After chatting with Liu Qing for more than half an hour, Tong Yao made up an excuse to return to her room while Liu Qing also went to her mother-in-law's place to fetch her child. She and Guo Zhi had a son, who was just over a year old. The child was usually looked after by the grandmother and Liu Qing would take over during her days off.
Originally, she was going there just to pick up her son, but she stayed a little longer after she bumped into Tong Yao.
Although Tong Yao wasn't particularly keen on Liu Qing's family affairs, she knew that a better understanding of one's neighbors was rather beneficial. Therefore, as Liu Qing chatted, Tong Yao listened attentively with a smile, despite being indifferent.
While idling at home, Tong Yao spotted a pear flower cat in the hallway and deliberately lured it to her home with food. Surprisingly, it turned out to be Deng Wenwen's cat. Tong Yao learned quite a bit about the Deng family from it.