Chapter 10: The Bell of Hanshan Temple

Qin Long's worries are not groundless, although he lacks interest in appreciating antiques, but he is drunk on treasure hunting, keen to collect all kinds of anecdotes about hidden treasures, knowing that the ancients hid treasures in a variety of strange ways, and even some people hide treasures in the pits, and some people in the antique shop even make picture-in-picture, using an ordinary painting to paste on the real work to hide from the world, so it is not surprising that some people hide treasures in Buddha statues.

In ancient times, there were no banks, no safes, and those who were afraid of sins could only rack their brains to hide their treasures.

In other words, banks are not particularly insured, after all, banks are also operating people, and it is not uncommon to find that their deposits are missing, but relatively speaking, it is indeed much more convenient than the ancients to store their belongings.

Qin Long is now worried that the treasure that causes the excitement of the Gold Devouring Worm is not hidden in some strange place in Hanshan Temple, since it can make the Gold Devouring Worm as excited as if it was beaten with chicken blood, it is a rare treasure in the world, even if it is a foodie who can only help the Gold Devouring Worm advance, it is enough to make Qin Long excited about it.

The bloodline is connected, and the gold devouring insect can advance is equivalent to a big step forward for him, and he will be prosperous together.

This was special, if he could cultivate a seventh-order gold devouring insect in his lifetime, Qin Long himself didn't dare to imagine what kind of terrifying existence it would be.

Moving mountains and seas?

Or is it another day?

The brain hole is not big enough to imagine.

Tang Hao'er happily pulled Qin Long to kneel down in front of the Buddha statue enshrined in the Daxiong Treasure Hall, and Qin Long also breathed a sigh of relief and followed Tang Hao'er to seriously bow down to the Buddha.

Fortunately, the breath of the gold-devouring insect is still behind, not in this Daxiong Treasure Hall, and there is no need to offend the Buddha.

Bowing and making a wish to donate sesame oil money, the monk with half-squinted eyes next to the Buddha statue saw that Qin Long's little two hands were generous, and knocked on the wooden fish a few times and chanted a Buddhist scripture, but Qin Long and Tang Hao'er didn't understand a word, only knew that it was definitely not a bad thing.

Standing up and saluting the monk with his hands folded, Qin Long pulled Tang Hao'er out of the Daxiong Treasure Hall and walked back following the breath of the gold-devouring insect.

Tang Hao'er gently tugged at Qin Long, leaned on Qin Long's ear and asked mysteriously, "Dalong, the monk who recited the scriptures to the two of us just now won't be a fake monk, right?"

Someone has said that in these years, everything can be fake except for the mother is real, and the information in the Internet era is developed, but the bad behavior of many professional monks has been exposed, drinking wine and eating meat is not new, and some professional monks take women to open a house.

Even being a monk has become a profession, how much is the monthly salary per hour at work, the treasure is solemn when he goes to work, and he is angry in fresh clothes after work, Tang Hao'er has seen a bhikshuni sitting on the side of the road nursing the child, so she will have this question.

If a fake monk recites the scriptures for them just now, then psychologically this piety will be greatly reduced.

Qin Long smiled: "It shouldn't be, this is Hanshan Temple, and it's not enough to engage some professional monks to mix things up." ”

"Then I'll donate some sesame oil money. Tang Hao'er turned around and was about to go back to the Daxiong Treasure Palace.

Qin Long smiled and stretched out his hand to grab Tang Hao'er: "If you are sincere, you deliberately run back to donate sesame oil money, but it is a blasphemy against the Buddha, why should Bodhi be stained with dust if there is no tree." ”

Tang Hao'er stuck out her little tongue, Qin Long just now tampered with the Bodhi Ben No Tree where is the dust to Bodhi Ben No Tree Why should it be dusty, but it was intended to accuse Tang Hao'er of doing this too much.

The two of them were talking casually, but at this time, an old monk who was sweeping the floor on the side of the road straightened up and looked at Qin Long a few more times, and slightly bent down with one hand and announced a Buddha name to Qin Long: "Amitabha." ”

Qin Long and Tang Hao'er hurriedly stopped, folded their hands and saluted the old monk, calling them masters.

After the old monk saluted, he continued to bow his head and sweep the floor, acting indifferently, and the wind was light.

Qin Long pulled Tang Hao'er to carefully bypass the old monk and walked along the cobblestone path towards the Moon Gate with a sign for tourists standing on one side.

