"Mom, these are flowers my brother and I brought back for you from outside. The blue one is from my brother, and the yellow one is from me. Which one do you like the most?"
Yueyue and Yangyang had both grown quite a bit taller. The two little ones came in one after the other from outside the door and ran excitedly toward Shuying. Yueyue even had two leaves in her hair. The two little ones were having so much fun that Shuying didn't even notice that the scenery around her had changed.
"Mom will love anything that you and your brother give me. You and your brother are both Mom’s children, so Mom will love you both equally."
With a gentle smile on her face, she embraced the two children.
Suddenly, Yangyang produced a candied hawthorn skewer from behind her like a magician, her eyes sparkling as she looked at her. "Mom, look, this is a candied hawthorn skewer that Grandpa and Grandma bought for me and my sister. We didn't eat it on the way back, so we specially saved one for you."
Shu Ying's expression froze for a moment, still somewhat bewildered, when a string of candied hawthorns was already dripping in front of her.
"Grandpa and Grandma?"
She was puzzled.
Yueyue and Yangyang had grown up with her, so they called her parents grandpa and grandma. But her parents had been gone for a long time, and Shuying couldn't tell whether this was a dream or reality.
Just as she was about to correct the two children, she saw her parents walk in from outside, followed by three adorable little ones.
Two of the three little ones were girls, wearing matching pink dresses and with their hair tied up in topknots. The boy's hair was messy, as if he had just played on a slide and it was standing up due to static electricity.
"Look at you, child. How many times have we told you? When your father and I leave the house, you must lock the door. Just now, when we came in, we saw the door wide open, and you were the only girl at home. What are your father and I supposed to do if you encounter any danger?"
Shu's mother gently patted the child in her arms, and the little ones ran to the pillar next to them, while Shu's father looked at her with a loving expression.
"Alright, she's a mother now, why does she always treat her daughter like a little kid? If you keep acting like this, she'll never grow up. Yingying, your mom and I bought you your favorite osmanthus cake. Try it, is it still the same as before?"
The two people from her memory suddenly reappeared in her dream. Shu Ying didn't dare to blink for a moment. She subconsciously wanted to reach out and hug them, but she was worried that it was just a dream.
She didn't know how long it had been since she had seen her parents. Their faces and smiles were exactly the same, but the bitterness in her heart was growing deeper and deeper.
"Dad, Mom, you're back."
Shu Ying stood frozen in place, afraid to make any move, lest the scene before her change drastically if she took a step forward.
Shu's mother walked over with a gentle smile and took a thin, crispy biscuit wrapped in oil paper from the basket and gave it to her.
"You silly child, your dad and I only went out for a short while, what's wrong with you? It's like you don't recognize me anymore?"
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