Above the Bodhi tree is a hollow with a lotus mark, facing the altar and coffin below, if the paintings on the coffin are true.
Sakyamuni, who became a Buddha under the Bodhi tree, ascended from the ground. Did he ascend from this lotus-shaped hollow to the Western Paradise?
An empty coffin has no reason for its existence.
Could it be that the person in the coffin has really transformed into an immortal?
Go through the hole marked by the lotus,
As soon as my head reached the third floor, before I had time to shine it with a searchlight, a beam of light swept across my face. The light was so bright that I couldn't even open my eyes. Then, a pair of hands grabbed my face.
I lifted it up with my arms. When my eyes adapted to the light, I opened my eyes and almost burst into tears. I shouted almost choked with sobs: Brother!
The man in front of me is tall, wearing a chemical protective suit, with only one head exposed. Is it my eldest brother or someone else?
He grinned at me, patted my shoulder and said: San'er, you did a good job.
I didn't say anything, I was so excited that I couldn't speak at all. But at this time, I felt the coldness in the entire tomb. Different from the vitality on the second floor, here was the harshness and coldness that truly belonged to the tomb.
At this time, Zhang Kaixuan also climbed up. When he saw my eldest brother, he was obviously stunned, and then he snorted. This was obviously dissatisfaction with my eldest brother and the second brother for leaving us alone. The eldest brother seemed to know that he was wrong and did not follow Zhang.
Triumph glared and gave him a silly smile as well.
Zhang Kaixuan scanned the surroundings with his flashlight, and I also used his flashlight's light to discover that there was a palace in front of me.
When you look at the entrance, there is a plaque on the top of the palace's main entrance.
Daleiyin Temple.
If you compare two things and find something in common, you will feel that other places are more similar. The palace in front of you is almost the same as the Great Leiyin Temple where we met the Taoist priests in Mingsha Mountain, except for the size.
Just scaled down!
I asked my elder brother, what happened?
He smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying: It's a long story, let's go and see the second brother first.
At this time, Zhang Kaixuan asked: Where is Zhu Kaihua? He just came up before us, didn't you see him?
My elder brother reached out and pointed, and I looked along, only to find Zhu Kaihua, who was covered in mud, lying on the ground, motionless.
After arriving here, although it was said that our original team from Yulin Mountain had successfully reunited, I clearly felt Zhang Kaixuan's hostility. Although he didn't show it, I can only say that it was a feeling.
Perhaps in Zhang Kaixuan's heart, he didn't believe my second brother at all. He even pointed a gun at me in the Yulin Mountain Tomb, and my eldest brother also put the barrel of a gun against his head. I, Zhu Kaihua, and he were together
It was fine back then. Now after I met my eldest brother, the big lineup instantly split into two smaller lineups.
Naturally, I joined the eldest brother and the second brother, but as for the three of us brothers, he and Zhu Kaihua became outsiders. This was shown when he saw Zhu Kaihua lying on the ground. His hand had already touched it.
Waist. I have no doubt that if the eldest brother did not explain the reason why Zhu Kaihua fell to the ground.
The next moment, his gun will be pointed at his elder brother, and of course, me.
The comrades on the second floor only need to cross a hole, and they will immediately face life and death.
But my eldest brother smiled and waved his hand and said: "Children of the Zhang family, don't touch your gun, be careful of it misfiring and hurting yourself."
After saying that, he pointed to the stairs leading to the palace, and I shined a light on it. There was a thin figure covered in mud on the stairs.
On the stairs, take one step, stop, and kowtow, then take another step, stop, and kowtow.
It was that mandrill! It was walking towards the palace like a pilgrim! Seeing that pious kowtow three times at a time, I was frightened. Is that really just a monkey? I turned around and looked at my elder brother, and he also looked at it.
He glanced at me and said: I heard a noise here, and that beast has already passed by after I came here. If I had been a step too late, Lao Zhu would have suffered the same fate as him.
Zhang Kaixuan put down his hand on his waist, his eyes full of panic, and asked my elder brother: What is going on!?
The eldest brother said, I don’t know. The second brother in my family said that this is called Buddha’s salvation of destined people. The bald donkeys outside call it salvation. This palace has an evil nature.
