My daughter was ridiculed by her in-laws day after day because of a basket of vegetables since before she became a daughter-in-law.

As scheduled, looking at the calendar about to reach the 15th day of the 10th lunar month, my daughter broke out in a cold sweat!

If I could turn back time, the first thing I would do would be to reject my daughter's marriage. She is my treasure, the little cotton coat that the whole family has cherished since she was a baby.

But after getting married, she turned into a completely different person, sensitive and vulnerable.

My in-laws' house is only about 5 blocks away from mine, but the number of times I see my daughter every month can be counted on one hand.

The reason is because her husband's family is too busy, they opened a chain of wedding service stores so they have to work from early morning until late at night every day.

Many nights when I can't sleep, I see my daughter still online at 2am. When I ask her, she says she has to stay awake to prepare things for the guests who will pick her up at 5am.

From a princess whose hands had never tasted dish soap, now my daughter has to do everything. Her husband's family is rich but the daughter-in-law does not have the luxury of eating and dressing well.

On the contrary, every time I see my child, I only see him getting older, pale and sleep deprived to the point where his eyes are covered in dark circles.

I feel so sorry for my daughter that I have secretly talked to my son-in-law several times. It's not because I spoil my daughter too much that I'm upset with my in-laws, but honestly I just want my daughter to live comfortably and rest to take good care of her health.

After all, she is still young, besides work, she should have time to go out, travel , go shopping and dress up like other girls, right? We can't force her to bury her youth in a pile of goods and spend all day in the rain and sun following her husband to set up a wedding tent!

I confided in my daughter and she said working too much is tiring, but she feels happy and can still withstand the pressure of working for her husband's family.

Partly because she found wedding services interesting, partly because her husband let his wife hold all the finances , their monthly income was said to be several hundred million, so my daughter accepted the trade-off to earn a lot of money.

His dream is to buy a house by the river with a large garden, then bring my wife and I there to retire.

Respecting my child's opinion, I stopped complaining. Instead, I reminded him to eat well and not to skip meals no matter how busy he was.

Looking at my daughter's white, delicate hands now wrinkled and with broken nails, I feel so sorry for her, but after she gets married, I can't protect her like before.

Fortunately, my son-in-law is a sensible person, loves his wife and always pays attention to not let her get exhausted. Sometimes he still drives my daughter to her parents' house for dinner, buys gifts for my wife and me and takes the whole family on vacations in the suburbs on weekends.

My son-in-law supported his wife's plan to save money to buy a house and garden, telling me that now we should focus on business, and when we have money, we will take care of both sets of parents for the rest of our lives. It sounded really good.

However, you gain something and you lose something. My daughter is not afraid of hardship, the only person she is afraid of is her father-in-law.

He is a talented and serious man in everything. He directs dozens of employees and manages a large family. My daughter is neither the eldest nor the youngest daughter-in-law, but she feels pressured by her father-in-law's attention.

During her time as a business apprentice with her husband, my daughter told me that her father-in-law constantly scolded her. Her mother-in-law tried to defend her, but she still felt hurt because she was always found fault with trivial things. However, after those stressful months, my daughter learned how to work quickly and neatly, to appreciate her own labor, and to understand the meaning of a united family.

Although strict with his daughter-in-law, at mealtimes, the father-in-law still comforted her in a strange way, telling her to work harder and later he would give her "calloused hands" counting the assets. After hearing this, my daughter understood what he meant, so she was more happy than hating her father-in-law.

However, my child was haunted by a very funny story. It was… the story of shaking vegetables!

She told me that the first time she went to meet her boyfriend's family - now her husband's family - her sister-in-law gave her the challenge of shaking raw vegetables.

My son saw online that many people couldn’t do it. He didn’t believe that it was so difficult to shake vegetables, so he “showed off” to his boyfriend’s family.

Who would have thought that as soon as my daughter picked up the basket, she broke the precious vase of the family, and the pile of vegetables landed on her father-in-law's head! According to my son-in-law, everyone was terrified at that time. Seeing the vegetables and water splashing everywhere, my daughter's face turned pale. Her father-in-law was very angry. He threw all the vegetables on her head and scolded her terribly, asking if she had been taught home economics at home to be so clumsy and useless.

My daughter has been spoiled since she was little, so she doesn't know anything. I'm not defending her, but her in-laws scolded her harshly. Every family raises their children differently. I don't force her to learn how to cook, so what does she know about washing vegetables? She simply thought that when she went to meet her boyfriend's family, she had to be proactive. Breaking an expensive vase was beyond her intention.

After paying for the jar, my daughter asked to break up and not love me anymore. Partly because she was embarrassed, partly because she was afraid that her future father-in-law would be too difficult. Just because of a basket of vegetables, he judged my family from top to bottom, and even accused me of not knowing how to raise my child, so she went to "make trouble" at someone else's house.

Of course, my daughter kept the incident from her parents until later, when she reconciled with her boyfriend and decided to get married, and then she told me about it. Every holiday, her father-in-law still brought up the story of the disastrous vegetable basket, which haunted my daughter. Every time she went to her parents' house, she asked the maid to teach her how to wash the vegetables, but it seemed that it never worked out as she had hoped.

Today, I went to the morning market and stopped by my daughter's place. She bragged that she was going to travel abroad with her husband soon, and that they would consider having a baby at this time. The mother-in-law saw this and immediately opened her calendar to look, then suddenly she said that it was almost the 15th day of the 10th lunar month, and that day there was also a death anniversary at her family's house. She asked if their travel schedule would overlap, and my daughter said that the trip would start a few days after the death anniversary.

Then the father-in-law sat next to her and asked a question that made the whole family silent: "So this year, do you plan to sprinkle vegetables for the whole family to eat? I've moved the God of Wealth altar to another place, so you won't have to worry about breaking anything, okay?"

His half-joking, half-profound tone gave me goosebumps. Looking at my daughter and son-in-law, whose faces were pale, I had to signal to my mother-in-law to ask for help. She understood and smiled, saying that this year she had hired someone to cook the feast, and had also hired someone to wash the dishes, so no one had to do anything. She also invited my husband and I to come over for the feast. I nodded awkwardly to finish and then made an excuse to leave.

Why does my son's father-in-law hold grudges over such trivial matters? Even my father-in-law was not this hard on his daughter-in-law!

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