Chapter 22: Tattoos
Uncle Wu was surprised and said, "But we haven't ...... yet."
Linglong waved his hand and said, "Since someone has taken the lead, it is unlikely that we will find what we want to get from here." Besides, we're not without gains. Linglong glanced at the girl.
Uncle Wu comprehended, bowed slightly, and said to the team members beside him: "Check the identity of these corpses, and then leave." ”
Li You helped the girl in his arms up. The girl was still like a frightened rabbit, and did not dare to leave him, and grabbed the corner of his clothes with one hand.
"What about these corpses?" Li You asked Uncle Wu while comforting the girl.
"Someone will take care of it." Uncle Wu answered, walked up to a corpse, and rolled up the sleeves of the corpse. Li You found that not only Uncle Wu was like this, but several team members were doing the same thing, and then Li You saw that every corpse had a tattoo tattooed on its arm.
The tattoo looks weird. At first glance, it looks like a hemp rope is tattooed, but after careful identification, it is clear that the tattoo looks like two snakes, with their heads and tails linked to each other. But the strange thing is that the two small snakes on the tattoo have horns, which are very obvious.
Dozens of bodies were quickly identified. Only two bodies did not have such tattoos on their bodies. Those were two young women. "These two should have just married to Majiatun, so they don't have tattoos on their arms yet." Uncle Wu pointed to the two female corpses and said to Linglong.
Linglong nodded and said, "Yes, the information collected before said such a thing. ”
Li You was confused about the conversation between the two. But on the way, he learned from Mo Liancheng's mouth that it turned out that people in Majiatun, regardless of men, women, and children, would have tattoos on their right arms. Children are tattooed when they are born at the end of the month, and brides who marry from other places are tattooed on the last day of each year. This custom has been passed down for hundreds of years in Majiatun.
Li You asked Mo Liancheng a lot of things about Majiatun, but Mo Liancheng knew everything.
Mo Liancheng's understanding of Majiatun is really not small. When he and Shi Guangsheng picked up leaks before, they didn't run to these remote places. He came back and forth seven or eight times in Majiatun, and each time the harvest was not small.
Although Majiatun is called Majiatun, it is strange that there is no family surnamed Ma here. There are only two surnames in Tunzi, one is surnamed Qin, and the other is from Li You's own family, and the surname is Li. I don't know how many years I've lived in Majiatun.
Majiatun seems to have turned out to be a village carved out by a big family figure who escaped the war and hid in the mountains. Because when Mo Liancheng exchanged old things in Majiatun, he really exchanged a lot of good things from the villagers. The best Huanghuali tables and chairs, he replaced two from Majiatun and sold them for a lot of money, the ancestors did not have a solid family background, how could ordinary villagers get such things.
But what makes Mo Liancheng most proud is that he also exchanged a blue and white porcelain from the end of the Yuan Dynasty and a Xuande furnace from Zhengde for three years in Majiatun. These two things are the biggest gains he has gained over the years.
Seeing that Mo Liancheng turned the topic to his deeds back then, he hurriedly interrupted Mo Liancheng's words and brought the topic back to Majiatun. The focus is still on the tattoos on the villagers of Majiatun. He had a hunch that the tragic misfortune of the villagers in Majiatun might have a great connection with this tattoo. Otherwise, Uncle Wu and the others would not have gone out of their way to check the tattoos on these people before leaving.
For Li You's question, Mo Liancheng couldn't say why, he went to Majiatun once or twice a year, changed some old goods and left, and the horse thieves may know too many secrets on people's bodies.
It seems that the answer has to fall on the girl next to her.
Li You sighed secretly. But he knew very well that it would not be easy to ask something from the girl's mouth, for he found that the girl seemed to be mute.
Since hiding in Li You's arms, the girl has no longer left Li You's side for half a step, as if she has a natural dependence on Li You. Li You is also very strange. Although he had never seen this girl, he naturally had a sense of closeness to her. It's like seeing the neighbor's little sister.
The girl grabbed the corner of Li You's clothes, her eyes rolling around her, and she looked at the people around her. When Li You talked to her, she opened her mouth and screamed "Ah, wow, wow......", and she could gesture with her hands, but it was not standard sign language, so Li You was confused.
Uncle Wu and Linglong also tried to communicate with the girl, but in the end they were all in vain. The girl is tied with a delicate silver lock around her neck, and the silver lock is engraved with a Qin character on the front and a Yi character on the reverse, so Li You knows that the girl's name should be Qin Yi.
"I said, so many people have been arrested and killed, how can there be a living? It turned out to be a mute. Uncle Wu sighed at Linglong and said, "She can't sing "Tianfeng Song", it's useless. Even if we find a place, we can't get in. ”
Linglong is still so calm: "It's okay. There must still be a living mouth in the village. They kill people just to deny us people who can sing "Tianfeng Song". But they must still have a living mouth in their hands, and when the time comes, we will just grab one with them, and as for this girl, I have another use. There was a gleam in the depths of Linglong's eyes.
Uncle Wu nodded. But he didn't speak again. Linglong's decision, he has always only been qualified to execute, and has no right to question and refute.
After the team withdrew from Majiatun, they did not return along the same road, but continued to move towards a small road that had been trampled out. Judging from the traces left on the road, it seems that people have walked through this place not long ago.
Finding these traces, Li You couldn't help but be a little worried, it was very likely that these people were the murderers who killed the villagers of Majiatun, and if they bumped into them, it would be miserable. But obviously, Uncle Wu and his entourage had already discovered the existence of this phenomenon, but they were not too vigilant and still moved forward unhurriedly.
Li You told Uncle Wu about his worries, but Uncle Wu "Haha: smiled, patted Li You on the shoulder, and said, "Boy, it's not your turn to worry about these things." Those people had left a few hours earlier. They also knew very well that we would come, but they certainly wouldn't want to stay and be bumped into by us. ”
Looking at the heavily armed and murderous team members, Li You's heart settled down a little.
At the end of the road is a small temple. The small temple is located halfway up the mountainside, the small temple is very dilapidated, and the tiles above the temple are covered with bushes and grass. However, the small temple still looks quite clean, and it is obvious that there are still people who clean it and pray for burning incense.
"That's where we're tonight." Uncle Wu lit a cigarette and took a puff and said leisurely.
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