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Lu Changqing stepped over the threshold, entered the courtyard of the ancestral hall, squatted beside the child and handed the steamed bun in his hand to her.

Anping took a look at the steamed bun in front of him and then looked away, not looking at Lu Changqing or saying anything.

"Aren't you hungry after kneeling for the whole afternoon?"

"Don't kneel all the time. Even though there is a straw mat under your knees, kneeling for too long is not good for your knees."

No matter what Lu Changqing said, Anping knelt on the ground like a piece of wood and turned a deaf ear to Lu Changqing's words.

Seeing this, Lu Changqing placed the steamed bun on the altar, then took out a stick of incense from the side, lit it on the candle, and bowed towards Xiangmei's portrait.

Through the plot, Lu Changqing knows all the secrets of this village, including the cause of Xiangmei's death, Anping's life experience, the evil deeds of the villagers, and the secret of the so-called forbidden area in the village.

Lu Changqing sat on the steps under the eaves, breaking the steamed bun in his hand and stuffing it into his mouth. He would help change the incense candles after waiting for ten or twenty minutes.

Anping knelt under the coffin with his head down, not moving a muscle, and the two of them were at peace.

Lu Changqing had just swallowed the steamed bun in his hand when he heard the footsteps and discussions of a crowd outside.

Lu Changqing stood up and stuffed the steamed bun on the altar to Anping without saying a word. He brushed the dust off his butt and stood beside the coffin waiting for people outside to come in.

The village chief led everyone across the threshold of the yard with a smile on his face. Behind him, in addition to the six players with different expressions, there was also a large group of villagers.

There are women and men, old and young.

The village chief clapped his hands for everyone to be quiet, and told the villagers about the situation of Lu Changqing and the others. When they learned that they were invited to keep vigil at night, the villagers all showed a look of luck on their faces.

"Why are there still women here?" someone in the crowd shouted.

"What's wrong with women? Can't women eat yin-yang food?" The man shouted, and then a masculine and malicious laughter broke out in the crowd.

"Don't get me wrong, guys. What I mean is that since there are women, why don't you just look for women? Why are you looking for so many men?"

The crowd started laughing again.

The eyes of the men in the crowd were all on Lu Changqing and Xin Yi. Those eyes were sticky and disgusting, sticking to them like slugs.

Seeing that Xin Yi and Lu Changqing both looked unhappy, the village chief apologized to them, "Don't get me wrong, the people in our village are not well educated and speak in a vulgar way. The men just like to joke around, there's nothing disgusting about them, so don't take it to heart."

Xin Yi didn't dare to disobey the village chief, so she could only go with the flow and force a smile to show that she didn't mind.

Someone in the crowd asked the village chief, "Is it because they are here that we don't have to come to this ancestral hall for the next few days?"

The village chief said in a sly tone, "No need to bother you at night, but you can come over to check on us if you have time during the day. We can't let a child guard us here every day."

The person asking the question replied, "I don't have time during the day. I have to go to the fields with my man."

As soon as this person spoke, responses rose one after another from the crowd.

The village chief sighed and said, "I called you here today just to discuss this matter. I know you are all busy, so I won't waste your time. I will make other arrangements for the wake during the day."

After the village chief finished speaking, he waved his hand and asked everyone to disperse.

The crowd left quickly, leaving only Lu Changqing and his group and Anping in the huge courtyard.

A few people found a corner far away from Anping to gather and discuss.

Lu Changqing was the first to ask, "Why were you all called here?"

Xin Yi replied, "The village chief told someone to tell us that we would be staying in the village for seven days, so it would be better to say hello to everyone in the village."

The tall and thin man sneered, "Based on the nature of the app, I think it is to let the villagers recognize our faces so that they can monitor us."

The middle-aged man cursed, "This village is definitely hiding a big secret! I asked several people about that woman's situation, but they either avoided talking about it, or after saying a few words about the woman's family situation, they shook their heads and said that the woman had a hard life. They were unwilling to say another word. It's obvious that they are hiding something."

Lu Changqing thought, isn't this nonsense? Otherwise, why would the app give players seven days to find out the truth?

Seeing that the middle-aged man hadn't found anything else, Xin Yi said, "I asked people about the origin of the village's name, and they all said that the village has been called 'Yinzhang' since the moment they were born or married, and it has no other meaning."

Huang Mao, who had no clue and whose life was at stake, was very anxious. "Aren't these just two ordinary words? What special meanings can they have?"

"Have you heard of 'Nong Zhang Nong Wa'? Have you heard of 'Zhao Di', 'Meng Di', 'Yin Di'?"

Chen Hao looked at Xin Yi and asked, "Are you referring to favoring boys over girls?"

Xin Yi nodded.

The less educated yellow-haired guy was very troubled. "No, how is this related to favoring boys over girls?"

Xin Yi explained: "There is an idiom called '弄璋弄瓦', which means giving birth to a boy or a girl. 璋 means boy, 瓦 means girl, 璋 is a beautiful jade, 瓦 is a spindle, and 引璋 means to bring in a boy, right? Do you understand now?"

"So what? Not to mention the countryside, there are many people in the city who favor boys over girls. What's so strange about that?"

Xin Yi took a deep breath and said in a good-tempered manner: "We are now in a dungeon mission that could cost us our lives. We must not let go of any tiny clues or any anomalies."

"And then?" Huangmao asked impatiently.

Lu Changqing rolled his eyes silently. Fortunately, he let the system cheat and let this person die first, otherwise he would have to endure it until the fourth day.

"When you entered the village, didn't you notice the clothes hanging in the yards to dry?" Lu Changqing spoke, drawing everyone's attention to her.

Everyone looked at Lu Changqing. When they first entered the village, they all paid attention to the surrounding environment and did not specifically look at other people's clothes hanging in the yard.

Besides, not every household has clothes drying on the hook, so who would look so closely?

Xin Yi asked, "Is there anything wrong with the clothes?"

"I didn't see any children's clothes among those." Lu Changqing added, "Neither for girls nor for boys."

The middle-aged man asked, "Could it be that the child's clothes were hung out to dry somewhere else?"

Lu Changqing shook his head. "I don't know about that. Anyway, I saw no children's clothes."

Combining the name of the village, Chen Hao's imagination exploded: "Could it be that this village kills baby girls?"

Xin Yi denied Chen Hao's idea. "Without the interference of drugs or medicine, the sex ratio of newborns is close to 1:1. There are many people in this village. If the village really kills baby girls, there should be at least boys."

Chen Hao raised his chin and pointed at An Ping, who was dark-skinned and had a buzz cut, not far away and said, "Look, isn't there a boy over there?"

Lu Changqing said, "Even if the villagers think it's too hot in the afternoon to let the children go out to play, it's already half past six. Logically, they should let the children out by now. Besides Anping, have you seen other children in the village?"

Everyone was startled.

Yes, from the time they entered the village until now, they had not seen any other children except Anping who was kneeling on the ground.

What about the children in the village?