The Witch of Xiangxi

Chapter 28 Blue Fire
The old man claimed that his surname was Hu, and he was a mature seedling who lived in the birthplace.

For the first time, Xia Xiangxi knew that the Miao people were not as simple as the Miao people.It is not easy to say, because the Miao people are divided into two kinds of seedlings, one is "raw seedlings" and the other is "ripe seedlings".

Sheng Miao is a Miao who lives in the mountains and cannot speak Chinese.At the same time, the seedlings are divided into five kinds of seedlings, red, white, flower, black, and green seedlings.In Xiangxi, Hunan, there are young crops, because the clothes are all blue.

Another kind of Miao people have many different surnames and can also speak Miao language, but they are not pure Miao people, but their ancestors lived with Miao people in the past, and they also became Miao people over time. This kind of Miao people is called Mature seedlings can also be said to be false seedlings.

Xia Xiangxi can understand this kind of maturity, just like when Chinese people come to the United States to become American citizens, they no longer say that they are Chinese, but that they are Americans.

Old man Hu's speech and demeanor are somewhat dignified.His granddaughter has always been displeased with Xia Xiangxi and the others. Although she is obediently standing behind old man Hu, she always throws a white eye at her from time to time. Rao is pure and pretty, even if she is rude, she is not sympathetic. It's annoying, but I think she's kind of cute and innocent.

It's just that the girl's name is a bit weird, Hu Li!Kind of like a fox.Xia Xiangxi couldn't help but wonder in his heart, is this Hu Li really a fox?Thinking of this, she felt relieved, as long as it wasn't Huanhuan's complaining ghost, or any ordinary monster, grandpa should be able to deal with it.Maybe this is why grandpa dared to enter here!
While sleeping, Xia Xiangxi sniffed around with his nose, just like his grandfather said that the Misty Fairy can change the shape of roads and trees, but he can't confuse the moonlight in the sky, and can't eliminate the shadow of the moonlight on the grass and trees. If these dudes are really foxes, they will definitely have the unique smell of foxes.

It's just that she has smelled it everywhere, except for an inexplicable fragrance of flowers, there is no other smell!Even so, Xia Xiangxi still didn't dare to sleep, she had a room by herself, so she had to be careful.And grandpa shared a room with He Xuan, which made her a little less worried.

Xia Xiangxi took out the jade cup and put it on the table, then called "Qi Hao" in a low voice, wanting him to come out.She thought this guy was a ghost, and he should be able to see the truth that she couldn't see.

After shouting for a long time, Qi Hao didn't come out of the jade cup, and Xia Xiangxi couldn't do anything about him, so he sat back on the bed and was half lying down.

It was still thundering but not raining outside, and the dark clouds like black smoke seemed to roll over to her bed.Things like raindrops kept hitting the window, flowing down little by little, and then condensed into a ball on the window, slowly turning into a monster that looked like a man and a beast.

Xia Xiangxi's heart was stuck in his throat, he stared straight at the monster in front of the window, his body trembling into a ball. With a sound of "Hula", the time was so fast that Xia Xiangxi had no time to react. A four-legged monster threw open the window and flew towards Xia Xiangxi.

Xia Xiangxi turned pale with fright, her mind went blank, and when she thought of self-defense to protect herself, she felt a heavy object hit her chest, and she suddenly felt like coughing up blood.

"Ni'er, don't be afraid!" Grandpa's voice came over suddenly, and Xia Xiangxi became much more at ease.

Grandpa went on to say, "Close your eyes, everything in front of you is an illusion. These beasts love to bully the timid and timid. If you are not afraid, it means that there is no chance for them to attack!"

Xia Xiangxi quickly closed her eyes according to what her grandfather said. Even though the feeling of being bitten by ants continued to come from her body, she held on and refused to open her eyes.After this, I don't know how long it took before the weird feeling on Xia Xiangxi disappeared.Instead, he heard the screams of "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" coming from his grandfather's room. Without even thinking about it, Xia Xiangxi rushed out of the room and ran to his grandfather's room.

Everywhere else is dark like ink, but Grandpa's room is bright yellowish, and I don't know what is shining on it. Anyway, there are no candles or electric lights.

Grandpa sat on the chair, scratching his chest in pain.Xia Xiangxi was terrified, and asked grandpa what was wrong.Grandpa didn't say a word for a long time, but the abrupt Xia Xiangxi saw a fox-like thing gnawing on Grandpa's neck next to Grandpa's shadow on the ground.

But beside Grandpa, Xia Xiangxi couldn't find half a fox or anything else.Grandpa couldn't speak at this time, but he screamed "Yeah" in pain, and his shadow on the ground was slowly eaten off half of his shoulder.

The problem seems to be on the shadow!Xia Xiangxi immediately stood in front of his grandfather, thinking of blocking his shadow from being eaten by that monster.But regardless of the matter at all, Xia Xiangxi could still see Grandpa's shadow like a piece of paper-cut, slowly tearing off more than half of it. If this continued, Grandpa's shadow would be eaten up by that monster.

Xia Xiangxi was quick to wit, picked up the quilt on the bed, and wrapped her grandfather up tightly.In this way, the shadow of grandpa will disappear.The monster shadow salivating big drops of saliva raised its head blankly to look at the shadow of the quilt on the ground, and circled around the shadow of grandpa hiding in the quilt several times, and finally gave up on Grandpa. Instead, he lay down in Xia Xiangxi's shadow and began to nibble on Xia Xiangxi's shadow.

