The Witch of Xiangxi

Chapter 23 Missing
Not knowing what hidden things to say, that Marie glanced at Xia Xiangxi uneasily when his grandfather asked him.

Xia Xiangxi went down the stilted building knowingly.Just in time to meet He Xuan who came back with a pile of firewood on his back.From a distance, He Xuan was seen wearing Miao clothes without a headscarf, but he seemed to be an authentic Miao.At this time, while walking, he greeted a few Miao girls who were sitting on the roadside stones and smiling at him, speaking a non-standard Miao language.

Xia Xiangxi couldn't help sighing, she was all to blame, if she hadn't given her grandfather that bad idea to deal with Huanhuan, He Xuan wouldn't have suffered, and couldn't leave here!Grandpa also said to think of a proper way to let He Xuan go back.It's just that grandpa hasn't recovered since he was arrested by the ghost messenger, so he can't do anything about He Xuan's matter.We can only wait a few more days.

He Xuan also saw Xia Xiangxi, and smiled brightly at her. At that moment, Xia Xiangxi suddenly remembered the Miao man who always appeared in her mind in a trance, as if there was still something in her mind, She couldn't find it no matter how hard she tried.

If Grandpa hadn't called Xia Xiangxi from the Diaojiao building at this time, she would still be in a daze!
When Xia Xiangxi went upstairs, that Marie also went downstairs. Xia Xiangxi noticed Marie's expression, his face was pale and frightening.

"What's the matter with that man coming to see grandpa?" Xia Xiangxi asked grandpa while turning her head to look at Marie's leaving back, just in time to see He Xuan put down the firewood, holding a peach branch in his hand, the green peach leaves were dotted with scarlet .Xia Xiangxi didn't pay attention at first glance, turned around and realized something was wrong after a while, and ran down the stairs "peddling", came to He Xuan and asked him to take the peach branch.

It’s mid-April now, and the season of peach blossoms has already passed. In addition, the peach trees in the south bloom earlier than those in the north because of the climate. Now I saw some buds on the peach branches.Xia Xiangxi asked He Xuan where he got the peach branch, and He Xuan replied that it was on the peach tree where they went to Huangquan to save their grandfather that night.Xia Xiangxi knew something was wrong, so he hurriedly took the peach branch and ran up the stilted building to show his grandfather.

Grandpa's face changed slightly when he saw the peach branch with flower buds, and he muttered "No wonder!".Xia Xiangxi didn't know what his grandfather meant, so he just asked.Grandpa didn't answer, but just called He Xuan over and said he had something to tell him.

From now on, Xia Xiangxi felt that it was strange that there should be something wrong, but grandpa ignored her and began to trust He Xuan.

At night, Xia Xiang XZ was in the house, and kept peeking at Grandpa's room. After ten o'clock, there was movement in Grandpa's room.Xia Xiangxi heard the sound of grandpa getting dressed and tiptoing out of the room.She felt that there must be something else, and she guessed right!
Xia Xiangxi had already made preparations, and when Grandpa and He Xuan went downstairs, she would lightly follow behind.

Grandpa and He Xuan didn't even know that Xia Xiangxi was coming, and after moving away from the stilted building, they started talking.It's just that Grandpa was worried that everyone around him would fall asleep, so the voice wasn't that loud, so Xia Xiangxi listened half a sentence, and didn't understand it for a long time?
Walking all the way to the westernmost part of the village, there was a house with lights on in the yard. Grandpa and He Xuan walked to the house and knocked on the door, and soon someone came out to answer the door.Grandpa didn't go in, the man closed the door and came out, leading Grandpa and He Xuan out of the village again.

When Xia Xiangxi passed by that family, she happened to see a woman's head sticking out from the crack of the door, looking around, and when she saw Xia Xiangxi, she screamed "Ah" in fright, and flinched. Turning around, he closed the door with a bang, and the lights in the yard went out after a while.

Xia Xiangxi followed her grandfather closely.After passing through the valley, we reached another mountain depression.The three of them stopped slowly, and Xia Xiangxi hurriedly slowed down too, bent over and leaned against the grass on the side of the road as much as possible, so as to prevent Grandpa and the others from seeing her again when they turned their heads.

Xia Xiangxi saw his grandfather and the others found a slope and hid in the bushes.Xia Xiangxi didn't dare to climb up, so he hid himself in the grass not far from them.

I don't know how long he waited, Xia Xiangxi was so bored that he almost fell asleep, only then did he hear a "plop", the sound of something heavy falling into the water.Xia Xiangxi was startled, and her sleepiness was gone. She had been staring at her grandfather just now, and ignored her surroundings. Now that she heard the sound of water, she noticed that there was a pond not far below the slope. .

Tonight's moon is hairy again, except for the white water, which can be seen clearly, the other scenery is dim, as if covered with dust.

There seemed to be something swimming in the pond, and I saw a small black mass swimming freely in the water.After about ten minutes, the group of things swam to the shore and climbed ashore. It turned out to be a person.Judging by the figure of Miaoman, there is no doubt that she is a woman.

The woman didn't wear any clothes, she just sat on the bank and swung her legs by the water, her feet slapped the surface of the water and there was a "pop" sound.

