The Witch of Xiangxi

Chapter 24 Underground River

It was A Zhuo and A Ban who made a noise, which made the father who got up in the middle of the night to add fodder for the buffalo realize that the two of them could no longer be covered.

Parents said they would beat them to death, but A Zhuo was timid, so in order to survive, he said that A Ban forced her.A Ban also admitted it upright, and made A Zhuo's parents angry half to death, and finally vented his anger with a stick, unexpectedly, he beat A Ban to death by mistake.When things go wrong, the difference between biological and post-parenting becomes apparent.Even though A Zhuo's parents love A Ban as their own son on weekdays, but after all, it is not their own flesh. When A Ban loses his life, he will feel distressed at first, but after a while, only his heart will be left for them. ruthless.

In order to avoid legal sanctions, Azhuo helped his parents transport Aban's body out of Qingshizhai overnight and threw it into a nearby pond.Originally, they thought that Ah Ban's body would come up after a few days, saying that he accidentally fell into the pond and drowned, but after waiting for several days, there was no movement in the pond.

A Zhuo's family did something outrageous and unreasonable, and they couldn't feel at ease, so they took the initiative to tell the people in the village that they hadn't seen A Ban for several days, and begged the people in the village to help them find it.All the water-savvy young men in the village went down into the pond, and searched all over the bottom of the pond, but found nothing.A few days later, news came from Xiaomiao Village, more than ten miles away from Qingshi Village, that a young man had drowned in the pond over there, and he was as fat as a New Year's pig. The appearance came, but the well-dressed one, A Zhuo knew it was A Ban as soon as he heard it.

But she couldn't figure out why A Ban, who was thrown into the pond after his death, appeared in the Xiaomiao Village downstream inexplicably.A Zhuo originally wanted to beg his parents to bring A Ban's body back and bury it properly, but his parents said that if A Ban was buried in the ancestral cemetery, they would not be killed by him when they saw him a hundred years later!He was ruthless to the end, and refused to recognize A-Ban's dead body.

A Zhuo felt uneasy, so she secretly went to Xiaomiao Village to inquire, and found out that A Ban was buried in a hole dug by kind people in the village, and she wanted to go to A Ban's grave to pay homage.Before reaching the place, he suddenly fainted and was rescued by Marie from Xiaomiao Village.Because of this fainting, Azhuo knew that he was pregnant with Aban's child. In any nationality, it is a great shame for a family to conceive before marriage, not to mention that Azhuo is still pregnant with Aban's child. If someone finds out , where does she have the face to live?
A Zhuo changed his mind for his own sake, and saw that Marie was a nice young man, so he took the initiative to show his favor to Marie.In this way, Azhuo married to Xiaomiao Village and became Marie's daughter-in-law.

The life after marriage was not bad, and in the new year, A Zhuo gave birth to a big fat son, who looked very much like A Zhuo, so A Zhuo was relieved, thinking that he would be able to feel at ease from now on alive.It never occurred to A Zhuo that something happened when she passed the pond one day. She wanted to wash her hands by the pond, but fell into the pond. Azhuo knew that Aban had come to seek revenge on her. She thought she was going to die, but the villagers who happened to pass by saved her.

A Zhuo escaped, but was terrified, and always dreamed that A Ban came to claim her life.She was seriously ill, and after recovering, she secretly went to the pond to pay her respects at night, and then A Ban appeared, and still wanted to kill her. She cried and begged that it was her parents who killed him, and she also herself It's hard to guarantee, he can't be saved, and he said a lot of things that have Aban in his heart.

A Ban stared at a pair of ghost eyes and said, "Since you have me in your heart, why don't you die with me?"

A Zhuo cried and said: "I also thought about dying and going underground to accompany you, but I was pregnant with your child, and in order to leave you the last bloodline, I had to grit my teeth in pain and survive."

A Ban was still very happy to hear that he had a son.He has always loved Ah Zhuo, so he promised to let Ah Zhuo go back, but she had to promise to come to the pond to see him from time to time.In order to survive, Azhuo had no choice but to agree.

After coming here, Azhuo sneaked out from time to time at night and came to the pond to meet Aban. After a long time, he was noticed by Marie.Once, after A Zhuo sneaked out, Marie followed.A Zhuo didn't know, but A Ban did.Before Marie discovered them, Aban acted preemptively, thinking of putting Marie to death, Azhuo begged and said, "How can he help you raise your son, you see, for your son's sake. Shouldn't have killed him."

Talking left and right, A Zhuo softened A Ban's words.Later, they worked out a way to make Marie stop doubting A Zhuo.

Aban asked Azhuo to burn a woman made of paper for him. After the paper figurine was burned, it became a real ghost. A private meeting of paper ghost women.A Zhuo thought that this would make Marie no longer doubt her, never dreamed that Marie believed her, but started to meddle in her own business, and even went to find Grandpa to surrender Aban.

When A Zhuo found out, he burned a letter to A Ban, telling him to prepare. The next thing was that Marie took Grandpa and He Xuan to the pond. If she didn't talk about the following things, Xia Xiangxi would not. Almost got it.