Xia Xiangxi also wanted to do the same, and when he hid his own shadow, something even more bizarre happened.She unexpectedly found that her shadow had left her and was fighting with that monster.Xia Xiangxi looked at herself without a shadow, her face turned pale like a ghost with fright, she told herself in disbelief that this must be a dream.However, she looked for her shadow around, but couldn't find it no matter what. She could see the large shadow cast by her grandfather wrapped in the quilt on the ground, but she couldn't see her own.She just stood there naked, as if she was a transparent person, the light penetrated her body and shone on the ground, so no shadow could be seen.

At this time, Grandpa suddenly shouted to Xia Xiangxi, "Hurry up and save He Xuan!"

It was only then that Xia Xiangxi realized that the two of them hadn't seen He Xuan while they were here.She didn't care about the shadow anymore, and looked for He Xuan everywhere.

As soon as I left the room, I heard the girl's coquettish laughter. In another room, the lights were brightly lit, and a graceful figure of a young girl was reflected in front of the window. At this moment, she was slowly taking off her blouse, with her delicate and tall chest It was revealed tremblingly, and the girl was still murmuring, "Come and hug me!"

Xia Xiangxi didn't know why, and the nameless fire burst into flames.She couldn't see herself, if she could see she would be scared by herself too.Those big black eyes turned into two balls of blue flames at this time, without even thinking about it, she directly kicked open the door of the room with a rude action that she didn't expect, but the light had gone out when she entered, All she could smell was an inexplicable unpleasant smell, and then a cat-like animal rushed out from her side.

Xia Xiangxi searched the house for a long time before she realized that He Xuan was not here at all. With a buzzing sound in her head, she felt that she had been fooled, so she turned around and ran out quickly.When we arrived at Grandpa's room, even Grandpa was gone this time.

Xia Xiangxi was so anxious that he grabbed the door and chased outside. His palm hit the door frame, and somehow he caught fire.She instinctively withdrew her hand, only to find that the fire was bubbling in her palm. It looked like it was burning vigorously, but she didn't feel the slightest pain in her flesh. got up.And that fire is blue fire.

Xia Xiangxi was stunned for a moment, and then remembered to wipe out the fire with his hands, and rushed out of the house that was already on fire.

The house was quickly engulfed in the fire, which continued to burn.Xia Xiangxi was afraid that his grandfather and He Xuan were still trapped in a certain room, so he yelled loudly.In the end, instead of calling out Grandpa and He Xuan, a snow-white little fox sprang out, surrounded by blue flames, swaying in pain, then rolled in front of Xia Xiangxi and raised its front legs towards her, It bowed like a human being, as if begging Xia Xiangxi to let it go.

Xia Xiangxi knew now that it was the fox's den that they had strayed into.

The current situation has also miraculously reversed. Xia Xiangxi didn't even know that he had the ability to set fires.It was these fires that saved Grandpa and He Xuan.

After seeing Grandpa and He Xuan, the anger in Xia Xiangxi's body gradually subsided, and the eyes that had turned blue before slowly turned back to black.And the burning houses are slowly extinguishing themselves without water.

The little fox that asked Xia Xiangxi for help was the girl Hu Li, and Hu Li's grandfather, the old fox, had been burnt to death.Seeing that his grandfather and He Xuan were out of danger, Xia Xiangxi felt that enough was enough, and planned to spare the two foxes, the old and the young, but his grandfather said that he must not let them go, and even wanted to kill the two injured foxes. Xia Xiangxi couldn't bear it, and threw himself After stopping his grandfather, Hu Li's little fox took the opportunity to escape. After running away for a while, his green eyes in the night gave Xia Xiangxi a hateful look, and then disappeared into the endless night.

The other old fox had half of its body scorched by the fire, so it didn't need to be cleaned up by grandpa, and it died after a while.

Grandpa looked at the fox that had escaped, and sighed, saying that Xia Xiangxi's temporary kindness today brought endless disasters to herself.

Xia Xiangxi didn't understand, and neither did He Xuan.They all want to hear grandpa explain clearly.

Grandpa said: "Snakes and foxes are the most vengeful animals in this world, and they will never die."

It turned out that grandpa had been entangled with these two foxes for many years, and this catastrophe had waited for him for 20 years.Back then, he calculated that this catastrophe was inevitable, and he knew that he could not avoid it, so he knew that the disaster had already fallen on his head, so he did not avoid it.The cause of the disaster was what he encountered when he first came to Xiaomiao Village more than 20 years ago.

There is a family named Ma Jiang in Xiaomiao Village. The husband and wife were infertile for many years, and they were lucky enough to have a son in their 40s.It is a blessing to have a son in old age, that precious son is also talented and intelligent, and he has a good appearance.The happy faces of Ma Jiang and his wife were all blossoming, and they held their son Ma Baobao so seriously that they were afraid of falling and melting in their mouths.

When Ma Baobao grows up, people who go to their house to ask Ma Baobao to marry him will break the threshold.Generally, girls in other villages are not willing to marry in Xiaomiao Village. One is remoteness, the other is poverty, and the third is because witchcraft is prevalent here. Who would send a well-raised girl to such a crappy place to ruin her life?
(End of this chapter)