A silver car is parked in front of the villa and a man stands in front of the door.
After seeing the person through the wispy door, Hai Tong thought she looked a bit familiar. Only when she got closer did she recognise that it was not the person who brought the shrimps over at all, but her mother-in-law whom she had only met a few times.
“Mum.”
After Hai Tong was surprised, she hurried to open the door, only to find that she couldn’t open it without the key, she apologetically said to her mother-in-law outside the door, “Mom, I didn’t know I needed a key to open the door, please wait for a moment, I’ll go in and get the key from Zhan Yin.”
Tang Jun Ye gave a faint hmph and stopped ringing the doorbell again.
Hai Tong hurried back inside, trotted into the kitchen and said to Zhan Yin, “Zhan Yin, your mother is here, I want to open the door but I don’t have the key to get the door open, hurry up and give me the key, I’ll go out and open the door.”
“Isn’t your mother coming over to visit in a couple of days? She doesn’t have a key?”
War Yin said, “My key is on that coffee table in the hall, my mum probably forgot to take the key.”
“By the way, how much rice did you put in to cook? I don’t know if your mother has eaten it yet.”
Hai Tong took her mother-in-law’s sudden arrival very seriously. One second to remember
“At this hour, my mother has already eaten.”
Hai Tong oh, twisted and trotted out, saw his keys on the coffee table, she picked them up and ran out, running to the door of the house she backed up again, retreated to the kitchen door and said to War Yin, “Why don’t you go out and open the door and let your mother in, I’ll fry the food.”
She was afraid that if her mother-in-law saw Zhangyin busy in the kitchen while she was relaxed, she would feel sorry for Zhangyin and blame her as a wife for not taking care of her husband.
Some mothers-in-law just can’t see their sons do some housework, always want their daughters-in-law to do it, their sons move their hands, they are tired of their sons, their daughters-in-law have to go to work to earn money, and come home from work to take care of the children, but also to do housework, when the mother-in-law take it for granted.
When a mother-in-law sees that her son-in-law has taken care of all the household chores, she feels that her daughter is lucky to have married a good husband.
When they see their sons doing some housework, they think their daughters-in-law are too lazy and complain that their in-laws don’t know how to train their daughters and deplore the fact that their sons have married a lazy wife.
Hai Tong draws some in-law problems from her sister’s failed marriage, and she worries that she will have to face the same problems herself.
“No need, go and open the door for your mother-in-law.”
“Will your mother blame me for not knowing how to be considerate when she sees you going about your business? Teach you that you don’t have to do anything when you come home and let me, as a wife, do it all?”
War Yin: “…… Not so much, right? I’ve only been married for three months, you and my mother have only met once or twice in total, you mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, there shouldn’t be any problems.”
In his generation, their War family were all male children, and under their grandmother’s education, they were all very considerate of the women in the family.
When he first understood, his father used to say in front of him that their mother was the only female in the family, and that they, father and son, had to know how to love and care for and protect her.
The mother saw him working in the kitchen and, by definition, would not have a problem with that.
His father often cooked some of his mother’s best dishes himself.
“You’re not even sure, so it’s better if you answer the door.”
Hai Tong stepped forward and was about to rip the apron off him.
“Tong Tong.”
War Yin caught her hand and said gently, “You don’t have to care what my mother thinks of you, living a life is between us as a couple, who of us does what, we make our own arrangements. If my mother says anything about you, I will communicate with my mother.”
There was no reason why his mother could enjoy his father’s thoughtfulness and Hai Tong couldn’t enjoy his?
He was a husband, happy to cook for his own wife.
It was no one’s business.
“Get the door, don’t keep my mother waiting.”
War Yin lowered his head and kissed her on the cheek, “Don’t worry, I’m here!”