Chapter 9: The Inevitable Connection

Lan Ling glanced at him and said in his heart: How do I know!

Because the lamp had been moved to the other side, it was so dark that it was a little hard to see near the long hole on the other side. I just saw a rough idea.

It was the first time she had seen such a strange painting, which was completely beyond her knowledge of Tang Dynasty murals. I wondered in my heart, isn't this a mural from the Tang Dynasty?

But looking at the painting in the middle, this is indeed true!

What is obvious in that mural is that the characters in those murals are wearing the official uniforms of the Tang Dynasty at that time, as well as the costumes of the nobles at that time, which makes people who have studied history know it at a glance!

Although there is not even a maid in the painting, this is somewhat intriguing.

She looked up at the only female figure in the mural in front of her, dressed in a robe, with a solemn face, even with a terrifying coldness. She used her small flashlight to shine it clearly, and she was dumbfounded, "This ......"

"It's like a jujube in Xinjiang. It also has mildew spots, and it is almost mushrooms. Qin Hu laughed as he spoke.

saw Lan Ling looking at her with a serious face, although she was wearing a mask, she could also feel that she had a straight face, and her eyes were gloomy to the extreme.

He hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Lan Ling ignored Qin Hu, who was asking on the side, she looked at the people around her, and finally at Lao Wang. I saw that he was staring at the mural on the far left, as if he was thinking about something. Didn't notice that I was staring at him.

She immediately used her flashlight to shine her flashlight on another place, and found that the other places had peeled off because of the age, the murals had been raised and the paint was powdered, and there were still places that were not protected by the layer of mud, and had peeled off.

Turning to look at the long entrance of the cave, she felt that something was wrong no matter how she thought about it, she was about to walk over and take a look, when she suddenly heard Xiao Qin on the side shouting.

"Hey, why did you drop a chunk here? Gnawed by rats? He took Lan Ling's small flashlight and stood on tiptoe to look at it carefully.

I didn't see it very clearly just now, but now I look at it carefully. The rest of the place is quite flat, and there is no major damage, but the thing in the woman's hand in this painting alone seems to have been ripped off.

He snorted and narrowed his eyes, "Hey, I mean, how did this fall here?" With his gloved fingers, he reached out and touched the discoloration.

looked at Lan Ling and said informally: "Teacher Lan, you don't know how to start!" Look at this got a big chunk off. It's good now, I can't see what it is. ”

Lan Ling glared at him, seeing that he was the first to hit a rake, which was also said to be addictive!

"Go aside!" She gave him a blank look. When I walked to Lao Wang's side, I saw that he was not in a hurry to dust the murals, but stared at the murals in a daze, eager to see a hole in the paintings on the stone wall.

"Wang, what's wrong?" She walked up to the mural and looked at it, and saw that he was frowning and said nothing.

She said to herself: This old guy has a very strange temper! What is the bottom line in mind?

Everyone else was busy, and she wasn't too lazy. There was some pain in her waist when she was standing, so she had to stretch her waist and think about continuing to work.

At the moment when she turned her head and was about to leave, she suddenly realized that something was wrong with the group of murals in front of her.

Look at the murals that are full of mildew, some of which have faded. She turned to look at the fresco on the right, the one in the middle, which was quite well preserved, unlike the other two.

The heart said, "Is it because it is on both sides?"

But there is no exit on the left, and it is not facing the hole. She looked at the mud that had been cleared from the ground, and instantly realized that someone had deliberately tried to make them see the middle one clearly.

Why is that?

She stood still, just quietly looking at the mural and pondering.

But I suddenly found that this was unexpectedly established with what Xiao Qin said! The heart said, "Is the one on the far right the beginning?"

This one doesn't have that monk! And on the far right there is. She was surprised to find that there were many more men dressed in aristocratic costumes. The man at the head, tall and tall, sat on top of the chariot. Many soldiers in armor followed. This is clearly the treatment of the emperor.

She walked to the front of Lao Wang and looked, but found that there was no one in the innermost!

