The old woman's eyes flew wide open.
She turned to look beside her. "It..."
Then she immediately turned to look ahead. "You..."
The old woman was at a loss for words.
Her words came out in fragments.
"Please, don't get excited."
Xiao Xiao gently reassured the old woman.
"You and your friend..."
Had run into a young man with bad intentions, someone you'd only met once before.
That must have made you panic, feeling as if your life were counting down with no one around to help.
"It was him..."
You were so grateful to the child who had gotten you out of that predicament.
"It feels like I'm always being helped."
"I'm so useless."
The old woman felt something soft brush over her arm...
The old woman hadn't heard him.
A trace of a smile still lingered on her face.
At last, she had seen that special friend again.
She had bought two jianbing guozi.
The old woman smiled broadly.
The next second, she stood up.
The jianbing guozi vendor cooperated too, saying that once the jianbing guozi had been sold, it couldn't be returned.
She hadn't planned to buy jianbing guozi today.
It would be bad if the other child's parents insisted on giving Lele a hard time.
The grown-up way they acted made both her and the jianbing guozi vendor marvel at how the children these days were little old souls.
She deliberately tried not to dwell too much on the exact number of days.
"Yes."
"..."
The child said they were his friend.
Xiao Xiao smiled.
"It was just a few kids fooling around with you."
What a coincidence.
"Isn't that lucky?"
What a good child.
"We only met by chance."
You tripped.
Only afterward did you realize that the thing