boyutpedia Chapter 202 A Village with Only Boys
Chapter 202 A Village with Only Boys
Upon hearing this, Su Yue, who was cultivating, exhaled a breath of turbid air and slowly opened her eyes.
Looking in the direction Dali pointed, a sizable town came into view not far ahead.
The town looked much larger than she had imagined, and judging from its size and the density of its buildings, it probably housed ten to twenty thousand people.
Without such a large population base, it would be impossible to support such a sizable town!
After all, if the town is too small, it simply cannot accommodate so many people living there.
As they got closer to the town, more and more passersby appeared around them.
Along the road, there were not only carts loaded with goods rushing to their destination, but also people carrying heavy baskets on their backs, walking with difficulty.
Occasionally, one can even see a few luxurious carriages, heavily guarded by soldiers, speeding by.
Suddenly, the road leading to the town became bustling with activity.
Su Yue sat on the cart, listening to the conversation of several women sitting on carts next to her.
"Have you heard? Another girl from Houqiu Village went missing a few nights ago!"
A woman with a gray cloth wrapped around her head was seen speaking in a mysterious, low voice.
While cautiously glancing left and right, he quietly approached another woman whose head was wrapped in a black cloth and whispered something to her.
"That's right! I've heard about it for a long time! Oh my! It's the daughter of Old Yang from my hometown village. She was only twelve or thirteen years old last year!"
Her mother hurriedly arranged a marriage for her. But no sooner had the news spread than the man mysteriously disappeared in the middle of the night just two days later!
The woman with the blue cloth on her head quickly came over and replied with a look of fear on her face.
"During that period, everyone was in a state of panic. Everyone said that some kind of wolf demon had appeared and was kidnapping people in the middle of the night."
Alas, that poor little girl is so young... However, her mother doesn't believe that her daughter has been captured by a wolf demon.
She spends all day searching and crying throughout the village; she's almost gone mad! The woman in blue said, shaking her head and sighing.
"I do know the Yang family you mentioned. I happened to run into their wife when I went to Houqiu Village to take care of some business a while ago."
When I saw her, she looked like she had gone mad, constantly shouting that her daughter wasn't dead.
It kept running and bumping around, which really gave me the creeps! The woman with the black cloth over her head chimed in, her face also showing a look of lingering fear.
"Do you think there really are some wolf demons around here?"
Otherwise, all the young women of marriageable age in the surrounding villages would surely disappear within days of the news spreading.
The woman with a gray cloth on her head spoke again, her tone filled with doubt and worry.
"Oh dear, please don't say anything out of the ordinary!"
The town's patrol officer had already investigated the matter, but found nothing.
If they accidentally overhear us saying this, we'll be arrested and thrown in jail!
The old man who was driving the cart quickly interrupted the conversation between the women and nervously looked around, afraid that someone would notice them.
After the old man said that, the women who were chatting enthusiastically immediately fell silent, shutting their mouths and not daring to say another word.
Meanwhile, Su Yue, sitting to the side, was thinking to herself, "It's strange. Why did I never hear of any twelve or thirteen-year-old girls being kidnapped when I was in Erdanzi's village?"
Moreover, the distance between the two villages doesn't seem to be too far!
Just then, Su Yue noticed that there seemed to be an unusually large number of people entering the city today.
The cart she was on, along with several other carts full of people, could only move forward slowly side by side, at an extremely slow pace.
Another long half hour passed, and the cart was still slowly swaying along the road, not yet reaching the town entrance.
The women, who had been silent, suddenly began whispering to each other again, as if some kind of restriction had been lifted.
The woman with the black cloth on her head leaned closer to the woman with the gray cloth on her head next to her and asked in a low voice, "Auntie, I heard that your family home is not far from Shahe Village, right?"
Upon hearing this, the woman with the gray cloth on her head was stunned for a moment, then nodded mysteriously.
He replied, "Are you talking about Shahe Village, where whenever a girl was born, she was immediately thrown into a hole on a sandy slope, resulting in almost the entire village being filled with boys?"
Before the woman with the black cloth on her head could answer, the woman with the blue cloth on her head eagerly interjected.
His tone was full of surprise and disdain: "Oh dear, I know that village too!"
My husband told me this when he came back from working there, repeatedly warning us never to marry our daughters off there, or we'd definitely be punished!
At this moment, the woman with the gray cloth on her head looked curiously at the woman with the black cloth on her head and asked, "Auntie, why did you suddenly bring this up?"
A fleeting hint of embarrassment crossed the face of the woman with the black cloth covering her head, but she quickly regained her composure.
He continued in a low voice, "Hey! Isn't this my brother-in-law? A couple of days ago, when he came back from working, he told me that he happened to run into someone from Shahe Village in town."
And that person bought a whole bunch of things, so my brother-in-law went up to ask him out of curiosity.
The person told him that it was because his wife, whom he had recently married, was about to give birth, so he had come specifically to buy some things for the unborn child.
At this point, the woman with the black cloth over her head unconsciously lowered her voice even further, as if afraid of being overheard by others.
"What! Someone actually dares to marry off their daughter in that village? They're completely disregarding the daughter's life!"
"I heard it's that family's daughter? Oh my god, I'd better stay far away from them from now on! I absolutely mustn't associate with families like that!"
The woman with the blue cloth over her head looked utterly astonished, and her voice almost burst out of her throat.
But she reacted quickly, covering her mouth with her hand and continuing to speak in a low voice.
“Who says otherwise? This is truly a terrible tragedy!” The woman next to her, with a gray cloth over her head, shook her head and sighed in agreement.
Just then, a creaking sound came from the other side, and their cart had slowly moved to the entrance of the town.