"I didn't expect there to be so many people separated from their relatives in this small village." After the few people in line dispersed, Ning Yunxiao and the guards sorted out the information casually, and found that there was a large pile of paper in his hand that recorded the clues.

Ning Yunxiao flipped through a few pages of the clues in his hand, and found that most of these people who came to find their relatives were girls, and when they came to this village, they were generally very young, and they basically had no impression of their own parents.

A guard who was standing beside Ning Yunxiao to help sort out these clues also flipped through a few pages casually, put them on the table, and muttered in a low voice: "With these clues alone, where can we go to find their relatives for them?" ”

"After so many years, I may not be able to find my relatives." Another guard answered.

This sentence may have stimulated Li Nuo, and she replied with a somewhat displeased frown: "Even if the time passes, you should try to find it, what if you really find it?" ”

That's what she thought, although it has been more than 20 years, but deep down in her heart she has always believed that her parents must be looking for her anxiously, but they are too far away to find her for a while.

Perhaps because she is also struggling to find the relationship between her biological parents, Li Nuo can empathize with the feelings of those who are looking for relatives, so she is also more concerned about this matter.

Even if her parents are not found by then, it would be great if she could help a small number of them find their loved ones, and she would be genuinely happy for them.

Because Li Nuo had taken good care of Ning Yunxiao in the past two days, both Li Yiyan and Ning Yunxiao were very good to her, so after she replied in a voice just now, those guards didn't dare to speak again. Even if he had some opinions on this matter in his heart, he didn't dare to say it in front of Li Nuo.

And Ning Yunxiao only glared at the two guards who spoke with a warning look, and did not speak again.

She knows that finding her biological parents is now a piece of her heart in Linuo's heart, and her adoptive parents have made her extremely desperate, and all her hopes are now in her biological parents.

"The Queen." Just when Ning Yunxiao was out of his mind, Ji Ming suddenly shouted, instantly pulling back Ning Yunxiao's thoughts. She looked at Ji Ming, raised her eyebrows to indicate that she had heard, and asked him to continue.

Ji Ming walked to Ning Yunxiao's side with a few pieces of paper in his hand that recorded the clues written by the people, handed the papers to Ning Yunxiao's eyes, and said: "Weichen found that these girls all said that they only remembered falling into the sea, and then lost consciousness. When I woke up, I was already in the village. ”

"Could it be that human traffickers are lurking on the beach or lake, and if they find children drowning, they will take them away quietly before their parents find out?" Ning Yunxiao muttered quietly.

Although this speculation could explain why the children woke up in another village, she still felt that something was missing.

What she doesn't understand is why those traffickers are so bold, even children with parents by their side, they can easily get their hands on them, and no one finds out that their children are missing, and then reports to the authorities?

Ning Yunxiao couldn't figure out these doubts no matter what.

"Anyone?" Just as everyone was lost in thought, there was a sharp knock at the door.

Ning Yunxiao glanced in the direction of the gate, then looked at Li Yiyan on the side, and saw that his sword eyebrows were also tightly twisted together.

But also, in the middle of the night, it was quite strange for someone to knock on the door, not to mention that the voice sounded like a woman.

The knock on the door became more rapid, like a person with a strong sense of survival in extreme fear, and she banged on the wooden door violently.

"Probably something urgent?" Ning Yunxiao saw that Li Yiyan had not given the order to open the door for a long time, so she looked at Li Yiyan, as if to say to him, and as if to herself.

Li Yiyan's gaze withdrew from the gate, and she saw Ning Yunxiao looking at herself, her meaning was already very obvious, she felt that the woman who knocked the door outside the gate must have an urgent need for help.

They had just set up a dart bureau in the village today, and although the reputation spread throughout the village at once, they were also worried that some ill-intentioned people would come to cause trouble, and if someone trafficker deliberately came to test them, then the matter would be in trouble.

However, if you think about it, it is not necessarily a bad thing if the traffickers want to sneak into them to get some information, at the very least, they can come to the urn to catch turtles.

Thinking like this, Li Yiyan's frowning brows also loosened a little, and he made a color towards Ji Ming, who immediately understood, walked to the door vigilantly, and opened the door.

"I heard that your game can help us find our relatives?" As soon as the woman saw Ji Ming, she asked nonsensically.

