The Witch of Xiangxi

Chapter 196
This fifth lady, like that fifth master, used some weird witchcraft to save her life, did she hold her last breath like a living dead?
It's not that Xia Xiangxi is afraid that Wu Niangniang is a human or a ghost. If Wu Niangniang insists on using extraordinary means to continue her tone just like Fifth Master, in order to fulfill her certain responsibilities, Xia Xiangxi will treat Wu Niangniang instead. There is only compassion left.

Although Xia Xiangxi and Shi Wei were under house arrest, fortunately, those living zombies regarded them as saviors, and they did not abuse them except restricting their freedom.

In order to leave here as soon as possible, Xia Xiangxi had no choice but to find a way to find out what caused those people to become living zombies.

Anyway, the place where she and Shi Wei lived was the ancestral hall, and there were so many ghost tablets in the ancestral hall, so it was not bad for Minghao.

Xia Xiangxi asked a person named Fang Chun to make a tablet for Ming Hao, and then offered it to the farthest corner of the row of tablets.With a memorial tablet on the altar, Minghao himself has a home there, and his soul can stay there.

But before he was still hot, Ming Hao got down from the tablet cursing, saying that the owners of other tablets were running on him and bullying him.

Shi Wei scolded Ming Hao for being an idiot and told Ming Hao to look at her.After she finished speaking, Shi Wei stood in front of the altar with her hips akimbo, pointed at those tablets and cursed. "You incompetent idiots who have become ghosts, where did you go when you tortured your children and grandchildren, and now you are here to bully a brat, and you are still eating the incense offered by your descendants with a shy face. Pooh!" Shi Wei Her lips kept moving up and down, and all kinds of vicious curses spewed out along with her spitting stars.

This scolding has been a soft weapon since ancient times. When two armies confront each other on the battlefield, the attacking side will line up and send a scolding general to fight first. All kinds of foul language force the opponent to open the city gate in anger. Under the impatience, he lost the opportunity and gave the opponent a loophole to win.

In the countryside, whenever someone steals chickens or sheep, the owner will go to the street and yell at them.

The same is true for witchcraft, when someone has cast a voodoo, they will use the most vicious curses to intimidate the other party to take the voodoo back.

Dealing with ghosts, as the old saying goes, gods and ghosts are afraid of evil people, and the more you scold them, they won't dare to provoke you.Of course, these methods of using evil to control evil are ineffective against fierce ghosts, and those house ghosts in front of them are just doing this.

After Shi Wei scolded like this, those ghosts who were enshrined on the altar were really honest.

Shi Wei still wanted to ask those ghosts to help find some way to cure the strange disease in this village, but the result was naturally disappointing.

Ghosts are emotionless.If you treat them well, they may not keep you safe, but if you treat them badly, the resentful spirits will come to your door, and all kinds of malicious revenge!
When Xia Xiangxi said these things, Minghao didn't like to listen to them. He was also a ghost, and Xia Xiangxi's words also beat him into it. Of course he was not happy.

Xia Xiangxi snorted coldly and said, "If you really have feelings, why bother obsessing over me? It's not wrong to say that you are a grieving ghost!"

Ming Hao laughed, and said: "I don't know who married me in the dark, you have already been my wife by name, what's wrong with me as a husband pestering my wife?"

Xia Xiangxi knew she was in the wrong, so she shut up and didn't argue with Minghao.I just thought that she was negligent in the past, and should have buried Minghao's ashes with a paper doll or something when he sent Minghao's ashes back to Hangzhou..., I can't take care of it now, and wait until the current troubles are over before I can talk to Minghao Calculate it.

It was dawn at this moment, Xia Xiangxi told Shi Wei that she would go outside to have a look at the feng shui of this village, or she might find something.

The person in charge of taking care of them cannot see the sun, and his skin will fester when exposed to the sun. He warned Xia Xiangxi not to try to escape, so he didn't follow them anymore, but hid in the dark far away Stare at them.

Last night, when Xia Xiangxi took Ming Hao into an old locust tree, he vaguely felt that the old locust tree was a little different. He didn’t come to look carefully at that time, but now it’s dawn, so it’s easier to observe .

Planting locust trees is the most taboo before and after the house.The locust tree is the king of ghosts in the forest, and it loves to provoke ghosts to attach itself to.In addition, since the locust tree is a ghost tree, if it occupies people's feng shui and grows extraordinarily lush, it is inevitable for people to have low luck and family misfortune.

Xia Xiangxi hugged the locust tree with her arms, and she had just embraced it by herself.Such a thick locust tree is at least a hundred years old.Unlike other locust trees, ordinary locust trees will develop wormholes over time, but this one is very healthy, and the color of the bark is not comparable to that of ordinary old trees.Seems to be the same as human beings, with the ability to maintain beauty?

