Chapter 17: Ghost Snow Seals the Town
I am thirteen years old, and Jiang Qixi is fourteen.
Slowly, I found that when Jiang Qixi got too close to me, he would always blush. And I, more and more, like to look at Jiang Qixi's ponytail, walking in front of me and swinging it.
Sometimes I find that there is a lot of Jiang Qixi in my life, which is a very happy thing.
She will get angry, she will beat you when she gets angry, and after beating you, she will squirm and coax you, and after coaxing, she will find that she has suffered a loss, and she will beat you again.
Since I was a child, I have read a lot of vernacular texts, and I suddenly feel that there is a bit of a fatalistic taste between me and Jiang Qixi.
I recruit ghosts, she catches ghosts, and the grievances are clear.
In my heart, Jiang Qixi is a powerful person, and it will always be easy to have her by her side.
Until this day, Jiang Qixi was injured, although I don't know how she was injured.
When she pushed open the toilet door, I noticed a large patch of blood between her trouser legs.
I ran over like crazy and pulled out the lightning strike wood and helped her up.
"Go into the house, I'll protect you!" I said in a deep voice.
Jiang Qixi was not as uncomfortable as I imagined, raised his eyelids and glanced at me, and said slowly, "I don't know why, my body is a little strained." ”
"I'll look at the wound!"
Jiang Qixi's face turned red and pushed me away.
"Hurry up, I've shed so much blood, I'm your little father-in-law, what are you afraid of!" I said urgently.
It just so happened that my mother was coming out of the house, looked at Jiang Qixi, and hurriedly walked over and pushed me away.
"Auntie, she's injured!" I gritted my teeth.
My mother ignored me, helped Jiang Qixi into the house, and closed the door with a bang.
"Auntie, do you want me to invite Grandpa Hong! He was very good at seeing a doctor. ”
"Stay where it's cool!" The mother's voice came out of the house viciously.
Later, I asked Jiang Qixi how he was injured, Jiang Qixi turned his head, glared at me fiercely, and did not answer.
When his father came back, he brought Jiang Qixi a very good-looking fountain pen.
Brought me a round eraser, yes, an eraser.
I watched Jiang Qi happily hold the pen, then turned his head and looked at his father dumbfounded.
"I bought a pen and sent it." Father smiled and said.
I smiled wryly and put the eraser in my pocket and walked towards the house.
After a few days, my father left home again and went into business with my uncle.
Time turned extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, it was the eve of the high school entrance examination.
The sun of June shines like a fire on the body.
"Jiang Qixi, how good it would be if it snowed." I turned my head and said to Jiang Qixi beside me.
"It's all stupid, how can it snow on a June day!" Jiang Qixi glared at me and replied.
"There was an injustice in ancient times! Snow in June! ”
"Pull the calf again, I'll smoke it!"
I hurriedly stopped my movements and said with a wry smile, "Jiang Qixi, you hit people at every turn, this is not good, you have to change it!" ”
Jiang Qixi pursed his lips, "If I beat you, you can also come and beat me." ”
"I can't beat ......"
"Then be obedient."
"Oh......"
After the high school entrance examination, I was somewhat comfortable lying on the net bed at the head of the courtyard, avoiding the fierce sun.
"Jiang Qixi, I'm thirsty."
Jiang Qixi was sitting next to her to help her mother choose vegetables, and when she heard this, she angrily handed me a glass of water.
"Thanks, you're a good person."
Jiang Qixi raised his leg and kicked the entire net bed swaying.
I was about to say something good men don't fight with women, when suddenly I heard a burst of suona sounds outside the town, accompanied by wails and mourning.
"I don't know whose family." I sighed.
Jiang Qixi hummed, lowered his head and got busy again.
"Jiang Qixi, what time is it today, let's get ready to release the list." I asked.
"June 27, a few days to go."
June 27, three days later, it will be July.
July is a bit hotter than June.
In Sifang Town, many villagers hide in their houses all day long, avoiding the sun, if there is no major incident. Even the animals and poultry were curled up and hid under the shade of the trees.
The water level of the old well has dropped a lot, and the leaves have turned brown.
Early in the morning, I was wearing a sweatshirt and was habitually looking up at the sky, when I suddenly noticed that the sun seemed to be weaker.
I ran out into the yard with some excitement, and it was rare to finally have a cool day.
At this time, I suddenly heard a noisy human voice outside the courtyard.
Jiang Qixi walked out of the house, frowned, and called me to go out and have a look.
When I walked to the south of the town, I found a large number of people gathered with sad faces.
"Another bronze beast has fallen." Jiang Qixi said in a deep voice.
I was a little shocked in my heart, what is the metaphor of the two bronze beasts falling in a row.
In today's Sifang Town, only the bronze beast in the north remains.
Jiang Qixi couldn't say why, but he lifted my clothes again and looked at the ghost birthmark on my shoulder.
"It's darker." Jiang Qixi gritted his teeth.
"What should I do?" I asked.
"Go home!"
When I got home, Jiang Qixi ran back to the house and walked in front of me with a handful of incense.
"Chen Xichun, it may be coming, now I can only use this method, you'd better hold back!"
