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I've heard a lot about mountain villages that favor boys over girls. This is the first time I've seen this girl treated like a treasure.

He took out the cigarettes and handed one to Mu Bai. He waved his hand to me.

I leaned against the window and listened as he continued to talk.

There was still a little fragrance of noodles left in the small kitchen. Even though there was no one outside, Mu Bai kept his voice low.

"Our village has not been very prosperous since my mother's generation. There are seven children of my generation and only two girls."

"However, they don't like to play with me, so we can only be considered as growing up together." Mu Bai smiled mockingly to himself.

"That incident happened in the summer five years ago. It happened to be the summer vacation after the college entrance examination. I was waiting for the results at home, so I knew the whole process."

"Boss Li, I'm not afraid of your jokes. Our village thinks that studying is of little use and it is better to go out to work early to earn money. So except for me, most of the other children stopped studying after junior high school."

"Those two girls are no exception. They stayed at home after junior high school and waited until they were old enough to find a good family to marry."

"That summer, they were all over 18, and the village was trying to find a partner for them. It should have been a happy thing."

"But at this time, a strange man came to the village."

"This man's name is Jiang Yongyan. He said that he is a businessman who resells mountain products. He comes to our village to collect herbs, wild mushrooms, etc., and the price he gives is not low."

"Everyone sells mountain products, and he accepts them no matter how much. He never tampers with the price. It can be said that he is a child without any deception."

"Therefore, everyone liked this strange man named Jiang very much. When he proposed to live in the village for a while, everyone welcomed him."

"At that time, Jiang Yongyan lived in the home of one of the girls named Xiuhong. Xiuhong's mother passed away very early. It was her father who raised her up with the help of the villagers."

"Xiuhong is very sensible. She started helping the family with housework at a very young age. After graduation, she stayed at home and took care of everything in an orderly manner. She is also the prettiest among the three girls."

"The elders in the village say that this girl is virtuous and capable and will definitely marry into a good family."

"There were so many people going to her house to propose marriage that they almost broke through the threshold, but she refused every one of them. She was not satisfied with anything, which made her father very worried."

"When Jiang Yongyan had been living at her home for half a month, she suddenly told her father that she didn't want to get married so early and wanted to see the outside world."

"Our village has very traditional ideas. We believe that girls should get married early to support their husbands and raise children. Therefore, when Xiuhong proposed this wish, it seemed to her father to be whimsical, and of course he would not agree."

Speaking of this, Mu Bai sighed.

"In my impression, Xiuhong always wears a braided braid. Although her clothes are old, they are clean. She doesn't talk much at ordinary times, but her eyes are very cute when she smiles."

"No one expected that this soft-spoken girl would have such a stubborn temper. She was so angry with her father over this matter that she went without eating or drinking for several days and almost died."

"Xiuhong's father had no choice but to agree to her going out to work for a year. A year later, she will only be 19 years old. She is not too old and will not delay getting married."

"However, Xiuhong's father is also an old farmer who has never left the village in his life. He doesn't know what the outside world is like. He was worried that Xiuhong, a girl's family, would be deceived when he went out, so he entrusted the matter to Jiang Yongyan, a foreign mountain goods merchant."

"Jiang Yongyan agreed. He said he would go back to the city in half a month, and then he would take Xiuhong with him to help introduce a job. Xiuhong's father is very grateful."

"Two days later, another girl named Dongqing also made a fuss about going out and imitating Xiuhong's hunger strike. The family had no choice but to agree, and they only gave her one year."

"I also entrusted this matter to Jiang Yongyan."

After hearing this, I roughly understood what Mu Bai meant.

"Is it this foreign merchant who instilled in Xiuhong and Dongqing the idea that the outside world is wonderful and abducted them?"

"If only it were that simple." Mu Bai smiled bitterly and shook his head, "They didn't go to the city outside at all, but went to the mountains and never came back."

"In the mountains?" I was surprised. This was indeed beyond my expectation.

"No one paid attention at the time. Now that I think about it, Jiang Yongyan doesn't look like a businessman at all. His way of receiving goods is a loss."

"Moreover, he has lived in the village for a month, and some of the mountain products have become moldy, and he has not been seen selling them. How can he do business like this?"

"Then what is he doing in the village?"

People do things for a purpose. Since the purpose of this outsider is not to make money or to traffic in women, he must have other motives.

But Yueyuan Village is just a backward small mountain village, what's there to gain?

"He went into the mountains with a shotgun in the morning and came back in the evening just as the sun was setting. Sometimes he would bring two pheasants, hares and other game. People in the village thought he was hunting, but I didn't think so."

Mu Bai frowned slightly, lost in thought, paused, and then said, "I always feel like he is looking for something in the mountains."

What lies deep in the mountains?

Having finished my second cigarette, I put out the butt and looked out the window at the rolling mountains.

The primitive and deep mountains stand quietly under the sky. They are ancient and vicissitudes of life, and seem to hide endless secrets.

"What happened to those girls? Did they all follow him to the mountains?"

"Yes, gone forever." Mu Bai also looked out the window.

"At dawn that morning, I got up to cook, and happened to see him from a distance through the window, carrying a bag and a shotgun into the mountains as usual, with Xiuhong and Dongqing following him."

"Two girls followed a man into the mountains and no one stopped them?" I opened my eyes wide.

The people in the village are conservative, how could they allow two girls who have not left the court to follow a strange man into the mountains?

"Xiuhong and Dongqing seemed to have followed him secretly. When I saw them, I went to tell my grandma, but she told me not to mind my own business."

"So, you didn't tell this?"

"I still went to tell Xiuhong her father, but he said that Xiuhong was sick at home and was sleeping at home. He scolded me for talking nonsense and ruining his daughter's innocence. I thought I was wrong."

"Later, when it was getting dark, Jiang Yongyan did not come back as usual. Only then did the Xiuhong and Dongqing families realize that the girls were gone, and they realized something was wrong."

Mu Bai sighed.

"At the beginning, they still did not suspect Jiang Yongyan. Because of the reason for collecting mountain goods, almost everyone trusted Jiang Yongyan, except for my grandmother."

"Later, when they remembered what I said, they came over to ask me, but it was already too late."