“Masha, yes here you can put half of ours,” the woman said. – Well, Vanyushka got a job. Just well done. So, come on, get together. Waiting for you to visit next week.

Raisa Semenovna listened to the answer of the invisible interlocutor and laughed.

“She will not dare to say a word,” the woman said confidently. – My Vanka holds her in how.

And although Raisa Semenovna was not seen at the other end of the connection, she nevertheless clenched a fist for a mobile effect.

“Take my husband too,” she said. – We’ll place everything.

Having completed the conversation, Raisa Semyonovna went to the kitchen to better scout the situation. Opening the refrigerator, she with annoyance found only juice and yogurts there. The woman shook her head in displeasure.

– Well, the mistress! Ugh.

She slammed the door and looked around, resting her hands on her sides.

“Well, nothing, now everything will be different here,” she said aloud. “I’ll take care.”

And the woman began to ponder the plan of action.

Now go to the market – she saw here a small, very close. Buy meat, potatoes, onions. Then make lunch for everyone.

“So, Nikolasha is already going,” she began to bend her fingers. – Pasha will be in a couple of days …

She still counted someone soundlessly, continuing to bend her fingers. Having finished the virtual count, the woman headed for the exit to immediately begin to implement her plans.

However, she did not have time to leave the apartment. Unfortunately for yourself.

Hearing the sound of the key in the castle, Raisa Semenovna grimaced in displeasure. So early, neither her son nor the daughter -in -law she waited. Now she will have to reveal her plan in advance. She prepared for defense-fall in the event of at least some kind of resistance attempt.

The woman could not even suggest that she was waiting in a second.

Alina could not understand why Ivan was in no hurry to introduce her to her family. She knew that her fiancé was from the village, but this fact of the biography of the future husband did not bother her biography.

“Many great people came out of the hinterland,” said Alina Cyril. – And do not be shy.

“I’m not shy,” Ivan answered. – From the past you can’t get anywhere.

But I tried to hush up the topic of potential acquaintance with my parents. Even when they already filed an application to the registry office, there was no acquaintance. Ivan was reluctant to answer questions about the causes of such secrecy.

“You will have time yet, Alin,” he said. – Others, on the contrary, try to stay away from beets away. Or, in general, marry an orphan. And you yourself are torn.

“Because it’s very interesting for me to look at your family,” the bride answered. – And with such secrecy, especially.

Ivan himself left his native lands immediately after receiving a school certificate. He entered the university, graduated from it and already worked. Alina studied in the third year, when Ivan offered her a hand and heart.

“Marriage is not an obstacle to education,” Vanya assured her.

And Alina agreed.

Young people decided to do without a wedding. After the painting at the registry office, they went together to rest at sea. Housing problems did not threaten them. The late grandmother left the girl in the inheritance of her apartment, where Alina moved from her parents, as soon as she turned 18.

Dad and mother of the girl were only happy with such a desire of her daughter for independence. Although they did not approve of her too early, in their opinion, marriage. Despite the fact that they liked Ivan.

A visit to the relatives of the young husband took place after a sea trip. Raisa Semenovna and her husband Nikolai Petrovich met the young on the threshold of her house with bread and salt.

– Cool! – admired Alina. -I did not even think that someone still observes such a custom.

“They still observe the villages,” Ivan laughed.

“Welcome to the family, daughter!” – Raisa Semenovna told her. “You are now part of it.”

Alina Podvokha did not find her mother -in -law in the words, but Ivan was tensing a little. He was especially nervous when his mother began to meticulously ask Alina about herself, what he was doing, who parents, where they live. Ivan tried to sniff his mother, but the young wife readily answered all the questions. Of course, the mother -in -law did not miss the opportunity to reproach the newlyweds with the lack of a wedding.

“Not like a love,” she said. – So many relatives, and no one was respectful.

“Mom, the wedding is no longer fashionable,” Ivan said.

– Yes well, you with this fashion!’ – refused Raisa Semyonovna.

Upon learning that Alina is a student, Raisa Semenovna grimaced in displeasure.

“You don’t work, then,” she said. – Vanka is probably hard for one two to drag you. Everything is expensive in the city.

“Mom, it’s not hard for me,” said Ivan. – Let Alina calmly work out.

“Moreover, we don’t have to rent an apartment,” Alina hastened to supplement her husband. – We live in mine.

After the words about the apartment, the mood of Raisa Semenovna changed. Looking around with her husband, she began to affectionately coo around the daughter -in -law, laying her the best pieces. And, of course, she soon asked for a visit.

“You have to see how the son got there,” she explained.

When Ivan and Alina returned to the city, the man carefully warned his wife to spread less about their life.

“About guests is in vain,” he concluded.

– Why? – Alina was surprised. – You have such parents are good.

Ivan was silent again, only sighed heavily.

