Chapter 68: Ears and Eyes

Lin Lin was not in a hurry, "We will have so much curiosity to explore because we met a local from Qibao Town who is particularly fond of talking on the train here, and after eating a bowl of instant noodles we bought for him on the train, he told us a lot of stories about Tianle Palace. ”

Lu Li's eyes lit up, and he felt that the exciting part was about to begin.

"That person said that during the Anti-Japanese War, there were no religious activities here in Tianle Palace, and only when the people in the town rushed to the market every month, there would be vendors who set up stalls to sell goods in the open space inside, and there were people who lit a fire by the wall," Lin Xiao said, raising his hand and pointing to the root of the wall in front of Lu Li, "Kill pigs and chickens here, burn incense and worship the king of the stove." ”

Lu Li frowned, and said in his heart that he still didn't hear any feeling of hell on earth, but felt that the fireworks of life in the market were quite vivid by his few words.

The previous idea of wanting to make a documentary on folklore has strengthened a little more in my heart.

Lin Lin continued, "The Wuji Hall was used as a classroom for the town's primary school at that time, but now those murals that we regard as treasures are terrifying evil creatures in the eyes of the locals, and the children are afraid to come to class, so the villagers pooled money to build a false wall in the Wuji Hall to block those murals, and the result was such a ridiculous move, but the murals were kept in the war. ”

Lu Li interjected when he listened, "There are Japanese who have occupied Qibao Town, right, I guess...... If it weren't for the false wall built by the villagers, the murals in the Wuji Hall would have been cut into small pieces of about 50 centimeters by the Japanese and smuggled out of the country, just like the Dunhuang murals. ”

"Well," Lin Lin replied, and then looked at Lu Li's gaze with a little more freshness, "It seems that you still know a little about the history of murals, and you have made films related to Dunhuang and prepared materials." ”

Lu Li shook his head, "No, I heard from my father, he has a lot of research on Dunhuang murals, and he almost stayed in the Dunhuang Mural Research Institute to work when he was young." ”

"That's what I'm talking about, I'll go on......"

Lu Li closed his mouth, looking forward to what he would hear next.

Lin Lian: "In the spring of 1939, a pair of Japanese soldiers occupied Qibao Town, and other temples in the town were set on fire by them. ”

Lin Li's tone of narration was actually very flat, but Lu Li was still quite nervous and held his breath when he listened, and it was not until he finished speaking that he was truly relieved.

Lin Lian's eyes changed a little when he saw her, but under the cover of the night, he didn't notice anything by Lu Li, he smiled and read in a leisurely tone, "The one who wins me, add three roots." ”

“…… Why did you suddenly switch languages?,I don't know much about classical Chinese.,Translate it.。 Lu Li didn't know why Lin Lin came to such a sentence.

"I heard it from the mouth of the person who told us the story on the train, and he said that this was the words left by Lu Banye, and the people in Qibao Town said that Tianle Palace was built by Lu Banye himself."

Lu Li's eyes widened, and he inexplicably remembered the situation when he heard his father tell her myths and legends when he was a child.

Lin Lin smiled and continued, "Master Lu said that if future generations want to tear down the Tianle Palace and build it again, then even if someone with better craftsmanship than me Lu Ban comes to do it, it will be possible to add three more pieces of wood to the original...... The original sentence of Lu Banye, as well as the second half of the sentence, 'Those who are not victorious will go to the wood. ’”

Lu Li blinked and recalled the first half of what Lin Lin said before, "Those who win me add three roots, and those who don't win me go to countless trees." ”

Lin Lin nodded silently at Lu Li.

Lu Li's eyes rolled, "Master Lu actually means that if anyone demolishes the Tianle Palace I built, then he wants to build it again...... If this style of painting is left in the present, it will be a strength of arrogance. ”

Lin Lin couldn't see any expression on his face, and after listening to Lu Li's half-joking words, he coughed lightly and continued: "Tianle Palace belongs to the ancient wooden structure of the mortise and tenon structure, in principle, it can be disassembled and reassembled...... No one in the country has done this before. ”

As soon as he mentioned the murals in the Wuji Palace, Lin Li's relaxed tone became much more solemn, and the voice he spoke was originally easy for people to indulge in, and Lu Li couldn't help but lighten his face when he heard it.

