Just as Qin Hongfei said, Bai Yimeng has never been a soft persimmon, and he did not shed tears of gratitude for his sister-in-law's words.
After decades of sedimentation, the things that happened in our youth have become like old memories.
But no matter how old the memories are, when they are evoked, the emotions of that time still seem to linger in my heart.
Old Lady Bai said, "When your brother passed away, your nephew was only this old, five years old, and I didn't remarry, so he was an orphan and a widow."
"Everyone advised you to get married then."
"Your brother dotes on you and has found countless good families for you, but you are just stubborn."
"The idea of independence."
"As a result, I have been independent until now and I am all alone and there is no one to stay by my bed."
There was a mixture of sarcasm and pleasure in Old Lady Bai's tone, as if she wanted to say, now you know that everything you did back then were wrong choices, and you are paying the price for your mistakes.
The smile on Bai Yiyun's face disappeared, "Sister-in-law!"
...
...
Didn’t we agree before we came 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, when her brother left, her nephew was this age. She gathered her shawl and said lightly, "Not mentioning some accounts does not mean that I am guilty or that I am wrong. Did you come here today to settle accounts with me, sister-in-law?"
Old Mrs. Bai wanted to pretend to say no, but when she heard Bai Yimeng say that she was not wrong, she was so angry that she couldn't help but look at her resentfully, "It's not a matter of settling scores. I just hope that my father-in-law and father died a worthy death, so that you can reflect on yourself. Death is the end of everything. I don't want to pursue anything with you. After all, decades have passed..."
"Pursue?"
Bai Yimeng let out a breath, and the scene of her kneeling in front of the Bai family's door in the past seemed to appear again.
"Sister-in-law entered the Bai family at the age of 20."
"You were a few years younger than me at that time, and I treated you like my own sister, no matter how big or small the matter was. However, people's hearts cannot be replaced by others'. I treated you like my own sister, but you secretly disliked me, a sister-in-law, for taking up a room at home, and you wanted to marry me off wholeheartedly. You even encouraged my father and brother to find someone for me behind my back."
"When my father and brother met with the accident, I left home quietly."
When Bai Yimeng, 36, left home to go to the front line to find Cang Yu, he was already scarred.
She left home alone, and before leaving, she did not tell anyone where she was going except her sister-in-law.
Not long after she left, her father and brother caught up with her.
Bai Yimeng pulled the corner of his lips sarcastically, "In fact, I have always wanted to ask sister-in-law, how did my father and brother know that I was going to the front line back then."
"Besides you, I didn't even tell my teacher or my sister."
Old Mrs. Bai's face turned pale. There was something she had been keeping deep in her heart, buried very deep, for a long time. Decades had passed, and she thought that no one knew about it and that it had never happened. How could her father-in-law and husband know where Bai Yimeng had gone and chase her so promptly.
There is no other reason.
Because she filed a complaint.
Before Bai Yimeng left, she had a heart-to-heart talk with her, told her sister-in-law where she was going, and entrusted her family to her. However, her sister-in-law, whom she only trusted, did not keep her secret, and turned around and betrayed her.
That's why Bai Yimeng's father and brother appeared on the front line back then.
They were coming to take her back.
That time...
If Bai Yimeng was taken back, she would compromise and get married.
Because I'm tired.
At that time, Bai Yimeng also told his sister-in-law that it was the last time.
After this matter is dealt with, she will no longer chase after Cang Yu, and she will follow the teacher obediently.
But Old Lady Bai didn't want to have an unmarried girl in her family, so she revealed the news about the girl, and therefore...
When Bai Yimeng returned from the front line, he found the bodies of his father and brother.
Bai Yiyun's eyes widened, "Sister-in-law, is what my elder sister said true? You!"
Old Mrs. Bai's face turned pale. The memory was too long ago, so long ago that Bai Yimeng didn't mention it. She really forgot that she was the one who made the complaint.
Everyone thought that the Bai family’s father and brother got into trouble because they were looking for Bai Yimeng.
At the funeral that year, 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 Bai family's gate, unable to see his father and brother off for the last time.
The pointing and verbal criticism from relatives are as sharp as knives.
Old Mrs. Bai, who had lost her husband, also hated Bai Yimeng for killing her husband.
But what if...
If my sister-in-law hadn’t complained to me back then.
Maybe nothing would have happened to the Bai family's father and brother.
Bai Yimeng's kind face remained unchanged, but there was no smile in his eyes. There were no voices of the younger generations in the ward. There was only the sound of horns coming from afar as cars passed by outside the window. It seemed as if 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 Lady Bai's lips were trembling. "No, it's not my fault... I didn't do that. It was you who shouldn't have disobeyed your father and brother."
Bai Yimeng's eyes flashed with sarcasm. "Yes, it's not your fault. I 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 because of your complaints and rumors, my brother loves me. I have always wondered whether he came to find me to tie me up like my father did, or whether he just wanted to stop the quarrel between my father and I from happening."
"No matter what kind of..."
"With the death of the person, everything has lost its meaning."
"The reason why I didn't tell the truth and didn't settle accounts 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 too."
"No matter if you are the one who complained or not, if my father and mother hadn't given birth to me, if my brother didn't really love me, he could have stayed out of it. I lost my brother and you lost your husband."
In that era when women depended on men.
And he has a son and a daughter.
This punishment was painful enough for Old Lady Bai, and made her spend her life in regret.
The Bai family was in a terrible situation. Even if Bai Yimeng told the truth, it would be meaningless. After all, the root of the problem was with her. What's more, her mother hated her to the core at that time. She lost her husband, her son, and her daughter.
Bai Yimeng didn't want to make matters worse and let her lose even her daughter-in-law.
Hide the truth and pretend it's her fault.
In this way, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law can still rely on each other.
Under the circumstances at the time, Bai Yimeng didn't want to make things worse for her family, 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 passed away, she still resented her daughter and refused to forgive her. She never felt sorry for her when she was alive, let alone decades later, and until now.
Bai Yiyun looked at his sister-in-law in disbelief, "How could you, how could you..."
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