The visit of Svekrov was not long in coming.

A week later, Ivan met his parents at the bus station to take them home. Raisa Semenovna and Nikolai Petrovich brought full bags of village hotels.

– Well, why, mothers? – said Ivan. – We can buy everything in the city.

-Oh, what do you buy from you here? – the woman muttered. – Plastic food in supermarkets?

“We have a market,” said Ivan.

In the apartment of the newlyweds, Raisa Semenovna meticulously looked around, appreciating every corner.

“So you have three rooms?” She specified. – It seems that there are a lot of places.

“The old house,” Alina explained, laying the hotels brought by mother -in -law on the table. – The rooms are large, the ceilings are high. Ivan and I were very lucky.

Ivan himself was somewhat tense, but Alina did not notice this. At the table, she ate little from the rustic hotels, explaining Svekram that she had a special diet.

“I’m sitting on Keto,” she said.

‘We’re right?’ – did not understand Raisa Semyonovna.

“Special diet,” Ivan explained.

When in the evening he escorted his parents back to the bus station, Nikolai Petrovich expressed dissatisfaction with the daughter -in -law.

“Some kind of rebooting you,” he said to his son. – It is unlikely that a good assistant will come out of it in the garden.

– And who told you that Alinka will plow in your garden? – Ivan said rather hard. – My wife is completely satisfied with me.

– Why are you chatting? – Pushed him in the side by Raisa Semenovna, making sure that Ivan did not hear them. -Finally, the bride with the apartment! Now we’ll get through the whole relative to the city. She will not even be able to pitch. Vanka feeds her.

All the way home to the village of Spouses discussed a potential crossing. Nikolai Petrovich was not particularly eager for the city, but his wife convinced him.

“We will become old with you soon,” she told her husband. – It will be more difficult to work on Earth. We will rent our house, and live with the children.

The fact is that the village where the parents of Ivan lived was located near the excavations of some ancient settlement. These places were very popular among tourists, at the expense of which the locals lived well.

“Reluctance is far from Rodney to leave,” Nikolai Petrovich tried to object.

“And we will gradually transport my relatives,” his wife assured.

After Ivan’s parents, the mother of the mother, Pavel Semenovich, with his wife and grandson, appeared in the apartment of the newlyweds.

“And we went to the city on business,” he explained to Alina and Ivan. – So we decided to drop in to you.

True, Pavel Semenovich for some reason began to persistently be interested in schools nearby, which forced Ivan to strain again.

“So the bear, it seems, is studying normally,” he said, nodding at his grandson of relatives.

A relative preferred the nephew’s remark to ignore.

Then there was a visit to the senior sister of Ivan, who had long been married and lived in a neighboring village. Anna arrived with her two daughters. Of course, they also ended up in the city quite by accident. Ivan began to seriously suspect something was wrong and arranged an interrogation by phone.

“Do you want to go against your parents?” – Raisa Semenovna ran into him. – What do you mean, do not want? We have already decided everything. And you must support relatives.

All the attempts of Ivan to convince his mother that their plans, to put it mildly, are not quite consistent with their own, were unsuccessful. For this reason, Ivan was in no hurry to introduce Alina to her parents. He knew their character too well. Especially the mother. If she reproaches, then, write, disappeared. He will achieve his own way.

Ivan understood that trying to convince them with words is useless. Especially when his mother finished off his argument.

“You will not go anywhere,” she said. – Anka, you think, in vain did you come to you? I already have the keys to your apartment.

And Ivan realized that the most radical measures needed to be taken. Let hard …

Raisa Semyonovna looked at a strong man entering the apartment. And he stared at Raisa Semenovna with no less surprise.

– Who are you? The visitor asked her.

“I live here,” Raisa Semenovna answered uncertainly. – That is … I almost live.

– Sorry, but I live here! – the man answered resolutely. – How did you enter?

“She opened the keys,” the woman answered bewildered.

For more reliability, she demonstrated the keys to the stranger.

“So, a double lease agreement,” he grumbled. – Crap! So, I call the police. We will understand.

The man reached for the phone, and Raisa Semenovna frightened her hands in fright.

– Why the police? No need.

– How not? – the man was surprised. – This is pure fraud. You are also the injured. Strange you behave, dear.

The man looked at Raisa Semenovna with suspicion. The woman was in earnest. She once again assured the visitor that there was no need to call the police, and hastened to leave the apartment. On the street, she called Ivan.

“Mom, Alina and I rented an apartment and left,” he said. – I was offered another job with more favorable conditions. I told you.

– How did you leave? But what about us? Where did you go?

“To a good city,” Ivan answered cheerfully. – Only you do not have to know the address. Swimming – in the know. Hello father.

Ivan disconnected from the conversation, and the upset Raisa Semenovna headed towards the bus station to return home.