Chapter 3 In the Wannian Temple, I saw Xue Nan for the first time
I don't know how long it took for me to wake up from the shock, and the icon in my eyes had changed back to what it was supposed to be.
Turning his head to ask Shen Lang, he said that the icon has not changed, and it has always been like this.
I hesitated for a moment and didn't say anything about the fact that the icon was the same as my face in my eyes, perhaps it was too weird, so weird that I didn't even believe it, thinking that I was hallucinating.
"How do you look at such a big icon!"
Shen Lang muttered around the holy statue and said.
"Let's see, whether it's useful or not, no one will play a prank on this kind of thing."
I can only reluctantly tell Shen Lang to take a look more, and I may find something.
The icon was very large, and Shen Lang and I walked around it in circles, trying to find the secret hidden in the icon.
No matter from which point of view, because of the special shape of this statue, Shifang Fuxian seemed to be looking at me, and the smile on the statue seemed to have turned into a merciless ridicule of me.
The day is almost dawn, and the staff get up to greet the tourists, and it is difficult for us to explain our origins, so I have no choice but to leave unwillingly with Shen Lang and make plans again.
Back at the hotel, Shen Lang and I were speechless, the room was full of TV sounds, in fact, I was not in the mood to watch the content at all, maybe I was just afraid of the embarrassment caused by the two of us not talking
"Who the hell are you, old man? How many accomplices are there here? ”
"It's a man here."
"Eleven?"
"Not eleven, but one."
"Twenty-one?! Say, where are they hiding? ”
"You heard it wrong, it's not twenty-one, it's actually one."
"Seventy-one?! Are you stupid for me? Can these seventy-one people, in such a small place, be able to hide! ”
"Fool, you heard it wrong, it's a man here."
"Ninety-one people?!"
"Two hundred and five, it's a person!"
"Two hundred and fifty-one people?!"
......
The TV series is playing on TV, but I was stunned when I heard this funny dialogue, and the news given to me by the mysterious person was only to let me go to see the holy statue, but it did not explain that it was the statue of the ten directions of the golden dome.
Fuxian Bodhisattva takes Mount Emei as a dojo, and there is not only one Bodhisattva statue in Mount Emei, since it is a statue of Fuxian Bodhisattva, then any statue can be called a holy icon.
Maybe I'm just like the people on TV, thinking that he let me go to the Golden Dome and ignore the other statues.
Rearrange the thinking, the golden statue of Shifang Fuxian is 48 meters high and weighs more than 600 tons, which is currently the world's largest and tallest statue of Shifang Fuxian.
But before this statue was built, it was recognized that the first statue of Fuxian should be the bronze statue of the white elephant lotus in the Wannian Temple, fortunately, the Wannian Temple is also in Emei, and I should go to the Wannian Temple tomorrow to see, maybe this is the truth I am looking for.
When it was dawn, I stopped Shen Lang, who was going to go with me, and told him that I was just going to see the route first, let him sleep well, and then go with me at night.
Wannian Temple, founded in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, when the name of Fuxian Temple, Tang Dynasty Emperor Huitong Zen Master rebuilt, renamed Baishui Temple, Song Dynasty renamed Baishui Puxian Temple, one of the earliest six ancient temples in Mount Emei.
The white elephant rosette statue of Fuxian was cast for the five years of Song Taiping's rejuvenation of the country. The white elephant has large ears and tusks, an elephant trunk hanging to the ground, an elephant with a saddle on its back, and a ribbon bridle head. The elephant's back is attached to the golden lotus throne, which is composed of four layers of lotus petals, the lower is small and the upper is large, and the lotus seat is the statue of the Bodhisattva of the golden Puxian.
The Bodhisattva sits cross-legged on his knees, wears a double-layered golden crown, and casts small Buddha statues around him. The statue of Fuxian is dressed in a robe, bare chest, wearing a gorgeous Yingluo on the chest, holding Ruyi in the right hand, placing the left hand in front of the knee, the palm is upward, the eyes are half-closed, the corners of the mouth are slightly adducted, dignified and graceful, the proportion is symmetrical, and the workmanship is fine.
