Chapter 1085: Broken Faith and Forgetfulness

After the song ended, the beautiful and melodious music seemed to still flow slowly in the air.

Shallow ripples spread out.

After a while, the old man slowly opened his eyes.

I don’t know if it was because of the sunlight, but there was a faint light flashing in the depths of the old man’s cloudy eyes.

"Thank you."

The old man narrowed his eyes and smiled, "It's really a beautiful performance."

"Even an old woman like me is fascinated by it."

"I'll show off to the old man then."

"Who told him to leave so early?"

"He deserves to miss today's performance."

The old man slowly stood up with the help of his cane, "I'm sure I've wasted a lot of your time."

Suddenly remembering something, the old woman's face froze, and then she smiled awkwardly, "I'm so sorry, I forgot I came out to walk, and I don't have much money on me."

"Just now I had the audacity to ask you to play a complete song for me again."

The old man had never taken advantage of anyone in his entire life, but he never expected that when his life was about to come to an end, he would hear the "Ba Wang Qu".

This is really
It made her feel a little bit amused and helpless.

The Pipa Ghost shook his head.

It doesn't require money.

Human money is of no use to it.

Its performance is spontaneous and does not require any return from the other party.

Seeing the boy's actions, the old man was stunned, "Don't you want money?"

"How is this possible?"

The Pipa Ghost stood up and prepared to leave.

Its performance is over.

"Hey, wait."

The old man called out to the young man in a hurry.

Seeing the young man turning around, he didn't know what to say for a moment.

I felt a little flustered for a moment.

Suddenly, she had a flash of inspiration.

"Why don't you go home with the old woman and get the money?"

"The old woman's home is not far from here."

The Pipa Ghost shook his head.

A glimpse of a human from the corner of its eye made its eyes light up.

The next person to be performed (scared) is him.

It took a step forward and walked towards the man.

"Hey~"

The old man called out again.

He took a few quick steps with his cane.

"Why are you leaving like that, kid?"

Seeing the anxiety on Pipa Ghost's face, the old woman breathed a sigh of relief, "Forget it, I won't waste your time."

She felt around her body and said, "After listening to such a beautiful performance, I can't just not express anything at all."

She paused and took out a piece of white jade from her pocket.

这玉
She took the jade in her hand, rubbed it for a while, and then handed it to the boy in front of her.

"This jade is for you."

"It's not some precious jade."

"I have raised it for quite some years."

"I hope you don't dislike it."

Although he said this, the old man was a little hesitant when he stretched out his hand.

“Young people may not like this, right?”

Moreover, the old man felt that the value of this piece of jade could not be compared to the performance that sounded like the music of nature.

"Why don't you take the jade first? If you don't like it, ask me to exchange it for something else next time."

"You can also exchange it for money."

"The old lady will come here again."

"If the old lady were gone--"

The old man spoke calmly about his impending death, "You can exchange it with my son."

"I'll tell him in advance."

"Drink, drink~"

The Pipa Ghost saw the determination in the old man's eyes and reached out to take the jade pendant that the old man had been holding in the air.

The human it had just set its sights on was about to leave its sight.

"Go."

The old man withdrew his hand and stood there leaning on his cane.

The smile is kind.

The boy gave her one, no, two great gifts: a moving pipa tune, and a grimace that made her laugh.

She was very happy to meet this young man.

She was also very happy that the boy chose her as his audience.

Looking at the boy's leaving back, she smiled, turned and walked in another direction.

It's been a while since I came out.

She should go back.

"Do you still have that jade pendant?"

Xiao Xiao asked as he looked at the figure of the Pipa Ghost in the glass.

The Pipa Ghost looked a little confused.

He subconsciously reached out and felt around his body.

Then, it actually took out a white jade pendant from its trouser pocket.

It was held in front of Xiao Xiao's eyes, with a happy smile on his face.

Xiao Xiao glanced at the jade pendant, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly, "This is a gift from someone else."

"You have to keep it."

"Drink, drink~"

The Pipa Ghost nodded.

After looking at the jade pendant for a while, it put it back into its trouser pocket.

Eyes sparkling.

There is a kind of joy in discovering something good unexpectedly.

Xiao Xiao glanced at the Pipa Ghost, with a half-smile on his face, "Hey, Pipa Ghost."

"How do I remember-"

"You said before that I was the first human to hear you play?"

Pipa Ghost:?!
It looked at Xiao Xiao's expression. Did it say that?
“Drink, drink, drink.”

It had forgotten about the old human being.

Pipa Ghost's confession made Xiao Xiao smile helplessly.

It seems that this is a monster that doesn't remember much.

The Pipa Ghost did not notice the change in Xiao Xiao's expression.

It pursed its lips, and after a moment of confusion, it remembered.

Why did it forget the humans who could see it?

The old man clearly said that she would come again.

It stayed in that place for a long time, but never saw the old man again.

Now it seems to be able to recall the grievances and unhappiness it felt at that time.

Apparently the other party had forgotten it.

Then it won't remember her.

Originally, it really thought it had completely forgotten that memory and that old man.

Unexpectedly, the human girl's behavior this time suddenly made it remember.

Perhaps it was because the contrast between the two humans' expressions, one crying and the other laughing, was so stark that it suddenly recalled the memory that it had almost forgotten.

"It's not that the old lady broke her promise to you, but she can't come even if she wants to."

Xiao Xiao looked outside at the sky where there was a faint light coming through.

The rain is almost stopping.

Some pedestrians also put away their umbrellas.

"Haven't you noticed the old man's aura?"

"Drink, drink~"

The Pipa Ghost nodded.

There was a look of realization on his face.

Is that human dead?
So, that's why she never came back to look for it?
"actually-"

Xiao Xiao looked sideways at the monster beside him, "Pipa Ghost, you know about this, right?"

"I just don't want to admit it."

The Pipa Ghost stared blankly at his own reflection in the glass.

is it?

Maybe Lord Xiao Xiao is right.

It knows that the human being may be dead.

That human being will die soon.

That was a fact it realized the first time it saw the human.

However, it kept holding on to the human's words, stubbornly wanting the human to listen to its performance again.

Wanting that human to see its face again.

It has a new face.

This time, it will definitely scare that human.

结果
That human never appeared again.

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(End of this chapter)