The Witch of Xiangxi

Chapter 170

When Xia Xiangxi heard his grandfather say the word "dangerous", he interrupted his grandfather's words and stopped him from continuing.

There is no need to use the worry of life to ask the dead to talk, just for a right or wrong that has long been meaningless!

The only thing Xia Xiangxi would do to help Shi Wei was to help her find her father's remains, so that Shi Wei could fulfill her filial piety.

According to my grandfather, the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year is the day when ghosts and gods come to the world to receive incense and worship.Or on this day, the hidden cemetery can be found again.

On the fifteenth day, the mahogany sword that Grandpa helped Xia Xiangxi make was also ready.Because the peach branches used to make peach wood swords are not thick, and besides the main trunk of the peach tree, it is actually difficult to find a straight and thick section from the branch of the peach tree.The peach tree used to make this peach wood sword is different from other peach trees. The first year of life is longer than ordinary peach trees, but the branches are like peach trees that have not been older than ten years.

Materials are limited, so the mahogany sword made by my grandfather is thinner and shorter than ordinary mahogany swords.On the contrary, Xia Xiangxi felt that the mahogany sword was much more delicate and cute because of it, and it was more convenient to carry, so he liked it very much.

Shi Wei said that the power of the newly forged mahogany sword is unmatched.After she finished speaking, she took out a small gourd the size of a palm, which was filled with fine cinnabar.Shi Wei poured out a pinch of cinnabar, soaked it in the water, then soaked the mahogany sword in the water, and when the sword body was soaked in the cinnabar water, she took out two talisman papers that looked like beasts, and pasted them on the sword respectively. On the body and the hilt of the sword, point the spell again.In the light of the fire, Xia Xiangxi was amazed to see the two beasts on the talisman, respectively appearing from the light of the fire, one wrapped around the body of the mahogany sword like a dragon, and the other wrapped around the hilt of the sword with the head of a jackal and the body of a dragon. .

Grandpa said that the last one is Yaizu. The nine sons of the dragon have their own preferences. Yazi is the second son of the dragon.

When the fire was extinguished, the soot of the talisman paper drifted away.Xia Xiangxi saw her mahogany sword as if it had been carved by someone, presenting an incomparably delicate animal pattern.

Because of this, Ma Po looked at Shi Wei with admiration and said, "Chenzhou Talisman really lives up to its reputation!"

In fact, the origin of spells is in Chenzhou, or because the cinnabar necessary for writing spells is also the first production in Chenzhou, which has created Chenzhou's irreplaceable position in voodoo culture.

Shi Wei smiled, and there was a kind of happiness in that smile because of being affirmed.Then she said to Xia Xiangxi: "This is a spell, it is not really engraved on the sword body, so if it is stained with dirty things tabooed by spells, it will disappear. You must be careful when using it!"

Xia Xiangxi nodded and remembered.

The two girls set off on the night of the fifteenth day, heading for the place they were already familiar with.

When I got there, I still saw the cemetery that once appeared. Xia Xiangxi carefully observed the trees in this area, and after a lot of effort, he finally found two trees with the same height and thickness, and compared with other wild wild trees. The long trees, these two are more like planted artificially, they are all in a line, like two door frames of a door.

Shi Wei asked Xia Xiangxi with some uncertainty, "Is it okay?"

Xia Xiangxi carefully pasted the statues of the door gods on the two trees, and said after pasting, "Try it and you will know. The method grandpa said should be effective!"

If there is indeed a ghost village hidden here that people don't want to be known, then there will be a village entrance if it is a village, and a village gate if it is a village. According to grandpa, if you invite the two door gods, then don't care if it is the gate of God or the gate of ghosts. , will appear.The door god should be attached to the door.

After Xia Xiangxi burned incense and worshiped the two door gods devoutly, the statues of the two door gods did not fall from the tree. Xia Xiangxi was overjoyed and felt that grandpa's method really worked.He recited the formula taught by his grandfather three times, and finally shouted to the two big trees: "The gate of heaven is opened, the gate of human beings is opened, the gate of ghosts is opened by ghosts, hurry like a law!"

When the spell landed, the two trees seemed to come to life suddenly, as if moving in parallel on both sides, and a mist drifted away in front of my eyes. When the mist disappeared, the cemetery that Xia Xiangxi and Shi Wei saw a few days ago had appeared .

Shi Wei was so excited that her body began to tremble a little, like a wound that had just healed, and the scab that had just formed was slowly torn off again, soaked in blood!

Xia Xiangxi patted Shi Wei on the shoulder, signaling her to be stronger.But Shi Wei still didn't dare to go to the front.Xia Xiangxi could understand Shi Wei's fear.It should be a kind of ambivalence between wanting to see and fearing to see.Shi Wei was afraid of actually seeing her father's dead body, so she really didn't have any fantasies to comfort her.

The difference from the first time they came here is that Xia Xiangxi and Shi Wei did not see the ghost village, but only saw a cemetery, covered with weeds, and one by one mounds stood side by side, large and small tombstones, there are Some of them are skewed and some are poured down.

