After drinking the twenty-second spoonful, the bowl has bottomed out.

"Huh? What is it? The fat man suddenly let out a low cry, turned the bowl in his hand in a different direction, and looked intently at the bottom of the bowl.

There are words at the bottom of the bowl, and the white porridge just blocked those words, and after the porridge is drunk, the words are revealed.

"The ocean is a vast ocean, and only one scoop is taken. Those who are targeted by all will not escape. The fat man read softly.

I immediately realized that while the fat man was cautious, someone more brilliant had mixed in and delivered the message in this way.

"You say, I traced it from the kitchen, will there be a result?" The fat man asked.

I shook my head seriously: "Probably not. ”

The arraignment person acted with bowls and porridge, and of course knew how the fat man would track down, and he would be prepared to cut off all valid clues. The only result of the strict investigation is to cause great chaos within the fat man, endanger everyone, and then the morale of the army is weakened.

"Well, you say, who are these words warning against? What is it conveying? The fat man asked.

What I am most concerned about is the phrase "the target of the public", the mountain rain in Dunhuang City is about to come, the wind is full of buildings, under the eyes of all forces, once someone commits public anger, every minute will die in the long street.

Does this phrase refer to fat people? Or is it someone else or myself? "I didn't dare to be careless, and quickly devised dozens of possibilities and countermeasures in my head.

The fat man left with the bowl for a while, and when he came back, the bowl had been washed, and the sixteen small characters in regular script at the bottom of the bowl became clearer and clearer.

"No one wants to be the target of public criticism, especially in a city like Dunhuang, which is the focus of global attention. Those who can issue such warnings must be well versed in the secrets of the rivers and lakes, and they must be able to control the overall situation from a strategic vantage point, and they may not be alone with me...... Give us a warning, but warn every Jianghu person who comes to Dunhuang. From this point of view, I would rather believe that the other party is well-intentioned, and everything is for the sake of peace and tranquility. What do you say, Mr. Long? The fat man asked.

I didn't rush to answer, but stared at the words.

If a person does not deliberately conceal his handwriting, he will definitely follow the law of "words are like people", and everyone's handwriting is like fingerprints, not exactly the same. This pattern is especially evident in the writing of Chinese characters.

After all, I have been in Dunhuang for three years, and I have dealt with many painters and calligraphers, and I have some understanding of their handwriting and inscriptions.

In the third character of "the arrow", the last stroke is extremely short, extremely thick, and extremely forceful, and there is no emphasis on "long and elegant" in ordinary calligraphy. In my impression, what Mr. Yan wrote was such a "zhi" character.

Now that the object of suspicion has been identified, I compared the other fifteen characters one by one, and almost all of them can find the characteristics of the strokes in the inscription technique that Mr. Yan usually paints.

"Could it be Teacher Yan's summons warning?" I was struck by this answer.

Mr. Yan has always been a cautious person, and can even be said to be a timid and cowardly person, who has adopted a very low attitude of tolerance and obedience to Director Song's repeated exploitation in some activities and painting transactions, and never dares to say half a "no".

"The small is hidden in the wilderness, and the big is hidden in the city." I remembered this ancient admonition.

"What do you think of these words, Mr. Long?" The fat man kept watching my expression.

"If you don't have a clear direction, and you don't have to worry about it, you just need to be improvised." I said lightly.

If there is a problem with Mr. Yan's identity, then the identities of the two women he introduced to visit the rebounding pipa diagram in Cave 112 will also be suspicious. The three of them teamed up to act, leaving me alone in the dark.

I won't have the slightest complaint against Mr. Yan, after all, this is the rivers and lakes, and the weak eat the strong. He can successfully disguise himself as an honest folk painter, and wander in the Mogao Grottoes for a long time without being recognized by others, which is a kind of ability.

"On the side of the couch, how can you allow others to snore?" The fat man asked himself with a frown.

I also frowned, the word "couch" he said really hurt my national pride. Dunhuang and Mogao Grottoes are both inseparable parts of China's territory, and the Chinese can quote this sentence, but as a member of the Xinyue Wuxiang faction, he absolutely cannot.

"Just now, I have already sent an order to strictly investigate all clues related to this bowl of porridge." The fat man said.

I can't give him more advice, at least until Mr. Yan reveals his identity, and I don't want to help any faction.

Within about ten minutes, the fat man received the tracking report one after another.

There were no problems with the bowls, porridge, spoons, cooks, buyers, guards, and the leftover porridge in the pot was also drug-checked and no deadly toxins were found.

As a result of the investigation, the bowl of porridge was dropped halfway. Someone used the same bowl for porridge, and the extra bowl was gone. The chef identified that the writing bowl was very new, belonging to the first use, and was the same size and color as the old bowl in the kitchen, except for the lack of traces of use.

"There are masters who sneak in, act like the wind, and drift away after they succeed." The fat man was slightly uneasy.

In peacetime, Dunhuang was a large border city without defense. As long as the identity is legal, anyone in the world can come here with a passport or ID card, or make a lightning move, or just stand by and watch, which is something that the border line and the police station cannot stop.

For Dunhuang, the fat man is also a passerby. Even if the Heartmoon Spiritless Sect had secretly taken root, it would not be possible to act blatantly as a master.

"Something, really have to be done in a hurry." The fat man muttered.

After the dust settled on the episode of a bowl of porridge, there was still no response from Sang Wanyu's side, which made my heart hang again.

