In any case, after ruling out two wrong answers, it could be considered one step closer to the correct answer.
Xiao had just been passing by and saw the Traveler in 'peril' before coming to rescue; seeing it was fine, he also reminded her not to do such dangerous things next time before leaving.
Shenhe had come to accompany Cloud Retainer for the festival, but this morning Cloud Retainer had taken a boiler to Mt. Huaguang and still hadn't returned.
The relationship between Shenhe and Ganyu as sisters had become much more familiar; it was just that Ganyu wouldn't let Shenhe call her 'senior' or 'sister', because she would get shy.
A certain 'sweet girl' Faruzan had a face full of confusion: what's there to be shy about being called senior?
She couldn't ask Ganyu directly, because she hadn't gone to Lucian's house; she was rushing her 'paper'.
Jean was thinking: Diluc doesn't like me calling him senior; could it be because he's shy too?
Diluc, shy? These two words appeared in Jean's mind, and she started imagining.
By the way, Ganyu's temperament might follow her mother's—both the same level of airheaded.
Back then, her mother had even mistaken human clothes for food and eaten them.
At that time, humans were still wearing plant-woven clothes; Ganyu's dad had gone out gathering herbs and taken a bath along the way.
Just during that bath, the clothes were eaten by Ganyu's mother; lifting his eyes to look, a massive sheep was with head down eating his clothes.
Ganyu's father was dumbfounded; her mother was also dumbfounded.
She had been eating with head down, then looked up to see a stark naked man looking at her.
Her temperament similar to Ganyu's, she panicked badly; turning back to human form, she wanted to apologize properly, but in the end, well, Ganyu was born.
Could only say that if comparing good fortune, even Dvorak was a bit lacking.
Good thing the readers didn't know this story; otherwise, they'd envy until biting their teeth to pieces.
Back to the story, the Traveler asked Shenhe about the matter of music, however, Shenhe's understanding of music was somewhat 'deviated'; what she understood was the music of great nature.
Paimon continued explaining: music is the melody played by instruments, not referring to the sounds of great nature.
Shenhe was puzzled again about what melody was.
It was too troublesome to explain; in order to demonstrate to Shenhe what music was, the Traveler directly had Paimon sing a nursery rhyme.
Paimon was very dissatisfied with being treated like a little child and chose not to listen to the Traveler.
The Traveler then called on Ganyu to sing a folk song about picking Glaze Lilies.
[Ganyu exclaimed in surprise: 'Eh... Eh!?']
Have her sing in front of everyone? Real or fake? Just die of shame right there!
In the end, with no other choice, it was the Traveler who personally sang, humming a bit of the tune of 'God Looked Down in Vain'.
The standard, how to put it, was about on par with Lucian's; at least this time, no Deceitful Flowers were attracted.
Music can bring back memories; this short segment of melody hooked up Shenhe's memories from back then, warming her heart.
(Writing this segment a few days ago, I happened to hear an old song and recalled the times playing WoW before; it really can hook up memories.)
Compared to Shenhe, the 'melodies' that Ganyu could still recall were all sounds of 'life' closely related to Liyue.
The singing voices of dock laborers, the hawking calls of vendors at the doors of old shops, the plucking and singing of street folk artists... these were all the 'music' of life.
Before, these sounds had bound her, making her feel like a 'non-human thing' unable to integrate into them.
But now Ganyu had seen clearly: those bindings were all imposed by herself; she wasn't different from Liyue's people at all. Even if everyone's statuses differed, experiences differed, but they all experienced the bits and pieces of life the same.
The sunrises and moonsets they felt, the warmth and coldness of human sentiments, were all the same.
Readers sighed with emotion: Ganyu and Shenhe not only had their relationship improved, but even their 'hearts' had become more mature.
The Ganyu in reality had indeed already thought things through, so this time she had even chosen to take leave to come to Lucian's house for the gathering meal; seeing this segment, she couldn't help but nod in acknowledgment of her own words.
Seeing the later part where Shenhe said she was her friend made her even more moved: she had received recognition from her junior sister.
[Shenhe: "When spring warms and flowers bloom, Ganyu, please call on Keqing and come visit my home."]
["I've planted all sorts of flowers; there must be some you like."]
"Ah? Me?" Keqing had a face full of confusion: eat flowers? I?
Although, but, I wouldn't be full, right? Can I eat some meat?
The hand that had been showing off the meat bun paused; Keqing looked at Shenhe: could it be you master-sisters are all vegetarians?
[Paimon also sighed with emotion: "It's clearly a gathering of girls, yet they're making an appointment to eat flowers... should say it's worthy of being disciples raised by that immortal bird?"]
[Cloud Retainer: "Hmph! Who dares to be so bold as to not call this adeptus by her immortal name, but instead call this adeptus an immortal bird?"]
Cloud Retainer suddenly appeared, as if triggered by a 'keyword' and summoned out; looks like she couldn't pass the 'Turing test'—just a chicken (person) machine.
[Paimon unrepentant: "She appeared! It's this one, the great immortal bird descending from the heavens!"]
"Insolent! Which great bird!" This line wasn't said by Xianyun; it was said by Lucian.
"To actually say that about my master—Paimon, take this!" Lucian was simply purely wanting to steal the line and could also conveniently 'bully' Paimon for fun.
"You don't come over!" Paimon ran.
Xianyun was quite gratified: the disciple is truly sensible, even knows to defend the master; just doesn't know why, but always feels like a line is stuck in her mouth... so uncomfortable...
[Cloud Retainer: "Even daring to say 'this one' as 'this'! Ha, not seen for a stretch of days, and you've grown even more audacious in climbing onto the nose and face; this adeptus is too lazy to teach a lesson."]
The Cloud Retainer in the story also didn't bicker with Paimon, because she had more important things to say: about that fairy.
By rights, asking Cloud Retainer about this matter would be asking the wrong person.
Because Cloud Retainer was also a top-tier shut-in girl; don't be fooled by her talkativeness—she spent most of her time chatting with herself, with very little exchange with others.
If forced to say, in terms of exchange, she might not even have more than Ganyu.
But fortunately and coincidentally, this time they had really asked the right person; regarding that fairy, she really did know.
This wasn't just about to lead the Traveler to learn a bit about that fairy's story.
Under Cloud Retainer's lead, the group arrived at Guili Plains.
The several adepti in reality saw this and had already realized something; sure enough, Cloud Retainer opened her mouth and started chatting about the topic of Guizhong.
[Cloud Retainer: "Guizhong was the Dust God 'Hagentus'; her personality was lively, she loved inventing, and she was very fond of excitement."]
Several people in Lucian's home looked toward Guizhong; Guizhong also hadn't expected: there's even my part in this?
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Character Voice Lines · Keqing: About Shenhe and Ganyu's Gathering
"Didn't expect it was really just eating some flowers and grass... I wasn't full! So I took them out for another meal, haha."