43. Night 43: Cub
He led Lu Xi forward, and a voice reached Lu Xi's ears from the front, "What do you want to play, Miss Lu Xi?"
"I came here with you today, so I should be asking you."
The merman stopped at the fork in the road. After a long while, there was no movement. Lu Xi looked at him in confusion, "What's wrong?"
"Ms. Lu Xi, please decide. I can't see."
Lu Xi realized her negligence, because his daily life was not affected and she often forgot that he was blind.
Lu Xi thought about it and took him to the carousel. They both got on the carousel, Lu Xi sat in the front and he sat in the back. As soon as he sat on, he heard a "click" sound.
"Ms. Lu Xi is taking pictures?"
Lu Xi forgot to mute her phone, and he accidentally heard her. But since she was discovered, she admitted it generously, "Well, I'll show it to you when your eyes are healed."
She remembered that the previous information said that he didn't like having his photo taken, but now his expression didn't seem to mind.
Hearing Lu Xi talking about his eyes, he was stunned for a moment, then the corners of his mouth curled up slightly, "Okay."
When Lu Xi and Yuan Sen left the amusement park, it was already dusk, and the setting sun dyed the sky blood red.
"Lu Xi."
As they walked out of the amusement park gate, they were stopped by someone coming towards them. Seeing that face, Lu Xi was stunned.
Forty years later, Lu Man's appearance has not changed much from that year. As a descendant of the Lu family with spiritual power, she ages slowly, but she looks more mature than before.
Lu Man looked at the girl in front of him with a complicated expression. He didn't expect that she was still alive. Although he knew that she was not really resurrected, it was still very surprising.
"Lu Man?" Lu Xi looked at her.
Lu Man's eyes were filled with complex emotions. She looked at the mermaid beside the girl. She had brought him to the hospital that year, but it was a pity that he didn't have time to see her for the last time.
Later, the mermaid was taken away by Yuanshi.
Compared to the cub he was back then, he has grown much taller now and no longer needs a wheelchair to get around. The little mermaid who is always crying is staring at her with dangerous eyes.
"Miss Lu...Man..." A small hand pulled Lu Man's sleeve, and the small body sitting in the wheelchair was trembling.
Only then did Lu Xi see her pushing a cub.
The cub looked very timid and cute. He sat in a wheelchair with a terrified look on his face, and his lower body was wrapped in a blanket. Seeing such a cub, Lu Xi thought of the little mermaid from that year.
Lu Xi was stunned, "This cub..."
"Lu Xi, are you doing well now?"
Lu Man looked at Lu Xi's young face and didn't expect to see her again after so many years. In fact, she was sad for a long time in the hospital that year and blamed herself for not going earlier.
Lu Xi also looked at Lu Man, "I'm fine."
"Actually, on the day you died, I took that mermaid to the hospital, but it was too late..." Lu Man said with a wry smile.
Lu Xi turned her head to look at the mermaid beside her. He seemed to feel her gaze and turned his head away slightly.
It turns out that this happened back then.
"I know you're coming to the amusement park today, so I came here specially to see you, Lu Xi, do you... want to go see your mother?"
It seemed like every person from the Lu family asked her if she wanted to go see her mother. However, Lu Man's appearance inevitably made her suspicious. If the Lu family wanted to threaten her with this...
"I can take you there if you want."
"Let's go." said the mermaid.
Lu Xi looked up at the mermaid who interrupted her. Her lips parted slightly, but before she could say anything, she felt a hand holding hers. The warm and cool touch gave her a reliable comfort.
"I will protect Miss Lu Xi." He said in her ear. The cub from that year has grown into a reliable adult.
Lu Xi felt a strange feeling in her heart. It would be a lie to say that she didn't want to go. The reason why she agreed to bring the mermaid to Ancheng was actually because she wanted to visit the city where her mother died.
No matter what, she is the mother of this body. Every time someone mentions her mother, she feels complicated. It is probably the remaining feelings from the original body. Since she inherited this body, she should go there no matter what.
"I don't need protection." Lu Xi sighed. She was just worried that her own affairs would affect him. She cared more about the living than the dead. Lu Xi clenched his cold hand.
They got on a crowded bus and after driving for a while, they finally arrived at the entrance of the Lu Family Cemetery.
This place is very close to the Lu family's main home.
Lu Man carried the cub out of the car. Looking at this scene, Lu Xi thought of herself back then. She had taken the little merman out just like that. Why couldn't this cub leave? Could he be a merman too? But hadn't the merman clan already...
"Ms. Lu Xi." Yuan Sen turned her head away, preventing her from looking at the other cubs. "Is he prettier than me?"
Lu Xi stared at the handsome face in front of her, which was full of jealousy. She didn't quite understand why he was jealous of a child. Besides, she was no longer the housekeeper of the Lu family and would never raise a cub again.
The cub, sensing the mermaid's hostility, couldn't help but tremble again and huddled tightly in Lu Man's arms.
"Miss Luman..."
Lu Man noticed that his face was pale and saw that he was looking at the mermaid with horror. Although this cub had always been timid, he had never been so scared before and frowned immediately.
"Uncle Liu, please send him back to rest." After she finished speaking, she turned around and looked at Lu Xi and the others, "Let's go."
