"Of course I asked."
Boss Bai shrugged helplessly. "But he told me to come ask you."
"He said that if you were willing to tell me, I'd know all the answers."
The old man paused, then smiled and shook his head. "As expected of you, Young Friend Xiao Xiao. No, Master Xiao."
"You really did think things through."
He had indeed hesitated over whether to tell his grandson the whole story.
Monsters.
The impossible had become reality.
But for people like them, who couldn't see monsters, knowing they existed wouldn't let them see them.
So wouldn't it be better not to know?
But then he thought of how he'd spent most of his life haunted by his older brother's dying words—
Though the two situations couldn't really be compared.
Perhaps his grandson would forget he'd even asked about it in a few days.
Still, the old man had decided to tell his grandson everything.
His grandson was the one who had brought Master Xiao here.
He thought his grandson deserved to know the truth.
"We talked about the jade sphere..."
"The jade sphere?"
Boss Bai was surprised.
He'd actually had a vague suspicion that this was what they'd discussed.
After all, the jade sphere was the only connection he could think of between his grandfather and Master Xiao.
But...
"What did you talk about regarding the jade sphere?"
"Hadn't I taken it downstairs earlier?"
If they'd talked about the jade sphere, why hadn't his grandfather come down to ask him for it?
"I was going to go get it..."
The old man reached out and touched the weeping crabapple, which was in full bloom.
It was the only weeping crabapple in the courtyard.
His wife had planted it while she was alive.
She'd always taken good care