Chapter 381 - 131 Auntie_4
But Maternal Aunt Hu’s calm demeanor was shattered.
She said, "Second Miss, watch your words, there are things that cannot be spoken of in this house."
"So, that’s why you have to pretend to have hysteria, feigning ignorance of the hidden truths, playing deaf and dumb, just to barely keep yourself alive. Yet you suffer the torment of a broken heart daily, unable to move on from your daughter’s death," she glanced at the items on the table inside the room.
Miss Jiang the Eldest passed away young and was not allowed into the Jiang Family Ancestral Hall. Maternal Aunt Hu therefore kept Miss Jiang the Eldest’s spiritual tablet in the house, offering prayers to it every day, and the space was always filled with the scent of incense candles. On the table were also some children’s toys, like rattle-drums, revealing that Maternal Aunt Hu still held on in her heart to this day.
After so many years, she should have let go. Holding onto the past with such insistence, unable to move on, filled with grief, unable to find closure—was it because her daughter’s death was surrounded by controversy, a truly wrongful death? She was not content, yet powerless, only able to live encased in suppressed fury and hatred.
But she dared not forget for even a moment.
Jiang Li watched her, gently beginning, "Maternal Aunt Hu, if my eldest sister were still alive, she would be getting married this year. She was older than me, she must have been very beautiful."
Maternal Aunt Hu slowly closed her eyes; Jiang Li saw her hand resting on the table, slowly clenching, then relaxing again. She looked at Jiang Li and said, "Second Miss, I know nothing."