CHAPTER 742: CHAPTER 739: MEETING OR NOT MEETING

Lin Jianming and his wife are kind-hearted; they understand the pain of separation more deeply.

So they asked Duoduo to make another trip to find Shen Siyuan, while Dou Dou stayed behind.

With Dou Dou accompanying them, Lin Jianming and his wife busied themselves with their own matters first.

Dou Dou sat across from Apricot like a little adult.

"You already saw Sister Mei Zi last night, why do you still want to see her?" Dou Dou asked curiously.

"That was in a dream," Apricot explained.

"Actually, it’s all the same. A real dream and real... um... now, there’s actually no difference," Dou Dou said.

Apricot was stunned for a moment, then said, "I still have a lot to say to her, but there wasn’t enough time last night."

"Oh, that’s how it is. But she’s already dead, she’s a ghost. There’s no use in telling her so much, she can’t chase chickens or hunt dogs with you," Dou Dou said.

What kind of description is that? Apricot didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Dou Dou sat on the high stool, swinging her little legs, appearing quite at ease.

Seeing Apricot not speaking, she continued, "I told Sister Mei Zi that you’d be happier alone, buying whatever you want and no one controlling you. Once home, your parents would control this and that, this isn’t allowed, that isn’t allowed either."

"She said I was talking nonsense. Do you also think I’m talking nonsense?"

Apricot didn’t know how to respond.

After thinking for a moment, she said, "One always needs to understand where they come from."

After saying this, she felt that perhaps it was too profound and Dou Dou might not understand.

Just as she was about to explain, Dou Dou asked, "Why bother understanding it?"

Before Apricot could explain, Dou Dou pointed to the half bag of bread on the table, which was the breakfast Song Qingwei had brought for Apricot, with half left because of Duoduo and the others.

"You don’t know where it came from, does that stop you from eating it?"

Hearing this, Apricot was quite surprised, looking at Dou Dou again. She didn’t expect such a small child like Dou Dou to speak so philosophically.

She pushed the bread forward, "Do you want some?"

Dou Dou touched her little tummy with a face full of trouble and said, "I’m a ghost, I can’t eat things."

"Ghost?"

Hearing this, Apricot was shocked and almost screamed.

"What else?" Dou Dou pointed to the ground.

At this moment, light shone into the small shop from the outside, but there was only Apricot’s long shadow.

"Then you... how come..." Apricot was speechless for a while.

"See, you’re scared now, right? Yet you still want to see Sister Mei Zi, claiming you’re not afraid?" Dou Dou glanced at her.

"No... no... it’s just that, I think you look no different from a human," Apricot hurriedly explained.

"Because I was a human first, then became a ghost. I wasn’t a cat or a dog first, of course, I look like a human," Dou Dou said discontentedly.

"That’s not what I meant. I mean, you look just like a human, and... and you can even come out during the day..." Apricot quickly explained.

Dou Dou found this very strange.

"Why can’t I come out during the day? Are there wolves?"

"There’s the sun."

"Is the sun a wolf?"

Apricot: ...

Just as they were speaking, a gust of Yin Wind blew in from outside the door.

Dou Dou immediately slipped down from the high stool, excitedly saying, "Duoduo is back."

Her voice instantly attracted the attention of the other three in the shop.

At this moment, Duoduo indeed appeared in the center of the small shop, causing Apricot to immediately stand up and look expectantly at Duoduo.

Lin Jianming and his wife were also curious, so they stopped what they were doing and listened intently.

"Sister Mei Zi said that she has already said everything she wanted to say to you. If she sees you again, she won’t be able to hold back her tears and asks you to go home to find your parents," Duoduo said.

Upon hearing this, Dou Dou was slightly surprised and looked toward Duoduo, but was met with a glare from her, immediately closing her mouth as she was about to speak.

Apricot froze upon hearing this, seeming both very sad and very confused. She mechanically walked toward the door after saying thank you.

"Wait a minute."

Just then, Duoduo suddenly called out to her.

Apricot hurriedly stopped, asking expectantly, "Does Sister have more to say to me?"

Duoduo didn’t answer the question but looked at Lin Jianming nearby.

"Dad, did brother send you a message?"

Lin Jianming quickly opened his phone, and only then discovered that Shen Siyuan had indeed sent him a message.

"Yes."

"What did brother say?"

"He said, because a road was built through Dajiao Mountain, Dajiao Mountain had long been blown up, and because Huangshan Wood is planted in the town, the Dajiao Mountain Town has now been renamed to Huangshan Town, whereas Huangyan Village should accurately be called Yellow Swan Village..."

Upon hearing this, Apricot suddenly realized that she had been quite puzzled last night when she couldn’t find any information after noting down details from the dream and searching on the phone map, doubting the dream’s authenticity.

"Mr. Shen also said that you probably belong to the Yi Clan..."

"Thank you... thank you... thank you, Mr. Shen..."

Apricot hurriedly thanked, even though she didn’t know who Mr. Shen was.

"Brother also said that if you encounter any problems, you can call my dad," Duoduo further directed her gaze to Lin Jianming.

Lin Jianming quickly gave his phone number to Apricot.

After a series of thanks, Apricot finally left the small shop.

As soon as Apricot left, Dou Dou, who seemed to have been holding back for a while, couldn’t help but say, "Sister Mei Zi came all this way, why not see her sister?"

Lin Jianming and his wife were also quite surprised upon hearing this.

"Did her sister come back with you?" Song Qingwei inquired.

Duoduo nodded.

"She said seeing her would make her cry, and once crying, she wouldn’t want to leave. It’s better not to see her, as all she wanted to say had been told to her sister," Duoduo explained.

"Then why did she follow her sister?" Dou Dou asked, bewildered.

"I don’t know either. Brother told her to follow, but she wasn’t allowed to show herself..." Duoduo said, indicating she needed to ask her brother.

Lin Jianming and his wife, being adults, sniffed out something from this.

This made them very curious. As they had nothing to do early in the morning, they then sought detailed information about the sisters Mei Zi and Apricot.

Duoduo and Dou Dou then took turns recounting their story.

The two little ones moved themselves to tears.

"Truly two unfortunate children," Song Qingwei sighed deeply upon hearing this.

And they also sensed that Apricot’s trip to seek her relatives might not be pleasant.

The two little girls, one named Mei Zi and the other Apricot, not even having formal names, reflecting their status at home.

With their parents working away and bringing their brother along, yet leaving them in the countryside, it shows how serious the son-preference mentality likely was.

Hence, whether Apricot would be welcomed upon returning was really uncertain.