The Witch of Xiangxi

Chapter 9 is calculated

Those silver bells seemed to be alive, seeing something that caused uneasiness, and they were terribly frightened.The humidity suddenly became so heavy that it seemed as if you could just reach out and catch a handful of water.The mountain wind became colder. Xia Xiangxi felt that this wind was even colder than the severe winter wind in the north. It was so cold that she shivered.There was also an inexplicable uneasiness in the air.

He Xuan also heard the sound of the silver bell, and asked Xia Xiangxi what was ringing?How could Xia Xiangxi have the time to talk to him?Her eyes couldn't see clearly in the dark, but her ears were quite good, and she even heard the sound of water dripping on the floor amidst the mixed sound of silver bells.

Like a person soaked by rain, the sound of rainwater dripping on his feet while walking, the sound of water dripping rang on the left side of Xia Xiangxi's body, extending all the way to the room where He Xuan was.

Sure enough, Xia Xiangxi next heard the sound of the door being pushed open.When she was so terrified that she almost screamed out, her nose smelled a familiar smell of tobacco, and she was immediately overjoyed, knowing that grandpa should be right next to her.Grandpa smoked cigarettes all the year round, and there was always a lingering smell of tobacco on his body. As long as he was three or five steps away from Xia Xiangxi, the smell of tobacco could get into her nose.

Sure enough, not only Grandpa appeared, but Ma Po also appeared.

It turned out that Grandpa asked Xia Xiangxi to leave He Xuan in the Diaojiaolou, and they pretended to go out again, just to lure Huanhuan here so that they could catch her.

When Xia Xiangxi saw Huanhuan's appearance, his eyes widened like brass bells, which were scary. He was wearing a red silk scarf, and it seemed that there was a snake hidden around his neck wrapped in the silk scarf. The long thing moved slightly, wearing a glaring dress that was as red as pig blood, Xia Xiangxi felt her hairs stand on end one by one, she was terrified, and kept trying to catch Grandpa in the dark Clothes, this is her habit when she is afraid.

Then He Xuan didn't know what happened. When everyone was nervous, he asked why. Grandpa hit He Xuan's temple with a cigarette stick. his life.Grandpa said that he was afraid that he would tell what happened tonight. He is a comrade in the army, and people in the army are most taboo about bulls/ghosts and snakes/gods.Xia Xiangxi knew that his grandfather was taken into the cowshed by the Red Guards back then, so he naturally had indelible sequelae to the soldiers.

Huanhuan is not as deep as Ma Po, because Huanhuan had been hiding in the dark before, so Grandpa and Ma Po couldn't catch her. At this time, they led her to this stilted building and showed up. Grandpa and Ma Po thought that the two of them It was a breeze to catch Huanhuan, so the two of them were careless.

After Huanhuan was caught by Ma Po, she begged Ma Po bitterly, talking about how hard her life was, but it was just a woman who wanted to bring the man she loved back to life, and Ma Po also lost her husband when she was young How can a person who doesn't understand the pain of being a wife?The reason why she came to He Xuan for revenge was not only because he broke her dream of bringing her lover back to life, but also wanted to take away her lover's ashes, so that she could not sleep with her lover in life, and could not share the same acupuncture point in death. , Only those who have loved can understand!Now that Ma Po is protecting He Xuan, she won't be obsessed with it anymore. As long as Ma Po lets her go, she will be a good person in the future and won't ask for anything indiscriminately!

Some rhetoric made Ma Po's heart soften, and she discussed with grandpa whether to let Huanhuan go.

Unexpectedly, Huanhuan is a deceitful talker, taking advantage of Ma Po's distraction, fingers grow silver hook-like nails, and grab Ma Po's heart.When Xia Xiangxi saw Huanhuan attack Ma Po, she instinctively reached out to push Ma Po away.Only then did Ma Po escape Huanhuan's fatal blow.However, Huanhuan's hands like silver hooks still grabbed her flesh, and a piece of flesh was torn off by Huanhuan. Ma Po screamed in pain and almost passed out.

When Grandpa realized it, Huanhuan had already passed through the window, and Grandpa could only curse regretfully, "Fucking his grandma, he's caught the devil's way!".After Grandpa checked Ma Po's injury and found medicine to heal Ma Po's wound, Grandpa asked Xia Xiangxi, "Ni'er, can you see Huanhuan?"

Xia Xiangxi replied a little strangely, "Why can't I see it?"

Grandpa said: "She is half a ghost now, most people can't see her."

When Xia Xiangxi heard his grandfather talking about ghosts, he trembled in his heart, and felt a cool breeze behind his back, as if there was something behind him.This was all psychological, Xia Xiangxi knew it but couldn't control it.In order to prove that she did see Huanhuan, she told her grandpa what she saw about Huanhuan.As soon as she finished speaking, grandpa yelled that it was not good.Xia Xiangxi was so frightened that it was as if another layer of ice had been applied to her body, and her trembling teeth chattered.

Grandpa slapped his thigh regretfully, and kept muttering, "Careless, careless!"

Xia Xiangxi was taken aback again, her scalp was numb.

