"No need," several old men had their own people around, and someone had already gone down to arrange transport.
Madam Yao watched them rush downstairs, as if in a dream, then turned to see her mother-in-law sitting on the sofa as if nothing had happened, feeling an inexplicable sense of strangeness. She went back to the kitchen and remembered to call her son to ask what was going on. But her son's phone was turned off.
The old men discussed nervously inside the big jeep.
"What exactly did Ziye say on the phone?" Mr. Lu asked Mr. Yao in detail.
"He said the surname was Gu," Mr. Yao replied, "But it was not clear whether he meant Teacher Gu. Besides, Ziye doesn't know about Gu Mo."
"How could you not know, when Ziye doesn't know it's about Gu Mo?" Mr. Lin chimed in.
The other old men chimed in, mentioning how Mr. Lu and Mr. Yao's grandsons were now influential figures and might not necessarily inform their elders first if something happened.
