The Witch of Xiangxi

Chapter 275 Grandpa's Apprentice

At this moment, grandpa said to Xia Xiangxi proudly, "Ni'er, your grandpa's apprentice is here!"

Xia Xiangxi glanced at his grandfather, and ran to the door to look out without asking what he meant.Ma Po came up first, and then a man in white clothes appeared from the stairs. He was about the same age as Xia Xiangxi, not to mention handsome or not, but with his arrogance, he was able to resist people thousands of miles away. of.

Xia Xiangxi burst into laughter, turned around and said to his grandfather with a smile on his face, "Grandpa, you really got it right this time. He really is here!"

Grandpa straightened his clothes at this time, as if waiting for a very important guest, and sat on the chair.That ditch-like face has a deep smile!
In a blink of an eye, Ma Po had led the person Xia Xiangxi had mentioned over.

The person Xia Xiangxi was talking about was Xia Mo.It is the son born to the village chief and the widow in the story told by grandpa.In the past, Xia Xiangxi thought Xia Mo had a weird temper, but when she grew up, she mostly understood.It is not bad for a child who has been laughed at and grown up to not be psychologically distorted.In addition, isn't there a consensus in this world towards Xia Mo who looks indifferent?Such a person is cold-hearted and hot-hearted.The stronger the outside, the more glass the inside.

Xia Xiangxi replied to her grandfather, and hurried to Xia Mo. She and Xia Mo hadn't seen each other for many years, and seeing each other was as affectionate as seeing a brother who had been separated for many years.But Xia Mo coldly gave her a disdainful look, as if he didn't know her.

Xia Xiangxi thought that Xia Mo had forgotten, so he introduced him, pointed to himself and said, "Xia Mo, I am Xiangxi, don't you remember me?"

Xia Mo was still indifferent, his ice knife-like eyes cut Xia Xiangxi's face, making Xia Xiangxi's smile freeze instantly.

No one wants to put a hot face on a cold ass, Xia Xiangxi sees that Xia Mo treats her as a stranger at all, the intimacy in his heart is gone, and there is a bit of hostility for no reason.

Xia Mo was very different when he saw his grandfather. Although he was still cold, he was much more polite and spoke respectfully.

Xia Xiangxi didn't listen to them talking, and was thrown out by his grandfather like a mosquito, saying that the old men had something to say and they were not allowed to listen.Xia Xiangxi and Ma Po came out to prepare lunch together.

Grandpa didn't come out with Xia Mo until he had eaten.That Xia Mo is cold to everyone, but he is very attentive to his grandfather. He supports his grandfather, sits next to his grandfather, and takes the initiative to bring food for his grandfather when eating. This immediately pushes Xia Xiangxi away, as if he It's like grandpa's grandson.

During the dinner, Grandpa said excitedly that Xia Mo came this time to worship him as his teacher.

Grandpa once said to Xia Xiangxi, "The house is a yang house, the grave is a yin house, and a woman is a yin house. According to the five elements, women cannot enter the Fengshui industry. Women can communicate with the underworld and should deal with ghosts and evil spirits. Therefore, women can only Learn witchcraft!" Grandpa didn't train Xia Xiangxi carefully, let alone inherit his mantle.At this moment, this Xia Mo suddenly came here from a long distance, and wanted to worship his grandfather as his teacher. Xia Xiangxi was quite happy in his heart.In the past, some people begged Grandpa to learn art as a teacher, but Grandpa always refused.The excuse is that this is a ancestral secret and cannot be passed on to outsiders.

In fact, grandpa just made excuses because he couldn't find a seedling he liked.Grandpa said that it is necessary to have the fate of master and apprentice to accept apprentices. Before coming to Miao Village, grandpa once lamented that it was a pity that he could not find a suitable person to inherit his talents.Now don't worry about how this Xia Mo came here by mistake. Grandpa likes to accept Xia Mo as his apprentice so much. Xia Xiangxi is really happy in his heart. Doing things and being in a good mood is also good for his condition.

What people fear most is not being able to use their skills.Grandpa was also afraid of this, so when Xia Xiangxi became stronger and stronger, grandpa became more and more inferior.

When eating, Xia Mo didn't pick up any vegetables, but just stuffed white rice dryly into his mouth.Visibly in a bad mood.When grandpa asked him, although he answered decently, Xia Xiangxi could tell that Xia Mo was simply absent-minded.Or, this Xia Mo didn't really come to apprentice sincerely like grandpa thought, but there must be some other reason!

When Xia Xiangxi was alone with his grandfather, he told him what she had seen.Grandpa smiled and said that he knew that Xia Mo didn't come to apprentice sincerely.Speaking of this apprenticeship, it was when Grandpa subdued the widow ghost that year, he promised the widow ghost.Grandpa said that Xia Mo was talented and smart, and he was not born by ordinary people.It's just that everything depends on a chance. He doesn't like to learn now, but it's not the time yet.By that time, this kid might be even stronger than grandpa in the future.

Xia Xiangxi stared at Grandpa with wide eyes and said, "It turns out that Grandpa already knew that Xia Mo would come, and he didn't just figure it out!"

Grandpa laughed so loudly at this time, he tapped on Xia Xiangxi's forehead with a cigarette stick and said, "Silly girl, you only know!"

Xia Xiangxi was so disappointed in her heart, she really thought that her grandfather had recovered as well as before!Think about it too, if Xia Mo didn't contact Grandpa, how could he find such a remote Xiaomiao village?She was really stupid this time.

