Dream Guide

Yao Jingjing was at the Institute of Biology of Southern Yunnan University at this time, waiting for the results of a special test.

The incident of theft in Cuanjia Village was eventually settled. The police station sent people to look at the old house and cemetery, but found nothing. Before and after the accident, no strangers had been seen in the village, and no actual property was lost. They only lost an old photo album. The police left after making simple inquiries and records. If it weren't for the fact that Mrs. Cuan's grave had not been dug up, causing panic, it would have been impossible to even file a case.

When Yao Jingjing arrived at Cuanjia Village, the police had already left. She went to look at her great-grandma's grave. There were signs that the grave had indeed been dug, and it looked like it had been dug up with claws. This was the strangest place. Because of this, people in the village were afraid, saying that the old lady crawled out of the grave by herself.

Of course Yao Jingjing doesn't believe this kind of thing. She carefully checked the area near the cemetery, because the whole village had come to see it, and the footprints here were already very messy. Like the police who came before, she could not identify the footprints of the tomb robbers. Maybe the tomb robbers did not leave any footprints. .

But she didn't find nothing. In the newly dug mud pile beside the grave, she picked up a red hair, which was wrapped around the root of a vine on the ground. Who would bow their head beside a grave so that their hair gets tangled in the dead vines on the ground?

She calmly returned to the village and checked all the people in the village. No one had dyed their hair red.

Nothing came of it, so everyone had to fill the old lady's grave again and live their lives as they should. Only Yao's mother was so sad that she sighed all day long and said to Yao Jingjing:

"Where did your great-grandma go? How could she be gone?"

Yao Jingjing sent her parents back to the city and stayed with them for two days, and then went to Spring City. She contacted Shi Dazhuang and asked him to help introduce people from the Spring City Public Security Bureau to have the red hair identified. As a result, people from the Physical Evidence Identification Center of the Public Security Bureau said that the hair was broken, had no hair follicles, and DNA could not be extracted. Moreover, the keratin of the hair was severely degraded, indicating that the hair was not current, or at least decades old. The Physical Evidence Identification Center mainly conducts criminal-related identification. If she wants to know more information about this hair, it is recommended that she go to the Biological Research Institute of Southern Yunnan University for further identification.

Yao Jingjing didn't know anyone from the Institute of Biology, so she called Professor Mei. The professor was very cheerful and did not ask anything. He introduced her to the president of Yunnan University. The president introduced her to the director of the Institute of Biology. The director introduced a young associate professor to deal with the specific hair.

The associate professor didn't know why the school asked him to stop his project and help a woman identify a hair, without telling him the direction of the identification. He seemed reluctant, but he didn't want to displease this hard-charging woman in the "backstage", so he connected his hair for the experiment and only asked Yao Jingjing to wait for two days.

Yao Jingjing took advantage of the opportunity of these two days to take the old photos left by the old lady to a giclee studio in Spring City for restoration.

The young man in the studio was very responsible. After scanning the photos, he began to use PS to repair them bit by bit on the computer. He even asked Yao Jingjing for advice on the seriously damaged areas.

Yao Jingjing said: "You just need to practice according to your experience. I have never seen what the photo looks like."

The young man said: "There's nothing else. I'm just worried that people's facial features will be out of shape. These photos are too old. If you look at this one, you can't even see the face."

"They are all the same person, just refer to each other."

Yao Jingjing felt that the most pity was that the photo of her grandma and a man under the big tree was missing. She really wanted to see what that man looked like. When she first saw that photo, she always felt that he looked familiar. Unfortunately, the photo was too blurry, and she didn't know whether it was because he was familiar with the person or because he was familiar with the scene.

The young man repaired a photo of an old lady in military uniform and said, "Do you think this repair is OK?"

Yao Jingjing kept looking at it and said, "Okay, not bad."

The young man praised: "This woman is very beautiful!"

Yao Jingjing said proudly: "Of course!"

The young man said: "Hey, she is really a heroic woman. I didn't notice it at first. She was wearing a military uniform and thought she was a man! Nowadays, you can't find such a heroic and good-looking woman."

Heroic and good-looking?

Yao Jingjing remembered Lifespan Flower for some reason, and then looked at the restored photo of her great-grandma, and felt that the eyebrows and eyes were somewhat similar to Lifespan Flower.

She thought of the lost photo again, and the image of Bishenghua and Qingmu taking a group photo under the big willow tree appeared in front of her eyes. There was also a crow sitting on the tree, croaking there.

She shook her head to get rid of these strange thoughts from her mind. When she looked at the photos again, although she still couldn't help but think of her mother, it was easier to think of her mother. After all, it was her mother who inherited her great-grandma's beauty, Yao Jingjing thought.

After the photos were repaired, they were all printed on Epson machines using Hahnemühle art paper. The young man said that this kind of giclée art can be guaranteed not to fade for 150 years. Yao Jingjing didn't know whether it was true or not. She only knew that the price was not cheap, but no matter how long the photos could be saved, she felt it was worth it because of the effort they put into retouching them and the electronic manuscript they retained.

The results of the institute are out. The originally reluctant associate professor suddenly seemed a little excited, and asked Yao Jingjing where her hair came from before she even told her the result. Of course Yao Jingjing would not tell the truth, she just casually said that it was entrusted by a friend, and she did not know.

The associate professor asked: "Is your friend an archaeologist? Has he discovered anything else?"

Yao Jingjing looked puzzled. She didn't know why he asked so, so she simply stopped talking.

The associate professor said "Oh" as if he understood it, "I understand, I don't want to say anything anymore." Then he handed Yao Jingjing a document bag and said:

"It is certain that this hair is not from modern people. After our testing, it should be three thousand years ago or more. Although the keratin in it has been significantly degraded, and the sample is too small to extract its DNA, Its genetic characteristics can still be detected through SNP testing. This should be a European hair from three thousand years ago. It belongs to a pure red-haired race. This race now accounts for less than 2% of the global population. , and most of them are not so pure anymore. You..."

He paused for a moment, looking a little mysterious, "If your friend is willing, we can cooperate."

Yao Jingjing was stunned and asked: "What kind of cooperation?"

The associate professor said: "If you find it in Europe, you should not go back to China for testing. If it is found in China, it would be a big deal! It is likely to overturn the distribution of races and population genetics. You know, universities are very generous to such major events that can cause a stir in the academic world. They can apply for considerable funding, and there are rewards for producing results. It is better than what you have worked so hard to spend. It’s much more, and there’s no risk…”

Yao Jingjing suddenly felt ridiculous. She originally just wanted to investigate the theft of her great-grandma's grave, but why did it become a major event in the academic world? The co-author also regarded me as a tomb robber!

She didn't want to explain anything, so she casually said, "I'll go back and ask my friends," then took the document bag and left.

The whole thing was completely lost. Why is there a European hair from thousands of years ago on my great-grandma’s grave? Where did the old lady's body go? Did someone steal it, or was she not in the tomb in the first place?

No matter how hard she thought about it, Yao Jingjing decided to go back to Wuzhong first, as there were still a lot of things going on there. And after you go back, you can also ask Professor Mei Yiqiu about this hair. You can also discuss some things with Hou Biao. That guy has an almost perverted intuition about dangerous and weird things. He probably got it from practicing in the jungle in the past. of.

She calculated the time and it was time for Shi Dazhuang and Meiren to return, so she called Shi Dazhuang and asked if they wanted to go together. As a result, Shi Dazhuang said that something happened in Wanziba and he couldn't leave for a while, so he asked her to go back first.