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The first spring of the mountain village was always a day or two later than the other villages. The trees of the other villages had long since sprouted, but our village was as bald as Zhang's grandma's head.

Previously, I didn't understand why my village was so strange. When I was young, I thought that everything was like ours, that the stream at the end of March could even skate, and then once I sneaked into a neighboring village with Ergou and found out that other villages were different from ours.

I asked my father about this, and he beat me up instead of putting down his pipe to make a girl less curious. I didn't ask until my stepmother married into the village.

"The people of Stone Village have all been cursed!"

It was a phrase my stepmother said through gritted teeth. Maybe it was because she looked so terrible, or maybe I had a good memory back then, but I always kept it in my heart.

Four years ago, my father died because he fell into the valley when he was walking up the mountain. However, I heard from some seniors in the village that my father's corpse was never found. Everyone said that he was taken away by the ghost lady in the valley.

The second year after my father's death, I entered a high school in the province as the number one in the village. From then on, I only came back once every holiday because I had to get my meager living expenses from my stepmother. Now that I had finished my college entrance exam, I could get into a good book based on my grades. I wanted to work hard during the holidays to earn tuition, but I didn't expect that my stepmother would trick me into returning home with a phone call and then imprison me.

"Murong Fei, listen carefully, all the men in this village can't live past 40 years of age, isn't your dog dad an example? He's dead, that's good, but let him buy me back from the traffickers, now that you just so happen to be 18 years old, I've also finished providing for you in high school, you should be satisfied."

My stepmother Fang Huilan fiercely stared at me who was tied up on the brick bed. Since I couldn't keep up with her nutrition, I was very skinny and couldn't break away from the four to five men she called over.

"I have nothing to do with you being abducted and sold off. Blame my dad if you have to. If you have the ability, go find the trafficker who kidnapped you!" I gritted my teeth and looked at her angrily.

After passing the college entrance examination, I thought that I would be free, that I wouldn't have to look at her face anymore. I applied for the school entrance exam for a year and got three thousand tuition fees; I thought that I could earn a year's worth of tuition in a single vacation before slowly working to support myself.

But she suddenly called me and told me that there was a fire at home, that I had to go home and see if there was anything useful for me, and that I had fallen into my stepmother's trap when I found out that my house was in good shape.

"Stupid girl, that shameless dad of yours kidnapped me, now I'm going to buy you too!" In the last few years, she has become even more crazy, because before, she was beaten up by the traffickers, then when she got pregnant, she was beaten up by my alcoholic father once again, and after that, she gave birth, she never got pregnant again. I heard that she was getting along well with a man in our village, the results are now known by everyone, everyone says that she doesn't lay eggs, and my father even said that he bought a bad wife.

In the end, I thought of a reason for her not to hit me. I told her that as long as she gave me enough money to finish high school, I could take care of myself and give her old age, that she was a woman without children, that it would be hard for her to survive in the mountain ravine alone, and that this condition touched her heart, so she never scolded me again and never thought that she was actually planning to sell me.

"If you sell me out, I'll kill that fool! "When the police ask me, I will tell them that you sold me out. Even if I go to jail, you won't be able to escape!" I kicked at her.

"If you have the ability, then kill him. After all, the money the Bai Clan gave me would be enough for me to escape!" She gave a cold laugh and walked out of the room. I was about to scold her again when two men walked in. They were sturdy and ugly, and they looked at me with shining eyes.

Naturally, fear filled my heart as I continuously retreated.

"Little girl, don't be afraid of us. We want to touch you, but we have no choice. The Bai Clan gave three thousand yuan for us to send you safely to his home, so we naturally won't do anything to you." A man with yellow teeth grinned at me.

"Pui!" If you dare to send me to the Bai Clan, I will … Die here! " I don't know who that fool of the Bai Family is, but I do know that once I'm tied up and sent to the Bai Family, I'll never be able to escape.

I heard my stepmother say that the Bai family gave her five hundred thousand to buy me!

