This is when she is told the story about her grandmother taking the

这段讲的是祖母带全家去看歌剧
family to the opera, and how bandits tend to rob the

强盗本应趁着家里没人
houses that have been abandoned while families are at the opera.

将房子洗劫一空
Instead, in this case, the bandits attack the audience.

出人意料的是这帮强盗竟然跑来袭击观众
In the experience the family's all broken up in the attack:

而且这家人都因此受了伤
By daybreak, when my grandmother and mother made

外婆和妈妈回到家的时候
their way home, the entire family was home safe,

天刚破晓全家人都安然无事了
proved to my grandmother that our family was immune to harm as long as

这让奶奶想到只要全家一起去看戏
they went to plays.

就可以消灾了
They went to many plays after that.

之后他们一起去看了很多戏
The grandmother's logic is completely twisted here.

外婆的逻辑有些令人费解
It's turned upside down.

而且颠倒事实