"What crazy thing did you do to Zhang Xiaomao." Guan Ji looked at the people who were deliberately hiding all the way, just like hiding from creditors, no matter how they looked, it looked like a love debt, and it was difficult to pay attention to it, "Hiding from him like this?" ”

Chen Qiong tilted her head and smiled brightly, her eyes drooped, she didn't know what she thought of, she was already approaching Guan Ji in a few steps, one hand was a little lazy on Guan Ji's neck, and her toes stood on tiptoe, but because the man stood straight, she was still a little short of distance, she gritted her teeth impatiently, her hand was forceful, and the man pretended to be forced to bend down slightly, she also raised her head, her chin and neck were pulled out of a beautiful curve, and the lips that had been smeared with lip balm were sent to Guan Ji little by little.

stopped at 0.01 cm, raised his eyes, and his smile instantly became charming: "Then look at it, is this considered madness?" ”

"Count." Such a close distance did not make Guan Ji's eyes fluctuate, the coolness under his eyes was comparable to a thousand feet of ice, no wonder he wanted to hide like this, he reached out and took down the white lotus hanging around his neck, and turned around and entered the hole.

Chen Qiong stood in place, raised the hand that had just hugged Guan Ji's neck and looked left and right a few times, she didn't blush when she did this, and once again made sure that it was just Wang Liang's dazzle yesterday, and she laughed at herself in her heart and followed in.

After the west wall of Cave 496 was treated with a surface protection treatment in the morning, the scaffolding began to be dismantled and withdrawn, and when the scaffolding was completely removed, the entire wall was completely exposed in front of you.

None of them spoke, and in the end, I don't know who said, "This... Is this the Bodhisattva who leads the way? ”

Seki looked up, his eyes wandering around the mural, as if he was determining something, to determine something, so he never said anything.

"Guan Ji, if this is really a guiding Bodhisattva, the value of cultural relics... But..."Even Wang Liang stammered when he spoke, and the excitement factor couldn't be suppressed, "But it's very big, if the old man knows it happily, it will also be a substantial breakthrough in the study of Dunhuang Studies." ”

Chen Qiong stood on the outermost side of the group, compared to the excitement and shock of the people around her, she was calm and a little strange, she could only look up seriously, hoping to see something clearly, to see why they were excited, but the whole mural still has more or less traces left by the adobe layer of the surface mural, but it does not affect the viewing.

The first thing she saw was the eyes of yesterday, the eyes of a bodhisattva.

A large statue of a Bodhisattva.

"Go to the courtyard and ask an expert who has studied the Bodhisattva of the Guiding Path." Although Sekiyo has been showing calmness, he still leaked his inner eagerness, "The sooner the better." ”

The experts were soon invited, and under the study of the experts, it was determined that the mural was the Bodhisattva of the Way, and the team cheered, with not only joy on their faces, but also an indescribable emotion.

Even if you win 50 million in the lottery, you won't have an emotion.

"Uncle Wang, the cultural relics of this mural are of high value?" Guan Ji was talking to the expert in front, and Chen Qiong quietly pulled Wang Liang's clothes and tried to keep his voice as low as possible.

Wang Liang has not recovered from his excitement, he took Chen Qiong's hand and shook it several times, and slapped the back of Chen Qiong's hand several times before calming down: "The Bodhisattva is a kind of Chinese localized Buddhist Bodhisattva, specializing in guiding the deceased to Elysium, but after the Song Dynasty, it gradually became a folk belief. ”

"There is no record of the Guiding Bodhisattva in various Buddhist scriptures, but the name and image of the Guiding Bodhisattva can be seen in the cultural relics unearthed in Dunhuang, and the dynasty can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty at the earliest."

"In addition to the image of the guiding Bodhisattva on the land and water paintings after the Song Dynasty, most of the guiding Bodhisattvas found here in Dunhuang are also on silk paintings, silk and paper, and there are only eleven that can be known at present, six in the French Museum, two in the British Museum, one in the Gansu Museum, and two in the Dunhuang murals of the Northern Song Dynasty."

"I see that this guiding Bodhisattva seems to be in the heyday of the Mogao Grottoes, judging from the characteristics of the characters and artistic style, it is almost the murals of the Tang Dynasty." Wang Liang has studied Dunhuang studies for more than 20 years, although he has not studied the Bodhisattva in detail, but the characteristics of the murals in each period are different, and you can see it by looking at it a few more times.