Some of the graves seemed to have been dug up by wild beasts and the like, and some corpses were dragged out of the graves, and the same ones had their necks bitten off and their stomachs ripped open.

Not far away, crows were crowing rhythmically, making the night more terrifying and gloomy, and the moonlight in the sky also became weird.

"It's a corpse monkey!" Shi Wei said, pointing at the trampled corpses.

Xia Xiangxi remembered the night she met Shi Wei and was rescued from the paw of a corpse monkey. At that moment, she knew that there are people in this world who raise that kind of evil live Gu.

However, at this moment, they have no time to care about things that have nothing to do with them.It is important to find the body of Shi Wei's father Shi Guoguang.

Because those ancient corpses disturbed the sight, Xia Xiangxi and Shi Wei struggled to find Shi Guoguang's corpse.

Finally they found a horribly mutilated and maggot-ridden corpse.Different from other corpses, although this corpse is also severely decomposed, only this corpse has maggots, which proves that this corpse is fresher than other corpses!

Shi Wei cried and spread the sack on the ground, and put the broken corpses full of live maggots into the sack piece by piece.The live maggots on the rotten meat followed Shi Wei's hands, and kept crawling towards Shi Wei's arms and body, like balls of rice that could move. , ran to the side and vomited.At this moment, Xia Xiangxi was asked to help Shi Wei, but he really couldn't help.

Shi Wei put her father's bones in the sack alone, and walked back with Xia Xiangxi crying.

When Xia Xiangxi was about to leave the cemetery, Xia Xiangxi suddenly felt a cold air coming from her back. She was quick-witted, holding the mahogany sword, without looking at it, and stabbing at the back first.

With a "poof", Xia Xiangxi's body was splashed with liquid as cold as ice. When she looked back, the mahogany sword had already stabbed a male ghost in the chest. The male ghost had ears like donkeys and a nose like a fox. , except for the human-like eyes and mouth, the whole face is already more like a beast.However, Xia Xiangxi took a closer look, and from the distorted and mutated face of the male ghost, he could still see that this male ghost was very similar to Shi Guoguang!No, to be precise, this is not a male ghost, but a zombie!

The mahogany sword pierced the zombie, and a ball of blue fire was released from the sword, igniting the zombie's body, and soon "crackling" burning.The zombie howled in pain.Xia Xiangxi gave it another talisman, and after Xia Xiangxi pulled the mahogany sword out of the zombie's body, the zombie slowly began to disappear in the flames like an ice cube melted by fire.

Shi Wei carried her father's body on her back, and had no time to pay attention to what happened on Xia Xiangxi's side. She was still crying while walking forward.

Xia Xiangxi originally wanted to tell Shi Wei that the zombie looked like Shi Guoguang, seeing that Shi Wei had already gone far away, she could only dispose of the zombie in a hurry, and then went to chase Shi Wei.

If an ordinary person dies miserably, the three souls and seven souls on his body will be frightened away.

Shi Guoguang died miserably, the three souls must have long since disappeared from the body.So before Shi Wei buried Shi Guoguang's body, she had to find a way to collect his soul again.

In addition, Shi Guoguang's body was rotten and mutilated, so he could not be buried in this way.The corpse is full of bad luck, which will bring bad luck to Shi Guoguang in the underworld and Shi Wei in the future, so Shi Guoguang's corpse should be buried with bones.

Bone-washing burial means second burial.Generally, after a person dies, the first burial is temporarily buried, or the coffin is temporarily parked. After a period of time, the bones of the deceased are decomposed, and then the bone cheese is collected to hold a bone burial ceremony, and the bone cheese of the deceased is buried in the grave.Since the remains of the deceased have to be excavated and opened, washed with water, placed in an urn or wooden box before burial, it is commonly known as bone-washing burial or bone-picking burial.

Such burial customs can be traced back to prehistoric times in cemeteries.Records in historical materials: such as the Banpo Site of the Yangshao Culture Period, the Dabokou Site of Shandong, the Hougang Site of Anyang, the Beishouling Site of Baoji, the Prehistoric Cultural Site of Lintiao Siwa Mountain in Gansu, the Yinze Cultural Site, and the Qujialing Cultural Site, etc. There is a phenomenon of secondary burial.There are three types of single-person secondary burials, multi-person secondary burials, and mixed primary and secondary burials.

The emergence of the bone-washing burial custom is closely related to the concept of "immortality of the soul", which is a common concept among ancient people after death.Why do we have to dig out the remains of the dead and wash them with water and bury them again?Although there are many reasons, the most important one is to remove evil spirits, that is, to remove the disasters brought by the ancestors to future generations.

It is commonly believed that the remains are the habitat of the soul of the deceased, that is, the remains are the body of the deceased, and the remains should be clean and sacred so that the soul can rest in peace. If the remains are polluted, the soul will haunt people.Flesh and blood are mortal and dirty. Therefore, when the body of the dead is exhausted, the bones must be reburied to show care and awe for the dead, so that the soul of the dead can be at peace and no longer endanger the living.

(End of this chapter)