Chapter 361: Treasure
"You don't mean to talk about the bats you met in the abyss yesterday, do you, how can the wings be so big!", Moto said incredulously.
"What if this is the biggest one being caught?", another member of the team continued.
"Anyway, let's go up first. Wei Yuan stopped the two who were arguing, and discussed with Xu Ling to prepare to ascend to the eighth floor before noon.
On the seventh floor, Xu Ling and Wei Yuan both guessed that they might be officials. As for the eighth layer, it should be Zhu Youzhen's relatives, and the last layer must be his own mausoleum. But what they saw subverted their imagination.
"How can it be a monk?", the moment they pushed open the door of the seventh-floor hall, everyone was dumbfounded. A group of samurai surrounded the group of monks in the middle!
What's even more bizarre is that these monks are actually guarding the things that are one person tall and contained in a golden silk nanmu box. Looking at the solemn and nervous appearance of these dozen monks, it is obvious that the things inside are not simple.
Everyone looked at Xu Ling, Wei Yuan looked at the tall golden silk nanmu box, and his heart was a little moved, so he also looked at Xu Ling.
Xu Ling hurriedly probed it with his spirit, and when he saw the things in the box, he was shocked and didn't know if he was still in the modern era.
"What's wrong?", Wei Yuan was surprised by Xu Ling's expression.
"I'll open it and take a look!" Moto saw Xu Ling's face look different, thinking he had discovered something.
Xuling diǎndiǎn head, there is no danger.
When Moto opened the chest that was standing on the ground, he saw that it was a clay sculpture inside. Wei Yuan and the others were stunned. What are these monks working so hard to bring in such a clay sculpture?
"Look at the words on the side wall!", Xu Ling reminded Wei Yuan.
"This is a seal character, I don't know it. Not only did Moto and they not know each other, but Wei Yuan also scratched his head.
"This is the life of Patriarch Bodhidharma!", Xu Ling did not hide it, pretended to walk to the front of the cover plate and looked at it, and then got up to tell everyone.
"What?, the legendary Bodhidharma Patriarch?", Moto and they were taken aback.
Speaking of Bodhidharma, the most familiar estimate is the story of a reed crossing the river. After all, Uncle Shao Liu has already filmed all the stories of Damour!
According to legend, after the death of Patriarch Mo, the empty phase temple was the beginning of Buddhism. ∈dǐng… ∈diǎn… ∈ small... ∈ said, .≈.↑os_(); The place where the ancestor is buried, there are many disciples and grandchildren who come here to seek their roots and ask their ancestors, and the ancient empty phase temple used to be a holy place for Buddhism!
According to the records of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China's "Shaanzhou Chronicles", Buddhism was introduced to Shaanzhou in the tenth year of Yongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty (67 AD), and the Kongxiang Temple was built, which has been more than 1900 years ago, and is the holy place of Buddhism in the same period as the White Horse Temple, the first ancient temple in China. Kongxiang Temple is the burial place of Bodhidharma, the first ancestor of Zen Buddhism, which is famous for Bodhidharma who sacrificed his body to seek the Dharma and founded Zen Buddhism. At the same time, legend has it that there are also relics and finger relics of the Bodhidharma Patriarch, and legend has it that these two things have mysterious powers!
According to historical records, after the first ancestor of Bodhidharma passed the Dharma in Shaolin Temple, he went to Dinglin Temple under Bears Ears Mountain to preach the Dharma for 5 years, and died in December 536 in the second year of Emperor Wu of Liang, at the age of 150.
One hundred and fifty years old, Master Zhang Sanfeng has not reached this age.
The monks were extremely grieved, and according to the Buddha's rites, the first ancestor was buried in the Dinglin Temple, and the Dharma Spiritual Pagoda and the Dharma Hall were built. Emperor Xiao Yan of Liang Wu personally wrote the inscription "Ode to Bodhidharma Master of the Southern Dynasty and Preface" to commemorate the founding of Zen Buddhism by Bodhidharma Master.
Later, in the first year of Yuanxiang, the envoys of the Eastern Wei Dynasty returned from the Western Regions to learn scriptures, and met the master Bodhidharma who only returned to the west with a cane, and immediately reported to the emperor.
When the emperor heard this, he ordered someone to dig up the tomb of Bodhidharma, only to see only an empty coffin, and he knew that the master had been detached into a Buddha, so he renamed Dinglin Temple as "Empty Phase Temple".
There is also such a scene in the movie, after the burial of Patriarch Bodhidharma, the descendants opened the coffin and moved the grave, and found that Bodhidharma's coffin was empty! Only a pair of straw sandals remained.
The most important thing is that there is still debate about whether this Dharma is an apocryphal figure! But now there is a real clay body of someone here!
From the expressions of these monks, it can be seen that they are still very close to the flesh of this Bodhidharma. But I heard that Bodhidharma left relics and glass finger bones, how can there still be clay sculptures of flesh?", Moto didn't understand at all.
"So people are grandmasters, we can live to be one hundred and fifty years old, we are mortals!", the team member surnamed Li shrugged and winked at Moto.
"Xu Ling, do you think this Zhu Youzhen wants his people to force this group of monks to bring Bodhidharma in?", Wei Yuan lowered his head and thought for a while without a clue.
"Immortal, maybe I want to live to be one hundred and fifty years old!", Xu Ling shook his head with a smile, this may have to ask Zhu Youzhen to find out for himself.
Everyone sighed when they heard this, this Zhu Youzhen, like the first emperor, finally began to search for immortals and asked, I want the country to be all generations! Even the body of the Bodhidharma patriarch was not spared.
To everyone's surprise, there was a skeleton behind the outer warriors, just standing by the wall, with a long knife in his hand, and his eyes were flat and looking forward! Even if there was only one skeleton left, everyone could feel a kind of majestic momentum from him! But Xu Ling felt even more, and there was a trace of loneliness and loneliness in that majestic momentum!
Is it the loneliness of the hero? or the loneliness of the endless years after death? No one knows!
As soon as they went up to the eighth floor, Xu Ling and they saw a stone tablet more than two meters high in the middle of a building like an archway! This is a white marble stone tablet, and below it is a turtle at the bottom, and the surface of the tablet is engraved with blood-red characters, all of which are small seals!
The first sentence at the beginning of it is death to the trespasser!
The back is densely packed with hundreds of words, and it turns out to be a curse!
When Xu Ling told everyone the specific meaning above, Wei Yuan's scalp tightened when they listened, and their hearts were cold!
They had heard of the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt, found by Howard Carter and Count Carnarvon.
At the same time that Tutkamon's tomb is opened, Carter's beloved canary is eaten by a python. Carter's collaborator, Count Carnarvon, died in April 1933 from an unknown disease transmitted by mosquito bites. During the more than ten years of excavation of the tomb, more than 20 people related to the excavation of the tomb died of illness or even mental insanity. Whether these strange deaths were related to the curse of the pharaoh is anyone's guess.
"This can't be true, right?", the team member surnamed Li looked at the blood-colored stone tablet with a flickering eye, and mysterious things always made people feel that they were out of their control.
"Actually, what I'm hearing more is that the excavators of Tutankhamun's tomb lacked the means at that time, and may have infected the ancient viruses or bacteria inside, which led to their deaths one by one. Xu Ling smiled and told everyone about some of Professor Long's speculations, so that they could be relieved.
(To be continued.) )