They would need to let things progress naturally to see what Wei Wucai thought about the situation.
So, he asked, "When did you come back?"
"Friday night. I'll be returning to T City tonight," Wei Wucai's attention shifted away from Yan Zhiqing momentarily, but even then, not completely.
We Wucai was really busy and he constantly had work to do in the Lanshan Institution, so it was rare for him to find the time to come home. On this occasion, he had only come back because his mother had personally gone over to T City in order to force him home.