Chapter 3883 A Story

"Why isn't he wearing shoes?"

The old man blurted out.

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"Yes."

Xiao Xiao smiled.

“Why doesn’t it wear shoes?”

"I do not know either."

"Maybe it likes to be barefoot."

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"Hey, why don't you know?"

The old man was puzzled.

"Aren't you friends?"

"Didn't you ask him?"

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Xiao Xiao shook his head slightly.

“It looks very comfortable.”

Then, it doesn’t matter if you don’t wear shoes.

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what……

The old man blinked as if he understood.

"……Oh."

"That's it..."

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"...it was wearing a white shirt..."

Xiao Xiao continued to describe to the old man.

"Blue jeans..."

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"…In its arms was a lute."

Xiao Xiao ended his description.

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lute?

Hearing the pipa again, the old man was slightly stunned.

He glanced at the young man opposite him.

The young man smiled at him.

But he did not smile at the young man.

The old man looked a little strange.

He looked at the sugar man that had already taken shape in his hand.

fell into silence.

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"Old man."

Xiao Xiao raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Any questions?"

Logically speaking, the candy man has been made, and the old man should give it to him.

At this moment, the old man seemed to have forgotten his existence and fell into his own world.

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The old man was startled.

There was a panic in his raised eyes.

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Xiao Xiao blinked.

He is...

"Feel sorry."

"Did I scare you?"

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"what……"

The old man responded somewhat panickedly.

After a few meaningless interjections, the old man managed to regain his composure.

"sorry."

"I……"

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"Don't worry."

Xiao Xiao smiled.

"Can you tell me what happened?"

"Is there something wrong with this sugar man?"

The old man's abnormality occurred after this sugar man was completed.

and so….
Xiao Xiao looked at the sugar man in the old man's hand.

The old man's craftsmanship is beyond doubt.

This candy man is very well made.

It really looks a bit like the Pipa Ghost.

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The Pipa ghost's nose was about to touch the sugar man made in his own image as he moved closer.

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A smile flashed across Xiao Xiao's eyes.

It seems that the Pipa Ghost likes it very much.

Then he was relieved.

It’s just the old man’s condition…

A trace of doubt arose in Xiao Xiao's heart.

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"that……"

The old man looked down at the sugar man in his hand.

The old man's hands were shaking a little.

The clenched fingers looked a little pale.

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"Are you okay?"

Xiao Xiao showed concern.

"How about you sit over there for a while?"

Xiao Xiao stepped forward.

He held the old man's arm.

I took the old man to the flower bed under a big tree and sat down next to it.

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The old man did not refuse.

He looked dazed.

When the feeling of reality came from below, the old man's wandering heart seemed to settle down a little.

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"Old man, drink some water."

Xiao Xiao handed the cup of water to the old man.

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The old man took it subconsciously.

I took a sip and found out…
"Hey……"

Isn't this his water cup?

… “I took it from your stall.”

The young man's words cleared up the old man's doubts.

Oh oh.

The old man nodded.

He said...

Why does this young man have a water cup exactly like his, filled with herbal tea?

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After taking a few sips of herbal tea, the old man's mood really calmed down a lot.

Realizing his previous behavior, the old man smiled embarrassedly at the young man.

"I'm sorry, young man."

"I lost my temper."

The old man smiled bitterly.

He really embarrassed himself in front of this kid.

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"No."

Xiao Xiao shook his head.

"Are you okay?"

Xiao Xiao looked at the old man's face.

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"fine."

The old man shook his head.

He looked at the sugar man in his hand with some emotion on his face.

"I am……"

"Give it to you."

The old man suddenly handed the candy man in his hand to the young man next to him.

"Luckily it wasn't damaged."

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Xiao Xiao took the sugar man from the old man.

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The Pipa Ghost sitting next to Xiao Xiao stretched his neck and looked eagerly at the sugar man in Lord Xiao Xiao's hand.

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"do you know?"

Seeing the young man take the candy man, the old man smiled.

"This sugar man brought back memories from long ago..."

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Ok?
Xiao Xiao raised his eyebrows slightly.

"You mean..."

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The old man looked at the candy man in the young man's hand.

His eyes became somewhat distant.

"I once saw someone who looked very similar to your friend..."

"A boy of fifteen or sixteen, thin, clean, pale... and not wearing shoes."

"correct."

The old man knocked his head, a look of annoyance on his face.

"I didn't even think of it when you said barefoot..."

It is such a distinct feature.

Perhaps another feature is more obvious...

"…He also held a pipa in his arms."

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"It's exactly like this sugar man..."

The old man opened his eyes wide in amazement.

"If it weren't impossible..."

It was several decades ago that he met that young man...

How could he be this young man's friend?
"I almost thought that the person I saw was your friend..."

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Xiao Xiao's eyebrows curved slightly.

"Is it such a coincidence?"

Is it really a coincidence?
Or...what the old man saw was...

Xiao Xiao prefers the latter.

After all, being barefoot and holding a pipa are two things... too iconic.

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"Yes."

The old man stroked the water cup in his hand, his voice slow and low.

"What a coincidence..."

"So many years have passed..."

"I have forgotten what happened back then..."

"But this sugar man looks too much like the boy in my memory..."

"So it still brought back memories I thought I had forgotten."

“Because they look so similar…”

The old man smiled sheepishly at the young man.

"I was a little scared."

He almost thought that the boy from that year appeared in front of him again.

But his temples were already gray.

And that boy...

He still looked like the boy he remembered.

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The old man took a sip of the herbal tea.

The refreshing tea made the old man squint his eyes slightly.

"Young man, do you have time to tell me a story?"

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"Have."

Xiao Xiao raised the corner of his mouth.

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The young man's straightforward answer brought a smile to the old man's face.

"It's rare that I remember..."

That deeply buried memory came to light again.

The yellowed background color regains its bright hue.

"Your friend looks so much like the boy I met that year..."

"This is fate, I guess."

The old man smiled.

"You are the best listener to that memory of mine."

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Xiao Xiao smiled.

“That’s my luck.”

If you buy a sugar man, you can also get an extra story.

It is also very likely a story related to the Pipa Ghost.

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The smile on the old man's face deepened.

Soon, as he continued to tell the story, the expression on the old man's face became gradually dazed.

(End of this chapter)