Wen Liang's explanation was very logical, but in Droktada's eyes, it was considered an extremely suspicious cover-up, and the little girl suddenly got excited and stood in front of Wen Liang with her arms crossed.

"Then tell me, how did Brother Anian know you guys? Do you know what his favorite food is?"

The tender and crisp voice echoed in the room. Wen Liang didn't think Droktada was malicious to them, so he stopped smiling and answered the little girl's question seriously.

"We met him at a B&B in Heavenly River Town. The owner of the B&B heard that we were looking for Badong Village and introduced He Nian to us." Wen Liang recalled the familiar voice he heard while exercising and said He reached into his trousers pocket, and sure enough, he took out a mini paper crane folded out of candy paper.

Showing the paper crane to Droktada, Wen Liang thought about it and answered her second question, "He Nian likes chocolate the most when he is with us, so I think he likes sweets very much, I have this paper crane in my hand. He made it out of leftover candy wrappers."

"This really seems to be done by Brother Anian." Droktada wanted to take the paper crane, but Wen Liang stunned and avoided it. She stared at the white-haired man in front of her in astonishment, unable to understand what this sudden childish behavior was. doing what.

"He Nian gave this to me. If you want it, let him fold it for you when he comes back." Wen Liang put the paper crane into his trouser pocket like a baby, as if this paper crane made of cheap sugar paper was a What a priceless treasure.

This can be regarded as angering Droktada. The little girl turned her head to look at Zhao Yan, who was squinting, and said sullenly: "Grandpa Zhao, please go back first. I want to stay with these three people and question them carefully."

Zhao Dong stroked the small goatee on his chin. He might be tired of the boring behavior of the two of them, so he didn't think there was anything wrong with this proposal.

"Alright, the old man has been out for so long, it's time to go back." He put on airs pretendingly, and before he left, he didn't forget to order, "The shaman will be sacrificed a week later, and I will wait for you to show up at that time."

Watching Zhao Yan's thin back disappear completely at the end of the woods, Droktada suddenly changed his face, the sullenness just now disappeared, and was replaced by anxiety.

The silver bell on her wrist rang loudly, she grabbed Wen Liang's sleeve, her slender brows furrowed, her eyes almost overflowed with anxiety, "Where is Brother A Nian now?"

"When he separated from us, he said he had something to do." Wen Liang looked at the little girl's face, anxious and didn't want to pretend, "Why, is something going to happen? What are you afraid of?"

Droktada retracted her hand in disappointment. She shook her head, "The people in the village are not very kind to him. He usually lives with us when he returns to the village. I don't know why he didn't come with you when he came back this time."

In the afternoon, there were scattered light spots in the forest, and the leaves were blown by the breeze, but no matter how beautiful the scenery was, they couldn't bring up Droktada's interest. Several people saw the little girl who was still dancing just now hanging her head, and their eyes were full of loneliness.

"A Nian, can you guess where Anian will go?" Xie Jin tried to induce the little girl's thinking, asking her to come up with as many possibilities as possible based on her understanding of He Nian, "For example, there are only you and grandma in the village. , Does he have anyone else who is fairly close?"

Droktada thought for a while, then shook his head, "Brother Anian can't speak, very few people in the village can really understand his sign language, and getting along with him basically depends on guessing, plus the clan is supreme in the village, he is also a An orphan with no father and no mother, naturally there will be no one who treats him well."

She pouted and squatted weakly on the ground. Droktada buried her face between her legs and sighed deeply, "Where did Brother Anian run to? The sacrifice is about to begin. If he doesn't participate in the sacrifice, he will It will be said by the villagers again.”

"If you don't participate, will you be punished?" Xie Jin suddenly remembered that in the information he had inquired before, shaman sacrifices were used as a ritual to worship ancestors and invite gods. Swaddling babies are all involved.

"That's not true, but according to the usual behavior of the villagers, if Brother Anian doesn't show up on the day of the sacrifice, he will inevitably receive bad words from them."

Droktada's small face collapsed, and she could see why she was really thinking. She raised her head and looked up at the three people in front of her. Droktada said his guess, "Do you think he left the village by himself?"

"Probably not. Although he went in the opposite direction from us, he shouldn't be out of the village." Wen Liang stretched out his hand to Droktada. He had already seen the little girl's heels squatting unsteadily, probably because her feet were numb.

Zhuo Ketuoda did not reject Wen Hao's intention, and grabbed the big hand to stand up from the ground, and then she heard Wen Liang say, "If we save the preparations before the sacrifice, maybe we can have extra energy to find What do you think?"

With an unnatural jump in his eyes, Droktada hesitated for a long time, then hesitantly said, "Actually, those can indeed be omitted."

