12
Time flies, the seasons change, my son gradually grows into adulthood, and a new little life is blossoming from Zhao Jingshu's belly, just waiting to grow and sprout. My son is thrilled and keeps saying he's going to be a big brother.
One day, as usual, I was basking in the sun in the courtyard, when I saw my long-unseen former father-in-law and mother-in-law appearing before me in tattered clothes.
Compared to before, both elderly people had become much thinner and aged, their faces lined with the wrinkles of weathered years, their hair almost completely gray.
They shakily handed me something, leaving behind two lines of muddled tears:
"Child, in those days, we did you wrong in the end."
Though they weren't the ones who did wrong, they were accomplices in indirectly bringing everything to pass.
I quietly looked at them and didn't say anything about forgiveness, that it's okay and in the past.
Otherwise, it would be irresponsible to my son and my past self.