good and evil

The cloud exposed the moon, and the cold moonlight came in through the small window. Chu E pulled the corners of her mouth expressionlessly. She hesitated for a while, but she backed out first, and found Yang Shan who was looking through things, and was about to speak. I saw her shaking the small notebook in her hand, "Come and have a look, guess what this is?"

"You can also guess what I found?"

"Huh? Later, here is the transaction flow recorded on it. Good guy, there are so many transactions, the earliest time is..." Yang Shan exclaimed strangely, "More than 70 years ago!"

Chu E took it over and looked at it, even if she was also shocked, "Come with me, there are more surprising things over there, I remind you, don't wait to be scared."

Yang Shan held back the idea of ​​confronting the old lady Ma. When she saw everything in the small house, she was shocked. She stood at the door, motionless, and her mind was stunned. She could imagine countless girls being imprisoned here. They were beaten and bruised, they were not allowed to eat or drink, they were intentionally humiliated, they were made to eat and drink here, they had to endure all kinds of inhuman torture, they were dying, waiting to be violated, they might as well give in, so everyone was humbled Lost her neck like a swan, became a member of the village, and immediately became a daughter-in-law...

There was a soft ring in her ear, it was Chu E who snapped her fingers to bring her back to her senses, and Yang Shan finally realized, "Sorry..."

"It's okay, let's go in and have a look, we can't see anything clearly outside."

Yang Shan went in first, picked up the chain on the ground, looked at it for a while, and then turned to Chu E and said, "That Liu Jin may have been trained, this strength, this method is beyond what an ordinary girl can do."

Chu E circled around, only to find a thin quilt, which was not very clean, she shook, and found some small things, "Why do I feel like playing a detective game, why are there clues falling everywhere? "

Yang Shan was not comforted by Chu E's deliberate joke, "What?"

It is a small device whose function is probably positioning.

Yang Shan took the device in her hand and said mysteriously, "We will have reinforcements coming."

"Of course I know, but time is still very tight, there is nothing here, go back and ask that old woman."

Ma Shuhui's hands and feet were bound, a towel was stuffed around her mouth, and she let out a whining sound from her throat.Yang Shan shook the notebook in her hand, "What do you think is on it? Answer after you think about it."

Pulling out the towel with one hand, Ma Shuhui opened her mouth and took a few breaths, "So what if you take it away? So what if you see it, you don't even know what it is!"

Although the book did not record what was bought and sold, nor did it write the real name of the buyer, but there were code names. "You said that girl escaped from your house. How can we know what it is? You really don't see the coffin and see the tears. Except for the human trafficking, I have never seen a transaction of about 10 yuan each time."

Ma Shuhui stopped talking, and Chu E looked at the sky, impatiently, "You asked for a long time, but there was no result. I observed it, and the people in this village don't like her very much. I don't have too many clues yet, and I will soon." At dawn, lock her up in her own basement, and no one will find out, and she might be found at home. But it does not rule out that someone in the basement also knows about it."

Ma Shuhui was a little anxious, she looked at Yang Shan and began to think, and finally panicked, "I don't want it! Don't let me stay there! I was wrong, I was really wrong, I confessed them all, can you forgive me?" Me? Please!"

Chu E and Yang Shan looked at each other, they were both surprised how their attitudes changed so quickly, so they pressed this question first.They made eye contact and decided to believe her.It was Yang Shan who came to negotiate, "You explain everything above clearly, hurry up."

Ma Shuhui saw that there was something interesting, and couldn't wait to say all the names of the people above. As expected, the buyers above were not only from the village, but also from neighboring villages. The time span was also very large, but this was not good for Chu E and the others. , the distribution of personnel is too wide.

"Why is the earliest time more than 70 years ago?" Yang Shan asked.

"That was recorded by the last person who did this, and I don't know who she recorded."

"Oh? You don't know?" She looked at Ma Shuhui suspiciously.

"Can you untie me? I promise not to say anything!"

"Let's see how you behave." Chu E said casually.

"A few are known, but many of these buyers are dead."

"Whether you're dead or not is one thing, but whether you remember it or not is another. Say it!"

Ma Shuhui scribbled for a while, and then slowly seemed to think of a few names, "There is one more, Yang Yaoguo."

Yang Shan's eyelids twitched, and she stared fixedly at her.Ma Shuhui smiled, the smile on her face could not be called kind, but rather weird.

But Yang Shan didn't say anything questioning, even though she felt uncomfortable, "What should I do now? It's almost dawn, if I let her go, I'm worried that she will mess around, or should I tie her up?"

"It's all right, the main thing is that Sei won't be discovered?"

Ma Shuhui was breaking out in a cold sweat. If I had known earlier, I wouldn’t have pretended to be weird, “I really won’t mess around, as long as you don’t put me underneath, I promise to be good. I’m already so old, how can I make trouble ?”

