My husband and I have been married for 3 years. Not long following the wedding, my wife became pregnant, a set of twins with two boys. Two children were born at the same time, my wife and I struggled to cope. I work alone, both parents can’t afford it, my wife has to stay at home to look following the children.
Grandparents and grandparents all have jobs in the countryside, sometimes come to help their children for a while and then come back. When I take care of two children alone, my wife and I have a hard time, but we always try to encourage each other for the family’s future.
This New Year, my wife and I take our children home to celebrate Tet with grandparents. Grandparents are alone, and at the wife’s house, there are already his brother and sister-in-law. My parents are very happy to welcome their children back to celebrate Tet.
This New Year, my wife and I take our children home to celebrate Tet with grandparents. (Illustration)
On the first day of Tet, the couple celebrates their parents’ age, wishing them a healthy life with their children and grandchildren.
My parents laughed at the age of two grandsons, and then congratulated me and my wife on the age. I was going to put it away but my dad kept telling me to open the red envelopes. The two of us followed suit and were startled to see that inside was a savings book worth up to 2 billion VND.
“Parents give their children, not much, but buying a house far from the center is still enough. Seeing that their children and grandchildren live in cramped rented houses, it is inconvenient to move around, but their parents are so upset. Especially the two children. I don’t have a lot of space to play…”, My mother says.
When they were young, their grandparents worked hard, accumulated a little capital, so they bought a piece of land to save. Now the land is priced, my father just sold it, decided to give his children money to buy a house in the city.
Thinking of having a home and being happy, I was regarding to thank my parents, but my wife pushed it back to my husband’s parents and said:
“We thank you very much, your sacrifice and love we will never forget in this life. But I would like to refuse this gift. Firstly, it is still difficult for you and your parents. We had to buy a house for us and then we had to work hard every day to make a living. We mightn’t bear to look at our parents like that.
We are young, healthy, educated, and have a mind, so there is nothing to be afraid of, considering the immediate difficulties as a motivation for us to strive to rise. Parents have worked hard to raise their husband and children to study well, the two of you do not need to be responsible for taking care of us anymore. Old and weak parents must have something to protect themselves, daily life is less hard, but inwardly, there is less worry and insecurity.”
When she finished, my parents were dumbfounded and didn’t think that the daughter-in-law would refuse the gift. But then both grandparents mightn’t help but blush with emotion.
My wife’s job on the 1st of Tet makes me very happy, indeed I did not choose the wrong person. (Illustration)
I also really admire my wife. If I had put myself in her shoes, I probably wouldn’t have done it. The couple has two small children, the rented house is cramped, the economic situation is difficult, and there is nothing more to have parents-in-law buy a house. The burden on the back is largely removed.
But she doesn’t think of herself first, but her parents-in-law. Given this amount of money, my parents have nothing left. Grandparents do not have a pension, and when they are old, they will still have to work to earn a living every day.
Life is hard not to say, in the heart is always insecure because there is nothing to rely on. If you don’t have money, then when you’re sick, your grandparents don’t dare to go for treatment…
I am very happy, indeed I did not choose the wrong person. My wife is a wonderful woman, honest, full of love, caring for others and extremely filial to her parents-in-law. I promised myself that I would try my best to take care of my wife and children and never let her down.
