"What?"
"She contacted you first?"
"Still unwilling to acknowledge us?"
Ding Shuya considered herself a calm person, but after hearing what Cheng Song said, she jumped up from the sofa.
Cheng Zhengjun couldn't help but remind her, "Mom, please keep your voice down, or Yueyue will throw a tantrum if she hears you."
Speaking of Cheng Yue, he really couldn't understand what this little girl was thinking. Before, she cried and made a fuss about not letting Zhou Sui come back, but now she's making a fuss about wanting her sister to come home all day long. She just saw Zhou Sui once, and her opinion has changed so much.
Cheng Song nodded weakly. Zhou Sui's words were so blunt today that he couldn't pretend to be stupid even if he wanted to. Besides, he felt that Zhou Sui was very serious.
It didn't feel like we were discussing it with him; it felt like we were informing him about it.
Having been the principal for so many years, he was always the one informing others. Suddenly, he was being notified by someone else. Cheng Song didn't know how to feel.
"Why didn't you bring that child back?" Ding Shuya had only seen Zhou Sui's photos and had never met her in person, but just from the photos, she could feel that the child resembled her own image.
Cheng Song looked up at his wife and said, "That child, Sui Sui, looks just like you."
As soon as she finished speaking, Ding Shuya's eyes reddened. Her daughter, whom she had carried for ten months, was stolen when she was only a few months old. At that time, she tried everything but couldn't find her.
Now that they've finally found her, but due to various reasons they couldn't bring her back in time, Ding Shuya couldn't hold back any longer when she heard Cheng Song say that she looked like him.
"Old Cheng, where is the child living now? I want to see the child."
"I...I don't know."
"I forgot to ask." Zhou Sui's words shocked him so much that he forgot to ask about it.
"You!" Ding Shuya looked at him, speechless. "Then where are we going to find the child?"
Cheng Song quickly reassured him, "It's alright. The police station asked someone to help us find out. Wait a minute, I'll make a call and ask."
Although it was getting late, Cheng Song still mustered up the courage to make the call, and thankfully, he got a result.
"They said they opened a snack shop in the university town, called Zhou's Snacks."
"A snack shop?" Upon hearing this, Ding Shuya immediately thought of Zhou Sui wearing an apron, constantly busy in the kitchen, with people outside calling her to cook, her face, which resembled hers, covered in grease and smoke.
"Why didn't you bring the child back? Why did you let her suffer like that?" Ding Shuya thought about it more and more and felt that this was what running a snack shop was all about.
That child is so young, yet he spends all his time in the kitchen; he's probably lost all his vitality.
"We'll go pick up Sui Sui tomorrow." Cheng Song knew he had acted inappropriately. No wonder the child didn't want to acknowledge him; it was their dereliction of duty as parents.
"Tell me more about how the child is doing now, how tall he is, whether he's thin or fat, and what he's dressed like." Since she couldn't see him in person, Ding Shuya could only learn these things from Cheng Song.
"She is doing very well."
Ding Shuya couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, "That's good, that's good."
After all, she's a young woman; it's a blessing that she's doing well.
Cheng Song continued to say a few more things. At first, Ding Shuya was happy to hear them, but as she listened, she slumped back on the sofa.
The couple exchanged a glance, understanding each other perfectly. No wonder the child didn't want to acknowledge them; she was doing so well, the Zhou family treated her so well, why would she come back?
Cheng Zhengjun listened silently for a long time before finally asking, "Are you really sure you want to bring Zhou Sui back? What about Yueyue?"
To be honest, he didn't have any feelings for his sister who had been missing for twenty years, but after all, they were blood relatives. He wondered if things had really been as good as she claimed during the years she was missing.
Cheng Zhengjun still prefers to bring the person back, after all, he is a member of the Cheng family.
But we can't bring one back and then abandon the one at home.
Otherwise, what should have been a happy occasion will end up being a source of distress.
Mentioning Cheng Yue, Ding Shuya and Cheng Song's eyes filled with worry.
"Didn't you say that brain treatments are good abroad? Ask your classmates abroad to inquire about it, and then take Yueyue abroad to see for yourself."
Cheng Yue has been diagnosed with amnesia by a domestic hospital, and it is selective amnesia. What triggered her to deliberately block out this part of her memory?
During the Chinese New Year this year, the Cheng family spent their time traveling to various hospitals in an effort to cure Cheng Yue's brain condition, but the results were not satisfactory.
"It's good that Yueyue is like this. The doctor said that she is deliberately blocking out those unpleasant memories. Since she doesn't want to mention them, why try to make her remember them?"
Cheng Zhengjun thinks his sister is doing well now, living a carefree and happy life.
“But Yueyue’s mindset is like a child’s right now.” This is what worries Ding Shuya.
"She's like a child, but she's not stupid; she's very smart."
"Anyway, I don't agree with letting Yueyue go abroad. She's fine as she is. Even though she's just a child, I can support her for the rest of her life after you leave."
In their early years, Cheng's parents were busy with work, so Cheng Zhengjun and his sister Cheng Yue spent most of their time together, and the two had a deep bond.
Although Cheng Zhengjun had been studying abroad for the past few years and had grown somewhat distant from Cheng Yue, his sister's recent injury and hospitalization reminded him of the time when Cheng Yue was four or five years old and called him "brother" in her sweet, childish voice, like a little shadow following him around.
Moreover, he genuinely didn't believe that Cheng Yue's mind was still at a child's stage.
She just forgot and then accepted her child again. Yesterday, she learned to watch TV during the day and stayed up all night watching it. After learning to write, her notebook was full of her scribbles.
"Let's think about this again." Cheng Song pinched the bridge of his nose; his son's words made him reconsider.
None of the three family members noticed that a furry head quietly shrank back at the corner of the second-floor staircase.
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