Except for the first picture, the naked monk, we can't tell whether it is Ksitigarbha or Tathagata Buddha, the other four pictures contain information about the woman, the monk, and the four Taoist priests.
Please note that there are four Taoist priests, all three are wearing the same clothes. One of them is a baby and has no clothes. We can understand it as four Taoist priests wearing the same clothes.
The same clothes are the key point. Then there are the Taoist priests. Who are the Taoist priests related to Thousand Buddha Cave? There is no doubt that the Taoist King of Dunhuang.
From the old man in the first picture, he gets younger one by one, and finally becomes a baby waiting to be fed. Can I imagine that what the painter wants to express is that this is actually a process of rejuvenation?
The old man, the middle-aged man, the young man, and the baby are actually the same person.
The monk is kneeling down to the woman. According to ancient etiquette, this gorgeous woman is the leader of the monk.
The information conveyed by these four pictures is that the monk is introducing, or introducing, the Taoist priest's process of rejuvenation to the woman.
Up to this point, it is still very fragmentary. If we peel back the details, we can see that the only thing relevant to what we have seen and heard is the Taoist priest who returned to youth.
So, now back to the Taoist Wang we saw. Last time, we actually saw four Taoist Wang, or the faces of four Taoist Wang.
The first Taoist priest from Leiyin Temple who has been waiting for me for twenty years.
The second mummy with the face of a Taoist priest in the coffin of Yizhuang was burned by us.
The mummified monk who was beaten to death by my second brother actually had the face of a Taoist priest.
The person who was released from the sarcophagus by Zhang Kaixuan was Taoist Wang, whose military strength was as excellent as Tianzi No. 1.
What's the connection?
I trembled and said my conjecture about rejuvenation. Zhu Kaihua was so shocked that he didn't even reply to my words. He just thought about it with a solemn expression. After a long while, he said: This is not rejuvenation. But it is similar to rejuvenation.
After he finished speaking, he stopped. I was anxious and asked: What are your ink marks?! If you have something to say, please tell me.
He closed his eyes, waved his hand at me and said: Think about it for yourself, what is rejuvenation? I have seen this statement many times in ancient books. In the past, the highest state of warrior cultivation was this. There are paintings similar to this, I am in the ancient tomb
I have seen quite a few, most of them were left behind by dignitaries who were obsessed with cultivation.
Not to mention whether rejuvenation is real or not, even if it is true, it is still a person, slowly transforming from an old man to a young man in some form. Of course, he can also turn into a baby.
But from beginning to end in this process, one person is transforming. Do you understand?
I asked: Do you mean that only one person can be rejuvenated, but the Taoist priests we saw have the same face, but there are four people. This is a contradiction?
He nodded and said: To be honest, the four Wang Taoist priests we saw with the same face did not look like they were rejuvenated. This one looked more like the cloning technology that is rumored now, or that they were separated people one by one.
Having said this, he patted his head and pulled me back to the second picture. Then when he saw the fifth picture, he looked nervous and said excitedly: Xiao Sanliang, tell me, can we understand it this way.
This is not rejuvenation, but division. Or duplication? Oops, this is difficult to understand, please listen carefully.
This first old Taoist priest became young through a certain method.
After becoming younger, it is equivalent to saying that the old Taoist priest has been copied, but the copy is younger than the original body, so after copying, there are actually two Taoist priests.
Then the middle-aged Taoist priest copied it again, and a young man came out, and so on, until it was copied and finally became a baby.
If we understand it this way, in the end, the four Taoist priests in these four pictures actually exist. That is, the four Taoist priests we see. You can say that they are one person, or you can say that they are four people.
Wouldn't this explain why we met four identical people?
I said, don't ask me, I was so confused by you that I couldn't help but took out the pen and paper in my backpack and made a list of diagrams. This is also a habit I have developed recently, because most of the things I encounter make my head dizzy.
It's weird, but it only becomes clear when you outline it with a pen.
When I listed all Lao Zhu's guesses, I had to give him a thumbs up and said: Awesome, Lao Zhu, what you said, according to the logic of mythology, is indeed the case, and this also has a good influence on our previous encounters.
The four Taoist faces have an explanation.
But I have to add something to you. Remember what Zhang Tianyi said about Zhang Laohei when he was a child? When Zhang Laohei was a child, he held a human skin and said it was his grandfather. Now that we talk about rejuvenation, I always feel that this human skin
It should be related to this. You said that if a person wants to become younger and rejuvenate, I have heard a lot of such legends. Many of them are similar to turning a cocoon into a butterfly. Let’s understand it this way. If an old man wants to be younger, he must not metamorphose.
