Zhao Xiyue is missing! In Machang Village, I was the first to realize that someone was missing, and everyone else thought that Zhao Xixi had gone back to her natal family.But I knew in my heart that Zhao Xixi would never return to her natal family, even if she was beaten to death by her husband Lin Huhu.Machang Village seems ordinary, who would have thought that such a terrible thing happened in a small mountain village! Machang Village is in the north of Guangxi, close to the border of Guizhou, so you can cross provinces just by running around.After graduating from university, I followed the call of the state and came to Machang Village Primary School as a language teacher, only to find out that I had been deceived by the state.There were also two male classmates who went with them. They had just arrived at Machang Village, and they carried their boxes and ran away that night. It was all because the conditions in Machang Village were so difficult that a fat pig could be thinned out.Besides me, there is another female college student who stayed behind. Her name is Wu Lingchun, and she came here two years ago.

Zhao Xixi is about the same age as me, and we became good friends after meeting a few times. She likes reading very much, and I often lend her some novels to read.Zhao Xie's husband is named Lin Huo. He is like eating gunpowder every day. He often beats Zhao Xie and does not let Zhao Xie out of sight for too long, even if he is working in the field.Last night, Boss Mo in the village married a young and beautiful wife and hosted a banquet for the whole village.It was only when Lin Huhu got drunk at the wedding banquet that Zhao Xixi had the opportunity to tell me the secret that had been hidden for three years.

Lying in bed on an autumn night in early September, looking at the moldy ceiling, I thought about last night's wedding reception... That night, the men gathered at the table to compete for wine, and the women chatted at other tables.Sitting next to me, Wu Lingchun was envious of the bride. Although Boss Mo was married twice, she was the richest coal boss in Machang Village.Wu Lingchun laughed and said that as long as he wanted money, it didn't matter if the other party was an old man, even a dog would rush to marry him.The bride's name is Lin Shuxiang, she is very beautiful and very polite.When drinking the wedding wine, Boss Mo didn't let Lin Shuxiang stay at the table for too long. After a while, he told her to go back to the room by herself to rest, reluctant to let her be greedily watched by other men.

The men played games and drank, and after two hours, they were so drunk that the sows could be regarded as wives.Zhao Yue carefully glanced towards Lin Huhu many times, until she was sure that her man would not stare at her again, then she dared to quietly walk towards the table where I was sitting.It was getting dark, and everyone was sitting at Boss Mo's house, making a lot of noise, and no one paid attention to us.Although Zhao Xiyue and I are good sisters, we rarely have the opportunity to have long conversations.Knowing that this opportunity is rare, I followed Zhao Xiyue out to an old banyan tree outside Mo's house.

"Tang Jiuyue, thank you for helping me yesterday, or Lin Huo would beat me in the field again." Zhao Xixi thanked tremblingly, Tang Jiuyue is my name. "It's a big deal to go back to your mother's house and find someone to help you. You can't be bullied like this!" I said angrily. Zhao Xiyue walked to the door, took a look inside, then turned around anxiously and said, "My business is not what you think. You'd better stop talking about it in the future, lest the tiger will be unhappy again, and maybe he will beat you .” "If you don't have the money to go back to your mother's house, I can pay you." I knew that Lin Huohu was very stingy, and would rather use the money to wipe his ass than give Zhao Xiyue a dime.

"He won't let me go back to my mother's house! I don't want to go back either." Zhao Xiyue was terrified, and just about to say the next sentence, she saw a woman from the village come out, and she shut up immediately in fright. I waited for the woman to go far away, and then asked in a low voice: "Sister Xie, why are you so afraid of Lin Huhu? Can't you just go back to your mother's house?" "Jiuyue, let me tell you the truth." Zhao Xiyue was very flustered, and after holding back for a while, she uttered a sentence, and that sentence shocked me immensely.

I just heard Zhao Xiyue say to me: "I was actually kidnapped and sold here. Lin Huo bought me three years ago. Don't look at my miserable life now. If I go home, my father will beat me even worse. Moreover, my family is poorer than Machang Village, and there is no electricity up to now. Besides... I am now three months pregnant, so why run away! However, I just found out a secret yesterday, you can call the police, but don’t tell me I'll kill you and I won't go home." It's a pity that Zhao Xixi didn't finish speaking, and the vigilant Lin Huo rushed out of the door immediately, dragged her home cursingly, and blamed me for meddling.I froze outside Boss Mo's house, thinking that it's no wonder Zhao Xixi dared not go back to her mother's house, it turned out that she was sold.Although the society has progressed, the business of buying and selling women and children has been repeatedly banned, especially in remote mountain villages.I watched a lot of news, but I didn't expect this kind of thing to happen to me.

