Chapter 740 - 737: Hope
"I still want to keep playing," Dou Dou said discontentedly.
But when she turned her head, she was startled to see Meizi with tears streaming down her face.
"Don’t cry, don’t cry, okay? I won’t play anymore, won’t play anymore, alright?" She fumbled around, trying to comfort Meizi.
Meanwhile, Duoduo turned to look at Apricot, who was sitting dumbfounded on the bed.
She too was crying, her tears falling silently like rain on plantains, without making a sound.
"I’m fine, thank you," Meizi wiped her tears and looked at Apricot sitting on the bed.
Dou Dou also turned around curiously and asked, "She’s awake now, do you want to meet her?"
Meizi shook her head and choked, "She already knows how to get home now, so I... I won’t meet her."
"But what if she forgets?" Dou Dou suddenly said.
Originally not wanting to meet Apricot in reality, Meizi was momentarily swayed by this sentence.
But just then, they saw Apricot suddenly wipe her tears and quickly pull out her phone, seemingly jotting something down.
The three little ones immediately crowded around to watch.
They saw Apricot typing a lot of words on her phone.
"What is she writing? Can you guys read it?" Dou Dou whispered.
Meizi shook her head; she didn’t recognize many characters and couldn’t understand these words at all.
But Duoduo roughly understood it.
"Grandma is wearing a blue XX dress, with beautiful patterns at the collar..."
Because of her family background, Duoduo, though young, knew quite a few characters.
"She’s writing down the dream so she won’t forget it," Meizi said happily.
"So what do we do now, wait until tomorrow morning?" Dou Dou, feeling bored, wandered around the room.
Apricot’s house was simply decorated but very cozy, with many delicate little items.
"Your sister seems quite cheerful," Dou Dou said.
"How is she cheerful?" Meizi retorted indignantly.
"She works very hard every day," Duoduo said.
She said this because she had seen Apricot delivering food.
Meizi immediately nodded in agreement.
Dou Dou pointed around and said, "She’s alone and can buy whatever she wants. What if she finds her parents and they don’t let her buy things? What if... what if they don’t like her?"
"How is that possible? My parents love me and my sister very much," Meizi immediately said loudly.
"Why are you shouting? I’m just saying. My parents love me too, but they still don’t buy me this or that. So it’s freer being alone, with no one to control," Dou Dou muttered.
Meizi rolled her eyes, not wanting to hear her nonsense.
But was Dou Dou’s talk really just nonsense? Maybe she had already seen the essence of things.
"Let’s go now," Duoduo suggested.
By this time Apricot lay down again, seeming to want to return to her dreams, but as she tossed and turned, it seemed she couldn’t fall asleep for a while.
Hearing this, Meizi took a deep look at Apricot, then sighed before heading for the door.
"Wait for me..."
Dou Dou hurriedly trotted to catch up with her short legs.
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Although Lin Jianming had to open the shop in the morning, they didn’t get up very early; opening the shop was purely for Duoduo and to pass the time, so they wouldn’t open until eight or nine every day.
Of course, opening early was of no use; there weren’t any customers so early in the morning either.
So after the couple had breakfast at home and leisurely arrived at their "Yunduo Convenience Store," it was almost nine in the morning.
However, today they saw from a distance an electric bike parked at the door, and in the shade at the entrance stood a delivery rider.
Seeing the two approaching, the person immediately greeted them.
Song Qingwei recognized her immediately as the young girl who delivered her takeaway yesterday.
"Hello, is there something you need?" Song Qingwei asked somewhat surprised.
Their little store wasn’t on any delivery platform, so naturally, there wasn’t a case of a delivery person coming so early to pick up an order.
But Lin Jianming had already guessed something.
"Hello..." Apricot hesitated, not knowing how to begin.
She glanced around at the two, looking disappointed.
"Are you looking for Duoduo?" Lin Jianming asked with a smile.
Apricot quickly nodded and said, "So the little girl is really called Duoduo."
It turned out that after Apricot woke up and reviewed her dream, she not only recalled many clues about her family but also finally remembered where she had seen Duoduo before.
She had a deep impression of being given mineral water by Song Qingwei during the day, and the child named Duoduo was the little girl who blocked her way at the time.
So she was waiting here early, thinking that although it was just a dream, standing at someone’s door seemed ridiculous, maybe it was just because she saw them during the day that she dreamed about them, but the dream was just too real.
So she came, and when Lin Jianming asked if she was waiting for Duoduo, she was overwhelmed with immense joy, and of course, there were countless doubts in her mind.
"Let’s go inside and talk," Lin Jianming said.
He walked around her and opened the shop door.
Apricot stood aside wanting to help but didn’t know what to do, temporarily appearing somewhat at a loss.
Seeing her like this and recalling what Duoduo had told them yesterday, Song Qingwei couldn’t help but feel some extra sympathy.
"Come in and sit down; let’s talk slowly," Song Qingwei said.
"Thank you."
Apricot thanked her and walked into the store, then looked around with curiosity. She hadn’t paid much attention to the store yesterday.
After Lin Jianming set down the U-lock for the door, he asked, "Did you see your sister?"
Apricot, who had just been invited to sit by Song Qingwei, suddenly stood up, so abruptly that she knocked the chair over.
"I’m sorry, I’m sorry..."
She quickly apologized repeatedly, frantically picking up the chair.
"It’s okay; you don’t need to be nervous," Song Qingwei comforted.
"Did you... did you see Meizi? Where is she now?" Apricot urgently asked.
Lin Jianming shook his head and said, "We haven’t seen her."
Hearing this, disappointment quickly spread across Apricot’s face.
"We’re just ordinary people and can’t see ghosts, but my daughter, Duoduo, has met her. She was following you yesterday," Song Qingwei explained.
Apricot felt a bit dizzy upon hearing this, unable to sort out the idea at first.
"My daughter is somewhat special; she can see ghosts. So she saw your sister, Meizi as you called her. This is what she told us," Lin Jianming explained.
"Oh, I see," Apricot finally understood.
But then she reacted, wait, daughter?
She looked at the two of them in surprise. They looked very young, filled with vitality, but they didn’t seem young enough to have a six or seven-year-old daughter?
But she didn’t ask these questions, fearing it would be too rude.
She asked nervously, "Is your daughter here? Can I meet her? I have some things I want to ask her."
She hurriedly added, "Don’t worry; I’m not a bad person. I won’t harm her. It’s just... just..."
She stammered, unsure of how to express herself.