At great cost, the Japanese succeeded in bringing back the Tiancong Cloud Sword, an artifact in Japanese mythology and legend, from Chen Rui.

The chief priest of Atsuta Jingu Shrine personally flew to Bombay to prepare for the return of the Tencong Cloud Sword, accompanied by the priest and the shrine maiden, as well as the emperor's envoy, Yoshisuke Yamada, a direct member of the Japanese imperial family.

The ceremony to welcome the Heavenly Cloud Sword was very grand.

Chen Rui walks the streets of Mumbai.

Mumbai is India's largest city and the sixth largest metropolitan area in the world.

Mumbai's total GDP is about $145 billion, about 65% of Dinghai, so in recent years, the Indian authorities have put forward the urban development goal and slogan of "let the world forget Dinghai, remember Mumbai", in order to compete with Chinese mainland economically.

Chen Rui travels around the world, and everywhere he goes, he will learn about the local characteristics and customs, which is the meaning of travel for Chen Rui.

Therefore, Chen Rui will drill into the remote places of the city every time he goes, and integrate into the ordinary people at the bottom of the society, so that he can truly understand the most real side of this place.

Chen Rui came to Falkland Road in Mumbai.

It's a mixed bag, home to some of the city's lowest ordinary people.

On the streets, there are disorganized, there are stalls on the ground selling fruits, pancakes, handicrafts, carpets, and ascetics, who set up shelves on the streets, attracting onlookers from passers-by, and those selling antiques. A large pile of Buddha statues is piled up in a mess. Statue. Antique artifacts of Buddhist materials,.

It's strange that India, as one of the four ancient civilizations, has very few cultural relics, except for Buddha statues, Bodhisattva statues, and cultural relics of Buddhist materials, there is really nothing.

The history of Indians is largely based on guesswork.

At an antique stand. There are several Buddha statues, Bodhisattva statues, and several stone slabs, which attract Chen Rui's attention.

Chen Rui squatted down and picked up a Buddha statue to look at, it was a stone statue, somewhat mutilated, with an earth-colored surface, covered with small, uneven pores.

This Buddha statue looks a bit like the face of a Greek. The lips are thinner and the eye sockets are deeper. A Greek nose with a high nose and a straight line between the bridge of the nose and the forehead.

Chen Rui had previously learned about Indian Buddhism, and he also had some understanding of the development and characteristics of Indian Buddha statues.

The Buddha statue in his hand is a Gandhara Buddha statue from the Gandhara region in the northwestern region of ancient India.

In 426 B.C., King Alexander of Macedon invaded the Gandhara region during his crusade to the east, and since the time of Alexander, he has established some Greek immigrant cities, and brought Hellenistic art to India, and the Hellenistic art is integrated with the symbolic symbols of Indian Buddhism to form the Gandhara Buddha statue in Chen Rui's hand.

Chen Rui picked up another Buddha statue, which was also a Gandhara shaped Buddha statue.

Chen Rui picked up a stone tablet with words on it, a very old script in India, which Chen Rui could recognize.

Chen Rui put down the slate and asked the stall owner in English, "How much do these things cost?" ”

The stall owner is a middle-aged man with a beard and slightly dark skin, wearing a pair of jeans, a black T-shirt and a slipper on his foot.

The stall owner said to Chen Rui in strange Indian English, "This Buddha statue is 60,000 rupees, this Buddha statue is 47,000 rupees, this Buddha statue is 54,000 rupees, and these four stone slabs are 77,000 rupees and 65,000 rupees respectively." ”

Hearing this, Chen Rui converted the price of the US dollar according to the exchange ratio of the rupee in his heart, 1 US dollar is equal to 59 rupees, 60,000 rupees is about 1,000 US dollars, and a stone Buddha statue about the size of a fist is more than 1,000 US dollars, which is quite expensive.

Chen Rui shook his head and said, "The price is too high, these stone Buddha statues are very simple to carve, the lines are very rough, after erosion and weathering, the appearance of the five views has been very blurred, and besides, this Bodhisattva statue has lost an arm and has been mutilated, I don't think it's worth the price." ”

The stall owner said to Chen Rui, "It's not expensive at all, I can guarantee that these are true," and at this point, the stall owner said 'cultural relics' in Chinese, meaning that these things are real cultural relics.

Chen Rui asked, "How can you guarantee that these things are real cultural relics?" ”

"I dug these things out of the ground. ”

Chen Rui said, "If you take me to the place where these things are dug up, I can buy them all at your price." ”

"Yes, but tomorrow." The stall owner thought for a moment and said.

"Okay." Chen Rui said.

The stall owner calculated the price and said, "Four Buddha statues are 210,000 rupees, three Buddha statues are 140,000 rupees, and four stone slabs are 320,000 rupees, so you will give me 670,000 rupees in total." ”

Chen Rui took out his wallet and counted 670,000 rupees to the stall owner, and then said, "Tomorrow you take me to the place where these things were dug up, and I will give you another 300,000 rupees." ”

The stall owner was so happy that his mouth cracked, and he smiled and agreed.

Chen Rui rented a taxi and returned to the hotel with four Buddha statues, three Bodhisattva statues, and four stone slabs.

First, put aside the statue of the Buddha and the statue of the Bodhisattva.

He placed four slabs on the table, took a basin of water, took a soft brush, and carefully brushed off the dirt from the slates.

In half an hour, the soil on the slate was brushed clean, and the ancient characters on the slate were clearer and easier to identify.

This is an ancient Indian script that Chen Rui did not recognize.

However, there is Baidu.

Chen Rui turned on the computer, opened the browser, and searched for ancient Indian characters, the text on the slate is an ancient Indian script from the 4th to 5th centuries B.C., Chen Rui compared them with the words on the slate one by one, and translated them one by one.

However, the slate is only four fragments, and it is not a whole, and the information obtained is very limited, and it is fragmented and scattered.

However, Chen Rui probably knows some information.

The fragmented information on the four stone tablets records that in the middle of the 5th century B.C., the Buddha was in Kushnara Nirvana, when the Buddha's holy remains were worshiped for six days by the ten sentient beings, and on the seventh day, the cremation flame was extinguished by the fragrant pure water, and the cremation place was guarded for seven days, during which the Buddha and all the ten sentient beings of the Buddha went to the cremation place to worship. After the cremation, the Buddha's relics were distributed to eight kings through the fragrant Brahmins: 1. Kushna 2. Capricorn 3. Vaishali 4. Kapila 5. Charapo 6. Ramaga 7. Viliuti 8. Brahma. (To be continued.) )