After Qin Ximei left, Wen Xiuqing immediately changed the sofa covers and started to wash them in the toilet. She didn't even come out for dinner.
Gu Xiaobei was particularly curious about how Wen Xiuqing raised three kids like this. She suddenly remembered that she hadn't asked Lu Zhanguo why Lu Ruixue called him brother. She turned to Lu Zhanguo, who was reading the newspaper at the table, and asked, "Why does Ruixue call you big brother, and Yueyue calls you uncle?"
Lu Zhanguo paused in flipping through the newspaper, fell silent for a moment, then said, "Haven't I mentioned before? I had a twin brother who died when we were just over a year old."
Gu Xiaobei was taken aback and apologized awkwardly, "I'm sorry." She recalled that Lu Zhanguo had indeed mentioned the time when his mother was pregnant with him and his brother, but her attention hadn't been on that at the time.
