Grandma is a personal connection, and the relationship with the old neighbors also gets along well, she called and said that she wanted to invite the old neighbors to dinner, let them see their grandson-in-law, although there is a sense of showing off, but everyone still gave face, Ah Jiu in the best restaurant in the neighborhood to charter a largest private room, but also to grandma confidence, she personally greeted the neighbors at the door of the private room, and showed off her grandson-in-law when she saw people, the scene was unconsciously a bit like a wedding banquet.

But Ah Jiu didn't bother with this, he just hoped that these old neighbors could provide some useful clues.

In terms of dishes, Ah Jiu was not stingy at all, and he didn't do anything like serving dishes in a unified manner, but handed over the recipes and let everyone order casually. At first, everyone was a little embarrassed, and the more expensive dishes were avoided, but there was an old neighbor who liked to take advantage of it, and couldn't help but order a lobster, Ah Jiu waved his hand and let it go, and the others saw that it was really not bad money, and they made up a lot of dishes, and there were two tables in the private room, ten people at each table, at least sixteen or seven dishes. This is a common thing in China, but it is definitely rare in South Korea, which also reflects the strength of IU's boyfriend in disguise, grandma is so happy that she can't close her mouth, IU is also teased so red that her face is red, only Ah Jiu, her heart is unbearable, but she can't speak, she hasn't eaten the food yet, and she has drunk two cups in a row.

iu sat next to Ah Jiu, saw him drinking, secretly reached out and grabbed his sleeve, Ah Jiu looked at her, pushed the wine glass aside, and picked up the chopsticks to pick up the vegetables. IU winked at her grandmother again, and she told her to calm down for a while, and still chatted with the neighbors, and after a while, as if remembering something, she said, "...... Two days ago, I went out to buy groceries and met a child at the door, and he said he was looking for his mother. He also said that his mother had rented our house before......"

Grandma didn't say it was Ah Jiu, she also had her own thoughts, no matter whether these old neighbors could help or not, she didn't want others to gossip about her grandson-in-law behind her back. It turns out that grandma still knows the old neighbors very well, and sure enough. Hearing about such gossip, a group of old men and old ladies seemed to have found a topic and talked nonsense.

"How old is that child? Nine years old? Now twenty-seven or eighteen? Ouch, who can it be? So that's '96 and '97, did you ever have a single woman living in your family in those two years? Probably not, how do I remember being a bearded fish seller?"

"Yes, yes, yes, the bearded man who sells fish, from Busan, that accent is really unbearable. ”

"What do you guys have any memories of? The bearded man has lived for half a year, isn't he just a woman in the second half of the year?"

"You are only old and confused, that woman was in her forties back then, and that child was only nine years old back then, how could it be?"

"What's the matter, a woman in her forties can't have a nine-year-old child? What if the family is the second and the third?"

"Isn't there a candidate who lived in a university and didn't get in, and who was reviewing? The candidate is also twenty-three or four, if he has a child in fourteen or fifteen. Perhaps, right?"

"Go, go, how can anyone have a child in the fourteenth or fifteenth year?"

"Why not, it's all now, you didn't read the news of KBS a few days ago......"

Ah Jiu listened beside him, smoothing out the information and synthesizing it. Between '95 and '97, there were five tenants in my grandmother's house: a couple who came to Seoul to work, a bearded man in Busan who sold fish at the market, and a female garment factory worker in her forties. Female students who didn't get into the university for review, single male policemen, so many people recall together, one forgets and can't forget, one person has a deviation in memory, others may remember, and they can't be wrong, all of them don't match. Ah Jiu also understood what her grandmother meant, it wasn't that she couldn't remember, but that these people and Ah Jiu's mother didn't match, and she was afraid of hurting her grandson-in-law who met for the first time, so she didn't want to say it through her own mouth. The old neighbors helped to say that Ah Jiu could know and suffered much less damage.

But she still doesn't know Ah Jiu, he is a person who has more results than processes. No matter who said it or how he said it, the final result was that he couldn't find it, and his sense of loss was the same. But he was still grateful to his grandmother, and she did her best.

IU saw the loss in Ah Jiu's eyes, and she was also anxious, but she really couldn't help, he was only two or three years old at that time, and he didn't have any impression.

The topic was gradually distorted, and the old neighbors chatted about other gossip, Ah Jiu was excited, and IU saw it, and asked him in a low voice if he wanted to go first, Ah Jiu shook his head, he couldn't do anything if he went first, and besides, if he left first, grandma would definitely be unhappy.

Suddenly, an old lady who looked a little 'sharp-beaked monkey cheeks' looked around and asked her grandmother, "Why didn't you see Xiao Li?"

"She went to volunteer at the orphanage, so I didn't call her. ”

"Tsk, I went to the orphanage to volunteer again, my own child was lost and couldn't be found, I ran to care about other people's children, this Xiao Li is really unclear, other people's children are also other people's children in the end, no matter how well you take care of them, what's the use?

Ah Jiu chuckled in his heart, looked at the old lady who was speaking, forced him to ask a clear idea, clenched his fists tightly, and listened attentively.

Grandma was a little displeased, and said: "Don't say that, Xiao Li is not easy, it's not that she doesn't look for a child, she can't find it, because of this, her man doesn't want her anymore, and she has lived alone for so many years...... What's so bad about volunteering, why can't you get used to others if you don't do it?"

"Gotta gotcha, I won't say it. Xiao Li lives across the door from your house, of course you are towards her, and I don't have any malice, I just think she, doing all this in vain, why don't you find someone to marry while you are young? It's also over fifty, and in two years to our age, I can't find it if I want to......"

Ah Jiu is a little confused, a single woman, in her fifties, who has lost her child...... These situations are completely consistent, and she lives in the opposite door of her grandmother's house, and in those days it was a mailbox, maybe it was a shared mailbox? Maybe she was afraid of being gossiped about, so she deliberately wrote the mailbox of her grandmother's house? But no, grandma said, 'Her man doesn't want her anymore', did she remarry? So is the child she lost? When Ah Jiu recalled that when she saw Aunt Li, Aunt Li was stunned when she saw herself, why was she stunned, Ah Jiu had seen a photo of her father, and she looked very similar to her father, could she ......

Ah Jiu suddenly had an urgent urge in his heart, he had to confirm, he couldn't wait for a moment, took IU's hand, got up and bowed to grandma, and said, "I'm sorry, grandma, I received a text message from the company, I have to leave in an emergency," he said and handed an envelope that he had prepared earlier to grandma: "This is to honor you, I'm sorry, I'll visit you another day." ”

Saying that, he pulled IU and ran out, grandma was a little confused, but she was not confused, showed the thickness of the envelope without leaving a trace, and then put it in her pocket, and said: "This kid is ambitious, let's eat ours, you're welcome......" (To be continued.) )