After the song ended, the beautiful and melodious music seemed to be flowing slowly in the air.
There are shallow ripples spreading.
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 shining deep in the old man's cloudy eyes.
"Thank you."
The old man smiled and narrowed his eyes, "It's really a nice performance."
"Even I, an old woman, was fascinated by it."
"I will show off to the old man when the time comes."
"Who told him to leave so early?"
"He deserves to miss today's performance."
The old man stood up slowly with a cane and said, "Old lady, I must have taken up a lot of your time."
Suddenly thinking of something, the old man's face froze, and then he showed an embarrassed wry smile, "I'm so sorry, I forgot to go out for a walk, and I didn't bring any money with me."
"Just now I was so shameless that I asked you to play a complete song for the old lady."
The old man had never taken advantage of anyone in his life. Unexpectedly, when he was about to come to the end of his life, he listened to "Bawang Song" once.
This is really...
It made her dumbfounded.
...
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 reward from the other party.
Seeing the actions of the young man in front of him, the old man was stunned and asked, "Don't you want money?"
"How is this possible?"
Pipa Ghost got up and planned to leave.
Its performance is over.
"Hey, wait."
The old man called to the young man urgently.
Seeing the young man turn 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 and the old lady go home and get the money?"
"The old woman's home is not far from here."
Pipa Ghost shook his head.
A human being caught sight of out of the corner of his eye made his eyes light up.
The next person to play (scare) is him.
It took steps towards the man.
"Hey~"
The old man called again.
I walked a few steps quickly with a cane.
"You kid, why did you leave so quickly?"
Seeing the eagerness on Pipa Ghost's face, the old man breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Forget it, I won't waste your time."
She groped around on her body and said, "After listening to such a beautiful performance, the old lady can't be silent at all."
She paused and took out a piece of white jade from her pocket.
This jade...
She took the jade in her hand and rubbed it, then handed it to the young man in front of her.
"This piece of jade is for you."
"It's not some precious jade."
"It's been a long time since I've had it."
"I hope you don't dislike it."
As he said this, the old man hesitated a bit in extending 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 with such a heavenly performance.
"Why don't you take the jade first? If you don't like it, ask the old lady to exchange it for something else next time."
"You can also change money."
"The old lady will come here again."
"If the old lady is gone-"
The old man said with a normal expression that he was about to die, "You can exchange it with my son."
"I will tell him in advance."
...
"Drink~"
Pipa Ghost saw the persistence 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 spotted was about to leave its sight.
"Go ahead."
The old man retracted his hand and stood there with his crutches.
Smile lovingly.
The boy gave it one, no, two very good gifts.
The touching pipa music, and... the grimaces that made her laugh.
She was very happy to meet this young man.
She was also very happy that this young man chose her as his audience.
Looking at the young man's leaving figure, she smiled, turned around and walked in the other direction.
It's been a while since I've been out.
It's time for her to go back.
...
"Do you still keep that jade pendant?"
Xiao Xiao looked at the figure of Pipa Ghost in the glass and asked.
Pipa Ghost's face looked a little confused.
He subconsciously reached out and groped around on his body.
Then, it actually took out a white jade pendant from its pants pocket.
It was raised to Xiao Xiao's eyes, with a somewhat delighted smile on his face.
...
Xiao Xiao glanced at the jade pendant and raised the corners of his mouth slightly, "This is a gift from someone."
"You have to put it away."
"Drink~"
Pipa Ghost nodded.
After looking through it for a while, he put the jade pendant into his trouser pocket.
Eyes sparkling.
There is a sense of joy in discovering something good by accident.
...
Xiao Xiao glanced at Pipa Ghost, with a half-smile on his face, "Hey, Pipa Ghost."
"How do I remember-"
"Did you say 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 before.
Pipa Ghost's confession made Xiao Xiao helplessly smile.
It seems that this is a monster that doesn't remember much.
...
Pipa Ghost didn't notice the change in Xiao Xiao's expression.
It pursed its lips, and after a moment of confusion, it remembered.
Why would it forget about humans who can see it?
...
The old man clearly said she would come back.
It stayed in that place for a long time, but never saw the old man again.
Now it seems that it can still recall its grievances and unhappiness at that time.
Apparently the other party forgot about it.
Then it shouldn't remember her either.
Originally, it really thought that it had completely forgotten that memory, that old man.
Unexpectedly, the little human girl's behavior this time made him suddenly think about it.
Probably because the contrast between the two humans, one crying and the other laughing, was too sharp, it suddenly reminded it of that memory that it had almost forgotten.
...
"It's not that the old man broke his trust with you, it's just that she couldn't come even if she wanted to."
Xiao Xiao looked outside at the sky where there was faint light.
The rain has almost stopped.
Some pedestrians also put away their umbrellas.
"Didn't you already notice the twilight energy in that old man?"
"Drink~"
Pipa Ghost nodded.
There was a bit of surprise on his face.
Is that human...dead?
That's why she never came looking for it again?
...
"actually-"
Xiao Xiao looked sideways at the monster beside him, "Pipa ghost, you know that, right?"
"I just don't want to admit it."
Pipa Ghost stared at himself reflected in the glass.
Yeah?
Maybe Lord Xiao Xiao is right.
It knows that the human being may be dead.
That human being has a short life.
That was a fact that it knew the first time it saw that human being.
However, it clung to the human's words and stubbornly wanted the human to listen to its performance again.
I want that human to see its grimace again.
It has a new face.
This time, it will definitely scare the human being.