In our village, changing a house would only require 30,000 yuan, 500,000 yuan is enough for her to live most of her life, so naturally, the Bai family would be very rich. You have to know, my stepmother was bought by my father to be the 3000 yuan, so I bought 500,000 yuan in one go, that's really unbelievable.

Even I find it incredible.

When did I become so valuable?

"Why does the Bai Clan want me to be their wife at such a high price!" I asked coldly.

"Become a wife? Hahaha … Seeing that you are about to die, we will tell you and let you die in peace. The Bai Clan is using the pretext of letting you be a wife to accompany their dead eldest son in death! "

My heart gave a jolt.

Not to marry that fool, but to be buried with the dead!

You don't know, there are a total of two sons in the Bai Clan. The eldest son died of illness, but some people said that he was called away because his fate was up. The other son is a twin of the eldest son. The man grinned at me.

I felt goosebumps all over my body.

The man later told me that the Bai family wanted to use my life to return their eldest son's soul to his body, and that the body used to return their soul to his was their foolish second son!

His two sons were both his own sons, yet they were so ruthless that they sacrificed their own two sons! It goes to show that if I really arrived at the Bai Clan, they definitely wouldn't show mercy and would probably kill me as soon as I got there!

I felt the sky darken as my stomach churned. How could this be? I was actually bought by my vicious stepmother just like that, and she was even going to accompany me in death!

"Alright, hurry up and get her away. The Bai Clan will call again later to urge them!" At that moment my stepmother walked in. She was holding a bank card in her hand and was smiling brightly.

I feel sick looking at her!

Right now, I am powerless and have no way to escape. Therefore, I thought to myself that I will wait until I go to the Bai Clan to look for another opportunity.

Anyway, if I fail to escape, then my life is over.

"Alright, little girl, in fact, this matter depends on how you say it. If you say it's by the standards of a living person, then you're pretty unlucky, you'll be sent to be married at a young age, but if it's by the standards of a dead person, then you're really lucky, if you die and become a ghost of the Bai family, then that's actually a blessing, burning incense everyday for you, burning paper houses for you every year, you're the rich lady of the Underworld!"

At that moment, the ugly man came in and rubbed his hands together while grinning at me with his big yellow teeth. The anger in my heart wouldn't stop when I heard this. The rich lady in the underworld, I wanted to be that woman, and besides, I didn't think that there could be any ghosts after death. When the dust returns to the earth, it will be cremated, and there will be no souls. It's just superstition.

The feudal superstition killed people!

So I was pulled into a van by the two men, and after walking for a while I didn't know how long, but they were all talking obscenities, and I pretended to be deaf and didn't say anything, not because I was afraid of making them angry, but because I was trying to figure out how to get away.

"I'm scared dumb …" "Hey, you silly girl, get off the carriage. We're already at your wife's house." The car came to a sudden halt, and then I heard someone talking, and before I could see what was going on outside, a man with a wet towel in his hand came up to me in the back seat.

"This effect is pretty fast. You'll wake up soon, mainly because there's a passerby here. It'll be troublesome if they hear you calling out to them. Hehe, but when you wake up, your life will be coming to an end." I wanted to scream after the man had finished, but he was clearly faster than I was, and his hands were so strong that I felt the world spin when he slapped me, and then I felt a wet towel with an unpleasant medicinal smell clogging my mouth, and I immediately lost consciousness.

"Hee hee …"

I don't know how long I slept, but I felt a man's laughter ringing in my ears while I was in a daze.

I felt an itch in my neck and all the hair on my body stood up — my ears were the most sensitive part of my body, and the person who had spoken was probably speaking into my ear.

Before I could open my eyes, I felt something wrap around my ear, wet and sticky, making me feel uncomfortable all at once.

I wanted to open my eyes and scream, but the effects of the drug weren't over yet. I just lay on the bed as my consciousness gradually recovered, but my body wouldn't listen to me. This was the most painful part.