On the morning of the 2nd of the New Year, I am cooking breakfast in the kitchen, my 5-year-old daughter is playing around in the yard, and my mother is watering vegetables in the garden.
Suddenly, the daughter rushed into the kitchen to give her mother a bright red red envelope. I smiled and asked her where she got it, she said a strange man gave her lucky money. Hastily opened it, I was shocked when I saw that there was a million dong inside.
I hurriedly ran to the gate to see who celebrated my daughter’s age with such a large amount of money. Who is the “strange man” in my son’s words that I don’t understand? But I didn’t meet anyone outside the gate. It was only when I looked to my right hand that I might see a thin, stooped figure riding a bicycle slowly disappearing. The man was wearing an old-fashioned army green cotton shirt. My eyes immediately blurred. I know who that person is. That was my ex-father-in-law.
I hurriedly ran to the gate to see who celebrated my daughter’s age with such a large amount of money. (Illustration)
“He’s also really… He’s come all the way here without coming into the house to drink a cup of water…”, my mother sighed. I hugged my daughter, in my heart was a little heartbroken but more than warm.
My husband and I divorced 3 years ago, at that time my baby had just been weaned. The reason was that my husband had an affair, wanted to leave his wife and children to marry a new wife, hoping to change his life. The other girl, who was divorced, is raising two children of her own, but her condition is very good, she has a big beautiful house and a car.
After the wedding, we lived with in-laws in the old house of the husband’s family. He lives with me, nothing, the couple’s salary is just enough to live. Around the time I was pregnant, taking care of my small child, was busy, my husband was free, so I took advantage of … to find a new wife.
At that time, my husband insisted on forcing his wife to sign the divorce papers. The mother-in-law sided with her son, according to her, everyone wants to have a better job, which is a legitimate need. My husband and I are no longer compatible, breaking up to free the other is essential. Only the father-in-law who does not accept his son leaving his wife and marrying his wife is rich. But his protests did not move my husband.
After the divorce, I took my young daughter to live with her mother. I only have my mother in my house, my father has passed away. The ex-husband moved into the large house of his new wife and her stepchildren. It is said that following they had a child together, his mother also came to live with him to take care of his son and daughter-in-law. However, her ex-father-in-law still stayed in her grandparents’ former small house.
For the past three years, my ex-husband and his mother have ignored me and my daughter. Not a single word of inquiry, let alone child support. Only my father-in-law, he does not visit my grandchildren, but sometimes he still sends me some money to support my children. His somewhat dry concern made me also see that my son was somewhat less pitiful.
Only my father-in-law, he does not visit my grandchildren, but sometimes he still sends me some money to support my children. (Illustration)
Because he didn’t visit my grandchild, my daughter didn’t know her grandfather. He did not need his niece to be grateful to him. I know he has no money, almost now he lives alone in his old house. When I think of him, my heart aches.
I no longer hold grudges and resentments once morest my daughter’s paternal house. On the first day of the new year, my grandfather still remembers to ride a bicycle to celebrate his granddaughter’s birthday, I am really excited and happy.
Maybe I should pay more attention to you, people? Although I am no longer a daughter-in-law, but he is still my daughter’s grandfather, that has not changed in my life.