Chapter 50: My speculations and three or two words
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 unparalleled in Zhaojiacun people.
Everyone knows it, otherwise he would have the nickname Kuangren Zhao? Would he say such words? But there is no need for the Taoist priest in front of me 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 preference. 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 my thought at the time.
The Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin 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 the hell will not become a Buddha unless the hell is empty." Ksitigarbha's original intention was probably 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 "The Tomb of the Taoist King of Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang" in front of Xialonghu Mountain. However, Taoism was weak, so he had to risk everything. He wanted to use this fighting method to defeat Buddhism and study 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.
But why did that letter and the two broken silk books lead us to the cemetery and narrowly escaped death?
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 break down the above content to understand it.
Before my father set off for 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 their twenty-year journey of disappearance.
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?
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. (To be continued)