At noon the next day, Tane Yong and I were woken up by the birdsong in the mountains, Tane Naga rubbed his eyes, and got up and got dressed. I rolled comfortably in bed twice, closed my eyes, and wanted to sleep again. Suddenly I felt a little itchy in my ears, and when I opened my eyes, it turned out that Taneong was scratching my ears, so I pushed his hand away and muttered dissatisfiedly, "Let me sleep a little longer." But he didn't give up, and leaned into my ear and said, "Didn't you want to say that you were going to the wedding yesterday?" If it's late, you won't be able to see it. I heard his reminder and thought to myself, oh no, how could I have forgotten this, I opened my eyes violently, and jumped out of bed to get dressed.

After getting dressed, I simply washed with the water from the well, and then pulled Taneong to hurry to find the black thin man, but fortunately the black thin man did not leave, but squatted at the door and smoked. Seeing that we were getting up, he told us about steamed buns and porridge in the kitchen and asked us to eat them ourselves.

Because I was thinking about watching the wedding in the mountains, I gobbled up a few steamed buns, and then came out to find the black and thin man, I squatted next to him and asked the man: "Big brother, can you go now?" He smiled and said, "Yes, my father didn't tell you yesterday, it's just that there is a wedding today." I hesitated and asked, "But I don't know them, can I really go?" The thin black man took the last puff of his cigarette, then put it out on the ground, and then comforted me: "It's all right, our people here are very hospitable, just try to have a good time, the more people the better." ”

At this time, Chongyong also finished eating, but he was not very interested in the wedding, and yesterday he said that he didn't want to go, and I didn't force him, so I let him go to the mountains by himself, and the father and mother of the black and thin man were at home and waited for us to come back.

The thin black man said hello to his parents and led me away, and he and I walked on the mountain road one after the other, and after walking far, we arrived at the house where the wedding was held.

Almost all the people had arrived, all typical mountain people, sitting at the table outside waiting for the table to begin. It's really different from the way weddings in the city, the tables are set outside, the groom's family sits at a table and receives the gift money, and when someone comes to set off a scare firecracker, it crackles, and it still looks very interesting. It's just that I looked around at the four tables of people, and found that most of the guests were men, only a few women, and the women who came were all very old ladies. I seem to be a little abrupt here.

There are about seven or eight tables in the banquet, it is a very ordinary wedding in the mountains, the black and thin man handed over the gift money to the groom's family, and took me to a table to sit down, the groom and the bride have not yet come out, I feel a little bored, so I look around, but I find that the people around me are looking at me naked, with emotions in my eyes that I can't understand, I feel Hao Ran in my heart, thinking that I am a stranger who ran to rub the banquet and was discovered, I really feel too embarrassed.

The thin black man saw that the people around him were looking at me, so he explained to the people of the week: "A woman from the countryside wants to see the wedding in the mountains, so take her to see it." The people at the table smiled knowingly when they heard him.

In this way, I sat comfortably in the middle of this group of strangers, and finally waited for the protagonist of today's wedding, the groom looked like a typical mountain man, aged a little, in his 30s, dark skin, stocky size, it didn't look like a match with the bride next to him, although the bride didn't look like a big beauty, but tall, fair-skinned, with a bookish air, and the people around him were out of place at all. And the bride didn't look happy at all, she kept a cold face, and occasionally smiled very reluctantly.

I thought this scene was a bit weird, so I tentatively asked the thin black man: "Big brother, doesn't this bride look like a mountain person?" ”

The thin black man smiled, and then replied to me: "Whether she looks like or not, she will be a mountain person in the future, and she will always stay here to teach her husband and children, which is a woman's obligation." I heard him say this and asked him, "But she doesn't seem to be unhappy at all." Did she really want to marry this guy? ”

The black and thin man listened to my words, and his expression was when he heard the joke: "A woman's task is to marry a man to inherit the lineage, what is there to be willing or not." ”

As he spoke, he seemed to look at me meaningfully, I raised my eyes to look at him, but he immediately looked away to look at the bride, I doubted that I was too careful, so I didn't look at him again, but I don't think I can agree with his words, so I have read so many years of books in vain.

After a large string of firecrackers was set off, the banquet began, and everyone began to shout, punch, and eat lively. I was dizzy from the noise in this bustle, but I was embarrassed to say that I wanted to leave, after all, I begged someone to bring me, and the food at this banquet tasted good, so I concentrated on eating the food, trying to get through the time.

