Chapter 6 Chapter 6 Daughter-in-law has to work

Back in Beijing, the young couple bought a white Fukang with Jin Liang's savings and money from Mengmeng's mother.For Jin Liang to go to work, he had to travel from Lugou Bridge to the Asian Games Village. He had to go out before dawn, and he had to take a few bus trips.Now that he has a car, Jin Liang can sleep an extra hour a day.Of course, it costs about a thousand yuan a month to maintain a car.Especially after a few years, the car starts to break down, and it costs more to maintain. Every night, Jin Liang goes downstairs to the Mengmeng Newspaper Office to pick up Mengmeng.When the young couple came home, Jin Liang's parents had already prepared a meal, and everyone chatted and ate.After eating, Zhang Mengmeng washed the dishes and swept the floor.The small days are quite harmonious.

After marriage, Mengmeng continued to maintain the momentum before marriage and spared no effort to please her in-laws. This lasted for more than three months, and finally began to lose momentum, let alone make persistent efforts. "Stealing away materials" happened frequently. The work of the newspaper office is too busy, and I often stay up late. Fortunately, there is no time limit for going to work in the morning, so whenever there is no interview in the morning, Mengmeng takes the time to catch up on sleep, and can sleep until the sun is up.When she first got married, Mengmeng knew that the elderly didn't like their daughter-in-law to sleep in, so she restrained herself a little. As long as she had nothing to do in the morning, she would get up at 8 o'clock, go shopping with Jin Liang's mother, prepare lunch, and talk with her.It was a bit fresh at the beginning, but I couldn't hold it anymore. After all, there is a generation gap between the two generations, which can be said less and less. In addition, Mengmeng is always sleepy and yawns in the kitchen. How can I catch up? It was even more unbearable to catch up with the manuscript at night.And Jin Liang's mother spends the whole morning in the kitchen, and it's not purely busy, it's a bit like passing the time, washing and ordering, sitting there for a while, wrapping some garlic, sitting there and drinking some water, the old lady often I love to smoke a cigarette.Later, Mengmeng gave up the "pretend" and slept late whenever she had the chance.

There are also conflicts over water use.Jin Liang's father may be afraid of living in poverty, so he saves water very much. When washing the dishes, he pours some water on the rag to wash the dishes one by one, and then soaks all the dishes in a big basin, and the washing is considered finished.After marriage, washing the dishes naturally fell to Mengmeng who can't cook. She couldn't stand the way of washing dishes that Jin Liang's father explained. The bowls stained with washing spirit must be washed with running water to clean it. common sense.But in order to perfuse Jin Liang's father, she had to pretend to put a basin of water in front of her. When Jin Liang's father was around, she pretended to soak the bowl in it. As soon as Jin Liang's father walked away, she quickly flushed it with clean water.Of course, Mengmeng couldn't hold on to this tiring way of washing dishes soon.

Mengmeng didn't expect that there would be a generation gap with her in-laws when it comes to washing clothes.Jin Liang's mother is very particular about washing clothes, regardless of size, she must rub them with a washboard before throwing them in the washing machine.And it has always been based on the principle of washing by hand, one is clean, and the other is that washing clothes in a washing machine is too water-intensive.Mengmeng always throws clothes in the washing machine when she has clothes, except for underwear.When she first got married, in order to please her in-laws, she really rubbed her clothes with a big washboard for a few days, but now she basically stopped cooking.The consequence of this is that Jin Liang's mother often looks carefully at Mengmeng's freshly washed clothes under the sun, and says bitterly: "Since we, Xiao Liang, got married, these clothes can't be washed out."

One of Mengmeng's biggest complaints—Jin Liang's father actually stole water.The faucet at home is never closed tightly, and the "tick tick tick" leaks downward, and the water drips into various water-holding utensils.Mengmeng endured this for more than three months, and finally couldn't take it anymore. Every day, she found that the faucet was dripping, and she turned it off with her hand.Of course, after a while, the familiar "tick" sound sounded again. Jin Liang's father is also suffocating in his heart, I drip my water, what are you doing so hard, you!

In fact, not only Mengmeng is cutting corners, but Jin Liang's parents are also cutting corners day by day in their tolerance for Mengmeng. Mengmeng is used to taking a shower after getting up every morning.On this day, the old man and the old lady were having lunch, while Mengmeng just woke up and was still taking a shower in the bathroom. Hearing the sound of water splashing in the bathroom, the old man couldn't eat anymore: "Why does this kid take a shower so frequently." "I told my son, and my son said that she is a reporter and runs outside every day." "I never washed it so frequently in the mine before." Jin Liang's father checked the water meter and said, "This is not good, she has to fix it."

The next day, Mengmeng, who had just woken up, went to the bathroom and was about to take a bath. Jin Liang's mother came in with a big red bucket: "Mengmeng, stand in the bucket and take a bath. The bath water you catch can be used to flush the toilet." "Ah?" Mengmeng looked at the big red barrel in a daze.She turned on the shower, tried to make herself stand in the bucket, and scrubbed nervously, but the bucket was too slippery, and when the floor got wet, the plastic bucket actually slid by itself. Fortunately, Mengmeng quickly held onto the handle so as not to fall to the ground.She came out of the bucket a little gasped and kicked the bucket aside.

After taking a shower, Mengmeng sat at the table to eat.Jin Liang's mother deliberately went to the bathroom to check how much bath water was stored, but only saw a large empty bucket, which was still tilted on the ground, and her face sank immediately.Mengmeng was also a little annoyed, and she was thinking about the interview in the afternoon, so she didn't explain. Jin Liang's mother was unhappy, but she still tried to say humorously: "Mengmeng, you are always wasting water. After you die, Mengmeng won't give you soup." When she was happy, she walked out with a droopy face, without even eating any more food.Jin Liang's mother thought she was solving the problem easily in a joking way, but she was thrown off by her daughter-in-law again: "Hey, this child is getting more and more tempered now."

"It smells like sweat." Sitting in the car, Mengmeng pulled her collar and sniffed left and right, grumbling unhappily. "Not at all." Jin Liang reassured. "This thing of taking a shower and washing the dishes every day can really annoy a person." "Look, you have to be sympathetic to them. My parents suffered a lot when they were young. In our Houpu Village, water was very inconvenient. So my father's problems, especially saving water, are really unacceptable. People who bathe all the time. Look at them, they only bathe once a month now." "Ah?" Mengmeng cried out in shock.

"Old man, let's talk about it, you just wash it every two days, and make room for them." "Oh, then I also take a shower once a month. As a reporter, I go out for interviews every day, and my body smells like sweat. I might get fleas on someone else. What's the matter?" "As for it, my parents didn't get fleas either." Jin Liang was not happy.