My mother and I went to visit my brother’s grave, saw a woman with a pale face and ran away

My brother passed away 4 years ago from an accident. At that time, he and his sister-in-law had been married for 5 years and had a baby girl. They are busy doing business, so they have not given birth to a second child yet.

Shortly after his death, his sister-in-law took her daughter to her mother’s house to live. Since then, the two sides have not interacted. My mother also resented her sister-in-law very much, because she did not allow her to visit her grandmother, but her sister-in-law was stubborn and no one could speak.

Yesterday, my mother and I went to visit our brother’s grave because his death anniversary is coming up. I couldn’t believe that when we arrived, from a distance we saw two people standing in front of his grave burning incense and worshiping. It was a woman and a man both young. I turned to my mother, wondering who it was. Must have had a close relationship with my brother, to remember his death anniversary like this.

Yesterday, my mother and I went to visit our brother’s grave because his death anniversary is coming up. (Illustration)

Then when the woman in that luxurious black dress turned her head to look, I was startled to realize that it was the old sister-in-law. The man next to her seemed to be close to her, probably her boyfriend. From the way they dress, I can tell that my sister-in-law is living a very good life now. I remember the entrance to the cemetery had a car parked, was it their car?

I intend to go up to say hello, want to ask about her work and life situation over the past few years. Suddenly she pulled back. She put her hand over her face and pulled me back as if running away. Why does my mother have to hide from her ex-sister-in-law?

I wanted to ask, but she didn’t answer, just pulled me back. Arriving at her house, she choked and confessed that she had committed a terrible sin before, guilty of her sister, so she was ashamed to look at her face.

I was shocked when I learned that before, my mother almost kicked her out of the house, not only that, but she also took all the property that she and her husband made. After years of trying to build a property, she finally took her children out of the house with empty hands.

My brother is the oldest, will almost certainly live with his mother. So, saving a good amount of money, we built a spacious house on my mother’s land. It was the merit of both husband and wife, but when he died, the mother used the reason that the land was in her name, this house was also hers. That is the property my brother left to his mother, sister-in-law has no share.

Sadly, my mother tried everything to get the property for her youngest son, but my brother ended up destroying it. (Illustration)

Below me is a younger brother, my brother is dead, and my niece is a girl. My mother thought that later my sister-in-law would also marry another man, so she couldn’t expect anything, so she took care of everything for my brother like that. The sister-in-law told her children that she respected her dead husband’s face, so she accepted to leave empty-handed. That’s why over the years she didn’t go back and forth with her husband’s family, not because she was unfilial or forgot all the old friendships.

Sadly, my mother tried everything to get the property for her youngest son, but my brother ended up destroying it. Currently, my family sells both the house and the land to pay the debt for my brother, and has some money left over to buy another small house to live in temporarily. That’s why when I met my sister-in-law again, I didn’t dare to face it. Partly because she is now in a dire situation, partly because she regrets having taken all the rights of herself and her granddaughter. Perhaps she realized that something that is not hers should not be greedy.

My mother told me she missed her niece but dared not contact her sister-in-law. Should I apologize to her on her behalf, ask her to forgive me so that my mother can be close to her grandson?