The Witch of Xiangxi

Chapter 4
After a long time, grandpa seemed to doze off.At first, I could still hear my grandfather's "hmm" after a while, but then I couldn't hear it.

The night was very quiet, and Xia Xiangxi was tired after standing for a long time, so she sat on the ground. After a little longer, she became sleepy and dazed, her eyelids were so heavy that she couldn't lift her eyes, but her ears could still hear the movement around her.

Xia Xiangxi seemed to hear his grandfather talking to someone, and his grandfather said: "So the comrades in the army during the day are here to look for you!"

Another young man's voice said: "Yes!" The voice was very pleasant, and Xia Xiangxi felt that people must be very good-looking, and she really wanted to open her eyes to see that person's appearance, but she felt like she was falling asleep and dreaming Likewise, the body is not governed by itself.Later, grandpa and that person talked a lot, but Xia Xiangxi couldn't hear clearly, until she suddenly felt a pain in the tiger's mouth in her right hand, and then she woke up.When she opened her eyes, she saw grandpa squatting in front of her with a smile, calling her to go home and sleep.

Xia Xiangxi was only awake for a while, she felt that she was too tired and sleepy, that's why she was so confused.Following her grandfather back to Uncle Ma's house, she went back to the wing room where she lived and fell asleep on the bed without even taking off her clothes.

This time I slept very tired, I always felt that she was asleep on the bed, and Hun'er was still running outside.She had a strange dream, dreaming that she seemed to be the Ma Po with the centipede birthmark on her face, and she and her grandfather went to a house together.The family didn't use electric lights, and had a whole room full of candles.In the room, a woman with disheveled hair was burning something in a brazier, and there was a smoky smell of burnt hair in the room.

Xia Xiangxi heard his grandfather say: "It really is you, the beast, who is harming people?"

The woman with disheveled hair turned her head. It should have been a very beautiful face. At this time, her eyes and nostrils were bleeding, and she looked extremely terrifying.

Xia Xiangxi felt that it was her but not hers. She felt that she had spoken in Miao language, and she could understand what it meant.The words were addressed to that scary woman, meaning that she actually violated the prohibition and secretly practiced the head lowering technique.

The young woman didn't speak, and suddenly picked up the earthen pot next to the brazier and threw it towards Xia Xiangxi.Then, Xia Xiangxi heard his grandfather shout, "Don't let the corpse oil get on my granddaughter!"

It seemed that it was too late for Grandpa to say this, Xia Xiangxi felt a stench coming towards her face, she tried her best to dodge, but her left arm was still wet by the things spilled from the earthen pot.

Grandpa yelled: "Mother Ma, what are you waiting for?"

After Grandpa called, Xia Xiangxi felt her hands waving, the young woman parried a few times, then scattered the candles in the room, and when the room became dark, she found a chance to escape.

Xia Xiangxi felt that he was also running, and his grandfather was chasing after him.I don't know how long I ran, but when I arrived at a cemetery in the barren mountain, there was still a moon in the sky, but when a gust of wind blew, dark clouds rolled in.On a grave, an old man with white hair and beard was sitting in white clothes. The young woman rushed to the old man and begged the old man to save her.

The weeds on the grave were whirling and dancing, as if it wasn't the wind that was blowing them, but the cold air blowing from the center of the earth, yawning loudly from the people in the tomb.

The white old man said "Don't be afraid!" to the young woman, and then sneered at Xia Xiangxi: "You guys are cunning, knowing that I will detect your original body, so I borrowed such a precious The body is so yin and cold, I can't figure it out even if I try to figure it out."

Xia Xiangxi felt that he was making an ugly laugh, and after the laughter fell, he said: "You bastard, you have harmed the comrades in the army, and even the girls in our village. Let's see how I deal with you!"

The white old man grinned grimly and said a bunch of outrageous words, which Xia Xiangxi felt he couldn't understand, then suddenly his body went limp, and he fell to the ground with a plop.Then she felt that there was another person in front of her, the Ma Po who seemed to be the same as her before.

Ma Po was fighting with the white old man, while Grandpa took a red nail and hammered it hard into the grave where the white old man was sitting just now.

The white old man saw his grandfather crucifying the grave, and wanted to rush over to stop it. Ma Po chased after him and stabbed him in the back with a wooden sword.After the wooden sword pierced the old man's body, a cloud of blue fire burst out with a pop.The old man Bai screamed "Aww", when Xia Xiangxi heard the sound like a pig squawking, he trembled all over and couldn't help touching his neck.Her family lives in the countryside, and every family has to slaughter pigs and sheep during the Chinese New Year. The screams of the white old man reminded her of the screams hanging on the wooden shelves in front of the iron pots on the threshing field. Pigs waiting to be slaughtered.The butcher stabbed the pig's neck with a shiny knife...,
"Stop nailing the coffin, nail his feet!" Ma Po shouted to Grandpa.Grandpa scolded, "How the hell did I nail his feet! You hold him back, this peach nail can't hold this beast!"

After the grandfather finished cursing, he wedged the peach nail in his hand into the grave.The old man Bai struggled and twisted his body, he broke free from Ma Po's wooden sword and rushed straight to Grandpa.