Xia Xiangxi heard from his grandfather that a locust tree that is over a hundred years old will be born with spirit, that is to say, it will have some spiritual energy.It’s fine if it keeps growing there, but if you dislike it as a hindrance, or covet its wood, and want to make something for household use, cut it down, and when you cut it down, red things will flow out of its wood heart, Just like human blood.It will be particularly difficult to use its wood to make furniture or farm tools.Pagoda tree is solid, with high density, and grows much slower than ordinary trees. This is similar to jujube trees. Although it has a thin trunk, it is much heavier than ordinary wood of the same thickness.

Xia Xiangxi looked again at the traces of the locust tree being cut down at the root, leaving a few intricate cuts, but it was not the same as it was cut now, the cuts were already very old.It seems that I wanted to cut down this tree, but then shelved it for some reason.Fortunately, the tree was not felled, otherwise the person who felled the old locust tree would be very unlucky.

A person enshrines a god, and if he is neglected, he will be retaliated against. What's more, trees are within the Three Realms, and they are not considered gods or immortals, but spirits.Both demons and spirits are the most difficult to please.

As long as it is a tree growing on the house, the most taboo thing is to cut it down.If it is really in the way, if it can be transplanted, if it cannot be transplanted, the tree must not be dug up by the roots. It must be sawed with a saw, leave roots for it, and then tie it with red cloth strips.Keeping the root is equivalent to giving it a living, and the red cloth strip is to ward off evil spirits, preventing it from generating resentment and making trouble.If the tree dies in the next year, you can dig out its roots. If it is still sprouting, you can't move it. When it dies, you can dig it again.

Xia Xiangxi turned around and asked about the person named Fang Chun, and replied that someone wanted to cut down the locust tree a few years ago because they thought it might have affected the feng shui in the village, but the night the tree was cut (they Dare not to come out for activities during the day), when it rained suddenly, the person who cut the tree was struck by lightning. Everyone thought that locust tree had become a monster, and no one dared to touch it afterwards.

Xia Xiangxi sighed for a while, she really guessed it right, this tree really has a bit of a monster.Ordinarily, only a thousand-year-old locust tree can become a spirit. Even if she misjudged the age of that old locust tree, a locust tree that is hundreds of years old is not so seductive.unless……

Xia Xiangxi told Shi Wei that she was exhausted after staying up all night, so she should take a rest and go to see the old pagoda tree in the evening.

Shi Wei felt a little strange, and guessed that Xia Xiangxi had spotted something wrong with that locust tree.

At night, Shi Wei asked Xia Xiangxi.Xia Xiangxi nodded and said yes.Shi Wei was puzzled again, if there was really something wrong with the locust tree, how could that Wu Niangniang not see how profound her morality was?

Xia Xiangxi leaned closer to Shi Wei's ear and said, "Don't forget, that fifth lady is already half-human and half-ghost. How can a ghost think that it is a strange and terrifying thing to have the same kind around him? Only humans feel fear and taboo! "

Shi Wei was a little happy when she heard this, and hoped that Xia Xiangxi had found the right source, and she didn't want to stay here anymore, not to mention anything else, the water here is terrible, and the food tastes weird .

Xia Xiangxi was startled, and asked Shi Wei when did she eat the food here?

Shi Wei said: "You were still asleep at that time, I ate the meal they prepared when I was hungry."

Xia Xiangxi frowned, a little regretful, and forgot to tell Shi Wei, don't eat the food here, who knows if they will put some kind of Gu in the food?
Shi Wei said that after eating compressed biscuits for several days, it was really uncomfortable, and she couldn't bear the smell of the food.

Xia Xiangxi didn't bother to study the issue of the old locust tree anymore, so she called Shi Wei back to see Fang Chun, and asked him why the food for Shi Wei was so unpalatable, did he add ingredients to it?Xia Xiangxi suspected that they were playing Gu!
That Fang Chun was eager to defend, saying that they still begged them to help the people in the village to solve the serious disease that afflicted them, so how could they bewitch them?He also said that the water here has a taste and is not delicious, and they have been eating it like this.

It is not uncommon for the water to be unpalatable. Not to mention the mountainous areas, but the deep water wells in the plains are sweet. Some shallow water wells have no strong taste, and some are bitter and astringent. Mostly because of the strata, the water quality in saline-alkali strata is particularly difficult to drink.

For the mountains, although most people say that there are sweet springs in the mountains, but because the minerals rich in the mountains are different, it is hard to tell what kind of taste will be produced.

However, Xia Xiangxi knew this in his heart, but he didn't let down his vigilance. He must let Fang Chun lead them to dig the well water to verify whether he is lying!

(End of this chapter)