The Witch of Xiangxi

Chapter 217 Backlash Curse ([-])

Grandpa sensed Xia Xiangxi's strangeness, so he asked Xia Xiangxi, "Granddaughter, what's wrong with you?"

Very harsh word "granddaughter"!Xia Xiangxi's heart tightened, she hugged her grandfather's arm tightly, helped him to a place away from the smoke, and said to him, "Grandpa, do you still remember what you told me about the corpse? ?”

Grandpa seemed to think hard for a while, and then said: "It happened a long time ago!"

Xia Xiangxi nodded and said: "Grandpa's memory is not very good recently, I think Grandpa may have forgotten it! But I still remember that incident clearly, because I was too young to be frightened back then, so I don't care about that incident. This time, the memory is particularly deep!"

Grandpa laughed twice, and said repeatedly, "Yes! Yes!"

Xia Xiangxi went on to say: "Let me tell Grandpa about that incident again! Grandpa may be able to remember it!"

Grandpa laughed again and said "Okay!"

That was when Xia Xiangxi was about ten years old.

Xia Xiangxi lives in Xiajia Village with her grandfather.The names of villages in rural areas are mostly related to people's surnames or terrain, such as Xiajia Village, and you can tell that everyone in the village should have the surname Xia!
Chinese people attach great importance to inheriting their ancestors.What kind of business is run by the parents, unless they are not very good, if they are a little bit famous, they must let the children and grandchildren inherit the ancestral business.One is for the children and grandchildren to take up the job of the ancestors, so that they can have a good meal, and on the other hand, it is also forbidden for those grandparents to cherish the foundation they created by themselves like a feather. It's ruined!

The grandparents in the grandfather's family were the famous "magic fortune tellers" in the local area. When it came to the grandfather's generation, the grandpa grandfather carried forward the reputation of this "magic fortune teller", and everyone in the local area knew it.Grandpa's temper is not as eccentric as grandpa's.Grandpa was generous, easy-going and easy to get in touch with.If the neighbors lost a chicken or something, ask grandpa, and grandpa will help to figure it out. If you point to the east, you will look east; , you will be able to find it!If the grandpa said that there is no need to look for it, it probably entered the internal organs of the chicken thief and could never be found again.

In addition, grandpa is nicknamed "God" by the local people, which means that if grandpa said it was going to rain, it would rain; It's still cloudy!Not long after you walk out, you can see the sun making your face blush.At that time or before liberation, there was no weather forecast at all.If someone is planning to go out for a long time, he must ask his grandpa to see if there will be rainy days on the road after he leaves, and he dares to go out only after his grandpa said that it is sunny!
With his "magic fortune teller" and good temper towards others, his grandfather has quite a bit of prestige in the local area.Grandpa was respected by others, so he paid more attention to those abilities in him, and wanted to let grandpa inherit it.However, although Grandpa was born before liberation, he grew up in the modern society after liberation. Although he was talented and intelligent, he was influenced by the times and wanted to read more books. Grandpa's class.Grandpa used family law to make grandpa kneel in front of the ancestral memorial tablet for three days and three nights. Grandpa couldn't stand it any longer, so he was forced to give up his ideals and started to learn fortune-telling and feng shui from grandpa.

This later became the thing that my grandfather regretted the most before he died!If he hadn't forced his grandpa to follow him to learn fortune-telling and watch yin and yang houses, grandpa wouldn't have been persecuted in that turbulent era, and suffered a lot with grandpa.

In the end, the grandfather did not survive the ten-year Cultural Revolution and died in the cowshed.Grandpa survived those ten years, and then his temper became eccentric, which is the personality change that ill-fated people will have after suffering.

However, the character will change, the heart will not change.Grandpa is still kind-hearted, but he no longer easily surrenders his trust and trust in others.

It is the kind heart of grandpa covered under the iceberg that makes Xia Xiangxi, who was rejected by her relatives at birth, have the opportunity to live until now.

Grandpa never had a family all his life, and Xia Xiangxi never asked her why she didn't have grandma and parents like other children.She has been dependent on her grandfather since she was sensible.If there is nothing at home, grandpa will always tell her that because their family is poor, they don't have things that other people have.So she also thought later, maybe their family is too poor, so she has no parents, not even a grandma!
Unhappy children will feel that there is something missing in their lives?He has parents like the children in Xia Xiangxi's neighbor's house, but he always doubts whether he is born in their family, and always says that one day he will find his own biological parents.So what if there are parents?Without the love of parents, it is like nothing but nothing, and I still feel unbalanced and lack of warmth in my heart.Only cold people will seek warmth.Xia Xiangxi has never felt too cold, her grandfather always loves her very much, and because of the respect and fear of her grandfather, outsiders never dare to laugh at Xia Xiangxi as a child who has no father or mother. Wild child, in this way Xia Xiangxi will never feel that the absence of parents will affect her, and she will not feel inferior, so she will not think too much about those who do not exist in her life!

