Christmas

Shi Xie pulled Xia Yao forward, his steps heavy and angry.

After walking down the steps, Xia Yao finally couldn't help shrinking his hands, struggling with small movements.

Shi Xie paused, turned his head to look at Xia Yao, and saw that he was looking at him with tears in his eyes, and was still gently retracting his arm, trying to break free from Shi Xie's grasp.

Shi Xie let go of his hand quickly, only to see that Xia Yao's palm turned white from being pinched by him, and after a while, it turned red with blood.

Shi Xie quickly took Xia Yao's hand, put it under his lips, and blew carefully.

"Sorry, I hurt you."

Shi Xie lowered his eyes, his eyes full of guilt and unwillingness.

Xia Yao slowly pulled his hand out of Shi Xie's, and leaned over to put a warm and soft kiss on Shi Xie's lips under Shi Xie's suspicious eyes.

Xia Yao still had the scent of incense candle smoke on his body, and the elegant fragrance filled Shi Xie's nose, miraculously calming down Shi Xie's restless heartbeat.

Xia Yao opened his eyes and looked at the reflection in Shi Xie's eyes. There was only one person in his obsidian-black pupils, and he was the only one. "Honey, don't be angry."

After kissing and leaving, Xia Yao imitated Shi Xie's usual way of comforting him, and also reached out to stroke Shi Xie's hair.

Shi Xie stared closely at Xia Yao's bright smiling face, the sunlight behind him made his eyes sour.

The slightly long eyelashes fluttered a few times, and Shi Xie suddenly reached out and hugged Xia Yao, taking him into his arms.

The feeling of fullness filled his heart, but it was so sore.

"Little demon, you will be fine."

"I believe you."

Xia Yao also stretched out his hand to hug Shi Xie, and patted Shi Xie's back lightly. The familiar movement made Xia Yao's mind agitated. It seemed that this movement had been done thousands of times.

Shi Xie sniffed the familiar fragrance of Xia Yao's hair, and for a moment he thought Xia Yao remembered.

The two hugged each other, not noticing that an old monk in a gray robe was standing in front of the main hall above them, watching them quietly, and the rosary beads he was fiddled with were round and smooth.

The old monk chanted the Buddha's name for a long time, and the bleak cold wind blew his robes. The old monk's eyebrows were vicissitudes, and his figure was bleak, like an old pine and cypress.

Shi Xie calmed down, let go of Xia Yao's hand, and pulled him forward again.

The old monk looked away from them slowly, looked up at the gray sky, fiddled with the rosary slowly in his hand, turned around and walked slowly back to the hall again.

All that was left was the bleakness of the place.

Shi Xie took Xia Yao to find Shi Lin, Baili Qianyan and the others. After wandering around half of the temples, they finally heard Baili Qianyan's loud shout in a courtyard.

Shi Xie frowned, and hurriedly led Xia Yao towards the yard.

Passing through the circular arch, one could see Baili Qianyan holding a few pieces of talisman paper and throwing them at a figure.

This place is relatively remote, it should be the residence of the monks in the temple, so few people come here, and there are no pilgrims coming and going nearby.However, just in case, Shi Xie squeezed a curse seal on his hand and put a barrier around it, so that even if someone came in, he would go to other places because of the barrier.

Shi Xie pulled Xia Yao and walked over quickly, Xiao Shen and He Bishen saw them coming in, so they trotted towards them and shouted.

"Dad, Mom."

"Father, little dad."

"How is this going."

Shi Xie reached out and grabbed Xiao Shen who was rushing towards him like a small cannonball, and asked when he stood still.

"That strange auntie is stealing, so auntie is teaching her, blaming auntie for being a bad boy, she doesn't pay attention to hygiene at all, and her body stinks."

As he said that, Xiao Shen wrinkled his little nose and made a very disgusted look, as if he could smell the smell of that strange aunt now.

"You take good care of your mother here, I'll go and have a look."

Of course Shi Xie knew that the matter was not only as Xiao Shen said, but he still nodded and arranged things for the two children.

Xiao Shen immediately nodded vigorously, holding Xia Yao's hand like a little knight.

He Bishen also took Xia Yao's other hand, and used his own method to protect him on the other side.

"Father, don't worry, my brother and I will protect my little dad."

"You stay here and don't get close. If anything happens, call me."

Shi Xie rubbed He Bishen's hair and turned to Baili Qianyan and Shi Lin.

As soon as he approached, he heard Baili Qianyan snorted heavily and shook his palm.

"what happened."

"Cousin, this woman seems to be looking for something, but there is a strong miasma on her body, we can't get close, so Xiaoyan has to use a talisman to fix her first."

After Shi Lin finished explaining, Shi Xie nodded indifferently, and squinted at the figure whose back was facing them.

Looking at it, Shi Xie suddenly frowned, and the woman's back seemed somewhat familiar.

"Isn't this person... the woman from that day?"

As soon as Shi Xie finished speaking, Shi Lin and Baili Qianyan also looked at the figure again, suddenly showing a look of enlightenment.

This person is still Jiang Xinru, and the clothes on her body are still the clothes she wore when we met a few days ago, but now they look very dirty, covered with all kinds of dust and black marks.

The long hair scattered behind was also messy, as if rolling across the grass, full of leaves and grass roots.

