Chapter 196: Tattoos and Seals

"Where did you get this short video?"

Henry, Nilar's supervisor, asked with a frown.

In fact, at this time, he didn't seem to react much on the surface, but in fact, he was already in ecstasy.

Henry, of course, knew what this thing meant.

Director William was instructed by the Congress to collect all the information clues related to the mysterious powerhouse in Great Xia, although the main person in charge is Owen in the Great Xia District, it does not mean that people from other divisions cannot interfere.

What's wrong with sharing the worries of your colleagues?

He still has to thank me!

Nealar shrugged: "I saw it from a friend's TT. ”

TT?

The corners of Henry's mouth twitched.

The bureau throws tens of millions of chatters in the Far East every year, but they didn't find the slightest clue, but they were found directly on TT, and they were still pushed.

What will others think of it?

Don't you think the CIA has a herd of pigs?

"Cyber Security guys, damn it! received a good salary, but he didn't even find out in time when the clues were uploaded to the Internet! If you want me to say, they are really wasting taxpayers' money! ”

Henry scolded secretly, and suddenly thought: "TT's hand, is it too long?" He can give us information on the Great Xia side, and maybe he will also push our information to Great Xia. No, you have to find a way to make it obedient, or else...... Hum! ”

Coming back to his senses, he said to Niral: "I can't judge the value of this thing for the time being, I will help you forward it to the director, and if it is valuable, your reward will be indispensable at that time." Good job, young man, when I retire, this position will be yours! ”

"Thank you, Boss!"

Niral's face flushed with excitement, as if he had been beaten with chicken blood.

Henry laughed inwardly.

Hey, it's good to be young.

However, Niral, who walked out of the headquarters, suddenly turned gloomy, and gritted his teeth: "Well, this bastard, he obviously wants to be greedy for my credit, when I can't see it?!" ”

What a retirement position is me, shit!

I know that I can't fit the cake every day, and the labor-management refrigerator is almost unfillable, so it is better to give more bonuses, otherwise I can't pay the rent this month, and I have to tear down the east wall to make up the west wall.

This is the famous CIA, when did it start to become like this?

Nilar didn't know.

But he knew that not only the CIA, but the entire America was no longer what it used to be.

couldn't help but be angry: "With such worms, how can you build a good country?" ”

Many people come here with an American dream, only to find that the gap between the truth and the dream is too great, and they are reluctant to go back, or they can't go back, so they are forced to stay here.

He looked at the garbage that littered the streets, the homeless people huddled in the corners, and the addicts who were blatantly flying leaves.

An indescribable feeling came over me.

There is some inexplicable sadness.

"I see, this big America is taking jujube pills!"

……

Deer City.

Even though it's past 12 o'clock at night, the tourist metropolis is still brightly lit and full of crowds of coolly dressed tourists.

If you put it in the bulk Soviet Union, someone in the custody will stop you and check your ID card.

After Chen Jingle dealt with the strange incident, he bought a fruit fried ice at the night market next to him.

This is also a local specialty.

What? Does Lucheng still have local specialties? Isn't Lucheng only about Northeast cuisine?

Tourist: "Boss, is your Wenchang chicken authentic?" ”

The proprietress said: "Brother, you can eat it, it's all about the chicken!" ”

Well, there are, actually.

It's true that the proprietress is from the Northeast, but the dishes are indeed local specialties.

And no one stipulates that Northeast Silver can't open a store in Qiongdao to sell local specialties.

Lucheng, or the local specialties of Qiongdao, such as coconut chicken, roast suckling pig, Dongshan goat, Baoluo powder, Lingshui acid powder, dregs vinegar, Qingbuliang, vine and so on.

And if you insist on talking about the local area of Lucheng, Gangmen seafood noodles are counted as one.

The main reason is that Qiongdao is too small, and the division of food areas is not obvious, and Lucheng is a big city, and the food of various counties and cities can be found here.

Chen Jingle has a soft spot for desserts.

Like fruit fried ice, he chose mangoes.

Freshly cut large pieces of mango, put it in the juicer, add pure milk, stir well to become mellow and smooth. After stir-frying, the dense juice will slowly turn into a small iceberg, and then poured with condensed milk and crushed peanuts to form a special fruit fried ice.

