“Is being pregnant that great?”

“Wait until you have a son before becoming emperor!”

“That belly is as round as a jar, one look and you can tell it’s a girl, what a waste of rice!”

I feel so sorry.

Is it my fault that I have a daughter?

It’s clearly my wife’s fault!

But how can I tell that my wife and I have switched souls?

My mother could not believe it!

Well, just try to make up for your wife.

I gritted my teeth and continued with my mother.

I only ate a little bit this morning, but it’s all gone now.

Stomach growling, body exhausted.

Luckily… finally turned around.

I immediately got in the spirit.

Go much faster, straight through three streets.

But halfway there, I was exhausted.

I dare not go slow, afraid of making my mother angry.

Just grit your teeth and follow.

Legs shaking, calves hurting, feet burning,

But I have a motivation: for my children!

I can’t believe my mother makes me go so far every day.

When I made up with my mother,

Explain clearly, mom will understand me.

At that time, my wife suffered!

My colleagues are not easy to deal with,

The boss scolds all day and gives me constant work.

My colleagues are always nosy and push work onto me.

From today, my wife has to suffer all that.

Thinking of my wife having to go to work in my body, I can’t help but feel happy.

Maybe because I was so absorbed in my thoughts, I arrived at the apartment building without realizing it.

Even though I was exhausted and my legs hurt as if they were about to break,

But I think I’ll get used to it.

“Sister-in-law Kien Dan took her daughter-in-law for a walk again?”

Just arrived downstairs, neighbors smiled and greeted my mother.

My mother shook her head helplessly:

“Don’t mention it, if you don’t take it out it won’t work!”

“If I don’t call it, it just lies there, as if I have to wait on it.”

“Whine and whine all day, as if someone is bullying you!”

I hear that my nose is sore.

I tried my best today, is it still not good enough?

The neighbor glanced at my belly:

“These two must be girls?”

My mother’s face was full of hatred:

“Yes, his belly is not blessed!”

“And yet he still acts so arrogant to me, complaining all day about being tired and hungry. If it weren’t for the fact that he carries the blood of the Vuong family,

I would have slapped you a long time ago!”

“There is no other way, afraid that she will miscarry and it will be difficult to conceive again, can only treat her as an ancestor and serve her, wait for her to give birth this time, next year make her give birth to a son for the Ly family.”

Neighbors laughed and said:

“I know a very good teacher. He sells pregnancy pills that guarantee you will have a boy. If not, he will refund your money.”

I was stunned.

Do people believe this hoax?

Everyone knows that gender is determined from conception, what does this have to do with this stupid medicine?

This medicine is profitable no matter how you sell it: if you give birth to a boy, you make money, if you give birth to a girl, at most you will return the money, so you still get half the profit.

I thought to myself that my mother wouldn’t believe in such things.

Unexpectedly, my mother’s eyes lit up:

“Is it that magical? How much is a pack? If it wasn’t expensive, I would tell my daughter-in-law to try it!”

The neighbor smiled and replied:

“One hundred and one packs, drink five packs.”

I quickly pulled my mother’s sleeve:

“Mom, you shouldn’t believe these things.”

My mother was smiling, but suddenly her face darkened and she glared at me sharply:

“Nonsense! How do you know if you don’t try?”

“The Vuong family has had only one son for three generations. If you ruin my family, I will beat you to death!”

I didn’t dare say another word, I could only watch as my mother contacted that “miracle doctor”.

Soon after, his son brought the medicine to him.

Hearing that his wife gave birth to three sons, my mother immediately took out money to pay, and dragged me home with the medicine bag in hand.

I know, I have to take this so-called abortion pill at noon.

There’s no other way, I know it’s useless, but as long as mom is happy, that’s fine.

As a daughter-in-law, you must please your mother-in-law. Disobeying her is unfilial and unforgivable.

4.

But when I saw the finished medicine for pregnancy transfer, I really couldn’t swallow it.

I couldn’t believe that the greenish black liquid that smelled so bad was fit for human consumption.

Just smelling it makes me want to vomit bile.

“Drink!” my mother urged, her face full of impatience.

I gritted my teeth, closed my eyes, and decided to finish it in one go.

But before it even reached my mouth, the disgusting smell made me want to vomit immediately.

My mother banged the table:

“This is the medicine to have a boy! Will you take it?!”

“I see that you basically don’t want to give birth to a son for our Vuong family!”

“Oh my god, why am I so miserable? I got a daughter-in-law who is both wasteful and rebellious. She intends to destroy the Vuong family line!”

Hearing my mother crying and screaming like a ghost, I was so annoyed that I went crazy, so I quickly said:

“Okay, okay, okay, I’ll drink!”

I held my nose and gulped down half the bowl of medicine in one gulp.

The strong, rotten taste was like a bomb in the mouth, and as soon as it went down to the stomach, a wave of nausea rose up.

Nausea, just nausea.

My stomach felt like it was being turned upside down. I strained to keep from vomiting.

Tears streamed down, whole body shaking with disgust.

“Drink up, there’s half a bowl left!”

“Drinking a cup of medicine is like asking for life, what a whining person.”

My mother said with disgust.

I feel so sorry.

I really wanted to let my mom taste how disgusting it was, but I didn’t dare.

Had to hold my nose and try to swallow the remaining half bowl.

Stomach churned again, the strong smell of rotten medicine rose to the throat.

I had to cover my mouth and swallow it back down.

“There, that’s good.”

“Every family has a pregnant daughter-in-law, no one is like you, complaining all day long.”

I hear that and feel bitter.

Suddenly remembered the story before my wife complained that her mother forced her to take some folk medicine.

