Those who were willing to leave were taken away.
Those who were unwilling remained.
Zhou Linlin had been hoping that the people here would be punished.
But for such a backward and numb village, punishment was not so simple. There were many people in the village. Taking their women away had already enraged them.
Because there were children left behind, it was impossible to arrest everyone.
Zhou Linlin could not accept it, but there was nothing she could do. She said she was looking for a girl who had disappeared in the village three years ago, but the villagers all denied it. They insisted that no such person had ever been there.
The staff searched everywhere and found nothing. In the end, Zhou Linlin’s family took her away.
She struggled and refused to leave. As she was dragged away, she shouted that she would contact Tang Guo’s family as soon as possible.
“She must be very disappointed.” Tang Guo looked at Zhou Linlin’s indignant face and merely smiled. “It’s fine. Leave this place to me.”
As for the family of that body, she would look for them later.
After those people left, the villagers were all filled with righteous anger. The outsiders had no way to deal with them.
Criticism and education meant nothing to them.
“I’ve been thinking, several people died before. Something about that isn’t right. Could it be that what Dazhuang and Dazhuang’s mother said is true? That our village is being haunted by a female ghost, and that’s why all this happened?”
To them, the women being taken away only caused anger. It did not make them repent. This time, several men from the village had been arrested, including the village chief and the man who often went out to bring girls back.
As for the others, nothing happened.
When the village chief was arrested, they were at first flustered, but they quickly chose a new one. In their view, they had done nothing wrong. It was the outsiders who were too barbaric.
They had paid money for their wives. Weren’t women meant to bear children?
Those people were making a fuss over nothing.
“There might really be a female ghost. Should we find a couple of Taoists to exorcise it?”
“I think that’s a good idea. This is too strange. I’ve never heard of any young girl escaping from our village before. It must be the female ghost.”
“That’s right. Let’s get some black dog’s blood and splash it at the door. Female ghosts are afraid of that.”
“And clean up the Buddha statue at the entrance of the village. It’s been passed down from our ancestors. It must be because the statue wasn’t clean that the female ghost came in.”
“Yes, yes, do it quickly.”
[Host, what are you going to do now?] the system asked curiously.
Tang Guo glanced at the village. “I’m going to find someone I know. I didn’t see her show up before. I wonder how she is.”
The system understood. It must be the original owner’s friend.
Following the memories, Tang Guo arrived next to the house where the original owner had once been locked up. That girl was there.
She drifted inside and saw only two elderly people and a burly man. The three of them sat in the room. The old man and the man were smoking. The old woman squatted at the doorway, looking worried.
“It looks like we won’t be able to buy a girl for the time being,” the old woman said.
The old man took a drag of his cigarette and exhaled. “Those people from outside are meddling in our affairs. How our village gets wives is our business. Besides, we paid money for them, and now they’ve taken them away.”
“It’s also that girl’s fault for being too stubborn. Otherwise, we’d have been holding a grandson already,” the old man said after another drag.
“Isn’t it Yongzi’s fault? After buying her, he should have treated her better instead of beating her all the time,” the old woman said.
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