Chapter 8 Witch Fire

A fire destroyed Wizard Pan's hut. The fire started suddenly, without knowing what kind of fire it was or when it started.When people found out, the fire was so fierce that it lit up half of the sky. People can't help but be amazed: such a small house is just ordinary bricks and tiles, how can there be such a big fire, and how it has been burned like that.The fire did not go out for a long time, from night to dawn, it burned until not a single tile remained.Whether Pan Daxian also died in the fire, no one knows. However, someone swears and swears that they heard the sound of crying and crying in the fire, which is extremely tragic, but it does not sound like a human voice. Howling in purgatory.

Later, Wei Qing struggled to recall how he and Mei Qi developed a cohabitation relationship, but he just couldn't remember. I just remember that Mei Qi got drunk in his bar that day, he took her home and cleaned her room, as if he saw a bug, it was soft and red, and it seemed that Mei Qi had cried, pulling at him for something It was impossible to survive, and then the two of them wrestled together and got into bed somehow. After that, night after night, day and night turned upside down, like glue and paint. Thinking about it, Wei Qing felt a little sorry for Zhou Ziheng, and also felt that he and Mei Qi were together after they separated, so it was not poaching;

On the other hand, he also has some doubts, whether Mei Qi really likes him, whether she is using her to take revenge on herself, or if she is better than nothing to grab the straw to cross the river. Mei Qi is somewhat different from before.She used to be a reserved and self-disciplined woman, with rigorous and meticulous makeup, fashionable and decent dress, lively speech, bright smile, a standard urban white-collar worker; but since resigning, she doesn't go out much, doesn't wear makeup, and works from morning to night every day. Wearing a gorgeous and loose nightgown, with blurred eyes and sloppy footsteps, he dangles and asks for wine when he wakes up, sleeps when he is drunk, and pesters him for sex when he wakes up.

They made love crazily day and night, like two snakes that refused to hibernate, lingering to death.Mei Qi's body was cold and soft, without temperature or sweat, but there was a slightly fishy smell of sweat, which even the "opium" perfume couldn't suppress. Wei Qing has always liked Mei Qi, but getting her made him feel guilty for some reason, as if the two of them were hugging each other and falling down.He didn't know how to describe it - depravity - seemed to be the word, right? He was almost afraid of seeing Mei Qi, afraid of her resentment, afraid of her decadence, and also afraid of her endless love.He'd rather be in the bar.The bar is loud, crowded, and stale, but popular.Both tobacco and body odor have such a heavy texture, which makes people feel that being alive is an extremely real, fulfilling, and down-to-earth thing.

But as soon as he walked out of the bar, he couldn't help himself, and his two legs automatically moved towards the "Plum Garden", like moths to a flame. Moths are truly the saddest insects in the world.Born in a cocoon to bind oneself, died in killing one's life to become benevolent.The whole life is a deception. Wei Qing understands why even opium perfume can't match the smell of Mei Qi, because she is the opium herself. Shouldn't a normal relationship be like this? Wei Qing thought, maybe because he has been living in "Meiyuan", maybe he should take Mei Qi back to his home.

However, Mei Qi was unwilling. She said that she was not used to living in a strange place and would feel insecure. He tried to take Mei Qi out again, going on a trip to the mountains and rivers like usual couples, watching a movie, or having a meal of French cuisine. Mei Qi was still uninterested, raised her glass and said, "How can there be real mountains and rivers in Nanjing? They are all pollution sources. Watching movies, how can I enjoy watching dishes at home? What's so good about French food? French wine is better. You own a bar, take it home and drink it." So drink it at home.He saw the embroidered shoes on the curtains, remembered the story, and said with a smile: "Ximen Qing flirted with Pan Jinlian and put the wine glass in the embroidered shoes, which is called drinking 'shoe cup'."

But Mei Qi said drunkenly: "Sister Li Gui was fighting with Pan Jinlian, so Ximen Qing asked her to put a strand of hair in the shoe shell and step on it with her feet every day." Wei Qing choked on the wine in his throat, feeling very uncomfortable. One night, they watched a DVD together. The Korean director Kim Ki-duk's masterpiece "Spring is gone and spring is coming again". The old monk and the young monk lived alone in the mountains. The young monk tied stones to fish, frogs, and snakes to play. The old monk saw Then he tied a big stone to the young monk and said to him, "If you feel uncomfortable, don't those fish, frogs, and snakes feel better? Go and remove the stones from their bodies one by one, and I will help you feel better." You untie the stone. If one of them dies, that stone will be on your heart forever." The little monk went, but the snake was already dead, and it beat its body desperately to shake off the stone, I fell and ruptured my belly, and the blood stained the stone red.The little monk burst into tears...

