After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

Chapter 354 Villagers of Tang Family Village
"Sir, don't look at the two of us being old, we are really working, and we are not inferior to those boys." Lu Erqi, the elder of the second room, said, "So let us two catch locusts, and leave him alone."

"Although he is not a villager in our Lujia Village, he is a person after all." Qin Yu said, "His injury is not a trivial matter."

Soon, the three arrived at Lingshu's house.

After they rescued the man just now, they sent him to Lingshu's home for treatment.

"Miss Lingshu, how is his injury?" Qin Yu asked when he saw Lingshu who was pounding medicine at the door.

"The persecution this man suffered before was severe, and his physical condition was much worse than normal. To be precise, he was a sick man. In addition, he hadn't eaten for several days and was severely beaten, so his condition is not optimistic. Lingshu said, "However, after my treatment, he should wake up soon. He can wake up, but it will be difficult to return to normal."

"Thank you for your hard work." Qin Yu said.

"It's okay." Lingshu said with a blushing face.

"Since this person's life is not in danger, let us catch locusts." Lu Jinyan, the elder of Sanfang said.

"There is one thing that I find very strange." Qin Yu didn't pay attention to it, but said intently.

"What's strange?" Lu Erqi, the elder of the Second Household, asked.

"When we rescued him just now, why did the patriarch recognize him as a person from Tangjia Village at a glance?" Qin Yu said, "Because the mountains are high and the roads are far away, don't you basically have no contact with each other?"

"And the most recent intersection between the two villages was an armed fight a hundred years ago."

"Even that fight, you all saw it in the file, that is to say, you guys may have never been to Tangjia Village in your life. Since you have never been there, why did you recognize it at a glance?"

"It's true that we haven't been to Tangjia Village, but the people in Tangjia Village all have unique marks on their bodies." The elder of Erfang said, "And they have more than one mark on their bodies."

"Oh?" Qin Yu became curious.

"Sir, you'll know if you go and see for yourself." Lu Jinyan said.

Hearing this, Qin Yu led a few people into the room, and then saw the villager from Tangjia Village on the sick bed.

"His mark is on his feet." Lu Jinyan said.

Qin Yu looked down and found that there was a rusty iron chain between his feet.After pulling up his trousers, he saw that his ankles, which were supported by iron chains, were full of burn wounds.

However, these wounds have healed over.

It can be seen from these scars that this iron chain is welded dead, not a live buckle.

Qin Yu's expression froze immediately.

"This is one of their ancient customs." Lu Jinyan explained, "From the age of three, children in Tangjia Village, regardless of gender, will have a thick iron chain on their feet by the blacksmith."

"When blacksmiths put iron chains on them, the hot iron often burned their tender skin."

"This is too cruel!" Qin Yu couldn't believe what he heard.

I couldn't help but say something extremely brain-dead: "Those children, don't they hurt?"

"Three-year-old children, what do you know?" Lu Erqi said, "After their injuries heal, they will naturally forget the previous pain. They don't even have the memory of the trauma in their minds, and they will still play They are very happy and innocent. As they grow up, the blacksmiths will keep replacing them with thicker and bigger chains."

"They are used to it, and even feel that the iron chain is part of their body."

"I even feel that the iron chain is their pride and their glory."

"Why did you put iron chains on them from childhood?" Lingshu couldn't help being moved when he heard this, and said, "When I saw his chains when I was treating him before, I thought he was some kind of prisoner."

"This custom seems to have started 1000 years ago." Lu Jinyan said, "At that time, the patriarch abused the tribe, and many tribesmen fled, so the patriarch came up with this method to keep the villagers, and at the same time, to prevent the villagers from rebelling against him. This custom was written into the family rules by them, and anyone who dared to resist would be killed. Over time, the villagers got used to it, and no one dared to resist."

"It's simply the anger of man and god!" Qin Yu said.

"Who says it's not?" Lu Jinyan said.

"In the past, our village also had the bad habits of sinking ponds. After being changed by the husband, we realized how wrong the old bad habits were." Lu Erqi said, "If we were the same as before, we wouldn't think their customs were bad at all. After all, our Lujia Village and their Tangjia Village are also laughing at each other."

"However, after our bad habits were eliminated by the husband, we now realize how outrageous their customs are."

"Sir, they also have a unique mark." The elder Erfang said, "It's the tattoo on their back."

Hearing this, Qin Yu pulled back the clothes on his back and saw that there was a dark steel cage tattooed on it. The iron rods of the cage were at least as thick as an arm, and there were hideous ghost patterns on the four pillars of the cage.

"A millennium-old custom in Tangjia Village says that the cage tattoos on their backs are sacred and no one can desecrate them. So when they walk, they dare not straighten their waists." The elder of the second room said, "So they are like hunchbacks. Just like people, they walk on their stomachs all the time.”

"I remember that their noses are also very special." Lu Jinyan said, "People in Tangjia Village also have a custom, which is to make holes in both noses, wear nose rings, and stuff a small wooden stick inside."

"Their custom is that the thicker the stick, the braver he is."

"Can you still breathe normally?" Qin Yu asked.

"It is precisely because of these ancient customs that the villagers in Lujia Village are generally weak." Lu Sanqi said.

When Qin Yu heard this, his heart was shaken.

I couldn't speak for a long time.

"Lingshu, help him remove the iron chain, and wash off his cage tattoo, and remove the wooden stick on his nose." After an unknown amount of time, Qin Yu said to Lingshu.

"Yes, sir." Lingshu said.

"But sir, shouldn't we respect other people's customs?" Lu Jinyan said.

"Such a custom still needs to be respected?" Qin Yu said.

"Mister thinks their customs are not good, but they think their customs are sacred. I'm sure that after removing these things for him, he will definitely fight for his life when he wakes up." Lu Erqi, the elder of the second room, said, "Because of these Everything is their pride and belief."

"The matter of Tangjia Village has nothing to do with Mr., so it's better not to worry about this kind of matter." Lu Jinyan said.

"It's totally a thankless thing." Lu Erqi said, "Mister thinks that he is helping him, but he will think that sir is harming him."

(End of this chapter)