"Xiaoyue, what do you mean by that?!" Before Grandpa Lin could speak, the silver-haired old lady sitting next to him frowned slightly and couldn't help but say, "When you came last time, we answered all the questions you asked without reservation!"
The old lady looked somewhat displeased, but still mindful of her status, she spoke to Hu Yue very politely: "We know that asking for your help in this kind of thing is sometimes just a desperate measure."
If you really can't find a way, that's alright. Our family has been through this before; we can always find another way!
"Grandma Gu, are you truly telling the whole truth?!" Hu Yue looked up at the old lady, her voice not loud, but her tone imposing: "If you really are telling the whole truth, then why would someone from the Lin family have been subjected to a love spell so many years ago?!"
Hu Yue had been reflecting on everything that had happened since she came to the Lin family.
Actually, everyone else's reactions were fairly normal. The only one who seemed out of place was this kind-looking old lady who always had a smile on her face.
During her last visit, she had asked if any member of the Lin family had ever been to Sawadika or had any dealings with the countries to the south. The old lady's response was immediate and decisive – no.
As if influenced by the old lady's attitude, the Lin family members also became very secretive about the issue, either avoiding it or claiming complete ignorance.
Originally, she hadn't thought that much about it, but looking back now, perhaps the crux of the problem lies with this old lady.
"What? What love spell?!" Before the old lady could reply, her eldest son couldn't help but frown and say, "What is all this nonsense?! I disagreed from the beginning when I said I wanted to ask you to come and solve the problem!"
"What special incident investigation team? I think it's just feudalistic nonsense!"
Lin Guanguo, the eldest son of the Lin family, is currently a professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, and can be considered an academic giant! He was already resistant to these things outside the scope of science, and now that Hu Yue was talking about them in such a mysterious way, he became even more impatient and stood up to leave.
However, before he could even stand up, he was shocked by what the little girl next to Hu Yue said, and his face turned pale.
"The extinction of your lineage is just the beginning. Next, calamities will befall you, the surviving descendants of the Lin family. Do you find it even harder to believe me now?!"
It's okay. Anyway, all sorts of unbelievable accidents have probably already happened around you. We can just keep waiting and see if what I'm saying is true!
But don't blame me for not warning you, once the first domino falls, it's not going to stop the rest!
Song Mengmeng gently tossed an apple from her hand, then caught it steadily and placed it lightly on the coffee table in front of her. As if to confirm the truth of her words, the once crisp and juicy apple, right before everyone's eyes, visibly turned yellow, then gray, and finally shriveled and rotted into a puddle of soft, mushy pulp…
“Someone in your family is in debt. So many years have passed, and the principal and interest must be repaid eventually!” Song Mengmeng raised her eyes and glanced at the gray-haired old lady at the head of the table. She smiled slightly, her words carrying a hidden meaning.
The old woman's face instantly turned extremely pale, and she trembled so much she almost couldn't sit up. It took her a long time to catch her breath, and her gaze slowly swept over her children and grandchildren sitting in front of her, finally settling on Hu Yue at the other end of the sofa: "She...is what she said true?!"
"Hmm." Hu Yue nodded. Now that things had come to this point, there was no need to continue hiding it. "We went to Sawadika Country to find out that the curse planted on your Lin family was not something someone was doing now to seek revenge or targeting, but was planted by your Lin family members themselves a long time ago."
"How is this possible?!" Upon hearing Hu Yue's words, Hu Yueyang, the youngest daughter of the Lin family, couldn't help but exclaim in a low voice, "This is too absurd! What normal person would be crazy enough to cast a curse on themselves?!"
“What’s impossible? For example, lovers who are in love will make vows of eternal love and devotion!” Song Mengmeng was not surprised at all by the Lin family’s shocked attitude. She smiled and pointed to the family photo hanging on the wall: “For example, they would say things like ‘forever together, with children and grandchildren, and a happy and fulfilling life!’”
If one breaks the oath, it's not impossible to suffer the consequences of that oath!
For example, wishing someone to be childless and have no descendants, or to die a horrible death!
"How can you talk like that?!" As soon as Song Mengmeng said this, Gong Mei, the eldest sister-in-law sitting next to Hu Yueyang, couldn't help but frown and look at Song Mengmeng with some disapproval.
While what she said was indeed true—when two people are in love, it's not unusual for them to say anything to express their feelings—it just felt so awkward coming from her mouth…
"Really, is it really that serious?!" The old lady's mind was already a complete mess. She covered her face with her hand, and after a long while, she slowly looked up at Hu Yue. Her eyes were filled with a desperate longing, like a drowning person seeing a piece of driftwood. It was chilling to look at.
"It might be much more serious than you think." Instead of comforting the old lady, Hu Yue decided to tell the truth: "So, to avoid things getting worse, please consider the bigger picture. If you know anything, please don't hide it anymore!"
"When the old man was young, he was stationed in Yunnan Province. I don't really know much about what happened back then! I only heard a little about it from my mother-in-law after I married into the family!"
It is said that when the old man was in Yunnan Province, he had a sweetheart.
Later, something happened that led to the old man returning to Beijing to recuperate from his injuries, and the matter in Yunnan Province was never heard from again.
When the old man woke up, my mother-in-law asked him about it, but perhaps because of his injury, he had completely forgotten everything from the past!
The mother-in-law had also arranged for someone to inquire about the girl's situation in Yunnan Province, but no matter how they investigated, the final result was that no such person could be found.
Later, fearing the matter would escalate, my mother-in-law and the others stopped asking questions and let things take their course. I met my father-in-law through an introduction while he was recovering from his injuries.
As for this matter, my mother-in-law only told me about it after I got married! Because I didn't know much about it myself, I didn't say much when you asked me about it." The old lady was silent for a while before she spoke softly, recounting this old story.
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