As soon as you take a bite, the dense taste, accompanied by the sweetness of the fruit, bursts out in the mouth. A cup in the summer is absolutely refreshing.

It's also good to be refreshing.

In fact, Qingbuliang also has this thing in Chen Jingle's hometown, and I don't know if it was passed over from Qiongdao.

Anyway, a lot of food in the three provinces of Qiong and the East is about the same.

Just as he was leisurely eating desserts and methodically advancing to occupy the nearby Realm Lord Temple, Li Yunting, who was in Coconut City, had a big head.

……

Although Li Yunting was ready to play the role of a floor washer, he still didn't expect it to come so quickly and have such a large scope of influence.

"Dogmatism has proven to kill people!"

He had been paying attention to the news of the two Guangxi and learning from the experience of the two Guangxi sides, but he ignored one point, Qiongdao is not the two Guangzhous, and the specific problems have to be analyzed in detail.

How to operate, it must be in line with the local situation.

There are more foreign tourists here in Lucheng than in many cities, especially in some northern hemisphere countries, such as Damao, where they really have a pathological obsessive pursuit of tropical ocean beaches.

Therefore, Lucheng gathers a large number of foreign tourists.

These people's mobile phones are not under the control of Daxia, and they do not use domestic software, so some of the videos and photos they posted on a certain tube or TT cannot be blocked in time on Qiongdao.

It also gave other countries a window to spy on the situation in Daxia.

It's annoying!

Li Yunting had a sad face, and he was ready to be reprimanded by the headquarters.

However, when he cautiously reported the matter to Qiu Yong, Qiu Yong was very calm and only said "I know".

Hiss~

Li Yunting couldn't help but gasp, and secretly pondered: "The above is going to be fully disclosed?" ”

Well, probably not.

I feel that if I make it public now, it will still be too hasty and too sudden.

However, it is not as strict as before, and some rumors are released intentionally or unintentionally, so that the people can be psychologically prepared at the same time, and they also try to make some practical preparations.

And as far as he knows, there are quite a lot of differences above, and there are several different opinions, and no one has been able to convince anyone.

At present, the more mainstream view is to continue to save strength, and to ensure that there is enough power to protect the country and the people, no matter when it is made public.

Even without that person's help.

After all, the 7,000-year-old history of Great Xia tells them that they can only rely on themselves in everything, and they can't completely pin their hopes on others.

The mountains will fall, and the rivers will dry.

If you have it, you really have it!

In the end, Li Yunting didn't figure out why, there was no way, he couldn't talk about the high-level, and he couldn't get in touch with the core information.

Forget it, let's continue to wait and see.

"Deal with that person's affairs first, I hope there won't be any more chaos, I can't afford to toss this one-third of an acre."

Now I hope that the person can "open" the various temples on the island as soon as possible, and then he can breathe a sigh of relief.

……

Chen Jingle didn't know Li Yunting's troubles, and he wasn't interested.

He had just discovered something interesting.

Throwing the finished ice box into the trash, the figure disappeared and reappeared, already above a rural village at the foot of the mountain.

He came here because he sensed that someone had attracted some special force.

But it was not the force that caught his attention, but the person who drew it.

Many people know that the Li people on Qiong Island have a folk custom that makes people more curious and fearful.

That's tattoos.

In the Li dialect, it is also called "Dadeng", and the special thing is that only women can get tattoos.

(There are also men, but they have no special meaning and are very rare.) )

This is the product of the ancient matriarchal society, and it is also the crystallization of ancestor worship and totem worship in the primitive era.

And the scary part is that these tattoos are large-scale, covering the entire face, or even the whole body.

In the traditional customs of the Li people, a woman without a tattoo cannot be buried in the cemetery of the tribe after death, and her soul will wander around and cannot find a home.

As a result, women usually start getting tattoos as children.

The entire tattoo cycle can take up to several years. It is not a few years at a time, but a few years one after another, starting at the age of eight, then ten, twelve, fourteen and so on.

They will tattoo their faces, necks, chests, and limbs with patterns or symbols of the Li culture. Different branches, tattoos have different patterns and parts.

Some have tattoos all over the body, while others only tattoo on the arms or calves.