Falling off old skin?
Do you think there is any connection between these two things?
At this point, I actually can’t go on talking or thinking about it, because it’s not just Zhang Kaixuan’s grandfather, my father is the same. I can analyze outsiders calmly, but when I think about my father, my head gets messed up.
Zhu Kaihua shook his head and said: It's different. If you want to talk about rejuvenation, maybe it has something to do with shedding. What I said at the beginning is that if it is through shedding, think about it, even if a person sheds his skin and becomes young and rejuvenated, then
What will be the situation at the end of the metamorphosis?
That's a baby, plus some human skin!
This is contradictory to the four Taoist priests we saw. But now I kind of understand the purpose of your father and his group. No wonder you can be indifferent to the emperor mounting a stone. Compared with the country, rejuvenation is much more important.
, maybe what they have been pursuing is this method of replicating a younger version of themselves.
Grass! Grass! Grass!!
As he was talking, he suddenly jumped up like crazy! He grabbed my shoulders and shook them, shouting crazily: Xiao Sanliang, I finally figured it out!
Copy a younger version of yourself!
Your second brother is a copy of your father! Zhang Kaixuan is also a copy of his grandfather!! That’s why they know so much about the past! Absolutely! As for the human skin, it may be a product of the copying process.
!
I shook off his hand and said: You are so excited! If we have never met Zhang Tianyi and don’t know the story of Zhang Kaixuan, if you think like this, I have nothing to say, because my father disappeared and my second brother came to my house.
There is a gap in the middle.
During this period of time, my father copied himself, created a young man, and then pretended to be my second brother.
But have you ever thought about Zhang Kaixuan?
Before Zhang Laohei's grandfather set out, he already had Zhang Laohei. Do you understand? How to copy Zhang Laohei's grandfather? Even if he really copied one person, there would be two Zhang Kaixuan, do you understand?
After explaining to Lao Zhu, I breathed a sigh of relief. Isn’t this explaining to myself? I was also so suspicious once upon a time. But I really can’t accept the fact that my second brother and my father are the same person. However, since my father Zhao Jianguo left,
, the gap in time between when my second brother came to my house is really fascinating.
Fortunately, the existence of Zhang Kaixuan allows me to refute Lao Zhu's seemingly reasonable speculation.
After hearing what I said, Zhu Kaihua was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said: It's true! But he still muttered: Even if Zhang Laohei is not a copy, your second brother most likely is. I saw his yin and yang aura.
He looked uncomfortable all over. And he knew too much.
After saying that, he accused me again and scolded me: Why are you so clear-headed at this time? Do you just follow what I, Lao Zhu, think? Even if it is not true, can you at least comfort yourself? Now you can
Okay, my head is turning to mush again. But no matter what, the relationship between your father, Zhang Kaixuan's grandfather, and your second brother, Zhang Kaixuan, is definitely related to this picture! You have to trust your buddy's intuition!
I watched him continue to struggle with this issue, and I felt inexplicably panicked, because I was really afraid of what he could come up with to convince me - I would rather not know the answer than accept that my second brother is my father.
Facts. I just waved my hand to him and said: Come on, you? I think it’s not reliable at all, so stop guessing and look at the pictures at the back.
The sixth picture makes a big jump and has nothing to do with the previous five pictures.
Above this is a group of people building a palace in full swing. There is a plaque on the palace - Da Leiyin Temple. I suddenly became interested, this is the most important thing about this Thousand Buddha Cave!
But the seventh picture is still jumping. In this picture, a group of people are still working enthusiastically, but this one is burning a big cauldron. The style of the cauldron is simple, a bit like the Simuwu cauldron in the museum.
The tripod was placed on the fire. Some of the group of people were digging a huge piece of ore, and some were holding firewood. They seemed to be building something. This picture seems to say that the working people in ancient times were forced to work, because they were building it.
The scene was littered with several dead bodies.
This is just like when the ancient Great Wall was being built. The exhausted people discarded it casually or buried it on the spot. But what were they building?
I sighed: It’s really hard to prosper and destroy the people. Now it seems that the woman who even kneels down even the monk who looks like a Tathagata must be a powerful person similar to the emperor. I don’t know this.
Women are hard-hearted no matter what they want to do. Looking at this picture, you can tell that many people must have died in their project.
Zhu Kaihua lay on the ground and looked at the painting, studying it very carefully. After looking at it for a long time, he raised his head and asked me: Are you sure that all the people here are dead?
I wonder if it’s not a dead person, is he sleeping there? There are still stacks of Arhats sleeping there, and a bunch of people are crowded together?
