When you completely enter the village, there is a large stone tablet on the left side of the village entrance, with the three big words "Chastity Village" engraved on it.
Zhang Meng uttered these three words. Li Chunlai immediately explained, "I heard this village is very strange. There are more boys than girls. What's even stranger is that men here die around the age of 30. Women whose husbands have died are not allowed to remarry and must stay in this village for the rest of their lives. That's why it's called Chastity Village."
After listening to Li Chunlai's explanation, Zhang Meng got goose bumps all over her body.
"We've been liberated, why does this custom still exist?" Zhang Meng frowned.
Mo Xiaobei smiled bitterly and said, "Sister-in-law, this place is a remote mountain village. How can the things happening outside have any impact on us?"
The six people stopped at the entrance of the village for a while and continued to walk inside.
After walking for nearly ten minutes, the six people stopped again, and each of them looked at each other with a solemn expression on their face.
"Gu Mingtai, have you noticed that this village seems quite quiet? And every house is dark. Don't they know it's already night? Why don't they light the oil lamps?"
Zhang Meng frowned and looked around. The more he looked, the tighter his brows frowned.
As soon as she said this, Li Chunlai and the other three turned pale with fright. They trembled in fear and moved closer to each other.
Gu Mingtai held her hand and turned to look at the four of them. "When we go inside later, you all need to be alert and don't get distracted."
"I know." The four of them responded in unison. They continued to walk inside, their guards raised.
After walking for nearly ten minutes, I finally saw lights in a house at the end of the village.
"I'll go knock on the door." Mo Xiaobei said.
Mo Xiaobei went over and knocked a few times, and the door opened, revealing an old man's head, who was about fifty years old.
"Who are you?" The old man spoke in a defensive tone when he saw these unfamiliar faces.
Mo Xiaobei told him the identities of the six of them, but the old man's attitude didn't improve, but seemed to get worse.
"Why are you guys here again? Why do you keep bothering the people in our village? We haven't broken any laws, so why are you bothering us?"
Seeing that the old man was getting more and more excited and his face was red, Zhang Meng and others were worried that the old man would do something bad because of their anger, so Li Chunlai quickly stepped forward to comfort him, "Uncle, can we talk slowly? Don't be so angry first, let's sit down and talk."
Now, instead of being comforted, the old man seemed to be getting angrier and angrier. When Li Chunlai reached out to comfort him, he immediately shook his hand away and said, "Who are you calling uncle? Open your eyes and see clearly. I'm only 28 years old, and you're the old man."
As soon as he said this, Zhang Meng and the other six people present looked at him in disbelief.
It was obvious that the old man was about fifty years old. Not only was his face covered with wrinkles, his hair was still white, and his back was a little hunched. If he wasn't an old man, could he be a young man? But people said he was only twenty-eight years old. For a moment, the six of them didn't know whether to believe him or not.
Just when the few people were in a stalemate, another person came out. She was a young woman, probably in her early twenties.
"Boss, what happened? We heard you yelling and cursing in there. Don't you know that you shouldn't make a fuss?" The young woman came out and pulled the old man inside.
Seeing that no one saw him, Li Chunlai quickly called out, "Um, sister-in-law, we are here to look for someone."
The young woman walked a few steps before turning around and looking over. When she saw the six of them, a glint of hope flashed in her eyes, but then she looked at the old man in front of her with fear and replied expressionlessly, "I don't know anything. You should go somewhere else."
After saying that, he closed the door forcefully.
The six people standing outside looked at the room that suddenly became dark, and a thought flashed through everyone's eyes.
"Gu Mingtai, this village really has a big problem. Did you hear that? The old man just said he was only 28 years old, but he looked like he was 82 and people would believe him. Do you think he was lying?" Zhang Meng turned her head and looked at the man beside her who had not spoken.
"Do you remember the story of how Chun came to explain the name of this village to us?"
When he asked this, Zhang Meng immediately recalled Li Chunlai explaining the name of the village before entering. "I remember, Comrade Chunlai said that all men here die before the age of 30, and the women here can only stay in this village for their entire lives, and cannot leave the village or get married."
"That makes sense. It seems the reason why the men in this village die before the age of 30 is because they age prematurely, just like the old man just now." In the dark night, after saying this, Gu Mingtai looked at the entire village, and the vigilance in his eyes deepened.
"Captain Gu, what should we do? Should we continue to stay here or go back first?" Mo Xiaobei walked over and asked.
Gu Mingtai looked around and quickly locked onto a spot with his sharp eyes. "Let's stay here for a night and see how it goes. We'll go spend the night under the bridge ahead."
After hearing his plan, the other five people had no objection.
Under the bridge, six people sat together in a makeshift tent.
"We will divide ourselves into three groups to take turns on duty at night. If there is any movement, we will wake up those who are sleeping." Gu Mingtai began to arrange the work of the six people that night.
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