Chapter 46: Departure
The statue of Goddess Bai Ram in his hand is made of copper. The name of the idol Yu Fei was still heard by Dorjee when he entered the door. The age of the statue is relatively old, but because the material is ordinary, the value is not high, which is also the reason why Langjie is willing to exchange it.
What really interested Yu Fei was the chaotic qi emanating from inside the idol, which was much thicker than the idol itself. The chaotic qi of the statue itself is not complete, the base and the body of the Buddha are relatively independent, but they are artificially glued together, and the outside is also recast with copper water, if it were not for Yu Fei's right hand to induce the chaotic qi, it really can't be seen with the naked eye.
Yu Fei borrowed a Tibetan knife from Bai Ma and carefully scraped off the copper film on the surface. Sure enough, he found that there was a very small gap between the base and the Buddha's body.
If you want to talk about the quality of the Tibetan knife, I really don't say anything. Yu Fei inserted the tip of the knife into the gap a little and slowly pryed it.
After a while, I only heard the sound of "dangchang", and the base fell off completely. Along with the base, a rolled-up thangka fell.
What conveys the strong chaotic atmosphere is actually a thangka? Yu Fei opened the thangka in disbelief, and the image of the goddess Bai Ram was also painted on it, but its dye seemed to be a little strange. Yu Fei had painted thangkas by himself at the snowy thangka handicraft shop in Tstan Langjie, but he had never seen such colors.
Yu Fei didn't know much about the thangka at all, and he didn't know much about the white Ram thangka that was painstakingly placed in the belly of the idol, although Yu Fei guessed that it must be worth a lot of money, but he didn't know anything about its origin.
After hesitating for a while, Yu Fei planned to go to the Internet café to check the information.
Originally, Yu Fei didn't need to be in a hurry, but he would accompany Dong Ziyun and them to the Everest base camp early tomorrow morning, and it would take more than a week to go.
The Internet café was two streets away from Gesang's residence, and Yu Fei paid the deposit and turned on the computer to start checking the information of the thangka.
The name "Thang-ga" is a Chinese translation of Tibetan, or "Tangga" and "Thangka", but there is no unified interpretation of "Thangka", which basically refers to an art style that expresses the content and characteristics of Tibetan culture on cloth, silk, paper, wood or leather by means of painting, pasting, weaving, inlay or embroidery. It can be hung and enshrined, can be rolled up and collected, can be carried with a variety of forms, the shape is divided into large and small, the big one is generally called the big thangka, the small one is called "Zaga" "Zagari" or miniature thangka.
Regarding the origin of the thangka, the fifth ** recorded in the "Jokhang Temple Catalogue": "The Dharma King (Songtsen Gampo, the incarnation of Guanyin Buddha, 617-650) painted a statue of the goddess Bai Ram with his own nosebleed. "The statue of the goddess Bai Ram has been hidden as a creature in the Baiju Monastery in the northeast of Gyantse City. In 1904, the British army attacked Tibet on a large scale, ransacked the Baiju Monastery, and robbed all the valuable things in the temple, and even knocked off a piece of the gilded Buddha and took it away. Since then, the whereabouts of the statue of Goddess Bairam have been unknown.
After the liberation, the whereabouts of the statue were traced, but no trace of it was found in the British Museum, either in India or in the United Kingdom, and some people believe that it must have been brought back by a soldier to collect it, or it was destroyed in the war.
Seeing this, Yu Fei's heart jumped wildly, the Bai Ram Statue has a Bai Ram Thangka hidden in its belly, isn't this exactly the same as the Bai Ram Goddess Statue that he exchanged? If you think of the thick chaotic atmosphere and slightly strange colors contained in the thangka, everything can be explained. The statue of the goddess Bai Ram that I exchanged for is very likely to be the one recorded in the fifth ** "Jokhang Temple Catalog". If true, its value is immeasurable.
Yu Fei was so excited that he wanted to shout a few times to vent, but he really didn't expect to find the first thangka in the world on Octagonal Street! This thangka, Yu Fei will not sell, legend has it that thangka has the effect of protection, he plans to take this thangka back to his hometown and hang it in his parents' room.
When Yu Fei went back, Gesang had already arrived home, and when he saw Yu Fei coming back, he beckoned him to have dinner first, and then pulled Yu Fei to see what he had prepared.
2020 is a car that takes more time to take care of, in addition to preparing a large number of auto parts and a full set of repair tools. Gesang also prepared two additional barrels of No. 90 gasoline, which was only 3.6 yuan per liter at that time. In addition, there are tents, sleeping bags, cold supplies, picnic utensils, food condiments, first aid supplies, various medicines, and so on. If you cram four more people, even the off-road vehicle is already full.
"Brother Gesang, what are you buying these things for?" Yu Fei picked up the tent that was rolled up together and said, "Are we still going camping?" ”
"You don't understand that." Gesang said: "It's better to go from Lhasa to Shigatse, from Shigatse to the west to Lhatse, and then to the Everest base camp, this road is sparsely populated, we may not be able to find people to stay, and there is no air conditioning on the 2020 car, bring these just in case, you must know that the temperature at night there is below zero in Ludao." ”
"Okay." Yu Fei didn't understand these at all, so everything could only be arranged by Gesang.
Early the next morning, around seven o'clock, Gesang and Yu Fei drove to the Balangxue Hotel to pick up Dong Ziyun and Leng Yufei.
Compared to Fei's drowsiness, the two of them were so excited that they chattered as if they hadn't slept all night.
Hearing that Gesang drove them over, the two naturally would not object, after all, it was a very painful thing to catch the bus.
But the two of them saluted a lot, but Gesang was in a cold sweat.
Dong Ziyun and Leng Yufei seemed to be about to move, and they made three big boxes! If you really stuff these big boxes into them, I'm afraid you won't be able to get people in 2020.
In the end, Gesang persuaded the two to put these things in his house first, and then find a way to consign them to Ningdu after returning from the Everest base camp.
The delay was more than an hour, and by the time the four of them officially set off, it was almost nine o'clock.
From Lhasa all the way to the west, the first 80 kilometers of asphalt road is still very easy to walk. The car drove out of the city, the two women were very interested, seeing the low blue sky and white clouds and the herds of cattle and sheep that appeared next to the car from time to time, they couldn't help but let out bursts of admiration, if it wasn't for the fear that shouting and screaming would lack oxygen, I'm afraid they would have shouted out their throats.
But after a while, the two yawned, and they had hardly slept last night, and now they were so bumped by the car that they were sleepy. When Yu Fei and Gesang chatted for a while, they turned around and found that the two people in the back row had already fallen asleep together.