My grandma married my grandpa in 1956 and gave birth to their eldest daughter, Xiangxiang. However, after giving birth to her eldest daughter, she did not get pregnant again for more than ten years, so she adopted my uncle Laishun. Laishun was frail and sick since he was a child, and he sold iron to others in the countryside. After spending two years to cure Laishun, my grandma finally gave birth to her biological son Laifu, and the following year gave birth to her daughter Xiuxiu.
The turning point of the story happened after my uncle got married. My aunt was lazy and idle all day long. She did not work in the production team and did housework. She made comments about the family all day long. She disliked the poor and loved the rich. She also ran to the town with others to find a man. However, because she could not find a successor, she wrote a letter asking her grandma, grandpa and aunt to pick her up and take her home. After returning home, my aunt became even more lazy. Even after giving birth, she regarded herself as a princess and treated her strong grandma as a slave. The strong grandma could not tolerate any sand in her eyes. Even though the honest grandpa strongly opposed grandma at the time to separate the uncle's family, grandma did not listen to grandpa, so the aunt's family hated grandma because of it.
The complicated relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law further deteriorated. As time passed and my aunt gave birth to three or four children, my grandfather unfortunately contracted pneumonia and coughed up blood and died.
The widowed grandmother burst into tears.
Later, because the brother-in-law wanted to get married, he married off Xiuxiu and used Xiuxiu's gift to get a wife.
After marrying my younger aunt, my younger aunt was not a light-hearted person either. She commented on my grandmother every day, and they quarreled every once in a while.
Grandma hanged herself to death in her later years