Mei Qi burst into tears and said: "Once many things start, there is no turning back." She cried so miserably that her shoulders shook violently.Wei Qing couldn't understand her words at all, and didn't know how to comfort her, so he hugged her tightly and kept stroking her, hoping to calm her down.Mei Qi kept crying until the theme song played, she suddenly raised her face and said she wanted to dance.Naturally, Wei Qing could only say yes.He gently put his arms around Mei Qi's waist, her arms were wrapped around his neck, the two of them shook slowly, slowly, walking round and round, the music didn't stop even after the music was over.

That was the closest they got to being in love. Later, Wei Qing thought that maybe these were just the neurotic, sensitive and world-weary characteristics of urban women.But Mei Qi is getting more and more inexplicable. She listens to songs by Sarah Brightman or Whitney Houston, watches all kinds of weird movies, and weird books.He noticed that her bed was full of books such as "Sou Shen Ji", "Bao Pu Zi", "Drunken Tea Stories", "You Ming Lu", "Tai Ping Guang Ji", and even Japanese books. "Ugetsu Monogatari" and "Bamboo Tori Monogatari".

He casually picked up a copy of "Drunken Tea Stories" and opened it. It was a short story of less than a thousand characters. "Monk Gu"—— Once upon a time, a man named Guo Weitang was digging the earth and found a piece of meat, which looked like a human head, with two ears, but no mouth or nose.Those who knew him said: "This is Tai Sui. You have to sacrifice and kowtow to send it away, or you will cause trouble." Guo Gong refused to listen, so he left the matter and left.Later, when I came back from Henan, I met a monk on the road, just like Fahai met Xu Xian, pointed to his face and said: "Your face is blue, and Yintang is dark, you must be possessed by evil spirits, there are Gu worms in your stomach, you have to do it early Otherwise, you will vomit and have diarrhea, and lose your life.” Guo Weitang asked, “What will happen then?” The monk said, “It’s not difficult, you give me ten gold as a reward, and I’ll give you the needle to ensure that the needle will reach the patient. Get rid of it." Guo Gong thought it was fraudulent money, and cursed the monks for being unscrupulous.The monk was annoyed, and cursed: "When you die of illness, don't say that I didn't warn you. This is a waste of money rather than life." He left angrily.In the evening, Mr. Guo stayed in a hotel. He felt unhappy at night, and then he vomited heavily. He even vomited out dozens of worms, which looked like small snakes.I was shocked, and it was too late to ask the monk for help.Then die.Later, some people also said that this is actually a monk's Gu technique, the purpose is to ask for money, if Guo Gong is willing to give him some money, he will not die.

