The Witch of Xiangxi

Chapter 31

Xia Xiangxi then asked his grandfather when He Xuan left. Could it be possible that He Xuan was replaced by Ma Po with paper figurines when he left Xiaomiao Village?

Grandpa said that's not true, just like people don't encounter Mifu Fairy during the day, paper dolls are used to fool ghosts, of course they only work when they appear at night.

When Xia Xiangxi asked again, Grandpa didn't say anything, just said don't worry, he has already left here.

Xia Xiangxi only had to spread his hands.Anyway, He Xuan has already left, which is a good thing.She didn't need to get to the bottom of it otherwise.She was more concerned about where they could stay tonight?

Xia Xiangxi is a shallow-faced person, she was kicked out of the Miao Village under the eyes of everyone, and she walked half way, she felt that she could not go back.

Grandpa waved his hand and said, "What's the matter! Let's just go back to sleep with our head covering, and of course someone will beg us to show up tomorrow!"

Xia Xiangxi never questioned his grandfather's words, and his grandfather never did things without foundation.

Together with Ma Po, Xia Xiangxi and grandpa walked back together.

I don't know how long he walked, but Xia Xiangxi felt that he had walked long enough, but he couldn't see the shadow of Miao Village.Even Ma Po noticed something strange.Whispering something with grandpa.

Grandpa counted with his fingers.After counting again, Grandpa's face turned as white as snowflakes. He counted again as if he didn't want to believe it, and then he yelled "No!"

Ma Po doesn't have the calculation skills like Grandpa, witches and Gu always ask for rice or look at incense.Seeing that grandpa was panicked, he hurriedly asked grandpa what he had figured out?

Grandpa said: "No wonder we couldn't get out, my granddaughter's shadow hasn't come back yet!"

It was only then that Xia Xiangxi remembered about her own shadow. Seeing that both Grandpa and Ma Po had shadows under the moonlight, it was really awkward that she was the only one who didn't.

People have shadows, only ghosts have no shadows.Grandpa said that if Xia Xiangxi has no shadow, it means that his soul is lost!

Ma Po was also in a hurry, saying that she might have met a ghost and begged for marriage?
When Xia Xiangxi heard what Ma Po said, she immediately became frightened.

Ghosts begging for marriage, you can literally understand what it means.It's just that the ghost has fallen in love with a person and wants a living person to be his wife.This is different from a ghost marriage like a yin marriage.Dark marriages are mostly marriages between the dead and the dead, and there are also yin relatives between the living and the dead. Most of these marriages are already engaged before the deceased is alive. Like some TV dramas, the heroine dies of illness or accident. Her male protagonist still persists and holds a wedding with her.

Ghost marriage is a custom inherited from ancient times. People are generally superstitious in the so-called "feng shui" of the cemetery, thinking that the appearance of a solitary tomb will affect the prosperity of the family and future generations.

Nowadays, such legacy and bad habits of society have disappeared in big cities, but they are still passed on in rural areas. This is by no means a thing only in those poor and backward rural areas.On the contrary, the richer and richer rural families are, the more keen they are to arrange such ghost marriages for their children who died young.In addition to being influenced by customs, it is more about the love of parents for their children and the sustenance of human feelings.

The ghost in the ghost proposal is also an unmarried boy who died young, but this proposal is not the subjective wish of the parents, but the wish of the ghost.

Because of his grandfather's professional relationship, Xia Xiangxi had heard of such things as ghost courtship from his grandfather.

In addition, in her hometown, there have been several incidents like this.There is a wealthy family with a family business. The only son of the family died at the age of seventeen or eighteen due to an accident. It's easy to find, how could there be so many unmarried girls who died unexpectedly in the world?
On the contrary, a shady media told their family that the family had seen the photos of the girl before she was alive and thought they were ugly, so they were not happy. The feeling of licking the calf.

A few days later, the mother of that family had a dream. She dreamed that her son told her that he had found a wife. The wife was very handsome. He also said the girl's name, age, and home address. Clearly.

Rural people believe in such dreams, and believe that the dead can entrust their dreams to explain their unfulfilled wishes.

In this way, the family traveled hundreds of miles to the place mentioned by the son in the dream, and when they got there, they asked if there was a girl who died in a family, what was the girl's name, how old was she, etc..., I didn't expect It really came true.There was indeed a girl who had just died, with the same name and age, and what was even more surprising was that the girl had just died within a few hours.

The family knew that a girl died here from hundreds of miles away. Naturally, people would feel suspicious when they heard it, saying how do you know that the girl died? Did you kill the girl? Also called the police.When the police arrived, the family told the truth.Of course, these policemen took it as nonsense, and called the family of the dead girl to the Public Security Bureau to investigate and collect evidence. As a result, the family said that the girl committed suicide, and before she died, she always said that there was a young man who always pestered He asked her to be his daughter-in-law, and said that the young man ran a factory at home and was very rich.In broad daylight, the girl pointed to a place and said that the young man stood there smiling at her, and the family just thought the girl had a fever and talked nonsense, and no one paid any attention to it.Unexpectedly, the girl had an inexplicable disturbance at night, and her mother gave her a broom bump when she got angry. Unexpectedly, the girl drank medicine in the middle of the night.

