Chapter 348 of the main text volume, Sinners Through the Ages

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Tang Dou crossed back to his room, walked into the bathroom, and silently turned on the faucet to rinse the blood stains on his hands. ●⌒，

beat Wang Daoist badly, but Tang Dou's heart did not have a trace of joy, but became heavier.

Staring at his eyes in the mirror, Tang Dou silently asked himself in his heart: "What's wrong with me?" ”

After a meal in front of the mirror, Tang Dou walked back to the bedroom, silently turned on the computer, typed the words 'Wang Yuanqi' in the search bar, and knocked enter.

More than 30,000 search results instantly swiped on the web page, Tang Dou frowned, slid the mouse down to pull the web page, he didn't want to see those official search results.

Wang Yuanji's merits and demerits......

Right and wrong, Wang Yuanji......

The real Dunhuang Taoist priest Wang Yuanji......

Wang Yuanji, a little person who has been smeared by history......

……

Clicking on one web page after another, Tang Dou's mood became heavier and heavier.

Tang Dou stood up and walked into the bathroom with a dark face, took out the household medicine box from the storage box in the bathroom, opened it and looked at it, and suddenly crossed back to the nine-story building of the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang.

Wang Yuanqi was kneeling and crying where Tang Dou disappeared, and Tang Dou suddenly appeared in front of him again, almost stepping on Wang Yuanqiu, startling both of them.

Wang Yuanqi looked at Tang Dou, who suddenly appeared, and subconsciously asked, "Sir, are you an immortal?" ”

Tang Dou looked at Wang Yuanji, who was beaten, and sighed, squatted down and put down the medicine box in his hand, reached out and grabbed Wang Yuanji's hand, and said in a deep voice: "Wang Daochang, I was too reckless just now, and I did it to you without asking, but you do have a place to fight." ”

In fact, Tang Dou could have traveled back to the time before beating Wang Yuanji, but he didn't want to do that.

Doing that is no less than covering his ears and stealing the bell, and correcting the mistakes he made against the sky, although no one will know that Tang Dou has corrected his mistakes, but he himself knows.

If he did that, his own conscience would be troubled.

If you are wrong, you are wrong, and you can find a way to make up for it, but you must not cover up your mistakes.

However, Tang Dou does not think that he is completely wrong, no matter what, Wang Yuanqi is a sinner who sold the Dunhuang scriptures to foreigners, although according to the search results on the Internet, Wang Yuanzhen is indeed excusable for doing this, but fundamentally speaking, it is indeed an unforgivable sin.

Tang Dou stretched out his hand to open the medicine box, took out the cotton wool alcohol from it, and prepared to treat the injuries on Wang Yuanji's face.

Wang Yuanqi grabbed Tang Dou's hand with tears in his eyes, still maintaining a kneeling posture on the ground, staring at Tang Dou and crying: "Sir, you played well, I don't blame you at all, sometimes even I have to slap myself a few times, thank you, thank you." ”

Tang Dou was a little dizzy, sighed and said: "Wang Daochang, let's not talk about this for now, I'll help you deal with the wound first, and then I want to hear your personal explanation of those Dunhuang scriptures." ”

Tang Dou's title for Wang Yuanqi has been changed to the more respectful Wang Daochang, which he didn't even notice himself.

Wang Yuanqi took Tang Dou's hand and said earnestly: "Sir, please don't treat my wounds, let me keep these pains, so that I will feel better." ”

Tang Dou smiled bitterly and put the cotton wool alcohol back into the medicine box, looked at Wang Yuanji's swollen face, and said, "Whatever you want." ”

Even if Wang Yuanzhen betrayed the national treasure, it was understandable that he was not beaten, and it was not an exaggeration to even kill him.

Wang Yuanqi slowly stood up with his hands on the ground, bowed deeply to Tang Dou, who also stood up, and made a mockery: "Sir, Poor Dao doesn't know where you came from, what are you doing, and Poor Dao doesn't want to ask." But Poor Dao knew that Mr. must be a man of great ability. Sir, there is a reluctant request from Poor Road, can you go out for a walk with Poor Road? ”

Tang Dou nodded indispensably.

Wang Yuanzhen said thank you and took the lead to walk outside the nine floors.

Tang Dou doesn't know where Wang Yuanqi wants to take him, his understanding of Wang Yuanzheng is limited to those he knows on the Internet, when he was in school, there was an article by Mr. Yu in the text "Taoist Tower", which was also about Wang Yuanji, in that article, Wang Yuanzheng was portrayed by Mr. Yu as a greedy and selfish despicable villain who discarded the country's righteousness for personal gain, in short, whether it was the comments on the Internet or Mr. Yu's article, Wang Yuanzhen was derogatory and praised, and Tang Dou also had no good impression of Wang Yuanji. Otherwise, he wouldn't have crossed over, and without asking any questions, he would have beaten him up first.

Walking out of the nine-story building, Tang Dou and Wang Yuanzhen both saw the little Taoist priest who was hiding outside the door trembling, Tang Dou frowned, he thought that this little Taoist priest had already left, but he didn't expect him to hide outside the door and peek, wouldn't that mean that the situation of beating Wang Yuanqi and crossing twice just now fell into the eyes of this little Taoist?

