I couldn't understand what the Taoist priest was talking about. He talked about his family's ancestor, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, etc. It sounded quite mysterious, but what does this have to do with my father and the others? But I couldn't interrupt him.
That's so rude.
"Everyone knows that Dunhuang Taoist Priest Wang Yuanlu sold Mogao Grottoes scriptures for a few coins and became a sinner through the ages. However, a few people understand Wang Patriarch's foresight and foresight to be despised by the world. The Taoist sect has been in decline since the Song Dynasty.
But when it comes to making ends meet, what wealthy family would go so far as to sell national treasures to make a living without paying so much respect to the Longhushan Celestial Master who is proficient in Feng Shui and Kan Yu? It’s ridiculous to think about it, little benefactor Zhao, do you know why?
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I shook my head. I really didn’t understand this time. There was a Taoist priest Wang Yuanlu in Dunhuang. I know this. He has been notorious for thousands of years. There is also a Taoist Wang Pagoda in Dunhuang. Many tourists who come to Mogao Grottoes can’t help but spit on it.
One mouthful, who asked this guy to sell the national treasure, how many scriptures in Mogao Grottoes were sold to foreigners by this guy? Now I heard this Taoist say that it seems that this Taoist Wang is the one he said, who laid down the Thirty-Six Heavenly Gangs and the Seventy-two Earthly Demons.
Zangou Bodhisattva is a master who bets on the luck of both Buddhism and Taoism. Is there a hidden secret in this?
"A hundred years ago, Patriarch Wang paid money and left a couplet on Longhu Mountain, "The Taoist Tower of the King at Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, and the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang in Tongguan Terracotta Warriors." People still cannot bear to mourn after seeing this. Patriarch Wang risked his life and was determined to be infamous for thousands of years.
, do you understand this sentence?"
If I had not been chased by the Yin soldiers, had not discussed the Yin soldiers with Zhu Kaihua, had not learned from him that the Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum were far from as simple as we know, and had not known that those warriors and horses with strong killing intent were just like the Terracotta Warriors and Horses, I would have
I definitely just think this is a neat couplet.
But there is no if. I understand the meaning of this couplet.
What corresponds to the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum in Tongguan is not the Taoist King's Tower, but the thousands of Yin soldiers hidden in Dunhuang.
Now the meaning of the Taoist priest's previous words has become clear. Wang Yuanlu came to Dunhuang knowing that there are thousands of Yin soldiers in Dunhuang, and he went to Longhu Mountain to destroy the corpse evil here? In this way, this Taoist Wang, who has been notorious for thousands of years, is not
He is a villain, but a heavenly master who cares about the world? So, is there really another hidden reason behind what the official history calls his behavior?
But then I thought about it, something seemed wrong, so I asked the monk: Your Patriarch Wang Yuanlu lived a hundred years ago, but this Leiyin Temple has a much longer history, not to mention Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.
, there is such a gap of so many years, how can there be talk of a battle of skills? Moreover, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva has been here for so many years, and it is obvious that it can't do anything to those evil soldiers. Your Patriarch Wang can defeat this place, doesn't it mean that he won the battle of skills?
The Taoist priest sighed, and finally the peaceful smile on his face was replaced by a bitter smile, and he said: "If the Patriarch can defeat the Yin soldiers here, then you can still see the momentum of thousands of troops?"
It makes sense when I think about it. We were chased by Yin soldiers when we came here. This means that Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and King Tianshi from Longhu Mountain were helpless. Otherwise, they would still be seen by us.
?At this time, I was confused again, so I said to the Taoist priest: Immortal, please explain the matter in a slightly organized manner. This kid's head is spinning because of you.
"I don't know when the corpse evil here originated. Jin Qiaojue, a monk from Silla Kingdom in the Tang Dynasty, practiced in Jiuhua Mountain. Buddhists said that this man was the reincarnation of Ksitigarbha. Later, he actually sat here and incarnated. He wanted to use all sentient beings.
