Su Ran, who was standing next to him, couldn't help but tremble his lips when he heard Qiu Hua's words. This village chief actually bought so many people?
Qiu Hua said angrily, "Some of us were beaten to death, some committed suicide out of despair, some died in childbirth, and of course... some just accepted their fate and died naturally."
"But...we all hate this village! We hate everyone in this village! We hate this mountain!"
"It's all because of them! We've ended up in this situation. We were supposed to have a bright future, but they ruined it all!"
"We won't accept this! We want this village to disappear forever!" Qiuhua became more and more excited as he spoke, with more and more blood and tears on his face.
The yin energy in the room was getting heavier and heavier, making the whole room chilly. Wen Wan hurriedly said, "Please control the yin energy in your body. It's too cold!"
Jiang Yan, who was standing aside, was so cold that she had huddled up with Su Ran, shivering as she listened to their conversation.
Upon hearing this, Qiuhua quickly restrained the negative energy in his body.
"With your strength, this village should have died of drought long ago. How come they still have water now?" Wen Wan asked her question.
The Yin Qi that had just been retracted could not help but show up again after hearing this question. Wen Wan was helpless, "I know you hate it, just talk slowly, I will definitely help you if I can."
She probably was targeted by these ghosts as soon as she entered the village. There must be something restricting them, so they couldn't take revenge.
Qiuhua slowly explained to her, "A long time ago, this village had a very powerful Taoist priest. In order to protect his descendants, he set up a formation in the village."
Wen Wan couldn't help but frown. She didn't expect this to happen. No wonder she vaguely felt the presence of Taoist power here.
She originally thought that she hadn't rested well these past few days and her feeling was wrong, but she didn't expect the truth to be like this.
"This group of barbarians, could their ancestors have produced a powerful Taoist priest? If their ancestors knew the bad things they did later, they would probably be so angry that they would come back to life." Wen Wan sneered and couldn't help cursing.
It's simply a disgrace to Taoism!
Wen Wan asked curiously, "I'm really curious, when did they start buying and selling women? And why?"
Qiu Hua sneered and then explained, "When they were slowly losing the pace outside, they started."
"Once one person started it, it became uncontrollable. The other villagers even felt grateful to the man who sold them women. Isn't that ridiculous?"
"They felt that the man sold women so that everyone could have wives, so they were very grateful to him and even gave him a banner!"
After hearing this, Wen Wan couldn't help but slam her hand on the table and sneered, "Ridiculous! It's really ridiculous!"
"This is the first time I've heard of someone being grateful to human traffickers! This is outrageous, absolutely outrageous!"
Jiang Yan couldn't help but chime in, "What kind of person is this? Don't they have even the most basic values? Don't they know that human trafficking is illegal? Why aren't they banning it, but are they promoting it?"
Qiu Hua continued to explain expressionlessly, "Ever since the outside world has developed, many people have been moving out. After all, everyone wants a better life."
"This village has always been patriarchal. Many girls are strangled to death at birth, and those who survive are enslaved by their families. So they are desperately trying to leave the village, and the gender ratio in the village is seriously unbalanced."
"The bride price has become more expensive, and because it's hard to find a wife, some people in the village have started trafficking women."
Wen Wan couldn't help but frown when she heard this. "Then why are the remaining men in the village unwilling to develop outside?"
The conditions in the mountains are already difficult, so it is normal to want to go out for a better life.
Girls are willing to leave here to work for a better life, so why are the men here unwilling to go out to develop, make money and get married?
"Why? Because they're lazy." Qiuhua looked at her with mixed emotions and sneered.
Wen Wan tilted her head slightly and looked at her with some confusion.
Qiuhua continued to explain to her, "Here, they have everything provided for them. Women have to work in the fields with their children, while men just sit back and enjoy the fruits of their labor. But outside, they have to face the pressure of work."
"Even if they marry someone from outside, they still need a betrothal gift. They think it's more cost-effective to buy a woman back home than to work hard to earn money to marry a wife."
"Here, trafficked women have no human rights. In their eyes, we are just tools for reproduction."
After listening to this, Wen Wan clasped her hands together and crackled her fingers.
She really didn't understand what these people were thinking. If they wanted to have a better life, they should work hard. After all, comfort was for the dead.
Trafficking women just to save money or get a good deal is not a reason at all.
Everyone is free to choose how to live their life, but the premise is that it does not violate the law.
She feels that reproduction and multiplication are not necessities of life. What is the point of getting married and having children just for the sake of getting married and having children?
If we lose the pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty, what is the difference between humans and beasts?
Qiu Hua coldly stated the truth, "The villagers here are all related. Even if the police come here with guns, they'll be beaten! They're not afraid at all. They're so powerful in numbers that the police don't dare to shoot at will."
"The law doesn't hold everyone responsible. If you get beaten, you can't even hold anyone accountable because there are more than a hundred villagers and you don't even know who beat you."
"They can only wait until night time and sneak in to rescue people, but after rescuing a group, more people will be sold here."
When Jiang Yan heard this, she couldn't help but feel angry. Wasn't it the same for them before? They returned home the same way they came.
"They are not human beings at all, they are just a group of beasts in human skin!"
Wen Wan frowned and asked another question, "It's so poor here, where does the money come from to buy women? You can't make that much from farming, right?"
At this point, Qiuhua chuckled coldly, which made the person who laughed shudder and the hairs on his body couldn't help but stand up.
After laughing for a while, she continued to explain to him, "They are very poor, but they help each other. In a village, if there are men of marriageable age who don't have money to buy a woman, everyone will pool their money to buy one for the oldest man."
"When we have money the following year, we'll raise funds based on age to solve the problem. Of course, there are even more disgusting things."
"You've never seen a family with several brothers buying something together? Do you think they're hateful?"
After hearing this, Wen Wan no longer knew what to feel. Even if this village disappeared, it could only be said that it was their own fault.
Jiang Yan was right, they were not human beings at all, they were just a bunch of wild beasts in human skin, a group of beasts who ignored the law.
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