The Witch of Xiangxi

Chapter 230 Human Cocoon
"What is that woman? Did you see it?" Shi Wei sat on the bed swinging her long legs, tilting her head slightly, with a look of careful consideration.

Xia Xiangxi looked at the candle on the table.Now even the poorest and backward mountains are connected to electricity. The era of electric lights and telephones upstairs and downstairs has spread from the city to the countryside. However, Ji Xu's home is still lit by candles.

In addition, during the day, although Ji's house is too shady, the air is fresh and refreshing. Now it is different at night. It looks like it has become a plateau area, lacking oxygen, and breathing is particularly uncomfortable.

"Let's wait and see! I'm starting to think that we were almost drowned by the water ghost. It should have something to do with that Huaimi!" Xia Xiangxi couldn't tell for the time being, what exactly was that Huaimi?It is certain that Huai Mi has no body aura.If it's a goblin, Huai Mi doesn't have a goblin aura, but instead has a ghostly aura that only ghosts can have.

The sound of unknown insects came from outside the window, one after another.

It was late at night, so the sound of insects sounded particularly harsh.Xia Xiangxi lay on the hard kang, tossing and turning sleeplessly.

Shi Wei also seemed to be unable to sleep, she kept twisting her body, as if she had lice on her body.Xia Xiangxi didn't care at first, but after a long time, Xia Xiangxi felt something was wrong, don't let Shi Wei feel uncomfortable anymore.When she sat up and looked at Shi Wei who was sleeping in the kang, she was almost scared out of her wits.Where is Shi Wei in front of me?It is simply a giant cocoon!

Xia Xiangxi grabbed the mahogany sword and slashed at the human cocoon.This mahogany sword is effective against ghosts and spirits, and the wooden sword can't hurt people at all. However, Xia Xiangxi was afraid of hurting Shi Wei, so he tried to control his strength as much as possible.But to Xia Xiangxi's surprise, there was no change at all when the mahogany sword struck the human-shaped cocoon.Xia Xiangxi tried many times, and her strength became stronger and stronger.Shi Wei inside seemed to be hurt by Xia Xiangxi's torment, so Xia Xiangxi had to give up.

After thinking for a while, Xia Xiangxi finally found the key to the problem.The silkworm cocoon enclosing Shi Wei is made of plant branches and leaves. Wood and wood are harmless. If you want to overcome wood, you can only use "gold" among the five elements. (Note: The gold in the five elements does not refer to gold, but generally refers to metals.

Fortunately, Xia Xiangxi found a pair of scissors in the room, and used the pair of scissors to cut open the green cocoon, and then peeled Shi Wei out of the green cocoon layer by layer like peeling a rice dumpling.

Shi Wei's face had already turned purple, and she was bored.There is also a layer of tree root-like hairs on the body.Xia Xiangxi sprinkled cinnabar on Shi Wei's body again, which completely made her okay.

If it was normal, with Shi Wei's temper, she would have started cursing already.Today she knows she is in a tiger's den!Strongly suppressing his emotions, he only ground his teeth to make a rattling sound.

Xia Xiangxi now also knows what kind of fairy that Huai Mi is!At that time, she saw that Huai Mi was covered with a layer of green hair follicles.Just now Shi Wei was afraid that she almost became the "human cocoon" that her grandfather said. The story of "Human Cocoon" was told by Grandpa to Xia Xiangxi, but it happened to Grandpa.

Grandpa and grandpa are well-informed people.Especially grandpa, because of the age relationship, during the time when grandpa lived, he encountered many anecdotes and strange things.

"Human cocoon" is one of them.

My grandfather said that when my grandfather was young, in order to seek higher attainments, my grandfather went to Maoshan, the birthplace of Maoshan Taoism.

Maoshan Taoist priests come from the "Maoshan sect" of Taoism.Maoshan Sect is a Taoist sect formed with Maoshan as its ancestral home.It is inherited from the Shangqing School, which is another name for the Shangqing School with Maoshan as the development center.Its actual creator is Tao Hongjing.The disciples of Maoshan sect are collectively called Maoshan Taoist priests.

After staying in Maoshan for a period of time, the young and energetic grandpa thought that his skills had improved, so he went down the mountain.Grandpa traveled all the way to Enshi, Hubei.Grandpa came to a village surrounded by mountains and rivers.The scenery of the village is very beautiful, there is a stream in front of the village, ancient trees beside the village, and green hills behind the village.At first, my grandfather didn't know which nationality the village belonged to, let alone the local customs.

When the grandfather went there, it happened to catch up with the Dong people's "Moon Ye".Young men and women from one village of the Dong nationality go to another Dong village as a guest according to the agreement, during which activities such as Lusheng competition and antiphonal singing will be held.Grandpa was young and unrestrained, so he couldn't help but stay and participate.

This time on the "Yue Ye", the grandfather was attracted by a woman of the Dong nationality and invited him to live in her home.Grandpa didn't think much about it at the time, thinking that the people here were hospitable and hospitable, seeing that he was a foreigner, he kindly took him in, so he agreed.

Later, the grandfather drank with other young people and met a fake Dong man.This fake Dong man is actually a Han.Because of some grievances in the world, he fled to the Dong village. He was talented and smart, and he learned the Dong dialect within two years, and then he regarded himself as a Dong person.

