Salt woman and white lotus

3. Makeup

After becoming a monk for ten years, you can apply for a monk's jade card. Unfortunately, although Chi Zhongying has become a Taoist partner with Bai Yan, this does not change the fact that she has not been a monk for less than ten years.

So Chi Zhongying's identity card was still a wooden one, but with a jade stone embedded in it - proving that she was a Taoist companion of an immortal, and someone who was preparing to become an immortal.

Bai Yan had many false identities, and the three jade cards that monks could hold had all been exhausted.Now Xuanhua's identity has been exposed, so when Chi Zhongying's identity card was installed with jade, she went to cancel Xuanhua's identity by the way, and chose a more useful one from other identities.

"Yan" is one of the dao names that Baiyan uses to disguise her identity. Under this identity, she has nothing special about her, she is an ordinary fourth-rank casual cultivator.

There are inconspicuous ones, and naturally there must be eye-catching ones.

After completing the identity cards, the two drove home together on the cloud. On the way, Chi Zhongying finally saw Bai Yan's new false identity.

Bai Yan chooses from thousands of false identities, and chooses a special one: Bapincheng Makeup Artist, Send Voice.

Compared with Xuanhua's status and fame, Jisheng's status is not lower than that of Xuanhua, not even inferior to Baiyan.

"What is a makeup artist?"

"A makeup artist can give people a good fortune. Appearance, temperament, race, cultivation talent, lifespan, fate...everything you want, a makeup artist can reshape you and let you have it. You still You, but you are not the original you."

Chi Zhongying understands, this is probably the legend: "This child is not good, it's too bad, put it back and be born again."

In short: a perfect wash and retrain.

But the rarer something is, the harder it is to shape.

"I don't know where the makeup technique comes from. I learned it from a teacher surnamed Zhu." Bai Yan weighed the jade card in his hand and recalled, "It's not just me, Baimian also Learned makeup. I suspect he's better than I am now—you may have had his makeover."

Chi Zhongying: Oh, it turns out that I was stuffed back and reborn again... I was reborn by white noodles.

Rounding off the flour is her mother?

This thought popped out of her mind involuntarily, making her shiver.

"Speaking of which, your creative power is probably related to makeup." Bai Yan thought for a while, "Intermediate makeup has something in common with your creative power, but at a higher level, you can It can't be done."

"Then can I learn?"

"Hmm... I'll ask the teacher later. It is said that not everyone can learn the makeup technique, and learning it rashly may cause danger."

However, it doesn't matter if you study or not.What Chi Zhongying really cares about is the research on the way of space.Knowing that her family is doing well and wanting to see them is not in conflict, she still wants to go home to visit her family occasionally.

"By the way, if you can't learn it, you can also ask him some other questions. His identity seems to be very special, maybe he also came from another world."

"Other worlds..."

There are so many secrets in these countless spaces that rarely meet.

4. Gender

Since Chi Zhongying and Baiyan formed a bond, Chi Zhongying's status has risen rapidly.

Every time she saw Mo Anyu helplessly call her senior sister and salute her, Chi Zhongying felt a sense of humor in her heart.

"By the way, why do you call me senior sister? Shouldn't you be calling her sister-in-law or sister-in-law?"

Bai Yan, who was asked by Chi Zhongying, slowly put out a question mark: "What kind of strange name are you calling?"

"It was fabricated from the comparison of the titles in my family. The elder sister's husband is brother-in-law, and the elder brother's wife is sister-in-law... so the senior sister is called like this?"

"It's generally not like this here. Lovers are generally regarded as a whole. My younger brothers and sisters and their partners all call me senior sister, and I call their partners foreign juniors or foreign juniors. Suyuan and Mo An I want to call you my senior sister, Suyuan is your younger sister, and Mo Anyu is my younger brother.

"Because, after we get married, you and I are a whole. 'Outside' is a modifier that shows that your relationship with them is a little farther than me and them."

After Bai Yan answered, he touched his chin and asked, "What kind of status am I with you?"

Chi Zhongying was immediately stopped by the question.

Although the same-sex marriage law had been passed together with the Third Gender Act in the year of her death, the specific titles vary and there is no definite number.At that time, Chi Zhongying didn't expect that she would like girls, and she didn't bother to know how to call them.

