"Does it come every full moon?" I asked, after all, maybe the beast was just joking.

"Well, yes. On the day of the full moon, the performance of the red umbrella is the most beautiful, and the moonlight is a natural stage lamp for it. Xiao Qi said, "I asked it rhetorically, next time, will you come?" It smiled and didn't speak, and there were two dimples on its delicate face. ”

"Legend has it that the beast is a very intelligent youkai that people can easily fall in love with it. ”

"The legend is not false," Xiao Qi said with a smile, "The next morning I woke up and thought that the monster dancing the night before was just a dream I had drunk too much, but the memory was too clear, the shadow under the moon, the graceful dancing, the accordion-like red umbrella, the small tiger-eared girl." Yes, but one night, I loved it. ”

"The red umbrella that can accompany you is very important to the dancers, why is it in your hand?"

"Because I'm starting to doubt it too. Xiao Qi smiled unnaturally, "After seeing it dance for the first time, a whole month passed, a dull month, nothing got better, nothing got worse, a month later I still remember what it told me, so on the day of the full moon, I sat at the bottom of the stairs and waited for it with the idea of giving it a try." ”

"You don't have friends or anything?" As soon as the words came out, I realized that I was rude, after all, people who can sit in the moonlight and wait for youkai are nine times out of ten lonely people, "Sorry, I mean... You won't have any other activities in the evening, like parties or whatever?"

"It's okay, it's okay to say it, I really don't have any friends," Xiao Qi said, "I don't get along with people very well, I prefer to go home and do handicrafts by myself than to party with people, and it's a very fulfilling thing to watch ordinary pieces of leather turn into all kinds of things under my hands." Skin is talking, just like the youkai I can't see. ”

"Since you like leather making so much, why don't you consider making it your main business? I said.

"That's what the beast told me. Xiao Qi said, "I waited until late that night and it didn't appear, I thought it was really my drunken hallucination, just as I was leaving, the music started again, there was a breeze that night, the red umbrella swirled in the moonlight, the sound rubbed against my eardrums like golden velvet, it felt like it was music that evoked memories, the tiger-eared girl stretched out in the place where she danced last time, we didn't greet each other, I just watched it dance, and it went on for months." ”

"It's a love of dance, is it talking to music, just like when you were making skins?" I asked, "and it feels like you're all very attached to something." ”

"Coincidentally, it says the same thing. Xiao Qi smiled a little shyly, "Its dance has the power to calm me down, no matter how bad things I encounter at work, as long as I watch its dance, I can recover to the best state, and finally one day, it asked me after the dance, why did my hand hurt." ”

"Hurt?what's wrong?"

It seems to be very interested in my leather-making things, and asks me why I like to make my own leather, and I answer that it is because every time I touch the leather, it seems to be able to hear the heart of the leather, and then make the leather what it wants most, and it tells me that every time I dance, it is like talking to the moon, and the music of the red umbrella is the whisper of the moon, and it enjoys this dialogue because it is very free. ”

"What does dialogue have to do with freedom?"

"It told me that in order to let more people come to see its dance performances, he always said flattering words to others, thinking that this would make everyone have a better impression of it, but after a long time, everyone thought that the beast would only say nice things, and talk about evil and good, so they didn't like to deal with it, and thought it was a very insincere monster, so it was careful not to talk in everything it did, and only opened its heart when dancing in the moonlight. ”

“... I can't blame everyone for this, it's not an advantage to be too sleek. I said, "That's not just why the Legend of the Beast came about. ”

"Well, I asked it the same question, but it didn't answer me again, and continued to dance," Xiao Qi said, "Later, we talked about more and more topics, and I would sometimes complain to it about the unhappiness I encountered at work today, or the incompetence and cowardice I felt, but instead of disliking me, it kept encouraging me." ”

The encouragement of the beast...

It also told me not to be afraid of tasks that seem impossible to complete, to try, and to ask if you don't understand, so that you can improve, in addition, it also said that meaningless overtime will not be recognized, and that active communication to improve efficiency is a better way. ”

"Hey, is the beast familiar with the workplace? ”

"I didn't believe it at first, but once I tried to follow its method, I found that I really got good feedback, I took the initiative to ask Ying, and took a task that didn't seem easy, that time was simply anxious, almost overnight overtime, visiting customers again and again, constantly improving their own plans, taking the initiative to ask for suggestions and opinions from seniors in different departments, countless times I wanted to give up, but when I finally talked about this customer, I felt for the first time that I could do something. ”

"You are very sensitive, and you work hard, if you find the right way, you should not lose your direction. I said.

"Well, then the full moon day of each month became our appointment day, no matter how late and tired I would be on time, it listened to me, I watched it dance, it danced more and more beautifully day by day, and I also got the opportunity to get a promotion and a raise. ”

"What about leather goods, are you still making them?" I asked.

"I've been doing it, and I've been getting busier and busier since I got promoted, but I still find time to do something I like. Xiao Qi said, "It's a full moon night again, I sat at the entrance of the building and waited for the arrival of the beast, it was snowing that day, the weather was very cold, it still came as promised, the dance was wonderful, the red umbrella in the snow reflected its face, I will never forget that moment, but the dance that day did not complete the curtain call." ”

"What's wrong?"

"The snow was so slippery that it accidentally sprained its foot and was annoyed that it had wasted such a good moonshine at night. Xiao Qi said, "I noticed that its feet were red from freezing in the snow all the time, so I stepped forward and picked it up with my fingers and asked if it needed to rest at my house." ”

(End of chapter)