The Witch of Xiangxi

Chapter 163
That is what is commonly known as "walking around".

If you look up the Xinhua dictionary, you can find two explanations for the literal meaning of 旮: a.Corner, such as "wall corner", "door corner"; b.Yu remote places, such as "mountain corner".Going to the corner does not mean that the child has gone to someone else's corner, or to a place farther away.Instead, they went into other people's homes and reincarnated into the wombs of other pregnant women.

There is a custom in the countryside that if a pregnant woman wants to have a beautiful child, or a boy or girl, she should find a child she likes who is less than three weeks old to hug, and then she can conceive such a child herself.Some children have been held by pregnant women, so it is easy to walk away.

Because of the separation of the soul, the child's body will become weaker and weaker, until someone else's child is born, and the lost child will be in danger.It is impossible for one person's soul to be born in two separate bodies.Therefore, if the treatment is not timely, the children who have passed away will not be able to live.

There are three methods according to folklore to cure this kind of wandering.

The first method is to use a doctor who can operate to cut open the base of the thumb on the palm and squeeze out a group of fish-like things. This method is called "broken carp species".That is to say, the child is a carp species that can jump over the dragon gate. A person has two lives. If the carp species is broken, the child will not be able to leave.

If this method can’t be cured, then it means that the child’s soul has become real fetal gas in the belly of other pregnant women. Go to the stomach, etc.), to treat this kind of child, you must use the second method: cut off the seven fingernails, seven toenails, and a lock of hair of the child who walked away, and write on a piece of paper The child's name and birth date are wrapped in red paper.Add an unwashed shirt worn by the child (the longer it is worn, the better), an egg, and steam for a stick of incense time, and then throw it away at the crossroads in the middle of the night, or put it on the ceiling of the house where no one lives. , if there is no ceiling, put it on the hanging beam.In short, if you can't be discovered, you will see it.It is rumored that the facial features of children can be seen after the steamed eggs are peeled off, which is a bit scary.

It is said that this method is more effective, but it will cause other pregnant women to miscarry, so kind people will not use it.

There is also a third method: cut off the seven fingernails, seven toenails, and a lock of hair of the walking child. Same as the second method, cut off the seven fingernails and seven toes of the walking child. A, a lock of hair, wrapped in a piece of red paper with the child's name and birth date written on it.At midnight on the seventh, seventeenth, and twenty-seventh day of the lunar calendar, find the place with the strongest yang energy and burn it with the strongest fire.The whole process cannot be discovered by others.

In this place with the most yang energy and the strongest fire, there are only two places for the folks to follow, one is the brick kiln for burning bricks.One is in an iron furnace where a blacksmith forges iron.These two places were relatively easy to find before the 80s.

Some people are too poor to afford the bricks to build a house, so they dig kilns and burn them by themselves, which is nothing more than selling their labor and adding a ton or two of coal, which is more than a little less than the cost of buying bricks.

By the end of the 80s, small blacksmith workshops were replaced by large or small ironware factories, and the country's control of unreasonable digging and farming, brick kilns became approved, and gradually became rare.

However, the method of throwing brick kilns is quite immoral. If the bricks in a brick kiln are not burnt well, no matter whether it is a small factory or any household, the brick kiln burner will have to pay too much money. You will not harm other people for your own good.If a blacksmith destroys a furnace of iron, he can still put the iron back into the furnace for re-burning, and the loss is relatively small.Therefore, there are quite a lot of people who choose to throw it on the blacksmith's iron stove.

Grandpa Shi Wei could tell right away that someone had thrown something to cure their children into the iron stove in their house.Grandpa Shi Wei is also a person who knows alchemy. When encountering such a situation, in the heart of saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda, he just sighed and let it go.But this caused their family to be unable to make iron every day, and the deadline for delivery to the shippers who wanted iron work was delayed, and they would lose money.

Grandpa Shi Wei used restraint to stop the evil spirit in the iron stove.Generally, people who know how to treat "Zoujia" are old people who were born before liberation. Young people have long disbelieved in this because of the relationship of the times.Grandpa Shi Wei just wanted to find that person, and talk to him well, don't always push people to his iron stove, it's useless for him to work hard, and there is no one who will pay half of it It's useless to be such a good person, but it's true that it hurts my family.

Rural areas are no different than cities. People live upstairs and downstairs like in cities. You may not even know who the neighbors live in for how many years you live there.It's different in the village, if someone speaks something privately in the middle of the night loudly, it can be heard clearly by all the neighbors in the village!
Grandpa Shi Wei didn't find out which family's child had "walked away", but he found out that a Mr. Yin and Yang came to the town recently.It is said that it is very spiritual, and its name is very famous.

