The next morning, when it was still dawn, Sun Yuqi looked at the fire in the stove and found that it had gone out. She had to light it again, took out the kettle to boil water, and used this time to tidy up the other rooms. Mu Jingran also said yesterday that she had cleaned this place a few days ago, but it was just a rough tidy. If she planned to live here for a long time, it would be necessary to clean it up properly.

The water boiled. Sun Yuqi washed herself with warm water, made porridge with the rice left over from before, and then started to get busy again.

Mu Jingran came here again at around eight o'clock in the morning. Sun Yuqi couldn't stop him, so she had to agree to let him help clean the house.

After a whole morning, I finally cleaned the house inside and out. Of course, it was just a temporary residence, and none of the rooms upstairs were cleaned.

At noon, Sun Yuqi thought that there was no food at home, so she said.

"Let's go out for dinner. Lu Yao wrote that there are a lot of small restaurants opening up now, and they sound pretty good. Why don't we try one?"

Mu Jingran fully agreed with what Sun Yuqi said.

"Okay, I do know a place that's also newly opened, but the chef there cooks delicious food."

"Okay, lead the way!"

After they left the courtyard and locked the door, they still went out of the alley and onto the street. Sun Yuqi knew that this place was not far from the park. The last time she was in Beijing, she went to the park from here. She wanted to find a cool place to escape the heat, but in the end there were too many people, so she had to come back.

Soon after they left the alley, they turned into another alley. Sun Yuqi looked at Mu Jingran with a frown.

Mu Jingran seemed to know what she was going to ask and said with a smile.

"It's not far ahead. The newly opened restaurant is on another street. If we go there from here, we can save a lot of time."

Sun Yuqi nodded. Mu Jingran grew up in Beijing, so he should be familiar with everything here. So he nodded to show that he understood.

I just walked out of the alley, and this street is obviously much busier than the street where I bought the house.

Under the guidance of Mu Jingran, Sun Yuqi came to an inconspicuous storefront. The decoration seemed to belong to the old times. As soon as they walked in, they heard a voice coming from the corner.

"Jingran boy, you haven't been here for several days, why are you here today?"

Sun Yuqi looked over and found that it was a man in his fifties with gray hair and a thin body, but he was in good spirits, especially his eyes, which seemed to be smiling.

"Haha, Grandpa Chen, why are you here in the front? Shouldn't you be busy in the back?"

Chen Kun laughed.

"Don't you think about it, there aren't many people who can let an old man cook for them? Why did you come here today and want me to cook for you?"

Mu Jingran chuckled and walked over to Chen Kun and whispered.

"Grandpa Chen, you have to give me some face today. This girl is the one I like and I'm planning to pursue her, but I haven't been able to get her yet. You have to help me!"

Only then did Chen Kun notice Sun Yuqi standing not far away. At first glance, because the light in the room was not bright, and Chen Kun was old and had poor eyesight, he did not see Sun Yuqi clearly.

Mu Jingran said to Sun Yuqi.

"Yuqi, come here. I'll introduce you."

Sun Yuqi originally thought that Mu Jingran was talking to Grandpa Chen, so she didn't want to stand too close, so she stood a little further away. Now when she heard Mu Jingran calling her, she walked over and bowed.

"Hello, Grandpa Chen?"

Chen Kun chuckled. "Is the girl's last name Shen?"

Sun Yuqi was stunned when she heard Chen Kun ask this. Then she thought, could this Grandpa Chen have known the Shen family in the past? But she still shook her head.

"Grandpa Chen guessed wrong, my last name is Sun."

When Mu Jingran saw Grandpa Chen asking Sun Yuqi this, he remembered that Grandpa Chen knew his grandfather, so it was not surprising that he knew the Shen family.

Mu Jingran looked at Chen Kun and saw that he frowned, so he smiled.

"Grandpa Chen, can you help me today and cook a few dishes?"

Chen Kun had returned to normal by this time, and then slapped Mu Jing on the head.

"You little brat, when did this old man never cook for you? Bring the little girl in and sit down!"

After saying that, Chen Kun went into the kitchen, and Mu Jingran took Sun Yuqi into a private room next to the kitchen.

"Please take a seat. Every time we come here, we always eat in this private room. There's a small door in the wall, and the food from the kitchen is brought in directly through the small door. We don't have to go through the lobby, and it helps to avoid arguments."

Sun Yuqi didn't know what the dispute Mu Jingran was talking about was. She was now wondering why Grandpa Chen had just said his last name was Shen. Could it be that she and Shen Qingrou looked a lot like each other? But now she had almost no memory of Shen Qingrou. Although she was eight years old when they left, and now she was eighteen, ten years had passed, but that was her first life. In between were the years in the apocalypse in her previous life. Now Sun Yuqi had no memory of Shen Qingrou at all. She thought that if the two of them met face to face, Sun Yuqi might not even recognize Shen Qingrou.

Mu Jingran saw Sun Yuqi standing there in a daze and asked.

"What are you thinking about?"

Sun Yuqi came to her senses and looked at Mu Jingran with a smile.

"I was wondering why Grandpa Chen just asked me if my last name was Shen. Could it be that he had met someone who looked like me before?"

Mu Jingran listened to Sun Yuqi's words, blinked, and finally decided to tell the truth.

"Yuqi, I actually already know your background. Your mother's surname is Shen, and her name is Shen Qingrou."

Sun Yuqi opened her eyes wide in surprise and asked after a long while.

"How do you know?"

Mu Jingran poured Sun Yuqi a cup of tea and said, "Drink some hot water first to warm yourself up."

"Actually, when I went to pick you up to visit grandpa that day, we met the couple surnamed Gu. I went back and told grandpa about it, and then he realized that you were Aunt Shen's daughter. That's when he told me about the Shen family. That's when I learned that your grandpa and I were childhood friends."

Shen Qingrou smiled and said, "My grandfather will only be surnamed Sun from now on, not Shen, and my mother is Sun Meijuan, not Shen Qingrou."

Mu Jingran's heart paused. He looked at Sun Yuqi in surprise. There was a smile on her face, but Mu Jingran could see the coldness in her eyes clearly. At this time, he also realized that something might have happened in the past that made Sun Yuqi unhappy.

"I'm sorry, Yuqi. I shouldn't have mentioned them. I don't know if they did anything bad to you."

Sun Yuqi still smiled.

"They didn't do anything wrong. Shen Qingrou's parents beat and scolded me, cursing me for a bad death every day, and Shen Qingrou just watched coldly and did nothing, as if I wasn't her biological daughter. These eighteen years, from the age of eight to sixteen, were the happiest time of my life. Before the age of eight, I lived in insults and curses."