Chapter 341
Matron Bai entered the room and first went to Bai Jiayao's spirit tablet. Upon seeing Bai Jiayao's familiar face, which was just a little thinner than she remembered, Matron Bai's tears began to roll down.
She sobbed in front of the spirit tablet for a while.
A full hour passed before she emerged, red-eyed, and sat down in front of Bai's mother.
Bai's mother handed her a letter, which Matron Bai eagerly opened. The first line read, "Dearest Mother, by the time you read this letter, you must have found me and known that I am no longer in this world. Please forgive your unfilial son for not being able to attend to you in your old age, and forgive me for having run away from home without saying goodbye all those years ago.
I had so hoped you would never find me because I never mentioned your identity to my wife and Shanshan. I didn't want you to know the news of my passing, didn't want to put you through the pain of an elder burying the young...