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Chapter 457 The Ancestor of the Que Family is Coming, and the Spirit Contract is Abnormal?

In Que Lu's small courtyard.

We haven't found anyone to help with cooking yet, so dinner was prepared collaboratively by the group of people living in the courtyard.

The ingredients were ordered online and delivered to my doorstep.

The seven adults, excluding the children, each cooked at least one of their best dishes; those who didn't know how to cook a dish cooked rice.

After working for about an hour, everyone finally managed to sit down at the table and have dinner before it got completely dark.

"Our ancestors should arrive tomorrow, if all goes well. Your father and I are planning to go back to your brother's place first thing tomorrow morning to pack up. Are you coming back with us, or are you staying here?" Zhu Heng said as she used serving chopsticks to put a piece of pork ribs she had made on her daughter's plate. "You're so thin, eat more."

Upon hearing this, Que Zhiyun forgot all about eating the ribs. "Great-Grandma is coming too? She's so old, why did she come all this way!"

Zhu Heng also looked helpless. "Your father and I didn't expect her to come either. By the time we received the letter, she had already set off. Anyway, even if your father and I joined forces, we didn't have the confidence to persuade your great-grandmother to go back."

"Then I'll go back with you. It's been a long time since I visited my great-grandmother."

"Then you should go to bed early tonight, so you won't have trouble getting up tomorrow morning."

Que Zhiyun nodded, a rib still in his mouth.

Li Jingmo glanced at her younger brother, who seemed lost in thought for some reason, and said, "Aunt Heng, Shu Heng and I are going to visit Old Madam Gong the day after tomorrow."

After all, this is the real ancestor of the Que family!
He must be over 100 years old now.

Besides, the fact that the other party was so old and traveled so far to take charge of the place meant that their purpose was to find the laboratory that had been revived and was connected to the Corpse Worm, which was the same as their goal.

Both out of courtesy and reason, they, as the younger generation, should also go and visit him.

As for why it's the day after tomorrow instead of tomorrow, the elderly person will just arrive tomorrow, so they need to rest properly first, and it's not appropriate to disturb them by visiting.

Que Lu chimed in, "I'll go the day after tomorrow too."

Que Zhiyun's great-grandmother was naturally also his great-grandmother.

However, he was far less close to his great-grandmother than Que Zhiyun was. Over the years, he would only visit this old ancestor during festivals. Thinking about it, he decided not to go tomorrow.

There was still no sound from the side, so Li Jingmo had no choice but to nudge her younger brother's arm.

Li Chengxiao then came to his senses and looked up at him.

Li Jingmo quickly gave him a wink.

Zhu Heng took in the brothers' furtive glances and said with a smile, "What's wrong? You've only been apart for half a day, and you're already losing your appetite?"

But it's understandable; they're just young couples deeply in love. I've been through that myself when I was young.

Li Chengxiao pursed his lips, neither shaking his head in denial, which meant he acquiesced.

Li Jingmo couldn't bear to watch any longer, so he repeated, "The Que family's ancestor has also come. We'll go visit him the day after tomorrow."

"Mm." Li Chengxiao nodded.

"Let's eat. If you're still not done after eating, call and ask if Hanying is done. If she is, and you're not far away and have a car, then go and see her!"

What's the point of just thinking about other people here?
Li Chengxiao quietly shoveled a mouthful of white rice into his mouth, then couldn't help but glance at the palm of his right hand holding the chopsticks.

The mark was still flashing in his eyes, accompanied by an increasingly unbearable burning sensation, making it impossible for him to ignore.

When the mark first appeared, he was afraid that the other people at the table would notice, so he planned to find an excuse to leave. But he soon realized that only he could see the commotion, so he continued to sit still.

He thought the flash would stop after a while, like the previous times, but this time the flash lasted for an unprecedented long time, and there was also an unprecedented scorching heat. He had to spend a lot of effort to hold the chopsticks in his hand so that the other people at the table would not notice anything unusual, and naturally he would inevitably ignore the topic of conversation at the table.

Fortunately, after a few more minutes, the mark finally stopped flashing and the burning sensation gradually subsided, allowing him to finally calm down and continue eating.

However, he couldn't help wondering what had happened to Jiang Hanying. After finishing the meal, Li Chengxiao got up to help everyone clean up, but Li Jingmo waved him out the door, saying, "I'll finish your portion for you. Go out and make a phone call."

The others waved their hands in agreement, saying that it was just a small job, and that one more or one less wouldn't make a difference.

Let's not delay their relationship.

After all, it's not easy to meet someone you really, really like these days.

Li Chengxiao went to the neighboring courtyard.

Seeing that there was still some hay left in the manger and the water in the trough next to it was still full and didn't need to be refilled, he sat down on the wooden post next to him, took out his phone and opened the profile picture at the top of his phone.

Jiang Hanying had just finished eating and was waiting for Pei Yuan and Yue Zhuo to clean up the floor they had dirtied so they could return to the hotel. She picked up her vibrating phone from the table and saw a call request from her cheap owner on the screen.

After answering the call, I don't know if I was brainwashed by Pei Yuan and Yue Zhuo's argument that the cheap owner was the boyfriend, but I blurted out: "Boyfriend?"

On the other end of the phone, as Jiang Hanying answered, Li Chengxiao turned on speakerphone and was about to speak when he suddenly heard those three words coming from the speakerphone. The voice was crystal clear in the quiet courtyard where there was only one person and one horse.

His breath hitched, and he instantly forgot the question that was about to come out of his mouth, only subconsciously uttering an "um".

Jiang Hanying belatedly realized she had misspoke and slapped her mouth, "Ahem, you, have you had dinner yet?"

"just ate."

"Oh, me too."

Are you still filming tonight?

"I'm not filming anymore. I'm going back to the hotel to remove my makeup and hair."

"While I was eating, the marks on my palms kept flashing, and this time they were even a little hot."

"I was just thinking about you. Wait, is it still burning hot?"

Although it wasn't the first time he'd faced such a direct answer, Li Chengxiao still couldn't help but take a deep breath and calm down before replying, "Yeah, when it was at its hottest, I almost couldn't hold the chopsticks."

"That won't do."

Jiang Hanying was also a bit dumbfounded, as such a situation had never occurred before.

Is it because she took the initiative to form a spirit contract with her cheap master this time that she reacted this way?
But when she thought of her cheap owner before, the other party didn't feel hot, otherwise she would have told her about this abnormality the first time.

Why is this time so unusual?

Could there be anomalies in the Spirit Contract in this world?
She still remembered being genuinely struck when she formed the spirit contract.

"Do you still feel hot now?"

"There's one more thing, it's not as hot as before." Li Chengxiao said, opening his palm to look at the white mark embedded in the flesh. No, it was no longer just a white mark.

He even had the illusion at times that there was indeed a small sword gliding merrily in the palm of his hand, beneath the skin.

"No, I need to see what's going on with my own eyes. Wait, I'm coming to you right now!"

"Aren't you going back to the hotel to remove your makeup and hair? Why don't you go back to the hotel first, and I'll drive to your place."

"also."

After hanging up the call, Li Chengxiao got up and patted the neck of the big black horse. Before he could even go back to the house to get his car keys, his brother was already standing at the door and tossed him the car keys he needed.

He quickly reached out and caught it.

"I knew you'd be making this trip, so stop dawdling and hurry up. You don't need to come back quickly!"