"What the hell is going on?" The apparent order here is diametrically opposed.

"These three murals are not necessarily related." Lao Wang pondered for a long time before speaking. After he finished speaking, he looked at Lan Ling, and the serious expression on his face had not yet eased.

Lan Ling looked at him, in fact, she herself realized this. Just now, I have been struggling with my thoughts in my heart, thinking: just follow the completion of the repair.

But looking at Lao Wang's expression now, it seems that all this is not so simple. What's more, it is still waiting for them to study what results.

remembered what Lao Wang told those leaders/guides at the dinner that night. She looked at Lao Wang and asked directly: "Lao Wang, didn't you say before that this is the same as the mural that my father studied?" Now you're saying there's no necessary connection?! ”

Lao Wang smiled and looked at the three groups of murals in front of him, "These three groups of murals are not necessarily related, but they are not unrelated to the one your father found." ”

Lan Lingxin said: Do you want to overturn my father's research results, so that this picture is true?

Before she could react, she saw Lao Wang show an elusive smile, and suddenly she felt that something was wrong.

"Xiaolan, you have also seen that these three murals are really weird. But it has to be said that the research value of these three murals is very high. We must do our best not only to complete the restoration of the murals in this cave, but also to study and draw a conclusion according to the above requirements. Lao Wang smiled at Lan Ling again and said, "You said yes! ”

Lan Ling nodded at his words, unable to refute it.

Seeing that everyone else suddenly looked at her, she had no choice but to nod and say, "I know that our institute attaches great importance to this discovery, and of course I want to do a good job." ”

"I'm relieved to have your words." Lao Wang said that he wanted to pat her on the shoulder, he smiled and took off his gloves, gently put his arm on her shoulder, and motioned for her to take a step to speak.

Lan Ling felt a little strange in his heart, but he still followed him outside first.

Qin Hu, who was standing not far away, looked at them and felt tired. He wanted to get in and eavesdrop, but he couldn't.

He staggered to the entrance of the cave by himself, crouched down/leaned over and helped the archaeologists begin to clean up the skeletons.

But they stood outside the entrance of the cave and talked in such a whisper that he could not hear even if his ears were sharp.

He had no choice but to squat on the ground in wonder, frowning at the bones on the ground that had been pushed into a mountain. It's a little creepy to look at.

"Is this a mass grave? Why are there so many bones? As soon as he finished asking, he realized that he had shown his shortness. He quickly shut his mouth and said nothing.

I saw a man on the other side, who was also wearing a mask, and glanced at himself. This look at it made him feel a little weak.

"This widow's cave is full of sick and dead women." When the man saw that the newcomer didn't understand, he said casually.

"Sick to death? Are they all women? Qin Hu looked at the messy pile of bones on the ground in surprise. He picked up the nearest leg bone, looked at it, and then looked at the man, "How do you know that these are dead from illness?" ”

The heart said: It won't be listening to people's nonsense!

The man was also interested, and walked up to him, and began to talk to him.

At this time, Lan Ling, who was outside, looked at Lao Wang, and when he saw his eyes, it was simply a purpose. She is not the ignorant young man who has just graduated from college before, and she can see at a glance that he obviously has a plan.

"How? Xiaolan, this is the fastest way for us to know the secret of this mural, we can't take a detour! Seeing that she didn't speak, Lao Wang then said, "I won't go around the bend with you, just tell you." Your father did study the mural in the tomb at the time, and I think it wasn't just a scholarly report for outsiders. Even the leader/director of the institute may not know about the more important secrets. It's also related to your father's secret study of various murals. As far as I know, it wasn't the last time your father studied that Tang Dynasty mural during his lifetime, and he went to other places after he resigned. ”

He narrowed his eyes and looked ahead, thinking for a moment, "I want to ...... These must be connected, even related to some kind of secret! ”

Lan Ling couldn't believe that he knew so much?

The heart said: This is not something that can be known by only a few words of relationship with my father.

