School was about to start, and in order to save time, Zhou Nan bought plane tickets to Haicheng for Lin Dan and Yu Yeying. After getting off the plane, he found Yu Yeying's home in the old city based on her description. Fortunately, the Yu family did not move away. Unfortunately, Yu Yeying's parents had divorced long ago. Yu's father left the house to Yu's mother and left the house himself. The two of them soon started a new family.
Now, Yu's mother, her current husband, and Yu's father who had hurried over, were staying in the bedroom to discuss how to place their daughter. Lin Dan and Zhou Nan were waiting outside with Yu Yeying. Sitting opposite them were a sixteen-year-old girl and a two-year-old boy. The girl was Yu's mother's stepdaughter, and the boy was her mother's child with her current husband.
The girl kept glancing at Yu Yeying and Lin Dan with a look of contempt. When she looked at Zhou Nan, her eyes lit up slightly and she looked a little surprised. The little boy snuggled up to her, holding a small pistol in his hand, sometimes pointing it at Lin Dan and sometimes at Yu Yeying, looking very naughty.
Lin Dan looked at the ceiling expressionlessly, Yu Yeying lowered her head and said nothing, and Zhou Nan drank tea from time to time to hide his embarrassment. This house is very old, and even with the door locked, the sound insulation is still very poor. Anyone with a little keen hearing can hear what the three adults said inside.
Yu's mother's husband asked Yu's father to take Yu Yeying away, saying that there was no room for her at home. Yu's father was very angry and said that he had bought the house and his daughter had more right to keep it than anyone else. Yu's husband sarcastically said, "You care so much about your daughter, why don't you take her home to raise her? She eloped at such a young age. She has no self-respect. What if she leads my daughter astray?"
Yu's father was stuck for a moment and explained that he had just bought a house and had to repay the mortgage, which was very stressful. In addition, his newlywed wife was pregnant, so he asked his father-in-law and mother-in-law to come over to take care of his wife. The 30-square-meter house was already crowded enough for four adults, and in a few months they were going to add a baby, so it would be too crowded.
The two of them refused to give in and started arguing. Yu's mother just cried without saying a word.
The quarrel inside became louder and louder, and naturally the people outside heard it. Yu's stepdaughter sneered, "I heard that you eloped with your online friend when you were thirteen? You are so brave!"
Yu Yeying lowered her head and did not defend herself.
The girl looked at Lin Dan and said, "You have been living with her all these years? You two are minors, where did you get the money? Are you a prostitute? Tsk tsk tsk, she must make a lot of money with this look. I dare not live with you. I don't know if I will be infected with a disease by you one day!"
Yu Yeying, who had been quiet since she entered the room, suddenly looked at her and asked, "Who are you talking about as a prostitute?"
"I said you are a prostitute, what's wrong with that? You look like a fairy, and you have no father or mother. If you weren't a prostitute, you would have starved to death long ago, right?" the girl retorted.
Yu Yeying suddenly pounced over, pressed her down on the sofa, pinched her neck hard, and said harshly: "You can scold me, but you can't scold Lin Dan! Lin Dan is clean and honest, a hundred times better than you!" For the past two months, she followed Lin Dan up the mountain to refine Gu every day, and was nourished by all kinds of medicinal soups. Although she still looked very thin, she had grown a lot of tendon muscles and was very ruthless when pinching people.
The girl rolled her eyes because of the pinch she made, and the little boy started crying. Zhou Nan was frightened by Yu Yeying's sudden madness, and hurried over to pull the two apart. The three adults in the room then came out to check the situation.
Seeing the pinch marks on his daughter's neck, Yu's husband completely exploded and said that Yu Yeying was mentally ill and wanted to send her to a mental hospital.
Seeing the madness in his daughter's eyes, Yu's father also became timid. Thinking of his newly married wife who was pregnant, he didn't even dare to take her back to raise her. "How about I take Ye Ying to the hospital first?" He asked hesitantly.
"No need to look, Ye Ying, let's go." Lin Dan, who had not spoken a word, stood up slowly. It's obvious that a mental hospital is not a good place. If Yu Yeying was really sent there, her life would be over.
Yu Yeying immediately ran to Lin Dan and held her hand tightly. The two of them walked straight out the door. Yu's mother did not stop them, but just covered her face and cried. Yu's father chased them out, stuffed two thousand yuan into Yu Yeying's pocket, and muttered about his own difficulties.
Yu Yeying handed two thousand yuan to Lin Dan and nodded very calmly: "I understand, I won't make things difficult for you, goodbye." Two thousand yuan bought off the family relationship. Today she finally saw how cold-hearted people's hearts could be. If she had known this would happen, she should have died in the cellar.
The three of them left the old neighborhood without looking back. Yu Yeying explained to Lin Dan as she walked. It turned out that she went out for a trip with her best friend. Her friend said she was going to meet an online friend and left her in a scenic spot. Then she was captured by Shi Gui. She never thought that she could come back alive, and naturally she didn't expect that her best friend would confuse right and wrong, saying that she was playing alone in the scenic area, but it was Yu Yeying who ran away with her online friend.
