The Witch of Xiangxi

Chapter 338 Death Contract (Eighteen)
Xia Xiangxi didn't reveal her identity as a witch, but just told the family that she knew some folk remedies to suppress shock, and if the family believed her, she could try it.

When a mother is unwilling to take risks with her child, saying that even a witch can't be cured, what can a young girl like Xia Xiangxi know?But the father is in a hurry, when is this? To put it bluntly, let a dead horse be a living horse doctor!

At the insistence of the child's father, Xia Xiangxi was able to see the frightened child lying on the bed with a high fever.

There are generally two reasons for a child to be frightened. One is that the child is frightened by a sudden loud voice, which is commonly referred to as being frightened out of his wits.The other hit something dirty,

When the first situation occurs, generally no abnormality can be seen in the child during the day, and it will only appear at night.When sleeping, the eyes are not closed tightly, the eyeballs sometimes move wildly, and the body will twitch inexplicably, as if trembling when hearing a loud noise.Such a frightened child will not have a fever, except that he cannot sleep well and cries at night.Generally, children under three weeks old are more likely to be frightened like this.

Children who are frightened when they see dirty things usually have a high fever.In most cases, the fever is high at a fixed time, especially at night.Younger children are prone to lethargy and often sleep with their eyes closed.Eyeballs fluttered.At this time, if you touch the palm of the child, you will feel the ghost pulse beating in the palm of the hand. This is the most accurate diagnosis method for diagnosing the child rushing to the negative object.The left hand is yang, so the heartbeat of the left hand is hitting a male ghost, and the right hand is yin, so the heartbeat of the right hand is hitting a female ghost.

Since Xia Xiangxi already knew that there was a sorceress to help the frightened child, he also knew that the normal way of restraining the child was no longer effective.

Even if she didn't see how the sorceress was shocked, she could still guess.There are only a few ways to suppress surprises that are popular among the people.Since she is a sorcerer, she should know all kinds of ways to suppress shock.Xia Xiangxi didn't try again in vain at this time.

She touched the palm of the child named Xiaoqing, and she already concluded that Xiaoqing was frightened by a male ghost.She still needs two methods, internal and external, to help Xiao Qing calm down.Xia Xiangxi asked Xiaoqing's father to grab a pair of medicines according to her prescription - astragalus 15 qian, heterophylla 12 qian, atractylodes rhizome 12 qian, yam 15 qian, Fushen 10 qian, cinnabar 4 qian, and Ophiopogon japonicus 6 qian , schisandra 6 qian, white peony 8 qian, roasted licorice 5 qian, dragon tooth 10 qian, cold water stone 10 qian, mother-of-pearl 10 qian.Grabbed all these dozens of medicines, boiled them for Xiaoqing to drink.

In the evening, Xia Xiangxi asked Xiaoqing's mother for a piece of clothing that Xiaoqing often wears, and then went outside with Shi Wei.

Shi Wei thought that Xia Xiangxi was going to catch the ghost that frightened Xiaoqing, but Xia Xiangxi said that she couldn't go there for the time being, and she had to find Xiaoqing's soul quickly, otherwise the child would be in danger.

Shi Wei said "Oh" as if she understood, and then said: "Should I call the soul? If I call the soul, wouldn't it be better for Xiaoqing's mother to do it?"

Xia Xiangxi said: "It is estimated that their family has already done this. If it is effective, it is not our turn to help."

Shi Wei asked Xia Xiangxi how to keep the children from being shocked?She knows that the regions in the north and the south are different, so the methods used will be different!She had heard before that northerners would spin a bowl of millet over the head of a frightened child, seven times or something, and that would be all right.The southerners use glutinous rice, first burn a few sticks of incense and ghost paper at the place where the child is frightened, swing the child's clothes back and forth above the flame, take a kitchen knife or scissors, slap the ground, and then scatter the rice grains in all directions , Shouting in the mouth: "Oriental rice grains, western rice grains, southern rice grains, northern rice grains, four and five square rice grains. On a certain day, such and such (child's name) is coming back! Please go to Jiutianxuannv, Jiepo Tong Lang, return to so-and-so's guts!" and so on.

Xia Xiangxi said that there are actually some other ways, just like doctors see a doctor, different doctors have different ways of seeing a doctor.So they have to try another method that the sorceress and Xiaoqing's parents have never used.

What method did Shi Wei ask?
Xia Xiangxi said it was similar to calling the soul, and she felt that she couldn't explain it clearly in words, so she directly told Shi Wei that she knew it in the fields outside the village.

The two girls had quick legs and feet, and they arrived outside the village not long after.Wild flowers are blooming on the soil slopes of the fields near and far, and there is a faint fragrance in the air.It is already early autumn, and such a night is neither hot nor cold.

In the dark night, there is no moon, only starlight, and I can't see any ponds, so I can hear the frogs croaking in a patchwork pattern.The unknown insects called together in the grass, stopped calling, called and rested, and repeated the cycle, as if time had frozen.

Shi Wei glanced around a few times before asking Xia Xiangxi in a low voice, "Where is Xiaoqing's soul?"

Xia Xiangxi narrowed his eyes, looked up at the sky, and the starlight in front of him was squeezed into a line.She kept her mouth shut and said nothing.After an unknown period of time, she suddenly pointed to a light spot not far away that looked like a fluffy pompom, and another one was like a big feather, emitting yellow-green fluorescent light and said, that's it. !

Shi Wei was taken aback for a moment, and said strangely, isn't that the fireflies gathered together?

While speaking, the clusters of yellow-green fluorescent lights suddenly floated up from the depths of the weeds on the slope like ghosts, crossed the night sky, and fell into the small woods not far away.

Xia Xiangxi hurriedly said, "Chasing!", and Shi Wei and her chased after the dandelion seeds that looked more like glowing.

Xia Xiangxi said that it was not a will-o'-the-wisp, let alone a firefly, but a "human disaster".The child is seriously ill and is about to die because the soul is frightened and coerced by the evil spirit and leaves the body; and when the incident occurs, there are often objects that can be used as signs, which is "human disaster".When you see such a "human calamity", you have to keep shouting at the "human calamity": "Get better! Get better!" - "Zhuan" means to go home. The sick child summons the soul.

Xia Xiangxi used a little bit of witchcraft again, and Shi Wei watched a group of yellow-green pompoms flying towards Xia Xiangxi lightly, and finally landed on the clothes worn by Xiao Qingchang in Xia Xiangxi's arms.Xia Xiangxi took out a requiem talisman and chanted the spell, and the requiem talisman ignited spontaneously without fire. After the requiem talisman burned out, Xia Xiangxi said it was healed and they could go back.

After returning to Xiaoqing's house, Xia Xiangxi went straight to Xiaoqing's room with the ball of clothes in his arms, walked to Xiaoqing's side, held Xiaoqing's clothes in his arms, and pressed them under Xiaoqing's pillow , and shouted: "Turn to be good, turn to have nothing to fear, turn to sleep until daylight." After that, Xia Xiangxi burned another pile of ashes of paper money, and put the ashes of paper money into a hot pot. In the basin of water, soak the towel again, wring out the water and help Xiaoqing wipe his body. This is the last step of shaking the soul and calming the shock, which is called removing the dirty and calming the shock.

(End of this chapter)