The Great Chu Dynasty was strict about household registration management. Without the household registration papers, one was not considered a good citizen and could be bought and sold at will.
"Xiao Yu is right, we should first find the household registration papers, then bury everyone," Third Grandpa called several adults, assigning men and women to search the corpses of the villagers of Gu Family Village.
"This is the household registration paper of Gu Ergou's family."
"This is Gu Dazhu's family."
"This is Uncle Shiyi's family."
"This is Aunt Nine's family."
In just half an hour, they found twenty-one household registration papers among over a hundred bodies.
Gu Dafu, clutching these household registration papers, was trembling in both hands. There were only about fifty households in Gu Family Village, yet they found twenty-one household registration papers in this pile of bodies – half of their village was dead.
