Gu Liang carefully looked at the situation in the house, and looked at Liu Cunhua. "When did this happen?"
Liu Cunhua said: "I only know that this woman died ten years ago."
Gu Liang was puzzled. "Ten years ago... didn't you live in this house? Why didn't you seem to have seen this with your own eyes, and you used words like 'supposedly'?"
Liu Cunhua said: "I am not the original wife of the village chief. The red boss is not my own. I gave birth to the youngest son, the red second. Both the village chief and I were married twice. My first husband died, so I married The village head, it was about nineteen years ago. This room has been locked since I got married. The village head didn’t let me approach the half corridor on the second floor at all.”
"In this village, men have high status, but women have no status. I once looked at the room curiously, and was severely beaten by the village chief."
"Since then, I have been obedient and obedient, and never asked about this matter again."
"I only hear whimpering in there once in a while. But you're right, they should have cut her tongue out. So, I never heard her talk."
"Ten years ago, I secretly saw them pull a man out with his head covered, and he was probably dead. No one entered that room again. There was no sound from that room. So I Presumably, she died ten years ago."
Gu Liang couldn't help asking: "Could it be that this woman is the original wife of the village chief? But why was she locked up?"
Liu Cunhua shook her head: "Then I don't know. Besides, she has given birth to more than one child, but why only the red boss stays here, and where the other child goes, I don't know."
"Can I go through the things of the village chief now?" Gu Liang asked.
Murakami said: "You can do whatever you want. They're still looking for clues. I'll make lunch, and there's an egg. Let's make fried rice with egg and soy sauce. One egg... everyone probably doesn't have enough points, so we can only make do with it."
Gu Liang said: "I'm sorry to bother you. I'll go back to the village chief's bedroom and cubicle to take a closer look."
Village flower thought for a while, and added: "That compartment, which he usually doesn't let me in, is used as his study. I guess there can be many clues in it. Now that he is dead, I can't ask his story. , I can only guess from the clues."
"Thank you."
If so, after saying goodbye to the village flower, Gu Liang went to the village chief's bedroom on the third floor alone.
In fact, this is where he slept last night, but it was too late at that time, and he had chatted with Wang Kaikai about the system for a long time, so he didn't look carefully at the clues here.
Gu Liang decided to follow Murakami's suggestion first, so the advanced one was the bedroom compartment.
There was indeed a bookcase in the compartment. The titles of the books on it probably talked about how to manage the village and seek development for the villagers. There were also some books that caught Gu Liang's attention. The title of the book was "How to make her obedient".
Gu Liang picked up the book, opened it and read it.
The pages of the book were very old. It was obvious that the village chief had read the book many times.
The content of the book is indeed very uncomfortable. It probably talks about how to domesticate a woman and make her willingly become a man's slave.
This is a feudal and backward village with little contact with the outside world.
It is difficult for the women here to know what equality between men and women is from the outside world. They were born here, and they listened to their fathers before they got married, and listened to their husbands after they got married. They really didn't have any freedom in their lives, and they could only live for a lifetime. under the oppression of patriarchy. And the village head is still studying this kind of book, what kind of creepy story is hidden behind it
Gu Liang flipped through a few more books and found a photo frame.
He recognized the woman in the photo frame, it was actually that female ghost.
——On the first night, he told the female ghost the location of the post office, and a vision appeared in front of his eyes, which was the appearance of the female ghost before she was alive. So Gu Liang recognized her.
The woman in the photo frame is holding a child.
The child was about 3 or 4 years old, she was wearing a ponytail, and she was obviously a girl.
Murakami said just now that the woman locked up had more than one child.
—So, did she ever have a daughter
Gu Liang looked at the back of the photo frame. It read: "Xiao Tao, I named you Xiao Tao... I hope you can escape. I never want you to be trapped here like me. He is not your father. This devil-like person is not your father! "
This line of words was crossed out with a red pen, and the following sentence was written in a new font.
"You will never escape! You will pay for your actions!"
It is not difficult to guess that the above sentence was written by this woman. This is what she wrote to her daughter Xiaotao.
And the line under the red cross was written by the village chief who trapped her.
Putting down the photo frame, Gu Liang continued to rummage around and found a small photo album.
There are many family portraits in this album, and you can see Xiaotao growing up to 7 or 8 years old.
At this age, the appearance is already relatively clear. It can be seen that her eyebrows and eyes are somewhat similar to Li Xiaoyu's.
—Could it be that Li Xiaoyu is Xiaotao, the child of the "female ghost"
Gu Liang carefully flipped through the photo album from beginning to end again, this time he focused on the red boss.
When he was young, Boss Hong had clear eyes and a bright smile. It seemed that his intelligence was not a problem at that time.
However, whenever there is a photo of him and the "ghost", the "ghost" has a very disgusted expression and is far away from him.
Every time the "female ghost" hugs the girl Xiaotao, her eyebrows and eyes are gentle, and when she has the red boss by her side, her expression is not only serious and cold, but also full of guard.
This feeling is particularly evident when comparing the two.
The most noticeable thing is a photo of the "female ghost" with Xiaotao and the red boss.
The "female ghost" held Xiao Tao tightly in her arms, covered her eyes, and leaned her body to the right at a very obvious angle, as if trying to avoid the red boss as much as possible.
All this looks... It seems that the Hong Lao Conference is not good for Xiaotao, so the expression of the "female ghost" is so tense.
She was guarding against the red boss.
By this time, Gu Liang had already made up a story in his brain.
This girl didn't like the village chief and was forced to marry him. It is estimated that for some unknown reason, she came into contact with the outside world, so she wanted to escape here.
Her movements were not restricted at first, and she was able to live a normal life.
But later she secretly sent her daughter away, and she was punished. She was locked in the room on the second floor and her movements were restricted.
Probably after that, for unknown reasons, she was blinded by the village head and cut off her tongue.
The only thing that couldn't be explained was why she had such different attitudes towards Boss Hong and Xiaotao.
Is it because she has been living under the oppression of men, so she hates all men, including her own son
Gu Liang continued to rummage through boxes and cabinets, but did not find any more clues in the compartment for the time being.
He thought for a while and returned to the bedroom.
There is a group photo on the bedside table, which is the wedding photo of the village chief and the village flower.
Gu Lianglai opened the bedside table and rummaged through it, and then searched in the closet.
Finally he found another wedding photo from the bottom of the closet.
This is a black and white wedding photo.
The village chief is still the village chief.
But the strange thing is that the woman standing next to him and marrying him is neither the current Liu Cunhua nor the "female ghost".