nycdaug Chapter 470: Hiding the Fact of Mother-in-Law’s Death
Chapter 470: Hiding the Fact of Mother-in-Law’s Death
More than eight thousand...is a huge sum of money for Aunt Sun.
My mother-in-law's health has been getting worse over the years. She needs to take many kinds of medicine every day. She has to pay for the money that cannot be reimbursed by medical insurance herself, and the remaining money is basically given to her.
Thinking of this, Aunt Sun's eyes became red again. Her mother-in-law treated her better than her own mother.
The woman sat quietly for a moment, then sighed, "Mom...I need this money."
"You also know what kind of person your youngest son is. Without your subsidy every month, Dabao and Erbao's living expenses would not be enough."
"When life gets better, I will definitely give you a grand funeral."
Aunt Sun couldn't help crying, she felt guilty.
The woman found a face towel and wiped her mother-in-law's whole body, changed her into her mother-in-law's favorite clean clothes, and then wrapped her whole body with a white cloth.
After cleaning up her mother-in-law, Aunt Sun started to clean the house. She worked until noon. She planned to go home first and come back in the evening to carry her mother-in-law to the back mountain and find a place to bury her.
When she returned to her and Uncle Sun's home, the man had just gotten up. Seeing his wife coming back, he shouted impatiently:
"Where have you been so early in the morning? Find me a pair of socks!"
Good-for-nothing bastard! The woman cursed in her heart. Her mother-in-law was already dead. She wanted to divorce him immediately, but for the sake of the children's living expenses, she had to endure it.
Aunt Sun swallowed her breath silently and replied in a low voice, "I'll find it for you."
The woman handed the socks to her husband and asked tentatively: "How long has it been since you visited our mother? We live in the same village, and you can't go there more than three times a year. The villagers might be counting your visits behind her back..." Her husband's bad reputation had long spread to the nearby town, and there were countless people who laughed at their family behind their backs.
The man paid no attention to his wife's words. He shrugged and replied nonchalantly, "Isn't she going to celebrate New Year's greetings on New Year's Day? She comes to our house every few days. Do I really need to go see her?"
"Brother is so busy with work in the city, but he always takes time to come back to see our mother every month. You are less than 500 meters away from our mother's house, but..."
"You're nagging me so early in the morning, aren't you annoying?" The man said irritably, "I'm hungry, hurry up and make me dinner!"
"I just want to ask you one question," Aunt Sun said with all her courage, "If our mother doesn't come to see you, will you never look for her again in your life?"
"Yes, yes, whatever you say is what it is." The man lit a cigarette. "Besides, what's the point of seeing an old woman? If it weren't for the money, I would have asked my brother to take her away long ago!"
"You are such a filial son to your mother!"
Although Aunt Sun got the answer she wanted and her husband would not take the initiative to look for his mother-in-law, so that the secret of his mother-in-law's death could be kept longer, she was also a mother and daughter-in-law. Seeing her husband's attitude of not caring about his mother-in-law's life or death made her feel heartbroken.
My husband's side was easy to deal with, but my eldest brother's family was particularly difficult to deal with.
First, there was the eldest brother's monthly trip home, and then there were the family gatherings during major holidays. Every time, Aunt Sun had to rack her brains to get away with it. In fact, by the end, the eldest brother and his wife's suspicion of her had reached its peak, but they did not expose her because of the family relationship.
Every time the eldest brother returned to his hometown to look for her secretly, different villagers would "tip her off". They actually didn't know the real purpose of the eldest brother's visit, but they just thought that the eldest brother's behavior was suspicious and wanted to get some gossip out of her.
In a blink of an eye, it was New Year's Eve, the day for the family to have a reunion dinner. Uncle Sun finally remembered that he still had a mother, and asked Aunt Sun to bring Grandma Sun over to have dinner together.
Aunt Sun had already thought of her lines and pretended to be helpless as she said, "I went to our mother's house early in the morning, but she said she wanted to spend a quiet New Year alone and refused to come to our house."
Uncle Sun got anxious when he heard this, "How can that be possible!"
"If the villagers knew that my mother was spending the New Year alone, I don't know what they would do to me!"
Oh... I knew you were just afraid of being gossiped about! Aunt Sun was angry, but she couldn't show it on her face, so she advised gently:
"Dabao recently learned a really cool technique called 'Fart Love'. It allows him to fart on a living person onto a photo. When the time comes, let Dabao fart on our mom."
Seeing his wife seemed prepared, the man asked suspiciously, "You seem a little strange today..." His wife usually cared more about her mother than him, "Are you hiding something from my mother?"
Aunt Sun took out a few red bills from her pocket and said, "My mother has already given me some New Year's money in advance. Take it."
The man was blinded by money, his drool almost dripping onto the ground. He waved his hand and said, "Let her do whatever she wants. I'm going to go out for a while and will be back before the reunion dinner."
She bribed her husband with money and deceived her eldest brother's family with photos of her beloved mother-in-law. In the year after her mother-in-law passed away, Aunt Sun lived in fear every day, and was most afraid that others would ask her about her mother-in-law.
These days of living in fear bring new challenges.
Shortly after the beginning of autumn, village cadres announced on the village radio that they would soon select a site in the back mountain as a base for raising poultry. The village had finally found a big boss from Huzhou to invest, so no matter whose land was chosen, they had to cooperate, and the village would give appropriate compensation accordingly.
One day, Uncle Sun came back from gambling outside. He walked into the kitchen and found that his wife had not yet started cooking.
The man immediately got angry and asked, "What are you busy with all day? You don't even cook!"
Aunt Sun's mind was full of the fact that the back mountain was going to be requisitioned, and her face was full of panic.
Seeing that his wife had no reaction, the man kicked the chair away.
"Did you hear me?"
Aunt Sun was startled and looked up and asked, "Have you heard that the village wants to use the land on the back mountain?"
The man looked impatient. "I'm not deaf. The old men and women in the village can hear the broadcast. How can I not hear it?"
Seeing her husband's expression, Aunt Sun guessed that he was unhappy about the land acquisition, so she followed up the topic and asked:
"If our land was chosen, we definitely wouldn't agree. How much is the subsidy? Planting tea for a year is enough..."
"What nonsense are you talking about?"
"Are you out of your mind?" Uncle Sun asked repeatedly.
"The tea we grow doesn't make much money in a year, but there's plenty of work. If the village wants to use our land, I'd be thrilled. Only a fool would refuse!"
Aunt Sun's scalp tingled. How could she forget that her husband was a lazy man who only cared about eating and doing nothing? How could he refuse such an easy way to make money?
The woman pressed her lips tightly into a line, trying to persuade her husband that this was a dead end.