The younger sister, Zheng Xiaoyan, pouted: “Who wants you to hold my hand.”
Who knows who shook off their hand first, but the two sulky little girls were kicking stones behind their parents, neither wanting to pay attention to the other.
Ten minutes later, after receiving the goods, the couple stood at the door and said goodbye to the villagers. They saw the eldest daughter squatting on the ground playing with ants, but the younger daughter was missing.
Their expressions changed drastically: “Where is your sister?”
Zheng Xiaona looked around with a blank look on her face, only to find that people were coming and going around her, but her sister had disappeared quietly.
After that, Old Man Zheng and his wife searched for her in Nan Province for more than a month, but there was no news about Zheng Xiaoyan at all.
When the owner of the hotel where they lived heard about this, he was very sympathetic and said:
‘You lost your child? You won’t be able to find her. There are often stowaways here, foreign kidnappers with dark and yellow skin, who abduct women and children and smuggle them to the other side of the border. It’s impossible to find her at all, even if you keep looking.”
“Even if she was abducted by locals, they would have sold her long ago. Poor little girl, she was so pretty.”
Old Man Zheng and his wife were in despair after hearing this.
Sometimes when they were angry, they would talk indiscriminately and take their anger out on their eldest daughter, who was only twelve years old at the time, accusing her of not taking good care of her younger sister, which led to her disappearance.
But, as a twelve-year-old child, no matter how sensible and considerate she was, she was still not an adult.
The impact of this experience was indelible for Zheng Xiaona, and it also made her feel deeply guilty.
More than twenty years have passed. Both her parents were in their seventies and she was almost forty. The two old people have long accepted the fact that their youngest daughter cannot be found.
It was Zheng Xiaona, who didn’t want to accept it.
She still kept wondering if this would not have happened if she hadn’t had a quarrel with her sister and hadn’t let go of her hand.
Tormented by the guilt in her heart, she would come to Nan Province every year to negotiate with the local association and never gave up searching for her sister’s whereabouts.
Just when she felt that there was no hope, the clips from the program “Spiritual Affairs” on the Internet – especially the clips of Gu Zhisang’s decisive actions – made her hopeful again.
But now, Zheng Xiaona and her family were a little disappointed after knowing that even metaphysics couldn’t find her sister.
Daisy said: “As your parents said, madam, you should not use this matter as a shackle to torture yourself. What you should hate is those human traffickers, who destroyed countless families.”
“It’s a pity that I can’t trace back what you haven’t experienced, and you don’t have your sister’s hair or personal items, so there is no way to find her whereabouts, but I saw how she was lost at that time. “
Zheng Xiaona nodded and said: “It was at the gate of a village. There was indeed a stone tablet standing outside. I still remember the name of the village and town was written on it in red paint. But I have been there many times and found nothing.”
Things have reached a deadlock at this point, and no contestant can find Zheng Xiaona’s whereabouts.
However, the program team did not give up. The group took the equipment and prepared to go to the place Daisy saw – that was, the place where Zheng Xiaona disappeared.
They hope that after arriving at the place where the incident occurred, the contestants can regain some useful information.
The program team had a special car with equipment and drove away with the six contestants, cameramen, and hosts. They drove at a moderate speed for about ten minutes and arrived at the place where they were.
Compared with more than 20 years ago, the buildings and roads in this village and town have been renovated several times, and it looks quite urbanized. Every household has built a self-built small building and seems to be living a prosperous life.
Since there were seven or eight vehicles in the program, they looked very conspicuous. Many villagers’ children who were squatting on the ground playing cards and racing cars raised their heads and looked over:
“Are you a TV station filming a program?”
“Will this camera get me on TV?”
When Gu Zhisang got out of the car, her eyes passed over the children of different heights in front of her. She was stunned when she saw the deep gray fog covering their faces.
She can’t see anything.
There was nothing on the faces of these children, no destiny or life and death, everything was covered up.
If it weren’t for the normal expressions of the other contestants, she would have suspected that she had fallen into some strange place.
When she moved her gaze from the children’s faces to the distant sky, her upturned phoenix eyes squinted slightly.
In her eyes, the sky above the entire southern mountain range was covered in gray, blending in with the lingering clouds and mist, breathing in and out, as if there was life;
The gray fog has no end, and it stretches to the end of the mountain range.
In other words, this entire place was under the law of heaven, but beyond the constraints of the Six Paths.
Such a large gesture was not just directed at her alone but had been accumulated over many years.
No matter what happens here, the laws of heaven cannot detect it. Without causal punishment, the ‘evil’ cannot be suppressed and will only continue to spread uncontrollably in this lawless land.
Gu Zhisang was certain that more than one illegal incident had occurred around this mountain range.
After all, it was beyond the sixth path of heaven, and ordinary people could not discover it at all.
Unless the ‘evil’ here has been condensed to the point where the people here can’t bear it anymore, it can be exposed.
But by then it would be too late.
Gu Zhisang took a deep breath, and the gas circulating in the air seemed to have a faint ambiguity.
After inhaling it into her chest, it was like thin threads wrapped around her lungs. When she tried to use the power in her body, she could feel that she was even more depressed than before.
The stone tablet at the entrance of the village was still preserved, with the three characters “Xiaoshi Village” painted in bright red paint.
There was no gate at the entrance of the village, but she felt like entering the mouth of a giant beast.
She put away the coldness in her eyes and followed the contestants towards the village.
After Daisy saw the stone tablet, she said: “This is the stone tablet I saw in the flashback.”
Zheng Xiaona nodded and said: “I was squatting across the street. This was originally a residential building. About 10 years ago, the entire village was renovated. All the old houses in the row were torn down and replaced with new ones. A small western-style building.”
The place she pointed at had been turned into a convenience store.
At this moment, Host Liu noticed that one of the contestants, Xi Haihong, looked shocked and stared at the surroundings as if looking at something in the air.
He asked aloud: “Contestant Xi Haihong, did you see something? Or did you discover something?”
Xi Haihong looked at him with mouth wide open, but then closed it, and forced a smile: “It’s nothing.”
But her expression was very solemn, and many viewers in the live broadcast room also noticed it.
[Xi Haihong is an impermanent person, she seems to be able to attract souls. I feel like she must have seen something with that shocked look on her face. Are there ghosts around the contestants?]
[Could it be that Zheng Xiaoyan has died and turned into a ghost, floating around there?]
[What are you thinking about? Several contestants said that she may not be dead. Didn’t Gu Zhisang say that she is in Nan Province.]
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