At this point, A Zhuo knelt down and begged Ma Po, saying that she knew that she had been with a ghost like A Ban for a long time, and half of her life would be taken away. If she died, she would have no complaints. Ma Po must help her get Marie back, and he is the only person she is most sorry for.

In fact, Azhuo was also used to ask for something. Marie disappeared with his grandfather and He Xuan, and all three of them wanted to be rescued together.Hearing that Ah Zhuo confessed to Ah Ban, Xia Xiangxi didn't see any hope in Ma Po's eyes.

Leaving A Zhuo's house, Xia Xiangxi hurriedly asked Ma Po, "Now that I know the details of A Ban, can I think of a way to deal with him?"

Ma Po shook her head and said, "There must be a bigger ghost. A ghost like Aban is incapable of doing anything to your grandfather!"

There are more powerful ghosts?Xia Xiangxi's face was as white as paper, and his body shivered as if he had been chilled by the cold wind.

Ma Po asked Xia Xiangxi to follow her back to the Diaojiaolou. She didn't mention the matter of saving Grandpa, but first found some white paper and bamboo strips, and then plunged into the house, and began to tie a piece of bamboo strips with both hands. a skeleton.Xia Xiangxi could only stare blankly at the side, not knowing what Ma Po was doing, let alone being able to help her.I just sat and waited on the side, and then I became sleepy and fell asleep while sitting on the chair.

When she woke up, it was already dawn.Ma Po was still busy there, but instead of tying bamboo strips, she pasted white paper on the already tied bamboo strips.

At this moment, Xia Xiangxi also saw that Ma Po, who stayed up all night, turned out to be a cow who was going to make paper.Xia Xiangxi had seen this kind of paperwork in their hometown.

After a person dies, relatives and family members must burn paper money, paper houses, clothes, etc. for the deceased.This should be a custom of the Chinese people. Even in today's society where technology prevails and the Internet age, traces of old customs can still be found in some cold jokes.For example, a cold joke circulated on the Internet said that after a certain old lady passed away, her son dreamed that the old lady told him that the personal income tax in the underworld was too high, and asked her son not to burn money for her once a year. , changed to a monthly quota.

As for burning some livestock for the undead, Xia Xiangxi has something to say when he understands this. Men burn paper horses and women burn paper cows, and burn paper cows for dead female elders during funerals. After the underworld, it is necessary to repay the karma, how much water wasted in life, and the ghosts after death will drink the water wasted in the previous life, paste a paper cow, because the cow can drink water, let the cow help people to drink Dirty water that must be drunk.

At this moment, Xia Xiangxi didn't know what Ma Po made the paper cow for?
At night, Ma Po asked Xia Xiangxi to help her take the bound paper cows one by one to the empty field and burn them.After the paper cow was burned out, the air smelled of paper ashes, mixed with some kind of fishy smell. Xia Xiangxi smelled disgusting, and he couldn't tell what kind of smell it was.

After the burning, Ma Po agreed and asked Xia Xiangxi if he could see anything?

When Xia Xiangxi answered, he saw paper ashes.Ma Po burned a yellow talisman to ashes, mixed the ashes into clear water, and asked Xia Xiangxi to drink it.After Xia Xiangxi finished drinking, the scene in front of him suddenly changed. A cow was crying "moo" at the place where the paper cow was burned just now.

Ma Po asked Xia Xiangxi to lead the cow to the pond outside the village, and then Ma Po asked Xia Xiangxi to let go of the cow's reins.The cow walked slowly to the side of the pond, and then drank the water with "gudong" and "gudong".

After drinking for a long time, the cow was still drinking with its head down, but its belly was not swollen. Xia Xiangxi watched the water level in the pond slowly drop.After about an hour like this, the water level in the pond dropped by two-thirds, but after more than an hour, Xia Xiangxi felt that something was wrong, and the water level began to rise slowly, and finally let the other side No matter how much the cows can drink, the water level remains at two-thirds of its original level.It seems that this cow can drink water non-stop, and the water level can also keep rising!
After spending most of the night watching the cows drinking water, Ma Po finally spoke, "I know what happened to your grandpa and the others!"

Xia Xiangxi was already dying of anxiety. Hearing what Ma Po said, he hurriedly asked, "What happened to Grandpa?"

Ma Po pointed to the pond and said, "Have you seen the water in this pond?"

Xia Xiangxi said, "You mean the water level hasn't dropped!"

Ma Po said: "When Ah Zhuo was talking about A Ban, did you find it strange that A Ban was thrown into the pond in Qingshizhai and appeared in this pond a few days later?"

Xia Xiangxi looked at the pond that was always kept at a certain water level, and said the answer she had already guessed-"Qingshi Village is upstream of Xiaomiao Village, the reason why A Ban's body appeared here should be because there is an underground river Connect the two ponds of Qingshi Village and Xiaomiao Village!"

Ma Po said: "It's true, so no matter how much the cow drinks water, it can't drink up the water in this pond, because there will be water flowing here from the underground river constantly! I know how your grandfather disappeared!"

(End of this chapter)