The old monk saw the direction in which Qin Long and Tang Hao'er were walking, and then pronounced a Buddha horn behind the two of them and said: "Two donors, in front of you is the place where the abbot is participating in meditation, two donors, please stop." ”

Qin Long couldn't help but have a headache, the breath of the gold devouring insect came back from the front, how could this be done if he didn't let it?

Tang Hao'er gently pinched Qin Long, and motioned to Qin Long with his eyes, since the front is not a place for tourists to visit, then let's go play elsewhere.

Qin Long squeezed Tang Hao'er's little hand in response, hesitated, looked at the old monk and said, "Master, we are from afar, we want to visit the abbot, I wonder if the master can make it convenient?"

Tang Hao'er looked at Qin Long's side face strangely, why do you have to visit the abbot?

The old monk also looked at Qin Long strangely and asked, "I don't know why the donor visited the abbot?"

Qin Long pondered for a moment and said, "Maybe I can provide your temple with a little clue about Tang Zhong." ”

"Tang Zhong?" The old monk was taken aback by what Qin Long said, and looked at Qin Long in surprise, his face full of surprise.

Qin Long smiled slightly: "Being in the Buddha Gate, don't lie." ”

"Donor, please wait. The old monk hurriedly gave a Buddhist salute to Qin Long, and walked quickly into the moon gate with a broom, looking a little out of shape in a hurry.

Hanshan Temple is famous for its bells, but it is a pity that the current Hanshan Temple, including the bell tower and the bell, is no longer from the Tang Dynasty, and even the big bell that was recast during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty is nowhere to be found.

Now this bell hanging in Hanshan Temple is cast in 1906 in 1906, when Chen Kuilong, the governor of Jiangsu, rebuilt Hanshan Temple, it has a history of only more than 100 years, weighs two tons, is one person high, although the bell is loud and melodious, but it always makes people feel some regrets.

In order to make up for this shortcoming, Hanshan Temple in 2007 cast a weight of 10 tons of imitation Tang style bronze bell, known as the world's first Buddha bell, the bell is 5 meters high, the maximum diameter of the skirt of the bell bottom is 51 meters, the main body of the bell inscription Mahayana Myoho-renge-kyo is a total of 69,000 words, and there are nine flying patterns cast on the skirt of the bell.

This big bell is majestic and magnificent, and it may be more eye-catching than the real Tang Bell, but after all, it is still a Tang Bell imitated according to the imagination of later generations, not a real Tang Bell.

Legend has it that the real Tang bell has been destroyed in the wars of the past dynasties, and some people say that the real Tang bell may have flowed into Japan, Kang Youwei also left a poem for this: "The bell has crossed the sea and Yundong, and the ancient temple of Hanshan is cold." ”

For this reason, little Japan has also searched everywhere in the country, but unfortunately it was in vain.

Why does Japan attach so much importance to the Tang Bell of Hanshan Temple?

If you open the Japanese primary school textbook, the Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Ji's eternal masterpiece Fengqiao Yebo is one of the texts in the Japanese primary school textbook, as for other explanations, there should be no need to say more, right?

The whereabouts of Tang Zhong in Hanshan Temple have become a mystery for the ages, and now Qin Long actually said that he could provide a little clue about Tang Zhong.

Even if it is just a little clue, it is enough to attract the attention of the monks of Hanshan Temple.

Seeing the old monk hurriedly walking into the Moon Gate, Tang Hao'er pulled Qin Long with a weak heart and asked in a low voice, "Da Long, aren't you joking with that master?"

Qin Long smiled: "How can this kind of thing be a joke." ”

When Qin Long and Tang Hao'er walked towards Hanshan Temple just now, he had previously instructed the Gold Devouring Worm to let its insects and grandchildren look for any treasures that had no owners nearby, and it wasn't until they were about to walk to Hanshan Temple that those insects returned a valuable piece of news.

The insects found a bronze ancient bell somewhere at the bottom of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal next to Hanshan Temple, but before Qin Long could confirm what kind of bell this bronze ancient bell was, the gold devouring insect was the first to get out of control.

This Nima, is this ancient bell the famous Tang Zhong of Hanshan Temple put aside for the time being, no matter what kind of treasure it is, it can't be compared with the gold devouring insect in Qin Long's heart, no matter what, you have to see the gold devouring insect first.