The Witch of Xiangxi

Chapter 236 Fairy Lady ([-])

Grandpa smiled and said: "I can't afford that pork, and I never dare to think about it. I mean, can you give me some lard, I want to make a candle for my granddaughter!"

The butcher breathed a sigh of relief.Pork suet was very cheap in those days.The butcher generously gave Grandpa a big piece.Grandpa put pork suet into an iron pan to make oil.But after the oil was left to cool, Grandpa spent a lot of thought and failed to make candles.Later I heard people say that only butter can be used to make candles with local methods, and lard is not as good.Grandpa poured lard into the original kerosene lamp and replaced it with kerosene, and it could still light up and smell good.

Before her eyes, Xia Xiangxi saw the oil on the dagger, which seemed to be the lard her grandfather had used before, but it didn't smell like it. When it burned, it had a rancid smell, which was very unpleasant and choked her nose.

Shi Wei said something more vivid, she said that the smell of the candle was like the smell of a rotting corpse!
Shi Wei's words immediately reminded Xia Xiangxi.She suddenly remembered that when she first arrived in Miao Village, Ma Po used her body to subdue Huanhuan. At that time, Huanhuan threw an earthen jar full of corpse oil at her body, and Ma Po commanded her body, She dodged left and right, but still did not dodge, splashing corpse oil on her body.Later, because Grandpa asked Aunt Ma for chicken blood to wash her dead body oil, Ma Po was reluctant to use her own chicken and stole a rooster from another family to replace it. After killing her, from the beginning to the end, she still didn't know what would hurt her if she didn't wash off the corpse oil?
Looking back now, the smell of the candle is really no different from the smell of the corpse oil!
Xia Xiangxi approached Shi Wei and said, "Did you pay attention to the lantern that the mother-in-law is holding? I think there is something wrong with that lantern, it's not like ordinary lanterns!"

Shi Wei's face changed, she was not as careful as Xia Xiangxi, she really didn't pay attention before, but after hearing Xia Xiangxi's words, she remembered something.That was also the legend she had heard.

For nearly 100 years, the local people have been talking about a fairy girl who likes to skin the beautiful women.

This fairy is also a person who understands witchcraft, also known as "Gang Xian", but she is different from ordinary wizards and Gu Po.This fairy lady is a person who does not need to learn witchcraft, but can learn it without a teacher.Most of them are eloquent women who first went mad and then became witches, practicing witchcraft.Only such witches can be called "fairies".Her position is "intermediary between humans and ghosts", and her audience is women and children.

Such a woman suddenly becomes psychic after the sudden onset of madness. It is said that the process of this kind of onset is the process of the gods transforming the mortal bones of "Xianniang" into fairy bones, so Xianniang has to suffer both mentally and physically. Phoenix Nirvana rebirth.When Xianniang was recognized by the society as the agent of God, the madness stopped.The local women are really struggling in life and have nowhere to return to their feelings. They put their hopes and dreams on her spells and rely on her for comfort.This kind of people will naturally order small prescriptions occasionally, which can treat children with night terrors and diarrhea.

Witchcraft has always been popular in western Hunan. Most of the people who invite fairy maidens have troubles at home. There is a saying among the people that "the poor worship Buddha, the rich burn incense, and it is unlucky to invite fairy maidens".

There is no need for fairy maidens to learn witchcraft, and there is no way to teach them. They only set up an altar, put a flat bucket, fill the bucket with grain, and insert a pair of scissors.Some do not need anything, they can be officially opened.The way to perform witchcraft is to set up a seat in front of the god, and the witcher sits down and covers his face with a blue silk scarf.The most important thing is to ask the dead to speak, half-humming and half-singing, talking about other people's family affairs, children's diseases, and the situation of people traveling far away.When it comes to sadness, the talker burst into tears, and the listener naturally booed even more.

It is quite a coincidence that Xianniang's prophecy is very effective every time. Therefore, in the vast area of ​​Miao Township, Xianniang is the son of God recognized by everyone, and is worshiped by everyone.Because of Xianniang's excellent magic skills, in the old days, children were sick and life-threatening, so they worshiped Xianniang as godsons.When a child is frightened at night, he uses an egg to "receive blackness". After cursing it, he takes it to the street at dusk and calls the child's name all the way, "Has the eight treasures returned?" The other replied, "The eight treasures come back." I'm back," shouted all the way home.When I got home, I held the child, dipped my hands in the saliva and wiped the child's head, and the child recovered from illness, which is very miraculous.

Xianniang was originally a witch doctor who exorcised ghosts and diseases.An efficacious fairy girl is very respected and even worshiped in the clan.Because of her, the sky and the earth, the world and the underworld, know everything.She can invite your long-lost relatives to talk to you, even the voice is exactly the same, she can tell the request of everyone who wants her, she can tell in detail, everyone in your family people thing.

