The mysterious milk group, hands on hips, is being fought over by five dads who are going crazy over

"witchcraft?"

The old lady sat upright in her armchair, her sharp gaze sweeping over the small figure hiding behind Qiao Wan, half-believing, half-doubting: "What makes you say that?"

Seeing that there was hope, Su Xiaoyin was overjoyed and immediately went up to the old lady, vividly describing the scene in Qiao Wan's room, and even bringing up the mute Li Mama to demonstrate.

Aning stood behind her mother, feeling sleepy.

She rubbed her eyes, wanting to ask her mother when she could go back to sleep, but out of the corner of her eye she caught sight of something moving in the ruins, seemingly emitting a faint golden light.

Ah Ning blinked, and then heard a childish voice:

Come and play with me!

Who is speaking?

Aning looked up and saw that all the adults around her were listening to her bad aunt talking, as if no one else could hear her.

"Little Aning, come play with me!"

Ah Ning opened her round eyes wide!

He knew Aning's name!

Driven by curiosity, Aning took her short legs and headed toward the sound.

She was so small, and everyone was so engrossed in Su Xiaoyin's words, that no one noticed she had slipped away...

"Mother, that's what happened. At first, I didn't believe that little girl knew magic, but as you saw, Granny Li really can't speak anymore!"

After embellishing the story, Su Xiaoyin's mouth was dry from talking.

Actually, she didn't think the four-year-old girl knew any magic, but as long as the old lady believed, that was enough.

"You bastard! You're here to bring disaster to the Huo family!"

Sure enough, the old lady flew into a rage.

"I shouldn't have been so soft-hearted four years ago! I should have let her fend for herself in that mass grave!"

"Capture that little monster and lock it in the woodshed!"

Seeing this, Qiao Wan was extremely anxious and was about to stop them when she heard a clear, crisp sound coming from beside the ruins of the collapsed ancestral hall:

"Mother!"

Everyone looked over at the sound and gasped in shock!

"Mother, look what Aning found!"

Aning stood amidst the ruins, her chubby face covered in dust, but she straightened her little body with a proud expression.

She was also holding an egg in her arms.

A golden egg!

It's as big as Ah Ning's head!

The old lady saw the phoenix totem carved on the egg almost immediately, and stood up excitedly, almost dropping her cane.

"Th-that is..."

Ah Ning blinked, grabbed the egg, ran to her mother, and said in a clear, crisp voice:

"Look, Mother! Aning found an egg!"

For a moment, everyone around held their breath, staring intently at the glowing golden egg in her hand.

Qiao Wan was surprised and didn't know what to say for a moment, but when she met those expectant eyes, she calmed down and raised her hand to rub her head.

"Little Aning is so great!"

Ah Ning's eyes lit up for a moment, and a big smile spread across her face.

He then turned to the shocked old woman and asked in confusion:

"Are you Aning's grandmother?"

The old lady hadn't forgotten Su Xiaoyin's "monster" remarks, but the egg the little girl was holding was gleaming gold, a sign of good fortune.

As a demon, it should have kept its distance from such an auspicious omen. How could this little girl hug it as if nothing had happened?

The old lady, leaning on her cane, asked the old nanny who was serving her.

"Rongxiu, look...look at that egg, it's gleaming with golden light, and its surface is imprinted with a phoenix totem. Doesn't it look like the phoenix on the roof of the ancestral hall has come to life and crawled into the egg?"

Granny Rongxiu supported her trembling hand, "Madam, it's so similar, so incredibly similar!"

With tears welling in her eyes, the old lady beckoned to Aning, "Come here, let your grandmother take a look."

Ah Ning, holding the egg, obediently stepped forward.

The old lady looked her over carefully and then asked:

"Where did you find this egg?"

Ah Ning blinked, pointed to the ruins, and said crisply:

"A-Ning was standing behind her mother when she heard it call her to come and play with it. It hid behind a rock over there, and A-Ning found it right away."

"Nonsense!" Su Xiaoyin scoffed dismissively. "How could an egg possibly talk?"

Ah Ning tilted her head in confusion, her grape-like eyes clear and bright. "Can't the bad auntie hear it?"

