"At first..."
The old woman had zeroed in on the key point.
"You believed him after that?!"
The old woman was incredulous.
"Why?"
She couldn't understand.
The old man wasn't stupid.
So how could he believe something so absurd?
Had the other person drugged him somehow?
Or...
Was this some new kind of scam?
"Did he ask you to do anything?"
The old woman immediately grew wary.
"Did you transfer money to him?"
"No, wait."
"You didn't have your phone."
The old woman suddenly felt that the old man forgetting his phone wasn't quite so irritating after all.
"No."
After a moment of stunned silence, the old man gave a helpless laugh.
"He wasn't a scammer."
The old man quickly understood what his wife was worried about.
After all, he'd had the same suspicion when he spoke with the other person earlier.
"He didn't ask me for money."
"Oh, okay."
The old woman nodded, still half-convinced.
"Good, as long as he didn't."
"But what exactly happened?"
The old woman was genuinely baffled.
"Don't rush."
The old man tried to reassure her.
"Let me tell you."
"Mm."
The old woman nodded.
"Go on."
"I won't interrupt."
The old man paused.
He gathered his thoughts.
"...Of course, at first I didn't believe a word he said."
"But what he said was so absurd that I actually wanted to see how he'd explain himself..."
"I asked him to call his friend over and perform right there."
"That way, a lot of what he'd said could be verified."
"For example, I couldn't see his friend."
"And yet, even though I couldn't see his friend, I could hear it play."
"I thought my request would stump him..."
"At the very least, he should have seemed a little troubled..."
"But