I could see clearly that among the grayish-white incense ash, there were three black fine wooden sticks that had burned out.

Seeing this, I quickly pointed at the spittoon and asked Hongying:

"Sister, what is this?"

After seeing this, Hongying came over to explain to me:

"This was sent by the witch in our village, and there was also the soul-summoning incense. The witch said that my son lost his soul and asked me to light three incenses for him every night, and it would be fine if he didn't have three heavenly beings."

"Just! There is no reason to burn incense to a living person. I'm afraid that the witch didn't want to save your son, but wanted to kill him!" I said and poured out the incense ash from the spittoon.

During the pouring out, there was a straw man in one of the incense ash. I took the straw man out of the incense ash and saw a piece of white paper on the grass man's chest, and the name "Niu Gengtian" was written on it!

After seeing this scene, Hongying and her mother-in-law were shocked. They had never expected that the witch in the village wanted to kill her only grandson.

Hongying was eager to protect her son. After seeing this, she cursed and wanted to settle the score with the witch in the village.

Seeing this, I quickly stopped her:

"Sister, listen to me first, don't be impulsive. Now even if you go out to find her, it's useless. She won't admit it at all, and she will also alert the enemy, so that she can be prepared in advance."

After hearing this, Hongying panted and asked to me:

"Then...that little master, what should I do now?"

"It was my problem just now. I made a wrong judgment. It seems that your son's current situation is not an ordinary fever or illness, but he is not targeted by some dirty thing. Instead, you offended someone who is proficient in Yin and Yang magic. That person is most likely the witch in your village." I said.

Hearing me say this, Hongying hurriedly said:

"I don't know how to do it. Our family has never had any relationship with their family. They always say hello to each other when they meet. How could she want to kill our children?"

I said:

"It is possible that you offended others by accident? It's just that you don't know it yourself. Perhaps it's because of a small thing, or even a sentence, the so-called speaker is unintentional, and the listener is intentional, especially those villains who are vengeful. Even if it's an unintentional act, once it hurts their hearts and dignity, they will definitely not let you go."

Qin Yu also nodded and said:

"Chu Jiu is right. Think about it yourself. Don't miss it even if there is a little conflict or conflict. Our traffic police brigade has handled a case of drunk driving injury before. After the driver drank, he happened to meet a fellow villager who had a dispute with him at the table two years ago on the way home. He hit the accelerator and caused the victim to have multiple fractures. The driver has not released it yet."

After hearing Qin Yu's words, Hongying began to recall carefully. After thinking for a while, she said to me decisively:

"No, there is no conflict between our family and the witch's family, definitely not."

"Elders, don't?" Qin Yu asked.

"No!" Hongying answered firmly.

Seeing Hongying's firm expression, I couldn't help but be surprised. There is no hatred for no reason in this world. If there has never been any unpleasant experience between the two families, why would the witch harm Niu Gengtian?

This made me puzzled. Could it be because I simply disliked it?

I always feel that things are not that simple, there must be a reason for this.

So I said to Hongying:

"Sister, you do this next time. You can go to the witch's house and invite her over. Don't tell him that we are here too. When the witch comes, I will have a few conversations with her."

Hongying nodded:

"No problem, I...I'll go and invite her now, you guys can wait a moment."

Hongying said that, then hurriedly walked out. Seeing this, I quickly stopped her:

"Sister, please walk slowly and don't be too excited, so as not to be seen by the witch."

"I understand, you guys wait." Hongying said and left in a hurry.

After Hongying left, Hongying's mother-in-law brought us hot water for two nights and asked us to sit down and rest for a while.

Qin Yu sat on a wooden chair, looked at the yard and asked me:

"Qijiu, how do you know that it must be the reason for that witch?"

"Intuition." I said.

"Do you feel accurate intuition? What if all this is a coincidence? The witch just doesn't know anything and wants to pretend to be a god, but instead makes things worse." Qin Yu said.

"Impossible, she definitely understands it, and she is a master." I said and handed the straw man to Qin Yu and asked her:

"Officer Qin, look at it yourself, what is this straw man made of?"

Qin Yu looked at me with confusion:

"Of course this grass man is made of grass, I'm not a fool."

I shook my head helplessly and said:

"It must be grass. Take a closer look, what kind of grass is this?"

After hearing this, Qin Yu stared at the straw man in his hand for a while, then put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed it carefully, and finally shook his head:

"I really don't know what kind of grass this is, it has a strange smell of blood."

"This is the Soul-Breaking Grass, a kind of Chinese medicine, which has the effects of repelling poison, analgesic and anti-inflammatory. Of course, what it calls the Soul-Breaking Grass is because it is soaked in the black dog blood for seven days and then dried and weaves it into a hemp rope, which can hook the souls of living people away. The blood you just smelled is black dog blood. Dog blood is like cat urine, and the smell is particularly difficult to remove.

Think about it, the witch deliberately put such a grass man with Niu Gengtian's name in incense ash. What is the purpose of asking Niu Gengtian's parents to burn incense? The purpose is to let the grass man hook Niu Gengtian's soul away. Now it seems that Niu Gengtian's three souls have been hooked away by two souls..."

Qin Yu interrupted me and asked:

"How do you know that the two souls were caught?"

"If a person has one soul, he is just sleepy, weak, and mentally irritated. If two souls are missing, he will not be able to get a high fever. If three souls are missing, his life will be gone!"

"I'll go, it seems that the witch is really having a problem?" Qin Yu said.

"The problem is big, so I asked the elder sister to think about what kind of holidays there have been between the two families, and why did the witch kill Niu Gengtian with such a vicious way?" I said.

Qin Yu nodded after hearing this:

"Qijiu, what are you going to do next?"

I thought about it and said:

"When the witch comes, I'll confuse her first before saying anything."

Just as Qin Yu and I finished chatting, we saw Hongying walking in from outside with an old woman with a figure.

As soon as the old woman stepped into the yard of Hongying's house, she seemed to notice something was wrong. She suddenly raised her head and looked at Qin Yu and me.

Seeing this, I quickly got up from the wooden chair and greeted him with a smile:
Chapter completed!