As for what Nanny Gong fears most, it is precisely when Song Ci suddenly grows sentimental and melancholy. The old lady, day in and day out, greets everyone with a ready smile, yet once she is in private with no one around, she inevitably starts saying some inauspicious, gloomy things, lamenting the passing of spring and autumn.
Just like now.
Seeing her old habit acting up again, Nanny Gong's scalp tingled. She chided, "What sort of words are those? How could anyone ever forget you?"
Song Ci shook her head and said, "You don't understand; time is what most easily erases everything. Some people will, in the end, be washed away in the torrent of time. I have been thinking, since I have come to this world once, I ought to leave something behind here. Only something tangible will not be so easily forgotten by others."
