By the time the group finally returned to the estate, Shi Fengming, full of shame and embarrassment, knelt before his parents. Second Madam Shi immediately enveloped him in her arms, breaking into loud weeping, lamenting while mixing distress, joy, and anger. Shi Fengming also felt a sourness in his heart. Seeing his mother's haggard and thin face and her hair, now noticeably grayer than it was two years ago, he felt an unbearable heaviness in his chest, and mother and son wept bitterly in each other's embrace. It took a great deal of effort from everyone present to finally calm them down.
