Lan Yao said to the jade Pixiu, "Pipi, it went through."
Jade Pixiu: "That's normal. It's a monster. If it doesn't even have these basic skills, what's the difference between it and trash?"
Lan Yao: "But I don't know how to wear it."
As the saying goes, if you don't cut the weeds at the root, you'll get into trouble, especially with this kind of unknown creature.
As the saying goes, those who are not of our kind will surely have different hearts, and we will naturally eliminate them.
Jade Pixiu: "Master, your pretentiousness is too exaggerated. With the time you've wasted on this nonsense, you could have already climbed over the wall and entered the house."
"Isn't this illegal? As a law-abiding citizen, how could I do something so illegal and criminal? This doesn't fit my image." As Lan Yao spoke, she had already found a foothold, pressed her hands on the protrusion, pushed off with her feet, and flew into the air, landing on the top of the wall and gracefully leaping into the courtyard.
As soon as she landed, she heard the door of the house in the courtyard creak open, and someone came out from inside. She was carrying a stack of things in her hands. Lan Yao looked closely and saw that it was a large stack of yellow paper and gold ingots.
Not long after the middle-aged woman came out, a girl of about seventeen or eighteen years old walked out from behind her. When the girl saw what the middle-aged woman was holding, her eyes filled with anger. She rushed over and snatched the thing from the middle-aged woman's hand without any regard for her feelings. She threw it heavily on the ground and stomped her feet twice in anger. As she stomped, she glared angrily at her mother.
She lowered her voice and said angrily, "Mom, don't you know what's going on? Destroying the Four Olds and eliminating superstitions—are you trying to kill the whole family?"
"I...I didn't. I just...I just..."
"You are, you are, what exactly are you? You've always doted on your brother since we were little, always favored him, and now that he's dead, you're going to bring disaster to the whole family for him? If you loved your brother so much, why didn't you die with that idiot?" the girl roared in a low voice, her words filled with resentment towards her biased mother.
"Waaaaah, how could you say that to me? What right do you have to say that to me? I'm your mother! You actually wish for me to die? You're so unfilial!"
Besides, what's wrong with me burning some paper money for your brother? Your brother has already suffered enough. That girl had already agreed to be with him, but your brother died.
He's still so young, he hasn't been with the girl he loves yet, and he hasn't given our family an heir.
"That's enough! He's pitiful? What's so pitiful about him? Do you even know which girl he's going to be with?"
That's our famous young lady, Lan Jiaojiao. The Lan family is incredibly wealthy, and she's their most beloved daughter. How could they possibly marry Lan Jiaojiao off to our poor family?
Besides, the Lan family was arrested yesterday, and the whole family will be sent to the countryside. At such a critical moment, everyone is eager to distance themselves from the situation, fearing being implicated.
"And you, for your brother's sake, you'd rather drag your whole family down to hell." The girl choked up as she said the last sentence.
The noise was a little loud, startling the middle-aged man inside, who rushed out and glared at his daughter in alarm: "Damn it! You brat, why are you yelling so loudly? As if you want everyone to know what we're up to?"
The daughter chuckled coldly twice: "Now you know fear and come out? Why were you hiding at home without saying a word just now? You're just like your heartless mother, you only want a little brother and don't want us girls."
"In that case, we'll sever ties tomorrow..."
With a loud slap, the middle-aged man couldn't help but give his daughter a hard time: "You little beast, you really have a nerve, daring to talk back to your old man? I've fed you, fed you, raised you all these years, and in the end you complain about me? You keep saying you wish we old folks were dead!"
"How could I have raised such a little beast? You want to sever ties with us? Fine! Give us, your wife and I, ten thousand yuan, or I'll report you to the Red Revolutionary Committee for suffocating your brother."
The daughter turned pale when she heard the last sentence. Her eyes widened in disbelief. Her hands trembled and her eyes blazed with anger: "You old beast, you smothered your own son to death! You were drunk then, and you had a fierce look on your face, saying that it was all because of your little brother that you were dragged down, that you lost your job, and that you had to endure people's contempt and ridicule every day."
Just two days ago, my younger brother got sick because he kept insisting on going to the Lan family's house, so you might as well go all the way..."
"Shut up, shut up, shut up!" The middle-aged man revealed his viciousness, his hands tightly gripping his daughter's neck. "It's you, it's all your fault, you little beast! If you hadn't been saying every day that my brother was a troublemaker and a jinx, would I have lost control and killed my own son?"
The middle-aged woman stood to the side, bewildered and unsure of what to do.
Lan Yao stood on the ground at the base of the wall in the shadows, equally bewildered: "...Didn't I come here to eliminate the root of the problem? How come I'm getting caught up in this mess again? It sounds like this mess has something to do with that ghost?"
Jade Pixiu: "Based on the timeline, that ghost did indeed die in the last two days, and it did die right here. So, Master, your luck is really bad."
Why did I have to go to someone's doorstep? I was just looking for a place to go.
Lan Yao: "...So, where did that ghost go?"
Jade Pixiu: "It's hiding not far from you, Master. After you used your Iron Sand Palm, that ghost's soul became transparent."
These past two days, everyone's become like white sharks, their souls have thickened, they've become fiercer, but so what?
It still couldn't withstand a slap from its owner, could it? Tsk tsk!
Lan Yao gave an "oh" and scanned the family of three with her mental energy. According to their memories, the monster was indeed killed by the middle-aged man.
Their family favored sons over daughters, treating the daughters worse than animals. The younger brother was spoiled rotten by the couple, and as he grew up, he caused trouble every day. The family had already paid off several daughters just by cleaning up after him.
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