My Lucky Daughter-in-law

(Minghui.org) My daughter-in-law is a strong woman. She joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in college and won first prize in a college speech contest. My neighbor used to be her teacher. When my neighbor heard that my son had started dating her, my neighbor told me that she was not easy to deal with.

My son and daughter-in-law have been married for over 20 years and never had children. My daughter-in-law has a deformed uterus, so she cannot get pregnant. When she learned that she couldn’t get pregnant, she was upset. Every time she came to our place for dinner on weekends, she seemed very sensitive, afraid that we would say something bad about her.

My sisters talked about it, saying that, in the countryside, a woman would not be able to stay in her husband’s house for longer than two years without having a baby. They advised my son to divorce her. My son was affected by what they said, and he told me that he was not happy that his wife couldn’t have children. I comforted him and talked to him from the viewpoint of the Fa: “When you get married, you must be responsible for your wife. Marriage between a husband and wife is not formed in only one lifetime, and it should be cherished. As for having children, the responsibility is not hers alone.” He gradually calmed down.

Most people take this situation very seriously. Many couples get divorced when the wife cannot have children or she just has girls. A colleague of mine once asked me why I didn’t have a grandchild yet. I usually didn’t say anything about it because I was afraid it would hurt my daughter-in-law’s feeling. This time, an old acquaintance with no bad intentions asked, so I told him the truth. He asked me what my son intended to do. I said, “My son agrees with me. He cherishes fate and has no plans to divorce. I believe in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. I should be kind to others.” I clarified the truth about Dafa to this acquaintance as well.

My daughter-in-law prepared for the worst. She told my niece, “If he wants a divorce, I will accept it. Anyway, I still have tons of his money!” She was very serious about money.

All these years, I’ve wanted my son and daughter-in-law to understand the truth about Dafa and be blessed. But because I made mistakes in my cultivation, I had two incidents and was illegally detained in a forced labor camp. My daughter-in-law would not believe that Falun Dafa was good after that. Her family was also relatively resistant and did not read the truth-clarification materials. For a long time, they could not understand us cultivators.

My daughter-in-law tested me more than once, wanting to know my true thoughts on having children. She once said in front of me in a joking way, as if she was unconcerned, “I wanted to live with your son this way without a child, but I didn’t expect that we might have to divorce.” I didn’t react and didn’t say anything. I thought she might be wondering about my attitude. Later, she couldn’t hold it in when my husband was hospitalized and blurted out, “The whole family helps when someone is in the hospital. Everyone is so busy. How will we handle a similar situation in the future if I have no children? Your son is the only child, but he has no heirs!”

I replied, “I have thought about this a great deal. Because I practice Dafa, I understand that everyone has their own destiny. Having a child or not is related to the good and bad things that the husband and wife have done over many lifetimes. It is also related to the ancestors. When the ancestors accumulate virtue, they will have many children and many blessings. You can’t divorce just because you have no child. If we didn’t do something well in a previous life, we should do it well in this life. We should do more good deeds. If I didn’t practice Falun Dafa, I would definitely be upset about this. Because I do practice Dafa, I follow the course of nature. If you can understand the truth about Dafa, respect Dafa, and respect Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, miracles might happen. There are many such examples.” She was relieved to hear this.

My daughter-in-law was noticeably happier. I often heard her humming a song, she bought me clothes, and so on. Sometimes she scolded my son, “How do you dare talk to Mom like that? Be nice.” She told me that her colleagues and classmates often had conflicts with their mothers-in-law and it wore them out. They all thought she was lucky to have such a nice mother-in-law.

My daughter-in-law often told her parents how nice we were to her, and her family was grateful. Before her mother passed away, she expressed her understanding of Dafa cultivators. After she died, her husband was on his own. Whenever my daughter-in-law came for dinner, I often made an extra portion for her to take back to her father. When her aunt’s family from another province came to visit, they brought us gifts to thank us for taking care of her and her father.

After interacting with cultivators regularly for so many years, my daughter-in-law’s thoughts have been changing. One time my husband got angry at me because of some daily issues and scolded me in front of her and our son, and even hit me. I restrained myself from fighting back. When I later went out with my daughter-in-law, she mentioned the incident and wanted to comfort me. I said, “It’s because I didn’t cultivate well, that’s why it happened. We cultivators look inward, correct ourselves, remove our attachments, and then everything will be resolved. It is a chance for me to improve my xinxing.” She was shocked by what I said. She thought that, by talking to me, it would give me a chance to let out my feelings of injustice and that she could help calm me down and save face. She didn’t expect me to say what I did so calmly.

As we drove by a school one day, I asked my son to stop at the gate so I could return one yuan to a vendor. My daughter-in-law said no parking was allowed there, so I asked them to stay in the car while I walked over by myself. She said, “Nowadays people sell things short of weight, and you’re worried about just one yuan!”

I replied, “I don’t care how others manage their business. I take care of my own affairs!” These seem like small things, but cultivators must still do them well. My daughter-in-law told her family about these seemingly trivial matters. At a dinner party, my in-laws complimented me and said they envied my good health.

My daughter-in-law quit the CCP and its youth organizations and regularly sent money to sponsor a poor student she had never met. She is doing good deeds and accumulating virtue. After she learned that I burn incense to pay my respect to Master, she brought me a box of special incense worth over 200 yuan and said, “These are good quality. Use them.”

China’s economy has been declining recently, and my daughter-in-law has expressed concerns about her job. I comforted her, saying, “It doesn’t matter for a family like ours.” We bought two houses, one to rent out and the other for them to live in. The rent money is their income. I said, “You will retire in a few years. You have enough to eat and live on.” That really eased her mind.

People we know have commented how lucky our daughter-in-law is. One person said, “She was blessed to marry into your family and be a daughter-in-law of someone who practices Falun Dafa!” Of course, she is blessed by Dafa!