The surroundings were silent for a moment, then Mrs. Li laughed dryly: “This is……”
She was looking at Gu Zhisang’s calm eyes, and she felt a little frightened for no reason. The word ‘impossible’ came to her lips as if she was under tens of thousands of pounds of pressure and couldn’t say it out, so she hesitated.
“Who can say for sure about this kind of thing? When other people get married, they won’t tell outsiders whether the bride was abducted. Even if you ask, they will say they don’t know.”
Her comments made the audience in the live broadcast room express their doubts:
[I don’t believe what she said. Some old men and women in the village are so nosy that they can inquire about the private affairs of every household. It’s impossible not to know anything.]
[If there was a family that purchased a daughter-in-law or adopted child… such a thing would be discussed by the whole village after dinner for 3 days!]
[This Sister Li looks guilty. She must not be telling the truth. I’m afraid that this is the case among the people she knows.]
[When the host was teasing some children just now, I saw them come out as soon as they heard the sound. They were so nervous when they saw strangers. If trafficking hadn’t been rampant nearby, they wouldn’t be so intimidated, right?]
[……]
Gu Zhisang raised an eyebrow and caught the slightest flaw in Mrs. Li’s words.
She looked enlightened: “That means there is such a thing as abducting brides here.”
Sister Li choked and was unwilling to speak:
“What do you mean? I’m not a criminal. Sister Zheng, you brought these people here because you suspect that people in our village have detained your sister?”
Zheng Xiaona hurriedly waved her hand and said: “Sister Li, you are overthinking. The program team came to the place where the incident occurred to understand the situation and see if they could find any clues.”
At this time, one of the two women huddled in the convenience store and watched, saw Xun Yiqing in the crowd, who was wearing a Taoist priest’s uniform, and He Mitu, who was wearing a black silk mandarin with gold patterns, braided hair and sunglasses.
She suddenly thought of something, widened her eyes, and exclaimed:
“Oh my gosh! Are you the most popular fortune-tellers on the Internet?!”
Host Liu said: “If the lady is talking about “Spiritual Affairs”, we are indeed the production team of this program, and we are here to help Mrs. Zheng Xiaona find her relative.”
“I’ve seen you guys on short video platforms before. I didn’t expect you to not only catch ghosts but also do this kind of job of helping to find relatives!”
Mrs. Li and Mrs. Zhou don’t watch live broadcasts or variety shows, so they didn’t know the identities of Gu Zhisang and others or the program “Spiritual Affairs”. Only when the third woman cried did they realize that these people were mystic masters who could see things and spirits!
Suddenly, Mrs. Li looked evasive.
While Host Liu, who was good at communication, had already started chatting with the third woman.
According to her own words, her surname was “Dai”, she was 34 years old, and she was not from “Xiaoshi Village” but from the neighboring village. She worked as a shop assistant and cashier in this convenience store.
The little girl with two ponytails outside was her daughter.
Host Liu asked in an interview: “Does Mrs. Dai know that there are serious cases of missing people in nearby villages?”
Mrs. Dai gave a wry smile and shook her head: “There are kidnappers everywhere here. We pay great attention to these and usually teach our children not to run out alone. So although the Internet and the news say how bad the public security and environment are in Southern Province, I don’t think it’s that exaggerated.”
“At least, I never heard of any woman or family’s child being abducted in this village.”
Gu Zhisang on the side suddenly asked: “Sister Dai, you’re not from here, aren’t you?”
Mrs. Dai was stunned for a moment: “How did you know?”
She has been in Nan Province for more than ten years and has lost all her accent from her hometown. Many people she has met in the past two years think she was from Nan Province.
“My hometown is not here. Miss, you can tell at a glance. It’s amazing!”
Gu Zhisang did not directly see where she was born. Because she was also covered with a faint layer of mist, making the information about her difficult to decipher.
But judging from her appearance, Mrs. Dai’s hairline at the temples, especially at Tiancang, was high and messy, which was the Migration Palace.
A person with such a palace position at least shows that her life was not smooth, but that she has been wandering abroad all year round, living in a foreign country, and was not very happy in her hometown. She was homesick but unable to return.
This information was enough to show that Mrs. Dai was not a native of Nan Province.
The following words were spoken by herself, showing that she was from the South.
Gu Zhisang could only see her facial features while her spiritual sense was blinded, and she could tell from her eyebrows that she had brothers and sisters, and from the thickness of her eyes, she could tell that she was slightly pregnant.
In addition, it can be seen from the bumps on both sides of her temple that she was married and the relationship between husband and wife was not bad.
These were the most obvious facial terms. Even if a person has no spiritual awareness, he or she can memorize them in the book.
As for the rest, everything was based on the information that the person being calculated inadvertently or passively extracted when she was surprised.
This was also the most common deception method used by charlatans.
Host Liu asked: “Then why did you marry Nan Province, Mrs. Dai?”
Mrs. Dai smiled awkwardly: “I was introduced by a friend before.”
She didn’t want to say it, but she still let everyone guess the chat.
It turns out that Mrs. Dai has been in Southern Province for almost twenty years.
At that time, there were many children in her family, and she did not go to high school. She came out from her hometown to work when she was fifteen or sixteen years old.
When she was working in the electronics factory in her first year, an older sister who worked in the same factory said that she could take her to Nan Province to find a job, so she followed her.
As a result, she didn’t see any work or anything like that when she arrived. The eldest sister went around and introduced her to a young man from the next village who was ten years older than her. She said that she saw that her parents didn’t like her at home and wanted to help her find a good marriage.
Mrs. Dai, who was alone outside, was still a little girl at the time, so she agreed half-heartedly and has not returned to her hometown since then.
[Wasn’t this sister still young at that time?! She was tricked into getting married when she was seventeen or eighteen at most, and in the name of taking her out to work, she was introduced to a man who was almost thirty years old. Isn’t this deception?]
[This is trafficking…]
[Some netizens might find it strange, but I have an aunt who got married when she was fourteen and gave birth to my cousin just after she turned sixteen. But nowadays, people aged fourteen or fifteen are still in middle school or high school!]
[It’s so scary to think about it. If Sister Dai hadn’t agreed at that time, she might have encountered something more dangerous because she was all alone here. Unfortunately, marrying that man was the best choice at the time.]
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