After looking around the bronze statue, I finally realized that there was something wrong with this statue in my eyes, and maybe that's why the mysterious man asked me to come here.
I went back to the hotel with an excited heart, and when Shen Lang woke up and ate, I told him that the goal of tonight was the statue of Wannian Temple, and he asked me what I found, I smiled and said nothing, and I was going to tell him later.
When it got dark, Shen Lang and I took the things we needed and went straight to Wannian Temple.
When I came to the beamless brick hall where the bronze statue was located, I looked at the statue that was worshiped by countless people during the day, standing there quietly in the night, as if waiting for me, and it seemed that I had something to say to me.
"Brother Chuan, it's time to tell me what you found."
Shen Lang couldn't wait to ask me.
"Don't worry, I'll tell you now."
I looked at him and slowly told him what I had found.
Bronze statues, especially those of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, have existed since ancient times, and each era has different characteristics and shapes.
And this Wannian Temple white elephant lotus seat Puxian bronze statue, is cast in the Northern Song Dynasty Xingguo five years to Dazhong Xiangfu five years between, the Song Dynasty Buddha statue should be the face of the plump, wide forehead plump, dignified and beautiful, the expression of kindness and peace, the Buddha statue head on the top of the meat bun, a spiral hairstyle, the meat bun tends to be gentle, the bun beads between the snail hair and the bun are obvious. The characters are perfectly portrayed. The posture is casual and lively, full of personality.
But although this statue as a whole is antique and has obvious imprints of the times, the figure is well-proportioned and coordinated, the clothes are light and close-fitting, the lines are flowing and soft, and the folds of the clothes turn freely. The Bodhisattva's shoulders are broad and the waist is thin, the body is graceful, S-shaped, beautiful, and the ornaments are precise and complex. The crown leaves are hollow and the middle leaf is meniscus-shaped, but it is a very distinctive feature of the Ming Dynasty.
"How do you know this? Even if you know that the age is wrong, what's the problem? ”
Shen Lang still didn't understand what I said after listening to me, so he looked at me stupidly.
"Say you're stupid, you're really stupid, since the age is wrong, this statue must have been tampered with, and such a heavy bronze statue can't be easily dropped, there must be someone who wants to hide or pass on some news between them."
"As for how I know, it's not the books at home, what I have read since I was a child, what kind of funeral books, ten volumes of treasures and the like, these books are all records of precious cultural relics of past dynasties, and after reading them for a long time, I will naturally have a certain distinction between these."
After finishing speaking, Shen Lang, who was still stunned because he didn't understand, looked carefully around the Buddha statue, and I firmly believed that there must be the news I wanted in this statue.
After a few turns, I finally found a clue. The white elephant stepped on the lotus platform with four feet, and at the place where the lotus platform and the elephant's legs were connected, there seemed to be an echo when knocked by hand, the bronze statue was cast of fine copper throughout, and there could be no echo, it seems that the legs are hollow, only afraid that there is a mystery inside.
Looking up and down, the Buddha statue is holding Ruyi in his right hand, but the little finger seems to be pointing to the elephant's leg, fortunately, this time I came out to prepare enough, I took out the portable ladder prepared in advance, fixed it in place, let Shen Lang hold it up, take a deep breath, and climb the ladder to find out.
There is something strange at the little finger, there is a boxy box, there are different black and white dots distributed in the frame, a circle of white and a circle of black, it seems that you can still press it when you touch it with your hand, it seems that this should be the key to open the elephant's leg mechanism.
If I'm not mistaken, this should be the game of Qimen Dunjia.