Zhu Kaihua smiled thoughtfully and said nothing, but looked at the next picture.
This picture still spans, and compared to the previous pictures, the span is quite large. In terms of momentum, it is the most spectacular and majestic of all the pictures.
In this picture, there are thousands of troops. The person who drew the picture is very skilled. The picture is not big, but it gives people the feeling of a vast and boundless team. In the middle of the team, there is a high platform with a person standing on it.
Woman. Although the painting of this woman is not large, among a group of troops with a strong killing atmosphere, there is a special woman standing on a tall and tall platform, which also reflects the status of this woman. According to the previous information, this woman
, he should be the one who even the monk would kneel down.
The troops were ready to confront not another army, but a mountain.
The mountain is surrounded by auspicious clouds painted by the painter, and the fairy spirit is steaming. There is no one on the mountain, but the troops are prepared as if they are facing a powerful enemy.
Two ancient traditional Chinese characters are written on the mountain.
It was impossible for Zhu Kaihua to recognize these two characters, so he raised his head and asked me: Xiao Sanliang, what are these two characters?
My face felt a little feverish, and I scratched my head and said, "I don't know you. I don't need to mention my embarrassment. It's better not to brag about this awesomeness. I have often said in front of Lao Zhu and the others that although my brother's fighting ability is not good, but
When it comes to cultural knowledge, none of you are rivals, especially when it comes to the study of ancient characters.
But this is the second time I’ve been slapped in the face. Last time I didn’t recognize the four characters in the iron coffin where the female corpse was in Leiyin Temple. This time I didn’t recognize them again. Hey, that’s not right!
These two words are related to the words on the iron coffin where the female corpse was! This is absolutely unmistakable. Although these two words are different from those on the iron coffin, who am I? Although I was slapped twice in the face by the facts,
Is this an unexpected situation? In fact, I am very knowledgeable in this area. I used to think about this when I was idle. So if you look at it carefully, it is not difficult to see that these two words and those four are in the same relationship.
There are many similarities in the way of writing.
Zhu Kaihua rarely did anything to hurt me this time, but continued to use the flashlight to look at the next picture. Although he didn't tease me, I was not convinced, so I took out a pen and paper and copied these two words.
, thinking about waiting until I have the opportunity to visit a few old men and see if they know them. Of course, this is also necessary. The words that appear in the ancient tombs are the most revealing of information. Maybe these few words are the key?
The next picture is connected, there is no jump, it is still a military force. Only in this picture can we see that the high platform where the woman was originally was a sedan lifted up by several people. The soldiers in the picture seemed to have been beaten.
It was a tough battle, there were wounded, and some soldiers could no longer even peek, their weapons had been broken in half, and the size of the team had also become smaller.
The soldiers carrying the woman walked in front, followed closely by the huge dark coffin carried by dozens of people.
I said: It seems that they have lost the battle. There must be a high-ranking general in the army who died in this coffin, and he is preparing to transport his body back home.
Zhu Kaihua curled his lips and said: Shit. He pointed to the person carrying the coffin and said: Did you notice? This coffin seems to be very heavy. Even if it is a dark wood, plus one person, it doesn't need so many people to carry it, right? And I
I always feel that this coffin seems like their trophy. Could it be that they conquered a mountain just for this coffin?
A thought flashed into my mind, and I was surprised and said: Damn! That’s it!
I pulled Zhu Kaihua and looked at the two characters carved on the mountain, and said, "Have you seen these two characters? I didn't tell you just now, but the way these two characters are written is the same as the last time we saw the iron coffin where the female body was.
What you see here is obviously the same.
Now I immediately saw such a heavy coffin. Is the coffin heavy due to the material? They got this coffin from the mountain! That’s why there are the same words in the coffin as the ones carved on the mountain! I’m sorry for saying that!
, is this queen the female corpse in the iron coffin? The one who tormented us in Leiyin Temple?!
as expected!
The next picture is of a sacrifice. The woman was put into the iron coffin, and many people carried the coffin into Leiyin Temple.
I stretched out my hand to stop Zhu Kaihua and said: "Don't look at it now. I have to digest these things. What is this? First of all, this woman is a queen. She conquered a mountain and then got a coffin. Now we understand
Because that coffin is the iron coffin we saw.
She fought a war just to get a coffin and buried herself? Well, we can understand that maybe this coffin is very special, but what does the painting in front mean? There must be no one who has nothing to do and draws here that has nothing to do with the matter.
painting.
What is the picture made by the cauldron? Lao Zhu, I saw that you smiled very lewdly just now. Tell me honestly, what did you see?
