The Witch of Xiangxi

Chapter 37 Insinuation
Ma Po just finished her work, and didn't care what grandpa said about her to Xia Xiangxi.

Although Grandpa disapproved of Ma Po's approach, he still let Xia Xiangxi follow Ma Po to learn this method of trapping ghosts.

Grandpa said: "Just like beginners who learn to swim, they first learn to do dog planing. The posture is not elegant, it is not a big deal. It is important to be simple and easy to learn to save your life. When your skills are deep in the future, you can learn some finer things. s things!"

Xia Xiangxi nodded and wrote it down.In a few days, Xia Xiangxi really used the "dog digging" method of catching ghosts that grandpa described.

There is a family in the stockade, the man's name is Ma Sheng, his juicy little daughter-in-law asked Ma Po, and said that her man fell ill inexplicably after returning from working in the fields, and had a lot of illnesses on his body. sore.

As soon as Xia Xiangxi heard it, she felt that sores on people's bodies should only be handled by doctors. They should go to the dermatology department of the hospital to have a look. This is not a skin disease, it must be a virus or something. It's really sick. There's nothing wrong with witchcraft.

Xia Xiangxi thought so, and persuaded Ma Sheng's daughter-in-law in the same way. The Ma Sheng's daughter-in-law gave Xia Xiangxi a sideways look, her eyes were full of disdain, and she turned her mouth to one side, and her attitude was not very good.However, Xia Xiangxi didn't take it seriously. They are all Chinese, and there are barriers between different ethnic groups.Just like the Han people still talk about the region, they spend all day long on the Internet about what province and what city they are talking about, and they are divided into regions.

Ma Po agreed first, and sent the Aso's daughter-in-law to leave first, before saying to Xia Xiangxi, "Come and see with me and you'll find out!"

Xia Xiangxi was a little reluctant to go, but she still insisted that Aso's daughter-in-law should take Aso to the hospital.

Seeing is believing, Ma Po said that she would only know who could take care of the disease after seeing it, and if Aso really got sick, she would not dare to delay.Ma Po also said that when Qi Hao was ill, Huanhuan also came to beg her, and she knew that Qi Hao was really ill, not because of ghost or evil spirit, but Huanhuan didn't listen.

Xia Xiangxi was relieved to hear what Ma Po said, and followed Ma Po to Aso's house.

Aso was lying on the bed humming in pain, Xia Xiangxi was taken aback when he saw Aso for the first time.Aso's daughter-in-law said that there were sores on her body too, and men and women were different, Ma Po was still a woman no matter how old she was, so Aso lifted the quilt to let Ma Po see, but the sores on his face were scary enough.The sores as big as jujubes were covered with Aso's face, no matter how you looked at it, it was disgusting.Xia Xiangxi felt that she must not be able to eat at night, it was really disgusting.

Xia Xiangxi was even more worried that the sores on Aso's body were viral and would infect others. Let alone girls who love beauty, even Ma Po would be afraid of having such sores on her face!Xia Xiangxi felt that this was the reason why Ma Po quickly led her out of Aso's house.

Aso's daughter-in-law chased him out and asked, "Aren't you willing to show Aso?"

Ma Po shook her head and said, "No, don't worry! I will treat Aso well!"

Aso's daughter-in-law hurriedly thanked her, nodding her head like pounding garlic.

Leaving Aso's house, Ma Po took Xia Xiangxi directly out of the stockade.She said she was going to see the boundaries that Aso had to pass through on his way back from work.

Xia Xiangxi was surprised, and asked Ma Po why didn't she just ask Ma Sheng's wife, since the two of them didn't see where Ma Sheng came back from, how did they know where he would go?
Ma Po said: "I really don't know where Aso's field is. He must have passed through a place with water when he got such a disease. In this field, there is also a stream next to all the villages. The place where people have to go to the fields.”

Xia Xiangxi said, "Then, do you know what happened to Aso?"

Ma Po replied, "That's right!"

Not long after, Xia Xiangxi and Ma Po came to a small stream, the water was shallow and clear, and there were no fish in such water, but Ma Po waded into the water and grabbed them randomly with her hands. What?
Xia Xiangxi was so shocked that she couldn't close her mouth, she felt that Ma Po was possessed by an evil spirit, how could anyone catch fish in such a clear and shallow stream?Does that mean there is nothing there?
So Xia Xiangxi tilted her head and thought about some simple methods of drawing spells that Ma Po taught her to drive away evil spirits before. Looking left and right, she found a pebble the size of a fist, thinking about biting her finger to draw a spell, but biting for a long time , The finger was bitten painfully, and there were blood marks, but no blood flowed out from the skin.Xia Xiangxi sighed and thought, the next time I come out, I'll just bring an embroidery needle. It's easier to prick my finger with a needle than to bite my teeth.

Ma Po turned around from the water at this time, and seeing Xia Xiangxi's appearance, she was also stunned, and asked Xia Xiangxi, "What are you doing?"

Xia Xiangxi told the truth, Ma Po came out of the water, pointed at Xia Xiangxi's head and said she was stupid. "It's not necessary to use blood to draw spells. Next time, you can just bring a brush with you. You can buy it when you run out of ink. If you use your blood like this, your life will be gone before the ghost catches many!"

Xia Xiangxi just laughed, she is learning witchcraft, but she is still an outsider, and all she sees in her eyes are those fancy things.