After saying that, he bent down and picked up Zhu Kaihua who was lying on the ground. Zhu Kaihua was already small and thin, so he fought like a chicken. He even patted his butt and said to Zhang Kaihua: He's okay.
, I just knocked him out.
Then, the three of us walked through a bluestone path, and then I saw my second brother sitting in front of the tent. He was studying a drawing. He just raised his head and glanced at me, then smiled, and then continued to look.
His drawings.
I suddenly became angry. What was his attitude?
Even though I know that he is cold-tempered and taciturn, I am his younger brother, the younger brother who rushed over to me as soon as he received a false letter of safety.
It was natural for him to look at me like this. It was natural for me to understand the riddles in his letter. It was natural for me to know that the Buddhist paintings referred to Dunhuang?
My anger was mixed with grievance, like a child who got double hundred points but didn't get any reward.
At this time, the second brother put the map together, stood up, waved to me and the eldest brother and said:
follow me.
The eldest brother silently put Zhu Kaihua into the tent, turned back to Zhang Kaixuan and said: "You take care of him here."
His words had a slightly commanding tone, but I also knew his reckless temper, so I could only smile apologetically at Zhang Kaixuan. Zhang Laohei gave me a helpless smile, waved his hand, and said to me: Go.
Well. I'm used to it.
I followed my second brother around another stone wall. I saw him standing motionless in the open space, so I walked over and shined a searchlight on him. My tears instantly collapsed, and at the same time, my twenty-year-old heart was also broken.
Obsession.
There is a wooden board in front of the mound with someone carving on it.
Tomb of Zhao Jianguo.
At this moment, I don’t know why I’m crying. Is it for the madman Zhao Jianguo who left me for twenty years and showed deep reluctance to leave me before leaving—my father?
Or because the discovery of his tomb overturned all my persistence.
Or is it that the dream of reuniting a family of five that has been lingering in my heart will never come true? Even before, I have always blamed him, a tomb robber, no matter how much you love this profession or how fanatical it is
Can you stay away from home for twenty years?
From the moment I received that letter, I tried to understand him, used my low IQ to think about what he might have gone through, to comfort myself that he had his own difficulties, and to follow his footsteps again.
Follow the path he walked.
There is only one hero in every boy's heart, and that is his father.
No matter what he has experienced, what he has carried, what hardships he has, he is just a father of three children, a husband who has been waiting for him for 20 years at home, a woman whose appearance has been stained by time.
If it hadn't been for the sudden arrival of my second brother, and if it hadn't been for the letter I received from my father this year, I might have thought he was dead, and there would be no confusion.
But now, after giving me hope, this tombstone makes all my obsessions shatter in an instant!
My father Zhao Jianguo! He is dead! In this small mound in front of me!
I don’t know how long I stood still, and my tears dried naturally. I closed my eyes and said to myself: From now on, I will no longer pursue him. I only need to know what made him abandon his wife for more than 20 years.
!
Yes, death is a new beginning.
The eldest brother patted me on the shoulder, his eyes turned red, and said: We found it when we came over, and the second brother said to wait for you to come.
After finishing speaking, he almost choked through gritted teeth and said:
Waiting for you to come and take our dad home!
Our dad!
This word completely defeated me, and I fell down in front of the grave, with only one picture left in my mind.
Twenty years ago, a tall man hugged an ignorant young man and kissed him so hard that the stubbled young man's cheeks hurt.
The eldest brother took the Luoyang shovel and began to dig the mound of earth behind the tombstone. He was no longer the madman Zhao Jianguo. The shovel dance in his hand no longer had any sense of beauty. It could only make people feel that every shovel shoveled down
, are extremely heavy. This may be the only time in his life that my elder brother digs a grave without the purpose of fighting upside down.
The mound of earth was very small, and soon a black lacquer coffin was revealed. I don’t know who buried Zhao Jianguo. Maybe this coffin was made from local materials in this tomb? Even if they knew what they had done.
The situation is dangerous and it is impossible to carry the coffin with you.
