Yan Xiaowei is a graduate student in the Japanese Department of Lanzhou University. However, the reason why he chose this major is not because he has a good impression of Japanese, but because he lives in a city in the Northeast with a lot of trade with Japan. It is relatively easy to find a job after graduation.
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Zhongchuan hired Yan Xiaowei for a fee of 30,000 yuan per two weeks, which was far beyond Yan Xiaowei's price. Now he got another 30,000 yuan for free. Yan Xiaowei, whose family background was average and even somewhat difficult, was naturally very happy.
However, Yan Xiaowei could also hear what Zhongchuan meant. The money he received was hush money, which meant that he could not tell the location of where he went afterwards. Therefore, Yan Translator, with a smile on his face, was thinking about how to deal with it later.
What about Zhongchuan Road?
"Fuck your mother, I'll get an extra fifty thousand yuan just by leading you around. You're such an idiot..."
Erdan, who was smiling equally happily, was using the curse words from Hong Kong's Young and Dangerous in his heart to greet Nakagawa's immediate family members.
Erdan's so-called circling was actually just for Nakagawa to see, because Erdan knew very well that if Brother Mengzi and the others were determined to follow them, Mengzi would still be able to find them even if they hid under the sand.
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And after listening to Mengzi's words before, Erdan was still a little scared. He wished that Zhuang Rui and others were behind him, and there were people following him. If something happened then, wouldn't there be someone who could help?
The rescuer.
"Is it possible that I didn't go to pay homage to the Eight-Dimensional God when I came out this time? Or was the imperial concubine punished for her adultery on the day of arrival? Why is she so unlucky that she keeps meeting those Chinese people?"
Riding on the back of a stable camel, looking at the endless yellow sand, Zhongchuan was also thinking a lot. He couldn't understand that there were more than one billion people in China, but he met Zhuang Rui and others one after another.
When he was in Xi'an, Zhongchuan got a hint from Director Ma that the other party was someone he couldn't afford to offend. Well, if he couldn't offend himself, he could always hide, right? After paying the fine, Zhongchuan left that five-star restaurant that day.
The hotel has been moved out.
But unexpectedly, when we visited the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor the next day, we met Zhuang Rui and his party again. Nakagawa really carried forward the Japanese character of being able to be both a grandfather and a grandson, and disappeared without saying a word.
Zhuang Rui and others were in sight.
But something that Zhongchuan never dreamed of happened again. In this barren desert where birds can't lay eggs, he was lucky enough to see Zhuang Rui and others again. If Zhongchuan hadn't been mentally strong, he might have just jumped on the back of a camel.
It fell off.
Zhongchuan already knew that Zhuang Rui and others were an archaeological team, which made him avoid it even more because of his guilty conscience. He even gave up his plan to visit the ruins and promised to pay a lot of money to stay away from Zhuang Rui and his group as soon as possible.
"When you find the temple marked on the map, and then go back, you will pay these people a large sum of money and let them keep the secret..."
Zhongchuan thought about it and glanced sideways at Erdan, Professor Man and others who were leading the way. In his mind, these Chinese people could be bought with money, and what Zhongchuan lacked the most happened not to be money.
But Nakagawa didn't know that even Erdan, who had only been in elementary school for six years, could see through his little thoughts. He was now thinking about whether to develop a new desert tourist spot if he could find the ancient temple.
Well, I wonder if Nakagawa would be so angry that he would vomit blood if he found out what Erdan was thinking.
When Zhongchuan was thinking about it, he suddenly noticed that the camel leading the way turned around and walked back to the road. He couldn't help shouting: "Hey, what's going on? Why did the camel team turn back?"
"Mr. Nakagawa, didn't you want to remind someone to follow you? Mr. Erdan said he was following your instructions..."
When Yan Xiaowei was translating Li Erdan's words, he wanted to laugh in his heart. You just went around in circles and then turned around. Are you so perfunctory?
"Yo Xi, tell Mr. Li Erdan that we all obey his command..."
When Nakagawa heard what was going on, he breathed a sigh of relief. Although he had a map from more than ninety years ago in his arms, if he had to run into the desert to look for the ancient temple by himself, he probably wouldn't be able to find the place.
People have long since died inside.
Nakagawa should actually be named Yoshikawa. In the 1960s, their entire family changed their surname from Yoshikawa to Nakagawa.
Yes, friends who know the history of Dunhuang can already guess that Nakagawa is the Japanese explorer Yoshikawa Xiao who used only 350 taels of silver to buy more than 400 volumes of tens of thousands of handwritten scriptures in 1912 of the last century.
Descendants of Ichiro.
Because Koichiro Yoshikawa traveled around Southeast Asia in the early part of the last century and used many unscrupulous means to steal a large number of precious foreign cultural relics and rare treasures. After returning to Japan, he invested in many industries.
