Crackle!
The sound of firecrackers exploding could be heard outside.
In the warm main room of the Xue family, the large round table with eight immortals was full of people, and the New Year's Eve dinner was quite warm and enjoyable.
After dinner, everyone moved to the flower hall and started the essential entertainment activity during the Chinese New Year - playing mahjong.
Participants include Xue's mother, Mrs. Huo, Xue Huan, and newcomer Zhong Biliu.
There was a brazier burning under the table. The four people playing mahjong were warmed by the hot air coming out of the brazier. Instead of feeling cold, they felt a little hot.
Xue Jun and Xue Yao took Xiaobao to play on the large Arhat couch.
Pei Ji sat down next to Xue Huan very naturally, with one arm resting on the back of her chair, looking as if he was holding her in his arms from behind.
The crisp sound of playing mahjong and the laughter of the crowd could be heard from time to time in the flower hall.
However, under the same sky, not all families are so lively and happy.
For example, the old Xue family and others who are still trapped in the temple.
At the beginning, Xue Huan was impatient to continue to tangle with this family, so she simply used a sleight of hand to make them reveal their "evil nature" in public, and used the then county magistrate Cai Kuo to send them to a Buddhist temple for "purification".
Later, this family never caused trouble again and completely disappeared from her sight.
The Buddhist temple that the old Xue family and others were sent to was not a large temple like Lingyun Temple with a strong incense and many believers, but just a small temple in the countryside.
At that time, Cai Kuo was fooled by Xue Huan's alias and really thought that the people of the old Xue family were evil spirits. If he let them go, something big would happen and affect his political achievements. So after sending them to the temple, he also sent someone to watch them.
In fact, according to Cai Kuo's style of doing things, he would have wanted to kill these evil spirits directly and put an end to it all, but Xue Huan was just annoyed with the people of the old Xue family and didn't want them to jump around again. She was not cruel enough to want to kill them, so she scared Cai Kuo with words.
It is said that evil spirits will not disappear after being killed. Instead, they will become completely out of control because they are no longer restrained, causing greater disasters. The best way is to recite Buddhist scriptures to them every day, teach them to be good, and purify the dirty air in their bodies. Once the purification is completed, these evil spirits will no longer have the power to harm people.
Cai Kuo had seen Xue Huan's methods and believed that she was an otherworldly expert, so how could he dare not listen to her?
So after the people of the Xue family were sent to the temple, although their lives became a little hard, their lives were not in danger.
Until Cai Kuo fell from power, the people he sent to guard the old Xue family naturally dispersed because they could not get their wages.
Xue Huan had long forgotten about the old Xue family and no longer paid any attention to them.
So, the people of Old Xue's family planned to escape from the temple.
They thought to themselves, there are only three monks in the temple, including the abbot, some are old and some are young, how can they keep an eye on them?
The three monks really couldn't keep an eye on them, nor did they think of keeping an eye on them, but the old Xue family failed to escape successfully because they couldn't get out of the temple gate at all, even if they climbed over the wall.
Once they take a step, they will have a splitting headache, and countless voices will chant Buddhist scriptures and beat wooden fish in their heads. The sound is enough to make people die on the spot.
And just go back to the temple and everything will be fine.
This was naturally because the old abbot had planted a "forbidden spell" on them on the day they came in. As long as the evil spirits in them were not eliminated, they would not be able to leave the temple.
However, what the old abbot did not expect was that this trick not only did not have any effect, but instead made the people of the old Xue family even more obsessed with evil, so much so that they wanted to kill the monks in the temple.
Unfortunately, they failed. The old host saw through their intentions in advance and activated the forbidden spell. The people of the old Xue family immediately became like Monkey King who was cursed with the tight headband. They held their heads in pain and screamed, rolling on the ground.
The old abbot sighed compassionately, feeling that there was still a long way to go to complete the task of educating these people.
This incident further confirmed the fact that several people in the old Xue family were evil. Even if they were not evil at first, they became evil the moment they decided to kill.
The old host couldn't bear to let them leave anymore.
After failing to escape again and again, the people of Old Xue's family stopped taking any action. They worked every day to earn food and chanted Buddhist scriptures with the abbot and two young monks. Although they seemed to be obedient, the resentment in their hearts was actually even stronger.
On this New Year's Eve, the people in the Xue family heard the faint sounds of fireworks and firecrackers coming from outside, and their desire to go out became stronger.
Looking at the old abbot sitting in front, the people of the old Xue family looked at each other, and together pulled out the sharpened wooden thorns hidden in their sleeves, and attacked the three monks separately.
"Alas, you are so stubborn." The old host did not move. When the wooden thorn attacked, a ball of yellow light suddenly burst out from his body. This light directly shattered the wooden thorn into powder. Even Boss Xue, who was holding the wooden thorn, was shocked and spit out blood and flew out.
The two young monks didn't cultivate the same aura as their master, but their skills were quite good. How could Xue Lao San and his men be their opponents? Their wrists were broken directly.
"ah!"
In the Buddhist temple, several members of the Old Xue family were rolling on the ground screaming.
At the top, the huge Buddha statue is smiling, gazing at the world with compassion and indifference.
At this moment, a space crack suddenly appeared under the feet of the Buddha statue, and a black ant half a person's height crawled out.
The ant has sharp mouthparts and front claws as sharp as sickles. When it sees so much food in front of it, the antennae on its head tremble with excitement.
It quickly crawled to the front of the nearest Boss Xue, and its sharp front claws directly cut open his brain.
Boss Xue: “Ah——”
The next moment, the giant ants had crawled onto him and began to suck his brain, and his screams stopped abruptly.
The old host turned his head and was shocked. He raised his hand and threw the wooden fish mallet in his hand over. The giant ant did not even raise its head and continued to suck the brain marrow. It only raised one of its front claws and cut the mallet into countless pieces in a few swishes, which fell to the ground with a clatter.
After sucking out Boss Xue's brain, the giant ant raised its head and looked at the people present with its pair of pure black eyes. Everyone felt a chill down their spines at its gaze.
"They're eating people!" Old Mrs. Xue was sad, hurt, shocked and terrified. Suddenly she came to her senses, let out a shrill scream, and fell straight down.
The giant ant stared at the young Xue Zhan, the eldest son of Boss Xue. Xue Zhan's legs trembled and he wanted to run, but his legs were weak. Suddenly, a black shadow flashed before his eyes and the giant ant jumped in front of him, with its sharp front claws slashing towards his head.
My life is over!
Xue Zhan closed his eyes in despair.
"You evil beast, don't hurt anyone!" The old host jumped forward and slapped the giant ant with one palm. There was a layer of ochre-colored air on his palm, which was very powerful.
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