Grandpa cursed again, "Damn it, the nail is broken." After speaking, he pulled out the peach nail, and before the old man Bai jumped to him, he jumped to the northeast of the grave, knowing that the old man was going to attack him. , but still concentrate on wedged that peach nail.Seeing that the white old man was about to grab Grandpa's head, the wooden sword in Ma Po's hand flew out, this time piercing the old white man's shoulder, and the old white man and the wooden sword hung in mid-air, as if for real It turned into a pig hanging on the frame, struggling desperately there.

The sweat on Grandpa's forehead fell like raindrops, and some sweat rolled into his eyes, killing his eyes so much that he didn't even care about it. He wedged the peach nails into the soil several times, and the white old man yelled Even worse, Ma Po also took out a peach nail, and pressed the peach nail to the ground diagonally opposite to Grandpa, and then asked Grandpa for a hammer, Grandpa immediately threw the hammer to Ma Po, but the throw was too much. Coincidentally, Ma Po was hit on the head with a "dong", Ma Po immediately fell to the ground with a "plop" like a brick standing upright, the whites of her eyes turned up and she passed out, and a fist-sized bump appeared on her forehead.

Grandpa was angry and regretful, the peach nail he had nailed before kept going up, as if there was a force in the ground trying to blow the peach nail out of the ground.Grandpa pressed the peach nail with both hands, and shouted at Xia Xiangxi, "Nie, get the hammer!"

Xia Xiangxi has been standing by the side, facing everything in front of her in a daze, listening to her grandfather shouting, and she, who has always obeyed his grandfather, didn't care about being afraid, got up, ran to Ma Po, picked up the hammer, and According to the place Ma Po just inserted, forcefully wedge the peach nails into the ground.The white old man turned his head and yelled at Xia Xiangxi, "Aww", Xia Xiangxi raised his head and glanced at him, then suddenly saw the white old man turned into a grandfather, and said to her, "Ni'er!" , are you going to kill your grandfather?" Xia Xiangxi was stunned for a moment, and with a shake of his hand, the hammer fell to the ground.

Grandpa saw the abnormality on Xia Xiangxi's side, so he threw the cigarette stick at Xia Xiangxi and hit her on the head. Eyes!" Xia Xiangxi closed his eyes quickly when he heard his grandfather's words. The month of exercising in the stilted building can be regarded as having achieved results this time. Xia Xiangxi raised the hammer and pointed at Tao The nail is wedged, and the peach nail is wedged into the peach nail exactly, and the peach nail is wedged into the soil in a few strokes.

When she opened her eyes, the whole body of the white old man in front of her turned into flames, burning cracklingly, and the stench entered Xia Xiangxi's nose one after another, and she vomited in disgust.

Tao Nai on the grandfather's side finally stopped moving. While wiping the sweat on his forehead with his arm, he let out a long sigh of relief, walked around the grave to Ma Po's side, rolled up his sleeves, and put it in the palm of his hand. After spitting, rubbing his hands, he shook off both hands and "slapped" Ma Po's face a few times.After being slapped several times, Ma Po woke up from the pain. She still remembered that she had to drive the peach nail in before she passed out, and asked her grandpa for a hammer.

Grandpa snorted twice, and said to Ma Po: "Pull it down! When you wedge that peach nail in, the day lily will be cold!" He seemed to forget that it was his mistake with a hammer that knocked Ma Po unconscious just now. of.Grandpa picked up the cigarette stick that fell on the ground, wiped the dirt from the cigarette holder on the clothes on his chest, and said to Ma Po: "This peach wood nail can hold him down temporarily. At dawn, ask the people in the village to take his cigarette away." The grave has been dug. Let him rest for eight lifetimes."

Ma Po nodded. At this moment, she suddenly thought of the young woman, and she was so focused on dealing with old man Bai, that she forgot about the young woman. She had long since disappeared.

Ma Po said: "It's broken, let her run away."

Grandpa blew on the dirt in the smoke pot, then raised one foot, and slammed the smoke pot on the sole of the shoe twice, before saying to Ma Po: "For the time being, she won't be able to cause any trouble. It’s almost dawn, I have to go back quickly and wash off the oil on my granddaughter’s corpse, otherwise my granddaughter’s arm will be crippled.”

Ma Po let out a "hmm", then grabbed Xia Xiangxi by the collar and shouted at her, "Look at my eyes! Look at my eyes!"

Xia Xiangxi really couldn't help listening to Ma Po's words, and looking into Ma Po's eyes, she felt that there were two strange blue lights in Ma Po's eyes, and then Ma Po's two eyeballs suddenly became the size of lanterns , She was so scared that she screamed "Oops", and then woke up all of a sudden.

Xia Xiangxi sat up abruptly, looked around with wide-eyed eyes, it was dawn, and she was still lying in the wing of Uncle Ma's house.Outside, Aunt Ma was yelling "cuckoo cluck" and sprinkled rice to feed her chickens.

Grandpa was outside knocking on the window with a cigarette stick, shouting, "Nie, hurry up and eat!"

(End of this chapter)