He chuckled: It's nothing, I just have a bit of a man's sixth sense. Those messy things are not dead people. They are the people they created. Yes, that's it. Those are the people they created.
I was shocked by what he said and cursed: Have you read too many myths and legends?
He pulled me to the picture, pointed at those people, and shouted: Open your donkey eyes and see, what kind of clothes are these workers wearing?
Take a look at the clothes these dead people you mentioned were wearing.
After saying that, he asked me to look at the next picture, which was the picture of the army confronting the mountains. He pointed at it and asked me: Do you see it clearly?
I have nothing to say.
The people working there might actually be ordinary people captured by strong men, and they were dressed in rags, but those who were thrown around on the ground were wearing armor.
The equipment is exactly the same as the army in the next picture.
That picture of people working in full swing is building soldiers?
The next moment, a more tangled thought appeared, and I asked Zhu Kaihua tremblingly, "Kaihua, what do you mean, build an army? What is that? Build? Are you talking about those underworld soldiers again?! That's how it came about?! This
Girls, you are actually leading a group of underworld soldiers to fight?!"
All the things we have experienced before basically appear in the murals. But because these murals look like comic strips, they actually contain a variety of contents that make people confused, so we can only stop here and start again.
Go and straighten out your thoughts. Then things will probably work out.
There was a beautiful woman with a very high status.
There was a monk who belonged to this woman.
The monk introduced a Taoist priest to the beautiful woman. So far, it can be summarized as a story about a woman, a Taoist priest, and a monk. But this is a comic strip in a tomb, not an erotic picture, and it does not describe a story that a man likes.
This monk, this Taoist priest introduced to the woman, can be divided through a certain method. Generally speaking, it can be said to be rejuvenated.
This is the first message.
The second piece of information is that a woman has a way to create Yin soldiers and has a huge team - Yin soldiers. And this woman leads her troops to attack a mountain.
We can understand it as victory, and her prize is an iron coffin.
This woman put herself in an iron coffin.
These two pieces of information appeared in a comic strip in a tomb. They may seem unrelated, but if you look carefully, the connection between the two is not difficult to discover.
The first information is the cause of the second information.
Because of the Taoist priest's rejuvenation, he went to attack that mountain. That's why he put himself in the coffin after getting it.
If you think about it this way, the key point is actually that iron coffin and that mountain. There is an iron coffin on the mountain, and the iron coffin can rejuvenate one's youth.
Thinking of this, we couldn't wait to look at the picture below, because we vaguely seemed to have touched the answer. The next picture was the one we saw at the beginning, a woman's slender back.
In the next picture, the woman turned around and saw her face.
I heard several soldiers hissing. Is this the legendary figure of an angel and the face of a devil?
This woman also has a straight face.
The big man trembled and asked me: "Brother Sanliang, is this woman the same one who had sex with me just now? Is she also the one with the camel monument at the entrance?"
Zhu Kaihua and I looked at each other and smiled bitterly, then shook our heads and said: Not necessarily, there are many lines in this face.
There are some things I can't express clearly. Zhang Kaixuan also had such a change of face, didn't he?
We then looked down, only to find that there were no more pictures. The comic strip was gone at this point. Zhu Kaihua refused to give up and said: Damn, how could it be gone? I haven’t understood it yet.
He leaned down to look at the ground, looked up at me, his face became gloomy, and he cursed: There are paintings behind this! They were erased!! Who is so damn wicked?
The painting was erased, which makes people quite crazy. It's like renting a suspense novel in a bookstore and finding out at the end that the ending has been torn off. It made some of us vomit blood in anger, but it didn't make us jump.
There is no way, isn't it? Later, I comforted Lao Zhu and said: Be content, we have got enough, at least we understand the Taoist priest, and the owner of the tomb is that woman, and that woman was brought about by a man who brought disaster to the country and the people.
The beautiful woman turned into an ugly monster. In fact, in the final analysis, this Thousand Buddha Cave is, as the saying goes, the story of a woman, a Taoist priest, and a monk.
Zhu Kaihua suddenly interrupted me and said to himself: Thousand Buddha Cave, a Taoist priest, a woman, and a monk.
He seemed to be stunned and talked to himself for a long time. Suddenly his eyes lit up and he asked in surprise: Xiao Sanliang, let me ask you, who does the word "Thousand Buddha Cave" refer to?
I don’t know what to say: It’s nonsense. Since it is a Buddha, it must be a monk. Taoists are called gods.
He clapped his hands and said: That's right! We understood it wrong! Thousand Buddha Cave! This tomb belongs to the monk, not the woman! Only the monk is a Buddha, and neither of them is!
