First, she was able to use her demonic right eye to foresee the future;
Secondly, she has the ability to change the future. According to her, she was originally destined to become a charred corpse. But now, she's only injured her hand.
"I'm sorry... I caused you such a serious injury..." After giving him a simple bandage, Lan Xi turned her face away, lowered her head, and her medium-length hair fell down to cover her face.
Are you kidding me?
"You... I'm not in the mood for jokes." Lan Xi was a little angry. How could the other party still be in the mood for jokes when the danger hadn't passed, especially when he was joking about her serious apology!
"You're the one who saved me. Without you predicting and changing the future, I would have been roasted by the devil long ago."
For some reason, her anger vanished instantly, and she even joked with him. "We didn't get to roast a whole lamb, but that devil did manage to make a 'Bloody Salted Pig's Trotter'! He just committed suicide before he could enjoy it!"
"What 'groping hands'! You've gone too far! I'm not playing with you anymore! Bye-bye." With that, Lin Yue stood up to leave, but he couldn't stand steadily and collapsed back down.
Seeing this, Lan Xi stopped teasing him.
The two helped each other out and left this place, which had no intact corner.
According to the discussions among passersby, Lin Yue learned that the roads back to school were blocked, and the two of them would not be able to return for the time being unless they took a long detour.
"Let's go to my house first, it's not far from here." Lan Xi said it was alright, her house was in a large ancestral hall, several families lived together, and strangers often came and went from the ancestral hall.
But most of them are not bad people; otherwise, why would they come to worship? The family actually welcomes guests quite a bit, although Lanxi hasn't brought any classmates or friends over.
Lan Xi also said that her mother is specifically there to receive guests. She is absolutely not xenophobic, and she would never look at Lin Yue with prejudice like the middle-aged women in novels and anime.
Moreover, the people on this Sixth Street help each other, and everyone is happy to help with even the smallest things.
Lin Yue also wanted to take the opportunity to learn some things about Lan Xi.
With Lanxi's help, he checked the wound on his left hand again, rested for a while, and then prepared to set off. His dominant hand was injured, making things quite inconvenient, but thankfully he had a companion with him.
The ancestral hall is located on the corner of a street next door. An ancient plaque hangs on the gate, with the five characters "Hundred Families Ancestral Hall" written in clerical script.
The layout here is similar to a courtyard house in Beijing, but unlike that, the largest central hall is not used for living, but rather to house Buddhist statues for worship. The ancestral hall brings together families with rare surnames to live together, and the Lan family is one of them.
Lan Xi appeared at the entrance of the ancestral hall, arm in arm with Lin Yue. They happened to run into Lan Xi's mother, who was unaware that Lin Yue was injured and whose bandaged left hand was hidden by her sleeve.
"Daughter, did you bring your boyfriend home?" Lanxi's mother said in a thick rap accent, then noticed that both of them were covered in soot and looked like they had been smoked. She was about to explode in anger: "What did you take my daughter to do, you brat!"
When adults see their child (especially a daughter) coming home arm in arm with a strange man, they will inevitably imagine this story: This scoundrel took their child out to fight and brawl or even do other bad things, and ended up like this, so he is the culprit who corrupted their child!
Lan Xi said she would explain later, it wasn't what she thought! Then she led Lin Yue to a clean room.
As Lanxi's mother treated Lin Yue's injuries, she listened to her daughter's explanation. Her tense expression gradually relaxed, and she repeatedly said, "So that's how it is, so that's how it is."
Lin Yue no longer felt that the tweezers in Lan Xi's mother's hand, which she used to pick out the wound, were so murderous.
No, Lanxi suddenly felt that her mother was too calm. She truthfully recounted their previous experiences, including being attacked by flames, the appearance of a demon, the premonition of the future, and escaping death.
She even revealed the entire story of the Styx River Passage from earlier times, and Lanxi's mother treated it as if it were a normal accident, though of course she was also worried about her daughter.
"Mom, don't you find it strange? Demons and monsters and stuff?"
Lin Yue was speechless. It was the first time he had ever seen an ordinary person remain so calm after hearing about demons and monsters.
"..." Lanxi's mother suddenly stopped talking and focused on using tweezers to pick out the pieces of iron and glass that had gotten into Lin Yue's wound. She was so gentle and meticulous.
"Ashi, go and rest for a while. You can greet the guests for me later."
"Hmm..." Lan Xi left the bedroom, telling Lin Yue not to wander off and to at least get some rest today.
The bedroom was unusually quiet at this moment, except for the soft sound of tweezers picking up fragments and placing them on the iron plate.
Suddenly, Lanxi's mother stopped, while Lin Yue's hand still had some remaining shards of glass in the wound.
Then, she began to sob softly, her hands trembling. Knowing her hands were shaking, she had to stop. Lin Yue felt deeply guilty and lowered his head.
"If it weren't for you, Lanxi wouldn't be here anymore..."
"No, no, to be honest, I'm sorry. I dragged her down and put her in danger."
“You’re wrong…” Lanxi’s mother didn’t blame Lin Yue. “It’s fate. Some things can’t be avoided.”
These words probably implied that Lan Xi, Lan Xi's mother, and even the Lan family were not ordinary people.
"You're not an ordinary person either."
Lin Yue neither denied nor admitted it, but instead tried to ask in return, "Then who am I?"
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