A woman's head suddenly poked out from behind the tree.

"Is that you?" Fang Xile looked at it and recognized it as the woman from last night: "You are here for us?"

The woman raised her head and smiled lightly, then quickly lowered her head: "Well, my name is Sanniang." ”

"You're coming to us for something?"

Sanniang lowered her head, her eyes fell on Cheng Jiangyan's red nails, and she said in a daze: "It's so good-looking!"

Cheng Jiangyan laughed and shared: "Yes, the impatiens and salt water are mashed together, and then applied to the nails, wrapped in a white cloth, and after a while, the nails will turn red." ”

Sanniang looked at Cheng Jiangyan stunned for a long time, and said faintly: "It's so good!"

She hesitated for a moment, then mustered up the courage to ask in a low voice, "Girl, what is the mountain outside now?" I've been married for ten years, don't you know what has changed outside the mountain?"

Cheng Jiangyan scratched her head, how to explain this: "Sanniang, don't you know if you go outside to see." ”

Sanniang's eyes dodged, and she smiled a little reluctantly: "I..... I don't want to go out, it's nice in the mountains......"

Her voice grew lower and lower, and at last she couldn't hear what she was saying, even with the ears of a warrior.

Fang Xile and Cheng Jiangyan glanced at each other, this Sanniang may become a breakthrough.

Cheng Jiangyan pulled off the hairpin on her head and brought it to Sanniang: "Is it good-looking? There are many such beautiful hairpins under the mountain, how about going down the mountain with us?"

Sanniang's eyes were glued to the hairpin, and her lips moved slightly: "I, I can't get out." ”

"Why?" Fang Xile asked.

"I, my husband won't let me out. Sanniang whispered.

"It's okay, it's safe to walk with us!"

Sanniang shook her head: "No, only men can enter and leave the village, women can't leave casually." ”

Fang Xile remembered everything he saw after entering the village, indeed, the women in the village had a low status.

Because there are also women among the warriors in this world, the status of women in Daqin is not low, why is it so difficult for women to survive in this village.

"Why can't women leave the village?"

Sanniang just wanted to speak, but suddenly saw the figure of the village chief in the distance, and immediately stopped talking.

Tamura walked in a few people and asked with a smile, "What are you talking about?"

Sanniang lowered her head and whispered, "I, I still have to cook, go first!"

"Let's go!" Tian Mura turned his head and said, "I ordered the villagers to prepare rich food, and the two of you must enjoy it at night!"

Fang Xile suddenly said: "The scenery in the village is very beautiful!"

Chief Tamura smiled: "Of course, we don't have anything else in Zhangbi Village, but the scenery is absolutely beautiful, you two can take a walk around and have a look." ”

"I like the riverside, the quiet, what's the lower reaches of the river?"

"There's nothing to see downstream, and this section is more beautiful. ”

Fang Xile smiled and nodded: "I see!

Tamura received an answer and left with a smile on his face.

Cheng Jiangyan frowned: "If he doesn't show up, maybe we'll already find out the reason from Sanniang." ”

Fang Xile glanced at her and said with a smile: "Don't worry, as long as we calm down, the truth will come out sooner or later." ”

......

The evening feast was held in a courtyard.

The courtyard wall is made of stones, and the cracks in the stones are plastered with mud, and the houses inside are made of wood, and there are beds, tables and chairs in the rooms.

Cheng Jiangyan looked around and whispered, "Don't they live in a cave, why do they still build a house?"

Fang Xile's eyes fell on the house, there was a lot of dust in the house, it can be seen that no one has lived in it for a long time, and the villagers do not live in the wooden house, so why was the wooden house built?

She pressed her questions and sat down at the table.

The ingredients were well prepared, such as pheasants and hares hunted in the mountains, mushrooms and wild vegetables, and a large pot of various fruits.

"Hehe, there is nothing delicious in the mountains and wilderness, and the two generals will be settled. Tamura laughed heartily.

"How come, it's already very rich!" Fang Xile told the truth, she came all the way, and spent half of her time in the wilderness overnight, she and Cheng Jiangyan couldn't cook, so they could only eat the hard cakes with water.

"Haha, that's very good! Sanniang, you can talk to the two guests. ”

Sanniang agreed and sat down beside Fang Xile.

Her grumpy husband Wangzi sat down next to her, and Cheng Jiangyan frowned, as if she didn't see it.

Opposite a few people sat the crazy woman she met today, she was sitting quietly on the table at the moment, and she didn't see anything unusual, in the conversation of others, Fang Xile learned that her name was Xiaodong.

It was rare for the villagers to see such a sumptuous meal, and everyone had a smile on their faces, and the topic gradually led to the scenery of Zhangbi Village.

Wangzi said proudly: "Some people come to our Zhangbi Village to see the scenery, not I blow, we are really good-looking, the colors of the mountains here are different, and they are handsome." ”

Fang Xile continued: "Only the mountains are beautiful, but what about the water?"

Wangzi saw Fang Xile asking, and immediately came to his senses: "The water is also beautiful, go down the river, it is a waterfall, there is a deep pool under the waterfall, and the scenery over there is the best!"

Fang Xile nodded, sure enough, the village chief didn't tell the truth.

After arriving in this village for a day, Fang Xile had already discovered a lot of problems.

First, what did the deceased do before they died?

The second is that the village chief doesn't want them to go downstream of the river, what is there?

Three, why can't women leave the village?

She had a vague guess.

Cheng Jiangyan whispered: "Did you think of something?"

"There is some speculation, but it still needs to be verified. Fang Xile replied.

"What's going on, tell me about it?"

The two of them drank soup on the surface, and secretly whispered the sound.

Fang Xile explained: "I also guess what the villagers are doing by the river in the middle of the night? ”

"And," Fang Xile swept over the children in the village, "Have you noticed that the children in the village are only boys?

She had a vague feeling that something was wrong in the field.

How can there be only boys in the village?

Cheng Jiangyan was stunned, and there was a faint bad guess in her heart, and her face was inevitably gloomy.

"You mean?"

Fang Xile snorted: "Thinking about the low status of the women in the village, it is very likely that those baby girls were drowned, so the village chief prevented us from going to the lower reaches of the river, so as not to discover their secrets." ”

Cheng Jiangyan didn't speak, took a few heavy breaths, suppressed the urge to flip the table and asked, "What should I do next?"

"Let's go to the deep pool below the waterfall and maybe there will be evidence underwater. Fang Xile said, the baby girl went down the river, sank to the bottom of the deep pool, and stayed under the water without seeing the light of day, waiting for the day when the truth was revealed.

"So, the village chief said that the ghost on the mountain also lied to us?"

Fang Xile nodded: "The ghost thing should be in the deep pool, and it is likely that the ghost baby is formed by the baby's resentment." ”