The Witch of Xiangxi

Chapter 40
Grandpa also said that the hallucinations Xia Xiangxi sensed were the owner of the tomb warning humans not to open the tomb easily.

It's a pity that Xia Xiangxi can only sense some information, and can't influence the excavation process of those archaeologists.

In order to avoid disasters for Xia Xiangxi, Grandpa no longer let Xia Xiangxi go to Sanwanggou.But after a few days, He Xuan came to see his grandfather and Xia Xiangxi again, but said that the archaeological work there was progressing smoothly, a burial pit had been dug out, and an epitaph was also found.Now I am looking for experts in linguistics to decipher the ancient characters above.

Xia Xiangxi has always been worried about He Xuan, and now he is a little relieved.She still asked Ma Po for some charms, so that He Xuan might as well try to use them when necessary.

After lunch, Xia Xiangxi pushed He Xuan away. It wasn't that she didn't welcome He Xuan. She still remembered the matter of Huanhuan. Grandpa said that Huanhuan was injured and wasted a lot, and he couldn't come out to do evil for a while, but Xia Xiangxi Xiangxi was worried, and urged He Xuan to leave early.Huanhuan, who has become a ghost, is always looking for disputes when he has nothing to do. They are big living people, and they can't stand the tossing about by those grieving ghosts.

Xia Xiangxi sent He Xuan away from the village, and the two of them seemed to be seeing off each other on the [-]th day of the Liang Zhu. They saw off one way and turned back the other way. You gave me a ride, and I sent you for a while. No one said anything, but they could all sense it. There is indeed a bit of obsessive obsession between each other, and no one can let go of the other.

It was Xia Xiangxi who met a Miao girl who was asking for directions. The girl was looking for Ma Po. Xia Xiangxi felt that the girl had asked the right person, so she stopped sending He Xuan away. After saying goodbye, she went with the girl. Go to Xiaomiao Village.

On the way, Xia Xiangxi asked the girl's name. The girl's name was Yami, and she was from Da Miao Village.When Xia Xiangxi first came here, she heard what the tour guide Amei said, "people from the big Miao village don't enter the small Miao village." So she was surprised, wondering how this girl dared to destroy the communication between the two villages. rule.However, she didn't ask the girl too much.

Most ethnic minorities are taboo. Xia Xiangxi always felt that although ethnic minorities are warm and hospitable, they are also petty and always talk about a bunch of rules.To put it nicely is called etiquette, but to put it bluntly is just a matter of fact.It's hard to guard against, and I don't know which sentence is too much, it will cause trouble, and good intentions will also cause right and wrong.Therefore, to live in such an area, the best thing is to keep your mouth shut, and let something happen that has nothing to do with you, and it is always right here!
She took Yami to the Diaojiaolou, but Yami refused to go up the Diaojiaolou. Ma Po came down from the Diaojiaolou to meet her.Xia Xiangxi avoided suspicion, watched Ma Po and Ya Mi talking for a while on the stilted building, and then went to whose house together.

At night, Ma Po came back, and her face was not very good.Xia Xiangxi didn't dare to ask more questions, but grandpa didn't care about it, and asked directly.Ma Po said that someone in the village caused trouble.That Yami is the apprentice of the wizard of the Great Miao Village, and she finally has some relationship with Ma Po, so she came over to ask for a meeting.Even if there are grievances between the two villages, in this era, they are not willing to create too much right and wrong. It is best if the big things can be resolved and handled properly.

Ma Po took that Ya Mi to ask the person who caused trouble, and that person was not too far away from Ma Po. He was her dead husband's nephew, Ah Shan, and he was also Ma Po's younger brother who watched Ah Shan grow up. of.That Ah Shan is also a skillful person, he is an excellent carpenter, and he treats people with a warm heart.Whoever has a broken door or window sash, call him, and immediately go over to help repair it, and don't charge half of the reward.For those who are not polite, they only accept half a jar of rice wine from others, and their reputation in the village is considered excellent.

It's just that he looks mediocre, and he's a bit shorter, not as tall as Xia Xiangxi, which is about 1.6 meters five.But in this way, with his good reputation, Ah Shan still got the favor of many good girls.In the first half year, I fell in love with a girl from a famous village when I was going to the market.The people in the mountain village are always busy with work on weekdays, and Ah Shan is a good hand at living. He calculates that if he is busy, his marriage will be delayed for a long time. Not only will he miss the farm work, but he will also do less carpentry work and earn less money.Just discuss it with the girl's family, and wait for the wedding when Qiu is free.

Who knew that such a young man would cause a love debt.While getting along with the girl from the Daming Village, she hooked up with the girl from the Daming Village.Yami reported that Ah Shan had provoked Diemei, the most beautiful girl in their village.

That Diemei is a well-known beautiful girl in several nearby villages.Not only is she beautiful, but she also has a good voice. I heard that as long as she sings, even the larks will sit on the branches and listen quietly.Xia Xiangxi reckoned that this description was a bit exaggerated, but it was just a metaphor for Diemei's beautiful voice, and it could not be taken seriously.