After Japan's defeat, the Yoshikawa family sold many precious items looted from foreign countries, and with their strong financial resources, they occupied a place in Japan's chemical industry.
However, in order to cultivate the family's cultural heritage, the Yoshikawa family has always retained the more than 400 volumes of Dunhuang handwritten scriptures obtained from China, and spent money to find some scholars to study and organize them.
Nakagawa's father was a famous Japanese theorist on Dunhuang culture research in the 1950s and 1960s. Unlike other members of the family who were keen on business, Nakagawa's father was most obsessed with these scriptures and documents that recorded ancient Chinese civilization.
Therefore, his status in the family is not high and he is not taken seriously.
In the late 1960s, when Nakagawa's father was sorting out handwritten scriptures from China, he accidentally discovered a map in a scripture with detailed annotations indicating the location of the map.
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Zhongchuan's father, who was familiar with Chinese characters, was overjoyed when he saw this map, because it was a map handmade by Taoist Wang and was drawn in 1911 of the last century. The content on it made the old Zhongchuan even more delighted.
The annotation on the map shows that the scriptures and cultural relics unearthed from the Dunhuang Scripture Cave are not the more than 50,000 pieces known to the world, but in fact the total number is more than 80,000 volumes.
However, when they were first unearthed, more than 30,000 scriptures among them were given by Taoist Wang to an old friend, the abbot of an ancient temple not far from the North Gobi at that time.
Although the desertification of the place where the temple is located has not been that serious, the ancient temple has also been attacked by wind and sand, and the temple that was originally very popular has become very decayed.
A monk will run away if he doesn't have food or water, so there are only three or four people in the entire ancient temple, including the abbot.
And shortly after Taoist Wang sent the scriptures, the host passed away. Before he passed away, someone notified Taoist Wang and asked Taoist Wang to take good care of these scriptures.
More than 30,000 volumes of scriptures are not a small sum. When Taoist Wang transported them there, he used a lot of horse-drawn carriages. The transportation at that time was not as convenient as it is now. It took a large horse-drawn carriage to go from Dunhuang to Qiujiawo.
Three days.
Therefore, Taoist Wang did not transport the scrolls back, but built a secret room in the temple and hid more than 30,000 layers of scrolls. He never mentioned this matter to anyone later.
However, out of habit, Taoist Wang recorded the incident in detail and made a map. Lao Zhongchuan deduced that when Taoist Wang was sorting out Dunhuang handwritten documents, he might have accidentally included the map in it.
After getting this map, Lao Zhongchuan felt like he had found a treasure. In order to let the family know that research can be promising, Lao Zhongchuan never told anyone about this discovery. He wanted to find this batch of cultural relics and transport them back to Japan to create a blockbuster.
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However, due to Sino-Japanese relations, Lao Zhongchuan has been unable to come to China.
After the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan in 1972, through various connections, Lao Zhongchuan finally came to Dunhuang in the name of a scholar in the mid-1970s.
But when Lao Zhongchuan was about to go to the ancient temple, he was dumbfounded because the original oasis turned into a desert, and he could not reach the ancient temple alone.
At that time, China was still in the midst of an unprecedented revolution. The government agencies were in chaos, and the people had no concept of protecting cultural relics. After promising huge profits, Lao Zhongchuan summoned more than ten people from Qiujiawo to
A young man rode a camel into the desert.
But Lao Zhongchuan never imagined that this trip to China would be the time of his death. Near the ancient temple, strange quicksand swallowed up more than ten living lives, including the ambitious Lao Zhongchuan.
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When foreign friends died in China, the government always treated them specially and immediately launched an investigation. However, one of the people who entered the desert at that time was crazy, and the other did not know the reason why Lao Zhongchuan went to the desert, so the matter ended up being ignored.
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For Qiu Jiawo, this was a tragedy in the town. For the Nakagawa family in Japan, it did not attract much attention. Because the old Nakagawa did not explain the matter to the family, everyone in the Nakagawa family thought it was a tragedy at the time.
It was an accident that happened to Lao Zhongchuan when he was following the expedition footsteps of his ancestors.
But just last year, when Nakagawa was sorting out his father's diary, he finally discovered this shocking secret and obtained a photocopy of the map.
Unlike the 1970s, Dunhuang studies have formed a culture, and Nakagawa is very aware of the value and influence of these more than 30,000 Dunhuang scrolls.
In order not to leak the news and attract the attention of relevant Chinese authorities, Zhongchuan came to China alone in the name of investment inspection.
Although more than thirty years have passed, Nakagawa has not forgotten how his father died. He does not want to reunite with his dead father under the sand, so he has such an expedition composed of guides, desert experts and translators.