The material of the tattoo is mainly to use hay incense and charcoal, soak it in blue-black water formed by seven days, and then use chicken feathers or rush grass to draw patterns on the surface of the skin first, and then use the T-shaped thorns of sharp white vine or red vine stem leaves, and pierce a needle into the girl's skin, so that the tattoo can be retained for life.

Ordinary people sound like it hurts, and it's not much better than piercing the bed with an arrow.

Therefore, decades ago, the state abolished the prohibition of this custom.

Today's Li women, no one still has tattoos on their faces.

Privately, however, this legacy has not been severed.

In the eyes of ordinary people, this kind of tattoo is just a national culture, but in the eyes of some special people, it is a way to obtain a certain special ability, so as to protect the family and the tribe.

Because a tattoo is not just an embroidery engraving, it's a seal!

It is the ghosts and gods of the Li people who are sealed.

The atmosphere of the ghosts and gods of the Li nationality is strong, and they both believe in and fear the ghosts and gods, thus deriving the professions related to the gods and witches such as the mother, the Taoist father, the old man, and the Li Gong, or asking the ghosts to exorcise ghosts, or divination or praying for blessings.

Tattoo artists are also one of them.

They will seal some powers that originally belonged to ghosts and gods into the human body through tattoos and embroidery, so as to achieve the purpose of using this power to keep peace.

This type of tattooing is limited in the amount of power that can be obtained, so the average woman can withstand it.

Tattoos cannot be tattooed casually, there are strict precepts.

For example, the one located on the cheeks of the face is called "Fu Soul", the upper lip means "auspicious", the lower jaw is "Duofu", the buttocks are like copper coins meaning "wealth", the torso is "fortune" and "justice", and the legs are "body protection".

These tattoo patterns can often bring some special effects to a greater or lesser extent, so that a Li family can survive in a harsh environment.

And the size of the tattoo design, there is no doubt that it is related to natural ability.

In the ancient tradition, only those who are most suitable for the most effective tattoo will be allowed to have a full body tattoo.

Such a person, even among the entire Li nationality, is an existence with an extremely high status.

……

Each branch of the Li ethnic group will have a special tattoo artist.

All of them are held by female elders of the clan.

Because tattooing is an internal matter for women, men are not allowed to participate.

Before getting a tattoo, it is necessary to prepare a tedious ritual.

It is necessary to kill chickens and set up wine, sacrifice to the ancestors, and the names of those who receive tattoos, so as to achieve the purpose of praying for blessings and peace.

Because most of the power of Li tattoos comes from their ancestors.

Different tattoo patterns are also a sign to distinguish whether they are native and whether they can get married.

If the tattoo patterns held by these five branches are gathered together and put together into a complete pattern, you will find that on this huge picture, it is a giant image standing up to the sky.

However, no one has ever been able to tattoo this pattern in its entirety.

This giant is the humanistic ancestor of the Li people, Hercules.

The name of the Li nationality is "robe long button".

The robe means ancestor, the long is big, and the buckle is strength.

In a sense, it is what we often call Pangu.

Whether it is from the opening of the world or the death of the body into all things, the "robe buckle" in the legend of the Li people is highly consistent with the myth of Pangu.

The power of the Li tattoo comes largely from the ancestors of the Li nationality led by the robe.

Chen Jingle got a complete tattoo drawing through deduction.

But he didn't need it, and he wasn't interested in tattoos.

I simply think that the first person who came up with the idea of preserving the power of the gods through a tattoo form is definitely a genius.

……

Chen Jingle's gaze fell on an ordinary two-story building below.

Many people think that the people in Qiongdao are very rich, and even the countryside is home to Dabie Ye and so on.

Not really.

The gap between the rich and the poor exists everywhere.

For the general indigenous people of Qiongdao, the state will allocate land for planting, but in the northern, central and southern areas, the land area allocated to each family is different.

Close to Lucheng, a family may have 20 acres, so plant betel nuts, coconut, jackfruit, and the income is okay.

But if there are some places in the middle of Qiongdao, it would be good to be able to get seven or eight acres.

The living conditions of this family in front of me are okay, but compared with those who live in Dabieye, they are a little worse.

There are two men and two women, a middle-aged couple and their two children.

And what caught Chen Jingle's attention was their daughter.

A little girl of fifteen or sixteen.

Update late, Orz!

(End of chapter)