The two were best friends and had a very good relationship. They even used the same QQ. When the police were investigating, they saw the messages on QQ and found the netizen who had colluded with the best friend to investigate the situation. They learned that Yu Yeying had left alone and there were no more clues since then, so they gave up the search. Yu's father and mother went from being worried at first to being angry. They hated their daughter for not living up to her expectations and their partners for not educating their daughter well. They quarreled every day and eventually got divorced.
This incident caused a big stir back then, and all the residents in the community knew about it, so naturally they had a very bad impression of Ye Ying. When they saw her come back, few people were happy for her, but many were sarcastic and mocking. The three of them left with their spines stabbed in the back. The feeling was really hard to describe.
Zhou Nan glanced at Lin Dan and admired her foresight. If the fact that Yu Yeying was imprisoned by a serial killer for three years were to be exposed, it would be hard to tell how these people would find out about her past. People all have a curiosity mentality. The more sensational something is, the more they like to talk about it. The feelings of the parties involved are completely out of their consideration.
It is not an exaggeration to say that words can melt gold and can also kill people.
Out of sympathy, Zhou Nan took the two to another community and said, "This is the house left by my grandmother. Not long after she bought it, she married my grandfather and later moved in with my grandfather and never came back. It's a bit old, but at least it's a place to shelter from the wind and rain. You guys should make do with it for now."
The house was indeed as Zhou Nan had said, very old, but it was fully furnished and could be lived in after a little cleaning.
Lin Dan thanked her sincerely. Yu Yeying didn't say a word, but just picked up the rag and started working.
Zhou Nan added, "Now that you have a place to live, you should also think about your future. Lin Dan, you may refine Gu, but you have to integrate into society. Yu Yeying, you are still young, you need to study more so that you can find a job to support yourself. How about I help you get two more student registrations and send you to school?"
"Reading?" Lin Dan looked over with a frown.
Zhou Nan nodded: "That's right, you have to study. You are helpless now. If you go to school, you can at least apply for poverty scholarships to improve your life. You are also a member of the Xuanmen. Once you enter the world, you must remember the Xuanmen precepts. You must not use Xuan arts to harm people's lives, and you must not disrupt the secular order. Once you break the precepts, the Xuanmen arbitrator will come to deal with you, so you must be careful. Yu Yeying, you are still a minor, and your parents have the obligation to raise you. I will contact a lawyer for you later and ask him to help you fight for child support."
Haicheng is Zhou Nan's territory, and he is a member of the Xuanmen, so he naturally has a way to accommodate the two girls.
Lin Dan thought of the original owner's mother's last words and nodded, "Okay, I'll go to school and take the college entrance exam."
Yu Yeying didn't want to pay attention to Zhou Nan at first, but when she saw Lin Dan agreed, she reluctantly said, "I'm going to study too."
The original owner loved reading, and even after she dropped out of school, she would often read books. Lin Dan, who had obtained all her memories, naturally would not find it difficult to go to school. She thought for a moment and then said, "I have already graduated from the third year of junior high school, so I can start from the first year of high school."
"I'm also in the first year of high school." Yu Yeying immediately agreed. She was captured by Shi Gui when she was only in the first grade of junior high school, but she would never be separated from Lin Dan. She would study in the same grade as Lin Dan.
Zhou Nan thought about Yu Yeying's resistance to outsiders approaching her, so he agreed to her request and nodded, "Okay, I'll help you find a school, and I'll pick you up when school starts in a few days. Here's 5,000 yuan, take it first."
Lin Dan didn't bother to be polite with him, took the money and said, "I'll pay you back later."
"You should practice witchcraft well. When you become a witch doctor in the future, you will naturally find ways to make money." Zhou Nan symbolically comforted him, but he never expected that Lin Dan had already been promoted to a great witch doctor.
There were still three days before school started. Lin Dan spent one day cleaning her new home and another day getting familiar with the surrounding environment. On the last day, she went to the largest garbage dump in Haicheng and caught many poisonous insects. What Yu Yeying said was indeed correct. The poisonous insects in the city were countless times more powerful than those in the forest. They grew up eating chemical raw materials and were extremely poisonous, and they had also undergone varying degrees of mutation.
Lin Dan only refined it a little bit and obtained a deep purple rove beetle and a colorful poisonous moth. She ate one of them and put the other one into a small porcelain bottle to make the Gu King. The strange man also followed her to Haicheng. When she was refining the Gu, he would suddenly appear and watch with interest.
The next day, Zhou Nan took Lin Dan and Yu Yeying to Haicheng No. 1 Middle School as promised. Seeing Zhou Nan entering the first grade classroom, a little girl sitting in the corner was very surprised and raised her hand and called out, "Senior Zhou, aren't you a sophomore?"
"I failed a grade." Zhou Nan touched his nose, looking a little ashamed, and his eyes occasionally glanced at a boy sitting in the corner. The boy was wearing all branded clothes and was very tall. He was sleeping on the desk. A group of teenagers sat around him, chattering, and they all seemed to know each other and were very familiar with each other.
Zhou Nan turned sideways, pointed to the two empty seats in the last row and said, "You can sit here." Lin Dan was a low-key person, and Yu Yeying was afraid of contact with strangers, so it was appropriate for them to sit in the corner against the wall.
As his tall figure moved away, Lin Dan's face was revealed. The originally bustling classroom suddenly became very quiet, with bursts of gasps coming one after another.
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