Chapter 198 Tattoos and Seals

"Where did you get this short video?"

Henry, Nilar's supervisor, frowned and asked.

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

Of course Henry knew what this thing meant.

Commissioner William was ordered by the Congress to collect all information and clues related to the mysterious strong man in Daxia. Although the main person in charge is Owen from Daxia District, it does not mean that people from other divisions cannot intervene.

What's wrong with sharing worries for colleagues?
He has to thank me too!
Niral shrugged: "I saw it on a friend's TT."

TT?

The corner of Henry's mouth twitched.

The bureau throws tens of millions of chatter in the Far East every year, but they didn't find any clues. In the end, they found it directly on TT, and it was pushed.

What will others think if it spreads out?
Don't you think the Central Intelligence Agency has raised a bunch of pigs?

"Those guys in the network security department are damned! They are paid handsomely, but they don't even find out when the clues are posted on the Internet! Let me tell you, they are really wasting taxpayers' money!"

Henry cursed secretly, and suddenly thought: "Is TT's hand stretched too far? He can push us information from Daxia, and maybe he will also push our information to Daxia. No, we must find a way to let It is obedient, otherwise... hum!"

When he came back to his senses, he said to Nilar: "I can't judge the value of this item for the time being. I will help you forward it to the director. If it is valuable, your reward will be indispensable at that time. Young man, work hard, wait for me Retired, this position is yours!"

"Thank you boss!"

Nilar's face was flushed with excitement, as if he had been injected with chicken blood.

Seeing Henry laughed in his heart.

Hey, it's nice to be young.

However, when Nilar walked out of the headquarters, his face suddenly became gloomy, and he gritted his teeth: "You bastard, you obviously want to take credit for my achievements, pretend I can't see it?!"

What the hell is me when I retire, shit!

Every day, I know that there is no room in the labor-management refrigerator. It is better to give more bonuses, otherwise I will not be able to pay the rent for this month, and I will have to tear down the east wall to make up for the west wall.

This is the famous CIA, when did it become like this?
Nilar didn't know.

But he knew that not just the CIA, but the whole of Greater America, wasn't what it used to be.

I couldn't help being angry: "With such insects, how can we build a good country?"

Many people came here with the dream of America, only to find that the gap between the reality and the dream was too great, and they couldn't bear to go back, or they couldn't go back, so they were forced to stay here.

He looked at all kinds of rubbish that can be seen everywhere on the street, homeless people huddled in corners, and drug addicts blatantly flying leaves.

An indescribable feeling came to my heart.

Some inexplicably sad.

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

……

Deer City.

Although it has passed 12 o'clock at night, this tourist city is still brightly lit everywhere, and there are groups of tourists in cool clothes everywhere.

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

After Chen Jingle finished dealing with the weird incident, he bought a fried fruit ice cream at the nearby night market.

This is also a local characteristic.

What?Does Lucheng have local specialties?Doesn’t Lucheng only have Northeast cuisine?
Tourist: "Miss Boss, is your Wenchang chicken authentic?"

The proprietress: "Brother, you can eat it, the chicken will smell delicious!"

Well, actually there are.

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

No one has stipulated that Dongbeiyin cannot open a store in Qiongdao to sell local specialties.

Lucheng, or Qiongdao local delicacies, such as coconut chicken, roast suckling pig, Dongshan goat, Baoluo powder, Lingshui acid powder, dross vinegar, Qingbuliang, chicken dung and so on.

But if you insist on talking about Lucheng locals, Gangmen Seafood Noodles is one of them.

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 food from all counties and cities can be found here.

Chen Jingle has a soft spot for desserts.

Like fruit fried ice, he chose mango.

Put freshly cut large pieces of mango into the juicer, add pure milk, stir evenly, and it will become mellow and smooth.After frying, the thick fruit juice will slowly become a small iceberg, and then poured with condensed milk and crushed peanuts to form a special fruit fried ice.

One bite, the dense taste, accompanied by the sweetness of the fruit, bursts in the mouth.It's definitely refreshing to have a cup in summer.

It is also good for refreshing and refreshing.

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

Anyway, Qiong Dongxi and the three provinces have a lot of food that is similar.

Just as he was leisurely eating dessert and advancing methodically to occupy the nearby Jingzhu Temple, Li Yunting in Yecheng felt a little dizzy.

……

Although Li Yunting was ready to play the role of the floor scrubber, he still didn't expect to come so soon and have such a wide range of influence.

"Facts have proved that dogmatism kills people!"

He had been paying attention to the news from Guangdong and Guangxi and learning from the experience there, but he ignored one point. Qiongdao is not from Guangdong and Guangxi, and specific issues need to be analyzed in detail.

How to do it depends on the local conditions.

There are more foreign tourists in Lucheng than in many other cities, especially some countries in the northern hemisphere, such as Da Mao, where they really have a morbid pursuit of tropical ocean beaches.

Therefore, Lucheng has gathered a large number of foreign tourists.

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

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

It's annoying!
Li Yunting was frowning, and was ready to be reprimanded by the headquarters.

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

hiss~
Li Yunting couldn't help taking a deep breath, and secretly pondered: "Is this going to be fully disclosed?"

Well, probably not.

I feel that if it is made public now, it is still too hasty and too sudden.

However, it is not as strict as before, and some rumors are released intentionally or unintentionally, so that while the people are mentally prepared, they also try to make some actual preparations.

And as far as he knew, there were quite a lot of disagreements among the higher authorities. There were several different opinions, but no one could convince the other.

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

Even without that help.

After all, the 7000-year history of the Great Xia tells them that they can only rely on themselves in everything, and they cannot completely pin their hopes on others.

