Chapter 13: Xian'er

Entering the cave, there is no scene like when visiting the cave before, it is difficult to see the murals and statues completely, because there are three or four layers of scaffolding erected in the whole area here, and the high platform on the scaffold is full of many professional tools, and there are many high-tech instruments, and there are lights in the top corners, but in order not to affect the murals, special cold lights are used.

There are people up and down the scaffolding, some standing, some sitting, some lying on their stomachs, some bowing their heads, and some looking up.

"Lao Wang!" He Baihe looked at the criss-crossing scaffolding, and in this environment, he couldn't see who was who, so he could only shout.

Someone in the innermost answered, and then a graceful man in his forties walked out along the wall: "The old man is here." He glanced at Chen Qiong again, his eyes full of surprise, "This is the granddaughter of the old man?" ”

"This is Chunhua's daughter, and Chen Qiong, a dancer who came from Beijing this time, followed me as an assistant." He Baihe introduced Chen Qiong's identity as a child here with inertial thinking, and then amused himself, "I wish I had such a beautiful granddaughter, but unfortunately I don't have that blessing, they are all some boys." ”

Lao Wang also laughed: "Old man, those boys in your family are not happy." ”

"With a girl, who cares about the boy." He Baihe pretended to have a disgusted expression.

The rest of the restoration team who heard this was also amused, and it was Lao Wang and Chen Qiong who were the first to laugh.

"Okay, let's stop messing with you." He Baihe exhaled his anger and began to introduce people to Chen Qiong, "This is Wang Liang in the restoration team, just call Uncle Wang." ”

Chen Qiong, who got the answer, hurriedly said hello: "Hello Uncle Wang." “

"Hello, hello." Wang Liang looked at Chen Qiong carefully, and nodded while looking, "It's a little similar to Teacher Li, and they all look the same." ”

He Baihe, who was diverted from the topic by Wang Liang in the front, also remembered the matter: "You told me last night that there is a place where the mural is a little strange, where is it?" ”

"It's near the west wall." Wang Liang also put away his smile and led the two of them to walk through the scaffolding inside.

When Chen Qiong walked through the south wall, he saw a girl gently sweeping the mural with a soft brush, and stopped unconsciously, stood next to him and watched without blinking, and couldn't help but hold his breath, for fear of disturbing this girl, Wang Liang originally wanted to call Chen Qiong to follow, but He Baihe shook his head with a smile to stop it.

The old man wanted Chen Qiong to look at it like this, if he saw the interest in the restoration of the murals, he had his own thoughts, this Gobi Desert needs people, and Chen Qiong is the daughter of Li Chunhua and the child of the "Dunhuang people".

"How nice is it to dust up?" Guan sent it for a while, and seeing that Chen Qiong was watching seriously, he also waited for a while, mainly because the aisle was blocked, but the matter inside was urgent, and he had to make a sound.

Chen Qiong, who was easily frightened, couldn't hold back her scream, patted her chest with her hand, and gasped a few times.

The girl who was sweeping the dust of the mural raised her head and smiled and spoke for Chen Qiong: "Teacher Guan, is this beautiful sister looking at me?" ”

"Because Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden for the first time." Chen Qiong lowered her head and smiled lightly at the girl, and after glancing at Guan Ji, she turned around and walked inside.

Guan Ji raised his eyebrows behind him and smiled: "Then it looks like you lost the board." ”

Chen Qiong blinked, pursed her lips, and tried not to smile: "Follow behind." ”

"You fairy." Guan Ji saw Chen Qiong's back trembling with laughter, and he was relieved of the scare she had just now, although he came to Dunhuang as a teenager, and only returned to Beijing for four years to study at university, but he was born and raised in Beijing Hutong for more than ten years, and he still brought some Beijing dialect, such as the "fairy" blurted out.

Beijing accent, Beijing dialect and his voice are a lore.

Chen Qiong smiled and said nothing, she was a little surprised to hear Guan Ji say the long-lost Beijing dialect, after all, she liked Guan Ji back then and also had a little Beijing dialect relationship.

When walking to the west wall, there is obviously a larger space than other places, as the west wall of the main wall of this cave opened a large Buddha shrine, there is a Buddha statue in the shrine, two disciple statues, four Bodhisattva statues, He Baihe and Wang Liang are facing the mural next to the Buddha shrine on the west wall and talking about something.

"Shut up, come here." Wang Liang saw that Guan was coming, and hurriedly summoned, "Why did you come so late?" ”

Seeing this, Chen Qiong hurriedly moved to the side, Guan Ji subconsciously glanced at the woman who retreated to the side, quickly retracted his gaze, and walked towards Wang Liang while answering: "Xiao Li, who has just started repairing in Cave 324, has encountered a little problem, and his master is not there, so I will go over to help." ”

He Baihe also waved his hand for Chen Qiong to come over and watch together, and Chen Qiong walked over behind Guan Ji.

"What's the problem?" Guan Ji looked at He Baihe's face and was not too heavy.

Wang Liang pursed his lips and gritted his teeth: "When this cave first did the preliminary investigation, it was found that the four walls and the roof of the cave and the road were all heavy murals from the damaged place, the surface murals were painted by the Western Xia, and the bottom layer was found to be painted by the Tang Dynasty. ”

He Baihe also spoke: "It may be that the murals on the ground floor are made of relatively thick adobe, but the murals on the surface are painted in the same period, and there should be no such situation of a single place thick, and the most common situation is mostly because the rock mass has changed due to external factors in the past few hundred years, resulting in uneven surface of the murals." ”

When Chen Qiong heard this, she turned her head and looked at it from the side, and there was a protruding place on the mural that was in the form of a floor-to-ceiling rectangle, as if a painting was covered inside, revealing only a barely visible outline.

Guan Ji approached, bent his index finger after putting on his gloves, and gently tapped the mural with his joint: "Three-layer mural? ”

"I don't know what the situation is, so I called the old man to come and have a look with you." Wang Liang was originally a scholar of Dunhuang studies, and at the age of forty he was fascinated by the restoration and protection of Dunhuang murals.

Guan Ji looked at He Baihe and smiled: "Isn't the old man here?" ”

He Baihe seemed to see through Guan Ji's thoughts, and put his hands behind his back: "You have learned a lot in your mind, and you are still counting on me, an old man, in the future, this Dunhuang mural will be reliable for you descendants, you give the plan, and I will review it." ”

Chen Qiong only heard Guan Ji answer "OK" without hesitation, without the slightest hesitation.