The more beautiful a girl is, the more high-spirited she is.Although many young men admired her, none of Diemei fell in love with her.In addition, this butterfly girl is also different from ordinary girls. Other girls like to gather together for embroidery, weaving, or batik.Her temper is like a boy's, and she likes to hunt and gather herbs in the mountains.And very drinkable.

Xia Xiangxi has been in the Miao village for so long, and she has long known that the girls of the Miao nationality are all drinkers, and they can drink bowl after bowl.Of course, the wine they like to drink is self-brewed rice wine made from glutinous rice. The rice wine is glutinous and sweet, and has a low alcohol content. Xia Xiangxi, who doesn't drink much, can drink half a bowl of rice wine.

Even so, that Diemei's drinking capacity is quite scary. Before going up the mountain, she would drink half a jar, and after she came back, she would drink half a jar.Xia Xiangxi was a little speechless when he heard this, wondering if that Die Mei drank wine like water?Rice wine is always wine. Such a large amount of alcohol is really scary.

Ma Po also said that Diemei's marksmanship was very accurate, and she hit more prey with a shotgun than men.As an aside here, legal minority firearms are unregulated.The state allows them to use the permitted hunting tools and engage in hunting activities in areas where hunting is permitted in their ethnic gathering areas.

Don't think that Diemei's temperament is the same as that of a man, even if she is a female man, she can do everything in embroidery and weaving.In particular, the batik she made is always the most beautiful, and the styles of clothes she makes are beyond the reach of ordinary girls.Such a good girl really makes those young men who admire her feel lovesick.But Diemei can't find someone who makes her heart move. Year after year, Diemei has grown from a girl in her late teens to a girl in her twenties.Girls her age were all married and became mothers, but she was still a girl.She was very open-minded, and she just had to wait for the person she was destined for.

But her father was different.Parents always have endless worries about their children, and they don't feel sorry for their broken hearts, they just feel sorry for their precious children.

Diemei lost her mother since she was a child, and lived with her father. It should be the same, Diemei lacks the delicateness that a girl should have.When Diemei was young, it was easy to say, but when she grows up, it is always inconvenient to take care of her father. There are some things that my father should not be able to ask or say.Seeing that Diemei is in her twenties, her marriage has not been settled yet?Dad can only be anxious.Just ask the neighbor's aunt and Diemei to talk about it, and ask her if she has someone she likes in her heart.As long as she likes her, she won't have any objections to being her father. The sooner the wedding is held, the happier her father will be.

Aunt asked Diemei.Diemei firmly insists that she has never had a sweetheart.But not long after she said this, Abba looked at Diemei a little abnormally.She usually likes to drink, but when she smells alcohol, she says she feels sick, and she eats half a bowl and throws up half a bowl.

Being a father is always the most careless, and only being a butterfly sister must be sick, and the appetite is not very good.It wasn't until the days got longer and longer that Dad heard people talking about it, saying that Diemei seemed to be pregnant with a wild seed.He was so angry that he almost took his breath away, and thought that others said grapes were sour because they couldn't eat grapes, deliberately jealous and insulting Diemei.However, because of this, Abba pays attention to Diemei.Only then did he realize that Diemei's body was really a bit heavy, and she didn't always feel tired when doing farm work like before, and when plowing the field, she always had to take a few breaths.In addition to being picky when eating, the body also looks a lot fatter. The most important thing is that the waist is not as slender as before, and it always feels a little too thick.

Abba tried hard to recall what Diemei's mother was like when she was pregnant with Diemei. The more I recalled, the more I felt that Diemei's current situation was the same as when Diemei was pregnant with Diemei.Those who speak bad things about Diemei are not necessarily talking nonsense, they may have really seen something?
Dad lost his mind for a while, Diemei was still an unmarried girl, and he was embarrassed to ask Diemei directly if she did that kind of thing with any man, so he could only pay attention to Diemei. sister's whereabouts.

In the middle of the night, Abba heard Diemei get up secretly and open the door to go out.He hurriedly put on his clothes and followed out.He followed Diemei all the way to the valley outside the stockade, and he saw that Diemei was going on a date with a man.He was so angry that he almost spat out blood.He rushed forward and slapped the man's face fiercely, and he could see clearly under the moonlight that the man was the well-known carpenter Ah Shan in this area.At the market, he had taken a fancy to a set of furniture made by Ah Shan, thinking that he would buy it for Diemei as a dowry in the future, so he had a particularly deep memory of Ah Shan.

Seeing that he was caught on a date with Diemei, Ah Shan was scared and ran away.

The Miao people live deep in the mountains, and their thinking is always somewhat backward, and their ideology is still at the level of the feudal thinking of the Han people.Thinking that a girl's family who is pregnant with a child is a great shame and a shame.The only difference is that the Miao people are more kind and benevolent, unlike the Han people in feudal times who would definitely immerse unmarried and pregnant women in pig cages and sink them into the bottom of rivers.

(End of this chapter)