Mr. Cheng hadn't wanted to bring up those depressing old stories, and he certainly didn't want to mention the Zhang Family. But it couldn't be helped—the collateral branch of the Old Cheng Family had already contacted Youliang.
That Youliang... if his big sister didn't straighten him out every once in a while, he just got more and more muddled. He reconnected with the collateral branch of the Old Cheng Family without even mentioning it to me beforehand.
"...Last year, during the first lunar month—or maybe it was the end of the year before last, around the New Year anyway—Cheng Wu must have heard from someone in Youliang's maternal uncle's family that I was still alive.
By the time I found out, it was too late. Youliang had already tasked Cheng Wu with asking around for news of you. When he later heard that the Zhang Family had adopted a son under your name, he was actually quite happy about it."
Grandma Shen pressed her hand to her forehead.
'What an idiot!'
