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"Then should we let the children go to school? I saw several children of school age having fun in the village." Liu Yi has a keen observation ability and sensed something wrong.

"The nearest primary school here is three or four hours' walk along a mountain road. The children are too young and we are worried. So we wait until they are ten years old and then live with them in the school. I go home once every two weeks and then carry food to school," Dong Yinduo explained.

When everyone heard this, they fell silent.

This Dongjia Village is too poor and too remote.

We took a walk around today and found that most of the houses were shabby and dilapidated.

The way they dress is at least one or two generations behind the average city dweller today. They either wear coarse cloth clothes or clothes patched up with patches on top of each other.

Some children don't even have complete tops and pants, and run around naked.

Everyone was pale and thin, some were so thin that they were just skin and bones.

The most valuable item in the house may be an iron pot, a kettle, a flashlight or a wooden box.

Radios, bicycles and other daily necessities that are now relatively common in the countryside are nowhere to be found here, not to mention large appliances such as televisions and washing machines.

There is no electricity in the village, and there is basically no light after dark.

"I see a lot of children in the village, but why don't I see their mothers?" asked Yang Peng, who is always carefree.

The whole audience fell silent again.

Some people also reacted.

There are many children in the village, almost every family has one or two.

But there are very few adult women. There are some little girls, but they are much thinner than the boys.

The older girls were basically working, either washing clothes while carrying their children on their backs, or tidying up the vegetable gardens.

Wang Qiyun tried to chat with them, but either she didn't understand, or they avoided the topic or even hurriedly hid away.

Cai Lanze, who was always observant, also noticed that there were one or two households where no hostess was seen, but there were one or two women's clothes hanging. Of course, they were all extremely shabby.

Dong Yinduo, who had always been kind and enthusiastic, froze on his face for a moment.

I suppressed my anger, put on a smile, and explained to the students: "Maybe she went back to her parents' home. If it gets colder, the road will be hard to walk on."

Then he changed the topic and continued to cry about the poverty of the village.

Even Yang Peng, who was a carefree person, noticed something was wrong.

She fell silent.

But I had more doubts in my heart.

There are many children, but few people giving birth to them. Did these children come out of stones?

Something is wrong, very wrong.

Several girls returned to the house they were staying in.

Wang Qiyun closed the door, gathered everyone together, and told them about her discovery.

She chatted with those children because the older children in her family had been to school and some of them could speak a sentence or two of Mandarin.

She asked the children, where is their mother?

Some children said numbly that they were dead.

Some children also shook their heads, indicating that they had never seen it.

Some children burst into tears on the spot.

There was also a child who said the word "Mom" in mumbled Mandarin, then pointed to the mountain, and then ran and jumped to play with the candy given by Wang Qiyun in his mouth.

"You mean, his mother is buried in the mountain? Or is she imprisoned in the mountain?" Fu Qiutong guessed.

"They wouldn't lock up all the women in the village in the mountains, would they?" Liu Yi's guess was even bolder.

The people present couldn't help but shudder at this speculation.

“Are all the women in this village trafficked here?” Yang Peng had heard news and stories about this.

In some mountain villages, because of poverty, no girls are willing to marry into the family, so they can only buy wives from outside.

Or a marriage exchange.

I have also heard that a family spent all their money and could only afford to marry one daughter-in-law, so several brothers all had the same daughter-in-law.

"There is a family in my hometown with five brothers and only one wife," said Wang Qiyun.

If Wang Chong, who went to the countryside that year, could not endure the hardship and married her mother, and later returned to Beijing because of the resumption of the college entrance examination, she would have followed him to Beijing.

Her fate will not be much better than theirs.

So she was always conflicted. On the one hand, she felt sorry for her mother who had no common language with Wang Cong, and on the other hand, she was glad that she was Wang Cong's daughter.

Maybe people are just like this sometimes, wanting it all.

She went back to her grandmother's house at the end of last year. Among the girls of her age, some had married and moved to more remote mountain areas, and some had already given birth to two children.

"It sounds scary." Fu Qiutong was born in Beijing. Although her family was not rich, they had never lacked food and clothing.

She couldn't imagine how miserable and desperate it would be to marry into such a mountain area.

There are mountains on all sides here, endless mountains. Even if you were asked to escape, you wouldn't know where to escape.

"Don't say anything for now. I'll find a way to explore the mountain." Gao You said after listening to everyone's discoveries.

"I'll go with you." Yan Hui said immediately.

"No need, just cover me. Don't worry, there is a rescue team here." Gao You said.

Everyone then suddenly realized why it was such a coincidence that the Wujiang Rescue Team came to Western Province for training with them.

It turned out that it had been arranged long ago.

"Old Gao, you've discovered something a long time ago, right?" Yang Peng patted Gao You's shoulder and whispered.

"Yeah. But I don't have any actual evidence, so I wanted to come to Dongjia Village in the name of collecting materials. It seems that the water is really deep." Gao You did not hide it from them.

Although she often took leave to go out for filming, over the years she still had a good relationship with several female classmates and had some understanding of their personalities.

Except for Zhuo Qian who is relatively taciturn, the others are all very cheerful and enthusiastic.

A trustworthy partner.

"Then you better be careful." Liu Yi knew that Gao You was a promising person, so he didn't say much.

"Of course." Gao You nodded.

Now the entire Dongjia Village is indeed full of various wrong things.

Almost every family has children, ranging from six-month-old babies to teenagers.

But the mothers of these children have hardly ever appeared.

The women they had seen in the village were either so old that they had lost all their teeth or could not speak clearly.

They are either five or six years old, or seven or eight years old. They are ignorant about outsiders like these and hide when they see strangers.

Dong Changfu's daughter-in-law and granddaughter-in-law are rare adult women.

There were also a few adult women carrying babies on their backs, but they looked old very early on, with hunched backs and bent waists. They wore local hands-woven cloth and most of them had cold and numb expressions. When they saw them, they either avoided them from a distance or waved their hands to indicate that they did not understand what they were saying.

This secretive attitude makes it seem even more suspicious.

At night, after everyone fell asleep, Gao You quietly left the village and met Xiong Dani who was waiting there on a hillside near the village.

Gao You told Xiong Dani about their observations and speculations.

"I will lead a small team, go around from the other side and explore the surrounding area. If so many people are really hiding, there must be either a cave or a house on the mountain." Xiong Dani said her speculation.