Chapter Ninety-Five: The Bon Sect Presides
Under the persuasion of everyone, Zhou Yuanhang also slowly slid over the ropeway after the strong son, and then the guide and Li Hao also slid over.
Several people stood on the other side of the Brahmaputra River, looking at this village as if they were separated from the world, a simple feeling came to their faces, after entering the village, they saw all kinds of villagers, all looking at them with strange eyes, and Li Hao and several people also kept looking at everyone they saw. In addition to the traditional Tibetan robes in Tibetan areas, many villagers are wearing clothes from the 50s, which shows how closed it is.
Due to the lack of roads here, even the people in the county town can only go outside the mountain to buy and sell some goods in June, July, August and September every year, and they can only stay at home in normal times.
Li Hao and several people were led all the way to a small temple, the temple is at the highest point behind the village, the white wall is the latest in the whole village, and when they walked to the temple gate, a little deacon came over to ask a few words, turned around and returned to the temple.
Li Hao waited in front of the temple for another four or five minutes before the little deacon came back, made a gesture of invitation, and the guide took them into the temple, and when they entered the temple, it looked not much different from the ordinary Tibetan Buddhist temple, but compared with those magnificent buildings, it looked much shabby here, and when they came to the lobby, a monk who looked to be about fifty years old came out to receive them.
Unexpectedly, this monk spoke fluent Chinese, greeted a few people, and asked directly, "What are you visiting?" ”
Li Hao didn't expect that there would be Chinese speakers in this remote place, so he was overjoyed and hurriedly replied: "We have a scripture, which may be from Bon." Because I didn't know the words on it, I came here to ask someone to help me read it. ”
Li Hao said as he took out the parchment scroll and handed it to the monk, who took it in his hand and looked at it a few times before saying, "I'm really sorry, I don't know the words of this scripture." As far as I know, this is supposed to be the sutra of the Zhangxiong Kingdom, but now it is all lost, and no one knows it except for the presiding officer of this temple. ”
Li Hao heard that the host could understand the ancient text of Zhangxiong and hurriedly said: "Then the master of Lao Bother to invite the host to come out, we really want to know." ”
"No way, the host is in retreat, and we won't disturb him if there is nothing special."
Luo Daxi heard that the monk directly rejected their request. A little unhappy, just wanted to come up to argue a few words but was stopped by Li Hao, Li Hao thought for a while and said to the monk: "This sutra is about Bon, maybe it can help the development of Bon, and I still have something I hope to donate to this temple." As he spoke, Li Hao took off the string of nine-eyed dzi beads from his hand, held it in the palm of his hand and handed it to the monk.
When the monk saw this string of dzis, his eyes immediately lit up, and he picked it up and looked at it carefully, and then raised his eyes to look at Li Hao and the others, and said later. Holding the dzi, he turned around and entered the back hall.
Qiangzi asked Li Hao strangely: "This person seems to like this string of beads very much, what is this?" ”
Li Hao replied with a smile: "Dzi is a real holy relic in the hearts of Tibetan people, from ordinary people to Buddhists are very fond of it, this is a dzi with a history of thousands of years, and the whole string is a nine-eyed dzi, I am afraid it is difficult to find such a string in the entire Tibetan area." It can be said that the living Buddha of X Tibet does not necessarily have such beads, even if he is a god, he will be tempted. ”
After hearing that this string of beads was so precious, Luo Daxi hurriedly took off the beads in his hand and put them in his personal pocket, and said: "This thing is so precious, you didn't say it earlier, if I lose it halfway, I won't regret dying this time." ”
Zhou Yuanhang watched Luo Daxi take off the beads, and he took them off and put them away in his own way: "I only know that this is a dzi, a few yuan a stall in the capital, how can these be so precious." It's not good to look like it's not black! ”
While a few people were talking about the dzi, a little deacon came and said that the presiding officer had an invitation, and led them to the back hall after speaking. Entering the room, there was a thin old man on the cushion, his skin like a crumpled garment. Unlike other Tibetans, this emaciated old man's skin is not black, and he is wearing a red monk's robe and his eyes are closed.
Seeing such an old man, several people stood consciously after coming in, their eyes were slightly lowered, and they didn't dare to look around, they felt that this old man had a kind of natural majesty, and even Luo Daxi, who had always been more lively, stood there honestly with his hands down, and the monk who led them in didn't answer when he came in, and walked behind the old man and stood with his head down.
It took about a minute for Li Hao and the others to come in, and the old man didn't speak, Luo Daxi finally couldn't help but speak, and when he opened his mouth to speak, the old man suddenly opened his eyes, and as soon as his eyes opened, a sharp look came, which frightened Luo Daxi and shrunk back what he was about to say.
The old man's eyes stayed on everyone, this kind of look made Li Hao and the others very uncomfortable, the eyes that looked kind and kind, but the gaze that shot out made everyone feel like they were roasting in the fire, and they felt like elementary school students who had done something wrong standing in the office waiting for the teacher to criticize.