The Lu Family Cemetery is like other cemeteries, with tombstones standing neatly in rows, revealing a cold and desolate feeling.
The woman's tombstone stood in a very remote corner. It was so inconspicuous that it could even be overlooked if not careful, just like when she was alive.
Humble, small, like dust...
Compared to other tombstones that still had some withered flower stems left in front of them, this tombstone was clean, at most covered with a layer of wind and sand, as if no one had ever seen her. Lu Xi placed the bouquet of flowers she bought when she got off the car in front of the tombstone, and suddenly felt a little melancholy in her heart. In the future, she might never come again.
"Let's go." Lu Xi said.
"Would you like to stay a little longer?" Lu Man asked.
"No need." I didn't look at her more when she was alive, and now that I'm dead, there's no point in looking at her more.
She knew better than anyone what it felt like to die. She couldn't feel anything at all, had no consciousness, and didn't know pain, sadness, or grief... Worship was just to comfort the living.
The three of them came out of the cemetery and met someone. "Miss Lu Xi." The maid bowed her head respectfully and said, "You finally came back. The master of the family invites you to stay for one night."
This was something they had not expected.
Lu Man's face turned grim. "You have no right to keep her. Lu Xi no longer belongs to the Lu family."
"Miss Lu Man, I dare not disobey the words of the head of the family."
"Then I will disobey." Lu Man planned to pull Lu Xi away. It wasn't the first time she had disobeyed orders. She had long been fed up with the Lu family's style, and there was no other intention in bringing Lu Xi back.
It was the first time that Lu Xi saw Lu Man like this. In her eyes, Lu Man had always been well-behaved and never disobeyed the family's arrangements. She didn't expect that she would have this side of her.
"Okay, I'll stay." Lu Xi said.
"Lu Xi, don't be impulsive."
Lu Xi shook his head, "I'm not impulsive."
What is coming will come sooner or later. The old man has always been thinking about her and will definitely look for her again.
In this case, it is better to face it sooner rather than later.
If she still wants to target the mermaid, Lu Xi still said the same thing, don't even think about it.
The deep mountains where the Lu family lived were very cool even in summer. The wind rustled the bamboo forest, and the night seemed a little noisy. Lu Xi did not live in the same residence as before, but was arranged to stay in another attic. That night, no one disturbed Lu Xi's rest.
It was not until the next morning that someone called her over.
Lu Xi didn't let Yuan Sen follow her. His face was so cold that ice almost fell out of it. The servant who came to pick up Lu Xi was almost frozen, but Lu Xi didn't let him follow her, so he could only watch her leave.
Even after forty years, the Lu family's house has not changed much, because this house was left by the ancestors many years ago. Even after hundreds of years, as long as it is not destroyed, it will still look the same.
The servant led Lu Xi through the corridor and into a spacious living room. An old figure appeared before her eyes. Her back was more bent than before, and her hair was whiter.
"Master, Miss Lu Xi is here."
The old woman turned around, still with those sharp eyes that seemed to see through everything. This woman had been in charge of the Lu Group all her life, and her shrewdness was beyond the reach of anyone else in the Lu Group.
"Lu Xi." The old man spoke.
Lu Xi was no longer considered a member of the Lu family. She was thinking about what to call her when the old man said, "Sit down."
Lu Xi didn't hesitate and picked a chair to sit down. The old man also took the main seat, giving people a strong sense of oppression.
Lu Xi didn't like Lu Muru. Even after so many years, this old man still made her feel uncomfortable at first sight.
"You called me over here, what's the matter?"
"Seeing grandma, why don't you say hello?" The old man looked at her, "After all, you are a descendant of my Lu family."
"Not anymore." Lu Xi said.
Her body may have been flowing with Lu's blood, but her soul had nothing to do with the Lu family.
"You..." He slapped his palm on the armrest of the chair, "After being supported by Yuan Shi for a few days, have you forgotten your duty?"
Lu Xi stood up suddenly. She didn't come here to listen to the old man's moral kidnapping. "If it's okay, I'll leave."
"Stop." She called Lu Xi.
The old woman suppressed her inner displeasure, but she didn't dare to force Lu Xi. She now had the support of the Yuan family, and the madman was still there. He went crazy after Lu Xi died.
If Yuan Shi hadn't taken him away, Lu Shi might have been destroyed by him long ago, but with such strength...
The old woman's eyes darkened slightly and she stopped thinking about it. She would slowly figure out the matter about the mermaid.
"I do need your help with something." Lu Xi stared at the elder in the upper position and heard her say, "The Lu family has a cub with SSS talent that can't awaken. I want you to take a look."
"I'm not a doctor."
“Even the doctor couldn’t see anything wrong.”
If Lu Xi had not been able to awaken the SSSSS-level mermaid, Lu Muru would not have thought of her.
But Lu Xi is no longer the housekeeper. She is now concentrating on her mission and doesn't want to be distracted by anything.
Lu Xi was about to refuse when a cold, metallic voice suddenly rang out in his mind. "A patient requiring psychiatric treatment has been detected. Urgently awaken the intelligent brain. Loading progress: 13%... 35%... 70%... 87%..."
At the same time, a cub in a wheelchair was pushed in, his lower body was...
...Snake tail.
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