At that time, I, like my mother now, called her “whiny”.

Now thinking back…

If that’s considered “whining”, then the standards are really low.

But I think it’s still bearable.

Before, I went to work from morning to night, commuting for more than an hour every day, and often had to work overtime. I was the one who suffered the most.

My wife is just pregnant, my mother is upset with her, isn’t it her fault?

No need to work or cook, just stay home and enjoy.

But still not satisfied.

In no time, lunch was ready.

My mother brought out the food.

Each person gets a bowl of pumpkin porridge, two chicken thighs, and a plate of stir-fried potatoes.

My stomach is still upset and I don’t want to eat.

But my stomach was growling with hunger, so I quickly picked up a chicken thigh and put it in my mouth.

Unexpectedly, my mother tapped my hand hard with chopsticks.

“Are you that hungry? You ate a chicken leg, what should I eat?”

I really wanted to say: “Then eat the remaining one.”

But before I could say anything, my mother had already divided the chicken thigh in half, half for me, half for her.

I was stunned on the spot.

No matter how much money is spent in the house, it shouldn’t be to the point where a mother and child can’t each eat a whole chicken leg!

Before, my mother still cooked me enough meat, fish, and vegetables!

Just yesterday my mother stewed fish for me to eat.

But “I” was not at home, and I only got to eat half of the chicken leg?

Just then, the nausea in my stomach rose, I didn’t care about anything else, rushed into the bathroom and threw up.

Looking at the black-green liquid in the toilet, I felt even more disgusted. I tried to vomit more, until I felt dizzy but couldn’t stop.

It took a long time, until there was nothing left in my stomach, for me to stop.

I stood up trembling, dragged myself to the sink and rinsed my mouth, trying to get the bad smell out of my mouth.

Looking at my pale face in the mirror, I was startled and horrified, not expecting myself to be so haggard.

I held my stomach while brushing my teeth and washing my face. After a while, I had no appetite to eat or drink anymore.

just want to sleep

so tired

Body tired, mind even more tired.

I wearily said to my mother:

“Mom, I can’t eat anymore.”

My mother was very happy and immediately put the remaining chicken thigh on her plate:

“It’s better not to eat it, it’s not a waste of my money!”

I was silent for a few seconds, then quietly returned to my room to rest.

Learning from the previous two times my mother suddenly barged into my room, I locked the door.

Lying in bed, stomach still uncomfortable, back aching, calves swollen heavily, soles of feet hurt to the point of crying.

I tried to reach out and rub my leg a little, but my big belly made any movement difficult. It took me a while to feel a little better.

But then my stomach growled loudly with hunger, and now I regretted not trying to eat lunch.

Thinking of my mother’s attitude, I did not dare to open my mouth to beg.

I opened the food ordering app, intending to order a hamburger for myself.

Result… the payment page shows the message: Account does not have enough money.

My head was pounding.

I can’t believe it, my wife doesn’t even have money to order food?

I quickly checked WeChat, Alipay and bank account.

Searched around and found only… five thousand eight hundred dong.

I’m so mad.

My wife just quit her job a few months ago, and before that she was still earning a decent salary, so why is she getting nothing now?

I have to see where that bastard spent his money!

But after looking at the transaction history on WeChat with Alipay, I was stunned.

My wife… is not wasteful.

She spent most of her salary on household expenses, the rest was spent on hospital treatment in the first one or two months after leaving her job.

I suddenly remembered that time, my wife had a miscarriage, and my mother was also sick, the two of them took turns going in and out of the hospital, burning a lot of money.

My wife once asked me for money, I told her to advance it… I guess I didn’t pay it back?

But… no big deal.

My mother is also her mother.

What’s wrong with giving mom some money?

Besides, now she’s pregnant, aren’t I raising her?

Now my soul is in her body, and she is working to earn money, I asked her to give me some money to order food, is that unreasonable?

The more I thought about it, the more it seemed right, so I immediately texted to ask for money:

“Transfer me 50 thousand, I’m hungry, want to order food.”

She texted back very quickly:

“Why do you eat takeout? Doesn’t your mom cook for you?”

I replied:

“Don’t mention it, mom made me take some kind of abortion pill, it was horrible, I felt so nauseous that I threw up all the food I ate yesterday. Now I’m hungry, I really can eat anything, send me the money.”

Unexpectedly, my wife exploded:

“Hey man, can you not do that?”

“You can’t live in peace, do you just like being scolded?”

“What woman doesn’t give birth?”

“The most difficult person in the world is someone like you!”

“Knowing you’re pregnant with a girl, outsiders would think you’re pregnant with a dragon!”

“Let me tell you, don’t think that being pregnant gives you a leg up. Even sows know about being pregnant!”

I stared at the screen, my head pounding.

“I just asked for some money to order food, what are you crazy about?”

My wife replied immediately:

“You are the crazy one!”

“Every time I complained before, you scolded me like that. Can’t you stand it?”

Every time swear like that?

I felt like someone hit me on the head with a stick.

Suddenly remembered.

So… I said those words to her.

Sentence by sentence, she returned verbatim!

5.

“No need to argue anymore, give me the money, I’m so hungry I’m about to faint.”

I did not bother to argue anymore, just wanted to eat my fill.

“You want this little money, you’re really useless!”

“You can’t earn a penny at home, and you still dare to ask for money? Why don’t you just ask for the stars in the sky?”

“I pamper you so much that you don’t know what’s going on, if I don’t scold you then I don’t know who’s the boss!”

“Tell me, you want to get money from me? Dream on!”

I: …

I’m so angry!

This damn woman is planning to rebel?