When the power of mind was broken, when Buddhism was prosperous and Taoism fell, it was considered to be a monstrous talk to deceive the public. The contemporary founder of Longhu Mountain made a bet with him. The bet was that the one who destroyed this place must not be a Buddhist. Jin Qiaojue's Dharma Body is here, Dunhuang
It has been peaceful for thousands of years, but a hundred years ago, China suffered from internal and external troubles and corpses were everywhere, and the air of death was higher than the air of life. Patriarch Wang was afraid that the corpse disaster would happen again, so he established a large formation, and even the Taoist Wang who has been despised by the people to this day."
"But what does this have to do with my father and the others?" I couldn't help it anymore and asked the Taoist priest.
"No one won the bet back then. Moreover, the activities of the underworld soldiers have become regular. It has been an endless cycle for twenty years. The last time, the person who came here was Zhao Jianguo, your father."
My father, what is he doing here? Is it because of the corpse disaster here? Just kidding, why is he joining in the fun of something that even Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva can't do anything about?
Seeing that I remained silent, the Taoist priest continued: Zhao Jianguo said that this place is a trap. The old monk of Jiuhua Mountain cannot break it, and neither the Tianshi of Longhu Mountain can break it. He can.
So he asked me to stay here for twenty years and wait for Zhao Sanliang, and I will wait.
"Game? My father didn't say what game?"
"Can't say, can't say."
"It's hard to say, so my father didn't say anything else except this?"
"have"
"What did you say?"
"To seek the skin of a tiger, to seize the fate of heaven, you also need to do your best."
What the hell is this? Does this sound like what a rough guy like my father, Zhao Jianguo, could say? I was young and ignorant when he left, but his wildness is something that no one in Zhaojia Village can do.
Everyone knows it, otherwise he would be nicknamed Kuangren Zhao? Would he say such words? But the Taoist priest in front of me has no need to lie. Could it be that I really made a mistake? My dad is really a
A man of letters?
I asked the Taoist, my father said he wanted to destroy the corpse evil here. I know who he is. Don’t tell me nonsense about caring about the world. He is not an expert. Could it be that he ran away because he was full?
Are you here to play, or is there something precious here?
The Taoist priest smiled bitterly and said: Donor Zhao, you don't understand. You don't know what your father got in Li Zhongzhi's tomb in Yulin Mountain, let alone the meaning of that thing. Zhao Jianguo doesn't want to do that, but he has to do it. There are some things.
It has nothing to do with personal preferences. Back then, they were willing to take risks, and it was easy to get in but difficult to get out. Now you can understand the painstaking efforts of Patriarch Wang. The things involved in the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes are far beyond the scope of our understanding.
I wasn't happy when I heard it. I told the Taoist priest that I didn't understand and didn't know what my father went through in the Yulin Mountain Tomb. You always understand, but you told me.
The Taoist priest said: I don't know, I really don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't wait for you here for twenty years.
Later, my conversation with the Taoist priest was boring. I don’t know if people who can read this story can understand the general outline of the matter, because I am not a good narrative person, so I can only briefly summarize the plot here.
, this was also what I was thinking at the time.
The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor and here are the kind of Yin soldiers we encountered in the desert. The Leiyin Temple in Mingsha Mountain is actually the physical burial place of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva in Jiuhua Mountain. The widely circulated saying "I will not go to hell"
Whoever enters hell will not become a Buddha unless hell is empty." Ksitigarbha's original intention should be that he would not become a Buddha unless the evil forces here were eliminated. But obviously, he failed.
Then there is the Taoist priest King Longhushan a hundred years ago. He should also know the existence of the Yin soldiers in these two places, so he came to Dunhuang and wanted to use the Taoist Tiangang Disha formation to destroy the Yin soldiers. This should be because he knew that he could not do anything.
Because of this, otherwise he would not have left the couplet "Taoist Tomb of the King of Mogao Grottoes" in Dunhuang in front of Xialonghu Mountain. However, Taoism was weak, so he had no choice but to fight against Buddhism and gain knowledge of Taoism for hundreds of years.
Luck, but no matter what the purpose of Taoist Wang was, the damage to Dunhuang culture was inevitable, and it is impossible to say what the merits and demerits were.