Wei Qing glanced ten lines at a time, looked at it hastily, and felt disgusted.Why is such a good woman so interested in ghosts and spirits? He suddenly remembered that he seemed to have seen a red bug somewhere, vaguely with two ears, it really looked like a legendary Gu, but he just couldn't remember where he saw it.Maybe in a dream? The days when I was with Mei Qi always felt like a dream, with a kind of unclean feeling, like a bad boy hiding in a back alley and taking drugs, a pleasure of guilt. Wei Qing couldn't help feeling a little hesitant. When Wei Qing returned to the "Plum Garden" that day, he found that Mei Qi had gone out.She was wearing the clothes she was wearing when she went out, and she hadn't had time to change it, and she hadn't even taken off her high heels, but she couldn't wait to drink it. I don't know what kind of wine it is, but it is a solidified green color.The light passed through and reflected on Mei Qi's face, making her face faintly green.She put on colorful makeup and a bun, and she wore a jasper hairpin inlaid with broken diamonds, giving her a kind of retro beauty.Hearing the sound of the door opening, he raised his head and smiled strangely at Wei Qing, saying, "You're back, what are they doing?" Only then did Wei Qing realize that Mei Qi was looking at a stack of photos—photos of Zhou Ziheng and Luo Hongchen.They were hugging, kissing, and, strangest of all, there were a few pictures of slapping each other.The background is beautiful, misty and rainy, either Xuanwu Lake or Mochou Lake, why would a couple of lovers go to such a poetic and picturesque place to slap their ears in the rain?This is too unlike Zhou Ziheng's style, and it's not even like Luo Hongchen's behavior.Wei Qing had met Luo Hongchen, that indifferent and proud woman.She doesn't seem like a person who acts rashly. It seems that Zhou Ziheng has provoked her. The photos are pretty clear.You could clearly see Luo Hongchen's long hair fluttering, and several strands of hair were blown onto Zhou Ziheng's face by the wind, and Zhou Ziheng's eyes were burning with love and pain.The gushing enthusiasm came out through the paper. Mei Qi murmured, "Did you see the way he looked at her. He never looked at me like that." This was the look he had never given her before, he gave it to Luo Hongchen.He is burning for Luo Hongchen, he is in love for Luo Hongchen, he is in pain for Luo Hongchen, he is crazy for Luo Hongchen!Everything is for Luo Hongchen! Luo Hongchen and him had only known each other for a few months.And myself, I have been by his side for three full years! Love is not as simple as "I saw it first". Mei Qi drank the wine and asked distressedly: "I've never seen his eyes like that, why? It turns out that loving someone is so painful, and it turns out that people like him are also painful. But he never Looked at me. Why?" Wei Qing didn't want to study Zhou Ziheng's eyes, but Mei Qi's eyes frightened him.Her eyes were entangled with anger and resentment, and she wished that a knife would fly out and split the person in the photo into two. He picked up a few photos of Luo Hongchen with a strange man, interrupted and asked, "Who is this man?" Mei Qi was in a daze: "I don't know, I don't know." The man in the photo looks handsome, but his expression is dull.Luo Hongchen seemed to be very close to him, holding his hand tightly, leaning his face on his knee with a look of admiration.Could it be that Hongchen has other personal affairs besides self-heng?Not like it. Wei Qing carefully studied the man's attire and the surrounding environment, and said hesitantly: "It seems to be a hospital. He is wearing a hospital gown." Mei Qi suddenly came to her senses: "It must be. This is Luo Hongchen's father, that lunatic! This is in a mental hospital!" This brand-new discovery made Mei Qi inexplicably excited. She stood up, walked around excitedly in high heels while holding a goblet, as if crazy: "That's great, it's wonderful! Guess if Zhou Ziheng sees this What will happen to the picture of a loving father and a filial daughter? His girlfriend, the spotless goddess in his mind, has such a legendary life experience, and this lunatic is his future father-in-law, isn't it exciting? Hahaha..." Mei Qi raised her head and laughed. That laughter made Wei Qing shudder. He frowned and said, "Ziheng once told me that Luo Hongchen's life experience is very special. Unfortunately, he felt sympathy and offered to help Hongchen, but she refused. I think Zi Heng will not despise Luo Hongchen because of this." "That's deception and generosity. If seeing is believing, would he be so magnanimous?" Mei Qi was fidgeting because of her sudden enthusiasm, dancing and spitting, "Of course I know that Zhou Zi Heng sympathizes with Luo Hongchen. I was the first person to find out that Luo Hongchen had a crazy father. I told Zhou Ziheng. I made a mistake that time. I didn't expect Zhou Ziheng to be so sick and full of sympathy , to like the ugly duckling; but this time, this time I will not be wrong, I will let him see his noble girlfriend for himself, and see what kind of filthy garbage she crawls out of The gutter rat that came out, let me see if he still has the strength to continue pretending to be Jesus and pretending to be magnanimous?" Wei Qing listened and watched in shock, feeling cold all the way down.Before Zhou Ziheng saw Luo Hongchen's true face, Wei Qing first saw Mei Qi's true face, what a crazy and ugly person! At this moment, he decided to leave. To love someone is to demand.In the past, when she and Zhou Ziheng were together, he just looked at her from a distance, hoping that she could catch him from the corner of her eye, and would smile at him when she turned around, and he would be much happier; I have the opportunity to approach her and exchange thoughts with her. Although she only talks and he listens, he feels that he is already her friend and has the right to care about