Spoiled by Eight Uncles

The harem spirit did not know what to say. “Did you still speak up for your mom then?”

The foolish ghost looked nothing but regretful. “No, this time I told my mom off. I told her that she wasn’t doing anything at home, and the kid didn’t need taking care of anymore now that he was in school. How busy could she get?”

That was true, wasn’t it? She’d said exactly that when her daughter-in-law stayed at home as well.

The foolish ghost thought- his wife had even looked after the baby when she was at home. Now, his mother hardly needed to do anything at all. The clothes were washed by the washing machine, she only had to cook lunch for herself- even dinner was settled by his wife.

Still, his mother complained that she was tired.

When her daughter-in-law stayed at home, she would complain that she was not earning any money and only spending it.

Now that her daughter-in-law had gone back to work, she was complaining that she wasn’t doing any chores and leaving them all to a poor old woman to do.

Which resulted in his mother exploding, hurling dishes and bowls around.

“My mother kicked up a fuss, threatening to jump off our balcony saying that no one cared about her after my dad died. Her son was abandoning his mother after getting a wife, accusing his poor mother of not doing anything when she was breaking her back.”

She would do this over and over again, causing the house to know no peace.

The harem spirit said, “Your mother really is making a fuss out of nothing!”

The foolish ghost sighed. “Yes, but she’s old. What was I supposed to tell her? So I told my wife to apologize to my mother.”

The harem spirit:

The weakling spirit:….

The unlucky ghost: You really are foolish, handling things so terribly!

The foolish ghost said, “Well, what was I supposed to do? One was my mother and another was my wife, I was going to explode from the stress! I really don’t even know why they fought all day, had they ever considered how I felt?”

“Hadn’t I just done everything for our family? Was I supposed to just abandon my mother? It would have been fine if everyone just sucked it up.”

Every family had their own mother and daughter-in-law shenanigans.

daughter in law around the house with a knife, but

finally went to school, but wasn’t a good student. He learned to climb over his school walls to play truant at internet cafes, and all

her daughter-in-law that she made for a terrible mother and daughter-in-law, leaving the

county back then was not what it was now, with commodity housing everywhere.

people lived in self-built buildings where all the neighbors saw and chatted with each other everyday.

barrage of complaints from their neighbors, all of them telling her to just quit her job and look after her son.

grew more and more self-righteous, demanding that my wife quit her job or she would block

course my wife didn’t want

home everyday complaining that she with was tired, and just stay at home to make sure our son studied well! What was wrong

said that he did not understand her side of things. The foolish ghost felt as if he was going crazy. How

the front door to yanking at her daughter-in-law’s

that much at work but still going out, so she must be having an affair with someone.”

of them finally fought one

hurried to ask, “Well, whose

my mother was in the wrong, it wasn’t fair for her to be hit by someone stronger

really mad and asked for a divorce.

just don’t get it. I never yelled at her, and even told my mother in her face that it was. wrong to attack

about anyway? I’d hide every single time they fought

his mother threw a huge tantrum after he told her that she had been wrong. She sat by the front door crying

days and neglecting her

angry that he gave his son a beating at the internet cafe. This drove a wedge between the both of them

stress. My mom refused to relent for days, crying at the front door while the neighbors watched on. She’d slap her thighs for hours, yelling things. like, “I might as well be dead!”, or, “You’ve all abandoned me!”, or, “My daughter-in-law’s said that this wouldn’t happen to their family if I wasn’t

herself- she even went out to get some pesticide, pretending to drink it the second the foolish got home.

annoyance, the foolish ghost made the rash decision of pouring a bit of

interests, but she loved drinking soda. My wife was hell bent on getting a divorce then. I was sick of my mother.

spirit could hardly believe it. “So you

“I was

relationship, his son was not listening to him, his job was laying off

truly believed that everything would be solved if

harem spirit did not

equal. Women wanted to get married at a young age before they got old, but

the foolish ghost and his