Hearing that such a boy's family really came to look for him, he sighed that this was fate. Later, the police could only let him go, and then the two families really got married.

The other thing has something to do with Xia Xiangxi.Because the girl who had the accident was still a classmate with her.That was when Xia Xiangxi was 16 years old. Rural girls’ favorite recreational activity was going to the market. The rural area is different from the city. Buying things, especially clothes, can only be bought in the market.This opening time is mostly once every five days.Girls in the countryside also love beauty. Girls like to go to the market to buy some clothes, hairpins and other flowers.

That time was approaching the end of the year, and the market usually does not open for more than half a month after the Spring Festival, and because of the Chinese New Year, the last market before the year is not only full of things, but also crowded.Xia Xiangxi originally made an appointment with that girl, and went to the market with a few other classmates.Unexpectedly, on the day of the fair opening, Xia Xiangxi ran to the village where the girl lived. Before reaching the girl's house, she was blocked by the girl's neighbors and asked them if they were looking for the girl, saying that you should never go there. The girl is dead, her body is dead. (The death is quite good, which means that the body is hard and there is no hope of coming back to life.)
Xia Xiangxi and a few other female classmates were scared to death. They just made an appointment to go to the market yesterday. Why are there no people today?

It was only later that I learned that the girl’s house was planted with a greenhouse. The girl had been helping her family plant the greenhouse because she hadn’t been admitted to high school. Winter was the busiest time for the farmers who planted the greenhouse. It is to artificially pollinate vegetables and fruits, to pick vegetables when they grow up, and so on. I have to be busy every day.Vegetables in the market were in short supply a year ago, and their family wanted to pick some vegetables to sell in the market, so they didn't allow the girl to play.

The girl wanted to go to the market with all her heart, and she agreed with her classmates. The girl's family refused to let her go, so she was naturally uncomfortable. She was helping the family with work all year round, and she was not allowed to go out to play at the end of the year. , anyone will feel unhappy.

The girl’s greenhouse grows cucumbers. The girl’s father picks the big cucumbers in front, and the girl picks the small ones behind. He just refuses to work hard when he is stuffy. When the girl’s father sees the girl like this, he treats her Say you go back and cook!Didn't blame her much either.But how did he know that when he returned home, he saw the girl lying on the ground, foaming and vomited all over the room, she was already dead.The regretful family wailed bitterly.

Knowing that her classmate had died, Xia Xiangxi felt sad and scared, and was in no mood to go to the market, so she told her grandfather about it when she returned to the village.Grandpa asked Xia Xiangxi again about her classmate's birthday, counted it silently, and then told Xia Xiangxi that her classmate had encountered a "ghost courtship".Looking south from the girl's village, there is a cemetery on the side of the road, and there is an orphan grave on the far side. It is the owner of the orphan grave who took a fancy to the girl, so he hooked the girl to the underworld.

After a few days, Xia Xiangxi really heard that the girl married a dead son in a neighboring village, and the grave was buried in the same position as the grandfather said.People in their village also began to spread rumors about the girl, saying that the girl often delivered food to the village in the south, and every time she had to pass by the road next to the cemetery, she must have been photographed by the man in the lonely grave. Only when I hit the mark did I tick it off.

Because of what happened to that female classmate, Xia Xiangxi suffered from phobia for a long time. For at least a year, she had to avoid the road with a cemetery, no matter how far it was to go around!
Now both Grandpa and Ma Po are telling Xia Xiangxi that she has met a ghost begging for marriage, if she is not scared to death, she will not be much better?If a person only talks about death, he may still have a strong core. Whether he accepts his fate or looks at it, there is always a fate that cannot be escaped, so he can only accept his fate.Things are really different now. If she dies, she will be hooked by a ghost to be her wife. I don't know what kind of ghost it is. Who wouldn't be afraid?
At this time, grandpa scolded himself for being confused, and his mind became more and more confused as he got older, why did he forget to paste Xia Xiangxi's shadow back?Only then did a certain wild ghost have the opportunity to hook Xia Xiangxi's shadow away.

Ma Po said: "Don't talk about this useless thing, the important thing is to find a way to get it back."

At this moment, Xia Xiangxi suddenly heard a burst of laughter, and that burst of laughter, in the silence of the night, passed into Xia Xiangxi's ears, and it turned out to be unusually gloomy.

Many torches appeared in front of Xia Xiangxi's eyes, and those torches were sent out from a very strange boat.There is no river here, but the ship actually sailed over the ground as if it were water.

(End of this chapter)