I didn't have the mood to go back to the banquet, and was alone in a daze outside, slowly digesting the bomb information Zhao Xiyue threw.It stands to reason that all abducted women want to run away, and no one wants to live under the same roof as a beast like Lin Huo.Zhao Xixi didn't want to run away. First, her natal family was poorer than Machang Village, and her family treated her badly. Second, she was already pregnant. She herself was a submissive and weak woman, and she never thought of rebelling. I thought about it for a long time, and really wanted to call the police that night, but when I thought about the pregnant Zhao Xixi being rescued, would I hate me to death?Regret telling me the secret?I didn't sleep all night, and prepared a full stomach of arguments, trying to convince Zhao Xiyue.Unexpectedly, on the second day, Zhao Xiyue disappeared. Lin Huohu told outsiders that his wife had returned to her natal family, but I knew it was impossible!

It's been a whole day, and I've been fidgeting. The more I think about it, the more I feel that something is wrong. Could it be that Zhao Xiyue was killed by Lin Huo?Otherwise, where did Zhao Xixi go, she couldn't go back to her mother's house, and she had no idea of ​​running away.Although Lin Huohu is vicious, but Zhao Xixi is pregnant, will he be willing to kill his wife?Impossible! Machang Village Primary School is at the head of the village, not very popular, and it is very quiet at night, and you can hear someone farting a few hundred meters away.Wu Lingchun and I lived in a row of tile-roofed houses in the school. There were four rooms in the tile-roofed house. We each lived in one room, the third room was occupied by a male teacher, and the fourth room was occupied by no one.The male teacher's name is Ouyang Xin. He came here after graduating from university three years ago. He is the only male college student who is willing to stay.I know that Ouyang Xin lives next door, so I am not so afraid, otherwise I always feel that there is something peeping in the dark.

It is autumn now, and elementary school has just started for one day. Teachers don't need to change homework, and they don't have to rush to prepare lessons.Just at eight o'clock at night, I was lying on the creaking wooden bed, thinking about what Zhao Xixi said yesterday.What secret does Zhao Xixi know?Could it be that a certain woman in the village was also abducted, or was the child of a certain family bought and sold?wrong!No one would say this kind of thing casually. If Zhao Xiyue didn't tell the truth, I would never know this secret, which means Zhao Xiyue knew other secrets.