She still remembers the shock she felt when she saw the murals of the Infinity Hall for the first time.

It was a morning four or five days after she came to the crew.

Wuji Palace, which had been blocked by curtains before, opened all the blackout curtains in order to be able to shoot clear records, and He Linxi personally came to shoot the murals, and Lu Li was also present at the time.

No matter how clearly the murals of the Yuan Dynasty in the Wuji Hall can be seen from the data pictures, they are far less than the feeling when they witness the real thing.

As Lu Li followed the camera to move in front of the mural, nearly 300 figures depicted on the wall two or three meters high were arranged in a symmetrical ceremonial form, with the Qinglong and the White Tiger Xingjun on the south wall as the lead, and the twenty-eight main gods such as the Emperor of Heaven and the Queen Mother then unfolded. Twenty-eight nights, twelve days of the "heavenly soldiers and generals" around the main god slowly unfolded on the wall of more than 400 square meters, vividly reflected in front of the eyes.

She remembered that her mother told her that the murals of Tianle Palace were mainly depicting the Taoist etiquette of the gods worshipping the Yuan Shi Tianzun, so the murals were called ...... The name was on her lips, but she just couldn't remember it all at once.

After recalling it for a long time and not remembering it, only remembering the name that seemed to be three words, Lu Li decided to give up, turned his head to look at Lin Lin and asked him for an answer.

Lin Lin immediately said the name of the three words, "Chaoyuan Tu." ”

Lu Li immediately nodded like a chicken pecking rice, "Yes, yes, that's the name!" I'm all on the lips, I just don't think about it......"

She was about to describe to Lin Lin how excited she was when she saw the mural, when the mobile phone in her pocket suddenly rang, and Lu Li took it out to see that it was He Linxi who sent her a WeChat message and asked her where she was.

"It's Director He looking for me." When Lu Li lowered his head and was about to reply, he talked to Lin Lin for a while.

Lin Lin stared at the top of her lowered head, "It's because you didn't go back to the hotel to worry, let's go back." He noticed that when Lu Li talked about his mother, he usually called her Director He with everyone, and rarely called her by his mother.

"It's okay, I told her to wait a while and then go back, I still haven't finished telling you, it's my house. You haven't made it clear to me yet, why do you say this is hell on earth. Lu Li raised his face and looked at Lin Lin again after returning to WeChat, "I digressed from what I said just now, and I only said half of the two things." ”

After listening to her, Lin Lin nodded thoughtfully, his eyes looked into the depths of the night, "It's too late and it's not safe, let's continue on the way back to the hotel." ”

Lu Li listened to him, and the two of them quickened their pace to return to the Qibao Hotel.

When passing by the main entrance of Tianle Palace again, Lu Li deliberately looked inside with his hands in his pockets, and the courtyard was pitch black with almost no light, and he couldn't hear any movement.

Lu Li suddenly felt a little chill in her back, she shivered, and just about to talk to Lin Li, she heard his deep voice ring in her ears first.

"When we went on our expedition that night, the yard was exactly the same as it is now, but it was cloudy that night, and there was no beautiful starry sky as it was today...... I'll tell you that 10 years ago, Shippo was like a living hell because of what we experienced in it that night......"

Lin Lin didn't go any further.

Lu Li felt a chill all over her body, and her intuition told her that what Lin Lin didn't say in the second half of the year would not be anything that made people feel comfortable, she slowly raised her head and looked at Lin Lin with wary eyes, "You guys you are talking about, how many people?" Isn't it that Officer Bai was with you at the time? ”

This question has been held in Lu Li's heart for a long time.

Lin Lin looked back at Lu Li lightly, "There are four of us, Officer Bai is with us, in fact, she proposed to go on an expedition that day." ”

Lu Li swallowed his throat and asked again, "You guys are inside, what's wrong?" ”