After the entire coffin was dug out, the eldest brother lit three cigarettes, inserted them in front of the coffin, and said to me and the second brother: Boss, second brother, kowtow to our father, and then take him home. Our old Zhao family can dig up the coffin.
It’s someone else’s grave, but I don’t have the habit of living in other people’s graves.
After kowtowing, the three of us stood in front of the coffin. The eldest brother began to rub his hands vigorously to cover up his nervousness, and refused to move the coffin. After a while, my second brother said: "Let's go, we should see you, anyway."
Want to see.
When I opened the coffin, I even thought that burying yourself in someone else's tomb is a taboo in Feng Shui. Even if your tomb is built on someone else's tomb, it won't work. This taboo in Feng Shui should be able to
Let the corpse in the coffin transform into a corpse?
In that case, at least what I can see is a intact Zhao Jianguo, not a rotten skeleton.
Halfway through the coffin board, my elder brother seemed to have made up his mind and pushed the coffin board away. The next moment, the Luoyang shovel in his hand fell to the ground and hit my foot.
It was quiet all around, except for the heavy breathing of the three of us.
On top of the yellow silk in the coffin, neatly folded were the uniform uniforms of Zhao Jianguo and his team - that kind of denim coat.
Next to it, is a piece of human skin.
The completely peeled off human skin, eyebrows, and hair are all there.
I have seen human skin rice dumplings and human-shaped stone carvings in the Yulin Mountain Tomb. I am no stranger to skinning people.
My eldest brother punched the coffin, his eyes started to bleed, and he shouted: Who the hell did this!!
I turned around and pulled out the machete and put it on my second brother's neck. I felt that my head was completely blank and the blade was pressed against his skin. I cried and asked him: You must know what happened, right? You
You must know who skinned our father, right? Can you tell me, I beg you. Don’t say anything for my own good. If you really want to recognize me as your brother, just tell me, okay?
The second brother turned his head and stared at me, completely ignoring that the machete had cut his skin, and said coldly:
Unless he dies, everyone will die.
After saying that, he pushed away the knife I held on his neck and left.
After taking two steps, he stopped, his whole body was shaking, and without looking back he said to me and my eldest brother: Take care of our dad! Remember, this is the fate of our Zhao family!
He cried too.
My eldest brother and I burned the intact human skin buried in the coffin, put it into a can, and put it into his bag. When we returned to the tent, Zhu Kaihua had already woken up and saw my eldest brother.
He immediately jumped up and pointed at him and shouted: Damn it, Boss Zhao, why are you beating me?
After saying that, he saw the tears on my face. He softened his tone and asked me gently, "Xiao Sanliang, what are you doing? Are you crying like a hammer? Is your father dead?"
As soon as he said this, the elder brother slapped him on the head with a shovel, with great force and heavy force. He definitely didn't mean to scare him at all. His attack shocked Zhu Kaihua, and he jumped away in a hurry. This
Even though he was a fool, Zhu Kaihua could tell that something was wrong. He was jumping and shouting: Xiao Sanliang! Now I, Lao Zhu, am giving you face and not fighting back! What happened?
I quickly stopped and hugged my eldest brother, but he dragged me all the way up to hit Zhu Kaihua. Zhang Kaixuan looked at his posture and I couldn't hold him down by myself, so he came over to help. The eldest brother was unable to move due to the two of us pulling him.
He scolded Zhu Kaihua with his eyes open: "Zhu, if you say another fucking word, I will slap your mouth to pieces!"
Zhu Kaihua also has a hot temper. He couldn't stand being scolded by him like this. He wanted to jump up and fight him, but when he saw me shaking my head at him desperately, I finally said to my elder brother angrily: "Boss Zhao, don't get excited. I
Lao Zhu is not afraid of you, but just for the sake of the mistress. No matter what happens to you, it has nothing to do with me, Lao Zhu. Why are you angry at me!
After they both calmed down, Zhu Kaihua sat down next to me, came over and asked me, "Zhao Laosan, what's going on? Tell me quickly, look at your big brother's bad behavior, I, Lao Zhu, won't look at you today"
On the face of it, he will definitely be killed.
I lowered my head and said: My father is dead.
