On my wedding night, I was slapped by my mother-in-law, but I’m still grateful to her

02/05/2022 07:23 GMT+7

I am a country girl who went to the city to study at university. From a young age, I have witnessed the hard work of my parents in the fields, having to save money, pulling bears and shoulder patches forever to take care of my brothers and sisters.

Therefore, I always tell myself that I will try at all costs to stay in the city to develop my career and earn more money.

However, with normal academic ability, I had to work very hard to graduate from school to get a job with a salary of less than 10 million/month. And in order to realize the dream of changing my life, I, like other girls, dream of marrying a rich husband.

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Then luck also smiled when I got to know Thang – a man 8 years older than me, a city dweller and a family with good conditions. So I used all my speaking and listening skills to try to impress him. More than a year later, Thang dated and then decided to marry me.

When preparing for the wedding ceremony, I realized that the two sides’ backgrounds were too different, so I tried to convince my biological parents to take care of a valuable dowry for me.

In a lavish wedding held at a luxury restaurant, my mother-in-law gave 5 gold dowry trees to the couple. My biological parents also gave us 3 gold trees as capital.

Needless to say, how envious and envious people are at that gift. I was overjoyed when I saw the admiring glances from everyone present at the party, especially my college friends, who all told me my number was red.

The wedding party ended, I walked back to my husband’s house. However, that night when my husband and I finished cleaning up and were ready to go to bed, my mother-in-law called down to the living room to talk.

I was also a little scared because from the time I debuted until I got married, I have never seen my mother-in-law’s face so serious.

As soon as I got home, my mother-in-law slapped me hard and said that if I was unfilial to the people who gave birth to me, she wouldn’t expect me to be filial to my husband’s parents.

I still didn’t understand what was going on when my mother-in-law asked me if I knew why my biological father had to leave early today before the wedding ended?

It is true that this morning, when there were still a lot of guests, my father was nowhere to be seen, due to my busy work, I still forgot to call my parents.

My mother-in-law said, when the wedding party was going on, people discovered that my father was holding his stomach in pain in the toilet, so he immediately took him to the hospital. He asked everyone not to tell me because he was afraid that my worry would affect the happy day.

In the evening when I heard about the story, my mother-in-law went to the hospital to inquire, the doctor said that my father’s illness was discovered more than 1 month ago, but because of economic reasons, he kept asking for treatment.

My mother-in-law scolded me for being a heartless daughter, only demanding without knowing how difficult her parents were.

I burst into tears when I heard that my father refused to receive treatment because of lack of money, but he collected and sold all his assets and borrowed to have 3 gold trees as a dowry for me to get married.

My mother-in-law asked me to immediately bring that gold back to my biological parents so that my father could treat her because she married a chlorine wife. She also said that she took care of her children, not choosing a rich family, if she chose a rich family, she would not have agreed to let Thang marry me.

Until now, when my marriage is in the 8th year, my mother-in-law has also aged a lot, but I am still grateful to her for that slap that reminded me to care more about people and appreciate what I have. .

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