CHAPTER 741: CHAPTER 738: NOT SO WONDERFUL

"Have you had breakfast?" Song Qingwei asked her.

Apricot shook her head honestly, then seemed to remember something and hurriedly nodded.

Song Qingwei chuckled softly, took a bag of bread from the shelf nearby, and handed her a bottle of yogurt.

She wanted to decline, but Song Qingwei placed it in front of her and asked, "What time were you waiting at the door?"

"Five-thirty," Apricot replied.

Upon hearing this, Song Qingwei laughed, "Did you think we’d open so early?"

Apricot also showed an embarrassed expression. She hadn’t thought it through at the time; once she remembered who Duoduo was, she didn’t want to delay for a moment and rode her electric scooter straight to the Yunduo Convenience Store.

It was only when she arrived that she realized she’d come way too early. But she thought since she was already there and couldn’t sleep anyway, she’d just keep waiting outside.

Of course, there was another reason — she was worried she might have come late and disrupted their business, thinking there wouldn’t be many people early in the morning.

Seeing Apricot’s embarrassed expression, Song Qingwei didn’t pursue it further and said, "Eat up, fill your stomach; it’ll take a while."

Upon hearing this, Apricot immediately looked at Lin Jianming, who was on the phone at the door.

Seeing that it wouldn’t be over anytime soon, she thanked Song Qingwei and started eating in small bites. In the middle, she took out her phone to pay but found it had long been out of battery, making her quite embarrassed.

Halfway through breakfast, Lin Jianming came back with his phone.

Seeing this, Apricot quickly went up to him eagerly.

"Wait a moment, Duoduo will be here soon."

"Thank you, thank you. If it’s a bother, I can go myself." Apricot kept bowing to Lin Jianming in gratitude.

"Huh, wasn’t Duoduo at Mr. Shen’s last night?" Song Qingwei interjected, somewhat surprised.

"She said she went out with Dou Dou last night and hasn’t come back yet."

When talking about their daughter, Lin Jianming’s face was full of smiles.

Apricot was dumbfounded on the side. A six- or seven-year-old girl didn’t come home last night, and you’re not worried at all? Just laughing here?

She wanted to ask but was afraid of offending the two, feeling very conflicted.

Before she could say anything, two children walked in from the door, one after the other, just like she had seen in her dream last night.

The one in front was the owner’s daughter, Duoduo, followed by the mischievous one called Dou Dou.

"I’m back!"

The one who shouted wasn’t Duoduo, but Dou Dou.

"Dad, Mom, what do you need me for?" Duoduo asked the Lin Jianming couple, but her eyes looked at Apricot.

Dou Dou looked at her in surprise with wide eyes, "What are you doing here? Are you following me, trying to secretly sell me?"

She spoke while turning her head panickedly, full of suspicion.

Hearing this, the Lin Jianming couple burst into laughter; Dou Dou’s small demeanor was indeed too funny.

But Apricot couldn’t laugh at all, even panicked because she had really been trafficked before, making her very sensitive to the word.

"No, no, I’m not..." She waved her hands, flustered, trying to explain.

"Don’t be nervous; don’t listen to her nonsense. She’s so smart, how could she be trafficked," Song Qingwei gently comforted her.

Dou Dou, hearing this, immediately put her hands on her hips proudly, "Of course, I’m so cute, how could I be trafficked?"

It should be ’so capable,’ right? What does it have to do with being cute? The cuter you are, the more likely you are to be trafficked.

Song Qingwei muttered in her heart but didn’t correct her, instead pointing at Duoduo and saying, "If you have something to ask Duoduo, you can ask her now."

"Thank you, Uncle, thank you, Aunt," Apricot quickly expressed her gratitude.

Then she nervously looked at Duoduo and asked, "Can I ask, have you seen Meizi?"

Standing behind Duoduo, Dou Dou immediately raised her hand high.

"Let me answer... let me answer..." Dou Dou hurriedly said.

Duoduo shoved her bottom backward, directly knocking Dou Dou, who was pushing forward, to the floor.

Then, as if nothing happened, she nodded, "Seen her."

"You’re cheating." Dou Dou angrily got up.

"She’s talking to me, not you." Duoduo glanced at her sideways.

"Ask again, ask me, ask me..." Dou Dou immediately turned to look at Apricot.

Lin Jianming couple: ...

Apricot: ...

Seeing her lively nature, Apricot cooperated and asked once more.

So Dou Dou immediately said, "Seen her, we even went to your dream together. In the dream, you were picking up trash..."

She wanted to finish everything in one breath.

Duoduo was so angry she nudged her again with her butt, but Dou Dou quickly dodged to the side.

She triumphantly said, "Ha, missed."

Even though she didn’t knock her over, she interrupted her.

But Apricot had already gotten a lot of information from their words.

Turns out, last night’s dream was real, and it was Meizi who came to see her.

"Where’s Meizi? Where is she? Where is she now?"

She eagerly stepped forward, reaching out to grab Duoduo’s arm.

Duoduo quickly stepped back, and only then did she realize what she was doing.

She hurriedly stepped back and explained, "I... just want to know where Meizi is, nothing else."

Dou Dou poked her head out from behind Duoduo and said, "You have to call her Sister."

Hearing this, Apricot was stunned for a moment, then broke into a smile, but tears started falling.

While wiping her tears, she said, "Then where is my Sister? Can I see her? I miss her."

Dou Dou said, "She doesn’t want to see you."

Upon hearing this, Apricot’s face instantly turned pale, and she became even sadder.

Duoduo, being older, quickly said, "She’s just kidding."

"I’m not kidding, Sister Meizi said she doesn’t want to see Apricot; she’s a ghost, afraid of scaring her."

Lin Jianming couple: ...

Apricot was also stunned, and her mood went from hell back to heaven in an instant.

However, at this moment, she was more eager to know where her sister was, desperately wanting to see her.

"I’m not afraid; she’s my Sister, why would I be afraid? Could you... could you take me to see her?"

Saying this, she knelt in front of the two little kids, startling Duoduo and Dou Dou.

Lin Jianming hurriedly helped her up, seeing the situation.

"Take your time and talk, don’t do this..." Song Qingwei comforted her from the side.

"Sister Meizi went back, and you’ll have to ask Brother," said Duoduo.

"Went back, went back where?" Apricot continued to press.

But this time, neither Duoduo nor Dou Dou answered that question.

Instead, Dou Dou posed a very peculiar question.

"Meizi already told you where your home is; why don’t you go back? Don’t you want to go home?"

Apricot froze upon hearing this; of course, she wanted to go home, but she was filled with unease.

She wasn’t as young as when Meizi died, nor as innocent. Now an adult, years of wandering alone had made her more mature.

Last night’s dream, plus her blurred memories, raised some doubts in her heart.

Maybe, home wasn’t as beautiful as she imagined.