"Thank you," the blonde woman said with a slight smile.
"You're welcome. I just thought you were being a bit too fierce and decided to help the child out," Zhang Yan replied plainly.
"Do I look very frightening?" the blonde woman asked.
"Yes..." Zhang Yan didn't lie and nodded.
"I won't be like that anymore. I'll be going now," the blonde woman said, then turned and vanished.
Zhang Yan sighed softly, turned, and looked at the boy with a gentle smile.
After seeing all this, Mu Anxiao had gained a new understanding of Zhang Yan in a certain sense. She slowly opened her eyes and murmured, "So that's the outcome." With that, she snapped her fingers at Uncle Chen, who then snapped back to reality.
"I saw it," he said, shaking his head excitedly.
"What did you see?" Mu Anxiao asked, feigning ignorance.
"A dog, a yellow dog, transformed into a female demon..." Uncle Chen said, trembling all over. "So scary, so scary."
"You haven't recalled this memory for a long time," Mu Anxiao said, reaching out to comfortingly pat Uncle Chen's shoulder.
"Yes, it's been a long time... That was the first time I saw a monster as a child. Thinking about it now... it's still as frightening as it was then." Uncle Chen's face had visibly paled.
Just then, a woman passing by caught sight of Uncle Chen's expression, then looked at Mu Anxiao, and muttered to herself, "Kids these days are really infuriating. They're about to make their own fathers angry to death. It's really not proper." Saying this, she walked past the man in the suit and left.
The man in the suit lurched forward abruptly and turned to look at the woman who had quickened her pace, saying, "There are still people who meddle in others' affairs nowadays. How rare."
Mu Anxiao ignored the woman who had just spoken and continued patting Uncle Chen's shoulder, asking, "Do you remember who saved you?"
"I don't remember," Uncle Chen shook his head.
Mu Anxiao breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Well, you should come with me somewhere."
"Where to?"
"Come with me," Mu Anxiao said, looking around and then becoming bewildered again. "Strange, where am I?"
"Have you forgotten the way home?" Uncle Chen asked cautiously.
Mu Anxiao looked around the unfamiliar surroundings again and said, "I haven't traveled this road before."
"How did you get here?" Uncle Chen asked curiously.
"I just got onto Fengqishi's mother's carriage, then I said I hadn't been to school, and then..." Mu Anxiao didn't pay attention to what Fengqishi's mother had said earlier, and thought hard, saying, "And then I got off that carriage that had no horses."
Uncle Chen thought that Mu Anxiao, while appearing unbothered on the surface, was actually very upset, so he comforted her, "His mother is like that. Don't take it to heart, she's a snob."
"I don't know her well, so of course I won't take it to heart," Mu Anxiao said casually.
Uncle Chen still thought Mu Anxiao was pretending, and smiled, saying, "Then do you know the address?"
"No," Mu Anxiao said, lowering her head to look at the label Zhang Yan had made on her clothes. "My grandfather's phone number is here."
"It's good that you have a phone number," Uncle Chen said. Using the bright streetlamp nearby, he clearly saw the phone number on Mu Anxiao's clothes. "This number is quite easy to remember." Saying this, he took out his phone and began to dial.
Mu Anxiao had no interest in the phone and turned to look at the man in the suit who was staring fixedly at her, her brow furrowing.