Zhu Kaihua was stunned when he heard it at first, but then he patted me on the shoulder to express comfort. Although Zhu Kaihua was poor in speech, he was definitely not confused in his heart, and he was a sensible person. Now I knew why he said such a thing.
The eldest brother would go crazy, so he went to my eldest brother to get close to him. He was also very skillful in speaking. He apologized first and said that he didn’t know anything. Before my eldest brother said it’s okay, I don’t blame you, he immediately said
The topic changed. He asked: Why did you knock me out when I came up to catch the mandrill? Could it be that he was a relative of yours?
After saying that, when I saw my eldest brother, he immediately stared at him with wide eyes. He immediately raised his hands and said in surrender: "Slip of the tongue, slip of the tongue. I'm used to making jokes with mistresses, and I really can't change my words."
My eldest brother really didn’t blame him. He just felt really uncomfortable just now. Zhu Kaihua just used it as a punching bag because he didn’t have long eyes. Now he has a good attitude, so he rolled his eyes and said: You fainted at that time and didn’t see the mandrill.
Look, you asked Zhang Laohei and Lao San what happened to the mandrill.
Zhu Kaihua turned around and asked me, I spread my hands and said, "Don't ask me, it's too damn weird, I can't explain it either."
Zhang Kaixuan also said uncertainly. The mandrill kowtowed three times at a time on the steps. Have you ever seen Tibetan pilgrims? Just like that, take one step and kowtow once. Yesterday, I heard Boss Zhao say, is that called salvation?
As soon as Zhang Kaihua finished speaking, Zhu Kaihua trembled and shouted: Damn it, thanks to Boss Zhao, otherwise I would have to kowtow? There is probably a big rice dumpling in this Leiyin Temple. How great can I be? Why do you want me, Lao Zhu?
Take refuge?
When he said this, he obviously lacked confidence. He leaned over and asked my elder brother, what happened to the mandrill?
The eldest brother answered him angrily, "I don't know, who can see it after entering the temple? Why don't you go in and try?"
We just stayed in this tent, yes, we stayed, and the eldest brother and the others brought enough equipment. There is a completely different difference between those who are prepared and those who are not prepared. There is no way, the second brother is a cheater
Not everyone can open it, and there are also some choices in what to eat. The three of us didn't follow us, and we only ate compressed biscuits along the way.
There is no day or night in the ancient tomb, and there seems to be no shortage of air in this tomb. We have not turned on the lights. After all, electricity is a real non-renewable resource in this tomb. We light the smokeless stove every day, and there is no one at all.
The concept of time is quite nerve-wracking, because you don't know how long you will stay there.
After dinner, Zhu Kaihua picked his teeth and said to me. He said he was talking to me, but in fact, he was mostly talking to my eldest and second brothers. He said: "Xiao Sanliang, we are here for a picnic, or for a fucking outing?"
In fact, I was going crazy holding it in, but I really didn’t want to face my second brother’s bitter look, so I took advantage of his words and shyly went to my second brother and asked: When should we wait?
The second brother did not remain silent this time. He looked up at me and said: It's almost time. Wait for someone.
Thinking of how concisely he spoke, I became angry again. How could he be so cool with his own brother? So I asked: Who are you waiting for?
When he spoke this time, he was still talking nonsense. I don’t know whether it was me who was talking nonsense or he was talking nonsense.
"Even if I tell you, you don't recognize me."
This time, we didn't wait too long. We estimated the time, which was only half a day, when a man climbed up from the entrance of the cave. He was old and leaning on a cane. He took a step forward. I even doubted whether he would suddenly die next step.
In this business, qualifications are very important, so even though we saw him like this, Zhu Kaihua and I didn't dare to neglect him. We greeted him kindly, but this old man was very ignorant.
, he didn’t look down on me and Zhu Kaihua at all. Even my eldest brother didn’t even look at us.
He walked directly to my second brother, who had already stood up and greeted him with a smile. My second brother's smile was already quite rare.
Who knew that the old man didn't show any respect at all, he even pushed the crutch into my second brother's face, and he was so angry that he trembled and cursed. I could even see his saliva spraying on my second brother's face:
Mr. Zhao, you are going to die in this place, why do you want to involve me, an old man?