Chapter 5878: Little Flower
"...My old man fell..."
"And passed away."
The old woman smiled.
Her drooping eyes made it look as though she was about to cry.
"Isn't that a ridiculous way to die?"
"That old man..."
"Spent his whole life being so stubborn..."
"And in the end, because of such a..."
"Reason..."
"...he passed away."
"He was gone just like that."
A sigh escaped the old woman's voice. "He left me behind."
"Even though he'd said before..."
"That he would go after me."
"So I wouldn't be sad."
"He didn't want to see me crying and looking all ugly."
"And he didn't want me left alone in an empty house."
"Honestly."
The old woman pursed her lips, her eyes a little red.
"He was the one who went up to heaven all alone."
The old woman lowered her gaze.
"...Qian Qian comforted me a lot."
"Do you know?"
The old woman looked up and smiled.
Tiny tears glimmered at the corners of her eyes.
"I told her that my old man had passed away..."
Before telling her about it, the old woman had apologized to the red-eyed python.
Because of her old man's sudden death, she hadn't visited the red-eyed python for a long time.
Half a month?
A month?
The old woman couldn't remember.
She'd been in a daze.
Then she told her about her old man's passing.
She cried.
She'd thought she and her old man would have another ten or twenty years together, or even longer.
She never expected that tragedy would strike so suddenly.
"...Can you guess what Qian Qian did?"
The old woman's eyes shone as she looked at Xiao Xiao.
Xiao Xiao paused for a moment.
Then he smiled and shook his head. "I don't know."
"What did