We walked in the direction of the smoke rising for a while, and sure enough, we saw several adobe houses in front of us......

Suddenly a big dog burst out and barked at me, but fortunately it had a thick iron chain tied around its neck! Soon a woman with a headscarf came out of the house, and she looked at us with some confusion and asked, "Who are you looking for?"

Ye Lei, who was familiar with the local customs, walked over with a smile and said, "Eldest sister, we came to the mountains to search for a girl who was lost some time ago, and now it's dark, can we borrow it to live in your house?"

The woman was stunned for a moment, then looked back at her dark and dark home in embarrassment and said, "My house is too small to accommodate so many of you!"

Ye Lei hurriedly bowed his hand and said: "It's okay, we don't live in the house, we all have tents, you can just lend us the stove at home to cook!" Zhao Qiang took out two hundred yuan and stuffed it into the woman's hand after speaking, and said, "It's a lot of disturbance." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

The woman looked at the money in her hand, the corners of her mouth rose unconsciously, and then she turned around and drank her big dog and said, "Eggs, you give me a whisper! This is our guest!"

The big dog was yelled at by her, and immediately shut up obediently. Several members of the team went to the woman's kitchen with Ye Lei to prepare dinner for everyone. As soon as I entered, I found that the woman was also preparing to cook before, so Ye Lei gave the woman some money and asked her to make us a meal of "pulling noodles".

Latiao is a kind of Xinjiang food, in fact, it is similar to lo mein, that is, all kinds of fried hot vegetables and hand-pulled noodles are mixed together to eat, so they are also called "mixed noodles" locally.

The woman's craftsmanship was very good, and after a while we ate the noodles she made.

It's a rugged delicacy, not delicate but with a special taste! Especially for hungry travelers. We people ate very well, and we had an inexplicable affection for women, thinking that it would be good if we could marry such a woman who could cook.

The woman smiled shyly at first when she complimented us on her workmanship, but as she got acquainted with us, she told us that the families were herders, and that she and her man had less than 100 sheep, and that her man usually walked with the flock for days at a time, so that the sheep could eat a bite of grass.

As we talked and laughed, it was getting dark. The woman brought us firewood and asked us to make a fire to keep warm. But just as we were all busy preparing our tents, suddenly, a howl like a night owl came from not far away.

Everyone heard this ghostly voice, and all of them were as pale as earth, but it was a woman who beckoned to us and said, "Don't be afraid, this is the crazy wife of the old bachelor, she will scream like this a few times at night!"

"Old bachelor?" I said, surprised.

When the woman saw that I was curious, she sat down and whispered to me, "The old bachelor is my neighbor, and he doesn't have a wife in his forties, so everyone calls him the old bachelor." ”

When Uncle Li heard this, he interjected and asked, "Since you are an old bachelor, how can you have a crazy wife?"

The woman smiled and said: "No, we all thought that he would never be able to marry a wife in his life, but a few years ago, he didn't know where he bought a crazy woman as a wife, and the old bachelor can be regarded as an old tree blooming." But this woman is so crazy that she can't speak, so the old bachelor can only lock her up all day. ”

"Isn't it illegal to buy and sell human beings?" I said.

The woman shrugged her shoulders and said, "It's illegal, but this crazy woman probably let her family sell it, think about it, who wants to have a crazy person in the family! Besides, as long as her family doesn't call the police, naturally no one cares about it." ”

At this time, there were a few more "whining" sounds in the distance, which I didn't think at first glance, but now when I heard the woman say this, it really felt like a crazy woman howling in pain.

In the middle of the night, I was woken up by a whining scream, I glanced at Ding Yi beside me, it was rare to see him sleeping so deeply at night. A rush of urine forced me to get up and get out of the tent to put some water. As soon as I got out of the tent, I saw Uncle Li sitting alone in front of the fire, why did this old guy not sleep so late?

At this time, Uncle Li looked up and saw it, so he smiled and said, "What's the matter?

I shrugged and said, "Not really, but I just wanted to go to the bathroom." With that, I hurried to the woods next to me, thinking that I would hurry back as soon as possible, and I panicked in the autumn wind.

As soon as I entered the forest, my head was stirred, isn't it? How can there be dead people here? I glanced back at Uncle Li in front of the fire, and it was less than 10 meters away from me, which made me feel a little more relieved, so I took a few steps forward with courage.

The burst of urine just now was suddenly frightened by the scene in my mind, but I didn't expect that in such a simple ravine, there was a woman who died not long ago......

The woman had long, messy hair, which looked like it hadn't been washed for years, and it had long since become a mess, and she was only thirty or forty years old, and her whole body was dirty.

I took a few more steps closer to get more information, and more stuff got into my head in an instant. This woman was deceived here many years ago by a man she called "Third Uncle", when she wanted to go to the city to work and earn money, but she didn't expect to be sold by the Third Uncle to such an old bachelor herding sheep.

After that, her life was not just miserable, it was simply purgatory on earth. In order to prevent her from escaping, the old bachelor told the public that the woman was mentally ill and often locked her in a sheepfold.

Once, when she went out to herd sheep while the old bachelor was out, she yelled and wanted to go outside for help. It's a pity that she is not a local, and her accent is very strong, and even if someone hears it, they just think she is sick and screaming.

When the old bachelor came back and heard it, he cut off her tongue with a knife, and she could no longer speak, but only made a monotonous sound of whining. For the old bachelor, a woman is just a job to vent her desires, and she never thought about letting her come out and live a normal life.

After a long time, the woman also gave up the idea of running away in despair. But she didn't expect that she would not run away, but the old bachelor suddenly pulled her out of the sheepfold one night, and when she came to her senses, a hemp rope had been put around the woman's neck......

The woman was strangled to death by the old bachelor, and she still had a smile on her face after she died, maybe this is a real relief for her, it is better to die clean than to live like a dog.

"Jinbao?" Uncle Li's voice pulled me back from the woman's memories.