Monster Tea Party

Chapter 5294: The Tragedy Caused by Two Peaches

But this is too strange...

"……How can it be……"

Zhang Lei murmured in a low voice.

How can there be only one person who can see it?
……

“I don’t understand it either.”

The uncle looked up at the sky.

His eyes were a little dazed.

“To me, that old grandfather is very real.”

"I did see him."

"I talked to him a lot."

“He also talked to me a lot.”

"How could it be..."

The uncle looked at Zhang Lei, "...an illusion of mine?"

……

“…Hallucination?”

Zhang Lei was stunned.

……

"Yes."

The uncle smiled and said, "My parents told me..."

"I may have been exhausted and mentally fragile by the series of bad luck."

"In order to transfer this pain..."

“I just came up with this old grandfather.”

"All my bad luck is because of this old man."

"It makes me feel better when I have an outlet for my emotions."

The uncle shrugged his shoulders slightly. "To put it bluntly, there is someone who took the blame for my misfortune..."

"I don't have to waste my energy anymore."

“I’ll feel much more relaxed,”

……

Zhang Lei was stunned after hearing this.

His mouth was slightly open.

H-I see…

Doesn’t it sound like it makes some sense?
……

"right?"

The master grinned.

"I also think what mom and dad said makes sense."

"Especially since I never found that old man again..."

……

"Didn't you find the old man?"

Zhang Lei asked subconsciously.

……

"Ah."

The uncle nodded, "I looked in many places."

"I thought that next time I'm unlucky, I'll be able to catch the old man..."

"but no."

The uncle shook his head.

"I have been looking for a long time and waiting for many days..."

but…..
"The old man never showed up again."

"I also……"

The uncle spread his hands, "No more bad luck."

"I mean the frequent and inexplicable bad luck like the one I had a while ago..."

……

Zhang Lei opened his mouth without saying a word.

The amount of information Zhang Chen gave him was quite large.

He shook his head.

Ah.

Why did he feel like he was listening to a story from One Thousand and One Nights...

……

"The peaches I prepared for Grandpa are rotten..."

The uncle didn’t know how to react, so he just smiled.

……

"peach?"

Zhang Lei immediately asked, "What peach?"

Why are we talking about peaches?
Did he miss something?
……

The uncle showed his white teeth.

"You didn't miss it."

"I didn't say that."

……

Oh ~
He just said.

Zhang Lei felt relieved.

It wasn't that he was distracted and didn't hear it.

……

"…Grandpa said that all the bad luck I had during that time was caused by him…"

Every time the uncle said this, all kinds of emotions still arose in his heart involuntarily.

For example, absurd, shocking, unbelievable...

“I asked him why?”

"Why do you do this to me?"

……

Yes.

A look of realization appeared on Zhang Lei's face.

Why?

"Why would he do this to you?"

Zhang Lei asked following Zhang Chen's words.

It can't be for no reason, right?

Similar to the antisocial personality in the news reports?

……

The uncle smiled.

He did find that reason somewhat funny.

“…I said I ate his peach.”

"two."

The uncle emphasized the number of peaches.

……

Zhang Lei opened his mouth wide. His face was filled with shock. "It's because you ate his two peaches..."

Zhang Lei took a deep breath.

"He's been letting you down for that long?!"

He is Zhang Chen's classmate.

After such a long time, he can still remember this incident and tell it to his niece...

It can be seen that Zhang Chen was really unlucky back then.

So it left a deep impression on him.

As a result, Zhang Chen told him today...

The reason why Zhang Chen was so unlucky back then...

Just because of two peaches?

……

Isn’t this a bit... an overreaction?

Just two peaches...

How much does it cost?

Could it be that those two peaches are the legendary immortal peaches that can prolong life - the Pan Tao?
……

"...You stole two peaches from Grandpa?"

Zhang Lei suddenly thought of it.

……

"No."

The uncle shook his head.

"The two peaches are placed outdoors."

"By the river in the woods."

"I saw it and thought it was a peach that someone had forgotten to drop."

“The peaches look delicious.”

"I think it's a shame to let them go bad."

“I just picked it up and ate it.”

"I didn't know the owner of the two peaches hadn't forgotten them."

"In that regard, I'm sorry for taking the peach without your permission."

"But he could have told me that I could give him two peaches or more as compensation."

instead of...

……

"correct."

Zhang Lei nodded.

"You ate his peaches. Just compensate him with a few peaches according to how many you ate."

"Wouldn't he have nothing to lose in this case?"

"Besides, you didn't mean it."

"Is it really necessary to go so far?"

Zhang Chen was extremely unlucky during that period.

Especially for a child, it was a lot of suffering.

……

"correct."

The uncle nodded, "I think so too."

"I was wrong to eat his peach."

"But I really didn't mean it."

"As long as he comes to me and tells me, I will definitely be willing to compensate him with peaches."

"I can pay as many as you want."

……

"Yes."

Zhang Lei nodded.

What a simple thing...

How did it turn out like that?

"That old man..."

“That’s too stingy.”

Zhang Lei put it very bluntly.

"What's your name?"

"A tragedy caused by two peaches?"

"Although you were pretty unlucky back then."

“But this reason is really…”

“It’s a bit funny.”

……

"Yes."

The uncle smiled and said, "I find it a little funny too."

Just thinking about how much I had to suffer because of those two peaches...

He felt like he still couldn't laugh.

……

Zhang Lei keenly noticed the subtle changes in Zhang Chen's mood.

He soon figured out the reason.

He immediately spoke up, "But that's not necessarily true, is it?"

"Didn't you say that your mother and an old lady didn't see the old man?"

……

"Yes."

The uncle nodded.

“That’s not necessarily true.”

But this only made him feel worse.

Every time he wanted to complain about the old man, another voice would ring in his heart...

The old man is fake.

It's his fantasy.

……

He will feel like there is something stuck in his throat.

The mood is neither up nor down.

Instead, I felt even more unhappy.

……

This actually proves that mom and dad are probably right.

He really wanted to find an outlet to vent his emotions, a "scapegoat", and blame all his misfortunes on that "scapegoat".

So that you can feel good.

……

“…but I did eat the peach…”

The uncle murmured.

……

"what?"

Zhang Lei didn't hear Zhang Chen's words clearly.