"Mr. Long, you must be wondering that there is any inevitable connection between the mural on my side and the glasses, or suspect that the mural is just a disguise, and what really works is the virtual imaging technology of the glasses. We're already friends, so I can give you some insider information – the glasses are just an aid, and the multi-layered murals have been restored to be completely different from what we see with the naked eye now. The wisdom of the ancient Chinese surpassed that of people in most countries in the world, and they had done in-depth research on the structure of pictures, light reflection, virtual imaging, etc., so the technical content of these murals far exceeded the pyramids, South American rock paintings, and the ruins of Greek Olympus. It's just that modern people are ignorant, and they just regard the Mogao Grottoes as a cultural tourism project, tinkering, smearing, as if painting eyebrows and eyes to a peerless beauty. In fact, the real beauties are 'clear water out of hibiscus, natural carving', why do you need to paint eyebrows? Why do you need to dress up? The fat man's focus of conversation has always been on the murals of Mogao Grottoes, and he is only polite about the comings and goings of Gu Tingcheng and Sang Wanyu.

In fact, in the second year of my depiction of the rebounding pipa, that is, from the end of the previous year to the beginning of last year, I had already realized the truth that "the mutilation of the mural changes its content".

In other words, the process of creating a complete fresco was a huge undertaking that took unimaginable devotion to the work before and after it was finished.

Modern people can paint in a day or a week, and it can take a month, which can be regarded as a "masterpiece". If it takes half a year, a year, or two years, it will be touted by the media as a "painstaking work", which can be called the pinnacle of a lifetime of painting, worthy of collection by museums and private collectors.

Compared with the ancients, the superficiality and vulgarity of modern people is simply shameless.

When I was researching materials at the Dunhuang Historical Office, I read more than once ancient texts describing the construction process of the Mogao Grottoes.

The Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty prevailed in the thin gold font of Song Huizong, so this font was mostly used in those handwritten history books.

It takes seven years for a Buddha statue, four years for a mural, two years for a cave to excavate, a wood carving to be painted 60 times and a year and a half, and a layer of paint for four months...... The ancients often said that "an inch of time is an inch of gold, and an inch of gold is difficult to buy an inch of time", saying that time is precious, but when it comes to Mogao Grottoes, time has become the cheapest thing, and every craftsman and painter has forgotten the existence and passage of time, exhausted his life, and built a miracle in the history of Chinese culture.

It took ten or a hundred years to build the Mogao Grottoes, and it took generations and dozens of generations of wisdom and painstaking efforts to destroy them, but it only took a week or less to destroy them.

Just as the rise and destruction of Afang Palace, the First Divine Palace of the Warring States built by Qin Shi Huang with exhaustion of manpower, material resources, and financial resources was "a torch" by the Chu people on a whim, that is, a "poor scorched earth".

In the Mogao Grottoes, there are also people who take the opportunity of visiting, worshipping, copying, and reading, and suddenly start and take it by force, just like a tiger entering a flock of sheep and a cow chewing peonies.

What we can see today is only the murals of the Mogao Grottoes, which have been repeatedly looted over the past hundred years, and they are only about one percent of their original appearance in their heyday.

Therefore, looking at the mural again, it is no longer possible to guess its original meaning.

For example, the magic of Aladdin's magic lamp is infinite, and after shattering it, what is the power and significance of one percent of its fragments?

Although Fat Man and I belong to China and Japan, our understanding of the essence of the murals in the Mogao Grottoes is very close.

"You restored the mural?" I quietly asked, "What about the evidence?" Without evidence, any Mogao Grottoes researcher can dismiss you as groundless fabrication and grandstanding. Even if there is evidence, it must be certified by an authoritative institution before it can be included in the official research results of the Mogao Grottoes. ”

History is a little girl who can be dressed up, but Mogao Grottoes is not.

The fat man laughed, pressed his hands on his big belly, and trembled all over.

"As long as ...... It is enough to explore the essence of things, and whether experts approve of it or not is secondary. We are reconstructing the Mogao Grottoes using optical imaging technology – note that we are reconstructing, not replicating the current state of the caves in the Mogao Grottoes, as the Mogao Grottoes Management Office does. Hahahaha, Mr. Long, I thought you were an open-minded person, but I didn't expect to be imprisoned by these rules and regulations. Since I can tell you this, I must have evidence in my hand to support my arguments......"

I blushed instantly, admitting that the other man had said what was on my mind.

If it was the Chinese who "reconstructed" the Mogao Grottoes with computer technology, I would have no doubt about it and would be deeply proud of it. Now, Japan's largest ninja organization, the Xinyue Wuxiang faction, claims to be "rebuilding" the Mogao Grottoes, which will only make 1.4 billion Chinese people ashamed.

"That's what Your Excellency did to stay in Dunhuang, right?" I asked lightly.

The fat man couldn't stop laughing: "I was going to have my heart for the bright moon, but I had no choice but to shine on the ditch?" Mr. Long, you have been misunderstanding me all along, misunderstanding the Xinyue Sect. Our research is aimed at protecting the cultural heritage of all mankind, and we try to draw on the deeper wisdom of the ancients through similar research, so as to provide a reliable direction for the development of mankind. If you only focus on treasures, national honor, national pride, and so on, then the horizon is too problematic. So, let me give you an example, since you have been tracing the bouncing lute diagram for a long time, I will show you a complete bouncing lute diagram - of course, it is a virtual construction. ”

He deliberately emphasized the word "complete", which aroused my curiosity.

What I depict is the picture of the rebounding pipa that tourists see, and it is also the painting that everyone and all eyes have seen since the Mogao Grottoes were opened to tourists from all over the world.

"What does a complete bouncing lute diagram look like? Is it the same as what Ming Shuisleeve sees? "I couldn't help but get nervous.