It is really unpredictable that a small mountain village has such a secret. I turned over, smelled the pungent mosquito scent, and continued to think about Zhao Xiyue.The poor woman was rarely able to go out, and she could only talk to other women when she was doing farm work, and she couldn't move around Machang Village freely.In this way, it is very difficult for Zhao Xixi to know the secrets of other people's homes, so the secret she mentioned last night should belong to Lin Huohu's home... I was just thinking about it, when suddenly someone knocked heavily on the door and called "Tang Jiuyue" loudly, which startled me.When I opened the door, it was Wu Lingchun who knocked on the door. Before I could ask anything, I saw her knocking on Ouyang Xin's door again.After everyone came out, Wu Lingchun asked us to go to the village to have a look. Something serious happened there, and even the police from the county town came.I was very confused. You must know that Machang Village is very remote, and the roads in and out are all dirt roads. Not to mention that the police never entered the village in the middle of the night, even when the Japanese invaded. "What's the matter? Gambling?" Ouyang Xin asked. He had heard that men in the village often gambled together. "I heard from Aunt Liu that a dead person was dug up in Lin Huhu's house." Wu Lingchun said seriously. I looked into the village. Many people were running around in the village without street lights with flashlights. A group of people who wanted to watch the excitement flocked towards Lin Laohu's house.Without hesitation, I went back to the house and took the flashlight and went with Wu Lingchun, but Ouyang Xin didn't follow, he bluntly said that he was not interested, and then went into the house.I'm very interested, I can't do it if I don't go, so I ran right away, thinking that Zhao Xiyue is still dead after all, life is so changeable!This time, I must tell the secret of Lin Huhu buying a wife! Usually, the night in Machang Village is a bit scary, because no one comes out at night, and occasionally a few naughty children sneak out to pretend to be ghosts and scare people.This night, the village was very lively, just like Boss Mo got married yesterday, the difference was that this time it was not a red thing, but a trivial one.Wu Lingchun walked fast, and I chased after him. The two girls never thought about how terrible the dead are. The adults were busy persuading the children to leave, and the police car drove to the end of the village, where Lin Huhu's house was.When the adults saw us coming, they asked us as teachers to help send the children back. Don't watch this scary scene, so as not to scare the shit out.When Wu Lingchun and I drove the children home, we heard other people say that Lin Huo had escaped and the police didn't catch anyone. Wu Lingchun saw the village chief's wife standing outside the crowd, staring at the village chief in the crowd from a distance, so he went over and asked the village chief's wife: "Who found out that there was a dead person in Lin Laohu's house? Could it be sister Joy? " "It was discovered by my little dragon. He was disobedient and wanted to climb over the wall with other children to steal oranges from Tiger's house... Then he saw Lin Huo digging something out of the ground. He ran back and told my husband, we will immediately Call the police." The village chief's wife was a little proud, as if this matter was the credit of their family. "Is that Miss Joy?" I asked uneasily, the crowd was too dense to see what was going on inside. The village chief's wife was about to say something when the crowd dispersed, and the police drove the villagers aside, and several criminal investigators brought out a dead body.However, the dead bodies were contained in black body bags, so no one could see who was inside.When the village head's wife heard that Wu Lingchun and I guessed that the dead body was Zhao Xixi, she whispered that it was impossible. "Why?" I questioned. The wife of the village head had a long tongue, and she took the initiative to reveal in a low voice: "My husband and I came to see it, and some men from the village also came. The dead man was just dug out from under the orange tree. It was not wet, but dry. It may have been buried. It has been several years. I guess, it should be Lin Huohu's mother. His mother disappeared a few years ago. We thought she couldn't stand Lin Huo's temper and ran away from home! Originally, we were watching Lin Huohu , but let him run away, it’s going to be difficult.” Not Zhao Joy? I was on the outskirts of the crowd, a little happy, but even more confused.Why did Tiger Lin dig up the dead body buried at home today? If he didn't dig it out, he wouldn't be discovered. This matter wouldn't have something to do with Zhao Xixi, would it?I don't know if I should tell the police about Zhao Xiyue's abduction, but now that everyone is gone, who will believe me?If Zhao Xixi is still alive, will she hate me for calling the police, causing her to be sent back to her poor hometown? At this time, the police carried the dead body into the car, and then told the villagers to be very careful these few days, because Lin Huo might come back to the village.The number of police is limited, it is impossible to guard the village every day, and go back home after carrying the dead body. The scene where the body was discovered was not even circled. Looking at the situation, I did not intend to go deep. This is completely different from the investigative methods in the movie. the same.Sometimes, evil defeats justice in this way, and justice is too lazy to resist. This is the difference between ideals and reality. I watched all this from the sidelines, and had to give up the idea of ​​exposing the trafficking. Now that Lin Huo has not been arrested, if I tell the truth, wouldn't I be waiting for Lin Huo to seek revenge on me?When the time comes, I will call the police for help, let alone whether the police will come or not, even if they are willing to come, I am afraid that by the time I arrive at Machang Village, I will have been stabbed like a sieve.The more I think about it, the more confused I become, and I know that I can't hide this kind of thing, but I am an ordinary person after all, I always have to think about my own life, and it's too early to be a "heroine".Thinking of this, I feel very useless. Last night I tried to persuade Zhao Xiyue to have some backbone, but now I am afraid of this and that. There are many mountains near Machang Village. The police looked around before leaving, but found nothing.Before leaving, the police advised the villagers to go home to take care of their children and not to stay outside at night.I hesitated, and was quickly taken away by Wu Lingchun. I didn't tell the truth to the police, and I didn't know whether Zhao Xiyue was really dead.Wu Lingchun was frightened all the way, as if Lin Huo would come out at any moment and stab her a few times.Back in the tile-roofed room of the elementary school dormitory, Wu Lingchun immediately closed the door and pushed the door tightly with a chair. I was also very scared. When I closed the door after entering the house, I found someone slipped a piece of paper through the crack of the door.I have received similar letters before, all of which were hooligan love letters written by idle young people in the village, so I didn't pay much attention to them.Unexpectedly, this time I picked it up and took a deep breath of air-conditioning, and I almost cried out in fright.