"You! Who's the bad auntie!" Su Xiaoyin exclaimed angrily, hands on her hips. "Mother, don't listen to this girl's nonsense. It's probably all arranged by someone with ulterior motives. There must be something coated on that egg to make it glow. There's no such thing as a mystical thing in the world!"

The old woman, however, was unimpressed. Her gaze, fixed on the egg, was complex. "Since there are monsters in the world, what's so strange about a talking egg?"

Su Xiaoyin choked and was about to say something more, but the old lady turned her head away and stopped looking at her.

"Rongxiu, did they search that area just now?"

Rong Xiu said respectfully, "Madam, we have had people searched inside and out, but we haven't found the phoenix statue, nor have we seen this glowing egg."

"Excellent! The phoenix has been born; it's a sign that even Heaven is protecting our Huo family!"

"As for Aning..."

The old lady chuckled twice and patted Aning's head.

Her gentle and kind demeanor made it seem as if she wasn't the one who had been so domineering and almost tried to devour Aning alive just moments before.

"Good Aning, Grandmother wants to build a bigger ancestral hall to enshrine it. Could you ask her if it would be willing?"

As soon as he finished speaking, gasps of surprise rose from all around.

Su Xiaoyin's eyes widened even more!

No one expected that the appearance of an egg would cause the old lady's attitude towards that little jinx to change dramatically!

To everyone's surprise, the old lady actually believed the nonsense spouted by a mere child!

Aning glanced at her mother, and seeing her mother nod gently, she lowered her head and poked the egg with her chubby little hand.

"Egg, are you willing?"

First of all, I'm not called Egg!

I have a name! My name is Erhuo!

【second......】

"Idiot?" Ah Ning blinked. "What a strange name."

It's your fault!

"Ah Ning can read it now, you idiot."

【...】

The golden light on the egg dimmed for a moment, then seemed to reappear as if in resignation.

I don't want any ancestral hall, nor do I need her to make offerings to me every day! For four whole years, I was exposed to wind, rain, snow, and ice on the roof of the ancestral hall, and I had to listen to that old woman nagging me every day to bless her family. My ears are practically calloused.

Four years ago, I came here specifically for Aning. Now that I've met Aning, I can finally stop being a statue!

【I'm going to take a nap. Ah Ning, you work hard and get me out of here soon!】

The conversation was too long for Ah Ning to understand, so she only remembered the first sentence.

So he looked up at his grandmother.

"Grandma, it doesn't want to."

Qiao Wan's heart clenched when she saw Aning mutter to herself and then reject the old lady's suggestion.

Unexpectedly, the old lady wasn't angry at all, and became even more amiable towards Aning.

"Okay, Aning, take this egg back and take good care of it so that it can hatch soon and be brought to Grandma to see."

"It's getting late, everyone can go home now. Tomorrow is Yao Yao's birthday banquet, and we'll be busy."

Seeing the old lady pick up her cane to leave, Rongxiu added, "Please keep today's events to yourselves and do not spread them around."

Su Xiaoyin was unwilling to give up. She twisted the handkerchief tightly and glared angrily at the egg.

She didn't know what trick Qiao Wan had played, but she was determined to uncover the secret of that egg! She didn't believe there was any real phoenix being born.

On the way back, the golden light on the egg subsided somewhat, no longer as flamboyant and dazzling as before.

Aning held the egg in one hand, while her mother held her other hand firmly.

His face, covered in dust, was slightly flushed, and his light eyebrows were furrowed, showing a troubled expression.

She remembered what the idiot had said, telling her to work hard so that it would come out sooner.

But the egg was hard, and she couldn't break it.

How can that idiot get out of the egg?

Ah!

A Ning's eyes suddenly lit up, and the image of her grandmother's hen incubating eggs appeared in her mind.

The hen sits on the eggs, and the chicks can hatch from them!

Ah Ning is so smart!

She tilted her head to look at her mother, her big eyes sparkling with anticipation.

"Mommy, do you have a hen?"

Qiao Wan's almond-shaped eyes curved slightly. "Is Aning hungry?"

"My mother instructed the kitchen to prepare chicken soup early in the morning, and it's been kept warm on the stove ever since."

"Is there anything else you'd like to eat?"

The chicken was stewed?

Without a chicken, how will the idiot hatch from the egg?

Little Aning, holding the hard egg in her arms, gently froze.