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"Grandpa, no need to be so formal, let's go home."
Just as the two of them took a couple of steps, Mai Xiaomai's phone rang. It was a call from Mai's mom, "Xiaomai, Little Pus and Xiaotian have disappeared. I've looked everywhere for them, but I can't find them."
Listening to mom's anxious voice laced with tears, Mai Xiaomai felt anxious too.
Mom had just disappeared not long ago, and now if Little Pus goes missing, it's absolutely chaotic.
"When did you realize they're gone?"
"Just now, I was cooking in the kitchen, your dad was watering the flowers in the backyard, Little Pus and Xiaotian were playing in the front yard. I already told him not to run around. But when I finished cooking and called for him, he was gone, and your dad and I searched around but couldn't find him."
Mai's mom cried saying, "What's happening to me? First, I lost sight of Wanrong, and now I've lost Little Pus. How can I have any face left to stay in Imperial Capital and bother you?"