I looked at the ball of incense in Jiang Qixi's hand, and said suspiciously, "What are you going to do?" ”
"Hold back?"
"Good ......"
I watched Jiang Qixi in front of me, lit all the incense, and the incense sparked.
"Chen Xichun, if you want to settle down, it's not enough to just knock on the night of the middle yuan to deter ghosts, remember! This is a small calamity, and if it finds you, it is a dead calamity! ”
Jiang Qixi said, suddenly his eyes turned red, and he turned behind me.
A feeling of extreme pain spread throughout my body, and I could faintly smell the smell of burnt flesh and skin.
I gritted my teeth and endured it, beads of sweat the size of beans rolling down my face.
It seemed that a century had passed, and Jiang Qixi behind me finally stopped, and I only felt that my shoulders and back were numb and numb.
"Chen Xichun." Jiang Qixi bent down and hugged me in his arms, "I'm sorry, I can't think of a better way, so I can only avoid it for a while." ”
I raised my eyelids weakly, stretched out my hand, touched Jiang Qixi's face, and fainted in pain.
In a daze, I had a dream, a dead face with fangs in its mouth, crooked eyes, following behind me, I took a step, it took a step, no matter where I went, it was always followed closely.
Until it was finally dragged into a hole, dragged into a pool of blood, the blood froze, and the body was uncomfortably cold.
I opened my eyes in shock.
I don't know when, I was covered with a thick quilt, and Jiang Qixi was not by my side.
I held on to the head of the bed, slowly propped myself up, and walked out.
Through the window, I suddenly noticed something terrible.
It's snowing.
The world outside the wooden window, it's snowing.
"Jiang Qixi!" I shouted in a hoarse voice.
Jiang Qixi wrapped himself in a padded jacket, walked in quickly, and held me up.
I shivered, I didn't know if it was frozen, or frightened, and I stretched out my finger and pointed out the wooden window.
"Jiang Qixi, it's snowing......"
Jiang Qixi was silent for a moment and nodded.
"How long did I sleep?" I asked urgently.
"One day, it's the first of July." Jiang Qixi replied.
July? On a hot day in July, it actually snowed?
I looked at Jiang Qixi with some horror.
"As you can see, it's snowing in July, and it's ghost snow."
"Ghost snow?"
Jiang Qixi twisted his head in the direction of the window with some sadness, "The last bronze beast has also fallen, and now Sifang Town is very terrifying." ”
"Then why don't you leave? Get out of here first! I said urgently.
Jiang Qixi smiled bitterly, "I can't go, the ghost snow will block the roads in and out of the town, and the heavy snow will seal the town." No one can leave. ”
"I remember that there is a mountain road in the mountains behind the town!" I said in a deep voice.
"No matter which road it is, it has been crushed by this ghost snow, and it only fell in the middle of the night yesterday, and the entire town has been sealed!" Jiang Qixi sighed.
"Is it it?" I asked through gritted teeth.
Jiang Qixi was silent for a while, "I don't know either." ”
"What about the townspeople?"
"Most of them gathered in the ancestral hall, and many stayed at home, sealing the doors and windows."
"What about Auntie, and Grandma Zhou?"
Jiang Qixi patted me on the shoulder, "Don't worry, I took Grandma Zhou over, and now I'm cooking in the kitchen with my godmother." ”
I breathed a sigh of relief and continued to ask, "Jiang Qixi, do you know that this ghost snow will be sealed for a few days?" ”
"At least a month, at most two or three months."
Saying that, Jiang Qixi looked at me again, "Don't worry, even if it comes, it won't be easy to find you, I'm glad I tied your incense for you yesterday." ”
"Jiang Qixi, if the ghost snow is really sealed for two or three months, anything will happen." I said in a deep voice.
"Right now, we can only take one step at a time. Don't think too much, I'll protect you. ”
Jiang Qixi turned around and walked out.
Lying on the bed, I was faintly uneasy, and the face of the dead man full of fangs in my dream resurfaced in front of me.
Chen Xichun, you are really a crow's mouth.
Isn't it just that the sun is bigger, but you want to look forward to the snow, and now it's okay, the ghost snow will seal the town!
At night, I woke up, poked my head out of the bed, and listened to the howl of the wind and snow outside the house, like a crying and mourning scream.
Jiang Qixi saw me wake up, brought back a bowl of ginger water, and brought it to me.
I drank it all in one gulp.
"Don't think too much about it, the best outcome is that we hide in the house for a month and then be safe. Don't worry, I've fallen into the formation, and the general dirty stuff can't enter. Jiang Qixi whispered.
"I'm worried that I'm going to hurt the whole town because I'm a sinister." I smiled wryly.
"It's okay, isn't it safe today, everyone in the town is fine."
I suddenly thought of a possibility, and I couldn't help but get excited.
"Jiang Qixi, if people outside the town find out that there is ghost snow falling here, will they call the police and call many people to come and help clear the snow."
Jiang Qixi was silent for a moment, "No, this snow is ghost snow, if you really want someone to help, it can only be a very powerful person, such as Ma Changwen of the Ma family, or my master, but I guess it will be many days later before they will receive the news." ”
Hearing this, my heart was cold, and I was even more uneasy.