"Ha~"
The Middle-aged Man suddenly chuckled.
Xiao Xiao gave him a questioning look.
"I was just thinking, thank goodness I changed my mind later and went back with you."
The Middle-aged Man explained his inexplicable laugh. "Otherwise, you would've wasted a lot of time for nothing."
"Yeah."
Xiao Xiao's eyes curved slightly. "Good thing you changed your mind, Uncle Chen."
"Besides, if I hadn't been in such a bad mood lately, I would've given up as soon as I couldn't feel anything, just like I normally would."
"But just now, the more I couldn't feel anything, the angrier I got. It felt like everything was against me."
"I was so frustrated I almost tore the seat cover apart."
The Middle-aged Man sounded rueful.
The coincidence inevitably gave him a somewhat uncanny feeling.
Xiao Xiao's lips curled up. "We were lucky."
Xiao Xiao was a little surprised when the car merged back into traffic. "Uncle Chen?"
"We found the little flower basket. Now we just need to take the Tomb Ghost home, right?"
The Middle-aged Man broke into a hearty smile.
"That's right."
Xiao Xiao looked at the monster holding the little flower basket. Its huge single eye had narrowed to a slit, and it was grinning foolishly. He couldn't help but laugh.
"Then I'll have to trouble you, Uncle Chen."
He had thought that since they'd found the little flower basket, he could take the Tomb Ghost home by himself.
But if Uncle Chen was willing to take the Tomb Ghost home, all the better.
"What trouble?"
The gloom had completely vanished from the Middle-aged Man's face.
Everything had been settled perfectly.
How could he not be happy?
"I was the one who caused all this in the first place."
"Student Xiao is the one who went to