"Both my husband and I were used to living in the Hong Kong City. It is indeed much more prosperous than the mainland. As long as you are willing to endure hardships, there are more opportunities. In addition, Dabao is too small, and I have another child in my belly. Neither of us wants to No more adventures.”

"So I advised her to stay in Hong Kong City with peace of mind and stop gambling. The money we earn as a couple can be used sparingly, which is enough to support our family. She just needs to take care of her children at home."

"But my mother-in-law didn't listen to us. She was addicted to gambling at the time. Her hands would get itchy if she didn't go to the card table for a day. The little money we made was not enough for her to squander, so she insisted on leaving."

"I can't stop my man no matter what..."

"It's just that before she left, she said that she hid a letter somewhere in her hometown. She said that if she had any trouble, she would take that letter to the capital and find the eldest young master of her old employer. All she had to do was talk to him. If the young master tells you a word, the eldest young master will help her take revenge..."

"When she said that, the malice and sarcasm flashed in her eyes was something that my husband and I had never seen before. It frightened both of us at the time, and we felt that something bad was up to us..."

"Sure enough, before she left the port city, she accidentally fell into the sea and drowned at the dock because she was being collected by the casino for debts."

"That's when we learned that she owed the casino a large amount of money and had to flee back to the mainland."

"The people from the casino brought her body and found us and threatened to pay back the money. My husband and I were desperate and were almost forced to jump into the sea with our children..."

"In the end, the boss of the casino probably felt sorry for the child when he saw that the child was too young. He just asked, did my mother-in-law leave any property or anything for us?"

"We both shook our heads and said that the belongings we brought from the north were robbed on the way, and the remaining bits and pieces were all in the rental house."

"The boss of the casino had people search out everything in our rental house, and he didn't even leave us a piece of paper."

"Before leaving, he said that since the person is dead, the debt has been settled, and they are not such cruel people."

"He also warned us that the right way is to stay away from gambling, live a peaceful life, and raise our children well."

"Finally, I would like to warn you that people like us who sneak into Hong Kong should not think about running back again, otherwise we will be regarded as traitors and be arrested and shot..."

"My husband and I repeatedly promised that we would be obedient, and then he let us go."

"Afterwards, my husband and I collected my mother-in-law's body, and I felt relieved."

"Because we both know that my mother-in-law's windfall money came from a shady source and will be very hot to hold in your hands. We don't know what evil things my mother-in-law did to get it."

"She got this ending, I wonder if it was retribution?"

"And when the boss of the casino led his people to search our rental house, they paid special attention to the books and papers..."

"We have not spared any possible hiding places such as corners and roofs."

"My husband and I thought of the letter my mother-in-law said before she left, and I intuitively realized that this matter is not that simple."

"But we are both honest people and defenseless white men. We still have to raise children and we don't want to get involved in right and wrong at all."

"So after that, we both made a tacit agreement and never mentioned this matter again... let alone going to find any noble person... or the eldest young master of the Fu family to avenge my mother-in-law..."

At this time, a voice outside the screen asked: "What was that sentence that your mother-in-law asked you to tell the eldest young master of the Fu family? Do you still remember it?"

The old lady suddenly smiled with few teeth left, "Of course I remember, because she talked nonsense and it was a bit funny."

"How can a dove that occupies a magpie's nest tolerate the magpie staying in the nest..."

"Both my husband and I were confused at the time, but my mother-in-law said we don't need to understand, as long as we tell the young master the truth."

The camera shook, and the voice off the screen asked again: "Then the letter she told you, did you go and get it later?"

The old lady took a moment and then nodded, "Take it."

"But that was many years later."

"My man is ill and cannot be cured. He said that in the last days of his life, he just wants to go back to his hometown to visit and add some soil to his father's grave..."

"The child and I took him back."

"The house in my hometown collapsed long ago and was overgrown with weeds... He spent his last days there, and we also allowed us to bury him there."

"Actually, after we returned home, the two of us quietly found the letter that my mother-in-law said..."

At this time, the voice-over quickly asked: "What was written in the letter? Do you remember it?"

The old lady's cloudy eyes blinked slowly and looked at the person.

After a while, he suddenly asked: "Was the eldest young master of the Fu family back then named Yong Pei?"

The voice-over was silent for a moment before replying: "No, his name is not that."

The old lady was stunned for a moment and let out a long sigh, with a hint of desolation and sadness in her expression.

"It seems that I will never be able to wait until I deliver that letter to that person named Yong Pei..."

"That's it...that's all..."

"I don't have a few days left to live. If I can entrust this letter to you before I leave, it can be regarded as fulfilling a wish of me and my man..."

The visitor's voice was filled with joy, "Is that letter still there? Can you show it to me?"

The tone was a bit uncertain.

After all, too many years have passed.

The old lady glanced at him, stood up shakily, and said, "Wait."

Then, using crutches and hunched back, he slowly walked back to the house.

After a while, she took out a brown paper document bag and handed it to the visitor.

The visitor opened the document bag and took out a plastic-sealed piece of yellowed paper. The camera scanned over it, and only vague handwriting could be seen.

But it can still be seen that it is a beautiful hairpin in regular script.

The handwriting is beautiful and straight.

It must have been written by a woman.

Then I heard the old lady say: "We opened that letter and looked at it, and there was only one piece of paper in it, oh, no, most of it."

The camera was close to the paper, and indeed there were signs of tearing on the lower edge.

"As time passed, the paper became more and more brittle. I was afraid that it would not be preserved in the end, so I used it to be plastic-sealed a few years ago."

"Back then, my husband and I were both illiterate, and we didn't want to harm our children, so we secretly copied a copy and took it outside to ask the literate teacher."

"I realized that this should be a love letter from a girl asking her sweetheart, a young man named Yongpei, to elope together."

"It says the time and place of the meeting. It's three quarters to noon, at a pier."

"It's just that there's one thing..."

The old lady said, stretched out her wrinkled hand and pointed it out to the visitor.

"Look at the last two sentences of this letter..."

The visitor read out softly:

"If I don't see you before sunset, then I will understand in my heart that you have made your choice, and I will not force you. I will leave on the last ferry tonight."

"If we say goodbye today, we will never see each other again in this life."

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