Chapter 5909: The Red Fruit
After the lesson she'd learned before...
One petal fell from the flower the red-eyed python had given the old woman.
The old woman was heartbroken.
Even though the young man had handed her the fallen petal afterward,
the flower the red-eyed python had given her was still...
Damaged.
Incomplete.
The old woman planned to go home and glue the fallen petal back on.
Not onto the flower itself,
but onto a board.
That way, she could at least piece together a complete flower.
Fortunately, this was the second flower the red-eyed python had given her.
If it had been the first...
The old woman would have been even more heartbroken.
Protecting this flower had almost become a reflex for the old woman.
The old woman's anxious, worried face lit up with a delighted smile when she noticed that the red-eyed python had finally looked her way.
The red-eyed python came over.
Just as it had countless times before, it gazed at the old woman through the window.
The old woman's eyes grew damp.
Even though she had just touched the red-eyed python's head and had even hugged it...
She had never dared imagine doing that before.
She didn't know why she was crying, either...
Wasn't everything fine now?
It seemed like everything had returned to normal.
The old woman...
was just a little shaken.
A little uncertain.
A little... afraid.
"Qian Qian..."
The old woman murmured, staring at the red-eyed python without blinking. "Are you..."
"Really all right now?"
Would something like what had just happened today...
happen again?
It wouldn't, would it?
Surely it wouldn't...
The old woman was very worried.
She had happened to be there this time.
What if she wasn't there next time?
If