After a while, the woman approached the water again. This time, instead of swimming, she paddled back and forth in the water, as if she was looking for something?While shouting: "Are you hiding me again?" The woman's crisp voice was exceptionally loud in this silent night, and that voice was extremely beautiful.Xia Xiangxi couldn't help thinking that this must be a woman with good looks.

The woman continued to search in the water, and after searching for a long time, she landed on the shore in disappointment, crying "woo woo".

"Haha..." A man's laughter suddenly sounded, and Xia Xiangxi was so frightened that he almost lost his mind.The woman didn't know it, but she saw it clearly. The man seemed to appear out of thin air, and appeared behind the woman all of a sudden.

"You, you're so bad!" The woman flung herself into the man's arms coquettishly, and the man plunged into the water when he tilted his body, pulling the woman into the water, and the two of them played in the water like mandarin ducks.

After playing enough, the two of them swam to the shore, got ashore together and plunged into the grass.The woman was spread on the ground like a snow blanket, allowing the man's body to crawl on it like a worm.

Xia Xiangxi blushed. If she knew that she saw Lushui Yuanyang again, she would not have followed Grandpa and the others here.Fortunately, she followed her secretly, otherwise she would have no place to show her face in front of a few men.

When the man and woman had had enough tossing, the two got together and cuddled together and said a lot of love words before they parted reluctantly.The man went back to the mountains, and the woman went back to the village.

After seeing what happened to Ma Nan, Xia Xiangxi could already easily guess that what happened tonight should be another case of a ghost.It's just that the male and female protagonists have switched roles, the female should be a human, and the male should be a ghost.

After the man left, the three grandpas followed behind the man, and Xia Xiangxi also followed, but after following for a while, she lost track of him and never saw grandpa and the others again.

Xia Xiangxi was in a hurry, so she walked even faster, and tripped over something without paying attention.When she got up, she realized that it was a tree root that tripped her.She looked again and found that she had already arrived at the dilapidated house and the peach tree planted on the ghost gate.

Even though she couldn't see clearly, Xia Xiangxi knew that it was the peach tree root that tripped her.Grandpa said that peach trees are the favorite place for ghosts and ghosts to gather. Although Xia Xiangxi guessed that the roots of the peach tree saved her on Huangquan Road, she was still afraid of seeing this peach tree when she came back here at night.

Shaking his courage, Xia Xiangxi bowed to the peach tree, prayed wildly in his heart, then turned and walked back.She was familiar with the journey, and went back without much effort.

Xia Xiangxi did go back, but his grandfather and He Xuan didn't come back overnight.Xia Xiangxi kept reassuring herself that she must have been too sleepy after she came back, and slept too hard, so she didn't hear the sound of grandpa's return.Even when she saw that Grandpa and He Xuan's rooms were empty, she still thought that Grandpa and the others must have gone out early again.It wasn't until Ma Po became anxious, saying that Grandpa and the others hadn't come back all night, that her legs gave way and she fell to the ground.

Ma Po called the people in the village together to find Grandpa and the others.In the process of searching, Xia Xiangxi realized that there was another person missing in the village, and that was Marie who had come to look for grandpa yesterday.

When I went to knock on the door of Marie's house, Marie's wife was still sleeping in. She was terrified when she knew that her husband disappeared and didn't come back last night.

Xia Xiangxi took a look at the woman named A Zhuo. Even though she hadn't washed and looked a bit embarrassed, she still couldn't stop her beauty.Especially those eyes are as beautiful as jewels.

At first, Xia Xiangxi thought that A Zhuo knew why Marie went to find his grandfather, but he didn't expect that A Zhuo didn't know anything and couldn't come up with any useful clues.

Seeing A Zhuo like this, Ma Po said that there was nothing she could ask, and it would be better to take someone to the mountains to find a few rounds of wasting time here.

Xia Xiangxi didn't give up, "Hit a snake and hit seven inches, dig a tree and dig the roots first." Xia Xiangxi felt that A Zhuo must know something. She looked a little dodgy when she saw A Zhuo talking, which was obviously a little guilty!

Ma Po didn't know what happened last night, Xia Xiangxi also decided not to tell Ma Po for the time being before she figured out what happened, for fear of showing her face.She already knew that Grandpa and He Xuan were taken by Marie to spy on the pair of "wild mandarin ducks" last night. Now she needs to know who the woman is so that she can find clues about the male ghost.

After monitoring Azhuo for a long time, Xia Xiangxi returned disappointed.She hadn't had a bite since morning, and she was starving too, so she went back to the Diaojiaolou to eat something, and she went to take a nap for a while, thinking of recharging her energy before going to stare at Azhuo at night.

As soon as it got dark, Xia Xiangxi changed into black clothes, thinking of continuing to stare outside A Zhuo's house.When she was about to leave, the jade cup that her grandfather gave her on the table kept ringing, making Xia Xiangxi full of curiosity, so she stopped and opened the lid of the jade cup, only then did she realize that the jade cup contained Qi Hao's soul .

Xia Xiangxi is still not very familiar with ghosts. Seeing that Qi Hao's ghost has shrunk a lot, just like a seven or eight-year-old child, I don't know if the ghost will shrink or is it because of other reasons?
(End of this chapter)