Feudal superstition has existed in China for thousands of years.

A long time ago, it was popular in China to sacrifice living people to heaven and gods, exchanging one person's life for the safety of everyone else and everyone's happiness and well-being.

It is said that in the beginning, this was only a practice used by the rulers of power to fool the people, in this way to eradicate dissidents and consolidate their own power.

In modern times, science has advanced, but feudalism still exists.

Because you can never prove that gods don't exist.

The only thing that has changed is that now everyone is aware of human rights and no longer forces others to die.

So, the village chief just came to persuade him.

It seems that Lin Yuqiong also has the intention of agreeing.

Chen Le wanted to say something, but he found that he couldn't say anything.

He was willing to help people in need, but ...... Poverty, he is powerless, and he himself is plagued by poverty.

"I ...... Get out and get acquainted with the environment. ”

Leaving such a sentence, Chen Le walked out of Lin Yuqiong's house quickly.

Chen Le was a little bored and walked around Shiye Village.

I still feel a little uncomfortable in my heart.

He could feel Lin Yuqiong's inner struggle, how much courage did he need to promise others and give his life?

Anyway, Chen Le didn't think he could be so great.

For the sake of the villagers?

Also for the sake of the family?

She's just a normal girl.

Therefore, the other party called herself over, not only to rescue her friend, but also to find out the real culprit behind the disappearance of the villagers again and again.

It's amazing to let her go to the idea of sacrificing to the river god.

Two days?

Your own results will affect the fate of another person.

This made Chen Le feel that he had a great responsibility.

He walked around the village and found that it was mostly surrounded by mountains.

Everywhere there are distant mountains and dense forests that you can't see as far as you can see.

This made Chen Le feel that there was shelter everywhere, and you didn't even know if there was someone hiding behind the tree dozens of meters away, spying on you.

Moreover, this remote village is exceptionally quiet at night.

It's quiet and it's frustrating.

Basically, you can only hear the sounds of birds and insects around you, and there are no human voices, let alone the sound of vehicles everywhere like Jiangnan.

After Chen Le walked around, he found a strange phenomenon......

While thinking about it, I heard a sound of footsteps behind me.

"Here you are. ”

As soon as Chen Le turned his head, he saw the bloated plain cotton clothes.

He understood why the other party was wearing cotton clothes.

Although it is July, the night in the mountains is really cold.

"Where do you sleep at night?"

"I'm fine, I'll just find a place to sleep. ”

Chen Le has been here like this before.

Lin Yuqiong smiled and said, "I'm afraid it's not good here, it's very cold here at night, even if it's summer, it's only a few degrees at night, and it will freeze bad, come to my house and sleep well." ”

"Is that okay, won't it cause trouble?"

"Don't worry, it's okay. ”

"Thank you. ”

Then, Lin Yuqiong took Chen Le home.

Chen Le asked casually as he walked, "Speaking of which, I just walked around and found a strange phenomenon. ”

"What phenomenon?"

"I saw a man, knocked on a window, and then the window opened (the kind here is a wooden window, pushed open from the inside out, and supported by a piece of wood), and the man climbed in. “

"At first I thought it was a man who had forgotten the key to take home, but I just saw another man knock on the window and climb in. ”

"Is this to keep the house safe, so you deliberately don't go through the door, go through the window?

"This ......"

Lin Yuqiong blushed suddenly.

The little face under the big rustic square mirror was a little pink red, "You think too much, this is our custom here." ”

Lin Yuqiong gently swayed her two braids, and explained with some embarrassment, "When a man is tempted by a woman, he will knock on the window of her room after 10 o'clock in the evening, and he will knock three times, and then the girl will slightly push open the window to show a crack." ”

If she is satisfied, she will open the window and let the man climb in and spend the night together, and if she is not satisfied, she will close the window and refuse the man. ”

Chen Le was also a little embarrassed for a moment, "I see,...... Your way of finding a partner is really special. ”

It's a lot simpler than chasing girls outside.

If you look at the right eye, you will enter the room, and if you don't see the right eye, the woman will close the window, and the man will change the room.

It's simple and clear, there are not so many false tricks, hanging to engage in spare tires.

"Hey, wait, then, what if I finish sleeping, what if the man is not responsible the next day, what if he refuses to get married?"

