"Still uncomfortable?" Guan Ji bought a bottle of water and came back, seeing that Chen Qiong, who was leaning on the railing to relieve herself, was still weak, as if throwing a small pebble could make her collapse on the ground, the worry that had already dissipated her brows intensified, if something happened to him just after he came, he would not be able to deal with Dean Zhao, and after unscrewing the bottle cap, he handed the water over, "Drink some water slowly." ”

Chen Qiong reached out to pick it up, and as soon as she got it in her hand, she raised her head and drank it, because she was in a hurry, the water slipped out of the corner of her mouth, slid all the way down the raised jaw and over the white and long swan neck, and finally slipped from the collarbone into the skin under the red dress.

After Guan Ji realized what he was looking at, his ears turned red and he quickly looked away.

"Thanks... Thank you. Chen Qiong drank a whole bottle of 500 ml of mineral water, reached out and wiped the water from the corner of her mouth, the whole person gasped, and the focus of her eyes also recovered.

Guan Ji looked at the person in front of him, thinking of the scene in front of him in the nine-story building: "Do you have a phobia of giant objects? ”

Chen Qiong shook her head, there was no such situation when she saw the Statue of Liberty for the first time, she looked up at the rising sun, and immediately exhaled: "Probably just came here, and the body has not yet adapted to all aspects, after seeing such a large Buddha statue, because the impact on the brain and eyeballs is too great, so the situation is obvious." ”

After resting for a while, Guan Ji didn't know where to get two cotton clothes and two special cold lights, and took Chen Qiong to the south end of Mogao Grottoes to see other caves, but Chen Qiong inadvertently knew from Guan Ji's mouth that Maitreya Buddha is also the "future Buddha" in Mahayana Buddhism, and is the successor of the world-honored Shakyamuni Buddha, so he immediately turned around and ran to the three large incense burners in front of the nine-story building, and bought a few incense sticks to worship.

Guan Ji, who was leaning on the stone railing on the second floor of the grotto, looked at Chen Qiong with his chest crossed, and his eyes followed until Chen Qiong came up again, he put down his hands and asked with a smile: "Believe in Buddhism?" ”

Chen Qiongleng paused for a moment and shook his head: "I'm not a religious person, so it's not a faith, but I'm willing to get in touch with these interesting religious cultures, sometimes they can let me calm down and see a lot, when I come to this Buddhist holy land, I will naturally have a sense of awe, and put a few pillars of incense on the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas here, bow to them, and ask for protection by the way." ”

Speaking of the last few words, Chen Qiong pursed her lips a little embarrassedly and smiled lightly.

Guan Ji lowered his head and divided the yards of the two cotton clothes on his hand, and a smile slipped out of the corner of his mouth, sometimes no religious belief is the highest faith, sticking to the head of the family, becoming a trapped beast in life, and when there was no way out, he trapped himself, and he had to sing which song to which mountain.

He still couldn't help but complain: "If your heart is not sincere, who is willing to bless you." ”

Chen Qiong looked over: "Who said I was insincere?" ”

Guan Ji raised his eyes and threw one of the cotton clothes in his hand to Chen Qiong: "I don't believe in others, are you still sincere?" ”

"I believe in those teachings." Chen Qiong took the cotton clothes and glanced at her, "You just like the books and words written by a person, do you have to bow down to that person for this?" ”

"I can't argue with you." Guan Ji laughed, he just wanted to add some blockage to Chen Qiong's heart, so he refuted against his will, and looked at Chen Qiong's cotton clothes still in his hand, and made a look, "Put it on, the temperature in the cave is low." ”

Chen Qiong obediently put the fat cotton clothes on her body, and after putting it on, she felt a little birdish, and her argumentative eyes were much softer.

Guan Ji glanced roughly, took the key to open the security door of the 158th cave, at the moment when the security door of the cave was opened, the rising sun shone directly into the entrance of the cave facing east, and the golden light fell on the road, a bit like a bright avenue leading to where.

Walking all the way in, most of the sunlight that was divided by the corridor only left a faint light to fall in the cave.

When Guan Ji bowed his head, Chen Qiong, who was frightened in front, also followed a, Guan Ji smiled and said nothing, this is the habit he developed after coming to Dunhuang, after entering the cave, he must first bow down, worship the Buddha and Bodhisattva in the cave, and also worship the unparalleled cave art of Dunhuang.

But it doesn't hurt to give Chen Qiong a psychological comfort.

"The largest Nirvana Buddha in the Mogao Grottoes." Sekiyo said.

Chen Qiong thought that Guan Ji would continue to speak, but after waiting for a long time, there was no second half of the sentence, she had to look carefully, this is a Buddha statue lying on the platform, the posture and appearance of the Buddha statue are not messed up at all, it can be described as dignified, with the palm of one hand lightly supporting the cheek as a pillow, the eyes are slightly closed, and the corners of the mouth are smiling, like entering a very beautiful dream, so beautiful that she doesn't want to wake up.

A red dot between the eyebrows adds to the feminine femininity, like a woman sleeping peacefully.

"This is the Nirvana image of Shakyamuni Buddha, that is, we are familiar with the round death, in Buddhism Nirvana is non-action, freedom and immortality, non-birth and immortality does not refer to the non-termination of life, but to understand the 'cause and effect law', free from the cycle of life and death and all kinds of suffering, so the Nirvana Buddha statue does not have the reluctance and pain of mortals to ride the crane, and it is the highest nirvana realm of 'silence for happiness' in Buddhism."

