The old woman was stunned by Lilly's words, staring blankly at her.
After a long while, she finally looked at her own lifeless body, as if realizing that she had died.
She had died right at the doorstep of her eldest son's house.
Her first words were not complaints, but a sigh of relief. "Finally, I'm dead... I won't cause them trouble anymore."
Lilly felt a chill in her heart, and that nameless anger made her feel even more powerless.
Josh's voice was filled with anger. "Isn't this inhumane? His mother walked to her children's houses on a stormy day, and not a single person opened the door for her?"
Max's mind was buzzing, still trying to process the fact that he had seen a ghost, and shocked by Josh's unbelievable camera. But witnessing the old woman's entire journey of death made him angry.
He couldn't find the words to say, just staring at the building in front of him, clenching his teeth involuntarily.
Hannah asked angrily, "Why would they do that? Isn't she their mother?"
Even though her mother wasn't good.
She had secretly felt sad when her mother was arrested.
But her grandmother told her that not all mothers in the world were like that. The majority of mothers in the world loved their children, so she shouldn't harbor resentment but move forward.
So Hannah couldn't understand, are there bad mothers in the world, and would there also be bad children?
Lilly also wanted to know why.
So she took out the pen of judgment. This time, she saw the arguments between the old lady and her children.
When they divided the house, the youngest son got the family's homestead, and the daughter got married in the same village.
The eldest son received the old house in the city, which was renovated into a three-story self-built house with the support of their parents.
The second son didn't get the old house, and he had grievances, but he received his father's savings. After getting married and with the help of his father-in-law, he also obtained a piece of land and built his own house before the policy forbidding self-built houses came into effect.
After the father's death, the remaining inheritance was divided among the four children.
The issue of caring for the elderly mother became the root cause of conflict among the four brothers.
The eldest son said that the mother was everyone's mother, so he shouldn't be solely responsible for her care. The second son received money, and the youngest son received the rural homestead. It wasn't only him who benefited.
The second son said that the eldest son had received the old house, being the biggest beneficiary, so what was the small amount of money he received?
The youngest son said that both older brothers had houses in the city, while he was in the countryside. So why should he be the one to support her?
The daughter said that she only received a small portion of the inheritance and that taking care of the elderly mother should be the responsibility of her brothers. She was already married and living in her in-laws' house, how could she provide care?
In the end, they reached an agreement that the elderly mother would live at each son's house for a month, and after a month, she would move to the next son's house.
The daughter would provide a monthly allowance of 200.
And so it continued...
But last month, when the youngest son brought the elderly mother to the eldest son's house according to the agreement, the eldest son refused to accept her, saying that he couldn't take care of her because his two grandsons had just been born.
With a swift movement of Lilly's pen of judgment, she witnessed the heartbreaking scene of the old woman pleading to her youngest son before her death.
It was the same scene they had just witnessed but hadn't seen in its entirety.
The old woman cried, "Shaun, are you home? Open the door... Mom has nowhere to go, please open the door."
This time, the youngest son opened the door.
A glimmer of surprise appeared on the old woman's face, and she hastily said, "Shaun... Mom is so cold, and I haven't eaten..."
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