Our village is called Niutou Village, poor and remote, the patriarchal mentality leads to a serious imbalance in the ratio of men and women, and the girls outside refuse to marry in, and finally in order to continue the incense, many people buy daughters-in-law from human traffickers.

I've seen a lot about buying a daughter-in-law since I was a child, so at first I didn't think it was a big deal, but then I realized the seriousness of the matter after that strange incident.

After I failed the college entrance examination that year, I went back to the village, and the second uncle asked me to stay in the village steadily, be a farmer in my duty, and then go around to give my daughter-in-law Zhang Luo to continue the incense.

The second aunt said that I was a literate person, and I couldn't be hasty in finding a daughter-in-law, and then asked my second uncle to take some money and go out, and only came back after about a week, and brought a girl, saying that it was a daughter-in-law arranged for me.

The girl was crying and crying, she was tall and smart, and she looked like a city man when she was dressed, and a fool could guess that my second uncle must have bought it from human traffickers.

On the same day, I set up a banquet and let me marry the girl, although I felt a little resistant, but there was no way, this kind of thing is too common in our village, many of the abducted daughters-in-law were crying at first, but in the end they gave birth to a baby for a long time.

Everyone at the banquet congratulated me, saying that I was really lucky to marry such a beautiful daughter-in-law, and said that I would treat my second uncle and second aunt well in the future, and that it must have cost a lot of money to see the quality of this daughter-in-law. I don't have the joy of being a groom official in my heart, maybe I went out to study for a few years, and there is still such a bottom line morally.

Several well-known local lepers looked at the girl and drooled, and one of them quietly pulled me aside and said to give me a hundred yuan, and let me touch the bride for a while, no, I raised my leg and kicked him, telling him to get out of here.

The girl was forced to put on a red wedding dress, and then, according to local custom, my second aunt held her head and bowed to me, and then pushed us into the cave room amid the coaxing of a crowd.

The second aunt also came in, crossed her waist with a stick, pointed at the girl and threatened for a while, saying that if she was not honest, she would break her legs, so frightened that the girl didn't even dare to make a sound, just shed tears.

I hurriedly stopped my second aunt and said that I could come by myself. The second aunt handed me the stick, looked at the girl viciously, and said, "If this girl doesn't obey later, you will beat her hard until she undresses and goes to bed."

I nodded in agreement, and at the same time pushed and shoved the second aunt out to lock the door.

When I turned around, I saw the girl cowering in the corner of the wall, shivering, looking at me with a look of horror, as if I were going to eat her.

I put down my stick and handed a towel to her to wipe her tears.

Who knew that she suddenly knelt in front of me with a pop, grabbed my trouser legs, and cried for me to let her go.

I was stunned, I didn't know what to do, I definitely couldn't beat her, and finally only said that it was her life, let her admit it, and it was better to follow me than to follow those sloppy men in the village.

The more she cried, the more I met this battle for the first time, the more she cried, the stronger the guilt in my heart, and finally I was annoyed by her, so I waved my hand and shouted at her: Shut up! Don't cry!

She was stupefied, and the last glimmer of hope in her eyes dimmed as she looked at me, leaving only endless grief and fear, tears falling like beans.

Looking at his appearance, I felt quite uncomfortable in my heart, and after some ideological struggle, I finally made up my mind, sighed, and whispered a word to get up, I'll just let you go.

She froze, a flash of light flashed in her eyes, and she hurriedly thanked me. I was so frightened that I covered her mouth, looked out the door, and said to her in a low voice: You be quiet, if others hear you, don't want to go out!

Only then did she react, and hurriedly whispered to me what to do, I pondered for a while, and asked her to stay here honestly for a few days, pretend to cooperate with me, and wait for my second aunt to relax their vigilance, and then find a way to send her out.

She thought for a moment, then nodded in agreement, because there was really no other way.

At this time, I suddenly heard a movement at the door, so I hurriedly lowered my voice and asked her to call a few times, she asked me what my name was, I said that I was screaming when I was doing that, my second aunt was eavesdropping at the door, you don't call a few days to say that you can't say it.

The girl was stunned, and after reacting, her face turned red, and she couldn't scream, I said that if you want to leave, you can call, if you don't want to, forget it, and do it yourself.

In the end, as if she had made up her mind, she gently screamed, I said that you are a mosquito call, louder, crazy, let my second aunt and them hear, the more realistic the better.

Maybe she was also anxious to leave this place, so she began to scream hard, and I heard that my lower abdomen was on fire, and I almost couldn't help but really kill her.

In order to prevent my second aunt from coming in at night to "do rounds", I asked her to sleep with me at night. After thinking about it, I found a knife and cut my own finger, and dripped a few drops of blood on a white cloth. The girl asked me suspiciously, what am I doing, I said didn't the second aunt have examined you before, said that you are still a yellow flower girl, I don't get some blood to drip on the handkerchief the next day.

It may be that this behavior made her feel a little good about me, and when she slept together at night, she slowly became less angry, and she chatted with me with a match.

She asked me to call her Zhang Ya, who was studying at a university in Chengdu, Sichuan, and was deceived by a middle-aged woman on the train home from vacation, and then sold here.

I listened to it in my heart, I was a proud son of the sky, but she was abducted to this poor country, if she hadn't met me, it is estimated that she would have to stay here for the rest of her life.

Early the next morning, the second aunt really came to check, and after seeing the blood stains on the white cloth, she showed a slightly better look at Zhang Ya, and told her that this is right, live a solid life in the future, and stop thinking about those unreliable things.

Zhang Ya behaved very cooperatively, took the initiative to go to the kitchen to wash vegetables and cook, and consciously washed the dishes and swept the floor after eating, and made my second uncle happy and said that I was blessed, but the second aunt said that what is this, being a daughter-in-law should have done this.

