The Witch of Xiangxi

Chapter 235 Strange Taste

After what happened with Huai Mi, Xia Xiangxi no longer dared to take out the Yinming Mirror casually.

Shi Wei said that it is like a fortune teller who can count other people's fortunes, but not his own.God is fair, after you get a kind of privilege and benefit, you must lose some from other places.

Xia Xiangxi nodded and said, "So, when we get old in this industry, we will all suffer from backlash!"

Shi Wei looked at it very openly, and felt that everything didn't matter.In this world, the more you want what you want, the less you can get it. If you don't care, everything will be calm.

Xia Xiangxi smiled, agreeing.

In the morning, Xia Xiangxi saw the dazzling red clouds in the sky.There is a saying that "the morning glow does not go out, and the sunset travels a thousand miles!" It means that if there is a morning glow in the morning, it means that the day is very humid, and it will rain. If the weather is bad, don't go out. On the contrary, if there is a sunset glow, then the next day will be a big day On sunny days, you can go out boldly with confidence!
Shi Wei said: "Let's hurry up! If it rains too much, we will not be able to enter the mountain!"

Xia Xiangxi nodded, what Shi Wei said was the truth.

But in a hurry, the two girls were still blocked by heavy rain and drenched in water.Fortunately, they rushed to a village in time, and another kind mother-in-law opened the door to let them in to shelter from the rain temporarily.

When Xia Xiangxi entered that mother-in-law's house, she felt something was wrong.She sniffed the smell in the air vigorously, and most of the smell of rain that got into her nostrils confused her sense of smell, and she didn't smell the smell she suspected.

The sky was gloomy, and my mother-in-law's house was still the kind of low earthen house, and it was dark when I entered it.

The mother-in-law carried a lantern in her hand.Lighting objects such as lanterns, since the popularization of flashlights, it has been rare for people to carry lanterns for lighting.Lanterns are not extinct, but have lost their original function and become a kind of decoration that symbolizes the festive atmosphere.During the Spring Festival, there are still many people who like to hang two red lanterns at the gate. The lanterns are also embedded with light bulbs, not the original candles or pine oil.

When Xia Xiangxi saw the lantern for the first time, he felt that the lantern was very special.

The color doesn't look like ordinary paper lanterns either.Yingying Zhuozhuo felt that there seemed to be some textures on the paper pasted on the lanterns. It is impossible to have such textures on ordinary paper or oil paper, so Xia Xiangxi was very surprised what material the lantern paper was made of?

In addition, the candles lit inside also had a strange smell when they burned, as if there was an indescribable disgusting smell.

"You go when the rain stops, I don't keep any strangers here overnight!" Under the weak light of the lantern, Xia Xiangxi saw that the mother-in-law was wearing that kind of blue clothes with big buttons.Xia Xiangxi has seen this kind of clothes in her hometown. Old ladies in their 90s like to wear this kind of clothes, and old ladies who are younger than teens like to wear that kind of Tang suit. Old ladies in their 60s don’t see traces of traditional Han costumes at all. They tend to dress fashionably, pay attention to taste and temperament, and dare to wear clothes more than young people.

The clothes were all wet, so Shi Wei thought about asking the mother-in-law to borrow some clothes to change into, but Xia Xiangxi interrupted her in the middle of the conversation.After the mother-in-law walked out, Shi Wei asked Xia Xiangxi if she was afraid of what happened to Huai Mi last time.
Xia Xiangxi nodded seriously, and said, "I think something is wrong! Do you know this village?"

Shi Wei thought for a while before saying: "Don't tell me I really didn't pay attention. I know all the villages I passed by in this area. But I was caught in the rain and just ran away. I didn't pay much attention to the road, or I just ran away. I have no impression of this village. When the rain stops, I will take a closer look and see if I recognize it!"

When Shi Wei said that, Xia Xiangxi suddenly lost his mind.Naturally, she also knew that in broad daylight, it was impossible for her to wander into a ghost village by mistake.But the old lady in front of her didn't feel very good to her. When the rain stopped, it was necessary to leave as soon as possible.

Xia Xiangxi turned to look in front of the small table, where the oil lamp was like beans, and the dim yellow light reflected confusingly, like a dream, and the light seemed to be looking at Xia Xiangxi with curious eyes.Not long after, a crimson flower bloomed in the orange flame, but when the flower bloomed, the flame would dim quietly.Xia Xiangxi naturally knew that it was Denghua'er.When Xia Xiangxi was a child, although electricity was connected to the village, due to insufficient power supply, there were frequent power outages.It's rare enough to have electricity for two or three hours a day.

After Xia Xiangxi went to junior high school, the first thing she did when she came home from school was to ask her grandpa if he had electricity.Grandpa always said that there was electricity before dark, and it stopped after dark.Xia Xiangxi always complained at that time, who still uses electric lights during the day?At night, when the lights, TV, and fan are needed, it runs out of electricity.Therefore, Xia Xiang used kerosene lamps to illuminate his homework for a long time in his student career.Today's children probably don't know what a candle is and what an oil lamp is.

It is even more incomprehensible to use a kerosene lamp to illuminate the flickering when doing homework, and the feeling that the nostrils are all black after finishing the homework.At that time, when Xia Xiangxi was doing homework, besides the oil lamp, he had to prepare a needle, and when the wick was turned on, he would use the needle to pick out the lamp flower.

The feeling of the lantern flowers blooming at this time made Xia Xiangxi suddenly have a feeling of reviving her childhood memories, and she actually had a kind feeling for the lantern flowers.When she couldn't find anything to light the lantern, she took out a dagger instead, but after she finished picking the lantern, she realized that the lamp oil on the dagger was not the kerosene she knew, but a slightly yellowish turbid Oil.The oil resembled the lard she had seen as a child.

In rural areas, when electricity supply is insufficient, candles are only used by wealthy and wealthy families.Because candles are not only expensive, they are not as long as kerosene lamps.If it is used for lighting, a single candle can be burned in about an hour, and if calculated, it costs more than electricity, which is unbearable for poor families.

At that time, there was a family in Xiajia Village who butchered pigs and sold meat, because he asked his grandfather to do something, and after the matter was settled, the butcher sent him a pig intestine to express his gratitude, but his grandfather refused to accept it. Then another pig's lung was sent.Grandpa actually likes to eat pig intestines the most. As for pig lungs, there is a folk saying "what to eat to make up for anything". It is said that pig lungs are also a good thing for grandpa who likes to smoke, but Xia Xiangxi dare not eat animals Grandpa didn't want him to eat the internal organs. Xia Xiangxi watched dryly and refused again.Seeing that his grandfather refused again, the butcher blushed after holding back for a long time, and then he seemed to be frightened enough to make up his mind, and told his grandfather that he would send him another piece of pork liver.

Grandpa felt uneasy when he saw that the butcher didn't deliver anything. He laughed and said that it wasn't because he thought it was too little, but that the things the butcher gave were not what he wanted.

The butcher's face turned pale all of a sudden, and he hurriedly said, "Old man, there's no pork left! It's all reserved for buyers. My own son wants to eat meat, so he doesn't even have to keep a piece of it!"

(End of this chapter)