CHAPTER 517: CHAPTER 517 LITTLE CRYBABY

Dou Dou was feeling sad, and when she heard someone call her a crybaby, she was instantly upset.

Turning her head, she saw the older boy she met last time while looking for Sister Mei Qi.

"Xiao Guoguo." Dou Dou called out pitifully.

Yuan Kaiyang originally wanted to tease her a bit, but seeing her pitiful look, he couldn’t bring himself to say anything.

So he asked instead, "Why are you crying? What’s there to cry about?"

"Sister Mei Qi is missing, where did Sister Mei Qi go?" Dou Dou sniffled.

"She went home."

"Where is her home?"

"How would I know," Yuan Kaiyang replied.

"Xiao Guoguo..."

"What is it?"

"You’re useless."

Yuan Kaiyang: ...

If he didn’t know Dou Dou’s power, he would have gone up and hit her.

"What about her dad? Why isn’t he here selling stuff anymore?" Dou Dou continued to ask.

"I told you, he went home," Yuan Kaiyang said, somewhat impatiently.

What he meant by going home wasn’t the same as what Dou Dou understood.

Dou Dou’s idea of going home was the place they returned to sleep at night. Perhaps, because of her parents’ jobs, they moved, but they were still in Bin Hai City.

But Yuan Kaiyang meant they went back to their hometown.

"Her mom and dad aren’t working anymore?" Dou Dou wiped her tears and asked curiously.

In her view, adults had to work, even Potato wasn’t an exception, so naturally, others should as well.

"Her little brother is sick, so they went back to their hometown with their parents."

"Hometown?" Dou Dou was a little puzzled, wondering what kind of home hometown was.

Old old home? Does it look like Grandpa or Grandma?

Dou Dou scratched her head, her face full of confusion.

"Then where is her hometown?"

"I said I don’t know," Yuan Kaiyang replied grumpily.

He then turned to leave, considering himself a man, who least liked kids crying and whining.

Moreover, he didn’t like playing with younger kids, so he had no interest in Dou Dou at all.

"Waa waa waa..."

Dou Dou wiped her tears, crying particularly loudly.

Yuan Kaiyang, annoyed, finally sighed helplessly and turned back in front of Dou Dou.

"Do you know where Sister Mei Qi’s hometown is?" Dou Dou immediately asked.

Tears were still on her face.

Was I fooled? Yuan Kaiyang thought.

But Yuan Kaiyang still told Dou Dou something.

"I heard Sun Meiqi say before that their place has a Ten Thousand Buddha Cave with many Buddha statues inside."

"What are Buddha statues?"

Yuan Kaiyang was completely speechless, as a Bin Hai person, how could he not know what a Buddha statue is?

He pointed in the direction of the seaside: "Haven’t you seen that giant Buddha statue at sea?"

"Liar, that’s Guanyin Mother," Dou Dou said.

"What Guanyin Mother, that’s the Bodhisattva Guanyin," Yuan Kaiyang said impatiently.

"But that’s not a Buddha."

"Guanyin is Buddha."

"You just said it’s a Bodhisattva."

Yuan Kaiyang didn’t want to talk to her anymore and turned to leave.

"Xiao Guoguo."

Yuan Kaiyang turned his head, not very pleased.

"Thank you, you’re a good person."

"I’m dead."

"Then you’re a good ghost."

"Hmph..." Yuan Kaiyang snorted coldly, seemingly disdainful of Dou Dou’s praise.

Just then, Dou Dou asked, "What’s your name?"

Yuan Kaiyang: ??

ヽ(｀⌒´メ)ノ

"Didn’t Sun Meiqi tell you my name last time?"

"Did she?"

"Of course she did, you fool," Yuan Kaiyang said angrily.

"Hehe, I might have forgotten," Dou Dou laughed foolishly.

Yuan Kaiyang completely didn’t want to talk to her anymore, turned, and continued to walk away.

"Wait... wait..." Dou Dou called after him again.

He didn’t want to pay attention, but Dou Dou chased after him with small steps, so he reluctantly turned around.

"What’s up? You’re so troublesome."

"I haven’t told you my name yet," Dou Dou said pitifully.

Yuan Kaiyang obviously couldn’t stand Dou Dou’s pitiful look.

His voice softened a lot, and he said softly, "I know, you’re Dou Dou, I heard Sun Meiqi say it."

"That’s my nickname, my real name... is... Tao Hongdou," Dou Dou thought for a moment and said.

"Were you just trying to remember your own name?"

"Yes, so what?" Dou Dou asked, puzzled.

"Nothing."

Yuan Kaiyang suddenly felt it was understandable for her not to remember her name, not a big deal.

"Goodbye, Xiao Guoguo," Dou Dou waved her small hand to Yuan Kaiyang and soared into the sky like a gust of Yin Wind.

"Goodbye."

Watching Dou Dou disappear, Yuan Kaiyang also lightly waved his hand, eyes full of envy.

Then he glanced in the direction of the stall where Sun Meiqi’s family used to be, let out a deep sigh, and walked alone to the depths of this street.

Then he appeared in front of a bakery.

This was Yuan Kaiyang’s home, where his mom ran a bakery selling handmade bread, business neither good nor bad.

His dad worked at a nearby clinic, his job also neither good nor bad.

Every day they just opened and closed the shop, went to work and came back, living seemingly peaceful lives.

But the couple was like strangers, communicating very little, sometimes not even speaking a word all day long.

In Yuan Kaiyang’s memory, his parents actually got along very well before.

His mom talked a lot, always nonstop, and his dad was always grinning, lively and cheerful.

They would slide with him, build a castle out of cardboard boxes for him, wear Ultraman costumes to wish him a happy birthday, grab his ice cream and sugar-coated haws... all the things he loved.

But since he passed away, they gradually stopped talking.

"Mom, I’m back."

Yuan Kaiyang stepped into the store; not a single customer was there then.

Sunshine streamed in through the window facing the street, shining on his mom behind the counter, as if coating her in gold.

She stared blankly at the street, lost in thought.

Yuan Kaiyang had gotten used to her like this, walked over, and sat on a tall stool next to her.

When he didn’t attend school, he would sit here and help his mom watch the store while she baked cakes at the back.

It seemed a long time had passed, yet it felt like just yesterday.

He suddenly thought of what Sun Meiqi had said.

After Sun Meiqi and Dou Dou left that day, she came back to tell him Dou Dou’s Potato was a very powerful immortal who could fulfill her wish.

Yuan Kaiyang didn’t know what Sun Meiqi’s wish was; whether it was fulfilled or not, she didn’t say, and he didn’t ask.

But he also wished an immortal could help fulfill his wish.

Thinking of this, Yuan Kaiyang seemed to react, abruptly stood up, glanced at his dazed mom, and rushed out, running towards where he met Dou Dou earlier.

"Dou Dou, Dou Dou..." He shouted loudly.

But... but...

He knew Dou Dou had already flown away, definitely couldn’t hear his shouting.

Tears rolled down his cheeks.

He became a little crybaby too.