Chapter 1: Tattoos
My name is Roger Tang, my grandpa's name is Rhett Tang, I've been with my grandpa since I was little, my parents left home when I was very young and never came back, it's like they disappeared.
My grandfather had a trade, which was tattooing, and he owned a tattoo parlor, right at the head of the village.
According to normal speaking, the rural areas of the tattoo less people, grandpa this work should not earn a few dollars, but the strange thing is, grandpa's tattoo store not only the door of the city, there are many people from abroad, that is, in the village, grandpa is also very respected, looking for him to ask for tattoos of countless people, so that I envy is that into the grandpa tattoo store, there are all kinds of beautiful women, tattooing is a technology, but also the welfare of the work! Tattoos are a skill and a benefit.
Grandpa's tattoos are so popular because he tattooed something too magical, not. Maybe it's too evil. I still remember to this day that grandpa tattooed village chief's beautiful wife, and often found it bizarre to the core.
Speaking of village chief, he should be the village's richest, married wife is also beautiful, willow eyebrow thin waist, body concave and convex, skin white tantalizing, but the worst thing is, this village chief forty years old have not a child.
Later village chief's wife found my grandfather, I was curious to eavesdrop, and found that they actually discussed the matter of the child, and then village chief's wife with the grandfather into the tattoo room, and a tattoo is tattooed for several days, one to the noon over.
About a month later, village chief's wife actually pregnant, was young, a mouth identified grandfather and village chief's wife have adultery, then hated grandfather, that he is a stinking hooligan, are a handful of years old, but also give me a whole uncle out.
Of course, now grow up to understand, village chief plowed these years have no children, grandpa this age even more can not, the problem should be in that tattoo above, but how I could not understand how a tattoo can make people pregnant?
Later village chief's wife gave birth to a baby when difficult labor died, but the child is alive, is a girl child, water spirit water spirit, with village chief's wife as beautiful.
village chief to wife is really love heavy, at that time sad hunger strike, fortunately, grandpa went to persuade a few hours, he only then eat to live again.
Later on, grandpa took me to pay respect to village chief's wife, and when burning paper money, he kept sighing, and his expression was very guilty, he muttered: "Personal filth, Bodhisattva which can be tattooed on the body, that there is retribution, I should not have tattooed this Guan Yin for Bestowing Children, alas, you should not have tattooed this Guan Yin for Bestowing Children, alas, you should not have tattooed this Guan Yin for Bestowing Children. Children, alas, you love him too much! You love him too much! You don't even want to die in order to give him a child!"
I didn't understand at that time, but now I think about it and realize that the grandfather tattooed the village chief's wife with the Guan Yin for Bestowing Children so that she could get pregnant, but Bodhisattva can't be tattooed on people, otherwise there will be retribution, so the village chief's wife died.
Do you think this is evil? A tattoo can have this effect? It can make you pregnant and kill you?
Besides this, there's another evil thing, also about tattoos.
In the village, there used to be a street gangster with nothing to do, nicknamed Scar - brow, then went out to the city for a few years to become a big brother, and when he returned to the village, he insisted on pestering my grandpa to give him a tattoo of Guan Yu.
Guan Yu body tattoo, from now on is a social person, and domineering, have face, Guan Yu pay attention to loyalty and righteousness and benevolence and courage, is suitable for the road to mix him.
However, his grandfather refused to give him a tattoo, and he said that Scar-brow's life is not hard, and that the tattoo will not be able to carry the Guan Yu, and that something will happen to him in time.
But Scar - brow this character how can stop, turn back to my grandfather's tattoo parlor to burn, but also find people to pick my family's ancestral graves, but also want to kidnap me, can be described as all kinds of extreme.
At that time, I was still young, my grandfather took into account my safety, I had to compromise, but my grandfather had a word in advance, if anything happens, he is not responsible!
Scar - brow see grandpa promised, who cares so much, grandpa said whatever he nodded, and then grandpa successfully gave him a tattoo of Guan Yu.
As expected, about a week later, this Scar-brow had an accident.
I heard that when he was doing something nasty with a girl in the Pod, he was suddenly bitten by a snake.
The snake is a grass snake, non-venomous, in the countryside can often be seen, but the strange thing is, Scar - brow directly foaming at the mouth, the body convulsions, sent to the hospital has been dead, some people say, at that time, saw Scar - brow behind the Guan Yu opened his eyes, extremely oozing.
