Chapter 1772: Grandma is Lost

The brothers chatted while they ate.

As they talked, the conversation turned to Zihan's current relationship status, and Zirui offered rare praise: "I heard you dumped Wang Qing? That's exactly what you should have done; that woman is not worthy of you at all, nor is she worthy of the Sheng Family."

Zihan:...

"Aren't you the type who ignores the world outside the window and focuses solely on reading the sages' books? How do you know everything?" He hadn't expected that his own affairs had actually been embarrassing enough to spread abroad.

But it wasn't surprising; good news doesn't leave the gate, but bad news travels a thousand miles.

Transportation is highly developed now, so it being able to spread ten thousand miles is just a matter of time!

As for Wang Qing, Zihan couldn't even be bothered to mention her now; he asked Zirui if he had any news about Tian Yuanyuan.

They were once classmates in the same class and were closer than the average student; Zirui might know where Tian Yuanyuan was now.

Zirui pondered for half a second, then answered decisively: "I don't know."

"You really don't know?"

"I really don't know. You hurt her so deeply, what face do you have left to go looking for her?"

Zihan:...

He was unconvinced: "Are you still my own brother? Why aren't you taking my side?"

Zirui: "I am siding with reason, not with kin."

Zihan said: "I just want to know if she is doing well now, I have no other intentions."

Zirui: "Whatever your intentions are and whatever you are thinking in your heart, you don't need to tell me; in any case, I don't know."

When one makes a promise to someone, one must keep one's word; even if it is to one's closest brother, one cannot tell.

Zihan didn't find out Tian Yuanyuan's whereabouts from Zirui and returned to the country dejectedly.

In the blink of an eye.

Zirui's one-year exchange student term expired, and the time for him to return to the country had arrived.

Several days before Zirui returned to the country, the Sheng Family children had already begun busily preparing a welcome banquet for Zirui to wash away the dust of his journey.

Somehow, Shi Youxuan found out about this, and she called Zichen to tell him: "I heard you are preparing a welcome banquet for Zirui; I will attend as well, and I will bring Yueyue with me."

Zichen laughed: "Mom, if you have the ability to bring one more person, that would be the best."

Shi Youxuan: "I don't have that ability; your father is as stubborn as a donkey!"

"No, that's not right, even a donkey isn't as stubborn as him!"

More than a year had passed, but Sheng Hanyu still wouldn't relent and let Zirui return to the Sheng Family.

Zirui was also a stubborn donkey; he was determined not to take the initiative to call his father, so the father and son remained in a stalemate, seeing who could hold out until the end!

Jiangzhou Airport.

The brothers met Zirui and told him the good news that their mother would also be coming to the welcome banquet prepared for him.

"Really? That's great!"

Zirui was very happy; he hadn't seen his mother for a year, and he missed her very much.

Zihan teased: "We have all prepared gifts for you. Can you guess what gift Mom will prepare for you? Maybe she will even wrap some dumplings for you by hand or something."

Zirui said calmly: "If your crow's mouth is right, I will drag you along to eat with me!"

He immediately changed his tune: "No, no, I guarantee it won't happen. Mom isn't used to the kitchen at Big Brother's place, and besides, wrapping dumplings is so complicated; Mom doesn't have that ability."

Shi Youxuan had no idea she was being gossiped about; she was very busy now, so busy that she had completely forgotten about attending Zirui's welcome banquet!

Mom would come, but Dad definitely wouldn't.

Zirui felt a bit bitter; although more than a year had passed, his father hadn't given him a single call, and for the sake of "fairness," he hadn't taken the initiative to greet his father either, only thinking of him in his heart.

Everyone sat around the table talking and laughing; the agreed-upon time was almost up, but their mother still hadn't arrived.

Zihan worried: "Could it be that Dad won't let Mom come?"

Zichen said: "Definitely not."

Zihan was unconvinced: "How do you know she won't?"

"The reason is simple: at home, Mom has the final say, and Dad doesn't," Zichen said.

Everyone:...

Fine, this reason was impeccable; everyone admitted he was right, and it was indeed like that.

After another while, their mother still hadn't arrived.

That wasn't right; being late didn't fit their mother's character.

Their mother hated being late the most and had never been late before.

Zihan took out his phone, dialed their mother's number, and asked where they were.

The call went through, and their mother's voice on the other end was filled with anxiety and apology: "Oh dear, it's all my fault. I can't make it; something suddenly happened at home. I was so anxious I forgot to tell you. You all go ahead and gather yourselves."

"What happened at home?" Zihan asked.

Shi Youxuan said vaguely: "Nothing, just a small matter."

Zihan immediately exposed her: "No, I think your tone is wrong."

If it were really as their mother said, a "small matter," their mother wouldn't be like this, with her tone of voice changing from anxiety!

Under the questioning of the children, Shi Youxuan finally told the truth: "Grandma is lost."

The children couldn't sit still either and immediately went back to help look for Grandma.

On the way, everyone told Zirui that over this past year, Grandma's memory had been getting worse and worse; not only was she often losing things, but she would often stand in the residential complex and be unable to find which direction home was in.

She had been checked at the hospital, and the doctor said it was Alzheimer's disease, commonly known as senile dementia.

With this disease, some people's condition progresses quickly and some slowly; unfortunately, Grandma belonged to the former.

Zirui asked: "Why didn't you tell me sooner?"

Zichen left him speechless with one sentence: "Doctors have no way to treat senile dementia. What is the use of telling you? You aren't a doctor; besides making you anxious, it wouldn't be of any help."

The children only told their mother they were back when they were almost home.

They asked their mother what places she had been to look for her.

And what places had not been checked yet?

Everyone prepared to split up, so that the scope of the search could be wider.

Shi Youxuan said, "We have searched almost everywhere nearby. Now we can only look in a wider range further out, and there is no fixed target."

Zirui suddenly asked, "Have we also checked Grandma's maiden home?"

There was silence on the other end for two seconds, then she said, "We will go there immediately."

Zirui and the others wanted to go too, but they did not know where Grandma's maiden home was.

Zirui had a very good memory; he remembered that when he was very small, Grandma would always tell them bedtime stories to get them to sleep, and many of the bedtime stories were about things from Grandma's childhood.

Later, as they gradually grew up, the content of the bedtime stories Grandma told changed, but he remembered all the ones she had told before.

Reminded by her son, Shi Youxuan immediately said to her husband, "Let's go check your maternal grandparents' home; can you still find the place?"

After asking.

The couple looked at each other; there was no need to answer, she knew he could not find it!

Wang Yinghao's mother had long since passed away, and although her siblings from her maiden home had very much wanted to come to the Sheng Family to sponge off them, they had not been in contact for many years because of a very unpleasant falling out in the early years.

Over so many years, the city had changed with each passing day, and Sheng Hanyu only had a vague impression of his maternal grandparents' home from when he was small, but it was no longer deep.

Sheng Jiang said, "I know the place, I will take you there."

The group drove, searching along the way, and when they were almost at the location, they indeed saw Wang Yinghao wandering by the side of the road.