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"Yes." We never speak. Just trying to figure out their habits and stuff. "Rest assured!" She nodded quickly.

She was just curious, but she wasn't prepared to place her life here.

When he had climbed a mountain, he finally saw a series of straw huts standing on the level ground of the valley.

In front of the thatched cottage, a dozen dark-skinned women were working.

"Why are there only women? Where are the men? " Seeing their bare chests, Rui Rui blushed. She unnaturally glanced at Ou Yujie.

"This is a nomadic tribe. The men must have gone out to pasture the cattle! Or perhaps he went hunting! " Asan explained with a smile.

"Uh. In other words, Ou Yujie was the only male here! They wouldn't take the rarer the better and snatch him away, right? " She joked.

"Don't worry!" This tribe does not have the custom of robbing men. " Asan laughed.

"Don't worry!" If they really want to rob me, I would rather die than obey! " Ou Yujie also chuckled.

"Tch!" She snorted.

Asan went forward first and had a simple conversation with the women, giving each of them some money.

The women looked at them and nodded.

Zan relaxed and waved at them.

The closer they got, the clearer their appearances became.

"Do you see how the mouths of those women are like that?"

She saw that the women all had dishes made of mud in their mouths. Some were big and some were small. Their mouths were big and looked extremely weird.

"Calm down!" Don't show a look of shock. "What don't you understand? Go ask Ah Sang!" Ou Yujie squeezed her hand.

Walking forward, Asan led them into the house and took a look at their quarters and the place where they worked.

After a long pause, she could not help but ask Zan in secret why the women here wanted to put plates in their mouths.

Asan was not sure, so he asked a woman who had taken them on a tour.

After a simple exchange of words, they were left flabbergasted.

So this was the traditional custom of the tribe.

When a Mursi girl reaches the age of 15 or 6, she will pierce her lower lip to place a plate called a lip plate, or lipplate. If her tolerance increases, the larger the plate, the more gifts her father will be able to win.

These women had started to cut open their lower lip when they were very young, and put on small plates that were burned with mud. As they grew older, they would gradually change into larger plates.

It is said that there is another reason. Long ago, Mursi's men feared that their women and daughters would be captured and enslaved by other tribes and made ugly by the big plates on their mouths. The other tribes would not take a fancy to them and snatch them away." Of course, not all the women in the tribe had the right to put on such a big plate. Only the women in the distinguished families in the tribe had the right to do so. Although the women in the ordinary families didn't have the right to cook, their normal faces also represented a woman's lowly status in the tribe.

"So that's how it is!" Surrey was shocked.

To her, this was an extremely cruel answer.

Never would they have thought that in order to survive, they would have to pay such a heavy price.

Thinking about how she lived in such a beautiful environment and still let her imagination run wild every day, she couldn't help but feel ashamed of her inferiority.