Tan Muxing knocked the burly man to the ground, causing the audience to cheer like waves. Even the aborigines in the village applauded, stood by and booed, shouting for the winner.
After Tan Muxing knocked down his opponent, he quickly stretched out his hand to pull him up. He originally thought that the big man would be unhappy, but the other party took his hand back to use his strength, got up from the ground neatly, and patted his body carelessly.
The next moment, the burly man embraced Tan Muxing's shoulders, he smiled and spoke in an incomprehensible language, and patted the opponent's arm in admiration from time to time, his attitude was as enthusiastic as before the game.
Tan Muxing was embraced warmly, he was suddenly at a loss, his face was panicked, and he didn't know what happened for a while.
The colleague next to him explained: "He praised you very much."
Tan Muxing faced the big man's sincere eyes, he hesitated to speak, and said softly: "It's just that it's strong, not very powerful, and it's useless..."
"But he said you were a great warrior."
The burly man was still babbling enthusiastically, and his colleague translated the content again, saying, "It's very powerful to have strength and protect people."
Tan Muxing was taken aback.
Chu Qianli had already rushed over excitedly to celebrate Tan Muxing's first wrestling victory, and circled around him.
Hearing the conversation, Pan Yicheng smiled and said, "This is their culture. It is honor for them to win wrestling, which is similar to the sports spirit of the Olympic Games."
Tan Mu Xing said, "I'm afraid there will be conflicts if I win."
Chu Qianli: "Why? I think everyone is very happy."
The workstation and the villagers launched a wrestling project, which instantly shortened the distance between them. There was some friction and displeasure between the two sides, but now it has completely dissipated in the fierce competition, and even the old lady who watched the match smiled.
After the competition, the aborigines became familiar with outsiders, and they would come to look at them from time to time, with novelty and sincerity in their eyes.
Pan Yicheng commented: "Sure enough, it is a traditional entertainment project, just like an icebreaker game, and it is not so tense now."
Batu: "It turns out that we are only a wrestle away from building a good relationship with the locals."
The old lady wearing a small hat led people into the house again, she took down the bones in the house, ordered people to light a charcoal fire, and officially started the link of choosing an auspicious day. The scarlet flame devours the animal bone until it is cracked, and good or bad can be judged.
Chu Qianli was thoughtful, this is a traditional divination method, just like someone using tortoise shells for divination, but now they use animal bones, only the material is different.
Pan Yicheng witnessed the old lady's divination, and whispered: "Aren't you the best at these things, will the test be good or bad later?"
Chu Qianli was startled: "How do I know this?"
Pan Yicheng looked surprised: "Doesn't your master often choose auspicious dates?"
"It is true that we all choose auspicious days, but the techniques and methods are different. Maybe the two sets of standards are different. We say it is auspicious, but others say it is inauspicious. Who knows?"
She wasn't sure what day the locals would choose to go to the altar. There might be special local standards, so it was natural not to jump to a conclusion.
Chu Qianli stared at the animal bones gradually showing patterns in the charcoal fire, her fingers moved subconsciously, and she took out her mobile phone again: "I can't tell if it's good or bad, but I can know something else."
It takes a certain amount of time for the animal bones to crack. No one knows how good it is, so they can only wait quietly.
The aborigines are quiet and pious, so that the people in the workstations dare not speak loudly, and obediently observe the ceremony.
Chu Qianli used the drawing software on her mobile phone to draw. She showed the strange pattern to Pan Yicheng and said, "It's just such a thing. I don't know if it is good or bad in their culture."
Tan Muxing looked at the sloppy painting on the screen, which seemed to be put together like zigzag lines, and wondered, "Is this an abstract painting?"
Pan Yicheng looked at the pattern in a daze, and asked tentatively, "Is this the same as divination on a tortoise shell? The turtle is an elephant, and the divination is a number. Let's see if it's a lucky number?"
Chu Qianli: "I don't know that shamanism is very particular, Professor Pan, aren't you an expert?"
“…there are too many branches of shamanic culture, not sure which one it will be.”
The expert advisory group launched a rigorous academic discussion. Although everyone knew the way of divination, just like Meihua and Ziwei, they couldn't talk to each other. They were really not sure which system the local animal bone divination belonged to.
The three of them hid on one side, and the volume was also very low, so naturally they didn't attract the old lady's attention.
The villager next to him turned his head and glanced around. He glanced at the picture on Chu Qianli's mobile phone for a moment, then suddenly called out to the old lady in the front row.
The old lady was taken aback when she heard the words. She was standing in front of the charcoal fire, but now she walked slowly and came to the expert advisory group. The old lady was stooped and not tall, but she was followed by others, and she looked quite imposing.
Batu asked strangely: "What's the matter? It was fine just now?"
Everyone became friendly after wrestling, but now the atmosphere suddenly became serious.
Chu Qianli was confused, she was surrounded by people, and asked for help: "Wait, is this pattern unlucky, professor, do you have an idea?"
Pan Yicheng: "No, no, I'm not sure if it's bad luck, or if our private discussion seems a bit disrespectful..."
The three of them didn't want to disturb the people around them, they had deliberately lowered their voices, who would have expected to be called out by the people around them. They were both a little apprehensive, lest they offend each other.
