The Witch of Xiangxi

Chapter 45
Xia Xiangxi had suspected for a long time that Huanhuan was behind the fact that Ashan and Diemei were framed for having an affair.

Now it is even more certain that Huanhuan has learned to be treacherous after several times of open fighting and failed to get any benefits, and started to kill people with knives.

Grandpa said that Xia Xiangxi's guess was right.They have to figure out a way to catch Huanhuan.

Xia Xiangxi nodded vigorously, it was necessary.Huanhuan has already started to deal with Ma Po, so the next person to deal with is Grandpa.

After all, Huanhuan is in the dark, she is a ghost, she can manipulate everything in the dark, making it impossible to guard against.Now Xia Xiangxi can only stay close to her grandfather.

Ah Shan's tragic death completely destroyed the two mothers. Ma Po had already been defeated by Huan Huan, so she couldn't help Xia Xiangxi if she couldn't take care of herself.

Xia Xiangxi had no choice but to think of a way by herself, and she turned her brains to Qi Hao.Huanhuan is in the dark, and only Qi Hao can lure her out.

Grandpa saw Xia Xiangxi's thoughts at a glance and stopped her.It is said that Qi Hao's soul is incomplete, and the time it has been kept in the jade cup is still short, so it cannot be used by her. If he is moved now, he is afraid that he will not even be able to be a ghost in the future.

Xia Xiangxi had no choice but to give up this idea.Before she could think of a way to deal with Huanhuan, Ah Shan's new house was haunted, scaring Ah Shan's father to pee his pants.This time it was not possessed by Ah Shan's mother, but there seemed to be ghosts flashing in Ah Shan's house.

Grandpa frowned, pointed at Ah Shan's father and said, "Look at your potential!" After speaking, he went straight to Ah Shan's new house.Xia Xiangxi followed her grandfather and went out too.

Grandpa walked very fast, so fast that Xia Xiangxi could hardly keep up. If on weekdays, grandpa is like a child who has just learned to walk, walking slowly and unsteadily, his body is always shaking, as if he is about to fall down at any time of.

Entering Ah Shan's new house, a stench like a dead fish rushed into his nose, and Xia Xiangxi immediately covered his nose.Grandpa said it was a ghost aura, a new ghost aura that had just become a ghost.If the visitor is not a ghost, but a zombie, then it is a rancid smell.

Xia Xiangxi was a little disappointed when she heard her grandfather say that, she thought it was Huanhuan who came.

There was still plenty of moonlight this night, slanting through the window sash into the room, and one could get a general idea of ​​the room even without lights.

Grandpa said to the shadow in the corner of the room: "Come out! If you have any grievances, tell my old man, and I will help you if I can!"

Xia Xiangxi looked over, and saw the figure of a woman huddled in the corner of the room, seeming to cry there, shrugging her shoulders.That is Ah Shan's deadly bride.

Grandpa said that Ah Shan was a good person before he was alive, but he was wronged when he died. Such a person will not suffer in the underworld.Ah Shan's new daughter-in-law is different. She killed someone first, stained her hands with sin, and then committed suicide, becoming a hanged ghost. Such a ghost can only be a wandering ghost and cannot enter reincarnation.

Xia Xiangxi thought, maybe this is why the female ghost was crying.

No matter how nicely grandpa tried to persuade her, the female ghost just huddled there and wept.The hooting of an owl came from afar, making Xia Xiangxi's skin goosebumps even more.I don't know since when, owls have an inexplicable relationship with ghosts.If the hooting of owls is always heard in the middle of the night, the elderly people will say that they don’t know who is going to die, so the owls are helping ghosts to report the news!

Subtle things are always the most difficult to get rid of. Even after growing up, Xia Xiangxi knows what kind of creature an owl is, and she is still full of fear of it.In addition, the hooting of the owl tonight is also very special, one after another, it seems that it will not stop until it burns the heart, liver and lungs of people's restlessness.

Xia Xiangxi was a little annoyed and irritable. She thought that if Ma Po was around, she would definitely not be as good-tempered as grandpa, wasting so much spitting, maybe a spell could make the female ghost forever.

Grandpa's ears are very sharp, and he could tell from Xia Xiangxi's breathing that she was agitated.Turning around, he stretched out his callused hand, and gently rubbed Xia Xiangxi's head, Xia Xiangxi calmed down.Grandpa later warned Xia Xiangxi that when encountering a ghost, no matter what kind of ghost it is, don't get confused.When people are angry or afraid, their souls will disperse, and ghosts are most likely to take advantage of them.

The female ghost remained silent. A bold mouse came out of the hole in the wall, trying to eat the wedding cakes on the table the day before. Xia Xiangxi was afraid of mice. This is almost a common problem among women. Living things are naturally fearful.She instinctively took a step back, and bumped into a chair behind her. The sound of the chair falling to the ground startled the mouse. Thinking that someone was going to attack it, she rushed to the dowry of the ghost in a panic. on the quilt, and got into it.

Attracted by the mouse, the female ghost stood up and looked at the quilt with her head, as if she wanted to chase the mouse away, but she still dared not go into the moonlight.

Grandpa was reminded by the female ghost's action. He drove away the mouse first, and then said to the female ghost: "Are you worried about these quilts? Don't worry, I will ask your father-in-law to send them all back to you If I go to my mother's house, there will be no less bed!"