Grandpa Shi Wei found the famous Mr. Yin and Yang, and immediately made Grandpa Shi Wei angry when they met. It turned out that the enemy was extremely jealous when they met.That Mr. Yin Yang turned out to be his former brother who had harmed him, and his great enemy Wu Ye who he had been looking for for many years.

When the fifth master saw Grandpa Shi Wei, he seemed to have been mentally prepared for a long time. He didn't change his face and heartbeat, and even called Grandpa Shi Wei to come in and sit down, as if he had never made any mistakes before.Grandpa Shi Wei asked him why he was imprisoned back then.

Fifth Master said that it wasn't his fault back then, it was Xiaofeng who betrayed Grandpa Shi Wei, he also wanted to turn himself in to restore Grandpa Shi Wei's innocence, but something happened in the middle, so it was delayed. Grandpa Shi Wei has already been sentenced, it's already too late.

Of course Grandpa Shi Wei didn't believe it, and scolded Fifth Master for nonsense, and then threw him at Fifth Master by copying a bench.Grandpa Shi Wei had finally waited for the big enemy, so he didn't give up, so he chased him until night, and finally caught up with Fifth Master when he reached a cemetery. A zombie, Grandpa Shi Wei couldn't guard against it, was bitten by a zombie, and was poisoned by the corpse.

How Grandpa Shi Wei got home, he himself didn't know.When Shi Wei's father got up early in the morning, he saw Grandpa Shi Wei lying in front of the house, his whole body turned blue.

After all, Grandpa Shi Wei is a person who has practiced alchemy, so he has a way to heal himself. Let Shi Wei's father follow the method he said to control the corpse poison on his body and save his life, but that tone is useless in his heart. After struggling to survive for a few more months, he passed away.

Before his death, Grandpa Shi Wei gave an ancient book about alchemy to Shi Wei's father, so that Shi Wei's father could learn it well, and then found Fifth Master to avenge him.

In this way, Shi Wei's father, with a heart of revenge, studied the ancient book carefully, and later met an expert who pointed out that Shi Wei's father had completely become a wizard, and later taught his daughter Shi Wei, the father and son The wish is to avenge Fifth Lord.

A few years ago, because a family moved their ancestral graves, they found a strange note in the coffin of their ancestors. In addition to the names of their ancestors, there was also a person's name "Wu Ye". In addition, the coffin they knew Some of the jewelry that was buried with him in the funeral home are gone.That family thought they had recruited thieves, and called the police. The incident was a big one, but no one, two, or three were found out. It was Shi Wei's father who heard about this matter, so he found out about it all at once. Fifth Master's clue.Since then, I have been squatting and checking the cemeteries in various villages at night, and I have waited for several years, but I did not find the fifth master, but I met a ghost. The ghost originally fell in love with Shi Wei and wanted to hook Shi Wei's soul. Shi Wei's father found out that his son was his daughter-in-law and arrested her.The ghost begged hard, saying that as long as Shi Wei's father was willing to let it go, it would do anything for Shi Wei's father.

Only then did Shi Wei's father have an idea, thinking that since the fifth master is eating the dead, it is naturally difficult to investigate him as a living person, but it is much easier to ask the ghost to investigate.So he told the ghost about Fifth Lord.Unexpectedly, it was really an unexpected harvest. The ghost said that he knew that the fifth master had recently led a team of zombies to perform juggling for the ghosts in the underworld to celebrate their birthdays.

When Shi Wei's father heard it, well, after so many years of searching, he really let him find that big enemy.No matter what he said, he had to smash that fifth master into thousands of pieces to avenge his dead father.

Just last night, Shi Wei's father and Shi Wei finally found the fifth master in the mountains, but Shi Wei's father and daughter were not the fifth master's opponents. The fifth master knew the identity of Shi Wei's father and daughter, but he didn't want to hurt them , and later used the fog technique.

This fog technique is said to be the predecessor of witchcraft, and its origin can also be traced to the matter of driving corpses.Legend has it that Chi You and his army division invented the corpse exorcism in order to bring the dead soldiers back to their hometown.But on the way to chase the corpse, the enemy's pursuers came. In order to escape from danger, Chi You and the military master even resorted to tricks to attract the "five greater fogs", trapping the enemy in the ecstasy formation.This is the "fog technique" that can defend against the enemy, but because "fog" has too many strokes and is difficult to write, in order to simplify it and make it easier to write, it was rewritten into a word "witch" instead.In fact, this witch character is also a hieroglyph: the upper horizontal line represents the sky or fog, the lower horizontal line represents the earth, and the vertical line in the middle represents "Fu Jie"; Pu Chiyou, the one on the left represents Apu Laosi, which means that two people must unite to perform witchcraft.

(End of this chapter)