Li Hao saw that the old man opened his eyes and was about to say hello, when he heard the old man speak, speaking in Chinese, although his voice was a little hoarse, but it was very loud, and he was full of energy, unlike people of his age, the old man said: "The murderous aura on several bodies is so heavy!" ”
Well, Li Hao and a few people heard the old host say such things as soon as they came up, and their hearts were tight, and when they didn't know how to answer, the host said: "But I will let you go if you kill all the people you kill, and if you can get such a dzi, you must be a person of great creation, I don't know what I am talking about?" ”
Li Hao listened to the words of the old host, stepped forward, took out the parchment scripture, glanced at the host and handed it over, just at this glance, Li Hao was like a thousand pressures, a coercion made him dare not say anything, and retreated after handing over the scriptures.
The presiding officer got the scripture in his hand, and before he could open it, he said, "I haven't seen the sun in this scripture for a long time, how did it come to you?" ”
When Li Hao was thinking about how to answer, the host had already opened the scriptures and read them, and the old man had a fast time to read. After reading it for less than ten minutes, he closed the scripture and sighed and said, "This book is not a scripture of Yongzhong Bon, but a biography of the life of the Zhangxiong king Zaloharang. I wonder what you want to know? ”
Li Hao thought about it quickly and asked, "Master, we want to know if there are any people or things about the Central Plains in this biography?" ”
"Yes, it is said that there is a person from the Central Plains who came thousands of miles to find the paramie lamp."
Hearing this, Li Hao's heart suddenly woke up, and he remembered that one of the cultural relics transferred by Wang Xu to Chongqing recorded in his father's parchment scroll at that time was called the Parami Spirit Lamp. Does it have anything to do with it?
Li Hao thought of this, and just wanted to ask if he had found it in the record, he saw that the host closed his eyes again, and all the scriptures and dzi were placed on the ground, and the monks who were fighting behind him stepped forward and said to them: "The host is going to retreat, you can take your things and go!" ”
Li Hao had no choice but to take back his words, bowed to the host and said, "Thank you for the host, this scripture is useless to us, so let's give it to the master!" ”
When the host heard Li Hao say this, he opened his eyes again. He looked up and down a few times, and said: "You can get the dzi, there is a great fate, the scriptures will be left, this string of dzi is your fate, how can I accept it." You take it. ”
Li Hao listened, stood there and didn't move, it seemed that he still had something to say, and when the host saw that he hadn't left, he asked, "What, is there anything else?" ”
Li Hao heard the host ask him, hurriedly took out a pen and paper from his backpack, and said a few simple words about the runes on the Tibetan mastiff's body according to his memory. Li Hao could only draw less than ten runes, and handed them to the host after drawing.
When the host received it and looked at it, his eyes suddenly burst into essence, his hands trembled a little, and he asked tremblingly, "Where did you see these runes!" "It's a terrible voice. Completely lost the kind and solemn appearance just now.
Li Hao was taken aback by him, and hurriedly replied: "To be honest, we were playing in Ali and saw the corpse exposed by the collapse, which was covered with such runes, and I thought it was strange and wanted to ask." ”
After listening, the host calmed down, closed his eyes and said: "Although I don't know this kind of rune, but when I hear you say this, I remember that there was a record in the ancient books thousands of years ago, there was a wizard in the Zhangxiong Kingdom, proficient in witchcraft, who could resurrect the dead and become warriors, that is, the whole body was engraved with runes, which was originally called the 'Walking Corpse Curse', and then this wizard was expelled to the Central Plains by the clansmen for many evils, and later there were also people who claimed to be his descendants who came to Ali to seek revenge, but they were subdued by the Bon elders, and gradually there was no news. ”
"Does the master know where these descendants are in the Central Plains?" Li Hao asked eagerly.
"There is no record, but it is recorded that these people are dressed like a cow, each wearing the horns on their heads, and their totem is Xiufu."
Li Hao didn't hear the last two words clearly, and hurriedly asked, "What, rhinoceros?" ”
After asking, but there was no support for answering, he continued to close his eyes as if he was asleep, and the old monk on the side hurriedly walked up to Li Hao and said, "Please go back, this Tianzhu host said that he would not want it, you better put it away, this is your fate." ”
Li Hao had no choice but to leave with the dzi in a huff, and when he left the temple, he was still thinking about the last sentence of the host, the person with the horns on his head, the rhinoceros?
After leaving the temple, Qiangzi looked at Li Hao, who was still bowing his head and locking his eyebrows, and came over and said, "What? Anything else you haven't figured out? Let's study it slowly in the future, where do we go now? ”
Hearing Qiangzi ask, everyone stopped and looked at Li Hao, he saw that it was still early, and said: "Let's go to the county to find a hostel to rest, and return tomorrow, everything that should be asked is asked, and it's okay to continue to stay here." ”
The four of them took the cableway back to the opposite side of the Yarlung Zangbo River, walked to the county seat, returned along the same road the next day, drove all the way back to the capital in Pai Township, and the trip to the Tibetan area that lasted more than a month was over, but they didn't expect to return to the capital not long after something came to the door, Li Hao and they fell into endless fighting.
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The adventures in Tibet are coming to an end for the time being, and if you are interested in what is described in this article, you can go there, such as the ancient kingdom of Zhangxiong, the center of the world, Yongzhong Bon, Ali, and Motuo, all of which can find the shadows described in the text. Please support the old cat and support this different adventure "The Burial King"