The female ghost was really guessed by grandpa, she nodded to grandpa, and grandpa promised again that the female ghost disappeared in an instant.

Xia Xiangxi couldn't understand the female ghost's mind.Grandpa said that when a person dies, there will always be something that cannot be let go. If you think about taking it away or handing it over to someone to dispose of, if you don't get rid of your soul, you can't go clean.

One thing that happened to my grandfather, there was a family in their hometown, and such a thing happened in the family.

The old mother of that family had a heart attack, and suddenly fell ill one day, and passed away without saying a word. The body stopped on the third day, when all the grandchildren and grandchildren in the family were crying together, The old lady came back to life suddenly, saying that she died too hastily, and forgot to tell the old man that she hid her passbook in one of her shoes, and then she died, and she really died after this time.

Grandpa said that when the female ghost died, she must have considered those quilts in her heart, and left such a knot in her heart. If you untie this knot, she will never come back to scare people.

Xia Xiangxi sighed, feeling that everyone's values ​​are different, it doesn't necessarily matter what is worth or not, what he likes and values ​​can be called treasure, not to mention the customs in this area of ​​Xiangxi are like this, cotton Being a very important thing in a marriage between a man and a woman.

Grandpa said to ask Papa Ah Shan to send these quilts back to the female ghost's natal home, and she would never come back again.

But Ah Shan's father refused, he spent a lot of gifts for Ah Shan to marry his daughter-in-law, and the new daughter-in-law even killed his son, saying that there was nothing he could do to return the quilts to his in-laws.Mother Ashan, who had been lying on the bed and complaining about headaches, sat up at once when she heard what Grandpa said, and said vaguely that she could not send those quilts away.

Grandpa sighed, wondering what to say about Ah Shan's father and his wife?Grandpa failed to do what he promised the ghost, and the ghost came out the next day.She didn't dare to make too much noise, just the shadows of ghosts flickering to frighten people.Ah Shan's father was so frightened that he screamed "ahhh", even though he was afraid of this moment in the past, he still insisted on defending the quilt.

Xia Xiangxi couldn't stand the way of "heal the scar and forget about the pain", so he dragged his grandfather away, saying that he didn't care about their family's affairs.

Because it was the son and daughter-in-law who died, according to the custom, the bodies of Ah Shan and his new daughter-in-law were left at home for three days before they were buried.Even if the new daughter-in-law killed Ah Shan, Ah Shan's father is still willing to collect the body for the new daughter-in-law.Xia Xiangxi couldn't help but praise Ah Shan's father for his generosity. When the people on the other side heard it, they just said what happened?Solitary graves cannot be buried in the cemetery, and the family will be bad for generations to come. If Ah Shan's father doesn't bury his new daughter-in-law together, and he has to do another ghost marriage for Ah Shan, that would be too uneconomical.

Xia Xiangxi was dumbfounded and didn't speak for a long time.

On the day of the funeral, someone from the new daughter-in-law's family came to help with the burial.It was fine at the time, and it seemed to be the case.After the burial was over, the natal family pulled their faces away and began to grab the quilts that the bride gave as a dowry.Ah Shan's father's lack of a son is the most important thing in the family, so the grievances between the in-laws are beyond the reach of outsiders, and the people in the village can only stare at them.Originally, Father Ah Shan still had a few daughters, but now he complained that Father Ah Shan only cared about Ah Shan and treated them badly.

"It's hard for an upright official to break up housework!" Otherwise, why has such a sentence been left since ancient times?
The daughters only care about hypocrisy, and those son-in-laws who are sons-in-law also love the father-in-law and can't feel it. Considering that Daming Village is a big village with a large number of people, they will all live in the future. Who wants to be divided between those beds? The quilt in their hands offends others?
Those quilts were snatched away by the new daughter-in-law's family.

Ah Shan's father would squat on the ground and cry like a woman. The people who were watching couldn't bear the misery, and they all dispersed with a "Hula".

Mother Ah Shan, who has been delirious for several days, her eyes were wide and round, she clenched her fists silently, and she didn't know what was going on?

The next evening, Xia Xiangxi saw Mother Ah Shan with a basket on her arm, and she didn't know what she was doing when she left the village.
In the middle of the night, Ah Shan's father knocked on the door from door to door, saying that his wife was missing, and begging everyone to help find her.

Xia Xiangxi told about seeing Ah Shan's mother. Grandpa turned his head and asked Ah Shan's father, "Has your wife gone to see relatives? Didn't she tell you?"

Ah Shan's father burst into tears, saying that instead of visiting relatives, Ah Shan's mother went to nail a peach on the grave of his new daughter-in-law.

Grandpa shouted: "How can you be so cruel?"

Xia Xiangxi didn't know what was going on, she didn't know until her grandfather told her.It turned out that after the "soil ghost" incident before, many people in the village knew how grandpa dealt with the soil ghosts. They nailed the Qianmen and Kunmen of the tomb with peach nails, and then closed the ghost's life gate in the tomb. If it is nailed to the gate of ghosts, that ghost cannot go to the sky, nor can it enter the earth, nor can it be reincarnated forever, nor can it leave the grave to harm others.

Ashan's mother felt sorry for the quilt that was taken away by the new daughter-in-law's family, so she vented her anger on the ghostly new daughter-in-law, thinking of venting her hatred.

(End of this chapter)