"Every year, the god stick will calculate a time to pay tribute, and on that day, the god stick will take the village elders and the boys and girls who pay the tribute to the river, let them sit on a special mat, and then float with the current to a deeper place, and even the people will sink into the river with the mat." The look of resentment on the woman's face only increased when she spoke of it, and she seemed to hate the act.

Something flashed through Ning Yunxiao's mind, but she was still a little unsure, so she said to the woman, "You go on." ”

In fact, the god stick said that he would pay tribute to the river god, so as to curry favor with the river god. Although the village paid tribute to the boys and girls in the next few years, there were no floods or anything like that in the village, so the god stick took this opportunity to say that it was the credit of the tribute to the boys and girls, so he also said that the villagers should not stop paying tribute to the boys and girls every year, saying that this is the only way to stabilize the mood of the river god.

However, less than five years after this peaceful life, a flood suddenly struck.

However, the villagers already trusted the magic stick very much, and did not suspect that the magic stick was only deceiving them from beginning to end.

Originally, if the woman didn't say it, no one would have linked the matter of the god stick to the villagers paying tribute to the river god every year with a pair of boys and girls and human trafficking.

The god stick was actually one of the traffickers, but I don't know how he knew that the villagers believed in ghosts and gods, so after the great flood, he came to that village and used the reason of the river god's anger to trick the villagers into paying a pair of boys and girls to the river god every year.

In fact, they smuggled these "tribute" boys and girls to other places, and the boys were sold to childless families as sons, and the girls were generally sold to other people's families as child daughters-in-law, or sold to rich families as maids. In short, they were able to find a way to sell these children.

And they have been trading people for more than 30 years, and the villagers in that village still don't have the slightest suspicion.

Maybe someone was suspicious, but the stick would always have a way to get rid of those who doubted him, like this woman.

"Girl, if I'm not mistaken, you're just saying that the gods ask the people of your village to pay a tribute to the river god every year for a virgin boy and a virgin." Ji Ming already had some doubts about the identity of the woman in front of him, and after listening to it for so long, he felt that there was some disclosure in her words.

The woman didn't know why Ji Ming asked her this, but his words were indeed not wrong, so the woman nodded inexplicably.

Seeing the woman nodding, Ji Ming continued to ask, "The girl also said before, this kind of thing has started thirty years ago?" ”

The woman nodded again: "Yes." ”

"That is the case, which means that your village, under the coaxing of the gods, has paid a lot of tribute to the river gods." Ji Ming paused deliberately, looking at the woman in front of him with sharp eyes, if her eyes were a little dodgy, Ji Ming might immediately pull out the long sword pinned to his waist and take down the woman alive.

But the woman's eyes did not dodge, and nodded at Ji Ming's gaze.

"Then why don't you remember anything about the boys and girls who paid tribute, and you know how you got to this village?" As soon as Ji Ming's words came out, everyone was stunned, they only cared about listening to the woman's story before, but they forgot to ask her why she remembered it so clearly.

If the god stick wants to save some trouble, naturally they can't let those children know that they fell into the hands of human traffickers because of this, so they will definitely do this while the children are not very sensible.

As a result, when children are sold elsewhere, they can't remember where they came from or how they got separated from their biological parents.

However, the fact that this woman was able to expose the crimes of the gods in the village where they had been before was obviously a suspicion.

Hearing Ji Ming's question, Ning Yunxiao and Li Yiyan looked at the woman with a little more inquiry. They had to doubt the identity of the woman in front of them.

"Because I only got here last year." The woman didn't think about it for long, just in the tone of her usual conversation, and at the speed of her usual conversation. Maybe she hasn't seen that she has been suspected by Li Yiyan and others, or maybe what she said is true.

Li Nuo also heard that what the woman in front of her said was a little different from what she said before, she had clearly said that the god stick asked for a pair of boys and girls to pay tribute every year, but just now she said that she was only brought here by the god stick last year.

So Li Nuo said this idea in his heart.