Chen Qiong still wanted to ask, but the expert was already talking, Guan Ji called her to listen, but as soon as she remembered what was outside the cave in front of her, she felt that her feminine charm was greatly frustrated, and she looked away and pretended not to see it, but Wang Liang pulled her forward as soon as she pulled her forward.

Guan Ji glanced at the woman who was deliberately standing far away from him, a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes, and he didn't say anything.

"Taken as a whole, it's an incomplete mural." The expert shook his head and sighed, a little pity, "The guiding Bodhisattva on this mural, the auspicious clouds under his feet and the Elysium behind him have all been colored, but the female layman and the human world followed by the guiding Bodhisattva have only outlined the lines. ”

The expert shook his head again, and the regret was obvious: "It's a pity, the painter may have died of illness halfway, or he may have to leave here to continue to complete the coloring, if the coloring is completed, this will definitely be a very exquisite guide Bodhisattva map, but this is also a big discovery for the current Dunhuang studies." ”

Guan Ji asked: "Can you know the content of the characters in this mural?" ”

"We still have to study and study." The expert approached the mural, took out a magnifying glass and studied the unfinished words in the lower right corner of the mural, "The Bangti here has not been written either, and it is also a little blurry because it is covered by the surface mural." ”

The experts soon went back to check the relevant information, and Wang Liang stepped forward to check it carefully, and he had been studying Dunhuang for the first half of his life, as if he had seen a treasure in the desert, and he was very interested.

Guan Ji walked towards Chen Qiong at this time: "What kind of temper are you making?" ”

Chen Qiong walked straight over without looking at it much.

Guan Ji followed, and before he could speak, he heard Chen Qiong's sad sigh "They cried", he followed Chen Qiong's line of sight, and saw a man and a woman kneeling in the world behind the deceased on the mural, and there were undried water stains outlined by lines on the ground, and the earthy color that could not be removed on it stained the yellowed tears.

He replied conservatively: "The relatives of the deceased." ”

"It's the parents." Chen Qiong was very sure, so sure that she had no chance to quibble with herself after she was wrong, "The dead little girl is their daughter, and they are reluctant, but no matter how reluctant they are, they can only bow down and worship, begging the Bodhisattva to lead their daughter to the Elysium without disease and disaster." ”

"It may be that the painter's daughter died of illness after the mortgage went out, and after the death of his daughter, his heart was grieved, but he couldn't do much, one of them was to temporarily paint his daughter's guide Bodhisattva on the murals of the original cave, because the painting had an accident so it was not finished, if it was a rich and noble family who invited a painter to paint, how could they ask someone to finish painting again, and the guide Bodhisattva who led the deceased to the Pure Land would not paint a half-finished product, they felt that this would not be able to reach Elysium."

"Either something happens to the provider's family, or the family is in decline, or there is a war."

Guan Ji actually had a speculation in his heart, but what he needed to be conclusive in the content of the external announcement was conclusive, so he always only needed one conclusive, and many ideas would be buried in his heart, as Wang Liang said, he made the word "person" unrevealed, after hearing Chen Qiong's conclusive words, he felt that he no longer needed to have this reservation.

Until it is conclusive, the various speculations that bloom are more interesting.

Chen Qiong only noticed the two words in the previous sentence, and looked back at him: "Mortgage? ”

Guan Ji's eyes fell on the girl whose image was much smaller than the Bodhisattva who led the way, and the clothes were not rich, and the body was not full of weight compared to the plump body that should have been in the Tang Dynasty: "Because in addition to the large families who invited painters to paint offering statues, many painters actually came to Dunhuang spontaneously to dig caves and paint murals, and their lives were extremely hard, often they couldn't eat, they couldn't afford to buy the things needed for painting, and they couldn't live several times, so they had to mortgage their children to those rich people's families to borrow money to support their lives." ”

There are very few records of these anonymous painters in Dunhuang documents, and mortgaging children to borrow money to live is one of them.

"Kid." Chen Qiong paused, her eyelashes fluttered, "It's pitiful." ”

"The painting environment in the cave is not good, many times they are squatting or lying on the ground, and it will take at least decades for these murals to be painted, and the body is already sick." Guan Ji knew that Chen Qiong was thinking of Li Chunhua and herself, "The cave in the north area of the Mogao Grottoes is their home in Dunhuang, and food, housing and transportation are all in the cave, and most of the painters may die of illness in the cave." ”

Chen Qiong tugged at the corners of her mouth, couldn't control the emotions flooding in her heart, gently touched the little girl with her index finger, and quickly retracted: "What did you get, fame or money, or status." ”

"Nothing."

"What's that for?"