Grandpa said that Xia Xiangxi believed in grandpa, so he was deceived by his words.Grandpa also said that what he was most worried about was what would happen to Xia Xiangxi after he left, and now he was somewhat relieved.He must take advantage of the remaining time to teach Xia Mo all his skills, and let Xia Mo, his uncle, help her in the future. His old man will feel at ease when he goes underground.

"Uncle?" Xia Xiangxi muttered the word.Grandpa said: "It's not a master uncle, what is it? Grandpa's apprentice is naturally a generation higher than you."

Xia Xiangxi said, "If you look at the seniority in the village, Xia Mo and I are of the same generation! He can only be regarded as my younger brother. This is a bit messy."

Grandpa waved at Xia Xiangxi, and then went to smoke his pipe.As the smoke dispersed, Xia Xiangxi shook his head helplessly, and in his heart he could only say that the uncle is the uncle!Anyway, as long as grandpa is happy, she can do it, and the rest are trivial matters.

When eating at night, that Xia Mo couldn't cheer up.Grandpa tried to make him talk.When he finally spoke, he asked Grandpa if he could figure it out for him, where did he lose his cub?

"Who is Huzi?" Xia Xiangxi couldn't help asking.Xia Mo didn't even raise his eyelids, as if he couldn't hear Xia Xiangxi's question at all.It wasn't until his grandfather asked that he said that the tiger was a hound he raised.Before entering the mountains a few days ago, the tiger got lost.He searched for a day, almost lost his way, but couldn't find Huzi.

When Xia Xiangxi heard this, his face became stiff.She looked at her grandpa, she dared not put down the rice bowl she was holding, and used her chopsticks to push the rice into her mouth vigorously.After finishing eating, she left the kitchen with a guilty conscience, went outside, and quietly took out the dog tag of the black dog she had killed before, because of the injury of Grandpa and Ma Po, the middle-lowered head, she Deliberately keep that dog tag, but don't care to look at it.Listening to what Xia Mo said now, the more I think about it, the more I feel that the black dog was raised by Xia Mo, and she wants to check it out at night.

At this moment, Xia Mo suddenly rushed out of the kitchen and growled at Xia Xiangxi, "What are you holding in your hand?"

Xia Xiangxi was taken aback and screamed, and the dog tag in his hand fell to the floor with a jingle.

Xia Mo rushed over in two steps in three steps, and grabbed the dog tag from the ground.When he took a look at the dog tag by the light, his face turned pale like a ghost. "Tiger!" Xia Mo called out tremblingly and lowered his voice.

Xia Xiangxi's heart trembled, she was quite afraid that Xia Mo would get annoyed and greet her with his fist a few more times.

"I knew it was you! You killed my cub, didn't you?" Xia Mo gritted his teeth and rushed in front of Xia Xiangxi, raising his right hand that was holding the dog tag tightly.Xia Xiangxi closed her eyes in fright, she felt ashamed of Xia Mo in her heart, and she didn't dare to move, thinking that if she gritted her teeth and was beaten by Xia Mo, it would be good if he could vent his anger!
Afterwards, Xia Xiangxi found out that the reason why Xia Mo saw her so indifferent to death was because he had figured out that she had killed the tiger by mistake.This is also the reason why although he hated Xia Xiangxi, he was not particularly jealous of Xia Xiangxi after all.He knew that the tiger bit Xia Xiangxi first, and Xia Xiangxi did it first.

Xia Xiangxi never expected Xia Mo to be so capable, and this can be figured out!
Grandpa said to Xia Xiangxi that calculations are generally made with four fingers, and the four fingers except the thumb represent different directions.The four directions between heaven and earth are implied by the four fingers. The index finger is east, the middle finger is south, the ring finger is west, and the little finger is naturally north.In addition, each finger knuckle is also used to represent an hour, starting with the knuckle of the little finger's pad as the sub-hour, and the twelve hours are arranged in sequence.When doing calculations for someone, wait for that person to report the horoscope of his birthday, and then start to calculate step by step from the fingers and finger pads where the person's horoscope is located.

It was only later that Xia Xiangxi realized that Xia Mo and his grandfather used different calculation methods. He didn't point his thumb at other knuckles for divination or divination.Instead, use an abacus.This is a kind of arithmetic.The number of spells refers to spells (methods).Number refers to the number of reason and the number of energy (the law when using the method), that is, the movement law of the restraint of yin and yang and five elements.Shushu is also called Shushu. It is an important content in the ancient Taoist Wushu to speculate on the "good and bad" of nature, society, and human affairs based on the restraint theory of yin and yang and five elements.

"Number" in ancient China is all art.The defining function of art lies in the combination.For example, all things are round, all things are rational, and all things are number. If they are combined by art, the shape can be deduced from circle to square or square to circle.

To put it bluntly, arithmetic has a lot to do with mathematics.The abacus that can be used in natural mathematics can also be used in calculations in arithmetic.

It's not surprising that Grandpa can count on Xia Mo, because he gave Xia Mo an ancient book about alchemy when he was a child, and he also taught Xia Mo.At that time, it was not regarded as an apprentice, but just a reminder to see if Xia Mo had the talent in alchemy.

Now Xia Mo thinks about using the abacus instead of counting with fingers.The time range calculated in this way is many times wider than that calculated by fingers.

(End of this chapter)