She told Bai Yan the truth.

Baiyan: "Do you rarely marry people of the same sex?"

Chi Zhongying: "Very few."

Homosexuality itself is a very small group, and many of them are just for fun, and very few people really intend to form a legally valid family.

It is more convenient for women in this aspect. Under the remnants of traditional backward concepts, they are "outsiders" who will marry out of their families. Even if the older generation has a feudal and backward thinking, it may not be too much hindrance; Still not many.

"It's really strange. I always thought that it is easier for people of the same sex to resonate with each other than people of the opposite sex with completely different ways of thinking and physical abilities?" Bai Yan didn't understand.

"But empathy is not necessarily equal to love. It's like meeting bosom friends in high mountains and flowing water. And our side, unlike Yunshu World, has so--so many ways of reproduction between sex. The reason why many people get married is not Love is purely for living together and for the birth of the next generation."

Chi Zhongying told Bai Yan again about the customs and prejudices in her hometown.

"...so boring." Bai Yan commented.

"Wouldn't ordinary humans here be like this?" Chi Zhongying was a little curious about the history of reproduction here.

"No." Bai Yan thought for a while, and explained the situation here to her.

There is no such thing as incense in the cloud book world. Compared with the inheritance of blood, human beings value the inheritance of ideas from generation to generation. The torch of knowledge and civilization is much more important than a handful of ethereal incense.

To put it simply, the family structure here is similar to Chi Zhongying's understanding of monogamy and multiple concubines; most people don't have concubines, and only when they intend to stay behind but cannot meet their needs through reproduction with their partners, they will Enable concubine this kind of special "marital property".

"But it's not necessary," Bai Yan said, "because it's really rare that you can't reproduce with your partner, and not everyone wants to have a child to disturb their closeness with their lover."

"Indeed, even men can have children here." Chi Zhongying complained.

"Huh? No."

"Do you see Du Yue?"

"He's autologous, and he's not purely male."

Chi Zhongying: "???"

What is "not considered purely male"?intersex?

Probably seeing Chi Zhongying's doubts, Baiyan popularized the concept of gender here.

The gender of Yunshu World is mainly divided into two categories: male and female, and there are many sub-categories under it.

Taking Du Yue as an example, he is a male, but in fact he has to be further divided into subdivisions of self-breeding, and there are also rice demons of the same kind.If he was female, he would be classified as female-self-breeding.

There are also other special subcategories, such as asexual and intersex people, who usually determine their gender category by their own cognition.

Some of the subdivisions are cross-sex, others are only for men or women, and there are at least thirty kinds in total.

When Chi Zhongying heard this, she suddenly thought of Feng Mang, "What about the Meizu? What are their subdivisions?"

"The Mei people are a special case. Their sexual organs can easily transform between the two gender categories. Even if they are confirmed to be male, they can temporarily change into a female appearance. Therefore, the Mei people are classified as the first male and female. Three gender types."

Maybe one day in the future, when Feng Mang no longer only has his red tasseled gun in his eyes, Chi Zhongying will still have the opportunity to be his bridesmaid.

"But even if it's just the most ordinary men and women, after stepping into the road of practice, there is no particularly big difference - because many exercises can easily break people's traditional gender concepts.

"Before, Suyuan joked that if the one in her family really wanted a child, she would definitely use a secret method to let him have a child."

Mo Anyu is an ordinary human male and does not have this ability. Using the secret law can completely allow him to bear the responsibility of gestating the embryo and giving birth.

It's just that when the time comes, the fetus may not grow in the abdominal cavity, maybe it will grow on the father's heart orifice like Yun Wuque, and it will need to be cut out manually after it grows up.

After Bai Yan finished speaking carefully, she sought approval from Chi Zhongying, "Look, gender is actually the least important thing."

Chi Zhongying carefully recalled everything she had experienced since she came to this world, and suddenly said: "No wonder, since I came here, I have never been aggrieved because of my gender."

These are all very easy to understand for Chi Zhongying. The gender difference should not be as big as everyone in the society thinks. arrogant.

Physiological differences make men and women have their own strengths. This is just two flowers blooming, each showing a branch. If one of them is not as good as the other, it will never be the fault of gender itself.