"When you can speak as fluently as a big brother, they'll come back." Yu Ze didn't know when their parents would return, so he set a target to promise his younger brother.
He was afraid that if he said too short a time, and their parents hadn't returned by then, his brother would be unhappy.
So he extended the time quite a lot, thinking that by the time his brother could say many words, their parents should have come back.
"Cohen, what are you thinking about?" Jingtao asked him as he sat beside Cohen.
"I miss mom and dad. Why haven't they come to pick us up yet? Do they not want us anymore?" Cohen's eyes were red. He had finally found a set of parents—did they not want him again?
"Not at all. Auntie Dad and Auntie Mom went to a far, far place to work. They haven't finished, so they can't come back. They haven't abandoned us." Jingtao had always lived with his mother.