Just as the banquet was about to start, I heard a noisy voice from the table in front of me: "Drink, drink, you must fill him." "I looked there, and then the bride and groom came to toast everyone.

The groom's face was crimson, and he looked a little drunk, but the people at the table did not give up, and forced him to drink a few more glasses, so he drank a lot, and the bride followed him and did not persuade him, and followed the groom to toast one by one, but because it was a woman, the villagers did not embarrass her too much, so they let her take a few sips symbolically.

When the groom walked to our table, his steps were a little unsteady, and he was drunk at first glance, and I looked at the groom with a fat head and big ears and vulgar manners, and I couldn't figure out how a bride who looked so temperamental could look at such a person.

Thinking about it, they had already begun to toast at this table in turn, and seeing that the bride had already saluted me, I quickly stood up and raised my glass to the bride.

The bride had already walked over, raised her glass and touched it in my hand, I looked at her and smiled, and then was about to withdraw my hand, at this moment, I felt a small thing in my hand, I looked at her suspiciously, she looked at me expressionlessly, but there was a hint of pleading in her eyes, as if she was afraid that I would refuse her. I looked into her eyes, and the ghost priestly hid the note in the palm of her hand under the cover of the glass, and then sat down as if nothing had happened, and by this time the bride had already begun to pay homage to the next person. Beads of sweat were on my back, and the things in my hands were burning my palms like fire, and I looked around, but fortunately everything that had just happened didn't seem to be noticed by anyone else, and although it was a difficult process, it was actually only a few seconds. I sat quietly thinking about what to do, and I could perceive that what was in my hand was a small note, and that the bride was obviously asking for help from me if she wanted to tell me something but couldn't let anyone else know.

I think the black and thin man must be more familiar with this place than me, maybe I can ask him, thinking of this, I patted him on the shoulder, he was drinking to the people in the same village, so I didn't see the small movements of me and the bride just now, I felt that I was patting him, he turned to look at me, probably because he had drunk too much, his eyes were bloodshot, and for a moment he looked a little like his groom, I "chuckled" in my heart, and swallowed the words that were about to be spoken. But he still looked at me with questioning eyes. I thought about it for a while, frowned, pretended to be in pain, and clutched my stomach and said, "Big brother, where is the toilet?" I feel like I've had a bad stomach. When he heard what I said, he was about to stand up and take me over, I pretended to squirm, blushed and said, "Big brother, you can show me the way, I'm a girl, it's inconvenient for you to go with me." ”

He listened to my words, was stunned, and then pointed to a small hut not far away, and said, "That's it, just go straight along that road." ”

I nodded and said, "Thank you, big brother, I'll come when I go." ”

As I spoke, I clutched my stomach and ran towards the hut with a painful face.

When I dared to go to the thatched house, I looked around to confirm that there was indeed no one around, so I hid in the corner of the thatched house, endured the smell of flies in the toilet, and slowly opened my tightly clenched hand, between which there was a note lying in my palm, I trembled and slowly opened the note soaked in my sweat, between which were written crookedly, help me, these two words seemed to be smeared with carbon, and it looked like someone was panicked and written on it in a hurry.

I looked at these two words, and I was shocked, oh no, she shouldn't have been trafficked, she didn't fit in with her surroundings at first glance, and she was married with a sad face, it was really rare, she was probably controlled.

Although I was very reluctant to think about it, I would rather it was just a little prank played by the bride and me, but I have also heard in my years of wandering that some people in the mountains are very poor, and no girl wants to marry them, and because they are patriarchal and the ratio of men to women is seriously imbalanced, they have begun to buy girls from traffickers to be wives. Because the mountains are too remote, the girls are isolated, people outside can't get in, and the abducted girls inside can't get out, so they are trapped in the mountains, ruining their lives.

When I think of this, cold sweat begins to break out, if they really do these things, then of course they will not let me go, a "weak woman", as soon as I go out, what kind of scene should I face, I really can't imagine.

But I thought of the warm hospitality that the black and thin man's family had given to Tane Yong and me yesterday, and thought of his warm direction to me, and then cooked for us to eat, and made our beds.

I began to wonder again, maybe the thin black man didn't know, it was just the case of a few people in their village, after all, there are good people and there are bad people.

Thinking of this, I strengthened my courage and tore up the note and threw it in the pit. Then he wiped the sweat from his head and began to walk towards the place where the banquet was held.

Anyway, I still try to get in touch with the bride as much as possible to find out what is going on, so that I can find a chance to get her out.