"Cousin, the pair of earrings that my dad gave my mom the year before last suddenly went missing. Could you please ask your wife if she has seen them?" Zhou Xinyao asked over the phone.
Zhou Mingchen stood at the corner of the hospital corridor, moving a couple of steps further out as people occasionally passed by, until he reached the window.
"Why would she have seen anything that belongs to your family?"
"Didn't your wife come to my house yesterday and rest upstairs for a while? My parents' bedroom is also on that side. Maybe she saw them, thought they looked nice, and tried them on. She could have placed them somewhere afterward without thinking much of it, so I thought to ask you. My mom loves those earrings and treasures them a lot. We've been turning the house upside down these past few days looking for them. It's no trouble just to ask," Zhou Xinyao pleaded, "If you won't ask, I'll just call your wife myself."
