The "Tragedy" Caused by Two Peaches
But this was just too strange...
"...How could that be..."
Zhang Lei murmured under his breath.
How could there be someone only one person could see?
"I don't understand it either."
The uncle looked up at the sky.
His gaze seemed a little distant.
"To me, that old man felt very real."
"I really did see him."
"I talked to him quite a bit."
"And he talked to me a lot, too."
"How could he be..."
The uncle looked at Zhang Lei. "...just a hallucination of mine?"
"...A hallucination?"
Zhang Lei was stunned.
"Yeah."
The uncle smiled. "My parents told me..."
"I might have been worn down by all the bad luck, and become a little mentally fragile."
"To get away from that pain..."
"I imagined an old man like that."
"All my bad luck was because of him."
"Having somewhere to vent my emotions made me feel a little better."
The uncle gave a slight shrug. "To put it plainly, I had someone to blame for my bad luck..."
"So I didn't have to torment myself over it."
"It made me feel a lot more at ease."
Zhang Lei listened, completely dumbfounded.
His mouth hung slightly open.
So... that was it.
It actually sounded kind of reasonable?
"Right?"
The uncle grinned.
"I think what my parents said made a lot of sense, too."
"Especially since I never saw that old man again afterward..."
"You never saw that old man again?"
Zhang Lei asked without thinking.
"Mm."
The uncle nodded. "I searched all kinds of places."
"I thought that the next time I had bad luck, I'd be able to catch that old man..."
"But I didn't."
The uncle shook his head.
"I searched for a long