When Qimen Dunjia was first founded, there were a total of 4,320 bureaus, which were later improved to 1,000 and 80 bureaus, and when Jiang Shang was compressed to 72 bureaus because of the needs of marching formations, Zhang Liangde of the Han Dynasty was taught by Huangshi Gong, and reformed again, becoming the Yin Dun Nine Bureaus and Yang Dun Nine Bureaus that are now used, a total of 18 games.
And look at this dense appearance, it should be the original improvement of the one thousand and eighty rounds, Qimen Dunjia has only one life, one thousand and eighty choices, only if you choose the right one, it is possible to open the mechanism of the elephant's legs, and if you choose the wrong one, you don't know what will happen.
Just in doubt, I saw that the direction of the little finger was not only the elephant's leg, but also the futon used when kneeling, I asked Shen Lang to move the futon, and there were two sentences engraved on the ground under the futon.
I have ten wishes for the world, and I have ten forbearance for sentient beings.
Since the little finger points the elephant's leg with this sentence, then they should have some connection.
I thought about it seriously, counted ten rows vertically, then counted ten numbers to the right, moved three numbers to the left, then moved four numbers up, then moved one number to the right, and finally counted down to seven numbers, gritted my teeth, pressed down, and after pressing, I only heard a series of small sounds, elephant legs, opened.
The left three top four, the right one step on seven, such as a human spirit rhino, with the Hou does not accumulate.
This is a mantra in Qimen.,It's a way to break the game or hunt for treasure in the case of a base point.,Since the Bodhisattva Ten Wishes and Ten Forbearances,I have to bet on this base point is the tenth row of ten.,It looks like I'm right.。
Coming down from the ladder, I went down with Shen Lang to see what was hidden in the elephant's legs, it turned out to be another bronze sculpture.
This bronze sculpture is shaped like a bird, cyan, with two legs and one wing, and some words are vaguely engraved on the wings with a seal. Shen Lang asked me what this carving was, and I told him that it should be a bronze statue of Bi Fang.
Bi Fang, a symbol of fire. Wood spirits, like birds, are blue, barefoot, with two feet and one wing, and do not eat grains. Seeing it, there is a fire in the city. It is the god bird of the Yellow Emperor's car. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", "The Divine Strange Scripture", "Huainanzi" and so on are all contained.
I didn't have time to think about why a legendary statue of a mythical beast would inexplicably appear in the leg of the white elephant under the body of Fuxian Bodhisattva, I turned on the flashlight and carefully looked at the content engraved on Bi Fang's wings.
"I was three or four years old, Chengzu sent me to the West, and after twenty-six years, I have not yet sought the trace of Emperor Wen, and there was indeed a strange thing in the early years, but I couldn't figure it out, and I put it to future generations, passed it on from generation to generation, and it was not allowed to be snooped on by others."
I was shocked after reading it, but Shen Lang didn't react and asked me what the hell was written on it.
I took a deep breath and calmed down to tell him that we might have touched on the hidden secrets of history.
Chengzu, Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Di, Emperor Wen, Emperor Wen of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Yunwen.
If I'm not mistaken, the person who left this sentence is none other than the famous Three Treasure Eunuchs: Zheng He!
Shen Lang asked me dumbfounded.
"This passage was left by Zheng He?!"
"That's right, it's Zheng He's left!"
In the dead of night, the sudden sound surprised the two of us.
Shen Lang and I looked at each other, and at some point, there was an extra woman at the door of the beamless brick hall, who looked to be in her twenties, dressed in a night outfit, with indelible confidence between her eyebrows, radiant and heroic.
There was no doubt that the sudden applause and talking was her.
"It is worthy of being Han Ying's descendant, and he actually found Bi Fang so quickly."
The woman looked at me with a smile on her face, and her words were undisguised with appreciation.
"Who are you and how are you here?"
Shen Lang asked boldly with a self-defense knife.
The strange woman ignored Shen Lang, walked up to me, patted me on the shoulder, and told me in a cool and warm tone.
"Let's get to know me, my name is Xue Nan, and you won't be alone in the future."