Clearly, they could have stopped in front of the shop.
Couldn't they?
But Xiao Xiao quickly formed a guess.
The child was nervous.
Xiao Xiao was a little puzzled.
He had thought...
That the child liked this shop.
And...
Xiao Xiao glanced around.
"Little Mango."
"Where's your friend?"
There wasn't a soul at the shop entrance—not even a child.
The little girl looked up in a panic.
"He..."
"He's inside the shop."
Inside?
Xiao Xiao nodded.
"Then let's go inside too."
The child froze for a moment.
Then she smiled.
"Okay."
Xiao Xiao turned around.
He looked at the child lagging behind, walking slowly.
"Big Brother."
As if noticing his gaze on him, the child looked up.
He seemed a little ill at ease.
"Will you..."
The child's voice was very soft. "Will you help me?"
Xiao Xiao raised his brows slightly.
"Why else would I have come with you?"
He had come all this way...
Did the child still have doubts about him?
The child pressed her lips together.
"Big Brother."
Her words came faster, tinged with urgency.
"You promise..."
"You'll definitely help me!"
Xiao Xiao's heart stirred.
He suddenly began to wonder...
Had the child lied to him earlier?
It was only a matter of helping her fish something out...
Why was she acting...
As if she were asking him to do something unforgivable?
"Can you tell me now..."
Xiao Xiao crouched down in front of the child.
"What you need me to do?"
"Fish something out?"
That was the answer he was almost certain of.
It was also more or less what the child had told him earlier.
But now it seemed...
Was it not about fishing something out?
Or was it more than just that?