The old lady saw the pattern on the screen of the mobile phone, and slowly returned to the charcoal fire.
There was a crackling sound at the scene, and the animal bone in the flames was finally completed, and cracks appeared under the high temperature, which was no different from what Chu Qianli had drawn!
Seeing this, the old lady was amazed. She bowed reverently to the charcoal fire, then played the drum next to her, and took out a robe made of countless colored strips, and presented it in front of Chu Qianli in a friendly manner.
Chu Qianli looked at the robe with a familiar style of painting, she guessed the meaning of the other party, and whispered: "This is..."
Colleague: "She said she recognized your identity as a shaman. You are indeed an omniscient person. You thought we were lying just now, so I felt very unhappy and thought we were bad."
Batu said embarrassingly: "...so you thought it was a lie when you let us in?"
The old lady looked solemn. She looked at Chu Qianli, muttered a lot, and then looked at the other people in the workstation.
"She said that you can enter the altar at will, but the rest of the people must abide by the rules. Every time you go there, you have to bathe and change clothes, and choose a date with divination." The colleague added, "According to their rules, this kind of pattern cannot go to the altar today, but you It’s fine if you insist on going, but she can’t accompany you.”
Chu Qianli didn't expect the old lady to be so talkative, flattered and said: "No, no, let's wait for her to accompany me another day, what if I go to the middle of the house and lose it..."
"Grandma doesn't think that people who know everything won't get lost." Chu Qianli always felt that the locals had inexplicable respect for shamans, but her ability to do divination didn't mean she had a strong ability to live. Obviously, she couldn't run around in this barren mountain.
Pan Yicheng definitely couldn't let Chu Qianli go to the altar alone. The two sides discussed to ask the divination tomorrow. If the time was right, the old lady would take a group of people there.
Chu Qianli and the others took the car in the morning and rushed to the village in the afternoon. It was a full day. It was evening now, and it was really inappropriate to stay any longer, so I simply waved goodbye to the villagers.
The people at the workstation were blocked from the door when they came, but they were sent out of the village when they left. The old lady even made a special trip to waddle to the door and insisted on watching Chu Qianli leave, which made her feel quite embarrassed.
After Chu Qianli put away the shaman robe, she politely bowed again and again, persuading her in embarrassment: "Grandma, please go back."
She is often indifferent to familiar people, but she will not be able to bear the big gift from strangers.
As soon as Chu Qianli bowed, the old lady also bowed, and the two began to bow to each other, but they couldn't understand each other.
Pan Yicheng comforted: "It's okay, let's go first, they have their own particulars, and you won't be able to persuade them simply by persuasion, otherwise you can say that you have a pious belief."
"Shamanism has admiration for heaven, earth, and nature. They will restrain themselves all the time, and they are not in the state of doing whatever they want." Pan Yicheng said, "We sometimes think it is too exaggerated, but this is what they firmly believe. idea."
Chu Qianli had no choice but to leave with the people at the workstation. Looking back from a distance, she always felt that the old lady was still guarding the entrance of the village and did not return to the village immediately, like an ancient and vicissitudes of rock.
Batu: "Today was smoother than I expected. They communicated much better than the previous few times. The construction of the workstation really almost broke out last time."
"That's because the little students are still a little bit capable." Pan Yicheng sighed, "I didn't hear that they almost buried the coffin. We are liars. It is really easy to get beaten by making fun of other people's beliefs."
This is similar to pointing at a person and calling him a living Buddha, which will definitely arouse the anger of Buddhists.
Batu smiled dryly, and laughed, "I'm not lying, I did hear that someone regarded her as a shaman."
Tan Muxing asked curiously: "Did they almost fight before? But I think they are reasonable."
Pan Yicheng: "This is the two sides of the matter. They emphasize being kind to others, and they firmly believe that all things have animism, and they cannot harm the world at will, including mountains, rivers and vegetation. Isn't it normal for them to conflict with construction workers?"
Chu Qianli suddenly realized, and concluded: "So we are actually negotiating with local environmentalists."
"If analyzed from the current point of view, their culture does have a simple environmental awareness and environmental protection spirit."
In the workstation, Zhou Qu did not expect the expert advisory team to go so smoothly. He thought that today was simply a spot check, but no one expected that he would make an appointment with the aborigines to go to the altar. He was stunned and said, "The efficiency is so high?"
"Batu, didn't you say that they don't want to take people to the altar?"
Batu's eyes trembled. He didn't like to talk about the shaman, so he said vaguely, "It's just a small relationship."
Zhou Qu was suspicious.
Pan Yicheng persuaded: "Old Zhou, don't worry, we firmly hold the initiative in religious work!"
Chu Qianli echoed: "We not only held friendly sports events with the village, but also exchanged advanced technology and knowledge with the village grandma in depth."
Pan Yicheng nodded: "That's right, that's right, I've never been idle and established a solid mass foundation."
Zhou Qu said in surprise: "Then you guys are pretty good? It's only been half a day and the work schedule is so full?"
It is difficult for Tan Muxing to speak from the sidelines at this time. The friendly sports event is entertainment wrestling, and advanced technology and knowledge are divination methods from the outside.
He always feels that his companions are well versed in the essence of writing work reports, and they can always sublimate and refine the trivialities in daily affairs to an unspeakable state.