"I think you can toss the most."

Chu E went to look around the room again and found a big cabinet.

"A compromise, you stay in the closet, we will come and bring you food." Tie her up, and put a clean towel on her, let Chu E destroy the dirty ones, put them in the closet, and put them on again. Don't worry about her dying. Although she looks very energetic, she is still very old. Put some cushions in, half-close the cabinet door, cover the outside with clothes, give her light and air, and fix her body. , and can't move around to attract people's attention.

After noticing all aspects, she hurried back to catch up on sleep, and Chu E also made an excuse to check the situation of the mourning hall. There was no problem and everything went well.The vigilantes did not know which distant relatives or neighbors they were, and they all fell asleep long ago.

After the rooster crowed, another hour or two later, people in the village slowly got up and began their day's farm work, especially in summer, busy with harvesting and planting, but most of the people in the village were poor and had no land. There is only a little land in front of my own house, which is just enough to eat, and I can only see the households moving towards the little land at the door after washing. Yang Shan got up and saw this scene, and then realized what they forgot, and whispered to Chu nervously. E said: "What should we do? Let's lock up the old woman, and then no one will take care of the land at the door. Now it will be exposed." "Don't panic, you see that there is nothing in her kitchen. Even if there is little land, it’s impossible to have nothing, it means that she doesn’t cultivate the land, and it’s too dark in the middle of the night, so it’s fine if you didn’t see it, now, take a closer look.” Chu E analyzed calmly.

Yang Shan looked again, and suddenly realized, "The land in front of her is barren."

Chu E nodded, "So, don't worry, you won't miss it." Yu Guang saw her aunt coming over, and quickly stopped talking.

The eldest aunt came over with a smile, "Have you rested well? The bed at home is hard, and I will get used to it after sleeping more. By the way, your elder brother will be back soon, and you young people can talk more later." Then he patted her on the shoulder and went to care about the relatives who kept vigil last night.

Yang Shan's eldest uncle's family lived on the other side of the village, and his second uncle's family was in the town, but they came back to deal with the funeral and lived in another house of the second grandfather's house.

Yang Shan observed carefully and thought that they hadn't noticed any movement, so she explained to Chu E, "Auntie wants his son to introduce a man to me, and maybe he will also introduce him to you." She touched her nose in embarrassment.

Chu E was very curious, "I have never been urged to go on a blind date before."

Not long after, the so-called cousin came. After talking with him, it was discovered that this cousin was two years younger than Yang Shan. The village uses false age to calculate, and the result was a joke because of the different calculation.

The cousin with thick eyebrows and big eyes laughed loudly, "I made a mistake, you are the older one."

Yang Shan chatted a few more words, and immediately got all the information out. This cousin is 24 years old. He went out to work after he went to a technical school. He said that he found a girlfriend and planned to go to the capital of province C to work with his girlfriend, and he didn't plan to stay in the town any longer.

If his parents found out, they would definitely scold the girl, thinking that she had kidnapped him, so they didn't dare to say anything. They didn't expect their parents to let him know someone else.

The cousin frowned bitterly, Yang Shan smiled lightly, amused by the rich expression of the cousin, it seemed that his eyes became much clearer, "There is still something to say."

"You don't understand, how stubborn the people in the village are, no one can change it."

Yang Shan suddenly discovered that this was a good breakthrough point, "I heard that some people in the village have no wives, and then..."

"Ah, you know it all. I won't hide it. There are many old bachelors who want to buy a wife, but they are too expensive to afford, but they never give up."

"Then what if you can't afford it?"

"Stop passers-by and marry them by force. It seems to be the case. I don't know too well, but there is a saying in the village that beware of the lady Jiang next door coming to eat you! I heard this all the time when I was young, but there is no one surnamed Jiang in the village. The old mother-in-law seems to have changed later, and she was said to be mother-in-law Ma."

"Why do you say that?"

"It seems that there are always scary noises in her house. Now think about it, maybe there are girls who have been arrested! Hiss!" The cousin touched his arm, as if he had goosebumps, and was frightened by his own imagination.

Yang Shan didn't intend to tell him the truth, but when she heard something new, she needed to check it out immediately, so she left her trembling cousin and dragged Chu E to Ma Shuhui's house.

It happened to be time for lunch, and I brought her some food, opened the cabinet door, nothing changed, untied the rope, she took off the towel from her mouth, looked panic-stricken, and quickly ate two mouthfuls of food , took a few sips of water, which frightened them, and worried that she would choke to death, but fortunately she survived.

Chu E asked slowly: "Do you know about the forced marriage of people passing by?"

The author has something to say: there are reversals and foreshadowing, let’s guess~