Mother-in-law deliberately ate white rice with eggplant to intimidate her daughter-in-law to learn to save for her son.

My parents died early, so I was raised by my grandparents from a young age. In terms of economic conditions, my grandparents were quite well-off, their pensions were quite high, and their social relationships were also very good, so good that when I graduated, they had been retired for nearly ten years but were still able to ask acquaintances to help me get a job that many people dream of.

Except for the lack of love from my parents, I lacked nothing. Although my grandparents did not directly raise me, they always gave the best to their only granddaughter. It was just that my grandparents were much older than my grandparents, and they lived in the city, so it was more convenient for me to study.

During my childhood, I never felt disadvantaged. Although I was sad, I never complained about my fate of being orphaned at an early age.

I met my husband in 10th grade but we were just classmates. When he was in 11th grade, he transferred schools and we lost contact. In our final year of university, he and I interned at the same company and we started to develop feelings for each other.

We dated for 5 years before we decided to get married. My grandparents were very picky and loved their grandchildren, so they always made things difficult for him. During the time it took to win my grandparents' trust, my husband endured many challenges.

Even after getting married, the grandparents still held their spirits high, as long as their grandchild suffered a little, they would be ready to take him home immediately.

Because my husband's parents are from the countryside and we both work in the city, we decided to live separately from the beginning. With the support of our family, we were able to buy a small apartment, not too spacious, but even if we have children in the future, we will still have our own rooms.

When I was pregnant recently, my mother-in-law asked me to come live with her to help with the children. At first, my husband did not agree, but my mother was so determined that he had to go along with her. Since then, he has always been on high alert, constantly asking me if I have any problems with my mother to tell him immediately. At that time, I laughed and told him that he was exaggerating.

But my husband's worries were not unnecessary. After only living together for about 2 months, I found many irreconcilable problems.

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I was a child who lacked parental love, so I got married with a completely carefree spirit, without any precautions, without thinking about how to deal with my husband's family. I always thought that since I didn't have parents by my side, I should consider my in-laws as my own parents. It's just that my mother-in-law didn't seem to think that way.

When I first came here, no matter how carefully I cooked, my mother-in-law only ate white rice with eggplant, fish, or other delicious dishes. I was embarrassed to touch my chopsticks when I saw that my mother-in-law did not eat.

After that, this became more and more serious because every time no one dared to eat, there would be leftovers. My mother-in-law would constantly reheat food from a few days ago, sometimes even from the previous week, to serve in front of her husband, wife, and children. My mother-in-law would not eat the new food I cooked that was delicious, but insisted on eating old food that was almost spoiled.

The mother-in-law even praised the food while eating, but then said that she would save the new food for her children because she only dared to eat these things.

My husband reminded her but she refused to listen. Every time she ate old food like that, she would say something like she had to save for her son. Her son worked hard to earn money, so every time she looked at the full tray of food, she felt heartbroken because she felt sorry for her son.

At first, I didn't understand much, but later on, I understood that my mother was implying that I was a spendthrift, that my husband worked hard but didn't know how to save for him. I became more and more resentful because I was pregnant and close to giving birth, but I was still working hard to earn money and I didn't depend on my husband for a single day.

This continued until I gave birth, at which point she kept hinting or saying directly that I only gave birth to one granddaughter, why did I have to spend so much money, why would it be so expensive to give birth to a daughter? My grandparents - the baby's two great-grandparents - paid for the birth, but my mother-in-law kept asking me over and over again why it cost more than 10 million. My mother-in-law also kept complaining about the expense of milk and diapers for my daughter.

Every time she complained like that, my mother-in-law deliberately ate more frugally, even eating empty rice or cold rice without reheating it in front of my husband and me as a reminder that because I spent too much money, she didn't dare eat.

Although I didn't say anything, my husband gradually realized his mother's trick of deliberately eating leftovers to intimidate her daughter-in-law. Finally, he had a solution that I didn't expect him to think of.

From then on, every meal my husband cooked the same dishes that his mother-in-law often ate, and he and my mother sat down to eat together. At mealtimes, he only brought out burnt rice, eggplant, and pickles… to eat with my mother. Because I was breastfeeding, he secretly bought my own food, but in front of my mother, the whole family still ate frugally like that.

My mother-in-law was stunned, before she could ask, she spoke first:

- From now on, our family will eat like this. We will eat like this to save money.

After about a week like that, the mother-in-law became silent, perhaps she understood that her son wanted to protest the fact that she deliberately ate leftovers.

From that day on, my mother-in-law no longer deliberately ate like that and also did not complain about the expense of raising our daughter. After that, life with my mother-in-law became much less difficult, she also did not scold me too much like before, so I lived peacefully with my mother-in-law until I finished giving birth and she returned to the countryside.

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