When Ah Zi and I got off the train, got on the bus, took a long ride on the tricycle, and finally walked for a few hours to reach Mengjuan's village, it was already dusk the next day. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

This place is located in the depths of the Great Khing'an Mountains, and if it weren't for the investigation of Mengjuan's affairs, I might never have come to a place that I can't find on this map at all in my life.

The sun sets, the smoke curls up, the atmosphere of the New Year has not yet passed, every household here is sticking to the Spring Festival couplets and hanging lanterns, and the sound of firecrackers comes from the village from time to time, which seems to be jubilant.

Ah Zi and I walked along the path in the village, and the children playing on the side of the road stopped when they saw me and Ah Zi. And a few older children bit their ears and whispered, and the boys of fifteen or sixteen stared at Ah Zi intently, and I could feel the heat in those eyes.

I smiled at the children and looked at them. I have a natural affinity for them, as this small village is the same as my hometown.

These children are wearing clothes that are similar to the ones I wore when I was a child, and there are traces of snot on their arms and sleeves, which I thought had been polished over time. That kind of curious gaze on outsiders in the outside world, I used to have it, and I also thought about going out of the mountains, wearing nice clothes like those people, and speaking Mandarin.

Once as simple as me, the whole world was bright and bright.

"Brother, brother, do you want to eat toffee here?" I said to a little boy of seven or eight years old.

The little boy still had a runny nose and touched it with his sleeve from time to time. His face turned red when he heard me talking to him, and he was a little scared and wanted to hide, but when I heard me say that he wanted to eat toffee again, I could feel that he was thinking about it in his heart.

"Black egg, don't listen to him, he may be a bad person, their sugar has medicine in it, as long as you eat it, you will faint, they will sell you outside."

At this time, a boy of twelve or thirteen years old shouted at the little boy. I laughed when I heard it, firstly because this seven or eight-year-old boy was actually called Heidan, and secondly, because the children in the mountains were really so innocent, even if they told Heidan, I was a bad person, and he would not have thought of the consequences of saying this if I was really the so-called bad guy in their mouths.

A child's world is always so simple and direct.

"I don't think that sister is a bad person, what is the matter with you coming to our village?" A sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl said to us. The sister in her mouth is naturally Ah Zi, and the advantages of women at this time are revealed, and it is easy to give people a sense of security.

"We're looking for Mengjuan's house, can you tell me where her house is?"

I didn't expect that after hearing the purpose of my visit, all these children ran away at once, including the girl who said that Ah Zi didn't look like a bad person.

I touched my nose and looked at Ah Zi, Ah Zi also looked at me inexplicably, I said that I was very innocent and couldn't understand.

We'll just have to keep going, hoping to find someone to inquire. I vaguely felt that there must be something wrong here, otherwise the children would all be scared away when they heard that I inquired about Mengjuan's home.

In the end, we met an old man in his fifties and sixties. I stepped forward and immediately handed over a cigarette, and slowly coiled it with the uncle. At first, the uncle was very vigilant, but after finding out that the cigarettes I handed over were Chinese, he talked more, and I found that he was always smoking while looking at the Chinese I was holding, so I simply handed over the whole box of cigarettes.

Uncle said that he couldn't help it, and accepted my cigarette with a smile. Then the conversation box was completely opened, and after Ah Zi saw all this, he scolded me in his heart that human beings really don't have a good thing, much more cunning and sinister than animals, I'm @#¥%

After chatting with the uncle, it was already dark, and the uncle asked us where to stay at night. At this time, Ah Zi and I remembered what happened to us at night, and the uncle also saw that we were embarrassed, so he simply invited us to his house, and asked his boss to cook several dishes for us.

I was embarrassed to eat and drink for nothing, so I took out the remaining five or six packets of Chinese and gave the uncle 500 yuan. To be honest, I don't have any money, the money that came out this time was given to me by Sangmu, and Sangmu gave me a card when I was leaving, saying that the money in it could be spent casually.

After I got the card, I went to the ATM to check it and scared me, I thought that Sang Mu would not be for criminals, why is the monk so rich, and a casual card is enough for me to earn for a few years.

Lying down on the kang of my uncle's house at night, I couldn't close my eyes for a long time. Ah Zi didn't need to sleep, so he practiced with his eyes closed, and occasionally exchanged a few words with me in his heart when he was resting, and I kept thinking about what my uncle told me about Mengjuan in the evening.

Mengjuan died in the lunar month last year, when she came home to visit her sick parents, but she only stayed for four or five days before she hurried back to work.

She told her family that she worked in a beauty salon and was busy with the Chinese New Year, so she didn't have time to ask for leave. The people in this village are envious of Mengjuan's parents, who gave birth to a beautiful daughter, and who is so capable and able to make money. Every time I come back, I buy a lot of clothes for my parents, brothers and sisters, and things from the city.

Then no one expected that this time Mengjuan would actually meet her family for the last time. On the third day after Mengjuan left, news came that Mengjuan died, it is said that she was killed, and some young people who worked outside slowly learned that Mengjuan was working in a beauty salon and doing the kind of work that sold her body.

Farmers are always simple, and when they are envious, they say it when they meet people. Now I find that it is not like that, and there is no mercy under my mouth. Everyone knows that Mengjuan used to be a young lady outside, no wonder she is so rich, she buys a lot of things every time she comes back, how can it be so easy to make money in the outside world, how can she make money so quickly if she doesn't sell her body......

The words are terrifying, and for Mengjuan's parents, the words of these villagers and neighbors are more painful than the loss of their daughter. Although they also hate why their daughter did this, after all, it is their own daughter, and in the final analysis, it is still the meat of their hearts.

Mengjuan's father was not in good health, and the loss of his daughter and the words of the villagers made him sicker, and he died on the day of his childhood. Mengjuan's mother hanged herself after taking care of her father's funeral.

Since then, this family has been completely dispersed, and Mengjuan has a younger brother and sister, all of whom were taken away by her aunt, so Mengjuan's family has become taboo in this village, and no one wants to talk about it.

Hearing this, I know why the scene of those children in the village happened, and I also feel unworthy and sad for Mengjuan's family, although the peasants have a simple side, but some people are ignorant and heartbreaking.

Don't say that Mengjuan is actually a pedicure, even if she is a young lady? Nowadays, how many people in this society are not as good as Miss, and Miss still relies on her own body to support herself, which is better than those who are abducted, cheated, burned, killed, and robbed.

I was going to leave here the next day with Ah Zi, and before I came here, I always had a hunch that there would be something to be discovered here, but after hearing the tragic experience of Mengjuan's family, I knew that there would be basically nothing.

But the uncle told me that since it is not easy to come here, the next day is the Lantern Festival, and the most lively and solemn day in this village every year is the Lantern Festival, which will hold the most solemn annual sacrificial ceremony, let me see and open my eyes.

As soon as I heard about the sacrifice, I immediately came to my senses and decided to stay and have a good look, because I still remember that experience in the cave, and I still don't know what I saw that time.

I didn't go to sleep until late that night, and when the rooster in the village crowed, I cleared my brain of chaotic thoughts, told Ah Zi to be refreshed at night, and then I fell asleep.

Will there be a secret to the annual festival that I want to know?