"No, they are not from South Chu."
Pei Hengyu looked back, catching the eye of Yuwen Junan, who was shining like a star. Yuwen Junan was crouching among the corpses, head tilted up toward Pei Hengyu, his fingers still rummaging through the bodies.
"In South Chu custom," Yuwen Junan explained, "on the day an infant reaches one month of age, the parents pierce their ears. A girl gets two holes in each ear, and a boy gets three in one."
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