Chapter 69: Shadow in the Mountains 9
The young people Du Zhiwu brought with him were all in their twenties, they were young and vigorous, and they had little patience. Even when I went to the homes of the mountain people, I didn't go door-to-door.
They just look at the convenience of the house, there is someone at the door, or the door is open, they will push the door in and ask.
But if they see that the house is small and the door is closed, they will not go in.
In fact, when they passed by the gate of Granny Yin, they first saw the small hillside, then the locust tree, then the closed wooden gate, and the mysterious pointed tower in the courtyard.
They didn't dare to go in, thinking that this was not a place where people lived, or a temple or a place where mountain people worshipped.
How did they get the answer?
In addition, this mountain village is extremely closed, surrounded by mountains, and they are all continuous mountains, even if you come in, you may not be able to go out.
Therefore, people from outside rarely come in, and family planning here was not taken care of in the early days, and they could have as many children as they wanted.
For example, Yin Xiaoqi's family has seven children, and there are seven or eight children in a family like theirs, and some even have more than a dozen children.
Children are not valuable here, and there are many families who like boys, and if they give birth to girls and don't want them, even if they are alive, they will be thrown outside.
So it's normal to pick up a child from around a mountain village.
Whoever has a child in the family unknowingly, no one will ask whether he hugged someone else or gave birth to himself.
It has a large population, is closed, and has little arable land, and is surrounded by mountains. If you want to have enough to eat, you have to work hard.
Many of the people in this mountain are still very diligent, so they go up to work in the mountains before dawn, and the sun will come back when the sun sets.
Working like this every day, who will care about the affairs of their family?
Especially Du Zhiwu, they asked, did anyone pick up a baby girl or something on a nearby mountain road?
How will these mountain people know?
Who doesn't have children?
No one knows whether it was born or picked up, how can such words be said nonsense?
So many of the mountain people shook their heads.
But when I asked a few mountain people, they flickered and stopped talking, as if they didn't dare to say what they knew.
Actually, yes?
In this whole mountain village, anyone can get pregnant and have children, but there is one person who must not know. That's the yin mother-in-law at the head of the village.
How old is she?
Even if she still has the ability to have children, but she doesn't have an old man? Who was this born with?
It is said that she also raised a baby girl, which was seen by many people who came to her house to beg her to do errands. When everyone came back, they asked tentatively.
But even if it was picked up by the Yin mother-in-law from the road, who would dare to say?
Even if the baby girl picked up by the mother-in-law was the baby girl they lost, they didn't dare to say it?
Granny Yin is not a fairy, nor is she a ghost, but she is different from ordinary people.
None of them dared to offend her, and it was better not to say such words.
Therefore, after Du Zhiwu and they asked around, no one could tell the whereabouts of the baby girl, but he clearly knew that the baby girl was not taken away by a wolf, but was picked up by a family here.
He could tell it in their hesitant words and the flickering glances in their eyes.