As soon as I thought about his words, I immediately understood that this was really the truth. Just by looking at the name, I knew that the person buried here was a monk! But then I felt strange and said, "That's what you said, but that's what you meant."
Judging from the murals, this tomb should belong to a woman. Also, until now, except for the mummy monk, we have never seen any other monks, right? That mummy can be regarded as a monk, but is it actually a Taoist priest?
Zhu Kaihua pointed at me, a little annoyed, and said, "Don't spoil the fun, okay! Don't care about anything else. Since this tomb is named this way, it is definitely a tomb with monks as its core. This is absolutely true! Which family does Leiyin Temple belong to?"
That's from the Buddhist family! We didn't go up to Leiyin Temple last time! I think the real master must be up there! His grandma's, I actually defeated the Buddha's bucket this time!
I saw that he was so excited, and the words he said were still stuck in his stomach. What I wanted to say was that there was another strange thing.
The monk in the comic strip kneels down in front of a woman. It is obvious that the woman is much more awesome than the monk.
We once met this woman in Leiyin Temple and fought with her for a long time.
If the upper floor of Leiyin Temple is that monk.
Can we understand that this is the tomb where the woman and the monk are buried together?
Then the name of Thousand Buddha Cave is strange! To use the simplest analogy, you and your younger brother are buried together. Would you sign the tomb chamber with your younger brother's name? This is against the rules!
But I didn't ask this question after all. Why bother to attack Lao Zhu? There is so much that I don't understand. If I say it again, it will only make the crowd more confused.
Things here have come to an end, and Buck Tooth Si still hasn’t woken up. This man was quite popular in the team before. His comrades took turns carrying him on their backs, and fed him some water during the process. We waited until we were ready to leave.
On the second floor, the big man suddenly shouted: Oops, the fourth child has a fever!
I looked at the buck-toothed face that was originally swollen, but now it looked pale and was covered in cold sweat. The big man took out the baggage and gave him an injection. I don’t know what kind of medicine he was given.
At least his comrades wouldn't harm him, right? After the injection, the big man even took off his coat to wrap it up for him, then smiled apologetically at me and said: "Fourth Brother, has always been the most skilled among us, and has good health."
His quality is also the best, so he is unlucky this time.
Zhu Kaihua was anxious to set off, so he waved his hand and said, "Put him on your back quickly and hurry up. Sprinkle some medicine on yourself first. The second floor is full of flea fleas. If you get bitten by then, don't blame me for not warning you."
When we arrived on the second floor, we saw the spring-filled scene inside. Needless to say, the soldiers were surprised, and there was no need to joke that they had never seen the world. It could be said that the things we saw in the tomb were put outside.
No one can accept it, and they can't help but sigh in their hearts: Actually, our old China still has a lot of awesome things that can scare a group of scientists to death, but it's a pity that the good things are buried in
In the tomb.
In the tomb on the second floor, except for fleas, there was nothing that threatened us. We had a lot of insecticide spray prepared when we came, so we were not harassed. We had just walked a few steps, but the big man
He stopped me and said: Brother Sanliang, wait a minute.
I glanced at him and asked: Is something wrong?
He said: We have to wait here.
Zhu Kaihua, who was not very fond of Zhang Tianyi's soldiers, became very angry when he heard this, and shouted: "What are you waiting for?! If you are worried that this big buck-toothed man will have a fever and die, you can send him out with two people."
The big man was not annoyed and smiled. Only then did I realize that this big man was quite handsome. He could show his full mouth of white teeth when he smiled. He had the temperament of a sunny and handsome man. He said: "Brother Zhu, don't worry, there are more to come."
My brothers didn't follow us, so we'll wait for them to join us.
Seeing that both of us didn't understand, he continued: "Actually, it's nothing. The chief is just worried that we are being watched, so he asked others to follow us. In fact, our people are still hanging behind our butts. In this way, even if someone
They will also be dealt with after us.
I said "oh" and said to Lao Zhu: "Zhang Tianyi is being cautious. Don't be anxious. Let's wait here. We happened to have been on the road for such a long time and we need to take a rest. Doesn't this buck-toothed old man still have a fever?"
Living?
Although Zhu Kaihua was reluctant, his personal consciousness must obey the organizational arrangements, right? In the end, we set up tents on the first to second floors. This time we were fully prepared, and we even cooked some porridge. I couldn't help but sigh, these
Bing, you really enjoy it.
In the tomb, there is no distinction between day and night. When we turn on the lights, it is day, and when we turn them off, it is night. It is boring to wait, so we leave two people on duty, and the rest go to the tent to rest. On the road ahead
You're not sure what you're going to encounter. Wouldn't it be nice to have more energy?