The wind in this poor and remote area seemed to be like a mourning, sounding panicked, Ling Cheng waited for a while and then opened the curtains again, only to see Li Laohan walking towards the entrance of the village with the village chief with an oil lamp.

Squeak –

The wooden door in the house seemed to be a little old, and sometimes it made such a creepy sound, Ling Cheng's hand holding the curtain tightened instantly, and then he turned his head to look at the door.

"You're scared the hell out of me. As soon as Ling Cheng's shoulders loosened, the curtain in his hand slipped from his palm, and there were already several extra pleats on it.

After Shen Qilin entered the room, he sat thoughtfully on the bed for a while, then pursed his lips and said slowly: "I was discovered by that Hongxia when I went downstairs to listen to them just now. ”

Ling Cheng's pupils shrank, "And then?"

"She helped me play the round......" Shen Qilin's brows furrowed slightly, as if he hadn't recovered from the shock just now.

Ling Cheng's eyes narrowed, and he was also a little surprised, "Why did she help us?"

"I don't know, but when I first met her I felt something was wrong with her, she didn't look like someone here. Shen Qilin took a long breath and stared at the door.

"Then let's wait and see...... By the way, what did you hear downstairs just now?" Ling Cheng turned around and sat opposite Shen Qilin.

Shen Qilin was still frowning, looking at the vast moonlight outside and a few lights in the distance, and a fire of irritability swayed in his heart, "The old man who came just now with the dog around his waist is the man from the family surnamed Li that we met at the entrance of the village." ”

"Then they must have found that An Yun was missing, so they came to tell the village chief?" Ling Cheng tentatively uttered his guess.

Shen Qilin nodded, and the moonlight outside hit his face weakly through the curtains, showing even more profound facial features.

"That's right, I guess he should have seen the team of people down there, just now Li Laohan and the village chief said in the house that An Yun was missing, but when they came out to see me, they said they were looking for pigs. ”

Squeak –

As he was talking, the sound of the door opening came over, and the two of them instantly held their breath and looked towards the door together.

I saw that the middle-aged woman who was called Hongxia was holding a kettle and a glass jar, and she could vaguely see that it contained some tea leaves.

With a blank face, she slowly walked into the room, placed the tea on top of a small cabinet not far from the door, and then bent down and placed the kettle she was carrying next to the cabinet.

Just when Shen Qilin and Ling Cheng felt that she was about to go out, she suddenly turned to look at the two sitting side by side on the bed, with an elusive smile on her face, "I know you are not students at all. ”

Shen Qilin was not surprised, after all, she saw the conversation of the village chief, so he simply admitted calmly, "We are indeed not students. ”

Hongxia expressionlessly pulled the chair next to the table closer to them, and then sat down slowly with her knees on her hands, "I still know...... You're the police......"

This made Shen Qilin and Ling Cheng slightly surprised, and Shen Qilin blurted out and asked, "How do you know that we are policemen?"

"If it's not the police, what are you doing so secretly. The woman finally pursed her lips and smiled, her face was no longer warm, and she moved her eyes to Shen Qilin as she spoke.

"Thank you for covering for me. Shen Qilin bowed his head slightly to show his gratitude, and he had a lot of things to ask in his heart but didn't know where to start.

Unexpectedly, before Shen Qilin opened his mouth to ask, the woman had already spoken, her folded hands were clenched tightly at the moment, and a sad look appeared on her face.

"I think you also know about the sale of human beings in this village, which is poor and backward, and most of the people who live here are elderly, and the traditional conservative concepts are deeply ingrained in their hearts, and it is difficult to get rid of ......."

Shen Qilin and Ling Cheng sat side by side on the bed, pricking up their ears to listen to her tell the story of the village, quite like the artistic conception when listening to adults tell stories when they were children.

In their hearts, women are machines used to give birth and work, and men are the heavens above their heads, and they cannot be offended; the village is seriously aging, so they go out to buy those young girls to come back to be daughters-in-law, and if they can't give birth to sons, they will beat and scold them. ”

Hongxia sighed softly, and a slightly tired look crept into the corners of her eyes.

"Then are you also the one who was bought?" asked Shen Qilin with some impatience.

"Alas...... Oh, yes...... It's been more than a decade since I was sold here......" She let out a long sigh and slowly lowered her head, a tear slipped silently, fell on her padded jacket, and disappeared in an instant.

"Then do you remember what the traffickers who sold you looked like?" Shen Qilin asked.

Hongxia's body stiffened, her eyes dodged a little but quickly returned to nature, "I don't remember, it's been too long." ”

Shen Qilin sighed heavily, it seemed that he still had to investigate from the girl named An Ran in order to gain something.

"You've been sold here for more than ten years and you haven't had any children?" Ling Cheng suddenly caught a suspicious place, so he asked the woman in front of him with a cold face that didn't look simple.

Hongxia took a long breath, her eyes fixed on the window, as if she was looking at a very distant place.

"He's dead..... I gave birth to a boy in my third year here, but the other day he went down the mountain to buy something in the city, and when he came back, it was raining, so he rolled down the mountain, and he has not found his body yet. ”

After saying that, tears rained down, she barely eased her emotions, wiped the tears on her face with her hands, and continued calmly:

"Actually, I wasn't very sad when I first learned of his death, and I was even a little glad that I didn't want this child myself, but ...... But I couldn't stand it for a long time, and I thought about it carefully......"

Hongxia covered her face with her hands, and her suppressed sad choking sound frightened many birds from the eaves outside the window.

"Mourn, the two of us will get you out, and all those who have been sold here can get out. Shen Qilin comforted him, but Ling Cheng still frowned, and there seemed to be some suspicion in his eyes.

"Alright, I won't disturb your rest, I will definitely thank the two police officers for being able to get out of this place. Hongxia stood up, moved the chair back to its place, and gently closed the door and went downstairs.

As soon as she left, a warm yellow dot lit up at the gate, Shen Qilin and Ling Cheng opened the curtain to take a closer look, it turned out that the village chief had returned, and the door lamp outside instantly scalded the dark night.