Mountains will fall if they rely on mountains, and they will dry up if they rely on rivers and rivers.

What you have is what you really have!

After pondering to the end, Li Yunting didn't figure out why. He couldn't help it. He still couldn't talk about high-level management and had no access to core information.

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

"Let's deal with that matter first, and I hope there will be no more troubles. My three-acre land can't stand the trouble."

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

……

Chen Jingle didn't know about Li Yunting's troubles, nor was he interested.

He just discovered something rather interesting.

Throwing the fried ice box after eating into the trash can, the figure disappeared and reappeared, and the location was already above a village at the foot of the mountain.

The reason why he came here was because he sensed that someone had induced some kind of special power.

But what attracted his attention was not this force, but the person who triggered it.

Many people know that the Li nationality on Qiongdao has a folk custom that makes people curious and fearful.

That is tattoo.

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

(There are also men, but there is no special meaning, and very few.)
This is the product left over from the ancient matrilineal society, and it is also the crystallization of ancestor worship and totem worship in the primitive era.

What makes people dreadful is that these tattoos are large in size, covering the entire face or even the whole body.

According to the traditional customs of the Li nationality, a woman without tattoos cannot be buried in the family cemetery after death, and her soul will wander around and find no home.

So women usually start tattooing when they are children.

The entire tattoo cycle will last for several years.It's not a few years at a time, but successive years of tattooing. The earliest ones start at the age of eight, and then at the age of ten, 12, 14 and so on.

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

Some will be tattooed all over the body, while others will only be tattooed on the arms or calves.

The tattoo material is mainly dry grass incense and charcoal, soaked in blue-black Wenshui for seven days, then use chicken feathers or rushes to draw patterns on the skin surface, and then use sharp white vine or red vine stalks with T-shaped thorns. The needles are inserted into the girl's skin so that the tattoo remains for life.

Ordinary people feel the pain as it sounds, which is no more painful than piercing the arrow and rolling the stabbing bed.

Therefore, decades ago, the country abolished and banned this custom.

Today's Li women, on the face of it, no one still has tattoos.

But privately, this inheritance has not been cut off.

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

Because tattoos are not only embroidery and engraving, but also seals!
The ones who are sealed are the ghosts and gods of the Li nationality.

The Li nationality has a strong atmosphere of ghosts and gods. For ghosts and gods, they both believe in and fear them, thus deriving occupations related to gods and witches, such as mother mother, Taoist, old man, and Li Gong, such as asking ghosts and expelling ghosts, or divination or praying.

Tattoo artists are also one of them.

They will seal some of the power that originally belonged to ghosts and gods into the human body through tattoo embroidery, so as to use this power to keep safe.

This kind of tattoo method can only obtain limited power, so ordinary women can bear it.

Tattoos can't be done casually, there are strict rules.

For example, the one located on the cheeks of the face is called "Fuhun", the upper lip means "auspicious", the lower jaw is "Duofu", the buttocks are like coins, which means "wealth", the torso means "lucky", "justice", and the legs The first part is "body protection".

These tattoo patterns can often bring some special effects more or less, so that a Li family can survive and continue in the harsh environment.

There is no doubt that the size of the tattoo pattern is linked to the talent ability.

In the ancient tradition, only those who are the most suitable and able to exert the tattoo effect will be allowed to have full-body tattoos.

Such a person, even among the entire Li nationality, has an extremely high status.

……

Each branch of the Li nationality will have a dedicated tattoo artist.

They are all held by female elders in the clan.

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

Before getting a tattoo, there are tedious rituals to prepare for.

It is necessary to kill chickens and serve wine, to offer sacrifices to ancestors, and to get the name of the tattooed person, so as to achieve the purpose of praying for peace.

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

Different tattoo patterns are also a sign to distinguish whether they are from the same tribe or whether they can marry.

The Qiongdao Li nationality has five branches: Wu Li, Qi Li, Local Li, Meifu Li, and Jia Mao Li. If the tattoo patterns held by these five branches are gathered together and assembled into a complete pattern, You will find that on this huge picture, there is an image of an indomitable giant.

However, no one has ever been able to completely tattoo this pattern on their body.

This giant is the human ancestor of the Li nationality - Hercules.

It is called "Pao Long Button" in Li language.

Robe means ancestors, long means big, buckle means strength.

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

Regardless of whether it was from the beginning of the world or the death of the body into all things, the "robe button" in the legend of the Li people is highly consistent with the Pangu myth.

The power of the tattoos of the Li ethnic group largely comes from the ancestors of the Li ethnic group headed by Pao Longkou.

Through deduction, Chen Jingle obtained a complete tattoo drawing.

But he doesn't need it, and he's not interested in tattoos.

I simply feel that the first person who came up with the idea of ​​sealing and retaining the power of the deceitful god through tattoos is definitely a genius.

……

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

Many people think that people in Qiongdao are very rich, and even in the countryside, every family lives in Dabieye and so on.

Actually not.

The gap between rich and poor exists everywhere.

Ordinary Qiongdao natives, the state will allocate land for planting, but the land area allocated to each family in the northern, central, and southern areas is different.

On the side near Lucheng, a family may have 20 acres, so they can grow some betel nuts, coconuts, and jackfruits, and the income is not bad.

But if there are some places in the central part of Qiongdao, it will be considered good if they can get seven or eight acres.

The living conditions of this family in front of them are not bad, but compared with those who live in Dabieye, they are a bit worse.

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

It was their daughter who caught Chen Jingle's attention.

A girl of fifteen or sixteen years old.

 Late update, Orz!

 
(End of this chapter)

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