They carried the clothes they had bought out of the mall, got into the car in front of the hair salon, and after Zhu Xiaofei sat down, she said, "Sister, I want to go see Grandma."

She has lived at her grandmother's house for so many years, but she has never seen what her grandmother looks like. She really wants to go and see her.

Li Yuzhu said, "It's only right that you've troubled Grandma to visit her for so many years, but you don't have an address. The address Grandma gave you last year is still at home."

Li Yuzhu couldn't possibly carry the note the old lady left for Zhu Xiaofei every day, so she put it in her bedroom drawer.

Zhu Xiaofei said, "Why don't you call your brother-in-law and ask him to come home and check? You'll know then."

This was the first time Zhu Xiaofei had ever called Dongqing her brother-in-law.

She is now Li Yuzhu's mother's daughter, so it's appropriate for her to address her brother-in-law that way.

Li Yuzhu called her husband, told him where she had left the note, and asked him to come home and check it. She then called him back.

The old lady was from Zhoucun, and her sister's house should not be far from Zhoucun. After finishing the call, Li Yuzhu started the car and drove towards Zhoucun.

Driving to Zhoucun, I found the area completely demolished and now filled with new construction sites.

Zhu Xiaofei wanted to see the restaurant waiter who had helped her in the past, but she couldn't find the restaurant no matter how long she searched in the area.

Places that are easily found when you're blind are often hard to find once you regain your sight.

Zhu Xiaofei suddenly had an idea. She asked, "Sister, is there anything in the car? I want to blindfold myself."

Li Yuzhu, being such a clever woman, instantly understood Zhu Xiaofei's intention: she wanted to blindfold herself and become a non-blind person so that she could find the restaurant.

Li Yuzhu took a scarf out of her bag in the back of the car. This scarf was for winter and she always kept it in the car.

Zhu Xiaofei found a bamboo pole at the village entrance, took the scarf from Li Yuzhu, blindfolded herself, and used the bamboo pole to probe the way towards the street.

Her pace wasn't slow; it was all thanks to her regular practice, something most people couldn't do.

She quickly found her way to the entrance of a restaurant, took off her scarf, and said, "This is definitely the restaurant."

After she finished speaking, she went into the restaurant and looked around. The three waitresses were of average appearance and were all over thirty years old. She wondered if they were the waitresses from a year ago.

In those days, restaurant staff changed very quickly. She had changed staff countless times while she was begging for food. The staff here didn't all leave at once, so there was always someone helping her.

A waitress in her thirties looked visibly stunned when she saw Zhu Xiaofei. The other two waitresses in the store were new, but she was the only one who had been there before. She was the woman who had helped Zhu Xiaofei in the past.

It had been almost a year since they last met, and besides, Zhu Xiaofei's current appearance made it hard for her to believe that she was the blind girl from last year; she just looked similar.

Li Yuzhu stepped forward and asked, "Sister, did you help a blind girl before?"

The waitress said, "I did help her. That blind girl was very pitiful. All the waitresses here helped her, but none of them work here anymore. I only helped her for a little over a year."

After listening to the woman's words, Zhu Xiaofei easily recognized that she was once her woman. Holding her hand, tears welled in her eyes, and she said, "Sister, I'm the girl you helped a year ago!"

The woman said, "It really is you! I thought it looked like you, but I didn't dare to recognize you. Your eyes are healed."

Zhu Xiaofei said, "My sister cured me."

Li Yuzhu took out 1,000 yuan from her bag, handed it to the waitress, and said, "Thank you for helping my sister before. Please accept this money."

The waitress said, "I really can't accept this money. I haven't helped her in any way, I just leave her some leftovers every day."

With tears in her eyes, Zhu Xiaofei said, "Elder sister, it was the leftovers you gave me that kept me alive. If you think highly of me, please accept the money."

The waitress eventually accepted the money.

The two returned to the car, and Dongqing quickly called to tell his wife the address of the old lady's sister's house.

Brief plot summary;

After searching for more than an hour, Li Yuzhu and Zhu Xiaofei finally found the old lady's rented place, following the address given by her grandmother's sister.

Grandma rented two rooms, but when she found the place, she was stunned. Grandma hadn't lived there for a month because she couldn't pay the rent and had sold all her belongings. The landlord didn't know where she had gone with her grandson.

Zhu Xiaofei never imagined that her grandmother was living such a miserable life, unable to even live a normal life.

They returned to the old lady's sister's house, where the sister said she didn't know anything about her sister's recent situation and hadn't been home since checking out.

Led by the grandmother's sister, they found her grandson at the school.

The grandson, who is in junior high school, led the way to find his grandmother.

At this moment, the old woman was in a terrible state. She was nearly seventy years old, with a bundle beside her and a piece of paper in front of her. The paper had the words "begging" written on it. It turned out that she begged for money on the street every day to support her grandson's schooling.

The younger sister grabbed her older sister's hand and cried, "Big sister, why don't you go back home and look for your younger sister now that your family is in such a state?"

The old woman said with tears in her eyes, "Your family hasn't had an easy life either, I really don't want to trouble you."

Zhu Xiaofei knelt before the old woman, crying, "Grandma, do you still recognize your daughter?"

The old woman raised her hand to rub her blurry eyes and said, "Are you Xiaofei?"

After all, the old lady had lived under the same roof as Zhu Xiaofei for many years. No matter how gorgeously she dressed up now, you could still tell from her voice that she was the girl who used to beg for food, the blind girl that Zhu Xiaofei had taken in.

Zhu Xiaofei cried, "Grandma, it's me!"

Li Yuzhu never imagined that the old lady would be living like this now.

Life is tough these days, and it's not hard to imagine that she doesn't own a single piece of land anymore. It's better that she doesn't rent a place to live, because she used to be able to collect some rent from her home.

Now all her income has stopped, and she still has to rent a place to live. It's really not possible for an old lady with no income to support a grandson who is in junior high school.

Before dark, Li Yuzhu bought an apartment for the old lady in a residential area and left her 100,000 yuan, which she could use to raise her grandson without any problem.

It's too late; I'll have to stay at a hotel tonight.

Li Yuzhu drove to a hotel, parked the car in the hotel parking lot, and got out of the car with Zhu Xiaofei and walked towards the hotel lobby.

The two entered the hotel lobby on the first floor. Li Yuzhu showed her ID card to check in. The receptionist asked her how many days she would stay, and Li Yuzhu said, "Just one night, we're leaving tomorrow."

After checking them in, the waiter led them to the sixth floor in the elevator, took out a key to open a room door, left the key with Li Yuzhu, and turned to go downstairs.

It's summer now, and after running around on the street for most of the day, my underwear and skirt are already soaked with sweat.

Not bad, the room has air conditioning. Li Yuzhu turned it on, and the cool air quickly filled the room, as if it had instantly brought them into autumn.