Her appearance is really different from the one a few days ago, no wonder Shi Lin and Baili Qianyan didn't recognize her at first sight. "It turned out to be her, but what has she experienced recently, how did she become like this?"

Baili Qianyan frowned and asked suspiciously at Jiang Xinru who was squatting on the ground because of being controlled by the talisman paper.

When I saw Jiang Xinru a few days ago, she still looked proud and glamorous, her chin could be lifted to the sky.

The clothes she was wearing were also extremely luxurious, definitely not a price that ordinary people could afford.

But now she has become so embarrassed, and she doesn't know what happened to her in the past three days.

"There was a miasma in her body before, and now the miasma has grown, it has already swallowed her mind, and now she is just a puppet."

After Shi Xie finished speaking, he walked towards Jiang Xinru, Baili Qianyan and Shi Lin looked at each other and followed.

Shi Xie quickly pinched a curse mark in his hand, and saw a burst of golden-red light suddenly emerge from his palm.

Jiang Xinru, who was curled up on the ground, felt that Shi Xie's psychic energy began to tremble and wanted to escape, but because the talisman paper with a thousand words was still attached to her body, she could only tremble in fear, but she couldn't take half a step away. .

Shi Xie lowered his eyes to look at Jiang Xinru, and the golden-red light in his hand slowly floated up. In Jiang Xinru's frightened eyes, her whole body was wrapped in the golden-red light.

Jiang Xinru curled up on the ground, her body trembling uncontrollably, and she kept whimpering from her throat.

After about 1 minute, I saw traces of black miasma starting to emerge from Jiang Xinru's body, Shi Xie glanced at it indifferently.

He took out a piece of talisman paper from his pocket, and as soon as he took it out, the body of the talisman paper began to flash with golden light.

The black miasma on Jiang Xinru's body seemed to be sucked by a burst of suction. The black miasma twisted, and finally gathered into a small black mist that slowly broke through the golden-red light on Jiang Xinru's body and floated towards the talisman.

The black miasma was absorbed for about two or three minutes before completely stopping.

Shi Xie squeezed the talisman paper in his hand hard, and saw that the talisman paper was pinched into a small ball, and the talisman paper shone golden again, becoming ordinary.

Shi Xie put the ball of paper into his pocket casually, and saw Jiang Xinru curled up quietly on the ground motionless, and he didn't know if he passed out.

When Shi Xie heard the footsteps behind him, he knew that Xia Yao and the others were coming, and was about to turn to look at him and the others when he heard Baili Qianyan exclaim suddenly.

Shi Xie turned around very quickly, and with a flash of his palm, a year-old pale golden barrier stood in front of several people.

I saw a large group of black mist hitting the light golden barrier at this moment.

Shi Xieben was the barrier he opened in a hurry, and he didn't play a third of his usual capacity. When the mist slammed into his pale golden barrier, he suddenly felt the spiritual energy in his body tremble, and his throat Also tasted a fishy sweet taste.

Shi Xie frowned and swallowed the bloody smell in his mouth, and slowly calmed down the restless spiritual energy in his body. A burst of golden light suddenly burst out from his palms, and the barrier that was originally only pale gold suddenly thickened.

The black mist was finally defeated, and slowly stopped hitting, falling downwards.

Shi Xie frowned, and the golden barrier in front of him suddenly turned into a big hand holding the cloud of black mist.

Hei Mist was also very docile, without the slightest resistance, and meekly let the big golden palm hold it in his hand.

The golden palm flashed with golden light, and the black mist in the palm slowly began to dissipate. After about thirty seconds, the black mist completely dissipated, but a piece of paper was left in the golden palm.

Shi Xie dispersed the golden palm, and the paper slowly floated in front of Shi Xie. Seeing that there was no miasma on the paper, Shi Xie stretched out his hand to hold the paper in his hand.

Baili Qianyan and Shi Lin guarded Shi Xie's sides and nervously watched Shi Xie's movement of opening the paper, fearing that an accident like the one just now would happen.

Just waited for Shi Xie to fully open the page, and nothing unexpected happened.

While Baili Qianyan and Shi Lin breathed a sigh of relief, they looked at the unfolded paper curiously.

There are only six words written on it.

'Thinking of Not Returning——Going to the Countryside Bay'

Seeing the six-character Shi Xie's hole shrink suddenly, even Baili Qianyan couldn't help but exclaimed.

"Is this a hint?"

Shi Xie frowned, of course he knew it was a reminder.

So their every move in the past few days has actually been monitored by someone. From the first time they met Jiang Xinru, they had already entered the trap carefully arranged by that person, just like mice being teased by a cat.

This realization brought the anger in Shi Xie's heart to the peak. He clenched the paper tightly in his hand. Shi Xie pursed his thin lips tightly, his complexion as dark as ink dripping out.

"Cousin, now is not the time to be angry, we don't have much time."

Of course Shi Lin knew what Shi Xie was thinking, so he could only comfort him.

Shi Xie closed his eyes and took a deep breath, just at this time Xia Yao had already come to his side, holding his arms and calling him softly.

Shi Xie turned his head to look at Xia Yao's face, with a stiff smile on his lips, but Xia Yao smiled brightly at him

Content.

"Honey, I'm hungry."

"Okay, let's go eat."

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