Luckily my mother was alert and stopped in time, otherwise she would not be as happy as she is now.
It sounds funny, but now my mother sometimes brings up the old story when I was 15 years old. My father died early, my mother raised me to study alone. Seeing my mother alone for more than ten years, I felt so sorry for her. I was the one who urged her to remarry, causing the whole family to get into a funny situation.
My grandfather was not a good businessman. In the past, he only knew how to grow rice and vegetables to support his family. But then a kind person advised him to sell his land to get capital to build a motel. He boldly listened and quickly became rich.
There were 5 factories in my hometown, so people kept coming to work and stay there. My grandmother also took the opportunity to open a cheap restaurant for workers, and after a few years she had enough money to build another row of dormitories.
My parents and I were given a new house next to the old house. I asked why we didn’t build a big villa with many rooms for the whole family to live together. He tapped my head and said it was a “dowry” he had given me for when I got married.
In general, since having money, my family has had less trouble. My grandparents hired dozens of workers, no longer needing to do manual labor like before. My mother helped them manage several boarding houses and opened a coffee shop.
Because he could earn money by doing nothing, my grandfather had a lot of free time. He applied for a day-shift security job at a bank to help him have some free time. His salary was only 30 cents, and he told me to bring it home for my pocket money. His main "task" there was just to park and look after customers' vehicles, the rest was just chatting and gossiping with the motorbike taxi drivers.
He likes this job because it is both relaxing and fun. However, because he is a security guard, his "imminent" in-laws look down on him.
The thing is, when I was in 9th grade, I urged my mother to remarry to relieve her sadness. She was almost 40 years old but still young and beautiful. There were so many people who came to look at me but she didn't pay any attention. At first, she kept arguing that she was happy being single and didn't want to get involved in love affairs.
But suddenly one fine day, my mother's tea shop welcomed a strange guest. He came by car, wearing a rather polite shirt and trousers, ordered a cup of guava juice and sat down to chat with my mother for quite a while.
After that day, this guy started to visit the coffee shop regularly. From chatting like a host and a customer, he gradually asked my mother more questions and asked for her contact number. I don't know how he courted my mother, but after a while, he proposed to marry her.
My family was very happy and supported my mother's remarriage. The other man was a senior manager at a leather shoe factory, financially stable, a few years younger than my mother, and a bachelor, so even though his appearance was a bit unattractive, he was still better than many people.
He has a calm personality, always pampering and giving in to my mother, so everyone thinks that marrying this man will make my mother happy.
He was also good to me, never worried about my mother having a child with another man, and ignored all the gossip.
After thinking carefully for a while, seeing that no one around her objected, my mother agreed to marry the other guy. He was so happy that he invited my whole family to come over for an introductory meal.
My grandparents bought brand new clothes to go to their future in-laws' house to talk. The uncle's house was as big as a mansion, beautiful and spacious, and had a garden as big as an airport.
Everything went smoothly until my grandfather introduced himself. When he said his current job was as a bank security guard, I saw my in-laws frown unhappily. When my grandmother said she was running a street food stall, they sighed in boredom and were no longer as enthusiastic as before.
My mother's wedding was quite grand. The banquet hall had over a hundred tables, and the whole village was packed with guests. I had never seen my mother so beautiful. Both her ao dai and her wedding dress were brilliant, and everyone said she looked like my older sister.
That guy said that after the wedding, he would move in with my mother and me to avoid conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. However, before we officially became daughters-in-law, my mother had already turned her back on her husband's family.
The reason was when the MC invited representatives from both sides of the in-laws to speak, my mother's future mother-in-law let out a string of contemptuous words.
During the entire wedding preparation, she did not show up, but on the important day, she deliberately embarrassed my family in front of hundreds of guests.
I will always remember her insulting words to my whole family: "Even though my daughter-in-law is older than my son and is selling drinks for a living, her father is just a bank security guard with nothing in his hands, and his monthly salary is only a fraction of my housekeeper's, but I still helped the two of them get together and accepted their in-law relationship."
After hearing this, all the guests below whispered in amazement. All eyes turned to my grandfather - the father of the bride on stage that day. I was still young at that time but I understood that these words were not pleasing to the ears at all, lowering the honor of my family.
Without waiting for others to feel upset, my mother threw away the wedding bouquet in her hand and grabbed the mic to announce the cancellation of the wedding.
My mother said that my husband's family was not necessarily as rich as mine, so she had no right to look down on me. Hearing people say that my grandfather was a secret tycoon, my mother-in-law's face gradually turned from red to gray.
My "failed" stepfather was so embarrassed that he didn't know where to hide his face. He grabbed my mother to apologize, but she took off the wedding ring she had just worn and threw it on the street!
Since my father passed away, my mother has had to live with thousands of rumors, slander and fabrications. Some people even made up stories that my mother had a "mistress" to get money to raise her children. When my mother remarried that guy, they called my mother a "gold digger".
But most outsiders don't know how my family lives. Even though he has billions of dollars, my grandfather still wears old clothes to work as a security guard. Both my grandparents and my mother taught me that money does not determine a person's character. Living a life that makes you proud is the best.
So when she saw the unpleasant attitude of my in-laws, my mother decided that there was no need for a wedding. Family was still number one. What did it matter if the outsiders were arrogant?
The wedding was a complete bust after that, and the last ones to be humiliated were the uncle's family. My mother was very happy after returning the wedding dress. She said she could live freely from now on. She liked the uncle, but not to the point of having to endure humiliation just because of love.
Now, nearly ten years have passed, the neighbors around sometimes come to the coffee shop and still bring up the failed wedding to tease my mother. My mother is getting more and more beautiful and classy, that guy still often comes back to talk to my mother but she doesn't answer.
Well, as long as Mom is happy, that's enough. I don't dare urge her to find a new place anymore. One incident is enough!
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