Isn't there such a sentence? "My hometown sees my fellow countrymen, with tears in my eyes!", the fake Dong man finally met his grandfather, a Han nationality, and began to chatter at his grandfather with endless homesickness.Grandpa called him Brother Lin, and he called Grandpa Brother Xia, and the two soon became close like brothers.

During the period, we talked about the customs of the Dong people.Only then did my grandfather know that the Dong people have a special marriage custom. Women have a saying that they "do not stay in their husband's house". Married women cannot live in their husband's house after marriage and before giving birth, except for festivals and festivals when their husbands come to pick them up.A woman has to stay at her mother's house until she becomes pregnant before going to her husband's house.During the period of long-term residence in her natal family, a married woman is still a member of her natal family as she was before marriage, and participates in labor with her father and brother, and enjoys the rights of a girl, freely associates with men and even has sex, and has children.

Grandpa was so scared that he broke into a cold sweat, and only then did he realize that the Dong woman was not simply being hospitable, and inviting him to live in her house was another layer of thought.

Grandpa took advantage of the "Yue Ye" before it was over, and left that place as if escaping.When it was dark, grandpa realized that he was too flustered, lost his way, stuck in the mountains and couldn't get out.

Grandpa was really tired, so he wanted to find a place to rest.He knew that there were snakes and wild beasts in the mountains. To be on the safe side, he found an old tree about a hundred years old. On the branch, use the jacket to twist into a rope, tie your waist to the branch, and spend the night in the tree like this.

Grandpa thinks this is the safest way to sleep outdoors.Unexpectedly, after sleeping until midnight, grandpa suddenly felt something was wrong, as if he was bound by something, the more he struggled, the tighter he was bound.Grandpa didn't know what happened to him at the time, so he tried many methods but couldn't save himself.

It seems that grandpa's life should not die. When grandpa was dying, grandpa touched the dagger in his waist for self-defense, and then he rescued himself smoothly with the help of that dagger.

Grandpa fell down from the tree, and looked carefully at the luxuriant old tree by the moonlight, only to find that there were many cocoon-like things hanging on the tree, but they were bigger than the cocoons.After dawn, the grandfather cut open a cocoon and found that it was actually a human bone.Only then did he understand that it was a tree that could eat people, it could wrap its prey up like a spider, and then slowly eat it.

Grandpa knew that the tree was the Dryad.To deal with such a tree spirit, you can't cut it off directly to break its future troubles.As the saying goes, "To cut the grass, you have to get rid of the roots.", let alone such a dryad?The roots of the tree are often twice the size of the tree body, and it would be an unimaginably large project to dig out all the roots.But if this tree spirit is not removed, it is unknown how many people will die under its tree again in the future.

Grandpa thought hard for a long time under the tree, but he couldn't think of a comprehensive solution.Coincidentally, grandpa met an ordinary old woman of the Dong nationality, and it was that humble old woman who taught grandpa a way to successfully subdue the tree spirit.

It's a pity that grandpa only told Xia Xiangxi the story, not the tree spirit that the old woman of the Dong nationality taught grandpa how to get rid of.It is only said that the grandpa was young and vigorous, with no one in his eyes. After meeting that ordinary Dong woman, he began to understand the saying "There is a sky outside the sky, and there are people outside the people", and he has become humble since then.

Grandpa told Xia Xiangxi about his grandfather's experience in life, but he didn't tell her the method that his grandfather learned to subdue tree spirits. Now it became something that Xia Xiangxi felt very sorry for. If he knew how his grandfather dealt with it back then As for the tree spirit, it is much easier for her to deal with the locust tree spirit in front of her now.

"It's a dryad!" Xia Xiangxi approached Shi Wei and said in a low voice.

Shi Wei immediately replied in a low voice: "Is that the old pagoda tree spirit?"

Xia Xiangxi nodded.Fairies like to use names that are close to their original identities, just like Hu Li is actually a fox, this Huai Mi must be Huai Mi!

Shi Wei felt a little strange that she was the only one who got the trick. When talking about this, Xia Xiangxi said that it should be the problem of the clothes.Shi Wei was wearing that Huai Mi's clothes, and she was wearing that Ji Xu's.At that time, she still took out his clothes for her to wear because of that Ji Xu, and felt a little awkward, but now she is really thankful.Otherwise, both she and Shi Wei would be wrapped into zongzi and eaten by that goblin Huaimi!

Shi Wei cursed angrily, saying that she and Ji Xu are still classmates?This time Ji Xu didn't care about Nian's classmate's affection at all, but instead opened up to Xia Xiangxi, which made her a little puzzled.

Xia Xiangxi could only say: "It's useless to worry about those things, let's think about what we should do in front of us!"

Shi Wei gritted her teeth and said, "I've made a deal with that goblin, who made her dare to touch me? What if I don't give her some flair?"

Xia Xiangxi nodded.In fact, she thought that even if she and Shi Wei were not prepared to deal with that locust tree spirit, they would not be able to escape safely at this time!Looking at the window, it was so dark that even the slightest bit of starlight could not pass through, it must have been sealed.

(End of this chapter)