To her surprise, he also said what he thought, "That'...... What do you think is the secret? She asked directly, but to see if he could say it.

I guessed in my heart: this old fox must have a hand.

Seeing that Lao Wang glanced at himself, he lowered his head and lit a cigarette. She just watched, waiting for him to speak.

He said leisurely, "I don't know." ”

"......" This surprised her a little, and she thought that he was playing tricks or something.

Guess he couldn't possibly know. She said in her heart: He doesn't tell me about me as a daughter, let alone outsiders.

She knows her father's temperament very well, as long as he doesn't want to say it, it's useless for you to kneel and beg him to say it!

She was about to turn around and leave, when she heard him say again, "Your father's notes must have mentioned the murals here." ”

Lan Ling's heart tightened, and he saw that he didn't move. The pictures in her father's notes flashed through her mind, and somehow they coincided with the mural in the widow's cave.

She was like a certain acupuncture point on her body that had been hit, and her body was so stiff.

She looked at Lao Wang, waiting for him to continue speaking.

But when he saw that this man really had the ability to talk about it, he was so anxious that he died. The heart said: Is this deliberately to hang other people's tastes? This ability to talk and stop is not learned in a day or two, and it is not Alzheimer's.

Seeing him smoking slowly, he was not in a hurry to continue.

Expecting that she was interested in listening, he smoked half a cigarette and snuffed out the cigarette butt. He slowly took a puff of cigarette and said indifferently: "You can take your father's notebook and take a good look at it." ”

Lan Ling looked at him and said that his face did not change, and he said in his heart: Damn! This old fox still hasn't forgotten about it! It's back around!

She coughed lightly, looked at Lao Wang's face, and simply told him directly, so as not to keep him thinking about it.

"It's not that I don't want to read it, it's that the notebook has been stolen a long time ago!" After speaking, he saw the expression on Lao Wang's face, and as expected, he was stunned.

After a while, he regained his previous expression, staring straight into the eyes of others, like an old fox observing others.

Lan Lingxin said: Don't look at it, if you look at it again, no one will send me back that notebook!

She stood still, and when she thought of this, her heart was on fire, and she longed to kill the one who had been stabbed a thousand times!

She didn't show her voice, thinking: It turns out that her father's notes are so important, no wonder even Lao Wang has been thinking about them.

"Xiaolan, the work of restoring the murals this time is already quite serious, and as you can see, these three groups of murals are very strange. It's the tricky now, and we can't fix it without specific information. Even if the previous repair work is completed, we have to hand over the report to give an explanation to the above, right? ”

Lan Ling listened to him, and he suddenly lost the bottom of his heart.

I thought: This "second-in-command" is also difficult to be!

She sighed, "Lao Wang, I really didn't lie to you. It was stolen that day, how did I know that this note was so important, I would have read it if I knew it. She was also helpless, "Before I could see it, I was stolen by someone who broke in from behind." ”

Seeing that Lao Wang didn't speak, she didn't bother to waste saliva with him, and said directly: "Isn't this you!" We have repaired the murals first, collected the information, and then we will move on to the next step. ”

She walked up to Lao Wang, smiled and said, "You are our number one here, what are we afraid of with you?" ”

She knew that he was trying to steal credit, if he could really publish an academic report, would he still have his own share? She didn't believe it, this old king had been waiting for this opportunity! She's not stupid! Do you still make wedding dresses for others?!

I wanted to walk up, but I heard Lao Wang behind him say again.

"It seems that you still don't know your father, and you don't know what he has been studying all his life?"

"You know?!" Lan Ling was a little impatient, she didn't like others to talk about her father.

Lao Wang was stunned by her sudden temper, but he didn't care about her, felt the cigarette case in his pocket, and took out another cigarette.

Lan Ling saw that he didn't rush to order it this time, but glanced at himself.

It made her face hang.

"Did your father mention the old building to you?" He didn't hurry to lower his head and light a cigarette, without raising his eyes to look at her.