"Married?"

This word made Lin Yuqiong stunned, lowered her little face in a very complicated way, and said softly, "Sleep is sleep, marriage is marriage, it's different." ”

"Huh, aren't you responsible?"

“......”

Then Lin Yuqiong stopped talking.

Along the way, there was only the sound of two people's shoes stepping on the gravel road.

Lin Yuqiong was obviously lost in thought.

After a long time, she said softly with a complicated expression, "In our place, everyone is relatively poor, and there are many people who have lived here for generations, and they have not even received an education above primary school. ”

"The idea of male superiority and inferiority of women has always been popular in the village, thinking that daughters are all money-losers, and most people will not let girls study, and they are not as good as men as coolies, and they are not as good as men when they grow crops. ”

"The rule in the village is that the more educated the man, the more popular and powerful, the more popular the man who can work, and the more women want to marry, they will pay the dowry. ”

"And many people are very poor in their families, and there is no dowry, and no one wants it, because the other man marries this woman, and he is also responsible for paying homage to the woman's parents, otherwise he will be gossiped about, and once he is excluded in the village, it is more cruel than the death penalty, and some men will be troublesome and hard, so they simply don't want women. ”

This leads to some girls can't get married, so, generally someone sends some chicken, duck and rice as a dowry, the woman will marry, and there are some that no one wants, or not married, there are men knocking on the window at night, looking at the right eye, and going in, the better is to get married, some people who are not married will follow the man without a name, like these, as everyone knows, the man is also responsible for visiting the woman's home. “

"The worst-case scenario is that after the night the man doesn't want her, and she doesn't ...... You can get pregnant and give birth early, and maybe give birth to a boy to win glory for the family. ”

"Well, this, this is also ......"

Chen Le looked surprised, and "also" for a long time, but couldn't say why.

"It's too unequal. ”

Lin Yuqiong seemed to be accustomed to the backwardness here, and said with a sigh, "What's unequal, it's like this for us here, because the woman's family is a daughter, there is a lack of labor, and the burden on the family is big, and some can't even get by, so it's not easy to find a man." ”

Chen Le suddenly couldn't help but exclaim, "This, this, this will cause a lot of problems, can't men knock on the window indiscriminate......ly and change one a day?

Lin Yuqiong raised her gaze, stared at Chen Le with burning eyes and asked, "These...... Is it important to stay alive?"

“......”

This sentence knocked Chen Le down.

After a long pause, he whispered back, "It's my mistake, I wanted to say that if I go out to work casually, there will be 3,000 a month, and there will be 30 million men outside to fight singles, but these don't seem to help here!"

Regarding the customs here, Chen Le is also not qualified to comment.

Lin Yuqiong walked while looking at the starry sky in the distance and muttered, "Fortunately, my mother is a woman outside, she is a beautiful city girl, she married into the village because she likes my father, she knows the importance of reading, so she has always supported me to go to school, but my father actually doesn't like girls to read more, their biggest expectation is to hope that my younger brother will be admitted to college, for the family, for the ancestors to win glory, my brother's learning, absolutely not broken!"

At this moment, Lin Yuqiong turned her head to look at Chen Le, and the two looked at each other.

Chen Le clearly felt a strange firmness and unyielding from Lin Yuqiong's eyes.

Chen Le felt that she actually wanted to go to college, to go to college, to find a better job, and to earn more money for her family.

But due to the helplessness of reality, the expectations of her parents, the illness of her grandmother, and even for the sake of everyone in the village, she is likely to give in to reality.

"Forgetting life and death?"

When this word appeared in Xia Xin's mind, it made him understand more clearly that this weak girl probably had an extraordinarily tough heart, and even carried a heavier burden on her shoulders than herself.

If she could save her friend and solve the situation of missing people in the village, she wouldn't have to die.

If you fail yourself......

Chen Le now felt the weight on his hands more and more clearly.

It was a girl's life, and the weight of her future life.

It's a bet!

I see, no wonder she was a little disappointed when she saw herself for the first time.

"I see. ”

Chen Le also looked directly at the girl and said with a firm face, "I don't know why someone in your village is missing, and I don't know where your friend is, but I will definitely find her, whether she is dead or alive." That's the only thing I can assure you!"

“......”