People in mountain villages rest early,
But also get up early.
Early in the morning, the rooster crows, the sun breaks, and the smoke from the cooking has already risen in Gujing Village...
Fangzheng stayed up all night, since he practiced martial arts, he has not slept for a long time.
Usually it is to replace sleep with practice, and you will be full of energy the next day.
Only occasionally take a nap for an hour or two, retaining the basic habits of people.
But soon, Fangzheng discovered that something was wrong with the atmosphere in Gujing Village today. There was a tense atmosphere, and it began to spread like a virus among the stranded tourists.
Last night, there were many people who heard a woman knocking on the door in the middle of the night, asking if the rain had stopped and if they had seen her child. Among the more than thirty people who were stranded, five or six people actually encountered this strange thing.
Someone replied, "Maybe it's raining heavily, and the child went to the mountain to hide from the rain. You go to the mountain to look for it."
But some people answered "no".
And the people who answered that they didn't see it were the group of self-driving tourists who came to the village to ask for help later. They just didn't hear the weird story told by the village head.
At this time, everyone gathered together early in the morning to discuss this matter, but everyone unanimously guessed that this must be a prank at night.
Some people began to ask in the team whether someone was playing a prank and deliberately teasing everyone. Now that they stand up and explain this clearly, everyone will not blame him.
But no one has come forward, and everyone categorically denied that it was a prank.
"You, did any of you open the door, have you seen that... woman?" Suddenly, a weak voice sounded, it was the female anchor Xiao Yu'er.
She also encountered this strange thing last night, she screamed in fright, didn't answer the woman's question at all, and ran back to the room to be frightened all night, and didn't sleep well all night.
At this time, she looked very bad, her face was pale, her whole body was cold, and she coughed a few times from time to time. She was wrapped in several layers of clothes, but she was still shivering from the cold. It is suspected that I was frightened last night and caught a cold, accompanied by low-grade fever symptoms. I just took the cold medicine handed over by those self-driving tourists, and the medicine has not started to work.
"It's late at night, and the place is unfamiliar, who would open the door without authorization."
Everyone shook their heads and said they didn't open the door to see the woman.
Just when everyone was suspicious of each other, the village head and several old people in the village came to find everyone in a hurry.
Everyone thumped involuntarily, feeling a bad premonition...
Sure enough, as soon as the village chief came, he asked everyone, who of you met a woman knocking on the door last night, asking if you saw her lost child
Then he hurriedly asked everyone, how did they answer in the end
It turned out that it was not just the five or six people who were stranded among the tourists. A strange incident happened last night. This incident has spread to the whole village. In the morning, many villagers went to the village head and said that a woman knocked on the door last night, asking if the rain had stopped. Have you seen her child...
It wasn't until this time that the villagers gathered together that they realized that almost half of the people in the village had similar experiences.
Now the villagers are panicked.
Because someone opened the door and saw the woman, he didn't think about the story that only the older generation in the village would occasionally tell, so he replied that he hadn't seen it.
But according to what they said afterwards, that woman was not a villager in the village.
If it is really the villagers of the same village, everyone will know each other if they look up and see each other every day.
And the only faces I don't recognize... are the tourists trapped in the village.
So the village head planned to call everyone to the ancestral hall to let the villagers identify if it was one of them who deliberately played a prank on everyone.
After listening to the words of the village chief, everyone looked at each other and felt a little numb.
After some ideological work by the village chief and the communication and coordination between the two parties by the village bus driver, the group agreed to go to the village ancestral hall to prove their innocence, and also to find the prankster as soon as possible.
Fangzheng was naturally also in the crowd.
He remained silent throughout the whole process. Since some villagers saw the woman, if the villagers' pranks were ruled out, it was indeed reasonable for the villagers to suspect that it was them.
After all, only outsiders like them will be unknown to the villagers.
So before the matter became clear, Fangzheng didn't speculate on a certain person.
He didn't presumptuously protect anyone.
As long as you go to the ancestral hall in the village, everything will come to light.
When a group of people came to the ancestral hall, they saw that there were many villagers surrounded here. When they saw the arrival of outsiders like Fang Zheng, the villagers began to see something more in their eyes.
There is indifference, and there is also anger. To sum it up, it comes from the suspicion of people's hearts...
Outsiders like Fangzheng and the others seemed to be people who were sent to the streets in the old days to wait for criticism. When Fangzheng and the others entered the ancestral hall, there were already several long-lived old men with the most respected and respected status in the village, who were carefully supported and sat in the grand teacher's chair Uphold justice.
"Old man, I have the cheek to ask the village head to bring you tourists who are trapped in our village. Now you come to recognize people and see every face clearly. Old man, I hope you will not tarnish the reputation of our Gujing Village. Don't slander any good people."
"If anyone dares to falsely accuse a good person, the sky is watching, and all the ancestors in the ancestral hall are watching your every move."
A 90-year-old trembling old man with age spots on his face stood up from the grand teacher's chair with a cane under the careful support of two juniors. His voice was still sonorous and resonant.
From the aura of this old man, it can be seen that he has a high status in the village.
The identification part is very simple.
All the women lined up and accepted the identification of the villagers, but none of them matched.
Some villagers were worried, and repeated confirmation several times, it was true that no one met the requirements.
They even checked all the men one by one. It was not the woman's face they saw last night. On the contrary, some villagers said that the woman's face last night was just like the female anchor Xiao Yu'er now, pale and bloodless.
They also carefully checked the female anchor Xiao Yuer, and they shook their heads until the end, convinced that it was not the female anchor Xiao Yuer.
According to the descriptions of the villagers, the woman last night was about 27 or 28 years old. The hostess Xiao Yuer was a young girl who had just graduated from college. She was too young to be like that woman.
"Confirmed?"
"Are you sure it's not the tourists trapped in the village?"
"Then did you forget one thing, owe them an apology for being innocent and wronged?"
The centenarian looked around at the villagers, upholding justice.
The villagers looked ashamed and apologized to the tourists.
Everyone's resentment at being wronged has improved a little bit, but the problem has reached a dead end. The woman last night is neither a villager nor a tourist, so who is this woman
The road outside has also been blocked by mudslides, and people from outside cannot enter this small mountain village deep in the mountains.
(end of this chapter)