When Ye Qing heard Su Zhe ask what was wrong, she was about to answer him, but before she could speak, Xi Quan spoke first: "Is the old man at home?"
Su Zhe said, "I don't know. I called home just now, but no one answered. I was going to ask him what he wanted for lunch, but since no one answered, I came straight back. I was thinking that if it didn't work out, I would just take him out to eat something casually."
Xi Quan's maternal grandfather now lives with Su Zhe. Xi Quan hired a caregiver for the old man, but with the Chinese New Year approaching, the caregiver has gone home.
Although the aunt had prepared all the food for the New Year before leaving, and it was just a matter of taking it out of the refrigerator and heating it up, neither Su Zhe nor the old man were the kind of people who wanted to do any work, so they always just made do with whatever they could find for the meal.
Before Xi Quan could even respond after Su Zhe finished speaking, Ye Qing became even more anxious: "Isn't he home? Then where did he take Ye Yiran and Ye Yixin?"
Hearing Ye Qing say this, Su Zhe was a little puzzled and wanted to ask what it had to do with the twins. However, seeing the solemn expressions on Ye Qing and Xi Quan's faces, Su Zhe seemed to understand something: "Did the old man bring Ye Yiran and Ye Yixin here?"
Although neither Ye Qing nor Xi Quan answered, judging from their expressions, it seemed to be true.
Su Zhe swallowed hard, thinking to himself, "How could the old man do this?" But then he thought again, "The old man probably wouldn't do that."
To be honest, the old man wasn't very familiar with the twins. It was only after Ye Qing gave birth to Xi Yike that the old man symbolically went to the hospital to see Ye Qing once, and left without saying more than a few words.
Because their relationship wasn't very good—in fact, Ye Qing talked to Xi Quan's grandfather more than he talked to Xi Quan's maternal grandfather—Ye Qing didn't pay much attention to it at the time and didn't think anything of it.
However, Su Zhe knew the old man well. He wasn't the kind of warm-hearted person. People often say that grandparents and grandchildren are close, but that wasn't the case with the old man at all.
Therefore, Su Zhe did not think that the old man brought the two children because he missed them.
Su Zhe felt it was unlikely that the old man had any ill intentions. Admittedly, the old man might not be a good person, but he couldn't be that wicked, after all, the two children were related to him by blood.
After a moment of silence, Su Zhe voiced his thoughts.
Seeing that Ye Qing was about to speak anxiously, Xi Quan said first, "The child is indeed missing, but we don't know if he came with the old man. If he really came with the old man, that's fine, but I'm afraid he isn't."
Although Su Zhe had already realized that something bad had happened, he was still extremely surprised and worried when he heard Xi Quan say this.
After all, when the two children first returned to China, Su Zhe watched over them almost every day, and he really liked them.
"How could it have disappeared?" Su Zhe asked Xi Quan.
Xi Quan glanced at Ye Qing, whose nose was a little sore. Seeing Ye Qing like this, Xi Quan didn't know what to say, afraid that if he talked too much with Su Zhe, Ye Qing would feel even more sad.
Su Zhe wasn't oblivious to the situation, and seeing Ye Qing's reaction, he didn't press the matter further.
After staring silently at the license plate number of the car the security guard mentioned for a moment, Xi Quan sighed softly and said to Su Zhe, "Ye Qing and I will go look elsewhere. If the old man comes back here, let us know."
"Okay, I..."
Before Su Zhe could even speak, Ye Qing hurriedly ran off, calling out, "Ye Yiran, Ye Yixin..."
Xi Quan and Su Zhe looked over when they saw Ye Qing's actions and heard her voice.
I saw the old man walking towards us from outside the residential area, holding a child's hand in each hand.
Xi Quan's heart, which had been in his throat, gradually calmed down when he saw the two children. He exchanged a glance with Su Zhe, took a few steps forward, and stood there waiting for the children to come over.
The children were still young and didn't quite understand why Ye Qing was so excited to see them, but that didn't stop them from being happy to see Ye Qing as well.
The two of them excitedly told Ye Qing that their great-grandfather had bought them a lot of toys.
Seeing the children, and knowing that both were alright, Ye Qing, like Xi Quan, gradually felt her heart, which had been in her throat, settle back down.
Ye Qing was originally squatting down talking to the two children, but after confirming that the children were alright, Ye Qing slowly stood up and smiled at Xi Quan's grandfather.
Although she was smiling, there was emotion in Ye Qing's eyes.
The old man was so old, of course he saw it. He snorted like a child throwing a tantrum and walked forward with his hands behind his back.
After taking a few steps, the old man saw Xi Quan, paused for a moment, said nothing, and walked straight home.
Thinking about what the old man had done, Ye Qing wanted to take the child and leave, but then she thought that if she left like that, the old man might do the same thing again next time.
So Ye Qing took the child's hand and followed Xi Quan to his maternal grandfather's house.
The two children still remembered Su Zhe, and greeted him warmly when they saw him.
Finally, Su Zhe led the two children behind, while Ye Qing and Xi Quan walked in front.
"What's wrong? Did you come to see me or to make me watch your face?" The old man spoke first after entering the room, mainly because Xi Quan's face looked so unpleasant, and he was afraid that Xi Quan would lash out at him first.
The old man's silence only made Xi Quan angrier. He stood there with his hands on his hips, spun around, and then took a deep breath, about to retort, when Su Zhe led the two children into the house.
Xi Quan instantly composed himself, smiled, hugged the two children, and seeing that each of them had many toys in their hands, sent them upstairs to play by themselves.
After settling the two children in, Xi Quan sneered and said, "You're quite old now, and you've lost your own child. You should know what it feels like for parents to not be able to find their child. You brought the children here, shouldn't you at least have told us?"
"I……"
The old man wanted to explain, but Xi Quan didn't give him a chance: "Of course, I have high expectations of you. Although you lost a child, you are not necessarily anxious. Otherwise, if you were really anxious and kept looking for the child, you would have found the child sooner, and so many tragedies would not have happened. My tragedy and Su Zhe's tragedy could have been avoided, and even Liang Youjie's tragedy could have been avoided."
The old man was somewhat in the wrong, but after Xi Quan's words, that part of him disappeared. He glared at Xi Quan angrily and said, "Just because of what you said..."
"What did I say wrong?" Xi Quan interrupted the old man: "I have a mobile phone, and Ye Qing has one too. Even if you don't know our phone number, you're already in our neighborhood. You could have just told us directly without making a call, but you didn't. You just brought the child here. Don't tell me you like children."
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