Then there is my father Zhao Jianguo. I don’t know why he came here. I speculate that he got something about this place from the tomb of Li Zhongzhi in Yulin Mountain. There is some hidden secret in it that forced him to come here to destroy the evil soldiers. Before setting off.
Before, he met this little Taoist priest who admired his ancestor very much, and asked him to wait for someone here, that is me, Zhao Sanliang, and it will be twenty years later.
These twenty years are the key here.
Not only are the Yin soldiers here appearing in a cycle of twenty years, but there is also a plan: I will come here twenty years later and meet this Taoist priest.
If this was a game planned by my father, it would be too big. Every step was so accurate. From the time I received the letter, I entered Li Zhongzhi’s tomb, dug out stone carvings in the village at the foot of the mountain, obtained Buddhist paintings, and
I came to Dunhuang to look for it from the Buddhist paintings. I met the Taoist priest again. Although this arrangement was so big that it was alarming and he accurately grasped every step, but according to common sense, if my father calculated it properly, it could still be realized, but
There is another step that can be omitted, which is entering the tomb of Li Zhongzhi.
If we come to Dunhuang and find this Taoist priest, we only need to go to the village at the foot of Yulin Mountain to dig out the stone carvings and find the Buddhist paintings he left behind. There is no need to go to the tomb of Li Zhongzhi in Yulin Mountain.
This cannot be a flaw in his calculations, nor is it possible that his flaw pushed us into such a dangerous place, so this extra link is not only superfluous, but necessary.
If we think carefully about the information we got from Li Zhongzhi's tomb, we can completely understand that this seemingly unnecessary link is only because of one person, that is my second brother. Because he got the mysterious black box in the Yulin Mountain tomb.
, and I also heard him say that it is a key, a key to the road ahead.
But if this is the case, then the problem arises again. The following question may be confusing, but it does exist. Therefore, friends who are listening to me telling this story, don’t think that I am verbose. Please think carefully.
Every detail.
My second brother said that my father left him the half of the silk book before setting off. Of course, he would definitely tell him their purpose and what they were going to do.
Remember, that was before he set off to the tomb of Li Zhongzhi in Yulin Mountain. Please remember this time difference. This is the key to the problem.
My second brother went to the Rainforest Mountain Tomb and took out the black box, which was the key my father needed after leaving the Rainforest Mountain Tomb. Likewise, please remember this sentence.
Now let's take apart the above content to understand it.
Before my father set off to the Yulin Mountain Tomb, he asked my second brother, which may include going to the Yulin Mountain Tomb to retrieve the black box.
Does this make sense?
Well, even Zhang Kaixuan once said that my father once knew the existence of Li Zhongzhi's tomb in an ancient book, and also knew the existence of the black box.
But he was going to the Yulin Mountain Tomb, so why didn't he pick it up himself instead of asking my second brother to pick it up twenty years later?
But this is only one of the problems.
The Taoist priest also said that according to common sense, my father and his companions' original goal was to find the horse-mounting stone in Li Zhongzhi's tomb, but they found something else in Li Zhongzhi's tomb, so they began to disappear for twenty years. This is
Twenty years, let’s call it a journey.
We can understand that getting the horse stone was the purpose, and getting other things was an accident. It was this accident that led to the subsequent journey. Since it was an accident, it was not within the scope of his consideration. So, how could he have done it before going to Li Zhongzhi's tomb?
I asked my second brother to pick up the key he would use on his subsequent journey—that is, where is the black box?!
Then, there is only one explanation.
He already knew what he might get before going to the Rain Forest Tomb, and knew that this thing would lead him to pursue it all the way!
But if this is really the explanation, the doubt returns to one of the questions.
If he knew what he might get and what would happen if he got it, why didn't he go get the black box himself instead of asking my second brother!
There must be a problem, but where is the problem?
There is also a very, very confusing question. Is the Taoist Wang mentioned by the Taoist priest, Wang Yuanlu, from the Taoist Association I met at the foot of Yulin Mountain?
He has the same face as the so-called "Wang Yuanlu", so what's the matter?
I had a splitting headache thinking about it. When I came out of this problem, I saw Zhu Kaihua, Zhang Kaixuan and the Taoist priest in front of me, all looking at me quietly.