Chapter 354: Mountains are high and the emperor is far away
Early the next morning, Gu Wenyu heard the excitement starting downstairs. It seemed that many people had come to the village chief's house. After hearing the noise, the village chief called everyone to go to the woods to rescue people.
Gu Wenyu waited for the people below to disperse, and then she slowly walked out of the room. Thinking of the little girl she saw last night, Gu Wenyu walked towards the next door again.
Walking to the door of the room where she saw the little girl yesterday, she found that the door lock of this room was strange. It was not locked from the inside, but from the outside.
Once someone outside locks the door, people inside can't get out at all.
At this time, the door outside the room was locked. Gu Wenyu didn't even look at it carefully last night. The structure of this door lock was really strange.
Gu Wenyu was just about to reach out to pull the door lock. At this moment, the door behind her was suddenly opened, and the village chief's wife was standing behind Gu Wenyu, staring at her closely.
"Is something wrong?" the village chief's wife asked expressionlessly.
Gu Wenyu was startled by the voice. She turned around and saw that it was the hostess of the house, so she pretended to be fine and said, "Oh, I'm hungry. Is there anything to eat?"
"The kitchen is downstairs, come with me." The old woman still had no expression, but she obviously didn't want Gu Wenyu to enter the girl's room, so she led Gu Wenyu downstairs.
Gu Wenyu pointed to the room next door, and then asked tentatively: "What is that room used for? Why is the door locked from the outside?"
The old woman didn't even look at it and replied directly: "Dayong's daughter's room. The child is too young and she is afraid of getting lost."
The old woman did not shy away from the little girl's question, but Gu Wenyu felt that this answer was a bit far-fetched. Isn't such a small child afraid of something happening if she is kept in a room?
"Leave the child alone, aren't you afraid of something happening?" Gu Wenyu followed the old woman downstairs, but she remembered the little girl's expression last night and still asked a little uneasily.
"What could happen? All the girls in this village grow up like this." The old woman said matter-of-factly.
Gu Wenyu was a little speechless. They definitely didn't watch the news in this village. If there was a fire, the little girl wouldn't be able to escape by herself. But seeing how the little girl was so afraid of the village chief, I guess she wouldn't get much love in this family.
But Gu Wenyu did not continue to dwell on this issue. This was a family matter, and it was hard for her to say anything as an outsider. Gu Wenyu took one last look upstairs and asked, "Won't the child get up and have something to eat?"
"She is still young and doesn't eat with adults." The old woman said indifferently.
Gu Wenyu felt that there was no family affection in this family, and they were extremely indifferent to each other. From the look of the old woman, it was as if the little girl was not her biological granddaughter.
Now that the old woman has said this, it would be unwise for Gu Wenyu to ask again.
The old woman walked into the kitchen and gave Gu Wenyu another bowl of noodles.
Gu Wenyu followed her into the kitchen. When she saw that the village chief and Dayong were not there, she took the opportunity to ask the old woman, "Auntie, have any girls disappeared in your village recently?"
"Yes, let the monster catch her." The old woman didn't look sad or worried at all when she said this, as if nothing in this village had anything to do with her.
"But I found their bodies yesterday. It doesn't look like they were killed by monsters." Gu Wenyu said this deliberately. In fact, she didn't know how those girls died. But according to the vine monster, those girls
The girl's body was dumped there by the villagers.
When the old woman heard Gu Wenyu's words, her expression finally changed. Her pupils shrank slightly, as if she was frightened, but she quickly put her emotions away and returned to her calm look.
.
"If it wasn't killed by monsters, what else could it be? We invited you here to catch monsters. Of course, it was because someone was eaten by monsters that we invited Mr. Yin Yang." When the old woman said this, her tone was
It was always very flat, as if he was telling a story that had nothing to do with him.
Gu Wenyu saw that the old woman was so strict with her mouth, so she changed the question again, pretending to be a gossip: "Do Dayong and his wife often fight? They had such a violent fight last night, and you didn't try to persuade them?"
"What's the advice? Just beat her a few times and you'll be honest. Which daughter-in-law in this village is not like this? As long as she's beaten hard enough, she'll always be honest." The old woman said in a calm tone.
An extremely cruel thing.
Gu Wenyu frowned and said, "Do you know that domestic violence is illegal?"
"What's the law? What's the law in our place? Men are the law." The old woman's eyes looked at the noodles in the pot. She was neither happy nor sad, and she didn't think there was anything wrong with what she said.
"Aren't you afraid of killing people if you fight like this?" Gu Wenyu was still testing her words. She felt that the old woman and the village chief were different. If the village chief was a scheming old fox, then the old woman would just be smoothed over at best.
An angular puppet.
After hearing Gu Wenyu's words, the old woman's eyes twitched again, as if she thought of something terrible, and she turned her face away unconsciously, not wanting Gu Wenyu to see her expression.
"It's not that easy to beat someone to death. It's all my own daughter-in-law. Who can be so cruel? Besides, marrying a daughter-in-law is not cheap. If she beat her to death, wouldn't it be a loss?"
The old woman tried her best to sound calm and natural, but Gu Wenyu could still tell that the old woman's voice was trembling slightly, and she seemed a little panicked.
Gu Wenyu felt that she could find a breakthrough with the old woman. She continued to ask: "Auntie, were you from this village before you married the village chief? Or did you marry from outside?"
This question is the key. If Gu Wenyu's guess last night is true, then the old woman might have been trafficked back then, but after so many years, she has been assimilated by the people in this village, or in other words, beaten
Afraid.
When Gu Wenyu asked this question, the old woman's body shook unconsciously, but she still said calmly: "I am from the village."
Gu Wenyu was not satisfied with the answer. Just when she wanted to ask more questions, Dayong suddenly returned home. When he saw Gu Wenyu and the old woman in the kitchen together, he was immediately unhappy.
Dayong asked with a cold face: "Mom, what are you talking about?"
The old woman was obviously taken aback. She immediately shook her head and said, "No, this girl is hungry, so I will cook her a bowl of noodles."
Dayong looked at Gu Wenyu very unhappily, "Gu Tianshi hurriedly went to collect the demons after eating. We invited you here to collect the demons, not for free. My mother doesn't like to deal with people, please don't
Disturb her."
The old woman put the cooked noodles into a bowl, put it on the table, and started washing the pot without saying a word.
The old woman's reaction surprised Gu Wenyu. If the old woman was afraid of the village chief, Gu Wenyu could understand, but Dayong was her son. Even if she was abducted, how could she face her own son?