In the past, when I was small, I thought Scar - brow is dead in the mouth of the snake, but now it seems, should be that tattoo is too evil, kill Scar - brow may not be the snake, but open-eyed Guan Yu!
But that's just the tattoo, it's too weird.
Grandpa also said that if he tattooed Guan Yu on Scar-brow's chest, maybe nothing would happen, but if he tattooed it on his back, Scar-brow would die for sure, and he couldn't carry it!
People like this deserve to die, and they are notorious for raiding people's graves, and they want to touch my grandson, so they are looking for death!
After this, I became more and more curious about my grandfather's tattoos, and when I was fifteen years old, my grandfather finally agreed to teach me the tattoo technique.
Five years later, I learned almost all of my grandfather's tattooing techniques, and that's when I realized that my grandfather's tattoos are not ordinary tattoos at all.
There is a kind of evil tattoo called Tattoos of Gods and Ghosts, and it is very bizarre.
Speaking of Tattoos of Gods and Ghosts, it has to start from the history of tattoos.
Tattoos were called Ink in ancient times, or NI in ancient Chinese, which means that a needle with ink was used to pierce the bottom layer of the skin to create some patterns or words on the skin. Tattooing various patterns on the body for good luck and worship has a history of two thousand years in China.
This kind of tattoos with Yin - related magic has the effect of warding off evil spirits, transferring fortune, attracting peach blossoms, and keeping peace, commonly known as Tattoos of Gods and Ghosts.
Grandpa is the 18th generation of Tattoos of Gods and Ghosts, and I am considered the 20th generation because there is a gap between my dad and me.
Grandpa said that there are only a handful of people who know Tattoos of Gods and Ghosts nowadays, and it is possible that we are the only family left.
Unfortunately, after learning Tattoos of Gods and Ghosts, I was not allowed to use them, but only to get some ordinary tattoos.
Grandpa said that Tattoos of Gods and Ghosts is a kind of Yin - related magic, the degree of evil can be imagined, and we Tattoos of Gods and Ghosts even use human body as a painting, tattooing ghosts and gods, invoking the yin and yang, and I'm not good enough, I can't touch it now, otherwise I'll lose my life.
However, the day before this year's Ghost Festival, my grandfather suddenly left home, and before he left, he told me that there would be people and ghosts coming to ask for tattoos at the Ghost Festival, and that if people came to ask for tattoos, they could give them to him, and he would save my life. If you are a ghost, don't give him a tattoo, or the consequences will be unimaginable.
And I must remember, only Yang - themed Tattoo, never Yin - inspired Tattoo!
Tattoos of Gods and Ghosts are divided into yin and yang, Yang - themed Tattoo is orthodox, while Yin - inspired Tattoo is evil but more effective.
The two tattoo techniques are similar, but the embroidery and tattoo pigments are very different, which is a bit scary, but Yang - themed Tattoo is very orthodox, basically not dangerous, and most of the tattoos are yang, such as gods, immortals, dragons, tigers, etc. Yin - inspired Tattoo, on the other hand, has a different style of tattooing.
Yin - inspired Tattoo is different, its pigment ... used is evil spirits and ghosts! The tattoos are also evil, but the effect is a hundred times that of the Yang - themed Tattoo. On the first day of my initiation, my grandfather told me never to tattoo Yin - inspired Tattoo!
Although I have learned the skills of Tattoos of Gods and Ghosts, I have never gotten a tattoo, whether it is Yang - themed Tattoo or Yin - inspired Tattoo, I have never touched it, and even more so, I do not understand how to use ghosts to make tattoo pigments.
I've never seen a ghost before, and I don't know if there are any ghosts in this world, so when Grandpa told me that there were ghosts looking for me to get a tattoo, I was almost confused, thinking that the Ghost Festival hadn't even arrived yet, and the bad old man started talking about ghosts? However, when I heard Grandpa talking, he sounded very serious and didn't sound like he was talking nonsense, so I hurriedly asked him what was going on. And where was he going?
But grandpa did not explain too much to me, just said to go to settle a decades-old grudge, explained things for me to do as I say, after that he left, specifically where to go, to do what he did not say, but at that time he looked very anxious, his hands were shaking, this is the first time I have seen grandpa have this situation.
Because of the worry, the next morning I called my grandfather, want to ask him how things are done, when to come back, but his cell phone is actually turned off.
Just at this time, a person came into the tattoo parlor, a pregnant woman with a big belly.
The pregnant woman's name is Emma, from a village, we all know each other, and the strange thing is, what is she doing here? Pregnant women still want to get tattoos?