Shi Wei said that she had also seen Xianniang's abilities.It's not that she has a problem she can't overcome and asks Xianniang to blame her, but that she and her father passed a village and heard that there is a very effective fairy in the village. She was a little unconvinced at the time, and deliberately took it as a question I went to that fairy's house to have a look.

Xia Xiangxi quite understood Shi Wei's psychology.For example, in the past, Grandpa also had to have his peers come to fight at home.

Fengshui masters fight to see Fengshui, and fortune tellers fight to find things.Isn't there an old saying in China? "A colleague is an enemy!", grabbing a job together, naturally the more skilled will get more porridge.Those who are not convinced, or those who are not well-known at first, and want to create some fame, will use tricks to fight and try to step on a capable and famous colleague. , to elevate himself, if he can't fight, he just walks away in despair, at worst, start over from another place.

Xia Xiangxi remembered that there was a man named half-blind who once challenged his grandfather to compete with him.The half-blind man was a man who was blind in one eye, so he was nicknamed half-blind.

During the period of grandfather's silence, the half-blind man accumulated a lot of popularity.After Grandpa came out of the mountain, at first he had an equal share with the half-blind man, and it didn't hinder the half-blind man's business much, but later, people began to compare, and began to feel that the half-blind man was not effective, and fewer people came to ask the half-blind man.

For example, if someone lost something, the family went to the half-blind man to do the math, and the half-blind man figured it out for a long time, and then he would tell the family, look for it in the east or south, and the lost thing is probably Just in both directions.Afterwards, the family will go to grandpa to figure it out, and grandpa will tell the family after the calculation, go to the east to find it!You can find it by taking as many steps as you need.

Grandpa made clear and detailed calculations, so the family naturally wanted to try Grandpa's statement first.When I got there, I found it in the place my grandfather said.Although the half-blind man was right about the direction, he pointed to the east and the south after all. This range is too big and too ambiguous. Straightforward and direct.

Who doesn't want to save worry and effort?In this way, although the half-blind man is not ineffective, but because his calculations are not as detailed as grandpa, it ruined his business.Many people don't go to him, but go to grandpa who is more accurate and detailed.

The half-blind man was very unconvinced, thinking that his grandfather had robbed him of his job, so he found him to fight.If grandpa loses, then he will defeat grandpa, and no one will trust grandpa anymore.

Grandpa has always had no disputes with others, but people love whatever they do. Who wants to ruin their reputation and be cast aside by others?Grandpa later thought of a clever way to let the half-blind man know his ability and admire him, but it didn't let outsiders see that the half-blind man had lost, but let the onlookers think that the half-blind man and grandpa were equally divided. No difference.From now on, the grandfather and the half-blind man will still keep their jobs, whether the business is good or not depends on the mind of asking for help, and they can find whoever they want, and they will no longer fight with each other over this.

Xia Xiangxi felt that Shi Wei's mentality of going to find that fairy lady should be the same mentality as that half-blind man who was going to fight with his grandfather back then.I just don't know how Shi Wei compares with that fairy lady, and how to deal with the aftermath?

As a result, Shi Wei said that as soon as she and the person she asked for help arrived at the door of the fairy lady, the fairy lady poked her head out of the house to the window and shouted to the outside: "Hey, the girl from Shijia Village is here." La?"

Shi Wei was taken aback at the time, but she soon thought that maybe someone had told the fairy in advance.

The houses in the Miao village are no different from ordinary small farmyards, except that Gu seedlings are different from ordinary Miao people. The plaques on the gates entering the village are full of poisonous insects, and the gates of every house are even more painted with poisonous insects. , The number and type of insects are assigned according to the level of the owner of the house in the stockade.

Shi Wei entered Xianniang's room together with the people who went with her.That fairy lady is embroidering insoles.Without raising his head, he said to the person who asked for help, you are a little angry this time, it is not suitable to talk about things today, come back later!
Shi Wei still thought that the people in her company had betrayed her, so she deliberately pretended to be innocent, saying that she must ask Xianniang to help her.

The fairy girl smiled, then embroidered the insole in her hand, and said: "If this little girl doesn't speak out, that's fine!"

Shi Wei knew that the fairy lady knew her reason for coming, and she didn't want to compete with her, so she agreed, and just watched while talking, without making a sound or interrupting.Only then did the fairy put down the insole.She got up to wash her hands.

Shi Wei stared at it carefully and noticed that the fairy had washed her hands twice.The first time was very ordinary water, and the second time was that kind of amber water with an unknown taste.

After that, the fairy lady took out a black cloth and covered her head.At this moment, Shi Wei noticed that there were at least three blood-red worms on the fairy lady's head.

No one in the room dared to speak, because they knew that the ceremony was about to begin.Afterwards, the fairy girl's whole body began to shake, and she began to say some unintelligible words, such as "come here".It is estimated that it is summoning souls.This method is completely different from that of wizards and witches.

(End of this chapter)