My wife had made a promise to go to my in-laws' house, I also really wanted to go. So we decided that we would go there. My wife was very excited and asked me to go quickly. I did not want to spoil my wife's excitement so we left for her house the next day. To go to her house, we have to buy sweets, that is our custom here. We reached a market near our in-laws' house and stopped,
I said to my wife, "Let's buy sweets, which sweet should we buy?"
"You buy curd, you don't have to buy rasgolla." My wife replied.
My wife and I entered a sweet shop, my wife helped me buy sweets.
I asked the shopkeeper the price, "How much does curd sweets cost per kg?"
"300 taka per kg." The shopkeeper replied.
He was asking me a higher price. There was no other sweet shop here that I could go to.
I asked the shopkeeper, "Why are you charging so much?"
"If you take it at this price, take it, if you don't, there is nothing to do, you can go" the shopkeeper replied.
I was very angry with the shopkeeper, but I could not express it. My wife was very angry with the shopkeeper and
she told me, "You don't have to buy sweets, let's go."
Without answering my wife's words, I asked the shopkeeper to pack the sweets. If I don't take sweets to my in-laws' house, everyone will criticize me. It is better to buy sweets at a higher price than that. After buying sweets, I left for my in-laws' house.
When I reached my in-laws' house, both my wife and I felt very happy. Everyone in my in-laws' house was happy that we went there. Since I had called before going, they arranged a lot of delicious food for me. In our country, a lot of ginger and entertainment is given to the daughter's husband at the in-laws' house. My wife and I ate a lot. I played mobile games with my sister-in-law, after finishing the game I went to bed. My wife was asleep. I couldn't sleep so I was watching YouTube shorts. Suddenly my wife woke up and cursed me, "What the hell are you doing. You fucking man".
She cursed me a lot more which I didn't say. My mother-in-law, mother-in-law and sister-in-law were talking in the other room, they spat on hearing these curses. I didn't want to fight. If I fought, the matter would get worse, so I didn't answer. But I was very angry. I had a hard time controlling my anger. If my wife had cursed me at my house, I wouldn't have felt so bad. At my in-laws' house, it was very humiliating for me. My wife was very loud while cursing. I decided to come home the next day. Although I wanted to stay there for a few days, my wife humiliated me in front of others at my in-laws' house, which I did not like. The next day I told my wife
"Pack your bags, we will go home".
"Stay one more day, please." My wife requested.
I said, "I will not stay here for another second."
Seeing my hot temper, my wife did not say anything else. She packed everything and dressed up and left with me. My mother-in-law understood the matter very well and was very upset when we said goodbye. We got in the car and left and I thought to myself that this trip to my in-laws' house was a mess. Both the sweet shopkeeper in the market and the wife at my in-laws' house misbehaved with me. When a son-in-law protests against these in the area of an in-laws' house, it is extremely rude. We are social creatures, so we have to follow the rules of society.
"The End"
Thanks for reading
Best regards @momins
hello @momins.
I saw your reply to our curation comments on your previous story. You said that you had seen our community rules and would abide by them. We note that you have not supported any other writers in the community for either of the two stories that you have submitted in the past 48 hours. If writers want the opportunity to be curated in The Ink Well, we require them to support at least two other stories in the community each time that they submit a story of their own.
Your piece would also benefit from an edit to tighten your writing. Repetition in a story adds word count, and slows down the pace, without adding substance. I would suggest proofreading your work before publishing. Read it out loud to yourself and listen for repetition of ideas. Where you find them, strive to trim them out. This will save you word count for story and character development.
I noted that your last story was written in Bangla and translated into English. Did you write this current story directly in English or is it also a translation of your original native language text? We require all stories which are not written originally in English to include both the original text and the English translation. This is because our detectors work better with the original language versions and many times the translations flag as AI due to the software used to translate the text. This is not to say that this piece is flagging as AI but it is a caution to you that you could find yourself unnecessarily in trouble on the blockchain if you don't publish both original language and the translation in your post.
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Can I edit this post to submit the original story written in Bengali?