Mother-in-law soup at New Year's Eve dinner

The New Year's Eve Dinner of the Years of Marriage

One thing about my mother-in-law always moved me...

I have been a vegetarian for many years, not only for environmental protection and carbon reduction, but also because I am not used to the taste of meat.

For the first New Year's Eve dinner in Taiwan after marriage, I was the only vegetarian at the dinner.

The uncle is a cardiac surgeon. He glanced at me and shared his experience on the operating table with a flat tone: "You know what? It's not healthier to be a vegetarian! Many of my patients are vegetarian. If you cut it open, the liver and internal organs are all covered in fat..."

In my heart os everyone is eating... ☹

The bride replied with no confidence: "Oh, health is comprehensive, and it also depends on whether he has exercised, how well he sleeps..." The topic of whether vegetarians are healthier or not started without smoke. No one wins or loses, but I always want my family to know me better, and I don’t want to be an outlier because of different eating habits.

The next year for Chinese New Year, I was still the only one who ordered a vegetarian set meal, but I just added a big bowl of assorted vegetable soup. Although the restaurant has not announced that it is forbidden to eat outside, most people who come here for dinner will not prepare their own meals. It turned out that my mother-in-law took it out of the thermal bag. She was especially afraid that someone would not understand, and she clearly stated how long it had been boiled, how sweet the soup was, and this big bowl was enough for you...

She was no longer a bride, but she shyly answered yes; in fact, she was more surprised than grateful at the time. Whose mother-in-law cooked for her daughter-in-law? My daughter-in-law from out of town never has to help with the general cleaning during the New Year, and I don’t have to worship the ancestors because there is no ancestral tablet in my husband’s family. My mother left early, and she returned to her heavenly home before she taught her how to be filial to her daughter-in-law. If I really wanted to score points, my New Year's Eve dinner in those years was more like a younger nephew than a Taiwanese daughter-in-law.

Every year, I have a mother-in-law soup for New Year's Eve, and I will receive a red envelope like my husband. Although I am still not used to bickering and arguing with each other when we chat, but every family reunites and talks about their own thoughts and feelings. It must be auspicious words, but it is not deliberately flattering.

Every year I add vegetables, no matter what I experience later, there is a seed of love that has been deeply planted in my heart, sprouted and bloomed~

May every year be peaceful and always peaceful