Wang Yuanji's beaten eyes were almost swollen into a slit, and at this moment, Wang Yuanji's eyes actually shot a fierce gaze, he stared at the little Taoist priest and said coldly: "Jueming, I can't tell anyone what happened just now, do you hear?" ”

The little Taoist priest named Jueming was startled, glanced at Tang Dou beside Wang Yuanqi in fear, nodded in a panic and said, "The disciple has written it down." ”

Wang Yuanqi was in it, I am afraid that Tang Dou's flickering appearance is not as intuitive, but he stared at Tang Dou in the empty nine-story hall and disappeared, and then appeared, in his heart, he had already regarded Tang Dou as a ghost and god, how could he not be afraid.

Wang Yuanqi nodded at Tang Dou and walked straight towards the ancient Han Bridge.

Tang Dou followed behind Wang Yuanqi and sighed faintly, and asked, "What is Wang Daochang selling those Dunhuang scriptures for?" ”

Wang Yuanqi didn't answer Tang Dou directly, he walked slowly in front of him without hurry, looking very depressed.

"Sir, Poor Dao came here in the eighteenth year of Guangxu, when it was a barren place, and Poor Dao was nearly forty years old at that time, and he was in the prime of life. Poor Dao saw that there was no one to take care of it, the caves were full of sand and dust, and some cave Buddha statues had collapsed. Poor Dao was heartbroken and decided to stay here to protect the legacy left by these ancestors. ”

Wang Yuanqi stopped, stretched out his hand and pointed to a cave in front of him and said: "At that time, this cave was full of dust and sand, and the collapse of the cliff wall also knocked down the Buddha statue enshrined in the cave, breaking an arm. It took two years for the poor road to clean up the sand, ask someone to lift the Buddha statue back to its original position, and it took another year to restore the Buddha statue as it was before. ”

Tang Dou nodded silently, this big cave is indeed a huge project to clean up by one person, this is just a cave, Mogao Cave was built in the former Qin of the Sixteen Kingdoms, after the construction of the Sixteen Kingdoms, the Northern Dynasties, the Sui, the Tang, the Five Dynasties, the Western Xia, the Yuan and other dynasties, a total of 735 caves, the restoration and protection will be a vast project, and it is absolutely impossible to do it with the power of one person.

Wang Yuanqi sighed, looked at Tang Dou and said: "Poor Dao doesn't want to show credit to himself, Poor Dao knows that what he has done is not even a matter of death. ”

Wang Yuanqi walked forward slowly again, without saying a word.

It wasn't until he walked to Cave 17 that Wang Yuanqi stopped, glanced at Tang Dou, walked straight in, took out a fire sickle from his arms and lit the paper medium to light the oil lamp on the cave wall.

The dim flickering of the oil lamps made it possible to barely see the scenery in the cave.

Wang Yuanqi looked at Tang Dou, pointed to a hole in the cave and said, "Sir, this is the former scripture cave, and those scriptures were found here. ”

Tang Dou was speechless, what is the point of you taking me to see an empty cave of scriptures, those scriptures have already been sold by you to foreign marauders such as Stein, Birch, and Yoshikawa Koichiro.

Wang Yuanqi sighed softly, walked into the empty cave with an oil lamp in his hand, and didn't care whether Tang Dou followed, and said faintly: "After I found those scriptures, I walked fifty miles to Dunhuang County with two volumes of scriptures that day, and asked to see the county commander Yan Ze, but unfortunately, Lord Yan didn't learn and didn't know how to use those two volumes of scriptures as waste paper. In vain, the poor road had to reseal the hole. ”

Tang Dou sighed secretly, if you keep this cave closed, you won't become a sinner for the ages.

Wang Yuanqi also sighed, and then said: "Two years later, Dunhuang County has changed to a new county Lord Wang. Poor Dao rushed to the county seat to report the matter to Lord Wang, who attached great importance to it, personally brought people to investigate, and took away a few volumes of scriptures, and told Poor Dao to take care of this scripture cave, but since then there has been no follow-up. ”

Tang Dou nodded understandingly, the late Qing government had already become a plate of scattered sand, strong outside, corrupt officials were rampant, and filthy officials were rampant, even the emperor was too busy to take care of himself, how could these petty officials below have the heart to take care of any cultural relics.

Wang Yuanqi sighed and continued: "Poor Dao did not give up, picked up two boxes of scriptures from the Tibetan scripture cave, drove the donkey to Suzhou, eight hundred miles away, and asked to meet Lord Tai Tingdong of Ansu Bingbei Dao. ”

As he spoke, Wang Yuanji's face showed anger, and he said hatefully: "That Lord Tingdong

Tang Dou smiled bitterly and shook his head: "That old lady of the loser didn't even wipe her ass clean, how could she care about your business." ”

Wang Yuanzhen glanced at Tang Dou unexpectedly, although it is now the Republic of China, but there are still few people who dare to describe the Lafayette as 'a ruined old lady'. (To be continued.) )