Ji Ming was stunned, nodded slowly, and said, "Yes." ”

For people who came from unknown sources, Ji Ming still subconsciously retained a trace of vigilance, and was unwilling to say anything more to the other party.

"It's useless." I didn't know that the woman came to such a sentence inexplicably.

Seeing that Ji Ming glanced back in the direction of Li Yiyan, the woman asked again: "Can I go in and say?" ”

"I sneaked out, and if someone finds out, they're going to get me back." Seeing that Ji Ming didn't speak or express his position, she added another sentence.

Li Yiyan and Ning Yunxiao, who were across the courtyard from the gate, seemed to hear the woman's words, they glanced at each other, Li Yiyan nodded slightly to Ji Ming and said, "Let her in." ”

"Come in!" Ji Ming twisted his eyebrows, although he turned sideways to let the woman in, his eyes were fixed on her, for fear that she was an assassin sent by someone.

"What do you mean by that?" Before the woman approached, Ning Yunxiao asked directly.

The woman seemed to have known that Ning Yunxiao would ask like this, and as soon as Ning Yunxiao's words fell, she replied without much thought: "Even if we find our biological parents, they will not be willing to recognize us." ”

"Why?" When Ning Yunxiao heard this, she felt even more strange, how could any parent not want to see her child? Unless, unless, it is they who throw away their children with their own hands.

Thinking about it like this, Ning Yunxiao seemed to suddenly realize that since ancient times, the idea of patriarchy has been deeply rooted in everyone's minds. If it is because some families want to have a boy, but due to financial problems, they cannot afford to raise it, so it is inevitable that the girls they give birth to will be ruthlessly abandoned.

But then I think about it, but it still doesn't make sense, if parents really want to abandon their children, it will never leave some clues on the children's bodies, so that they have the opportunity to come back to find themselves.

As soon as Ning Yunxiao asked like this, the woman was a little angry, as if she remembered some memories that made her unhappy.

She didn't say it, and Ning Yunxiao couldn't force her to say it. Although they were very curious in their hearts, Ning Yunxiao and the others still held their breath and waited quietly for the woman to speak.

After a long while, the woman sorted out her emotions and briefly explained how she had come here. It turned out that Ning Yunxiao guessed wrong, the woman was not deliberately abandoned by her biological parents, and her parents were also forced to do so.

This matter has to start from more than 30 years.

There is a wide river near the village where the girl was born, and their village is an extremely feudal village, and the whole village believes that there are really ghosts and gods in this world.

One year, for some reason, it rained heavily for a month in that village, and their village was not very high, so it is conceivable that because it rained non-stop day and night, their village could not escape the fate of being flooded.

Several elders in the village felt that it was because they had angered the river god in the river that they would punish the people in their village in this way.

After the flood waters receded, a god came to their village and told them that someone in their village had upset the river god, so the river god sent him to inform the villagers that they should be prepared to experience the flood once a year.

When the elders of the village heard this, they immediately thought that the magic stick was a savior sent from above, so they worshipped him as a god and begged him to relieve the disaster for the people of their village.

Seeing that the people of the village trusted him so much, he told them that if he wanted to appease the river god and stop him from being angry, he would pay a tribute to the river god every year with a pair of boys and girls.

Although the villagers were reluctant to implement this method at the time, a few boys and girls could save the life of a village, and it was quite cost-effective.

So after discussion, the elders decided that every year there must be a boy or a virgin from each family. And each family must take turns to join the family that has paid tribute to a boy or a virgin this year, and not to pay tribute the next year or even in the following years.

So because of this incident, every family in their village has at least three or more children. Because of the tribute to the river god, at least one or two can be left in their family to inherit the lineage.

"Paying tribute to the river god has anything to do with the disappearance of the population?" Before the woman could finish speaking, one of the guards stopped and couldn't help but ask.

The woman's words were suddenly interrupted, and she was naturally a little unhappy, but she didn't say anything, and replied: "It doesn't matter in itself, but that god stick doesn't really pray for our village, but does some dirty things in the name of praying for blessings." ”

"Then if there is no river god, how do you pay tribute to the river god?" Among the guards, a guard who believed in ghosts and gods asked puzzled.

Generally speaking, it is a tribute, and it must be used to feed the river god. Since it is used for food, if there is really no river god, then the god stick will be exposed immediately, why are the villagers still willing to believe him? Since the villagers believe in him, it means that the river god really came out to eat people, so according to this speculation, the river god exists in the world.