her and take care of her. As long as she is willing to accept his favor, he is willing to treat her better; Later, they were finally together, but instead of being happier, he was even more dissatisfied.What he wants is not just a little bit, not half, not more, but all, all, and the whole of her.If you can't get it, you'd rather not have it. The relationship between Mei Qi and him made him more and more confused, and her behavior at the moment made this feeling of guilt even stronger, so he picked up his coat without saying a word. However, Mei Qi rushed to block the door before him: "Where are you going?" "Get out of here." Wei Qing said, "Your heart is full of hatred, you only think about revenge, destruction, and curse. You are too scary. You are no longer the Mei Qi I recognize." "What do you mean by that? Are you leaving me?" "You don't have me in your heart at all." Wei Qing pointed to the stack of photos, "You still care about Zhou Ziheng, you still think about him, you are with me, but you are thinking of others, I stay here What kind of?" "No, he and I are over long ago. It's over. Don't you understand?" Mei Qi rushed over, grabbed the pile of photos and tore them into pieces, crying and shaking her hair, "These were taken by me before. .It was before I was with you. I asked someone to investigate Luo Hongchen and follow her. I had already forgotten about it. The person came to deal with business today and asked me if I wanted to continue the investigation. I had already paid the bill and said stop Yes. Really. You believe me, don't leave me. You can't do without me, if you don't want me, I can't live." Mei Qi cried, desperately explaining, begging, and exchanging tears.Wei Qing couldn't bear it anymore, dropped his coat, walked over to hug Mei Qi, and asked bitterly: "Are you sure you don't love him anymore? Are you sure that the person you want to choose is me?" "I'm sure. Of course I'm sure. If you leave me, I will die, I will die." Mei Qi yelled in a mess, crying hysterically and hoarsely.She hugged Wei Qing tightly, as if she was afraid that he would run away.kiss.Kissing constantly, tossing and turning.caress.The ten fingers curled up slightly nervously, leaving thin scratches on his back.The body twisted violently, infinitely hungry and thirsty. Wei Qing resisted a little.Even when she was in love, Mei Qi made him uneasy. She loved him with an attitude of almost tragic determination, as if loving him was the only choice to run wild at the end of the road.Love in his mind is not like this.Love should be beautiful and calm, like a magnolia flower blooming on the branch, the fragrance is far and clear. However, her raindrops of bloody kisses confuse him, gradually burning him, and he has no time to think. He can only kiss her back and forth with greater enthusiasm and possess her.This is also his only choice. The two entangled and fell on the bed, starting a new round of upside-down mandarin ducks. Zhou Ziheng reappeared in the bar in a rare way, with a red dust, as if demonstrating: Look, I finally caught up with her. Wei Qing personally mixed a cup of "Heart-to-Heart" for them, with two straws inserted. Zhou Ziheng smiled: "Such a nasty thing." However, he still had the mood to meet Hongchen head to head and drank the drink. Wei Qing had to sigh again: It seems that he really loves her.Zhou Ziheng really loves Luo Hongchen. He felt a little unworthy for Mei Qi, remembering what she said "he never looked at me like that".The way Zhou Ziheng looked at Luo Hongchen, even a blind person could smell love. He changed his usual glass of whiskey and said, "You haven't been here for a long time." "I'm afraid you'll nag me." Zhou Ziheng grinned grinningly, and his passion made him lively. "The beauty pageant is coming to the finals, 'the random flowers are becoming charming eyes'. What about you? Have you had an affair recently?" Luo Hongchen immediately excused himself to leave and let the two grown men chat.Zhou Ziheng's eyes followed Hongchen for a long distance, his face was full of smiles, as if he was facing a flower blooming.Where is "scattered flowers gradually becoming charming eyes", it is clear that "except Wushan is not a cloud". Wei Qing couldn't help but sighed again, he tried to look at Luo Hongchen with Zhou Ziheng's eyes, undoubtedly she was a dignified woman, but far from gorgeous, at most she was a bit delicate.Her demeanor is also generous, considered considerate, but her every move is too self-disciplined, her expression is resolute, and she lacks a bit of feminine charm—in short, she can't compare with Mei Qi.Hey, this is how beauty is in the eye of the beholder, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. He looked away, and suddenly said, "I'm living together." He smiled "ha" and winked: "Is it a woman?" However, Wei Qing didn't smile, and said bluntly, "It's Mei Qi. She's with me now." "Mei Qi?" Zhou Ziheng was surprised but not unhappy. He punched Wei Qing and said with a smile, "You really have a way." Such generosity made Wei Qing feel uncomfortable: "You don't mind?" "Mei Qi and I are already in the past tense. What do you care about unmarried men and women? For the sake of friends, I should be happy for her. This time, she finally chose the right person." Wei Qing couldn't laugh or cry: "You mean she chose you by mistake before?" "It's not a big mistake, but there's nothing wrong with it." Zhou Ziheng laughed, saw Luo Hongchen coming from a distance, and hurriedly waved to Wei Qing, "Wait a minute, don't talk about Mei Qi in front of her." Wei Qing was so angry that he was so indifferent towards Mei Qi and so nervous towards Luo Hongchen at the same time, such two different attitudes in heaven and earth really made passers-by feel injustice.But at the same time, he also felt relieved—Zi Heng would not turn around and snatch Mei Qi from him, there was no third party between him and Mei Qi. He has always felt that