Rebirth: A Super Foodie and Her Cat Demon Husband

The old lady's son shook his head: "No more."

"Did anything strange happen afterwards?" Liu Yuanyuan asked persistently.

The old lady continued to ask, "Strange things? It seems that nothing strange has happened."

"So, are there any people, objects, animals, or plants that appear inexplicably in your home?"

The old lady's son thought for a moment, then turned and called into the house, "Cui'er, on the day my mother died, did you see any strange people, animals, or plants coming into the house?"

Soon, the old lady's daughter-in-law came out with a bunch of things. She recalled as she walked, "I didn't see any animals or plants. But there came a man in a suit and tie, but he covered his face tightly.

I don’t know what he said to my mom at the time, but he left. I asked my mom what he was doing, and she said he was looking for something. But he couldn’t find it, so he left.

After hearing what the old lady's daughter-in-law said, Liu Yuanyuan suddenly had an idea. She remembered what the old lady had told her about the dog meat restaurant, and she thought that the man in a suit might be here to get the dog skin bag.

Could he be involved in the old lady's death? And would the dog-skin bag's presence in the police station's evidence room have any impact on the people there?

Liu Yuanyuan was lost in thought when the old lady's daughter-in-law handed her some things. "Here they are. Keep whatever you need. Throw away the rest. They're all feudal and superstitious. No one in the family believes in them, and no one understands them."

Liu Yuanyuan quickly took the things with both hands. On top of them was a ruler that looked like the kind of rulers you see at tourist attractions or later sold online.

However, it didn't look like it was made of bamboo, but rather wood. As an old lady, Liu Yuanyuan guessed the ruler might be made of mahogany. There was a passage engraved on it, a passage she had never seen before.

Then there was a small crimson box. The crimson color was probably painted, and she had no idea what was in the box.

Beneath these two items was a pile of stuff wrapped in red cloth. Liu Yuanyuan was currently holding the stuff in both hands, and with nowhere to put it, she couldn't see what it was. However, judging by its flatness, it must be a book or a box.

Liu Yuanyuan planned to study these things carefully after returning home, so she looked up at the old lady's daughter-in-law and asked, "Do you know what that person looks like?"

The old lady's daughter-in-law shook her head: "I can't see clearly, he covered it very tightly. At that time, I was playing with Xiaodong in the yard. The distance was a bit far and I couldn't see clearly.

At that time, I saw my mother-in-law suddenly open the door and stand there. If the person opposite was not quite tall, I might not have noticed it.

I only saw that the man was wearing a fitted suit, a hat, sunglasses, and a black mask that covered most of his face. I couldn't really tell what he looked like.

But I saw my mother-in-law stuffed something into his mouth. He turned away and left without taking it.

The old lady's son frowned and said, "Why didn't you tell me this?"

The old lady's daughter-in-law also frowned and looked at her husband: "How could I have thought that there was anything wrong with that man? Judging from his clothes, he looks like a rich man.

My family is not rich, and I don’t think there is anything worth pursuing, so I didn’t take it too seriously. If the little girl hadn’t asked me, I wouldn’t have thought about it.

Besides, you know about the dog meat restaurant. Since then, people have often come to ask about it. I thought that person was the same."

Liu Yuanyuan was afraid they would start arguing, so she quickly took over the conversation: "What happened next? Did Grandma Zhao do anything unusual?"

The old lady's daughter-in-law shook her head and said, "No more." Then my mother-in-law came back, closed the door, and discussed with me what to eat for lunch.

In the afternoon, she hung out the harvested vegetables to dry, saying she would pickle them and eat them when the weather got colder. But after dinner and a chat, she said she was tired and wanted to go back to bed. The next morning, when I called her, she was already cold. The old woman's daughter-in-law's eyes suddenly turned red as she spoke.

As if she had thought of something, Liu Yuanyuan suddenly turned to the old lady's son and said, "Uncle...why didn't Auntie tell you? Weren't you home at the time?"

The old lady's son shook his head and said, "I wasn't home. I was working in the city at the time. I rushed back after receiving the call that my mother had passed away."

"Since you weren't at home, how did you know that Grandma Zhao had a premonition of her own death, and how did you know what she said?"

At this time, Xiaodong said: "Because I was talking to my father on the phone at that time, my grandmother was sitting behind me. My father asked me what my grandmother was doing, and I told him. Then my father asked me to give the phone to my grandmother. Maybe at that time, my father heard my grandmother talking to herself."

Liu Yuanyuan nodded and said to Grandma Zhao's son and daughter-in-law, "You guys go and do your work. I'll burn a stick of incense for Grandma Zhao first." Then she left.

The couple nodded, and without any hesitation, one took Xiaodong back to the main room, while the other went out of the yard.

Liu Yuanyuan put his schoolbag on the ground in front of the altar, and then respectfully placed the thing that Grandma Zhao gave him on the schoolbag as a cushion.

Then he took out three incense sticks from the incense bucket next to him, lit the incense, bowed three times towards the altar where Grandma Zhao's portrait was placed, and then inserted the incense into the incense burner.

Then Liu Yuanyuan took out the copper coin that Grandma Zhao gave her from her pocket and placed it above her eyes.

In an instant, I saw hazy fog in front of my eyes. The fog was connected together in strands and did not spread everywhere.

Following the mist, Liu Yuanyuan looked into the hall and saw a faint black mist wrapped around Grandma Zhao's black coffin. In the middle of the black mist, there were faint yellow spots of light.

Liu Yuanyuan frowned and looked at the old lady's daughter-in-law who was sitting in front of a brazier, stacking gold ingots and not paying attention to her. So she took the copper coins and walked to the coffin, walked around it, and then placed her hand on the coffin, tapped it gently, and said as if muttering to herself: "Grandma Zhao, are you there?"

But after a long time, no one responded to her. The yellow light on the coffin floated quietly there, even a little bit spreading outward.

At this time, the old lady's daughter-in-law looked up at Liu Yuanyuan and said, "Do you want to see my mother-in-law again?"