By the time Sun Jikai hurriedly found the message from Assistant Wang and called Sun Maochai, the response he got was that the number was no longer in service.
Yes, no longer in service.
Only after calling Assistant Wang did Sun Jikai learn that this so-called Sun Maochai's phone number was exchanged by his grandfather with Sun Maochai during a Cantonese cuisine culinary exchange over a decade ago.
After exchanging phone numbers, Sun Guanyun and Sun Maochai had no contact whatsoever, merely recording the number in an address book, not even saving it into a cell phone.
It's only normal that Sun Maochai would have changed his phone number after so many years.
"Assistant Wang, please find Master Sun Maochai's phone number through other means for me, and once you do, call to inform him of grandfather's demise and invite him to the funeral," Sun Jikai said.
"Okay," Assistant Wang replied, "Is there anything else you need me to relay?"