the relationship with Mei Qi is more like cheating than love. He couldn't wait to see the light of this relationship, especially to face Zhou Ziheng upright. If love is like falling in love, then Zhou Ziheng is the only boat that gets them across the river. Wei Qing didn't know that in Mei Qi's heart, the hatred had never stopped. She even thought that if she had known that raising Gu was so troublesome, it would be better to choose something simpler from the beginning, and let Pan Daxian deal with Luo Hongchen directly.Like how Ma Daopo made a paper figurine, or like sister Li Gui asked Pan Jinlian's hair to be trampled under her feet. But Pan Daxian's house burned down, and the insects died, so she had no hope. The love Gu she fed with all her heart bit Wei Qing's finger, and was trampled into powder by him—no, not even the dust was left behind, only a piece of pink mist exploded with the wind like a "puff" like fireworks. Dispersed, even the bottle for raising Gu disappeared.The blood that filled the whole room instantly disappeared without a trace. When I woke up the next day, everything from last night was like a dream, a dream without a trace.Wei Qing became her man.He couldn't quite remember what happened, but he fell in wishfully and was loyal to her. Pan Daxian said that if she feeds the Gu insect with her own blood for seventy-seven forty-nine days, and then let it penetrate into the body of the man she loves, then the man will be loyal to her for life. However, what would happen if the Gu worm did not live to forty-nine days and ate another man's blood by mistake?Was the love Gu that died young killed by Wei Qing, or did it already get into Wei Qing's body?Is Wei Qing treating her like this because he loves her, or because he has fallen into a love spell? Nothing is answered. Mei Qi went to the town alone on the second day after the Gu worm died, but was shocked to hear the news that Pan Daxian had been burned to death.She had some doubts that Pan Daxian was not dead, but was "dissected" or "fire escaped". "Baopuzi Nei Pian" said: "The first teacher who heard it said: Immortals either ascend to heaven or live in a place, and they must live forever, and they can go or stay according to their preferences." It is said that immortals can live forever, but they don't have to ascend to heaven. It can also enter the ground, or stay in the human world in another form. "Baopuzi" divides immortals into three classes: "The superiors raise their bodies and ascend to the emptiness, and they are called heavenly immortals; the middle officers who swim in famous mountains are called earth immortals; the corporals die first and then slough, they are called corpse exorcising immortals." Pan Daxian , is the corpse turned into a fairy?I don't even know where to find him. She had a bad feeling in her heart.In the middle of nowhere, I only feel that the danger is approaching step by step, but I don't know when it will appear and in what form it will appear.She checked a lot of information, but still could not find the answer. "Dropping the head is popular in Thailand. It is said that once the spell is cast, within three days, the abdomen will swell like a drum, the whole body will fester, after seven days, the seven orifices will be pus, and you will definitely die within ten days. However, this spell has a disadvantage, that is, once the other party understands it If you cast spells, or the person who lowered his head can't master it himself, it is very likely that he will come back and hit himself when he lowers his head. So, when you harm others, be careful of harming yourself!" "For people who raise Gu, the whole family should pray once every night after falling asleep, and once a day before people get up, and it must not be interrupted for a day. And when raising Gu and praying, you must never let outsiders know. If you let outsiders know, The Gu raised by oneself will be taken away by the wizard with the demon method, and used by the wizard, the owner's whole family will die. Even if it is not taken away by the wizard, after it becomes a Gu, it will harm the owner." ... All the messages point to one thing: if all voodoo spells cannot be carried out as desired, they will only suffer from them. So what happened to Ma Daopo and Aunt Zhao who worked here? After the "breakup", Ma Daopo didn't mention it anymore, but Aunt Zhao died a terrible death and was tortured by the little ghost in every possible way. Such bad luck and retribution, you can't escape, right? The hut in the "Plum Garden" is shrouded in the despair and gloom of the end of the world all day long. It is the palace of the god of death and the villa of the devil. Mei Qi felt sad. Once upon a time, she was also a pure, bright and good girl who squandered her youth and love with a bright future.How could you just turn around and become a slave of Gu worms, a sinner waiting to die? But at its root, it was all because of Zhou Ziheng. She could never forget the shock and pity in Zi Heng's eyes when she mentioned Luo Hongchen's lunatic father to Zi Heng for the first time.However, at that time, Zhou Ziheng was dazed by the uninvited Luo Hongchen, and he just listened to that horrible life experience as a tragic story. Will he flood his useless sympathy and happily accept a crazy father-in-law? The road had come to an end, but the stack of photos pointed her to a small path. Even if she knew it was a wrong path and a desperate situation, she still wanted to go and have a look. She has no other magic weapon to make Zhou Ziheng sad.She wanted to hurt him, and spared no effort to hurt him. Luo Hongchen's crazy father is her last weight. In any case, she always had to take a gamble, put all her eggs in one basket—maybe it couldn't be called a gamble, because she didn't have the capital to gamble. She wants to win his pain, but she has nothing to lose.Because she no longer loves him. At least, he is no longer wanted.