I looked at Zhang Ya like this, and I felt that I really liked her, and I thought to myself how good it would be if she was sincere.

After a few days like this, the second aunt really relaxed their vigilance.

One night, while everyone was asleep, I took Zhang Ya out of the door on tiptoe, and then took her hand and ran all the way out of the village.

It wasn't until I had run a long way that I let go of her hand and said that I had to send her here, and let her go all the way along the road, so that she could go to the town in front of me and take the bus to the county seat, and then catch the train home.

Finally, after thinking about it, I stuffed another hundred yuan for her and asked her to take it for the travel expenses, and she looked at me with tears in her eyes and said that she would repay me well if she had the opportunity in the future.

I was a little reluctant to look at her like this, so I asked her to stop those useless things and leave quickly, if she was discovered, she wouldn't be able to leave.

When I returned to the house, I was absent-minded all night, and my mind was full of Zhang Ya's voice and appearance.

The next morning, I pretended to be surprised and said that my daughter-in-law was missing. The second uncle was so anxious that he immediately organized people to look around, and I also followed the team and pretended to be very anxious, but I thought in my heart that it was estimated that everyone else would have arrived in the county seat at this time.

Of course, the ending was nothing, the second aunt was so angry that she jumped to her feet, scolded and scolded in her mouth, saying something like a little bitch and a little slut, I heard her scold Zhang Ya like this and felt very uncomfortable, so I went back to my room to sleep.

I thought this was over, but I didn't expect that this was just the beginning of all the nightmares.

On the seventh night of Zhang Ya's departure, a strong wind suddenly blew, and the chickens and dogs in the whole village barked collectively as if they were crazy.

In the middle of the night, I suddenly heard someone knocking on the door, I looked at the time, it was more than two o'clock in the morning, wondering who it would be at night, so I asked who.

There was no response from anyone outside, so I thought it might be the wind blowing, so I didn't care about getting ready to go back to sleep. I didn't know that there was a knock on the door again, and this time I heard it very clearly, it was definitely not the wind blowing, the sound was very rhythmic.

I shouted again, but there was still no response, so I picked up a stool, walked slowly over and pulled the door open.

After seeing the person who came, a fire suddenly rose in his heart, "Wang Ergou, what are you knocking on my door in the middle of the night, are you looking for a beating!" ”

Wang Ergou is a well-known leper in our village, young but idle with a few fox friends and dog friends all day long, his hands and feet are not clean on weekdays, he loves to do some things like stealing chickens and touching dogs, and everyone annoys them. That day, at the banquet, he said that he would give me a hundred yuan and let me touch Zhang Ya for a while.

He didn't speak, just stood at the door and stared straight at me, and I realized that something was wrong with him, his face was pale and pale, and there was no light in his eyes, and he was shivering, as if he was very cold.

I was furious by her, and hurriedly asked him to say something quickly and fart quickly, and get out of here if he had nothing to do, and he was going to close the door when he said it.

Wang Ergou suddenly opened his mouth, his voice sounded very weird, not at all like his usual voice, a bit of a yin and yang weird feeling, the speed of speech was very slow, and the content was also very strange

"I... Look for... Daughter-in-law... Women..."

Then his throat was like something was choked, and he made a gurgling sound, and I looked at him and got angry, saying that I want my daughter-in-law to go home to your mother, don't fucking bother me here.

After finishing speaking, I slammed the door shut, thinking that this Wang Ergou had a brain disease, and he ran here in the middle of the night to pretend to be a ghost, maybe there was some bad water in his stomach, and I didn't fall for him!

When I went to bed at night, I felt that my brain was foggy, and I had a dream that Zhang Ya was sitting next to me in an ancient dress, saying that she wanted to repay me, and then took off her clothes and went to bed, and did that with me.

The next morning, I noticed that my crotch was wet, and I remembered my dream last night, and secretly laughed at myself for being so obscene.

After breakfast, I suddenly heard a noise outside, went out to inquire, and got a news, and was immediately taken aback, and felt that the hairs on my body stood on end.

Wang Ergou is dead!

I saw him fine last night, why did he die?

When I arrived at his house, the yard was already full of people, and the people in his family were crying and screaming.

According to local customs, the person who died on the day of death cannot be put into the coffin, and it cannot be covered, otherwise the soul will not be able to get out, so Wang Ergou's body is placed on a mat in the hall with light in the hall.

When I saw Wang Ergou's death, I was immediately frightened.

The death was really terrifying, the whole body was naked, the skin was as white as paper, the two eyes were bulging high, and the top was covered with dense capillaries like earthworms, but there was a smile on the corner of the mouth, which looked extremely weird.

I heard from his family that since the early hours of yesterday morning, he suddenly cried cold, put on all his clothes, and wrapped several layers of quilts to no avail, and the family thought that he might have suffered from the cold, so they got some medicine for him to eat.

Unexpectedly, it didn't get better, but it got worse and worse, and finally suddenly began to tear the clothes on his body frantically, made himself naked, tossed for a night, and died this morning.

A person with a little insight in the village saw Wang Ergou's death and said with certainty that it did look like he had been frozen to death. People who are frozen to death first feel cold, and then hypothermia syndrome, the body's functions are automatically adjusted, the blood supply to the brain will suddenly increase, and the human body will then feel a very hot illusion.

Then he would involuntarily strip off his clothes, and the smile on his face was because he would constantly breathe in before freezing to death, and finally he would smile when he died.

I stayed on the side for a long time, not because of this theory of freezing to death, but if what Wang Ergou's family said was true, he was at home all night, then who was the person I saw last night?