Chapter 51 - 50 Oh if only someone could help me
Chapter 51: Chapter 50 Oh, if only someone could help me
Chapter 51 -50 Oh, if only someone could help me
“Granny, not every work has the same theme, and not all films need to be shot in the city.”
Wenyan gave Granny Zhou a brief introduction to the story of “Lost Voice.”
Then she said, “However, I can’t reveal the specific details of the filming. I’ve signed a confidentiality agreement with the crew. There are some things I can talk about and others I can’t.”
Granny Zhou nodded, “City folks sure have a lot of rules. But don’t worry, I won’t blab about what you’ve told me. Yet what you’re acting out is quite realistic. Things like that have really happened here, and not just once or twice.”
“Not just once or twice?” Wenyan was somewhat shocked.
Just now, she had been telling Granny Zhou how she was playing a mute woman who was kidnapped by human traffickers into the deep mountains and, while attempting to escape, was captured and brought back!
“Yes,” Granny Zhou confirmed firmly.
“Years ago, it was difficult for men in the mountains to find wives. No one wanted to marry into a poor mountain area, so they bought wives. But if you think about it, no decent family would sell their daughters to someone else, so most of them must have been kidnapped.
“Just like what you’re enacting. Most of the women sold here were disabled, either unable to speak or couldn’t hear, had a limp, or were simply mentally unclear fools.
“The single old men in the mountains weren’t too picky. All they wanted was a wife that could bear children and carry on their family line. I remember there was a lot of wife buying in the mountains over a decade ago.