Chapter 1031: Mom, Your Son Has Come to See You

Disregarding the chill of early spring, Xiao Laoyezi Xiao knelt directly before the small mound of earth, touching the pile of soil and weeping like a child: "Chunyi, it's all my fault. I shouldn't have accepted the mission knowing you were pregnant. We had agreed we would all be fine."

Xiao Changjiang's eyes were also red: "Mom, your son has come to see you."

Having spoken, he knelt directly beside the grave mound, his lips trembling so he could not utter another word, and simply covered his face, sobbing loudly.

Zhang Haitang silently knelt beside them, arranging the offerings they had brought: "Mom, I am Zhang Haitang, Changjiang's wife. Several times, drunk, he cried out for you in his dreams. I never expected we would meet this way."

Han Chunyi was born in Shanghai, and later left Shanghai with her family to make a living, but many habits of old Shanghainese people persisted, such as having her son call her Mom.

When Han Chunyi met her fate, Xiao Changjiang was already old enough to remember; the long-suppressed longing, upon hearing his wife's words, erupted directly.

The younger generation who had followed along also all had red eyes.

Only Xiao Changsheng stood there, bewildered, staring at the small grave mound: "I never expected to be so close to you, yet I knew nothing."

Having spoken, his eyes also turned red.

Thinking of the past forty-plus years, and then thinking of the confession Jiang Huiwen gave to Xiao Laoyezi Xiao: "Mom, I am Changsheng, the child you protected in your swaddling clothes until your very last moment. Pity that by twists of fate I did not return to where you wished me to go. Fortunately, Heaven favored me, and I found Dad."

Speaking, he also began to sob, making anyone who heard it feel a sourness in their heart.

Indeed, without Chunyi's arrival, without so many extraordinary encounters, Xiao Changsheng feared it would be difficult to be recognized by the Xiao family.

Thinking of the life he spent in the Liu family for the previous forty years, thinking of the plot in the book, fortunately, there was her, this outsider soul.

Liu Chuxue kept thinking: if she had not arrived, would Han Huaiming have gone to claim kinship? Would the Xiao family have uncovered his identity? Where would the Xiao family's fate have led?

Standing on the side, Miao Yiqiu's tears were like unstrung beads: "Sister Chunyi, I am Yiqiu, Miao Yiqiu. I, I, I'm sorry, I..."

She finally lacked the courage to continue. After stuttering "I" for a long time, she said: "Sister Chunyi, you are so smart, you must have guessed. I dare not ask for your forgiveness, but my conscience is clear. Yude has been looking for you..."

Xiao Laoyezi Xiao was helped up by his two sons. Xiao Changjiang took out a handkerchief and handed it over: "Dad, the ground is cold. You will need to arrange everything regarding Mom going forward. Please take care of your health."

Xiao Laoyezi Xiao stared at that small grave mound, his heart aching with a sharp, pulling pain: "Chunyi, I will take you away from here very soon."

Zhang Haitang saw the sun tilting west. Several times she opened her mouth to suggest leaving, but seeing the father and son trio with their swollen eyes, she ultimately could not speak.

It was Miao Yiqiu who feared the old master's health could not endure: "Changjiang, the cold is heavy in the woods, and even more so beneath this cliff. It is late, and it will take quite some time to descend the mountain."

Xiao Laoyezi Xiao did not wait for his son's persuasion. He cast a reluctant glance at the small grave mound: "Let's go."

He had decided: upon returning, he would submit an application to resign from all his duties and return to the Xiao family ancestral lands. First, he would repair the tomb, then renovate the ancestral house. After moving the grave during the Qingming Festival, he would reside permanently in the ancestral lands, spending a few days of idle life with her, as they had always longed for.

Xiao Changjiang probably guessed his father's thoughts, but when his gaze swept over Miao Yiqiu, his face showed difficulty.