Guan Ji used an open flashlight to illuminate the north and south walls of the Nirvana statue, and there is a standing statue: "The south wall is the Buddha of the past world, and the north wall is the Maitreya Buddha of the future life, they and the Buddha of the past and the present and the future together constitute the Buddha statues of the past, present and future, the portraits on the top of the cave and other walls, are some Bodhisattvas and Arhats and other Buddhas are farewell, there are disciples running for funerals and princes of various countries mourning pictures, and there are many scriptures and paintings." ”

"Bodhisattvas, Arhats, Brahmanas, Heavenly Dragons, Buddha disciples, and scattered flowers are all on this." Chen Qiong took the flashlight and turned around, focusing on the mural behind the Nirvana statue, and suddenly she looked up at the top of the cave again, "The top of the cave is divided into nine directions, there are nine pure lands, what about the other side?" ”

Guan Ji squinted, looking at Chen Qiong with some novelty, he remembered that the master said that her daughter hated Dunhuang because she stayed in Dunhuang all the year round to do restoration and protection work, so her wish has always been to hope that Chen Qiong can become the second him, and the Dunhuang that she hates because of her parents can turn from hatred to love.

He put away his curiosity and transferred the beam of the flashlight to the middle of the long platform where the Nirvana statue was lying: "There is also a Pure Land in the small niche that came out of the Buddha's bed, and the Pure Land Transformation is painted in it, which is the tenth Pure Land. ”

Chen Qiong nodded, and her interest soon went down, the reason why she knew this was that in addition to her grandmother's belief in Buddhism, she had followed her grandmother into the temple to worship Buddha since she was a child, and she knew a little bit about it, and when she was sorting out her mother Li Chunhua's relics, she saw a handwritten notebook with detailed information about this cave.

But that's all she can remember, because she's not too interested, and after reading a few lines, she's put it in a drawer.

After going out of the 158th cave, the two people went to see some other types of caves, as more and more caves were discovered, it was very unrealistic to visit all the caves, so I only saw nearly a dozen Dunhuang caves of different periods, and I had a lunch in the middle, and it was already more than four o'clock in the afternoon when I finished reading.

Because the sun is no longer hot, tourists also arrive at the most time.

Chen Qiong stood on the second floor of the grotto and looked around, there were a lot of trees planted here because of the wind and sand, there were almost no clouds in the sky, the whole blue eroded the sky, and the air was much better than those big cities in Beijing.

Guan Ji glanced at Chen Qiong: "I'll go directly into the cave to repair later, can you go back yourself?" ”

Chen Qiong nodded, and then asked curiously: "Do you wear sunscreen on weekdays?" ”

"What sunscreen?" Sekiji was asked in a fog.

Chen Qiong stared at Guan Ji for a long time, and finally burst out: "How many years have you worked here?" ”

Guan Ji's tense nerves were relaxed at once, and he didn't say a few years, but just joked: "I graduated from college in the year." ”

Because not long after Chen Qiong broke up with him that year, he graduated and came to Dunhuang to take root.

"Then why haven't you changed... Black. Chen Qiong, who was thinking about this issue, asked in a low voice.

Guan Ji's face turned black in an instant, and no amount of sunscreen could make up for the blackness, so he sneered: "You hope for it?" ”

Chen Qiong hurriedly shook her head and defended herself: "You work on the Gobi Desert every day. ”

Guan Ji stretched out his hand towards Chen Qiong's cheek, so frightened that Chen Qiong immediately closed his eyes, and he turned around and snapped his fingers loudly in Chen Qiong's ear: "Throw away those stereotypes of yours." ”

After saying that, he walked away.

Chen Qiong opened her eyes and saw that there was no one in front of her, so she turned her head to look for it, and quickly followed after finding it.

"In the last century, those predecessors who came to Dunhuang to 'open up wasteland' cleaned up the sand in the caves every day, in order to protect the Mogao Grottoes from continuing to be eroded by wind and sand, and tried to plant trees around to control the sand, at that time they lived in adobe houses without water and power grids, because the water in Dunhuang is very alkaline, and the washing powder used to wash hair and decontaminate is used."

Guan Ji unscrewed the mineral water bottle, raised his head and took a sip, and continued, "The people of that generation protected the construction of the Mogao Grottoes, and at that time they did look similar to the old farmers after they came here for the past two years, but now the country has given us the best conditions to protect Dunhuang, which is not as hard as before, what we have to do is just squat in the cave every day to restore and protect those thousand-year-old arts." ”

Chen Qiong thought of a childhood anecdote that her father told herself when he recalled his mother during the Chinese New Year this year, when she was four years old, Li Chunhua went back from Dunhuang to see her, she cried because she couldn't recognize Li Chunhua who had completely changed in front of her, Li Chunhua immediately went to her neighbor's mother to help put on the first makeup in her life, and she recognized who the person in front of her was.

Her father thought she had forgotten about it, but in fact, she remembered that she was crying at that time just because she didn't recognize who the woman in front of her was, she thought it was a stranger who came to hug her, and her family kept teaching her not to ignore almost strangers, such are bad people.

After Guan Ji drank the water, he went directly to the cave to repair the murals, Chen Qiong walked back along the asphalt road all the way, and after walking for most of the time, his face suddenly changed greatly, and he ran crazy to a certain place.