"Auntie, when did Jiaojiao nearly drown?" he interrupted Mrs. Ruanlin’s conversation and asked.
Mrs. Ruanlin was taken aback, not knowing why he suddenly asked this, but she still replied, "It was in July, probably early July, when the kids had just started their summer vacation."
"Was it July 7th?" Shu Lang asked.
Mrs. Ruanlin was not certain about the exact date. She pondered for a moment and hesitantly said, "It could be." Shu Lang’s expression unsettled her, and she felt a bit uneasy. "What’s wrong?" she asked.
"That day," Shu Lang paused, his expression turned very serious, "that day, my sister also nearly drowned and nearly died."
It was that drowning incident that changed Shu Jiao completely.
Shu Jiao had originally planned to come back after the summer vacation and never intended to delay it, even though the old master was not in good health, finding someone to take care of him wasn’t hard.
Even if the old master wanted to join her on the return trip, Shu Jiao could have come back first and then gone to pick him up, or she could have moved the whole family there.
She began acting bizarrely.
Despite being a highly educated individual, she started searching everywhere for Taoist temples and monasteries, all for the sake of obtaining a certain charm, the same Possession Talisman she gave to Ruan Jiaojiao before.
Shu Lang didn’t believe in this; in his eyes, Shu Jiao’s behaviors were like those of a mad person. He had even suggested she visit a psychologist at the hospital to see if she had developed any trauma from the near-drowning experience.
After arriving at the Ruan Family home and witnessing Ruan Jiaojiao’s nightmare, seeing that she couldn’t wake up, and then suddenly waking up when wearing the amulet, he was quite shocked, but deep down he still felt that all these were mere superstitions and was not truly convinced.
Upon learning that Ruan Jiaojiao also had a near-drowning incident in July.
And by such an extraordinary coincidence on the same day as Shu Jiao.
He had no choice but to start taking it seriously.
If these two incidents had happened separately, one might say they were coincidences, accidental, but happening at the same time, they were definitely not just simple coincidences.
Hearing Shu Lang’s words, both Ruan Jiaojiao and Mrs. Ruanlin were stunned.
"Wait a minute, just wait..." Mrs. Ruanlin said, and turned to go inside the house. She rummaged through the drawers and took out a packet of medicine, which contained pearl powder that Mrs. Ruanlin had asked Ruan Jianguo to buy the day after Jiaojiao’s drowning incident, as the previous supply had run out.
Upon seeing the clear numbers 7.8 printed on the medicine packet, one day back, wouldn’t that be July 7th?
Ruan Jiaojiao really did fall into the water on July 7th, and Shu Jiao on the same day...
Mrs. Ruanlin took out the medicine packet, and as soon as Shu Lang saw the number on it, he immediately understood what it meant.
It really was the same day!
Ruan Jiaojiao’s eyes widened, staring at Shu Lang with disbelief.
Why did Shu Jiao also fall into the water on the same day as her?
After falling into the water, did she... also see something?
Why did she give her this amulet?
What on earth is going on?
Ruan Jiaojiao often didn’t want to think about these things; she was also afraid to. She always felt like she had fallen into an abyss, pitch-black and as if there were monsters lurking in the darkness, just waiting for an opportunity to swallow her whole.
Just thinking about it frightened her, giving her chills.
"Jiaojiao." Seeing that Ruan Jiaojiao’s face had turned pale, Mrs. Ruanlin quickly hugged her in her arms.