In the morning, Lu Jingqiu took He Yu to the train station and then headed for the compound.
The small courtyard where they had lived now housed new residents, which Lu Jingqiu still found quite unusual.
She didn't go to the back, going straight up to the apartment building instead. More families were gradually moving into the building, and the family across from where she used to live was also new, surprisingly a sister-in-law who took her family's cat in.
Lu Jingqiu had run into her several times before and saw the cat, Big Three Flowers, being well cared for in her home. She was a teacher, with a punctual work schedule, and Big Three Flowers never missed a meal, faring even better than under her own care.
This time, as she arrived, she happened to run into her: "Sister-in-law Zhang, are you off work today?"