Every year, Meng Yi'an will be quietly absent on the death day of his father Meng Xianrong. She has not set foot in the cemetery since her father's death, and on this special day, she is either on a business trip or busy with work. Qiu Xia even suspected that Meng Yi'an was deliberately avoiding the sacrificial sweep.
Meng Yi'an hides a heavy secret in her head, like a boulder pressing down on her heart, year after year, she can't talk to others, and she can't let go of herself. Her family therefore thought she was cold and willful. On the day of his death this year, Meng Yi'an was unable to attend again due to a business trip, which triggered a fierce outburst of his sister Meng Yunqing: "Meng Yi'an, did you deliberately choose this time to leave?" I only know that if I send money over, can money replace filial piety? Dad loved you so much when he was alive, but you didn't go to sweep his grave once, if he knew underground, how chilling it would be. ”
Meng Yunqing's series of reproaches did not dissipate her resentment, because she always believed that her father's favorite was Meng Yi'an. When he was dying, Meng Xianrong called for Meng Yi'an, not Qiao Haiyun or his eldest daughter Meng Mingwei, which convinced everyone. However, only Meng Yi'an knows the truth, which is an unspeakable and unexplainable secret, so that she can't face her deceased father, let alone tell her mother the truth.
Meng Xianrong avoided talking about the experience before meeting Qiao Haiyun before his death, leaving only one sentence: "The four seas are home, the troubled times are scattered, and when I meet your mother, I will settle down, and with you, where you are is my home." When he was young, he was displaced by war and never returned. Qiao Haiyun knew very little about this, and always thought that his life with Meng Xianrong was all he had.
Qiao Haiyun was born in a small island fishing village, and his parents have been dealing with the sea and fishing for generations. And Meng Xianrong is a teacher on the island. At first, Qiao Haiyun was only curious about Meng Xianrong's mysterious past, but as the two walked together, she was able to see a wider world. Meng Xianrong encouraged her to learn more about culture and bravely step out of the small fishing village to see the bigger world. So, in the discussion of everyone, Qiao Haiyun chose to follow Meng Xianrong and left his hometown, and the book recorded this scene as "the girl of the old Qiao family eloped with the teacher who was more than ten years older".
Life in the city has witnessed their growth: Meng Xianrong supported Qiao Haiyun to start a business, and she became the respected director of Qiao's factory. Although the people around him often ridiculed Meng Xianrong for being a soft rice man who could only chew words, in Qiao Haiyun's heart, he was her solid support. It wasn't until many years after Meng Xianrong's death that Meng Liangchen took his wife and children from Mengjia Village to the city to look for relatives, and Qiao Haiyun learned that Meng Xianrong was married before he met him. It turned out that she was the third party who intervened in other people's marriages.
When Meng Xianrong ran away from home, his wife was pregnant with the five-year-old Meng Liangchen, and their marriage was arranged by the family and had no deep feelings. Even though his wife knelt on the ground with her young son in her arms and begged him to stay, Meng Xianrong still left resolutely and never returned home. After Meng Xianrong's original wife died, Meng Liangchen came to find his roots and ask his ancestors, and put forward a request to move the grave. His words made Qiao Haiyun feel bitter: "As an outer chamber with no children, according to custom, you are not allowed to enter the ancestral grave of my Meng family." ”
At this moment, Qiao Haiyun realized that Meng Xianrong's philanthropic behavior may have been out of atonement in his heart. The money she earned was generously used by Meng Xianrong to make friends, and when she was ill in her later years, although Meng Xianrong didn't recognize Qiao Haiyun, she remembered Meng Yi'an alone, which couldn't help but make people think deeply.
All the so-called consensus is nothing but a tragedy of collective misunderstanding. The name that Meng Xianrong repeated on his deathbed"Ann", to the ears of Qiao Haiyun and his three daughters, undoubtedly pointed to the youngest daughter of the family, Meng Yi'an. They firmly believe that their father wants to say his final goodbye to his youngest daughter, Meng Yi'an.
However, when Meng Yi'an approached her father's ear on the sickbed, she was shocked to find that the call was not her name. Although her heart was as cold as frost, she never had the courage to expose this heartwarming lie. Until Meng Liangchen and his family suddenly appeared at Qiao Haiyun's house and demanded the division of Meng Xianrong's estate, which even caused a police storm. At the police station, Meng Yi'an asked Meng Liangchen for his mother's name, and after learning that the answer was "Liu Shuyan", her long-standing knot was finally untied.
Facing his sister Meng Yunqing, Meng Yi'an decided to have a showdown to reveal the long-hidden truth: "What my father shouted before his death was not 'Yi'an', but 'Yan'." Once upon a time, Meng Yi'an mistakenly thought that his father was unfaithful to his mother, and when he was dying, he was still thinking about another woman who did not appear. But it turns out that the woman who was called "Yan" was the real original partner of his father.
For many years, Meng Yi'an did not dare to visit her father's grave because she was afraid that she would not be able to help but ask her father: Did he betray his mother? With the occurrence of the Meng Liangchen incident, Qiao Haiyun gradually relieved. She agreed to move Meng Xianrong's tomb back to her hometown, which met the expectation of the old lady of the Meng family for a lifetime - to let her husband's soul return to her hometown. "The most important thing for a person to live is to learn to let go of himself, so that he can move towards perfection. Qiao Haiyun said with emotion.
Accompanying Meng Xianrong through a life journey has become a part of Qiao Haiyun's life, although this road is tortuous and complicated, it has achieved her growth and understanding, and made her find peace of mind and relief in the last journey of her life.