Ma Po finally gritted her teeth and resisted the pain from the wound, and asked Grandpa what was wrong.

Grandpa said that they were all negligent, and always thought that Huanhuan had practiced the head-bending technique and turned into a half-human, half-ghost. He never thought that Huanhuan was really dead and turned into a ghost.All ghosts are afraid of red things, but there is only one ghost who is not afraid of red, and that is the ghost in red.This kind of ghost is a person with resentment in his heart. He chooses the time of the day when the yin is the most serious and wears red clothes to turn himself into a hanged ghost. That resentment turned into a ghost.This is the most ferocious kind of ghost.

When Xia Xiangxi heard her grandfather talk about hanged ghosts, she thought of those hanged ghosts in the movies, with their blood-red long tongues sticking out their terrifying appearances, but she didn't see that Huanhuan was like that!
Grandpa said: "This is where Huanhuan is clever. A hanged ghost must have a long tongue that reveals his identity, so Huanhuan deliberately wrapped a silk scarf around it. You can see that the thing that moves like a snake under the silk scarf is Huanhuan. Ring's hidden long tongue!"

Xia Xiangxi's face was pale, as if he had suffered from heat stroke, and he couldn't speak a word for a long time.When she recovered a little, she kept touching her neck with her hands, as if something was strangling her throat, which made her feel stuck.

Grandpa sighed and said: "I lost Jingzhou carelessly, let Huanhuan go today, I don't know what kind of disaster will happen in the future!"

Ma Po has been blaming herself all the time, blaming her for being soft-hearted and confused by Huanhuan's nonsense, now that a piece of flesh has been torn by Huanhuan, the piercing pain can be regarded as making her hate Huanhuan, and she will say anything in this tone !

Xia Xiangxi recalled the way grandpa and mother-in-law used to deal with the earth ghost before, so he acted smart and said, "It's fine if we also use peach nails to nail Huanhuan's grave, she can still beat that earth ghost." Is it great?"

Grandpa smiled wryly and said: "That Huanhuan turned herself into a ghost. Not only does she know how to become a ghost, but she has already taken precautions. She will definitely hide in an unknown place and won't be let easily. Let's find her body!"

Xia Xiangxi was speechless, looking out through the window at the black-cloth-like sky and the faint blue phosphorescent fire in the mountains and forests in the distance, her body trembled violently, fear entangled her layer by layer like a snake .

It's just that grandpa said it's useless to be afraid!Some things, as long as the seeds are planted, will definitely germinate and take root.The good roots must be cultivated well, and the evil roots can only be eradicated in this way!After saying those words, Xia Xiangxi's heart trembled.

In Xia Xiangxi's heart, he actually had a lot of sympathy for Huanhuan.She didn't expect that Huanhuan was such a staunch girl who loved the Han guy who didn't love her so affectionately, even at the expense of killing herself.Hearing her grandpa's decisive words to eradicate Huanhuan, she had the urge to intercede for Huanhuan.

However, when Xia Xiangxi saw Ma Po's frightening gray face the next day, she gave up her sympathy for Huanhuan.

Grandpa said that Ma Po was poisoned by Huanhuan's corpse and was doomed to a short life.Xia Xiangxi didn't understand what Grandpa meant at the time. Grandpa actually said that Ma Po would shorten her life by a few years, but Xia Xiangxi thought that Grandpa was saying that Ma Po would die soon.At night, she heard the silver bell that would not ring no matter how strong the wind was, but would only ring under special circumstances. Grandpa said that it must be that Huanhuan was still thinking about getting closer to the Diaojiaolou.This silver bell is not an ordinary silver bell, but a yin-yang barrier, it will not ring when people approach the stilted building, but it will only ring when ghosts approach.This answer made Xia Xiangxi feel terrified, because she would naturally think that she is either a human or a ghost, why does the silver bell ring when she approaches the stilted building?

Grandpa only told her that she was thinking too much, because she was born in a cloudy year, and her fate was a pure yin person, and the yin energy in her body was heavier than ordinary people, so those silver bells felt Xia Xiangxi's body. Yin Qi can only ring, that's why Ma Po took her blood that day and sacrificed the silver bell, and the silver bell stopped ringing at her after knowing her scent.

Only then did Xia Xiangxi calm down, and she was not so afraid anymore.It's just that she can't sleep anymore at night, she always feels that the silver bell is ringing, and she seems to see Huanhuan floating near the stilted building, she feels that Huanhuan will not only hate He Xuan, but also hate Grandpa and Ma Po. After seeing her murderous hands, Xia Xiangxi began to worry that the next person to be harmed by Huanhuan would be Grandpa.

Grandpa is her only relative in this world, even though she knows that grandpa is terminally ill and won't have a good life for a year or two, she is still reluctant to let him go and lose an hour of his life in this world.

For grandpa, her brain turned.She doesn't really want to be as ruthless as grandpa and wipe out Huanhuan, she just wants to help grandpa catch Huanhuan, and use a method to keep her from making trouble, so that grandpa can live through the last days in peace .

Finally she thought of a bold solution.

(End of this chapter)