Just as Qin Hongfei said, Bai Yimeng was never a pushover, and he did not shed tears of gratitude for his sister-in-law's words.

After decades of sedimentation, the things that happened in his youth seemed to be old memories.

But no matter how old the old memories were, when they were brought up, the various emotions at that time seemed to linger in his heart.

Old Lady Bai said, "When your brother passed away, your nephew was only this young, five years old, and I didn't remarry. We were left alone."

"Everyone advised you to get married at that time."

"Your brother doted on you and found many good families for you, but you were stubborn."

"You insisted on independence."

"Well, you became so independent that you are now alone and have no one to take care of you in your sickbed."

Old Lady Bai's tone was sarcastic and happy, as if she wanted to say, now you know that everything you did back then was a wrong choice, and you are paying the price for your mistakes.

Bai Yiyun's smile disappeared, "Sister-in-law!"

Didn't we agree before coming here not to talk about the past?

She hurried to see her elder sister.

Bai Yimeng still had the same expression, kind and charitable, but the smile in her eyes had faded. She looked at the little boy, five years old. Yes, her nephew was this age when her brother passed away. She gathered her shawl and said lightly, "Not mentioning some accounts does not mean that I feel guilty or that I am wrong. Sister-in-law, are you here today to settle accounts with me?"

Old Mrs. Bai wanted to pretend to say no, but when she heard Bai Yimeng say that she was right, she felt a lump in her throat and could not help but look at her with resentment, "It's not a matter of settling accounts. I just hope that the death of my father-in-law and father was a worthy death, so that you, my eldest sister, can reflect on yourself. When a person dies, the light goes out. I don't want to pursue anything with you. After all, decades have passed..."

"Hold me?"

Bai Yimeng sighed. The scene of her kneeling in front of the Bai family seemed to reappear.

"My sister-in-law entered my Bai family when she was 20 years old."

"You were a few years younger than me at that time. I treated you as my own sister, no matter how big or small the matter was. However, people's hearts cannot be replaced by others'. I treated you as my own sister, but you secretly disliked me, a sister-in-law, who was occupying a room at home. You wanted to marry me off wholeheartedly, and you often encouraged my father and brother to find a man for me."

"The year my father and brother got into trouble, I left home quietly."

Bai Yimeng, who was 36 years old, was already scarred when she left home to seek honor on the front line.

She left home alone. Before leaving, she did not tell anyone except her sister-in-law where she was going.

Not long after she left, her father and brother came after her.

Bai Yimeng pulled the corner of her lips sarcastically, "Actually, I have always wanted to ask my sister-in-law, how did my father and brother know that I was going to the front line."

"Except for you, I didn't even tell my teacher and sister."

Old Mrs. Bai's face turned pale. There was something she had been suppressing in her heart, buried very deep, very deep, for a long time. After decades, she thought that no one knew that it had never happened. How could her father-in-law and husband know where Bai Yimeng went and chased her so promptly.

The reason is simple.

Because she complained.

Before Bai Yimeng left, he had a heart-to-heart talk with her, and told his sister-in-law where he was going, and also entrusted his family to his sister-in-law. However, her only sister-in-law, whom she trusted, did not keep the secret for her, and turned around and betrayed her.

That's why Bai Yimeng's father and brother appeared at the front line.

They came to take her back.

That time...

If Bai Yimeng was taken back, she would have compromised obediently, married, and gotten married.

Because she was tired.

At that time, Bai Yimeng also told her sister-in-law that it was the last time.

After this time, she would not run after Cang Yu anymore, and she would follow the teacher honestly.

But Old Lady Bai did not want to have an unmarried sister-in-law in the family, so she revealed the news of the sister-in-law, and because of this...

Bai Yimeng came back from the front that time and waited for the bodies of her father and brother. Bai

Yiyun widened her eyes, "Sister-in-law, is what the eldest sister said true? You!"

Old Lady Bai's face turned pale. The memory was too long ago, so long ago that Bai Yimeng did not mention it. She really forgot that she was the accuser.

Everyone thought that the father and brother of the Bai family got into trouble because they wanted to find Bai Yimeng.

At the funeral, Bai's mother hated her daughter to the core. Yes, she hated her. A mother hated the piece of flesh she gave birth to so much that she wanted to kill her. For Bai Yimeng, that kind of pain was heart-wrenching.

Bai Yimeng knelt in front of the gate of the Bai family, but she couldn't go to see her father and brother off.

Relatives pointed fingers and verbal attacks were like sharp knives.

Old Lady Bai, who had lost her husband, also hated Bai Yimeng for killing her husband.

But if...

if the sister-in-law hadn't complained to her,

Bai's father and brother might not have gotten into trouble.

Bai Yimeng's kind face remained unchanged, but there was no smile in his eyes. There was no voice of the young people in the ward. There was only the sound of whistles coming from the distant cars passing by outside the window. It seemed that the sound would travel through decades of time and bring the three of them back to the scene in front of the Bai family's funeral.

Old Mrs. Bai's lips were trembling. "No, it's not my fault... I didn't, it's you, you shouldn't have disobeyed your father and brother."

A mocking look flashed across Bai Yimeng's eyes. "Yes, it's not your fault. Sister-in-law can only think so. Otherwise, if people knew that the reason why my father and brother ran to the front line to chase me and take me back was all because of your complaints and rumors, my brother loves me. I have always wondered, when he came to find me, did he want to kidnap me back like my father did, or did he just want to stop the quarrel between my father and I?"

"No matter which one..."

"With the death of the person, it's meaningless."

"The reason why I didn't tell the truth and didn't settle the score with you was not only because I didn't come to my senses at first, but also because I was punished and you were punished."

"Whether you complained or not, if my father and mother hadn't given birth to me, if my brother didn't really love me, they could have stayed out of it. I lost my brother and you lost your husband."

In that era when women relied on men.

And she had a son and a daughter.

This punishment was heartbreaking enough for Old Lady Bai, and she spent her life in regret.

The situation of the Bai family was in a mess. Even if Bai Yimeng told the truth, it would be meaningless. After all, the root cause was still with her. Moreover, her mother hated her to the core. She had lost her husband, her son, and her daughter.

Bai Yimeng didn't want to make matters worse and make her lose her daughter-in-law.

She hid the truth and pretended it was her fault.

In this way, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law could still rely on each other.

In the situation at that time, Bai Yimeng didn't want to make the family worse, and she didn't have the extra energy to deal with it, so she could only do that. Then the truth was covered up. When Bai's mother died, she still hated her daughter and refused to forgive her. She didn't feel distressed when she was alive, let alone decades later, and until now.