Xia Xiangxi asked Ma Po, "Why did you get into the water? There are no fish there? If you want to eat fish, I'll go to the county seat tomorrow and buy you two!"

Ma Po shook her head and said, "I'm not catching fish, I'm catching monsters!"

Xia Xiangxi didn't know that Ma Po was talking about "creatures" and not "fish", so he burst out laughing and said, "Isn't this still about catching fish?"

Ma Po was a little helpless, and couldn't explain it to Xia Xiangxi for a while.Just said: "I'll give you a talisman, you will stare at my shadow later, if you find anything approaching me, throw the talisman into the water!" Tighten her shadow.

Xia Xiangxi agreed, and stepped aside, while Ma Po sat down on a rock by the stream, it was still noon, and the sun was just too hot.The shadow of a person is also the shortest time of the day.Xia Xiangxi hid to one side, staring closely at Ma Po's shadow.She thought that this time, just like the two foxes she met last time, she encountered an evil thing that could eat shadows again, and she didn't dare to neglect at all.

After waiting for a while, the monster that Ma Po said did not appear.Maybe Ma Po was getting impatient with the wait, after all, the sun was scorching hot, so it was uncomfortable to just bask dryly like that.Ma Po stood up from the rock, and even brushed the dust off her body. Just as she was about to walk away from the stream, Xia Xiangxi saw that there was really something more beside Ma Po's shadow, and she didn't want to. The grains of sand that I knew where it came from hit Ma Po's shadow.

Xia Xiangxi kept Ma Po's instructions in mind, and without hesitation, wrapped the charm in her hand on a stone and threw it into the stream.At the same time as the talisman fell into the water with a "plop", Ma Po also fell to the ground with an "ouch".

Xia Xiangxi didn't bother to help Ma Po, and jumped into the water regardless of the three sevens and twenty ones. At this time, there was a burst of yellow sand in the originally clear stream, as if a fish had drilled out of the sand layer and muddied the water. .Xia Xiangxi aimed at the center of the water vortex and grabbed it. When her hand came out of the water, she was holding a beetle-like multi-horned monster, but it was much bigger and uglier than a beetle. , is uglier.There were human-like eyes on the top of the head, and the bones were turning around. At this time, the monster's body was covered with yellow talismans, half of its body was scorched, and it gave off a burnt smell.

Xia Xiangxi wasn't afraid of being hurt by this monster, but he was in the mood to tease, and said twice, "What kind of strange fish is this! I just took it to cook teppanyaki tonight, and I just opened seafood meat!"

When Xia Xiangxi said this, the monster trembled all over, obviously it could understand human language.

Ma Po stood up from the ground, also smiled rarely, and said, "This stuff has a foul smell, it's not tasty to eat!"

The monster thought that Ma Po was pleading for it, so its two eyes looked at Ma Po, and turned around there, as if echoing Ma Po's words with its eyes.

Xia Xiangxi smiled and said, "What does that matter? If it doesn't taste good, I'll just practice my skills. When I catch fish next time, I won't be raw. If you try it, it won't taste good!"

The monster trembled, and its whole body convulsed.

Only then did Ma Po talk about the seriousness, saying that Aso's sores must be treated with the blood of this beast.

Xia Xiangxi asked: "Then do you care? You were also tricked by this thing just now?"

Ma Po waved her hand and said, "No problem! I've been on guard!"

Xia Xiangxi burst out laughing, Ma Po asked her why she was laughing, but she refused to say.In fact, it's not because she doesn't want to say it, but because she doesn't dare to say it, she thinks that Ma Po's sentence "No hindrance, no hindrance!" sounds very much like grandpa's tone.

Xia Xiangxi and Ma Po went to Aso's house together. Ma Po asked Aso's daughter-in-law to bring a bowl, and she pierced one of the monster's tentacles with a silver needle on her head, and blood flowed out from the tentacles. , the monster screamed in pain, Xia Xiangxi slapped it with his hand, why didn't he think about it when he said it was harmful?
Ma Po had drained enough blood and told Aso's daughter-in-law to boil the blood on the fire and let Aso drink it, and his sores would heal in a short time.Ma Sheng's daughter-in-law said thankfully that she remembered it, and thanked her with some dates and raisins. Ma Po said that she didn't like these sweet ones, so she asked Xia Xiangxi if she liked them?She eats whatever she likes.

Xia Xiangxi fell in love with a pot of flowers raised by Aso's daughter-in-law that she couldn't name, so she said that she didn't like sweet things, but she liked growing flowers.Aso's daughter-in-law understood what Xia Xiangxi meant, and brought the potted flowers to Xia Xiangxi.

Leaving Aso's house and returning to Diaojiaolou, Xia Xiangxi took the monster into the pot of flowers according to the method of keeping the monster taught by Ma Po.Only then did Ma Po understand why Xia Xiangxi wanted Aso's daughter-in-law to give her flowers.

Xia Xiangxi said with a playful smile, "I think it's easier to take care of a potted flower than a tree. Even if it doesn't bloom, the leaves are still pretty."

Ma Po muttered to herself, the preferences were exactly the same as that person.Xia Xiangxi listened and asked who was she like?Ma Po shook her head and refused to talk about it. She only talked about the monster, and said that the monster also had a name, a monster that likes to kill people secretly in the water. It shoots or shoots people with sand in its mouth. Those whose shadows are shot will get sores, and those whose shadows are shot will also get sick.

(End of this chapter)