoping to make a big profit.
The couple made a lot of money from stock trading last year, and at the end of the year they took their daughter to the city to look at new houses.
However, because the couple wanted to make more money in the stock market, they invested all of that money in the stock market.
However, what the couple did not expect was that when they invested all their money in the stock market, the stocks they bought began to plummet the very next day.
Just before the Lunar New Year, there was hope of achieving a moderately prosperous life, but in the blink of an eye, we were back to the life before liberation.
This would be devastating for anyone! The couple would have a huge fight over it.
That time, Yiyao even made a special trip to Jianmei's home to persuade the couple to stop arguing! Wouldn't it be better for the couple to have a peaceful and harmonious New Year?
Yi Yao even asked her brother-in-law if she, as his mother-in-law, was usually not good to him, her eldest son-in-law.
Why do you two have to have such a big fight during the Chinese New Year?
As soon as Yi Yao finished speaking, she saw broken glass scattered on the floor and a bathroom heater lying upside down. She was very confused because the bathroom heater was usually hung in the bathroom; why had it been taken down?
After this incident, she asked the little girl, who said that Jianmei had made a lot of dried vegetables with Shanghai bok choy before the New Year.
Because the dried vegetables were not completely dried before it started raining continuously, Jianmei had a bright idea and took down the bathroom heater that was hanging in the bathroom.
She placed the bathroom heater not far from the dried vegetables in an attempt to dry the Shanghai bok choy that was not yet fully dried.
After the little girl's explanation, Yi Yao suddenly realized what was going on. Although Yi Yao went up to persuade the couple to stop arguing, she did not understand.
However, this led to a nearly two-week-long cold war between the couple, during which neither spoke to the other.
Even during meals, the couple wouldn't eat at the same table. The little girl felt very upset seeing her parents in a cold war.
She also told her second aunt, who was her second sister, about this. At that time, the little girl really liked her second aunt and would tell her about anything.