She seemed to feel that it was too embarrassing to overthrow her own words, she stuck out her tongue, and spoke a little falsely, "The things I said just now, I have them all in my family, and it's because the Zhao family's words are here, so I deliberately said to let you go find it."

Droktada didn't even dare to look at the three of them, so he could only try his best to justify his actions just now, "I, I really have no ill intentions! It was indeed because Zhao Yan was by his side, if I didn't embarrass you, he might as well. stumbling in the dark."

"Why? I thought you and Zhao Dong were closer, at least closer than us." Wen Liang raised his eyebrows, as if he wasn't surprised by this.

"Zhao Dong must have done something that disgusted you, right? Is it because of A Nian?" Xie Jin remembered that although the little girl and He Nian were not blood relatives, they were brothers and sisters of different surnames who often lived together. The village's behavior towards He Nian , she must have seen it all.

Droktada nodded as expected, she finally let go of her precautions and vigilance, and told the truth she was hiding to the three of them.

"The Zhao family station replaced the Li family and is the head of the clan in Badong Village. Now is the time when any flaws are not allowed, and brother Anian is an outlier to them."

The little girl buzzed her lips and talked about the fact she couldn't understand, "Brother Anian did nothing wrong. Is it his fault that he doesn't have a permanent residence? Is it his fault that he doesn't have parents? Is it his fault that he was born dumb? ? To be honest, I don’t understand why Zhao Dong targets him everywhere, and then pretends to be a matter of course.”

"Grandma said, when I was very young and didn't remember anything, brother Anian had just turned ten years old at that time, and he came back to the village suddenly, no one knew how he left in the first place, nor did he How did he escape the traps in the mountains ten years later and return to the village intact."

Droktada's delicate eyebrows never loosened, and her tender face was filled with worries that were not her age.

"Actually, there is one more thing that I couldn't tell you just now." She put her index fingers together, hesitated a little, and said, "I'm actually not granddaughter of grandma. I was weak and sick when I was young, and was abandoned by my biological parents. She adopted me and raised me."

Tears welled up in those smart eyes, Droktada pursed his mouth, and his sadness was all expressed on his face, "So I can empathize with Brother Anian, plus later Grandma heard that he has no place to live in the village, Bring him home to live with us."

Because they have similar experiences, they can understand each other better. In this patchwork home, they support each other and lick each other's wounds.

"You lied to us just now, I won't pursue it." Wen Liang leaned back against the wooden wall, with his arms folded around his chest, and continued, "You said that Zhao Dong targeted He Nian everywhere, I have seen it with my own eyes. However, it can also prove the authenticity, and the words have come to this point, you actually want us to help find He Nian, right?"

Droktada nodded and didn't continue to go around, "Yes, I want you to find him and bring him back to the wooden building. As for the sacrifice, I will also find a way to let you participate, the curse on that big brother. Although it is vicious, it is not difficult for the shaman, and it can definitely be cracked."

There is no concealment, this time it is the truth. After hearing that Ji Duan's curse has great hope of breaking, Xie Jin's tense facial expression finally relaxes. Thank you softly to the little girl.

"Thank you, really thank you for telling us this." Xie Jin also had the sugar-coated origami that He Nian gave him in his pocket, and the slight sound seemed to strengthen his belief, "A Nian walked with us all the way, although we just started communicating Some troubles, but enough to tell from his demeanor that he is really a very kind boy."

A little smile finally appeared on Xie Jin's face. He half-cast his eyes, and He Nian's face in recent days flashed in his mind, from a blank piece of white paper to the smiling face when he gave them origami paper later.

Although he didn't know why the young man who got along well with them suddenly left, but remembering that all the problems would be solved when they meet again, Xie Jin's heart, which had been ups and downs in anxiety for a long time, finally settled down.

"There's one more thing, I hope you don't mind." This time, it was Ji Duan who spoke. After being pressed on the face by Droktada just now, he has regained half of his vitality. It looks like a dying man.

Ji Duan cleared his hoarse voice. He seemed to know that what he said next was unpleasant, so his tone was less harsh than before, "From what you just said, your grandma, the only shaman in Badong Village, Grandma Yang , she has always taken on a role that is not too important."

"The old man should be over eighty years old. He must have witnessed many historic moments in this village."

Ji Duan raised his eyes, and he tried to make his tone as tactful as possible, "So I want to know, whether He Nian disappeared ten years ago, or he returned to the village as a child ten years later, let's put these things aside Behind."

After a pause, Ji Duan subconsciously licked his lower lip, "He Nian's biological parents are undoubtedly from the village, but they never appeared in the past that your grandma told, right?"

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