"Don't think too much about it." Stanley gently patted her shoulder, "I can understand what Jessie did."
At these words, Jessie’s father and mother looked at him together.
Stanley said, "The Robinson family has too deep a grudge against the Joe family, and George's parents did die because of the Robinson family, what Jessie can do if she wants to completely end the grudge between the Joe family and the Robinson family is to end her life. Jessie can't let her parents end their lives, so what she can do is to use her own life to settle it."
Hearing Stanley's words, Jessie’s father pounded his chest, "That child ...... How can she think like that, this is our generation's grudge, it should be solved by our generation, not for Jessie to solve, how can Jessie ......"
Jessie's mother was even sobbing, "Jessie......"
For a moment, the couple, already older than their peers, became even older this time.
Violet watched, her heart clogged, her lips moved, about to say something, but Jessie’s father suddenly spoke, "Originally, Jessie’s mother and I have long had the idea of resolving the Robinson family's feud with the Joe family, even thought of a solution, only before it was implemented, Jessie actually made the first move on her own."
"What? You are figuring out a way to settle the feud between the two families long ago?" Violet was surprised.
Jessie’s father and mother nodded as they cried.
Violet let go of Stanley's hand, stepped forward, took Jessie's mother's hand and asked, "What exactly did you guys think of? Why hasn't it been implemented?"
If the feud between the two families had been settled earlier, perhaps Jessie wouldn't have been so bitter that she would have tried to settle the feud between the two families herself and thus committed suicide.
Jessie’s father and mother looked up and thought when they heard Violet's question.
Then Jessie’s father said with a bitter smile, "The way is the same as what Jessie thought, we will end our lives. George's parents did reveal their whereabouts and were killed because of us, so George has always resented us and thought we were also the murderer. But Jessie liked him, seeing his cold look towards Jessie, how could we not be sad, so that time, we were wondering if it was possible for George and Jessie to be together once we settled the feud between the two families, and then ......"
Speaking of this, Jessie’s father wiped his face and continued, "Then we discussed that we would wait until after our 60th birthday to commit suicide together, so that we could use our lives to pay for the lives of George's parents, then George would no longer resent our family and resent Jessie, maybe then, Jessie would have the possibility to be with George, but as time grew longer and longer, George's attitude towards Jessie became colder and colder, and then we were quite sure that even if the grudge between our two families was resolved, George would not be with Jessie."
"Yes, so we hoped that Jessie would love someone else, plus we will soon be sixty, so we were very eager to urge Jessie to hurry up and find someone to take her heart back from George, so that maybe before we committed suicide, we would still be able to see Jessie get married, and Jessie would have a loving husband. Even if we died, Jessie would be able to pull through, but before we could do anything, Jessie killed herself first."
Jessie's mother cried out in pain.
Violet's lips twitched, suddenly she was unable to speak, and not knowing what to say.
She had originally thought that the solution they wanted to settle the feud between the Robinson and Joe family was the best of both worlds kind of solution.
But to her surprise, it was actually a life ending.
How could she ask for such a solution and have Jessie's parents implement it?
Nor can it be implemented!
So the Joe family's grudge with the Robinson family had really become an unresolved one.
Taking a deep breath, Violet gently patted Jessie's mother's hand, "I know what you are planning, but I hope you must not really do that, look, Jessie committed suicide to settle the feud between the two families, you suffered so much, so if you commit suicide, even if Jessie has a new family and a new lover, she will still suffer."
"Violet is right, so you guys don't mess around, there's always a way to fix it." Stanley, who hadn't spoken, chimed in.
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