The father and son depended on each other for life, and the grandfather would take Xia Xiangxi with him wherever he went!
When Xia Xiangxi was ten years old, something happened in a nearby village, because his grandfather took Xia Xiangxi with him at that time, and Xia Xiangxi almost suffered disaster at that time.From then on, even if grandpa had learned enough lessons, he would never take Xia Xiangxi to catch ghosts again.If someone comes to beg, push it if you can, and if you can't push it, guide them to find another Mr. Yin Yang nearby.

That time, it was because a distant relative of my grandfather asked my grandfather to take Qiu with me, so my grandfather took Xia Xiangxi to Motou Village, which was twenty miles away from Xiajia Village.

There are few places of high elevation in the northern plains.Even if there is it is on some earth dams.Rivers and ponds are quite common.When Xia Xiangxi was a child, the weather was not as dry as it is now.When she was a child, she would be afraid when summer came. The TV either reported floods in the south or floods in the north.She was always afraid that the place where she lived would be flooded again!

There are two relatively large ponds outside Motou Village.In summer, the pond is full of water.Someone contracted the pond and raised fish in the pond, thinking of making a fortune.For this reason, lotus roots were introduced from other places.Originally, there were no lotus flowers in the area where Xia Xiangxi lived.Because there are no big rivers passing through their area, there is little snowfall and precipitation in the north in winter, and the pond will dry up in winter due to drought.The lotus cannot live without water.Such conditions naturally prevent the growth of lotus flowers.So even the local old people have never seen a real lotus.

That year, because some people were raising fish, the water in the pond was short of water, and water would be poured into the pond from the motorized well for irrigating the farmland. When there was water, there were fish, and the lotus brought from other places also sprouted in Motou Village. root.

In summer, naughty children will go down to the pond to seek the coolness of the water, and soak in the water to escape the heat.The children in Motou Village, because of the pond being contracted by someone this year, could not go into the water because they watched the cool water.And the legendary lotus seeds, which are so delicious, tempt those children among the clusters of lotus leaves and flowers.

Two well-known mischievous children sneaked into the water while the people who contracted the pond were eating at noon.They only thought that the water in the pond was still as deep as in previous years, ignoring the person who contracted the pond, and dug the pond deeper in order to raise fish.One of the children stabbed down and never came up again.The other one was only focused on picking the lotus seeds that were said to be very delicious, and did not go to the deep water, thus saving his life.The child who picked the lotus was frightened when he found that his companion hadn't come up for a long time.Desperately swam ashore and called for help.It's a pity that everyone in the village who can swim has been mobilized, but the child still hasn't been found.

Chinese people have a saying that "you need to see people when you are born, and you need to see corpses when you die", and they must let the dead go to the ground to rest in peace. The parents of drowned children try their best to salvage their children's bodies, which is also trustworthy. The distant relative who was looking for grandpa begged on grandpa's head.

Grandpa went to the pond, counted the other four fingers with his thumb, and then told the child's parents that the child could not be found because the child had plunged into the mud.To do this, we must first worship the Lord of the Land, and let the Lord of the Land show mercy and release the child.

The child's parents, according to the grandfather's instructions, prepared contraband and joss sticks, and worshiped the Lord of the Land.Afterwards, Grandpa sent people to salvage in the direction he pointed out, and this time the child's body was indeed salvaged.The child's body, mouth, and nose were all covered with mud. When the onlookers saw it, they were really hit by what grandpa said. The child was really stuck in the mud. No wonder so many people tried to salvage it but couldn't get it out.

The child's body was found, and the child's parents were heartbroken, but crying was useless.The child's parents thanked the grandfather and took the child's body home to buy a coffin for burial.

Grandpa was planning to take Xia Xiangxi home after finishing his work, but the fish farmer grabbed him and asked him to stay and help him find a way to get rid of his evil spirits.Because once a person is drowned in a place with water, the drowned person will become a water ghost.The water ghost must drag the living person down to drown, and then act as its substitute before it can be reincarnated.The person who raises fish, who spends all day raising and feeding fish in the pond, is naturally afraid that one day, the person dragged down by the water ghost will be himself.So he begged his grandpa to help him get rid of the water ghost who drowned in the water.

After the grandfather agreed, he took out a copper coin, tied it to the fishing line of the fishing rod, and went down into the water, trying to cast a spell to catch the water ghost in the water.Unexpectedly, it was the water ghost that failed to catch the water ghost, but grandpa found a big trouble!

(End of this chapter)