Listening to Ji Ming and Li Nuo's questioning, the woman knew that they seemed to have misunderstood what she meant, or that she hadn't made it clear. She explained with some tears and laughter: "I didn't have it, let's make it clear." ”

"One day last year, I went up to the mountain to pick herbs, and I saw some rare medicinal herbs, so I delayed a little more time on the mountain. When I was descending the mountain, it was already dark, and I went down to the bottom of the mountain and faintly heard someone talking. The woman saw that everyone was looking at her, and she continued: "For it was not early in the day, and I wondered who would appear in such a wilderness. ”

So I crept nearer, and heard the voice of the wand, who was saying to another man that in a few days he would arrange for a pair of boys and girls to be sold for a good price. When I heard this, I didn't realize what was going on. Then I heard the strange man say to the god stick that they had made a lot of money thanks to the idea he had given to the river god as a 'tribute' to the river god. ”

"At that time, I had a vague feeling that this matter was not simple. So I thought about going back and telling my father and mother about it. However, my movement may have been too loud to attract the attention of the two who were talking, and they glanced over to me, and I knew they must have seen me. So I got up and ran home as fast as I could. When I ran forward, I could feel them chasing after me, and the faster I ran, the faster they were chasing, and I was very scared. When the woman said this, everyone's hearts also became nervous, as if she was being chased by the bad guys at that time.

"But fortunately, my home is not far from Houshanmoto, so when they were about to catch up with me, I had already run back to my house." When everyone heard this, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

I thought this was the end of the matter, but then the woman realized that she was still naïve after all.

She had just entered the courtyard of her house, when the wand that had caught up behind her knocked on her door.

Before the woman could say a word to her family, the god stick said to her parents that when she was sleeping just now, she dreamed that the river god had entrusted him with a dream, saying that he had been alone for a long time and was a little lonely, so he asked him to arrange a family affair for him.

And this river god is also unusually picky, the god said, the river god said to him in a dream that he would not marry a non-specific girl. In the dream, the river god took him to this door and told him that the girl he wanted to marry was in this house. So as soon as the god stick woke up, he rushed this way.

If the woman hadn't heard him talking to another person at the foot of the mountain, she would probably have believed him.

"Do you have a daughter in your family?" The god stick gave the woman a distinct look, and then asked his parents.

Their family had already paid tribute to the river god long before the girl, and they were convinced that what the god had said was true, so when the god asked, the girl's father pointed at her, and said to the god that this was their unmarried daughter.

The girl opened her mouth, but before she could say that she was unwilling, and before her parents could tell her about the crime of the man in front of her, she had already been taken away by the god on the grounds that the river god was urging her.

On the grounds that the auspicious time chosen by the river god was now, the god did not let the girl's parents groom her and dress her, and refused to see her off from the village for various reasons.

Because the god stick took the girl away, he didn't let her sit on the mat, and then sank into the river and then let people fish her out, but directly brought the girl to his accomplices, and asked the accomplices to take the girl directly to the other side of the river, and find a random master to sell it.

The traffickers knew that the girl must have known about their actions, so they deliberately found a man who no one wanted to marry because of his huge ugliness, and sold the girl to him as a daughter-in-law.

Although this man is ugly, his family has a little money, so after buying the girl, he is very good to the girl, and he never forces her to do what the girl is unwilling to do, it seems that he just wants to find someone to chat with him.

He can listen to girls for everything, but except for the freedom of girls' lives.

Because he was worried that the girl would not go back as soon as he left his house, he sent many people to monitor the girl's every move and not let her go out a single step on weekdays.

"So, you were calculated because you discovered the tricks of the Divine Stick?" After listening to it, Li Nuo concluded.

The woman nodded, she had been wanting to come out since she heard at home today that there was a dart game in the village dedicated to helping people find their relatives.

But the man was worried that he wanted to leave him in search of his biological parents, so he said nothing and didn't want her to come out. Therefore, she could only sneak out at night and tell them what had happened to her.

However, the woman actually wanted to go back, but she didn't think that these dart players really had the power to send themselves back.

Even if she did send herself back then, she didn't think that they would be the opponent of that magic stick, after all, that god stick had deceived their villagers for so long, and it must have two brushes.

So even if these people from the dart bureau really send her back, the people in the village may not necessarily be on their side, and they may be beaten upside down by the magic stick at that time.