"I am indeed a member of the Gray Tribe. Our family is an ethnic minority. Our village is far away from here. If this hadn't happened, I don't think I would have come to the city in my life...",
The old woman burst into tears. While crying, she struggled to tell Chen Zhi and Pang Wei about her daughter. However, her dialect was very heavy and her Mandarin was unclear. Chen Zhi and the others could only guess while listening. .
The old woman's daughter is Guizhi. She is only 17 years old this year, which is the age when flowers bloom. Guizhi is very pure and kind-hearted. She is the only daughter in the family. People in the mountains get married early. Guizhi is just the time to talk about marriage. When I was getting married to my husband's family, something unexpected happened half a year ago.
The Gray people live in a large mountain in the northwest, and have made a living by hunting and farming for generations. Their village is called Qingshui Village. There are less than 20,000 members of the entire tribe, and they all live together.
The folk customs in Qingshui Village are simple and simple. They have a kind of ethnic embroidery called "Grey Embroidery", which is famous for its beauty and exquisiteness. However, the output is not large and cannot be sold as merchandise. The women of the Gray tribe are all ingenious and they are all embroiderers since they were young. I started to embroider my own wedding dress, and when I grew up, I made trousseaus. Every wedding dress is a work of art.
However, Gray women have very strong traditional concepts, which is very rare in today's society. If a woman behaves inappropriately before marriage, she will be cast aside by her tribe.
Because the country protects ethnic minorities, news about the colorful world outside never reaches the village. Moreover, Qingshui Village is extremely remote, with rugged mountain roads and no tourist attractions, so few tourists come here.
In this remote mountainous area, the Gray tribesmen of Qingshui Village have been living a life without fighting against the world.
But one day, a young tourist suddenly came to the village. He lost his way in the mountains, sprained his feet, and fainted by the mountain stream.
Everyone felt very strange about this foreigner who suddenly broke in. The Gray people were not wary of the outside world. Guizhi's father was a barefoot doctor in the village. Seeing how pitiful this young man was, he took him in and took him with him. Go home and heal your wounds.
However, he did not expect that Guizhi's father's temporary kindness actually left him with sin.
The young man lived in Guizhi's house for a month. Guizhi's whole family was very kind to him. They gave him food and medicine and never asked him for a penny. Guizhi especially cared about this young man. This man was very talkative. Guizhi often listened to this young man talking about the outside world, and then smiled happily. People in the village said that Guizhi was going to marry outside the mountain.
Then the young man lived in the village for a month, and after recovering from his foot injury, he left."
But not long after, Guizhi's parents discovered that something was wrong with their daughter. She was always alone in a daze and wanted to run outside for no reason. But when they asked her where she wanted to go, she just cried silently.
As a barefoot doctor, Guizhi's father immediately became suspicious. He found that Guizhi became particularly lethargic and would vomit. After a few months, Guizhi's belly gradually grew!
When the old woman said this, she began to cry uncontrollably, with shame on her face.
"This kind of thing has never happened in our village. Girls from the Gray tribe will never give their bodies to others before getting married. In their old age, even if they encounter bandits in the mountains, they would rather die than obey.
So after Guizhi's belly became pregnant, the Gray people in our village could no longer tolerate our family. They began to dislike my daughter. The elders in the tribe also asked the child's father to explain clearly, otherwise they would drive us out of the village.
go!"
"Is the child that young man's?" Chen Zhi asked.
"Yes!", the old woman nodded in agreement, and then cried.
At this time, Guizhi couldn't hide it anymore, and finally told everyone the truth. She was married to the young man. The man gave her all the family rings, proposed to her, and agreed to the marriage.
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Before leaving, the man said that he would first talk to his parents and then come back to take Guizhi to the city. When Guizhi wanted to leave the ring as a token, the man said that the ring was too old and he had to go back and clean it.
Then it can be used for marriage.
According to the rules of the village, a token was promised and the marriage was completed, so Guizhi gave her body to the man after repeated requests..."
"Oh my god~~~, I said you Gray Tribe people are too honest!" When Fat Wei heard this, he was so angry that he almost jumped up.
"I'm talking about aunt, I'm not talking about you. These days, even if you get a marriage certificate, you may change your mind. A broken ring is considered an engagement? And the ring was taken away. You guys got a daughter for nothing. It's really..."
"Don't interrupt!" Chen Zhi pushed Pang Wei and signaled for the old woman to finish.
Then I heard the old woman continue to say,
"Now that my daughter has said this, the clan members are helpless, but they have never seen the ring and there is no engagement token. It is unclear what happened, so her father kept Guizhi at home.
,Waiting for that man to come back...",
The old woman wiped her tears with her hands full of wounds, her eyes full of sorrow,
"But after waiting for a long time, the man didn't come back~~~ My daughter is so anxious that she has become as thin as a bone and her hair has turned white. She looks so pitiful!
His father and I also felt embarrassed. We had not spoken kindly to her in those days, and the people in the clan began to become suspicious. They scolded my daughter, saying that she was a shoe that was worn by others, and that she was a girl who was pregnant with a child.
The face of the whole village.
But one night when it rained heavily, Guizhi suddenly sneaked out and stayed out for more than twenty days. Her father and I were frightened. When she came back again, she looked so pitiful...
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When the old woman said this, she burst into tears.
"Her belly is gone, her body is wet, her legs are covered in blood, and half of her hair has turned white. She is only 17 years old! She is going to kill us...",
We guessed what was going on at that time, she must have gone to find that man, and the man must have relied on the marriage. She had a miscarriage and came back!"
Her father got excited and gave her a slap in the face, then grabbed a sickle and tried to fight the man. I chased her father to the entrance of the village, but his father suddenly vomited blood, fell to the ground and died.
Wuwuwu~~~~~~", the old woman covered her face,
"The people in the village disliked us, and no one cared about his father's funeral. I had no choice but to hastily bury his father, but Guizhi became crazy from then on~~~~"
"You said she became crazy. What are the symptoms?" Chen Zhi asked.
"She can no longer understand human speech~~~" The old lady sniffed her red nose and looked at Chen Zhi with red eyes.
"She didn't understand anything I told her. She went crazy all day long, put on the red wedding dress she made, and walked back and forth at home.
My daughter is so clever with her hands! She is the most skillful girl in the village, and her wedding dress is the most beautifully embroidered. She puts on the wedding dress and talks to herself, never paying attention to anyone else.
But sometimes she would tell me that she had to find a way to get the ring back and seek revenge from those men..."