"Okay."
Xiao Xiao smiled.
The owner looked at the old woman.
"Grandma Luo, the usual?"
"Two jianbing guozi?"
"No."
The old woman shook her head.
"Three."
A faint smile appeared on her face.
"Three?"
The owner instinctively leaned out to look behind the old woman.
There was no one there.
"Are you taking one for a friend?"
The owner was surprised.
It wasn't for any particular reason...
The old woman wasn't antisocial.
It was just that she'd been buying jianbing guozi from him for several years...
And every time, she bought two.
One for herself.
And one for her guide dog, Lele.
At first, he'd thought she was taking the other one home for her husband or her grandchildren...
Later, he learned from someone else...
The old woman's husband had passed away a few years earlier.
It had happened to be the same year she first came to buy jianbing guozi from him.
Her child had died in a plane crash while traveling with friends after graduating from college...
In other words, the old woman was now all alone.
She had neither a husband nor children.
And it seemed she had no other relatives she was close to.
The old woman always seemed to be by herself.
Well.
Not exactly by herself.
Her guide dog, Lele, was with her.
As for her blindness...
The old woman hadn't been blind from birth.
Her eyesight had weakened later on because of an illness, until eventually she couldn't see at all.
He'd gone on at length just to say that for all these years, the old woman had always bought two jianbing guozi from him.
The number had never changed.
This was the first time she'd ever bought more...
How could he not be