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After exging a few pleasahe vilge head led his group away. At that moment, Jiang g suddenly spoke, “Vilge Head!”
When the vilge head’s group turned around, Jiang g poi the pitch-bight and asked, “Are you still heading back tonight?”
“We...” The vilge head appeared slightly embarrassed at first, but it was quickly repced with a wry smile. “Thank you, young brother, but we won’t be returning tonight.”
“Then e inside and stay with us,” Jiang g said naturally. “You tell us about what happened in the vilge tonight.”
Upon heariion of the events in the vilge, the expressions of a few of the young men beside the vilge head ged. Eventually, the vilge head took over the versation. “Thank you, young brother, but... we won’t disturb you. You should rest well. I’ll e to pick you up early tomorrow.”
After saying this, the vilge head and his group left in a hurry, looking as though something terrifying was chasing them.
Ohey saw the vilge head’s group disappear into the night, the group turned around, preparing to return to the inn. However, they suddenly noticed the inn’s owanding at the entrance, silently watg them.
As they approached, they realized the innkeeper hadn’t been looking at them, but at the dire where the vilge head and his group had left, with an expression that was difficult to describe—disgust and an untrolble fear.
“Brother Liu,” Zh naturally noticed the odd behavior of the innkeeper. It was clear that the innkeeper khe vilge head and his group, and his impression of them wasn’t good. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have refused to let them in.
Thinking back to the woman they had seen iernoon and the old man who gave them the cigarette, it seemed that people from Xiao Shijian Vilge weren’t well-regarded in Anping Town.
It wasn’t just one person being targeted, but the entire Xiao Shijian Vilge.
What had happened in that vilge?
The innkeeper, who had been called by Zh, suddenly seemed to snap back to reality. He shuddered involuntarily, which the group noticed.
“Brother Liu,” Zh maintained a friendly tone and appeared quite familiar. He gnced in the dire the innkeeper had been looking and curiously asked, “What are you looking at?”
The innkeeper swallowed nervously, pursed his lips, then spoke in a low, hurried tone, “e inside, we’ll talk inside.”
Once everyone had ehe inn, the innkeeper immediately closed the door. He hesitated for a moment, as if uhen grabbed a long wooden stick to brace the door from the inside.
After doing all this, the tension on his face slightly eased. He cautiously peeked through a cra the door and, after a while, pulled his head baside.
“You outsiders, how did you get involved with them?” The innkeeper looked at them, his tohan polite.
“We’re here to visit retives,” Jiang Zhongyi, standing closest to the innkeeper, quickly came up with an excuse to deflect the question. He tinued, “We’ve been away for many years, and we pn to settle ba our hometown.”
But uedly—
“You’re lying!”
The innkeeper’s face darkened abruptly, his expression turning as though he was about to swallow Jiang Zhongyi whole. His words stunned everyone.
“No one would willingly go back to that vilge!” The innkeeper’s expression became tense as he stared at Jiang Zhongyi, almost spitting each word out. “Anyone illing to return to that pce is dead!”
Upon hearing this, Jiang Zhongyi froze.
It was finally Pei Qian who slowly spoke, helping Jiang Zhongyi out of his predit. “Innkeeper,” Pei Qian’s tone was slow but forceful as he looked directly into the innkeeper’s eyes and spoke sincerely, “To be ho, we were invited here to resolve an issue in Xiao Shijian Vilge.”
Without asking about the details, the innkeeper seemed to already believe this matter, his expression anxious as he said, “You all are mistaken!”
“You think you get involved with what happened in Xiao Shijian Vilge?”
“That’s a curse!” The innkeeper suddenly became agitated, g his fists. Veins stood out on his neck as he tinued, “It’s the souls of those who died unjustly, ing to collect their debts from Xiao Shijian Vilge!”
Zh watched the innkeeper, seeing that his agitation was not only from fear but also from anger. It seemed that something happened in Xiao Shijian Vilge that had angered both man ay.
TL/N: angered both man ay, or another simir expression angered both the heaven ah is a ese proverb.
This not only caused the so-called curse of the unjustly dead but also led the nearby people to harbor hostility toward anyone from Xiao Shijian Vilge—even a lonely woman who had lost her husband.
With this in mind, Zh asked in a low voice, “What exactly happened in that vilge?”
Sighing, the innkeeper pulled out a long bend slowly sat down. A small oil mp burned oable, and as the wind blew, the fme flickered, casting shadows on his face.
“This stoes back 20 years,” his voice ged as if he was trapped in a distant memory.
“Xiao Shijian Vilge is located in the mountains, a remote area with slow development. The vilgers have always relied on fishing and hunting for their livelihoods.”
“But many years ago, the Jia Lan River downstream built a dam and reservoir, which greatly impacted the fishing industry. inally, it oor vilge, and now things got even worse,” he sighed and shook his head slowly. “No woman would want to marry into this pce.”
“But a vilge needs women, and having no heirs is the worst sin. So, someone suggested finding women from outside,” the innkeeper sneered. “Said they were looking for wives, but in truth, they were abdug them.”
“But the women weren’t fools. After being tricked and brought there, they found the reality was nothing like they had been promised or imagined. So they tried to escape, causing a big se, even trying to flee secretly.”
“But how could they escape? Every household there had single men, all... all needing women.”
“No matter where they tried to run, they were fag hell.”
Xiaomeng, standing beside him, noticed the innkeeper’s eyes suddenly fsh with sharpness when he spoke of the women. His arms hung at his sides, and the veins in his ched fists stood out, showing his sympathy for their tragic fate.
“What happened ?” Yu Man asked softly.
She had also softened her tone, showing respect for the suffering these women endured.
“There’s no such thing as a wall that doesn’t let information through,” the innkeeper pced his hands oable, his expression slightly relieved. “In the end, the police followed the clues and found the hidden vilge in the deep mountains. Many people came that day—there were not only police but also anxious parents whose daughters had been abducted.”
“When the parents saw what had happeo their children, they were heartbroken. In their ahey broke through the police blockade and took the main criminal from the hands of the officers, the him to death.”
“It’s said the se was extremely bloody. Flesh and dirt mixed together, and not even a whole body was left.”
(End of the Chapter)
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