That night, Chen Qiong, who had already eaten enough, had most of the bowl of soup and rice and mutton that had not been touched with chopsticks, and ran away from Guan Ji with her legs, and ran away in such a mess.

Guan Ji smiled at the corner of her mouth and watched her disappear at the door of the canteen with an interesting smile, but it made the canteen aunt think that her food was not clean and made Chen Qiong have a stomach, even if Guan Ji explained to the canteen aunt several times, the canteen aunt still didn't feel at ease and asked in person tomorrow.

Chen Qiong couldn't sleep when she lay on the bed tossing and turning, her mind was full of the voice of Guan Ji, which was almost a hunter, as if she had been waiting for this day, to cut her with a thousand knives and avenge the revenge of the year.

Back then, she unilaterally broke up with a text message and then walked away.

She was already a little guilty when she recognized Guan Ji during the day, but now because of the sentence "The ex-girlfriend who dumped me", the guilty Fujiman is crawling all over his heart with crazy speed.

She really, really wanted to pack up and get out of here now.

Chen Qiong covered her head with the thin quilt, and finally pulled her thoughts back from Guan Ji, and fell asleep in a daze, and woke up several times in the middle of the night because of the roaring wind in the desert night, and the temperature plummeted to six degrees at night, which also made her wake up several times, and she soaked her feet in a pot of hot water to sleep more peacefully.

Chen Qiong woke up at seven o'clock in the morning, practiced on the ground covered with yoga mats for half an hour before getting up to wash, after washing and doing normal skin care, only put on sunscreen and lipstick, and casually took a red ankle-length dress to change into, considering that the desert sun was too strong, and put on a sunscreen overshirt outside.

Seeing that there was not enough time, she raised her hand and grabbed her hair casually, went to the cafeteria with the rubber band on her wrist a few times, only took two white-flour steamed buns and left, and then stood at the door of the research institute and called to ask Zhang Xiaomao who took her to visit the cave today.

"Teacher Chen, haven't you seen Teacher Guan yet?" Zhang Xiaomao is still so enthusiastic, chatting with Guan on WeChat on the computer, and talking to Chen Qiong on the phone, just to let the two of them meet early, "Teacher Guan said that he has seen you and asked you to turn around." ”

Chen Qiong sighed, answered with a "good" in an astringent voice, turned around and saw Guan Ji wearing last night's casual clothes, and hung up the phone after telling Zhang Xiaomao that they had met, she decided, she didn't invite Zhang Xiaomao to dinner, yesterday's "valid at any time" became "immediately invalid".

"The old rules of the research institute, everyone who has just come to Dunhuang for internship must first be taken by the old experts to each cave to walk, explain again, and take an exam." Guan Ji put his mobile phone in his pocket, as if he had no memory of last night's events, "Although you only came to collect wind for a few months and left, but after all, you came in according to the staff arrangement, so you still have to visit it, and it is convenient for you to better collect style." ”

"I'm up to you." Chen Qiong didn't have any questions about this, what she questioned was why Guan Ji took her there.

Guan Ji walked to the commuter car waiting outside the research institute, and solved the problem in Chen Qiong's heart like a mind reader: "Originally, the master you were going to follow took you to visit the caves, but his old man had a symposium on the restoration and protection of Dunhuang in Beijing, and he had to come back the day after tomorrow, so in order not to waste time, Dean Zhao asked me to go on top." ”

Chen Qiong responded very obediently, followed Guan Ji to pick up the commuter bus that would pick up and drop off employees every day, the two sat separately, and never had any conversation, and waited for a few minutes before the commuter car drove to Mogao Grottoes, and the distance from the research institute to Mogao Grottoes had already been built into a flat asphalt road.

Because the staff dormitory is not far away from the Mogao Grottoes, it is only ten minutes away by walking, and there is no special commuter bus to pick up and drop off, but because these commuter buses go to the residential building in Dunhuang City early to pick up the workers, so the vacant commuter car will occasionally come here to pick up and drop.

After a two- or three-minute drive, Chen Qiong hurriedly finished eating the two white-flour steamed buns in her hand, but she was a little choked, and as soon as she got out of the car, she hurriedly went to buy a bottle of water to drink.

In addition to a few tourists who buy tickets to visit the Mogao Grottoes at this point, more of them are the employees of the research institute who come to work, wearing uniform blue overalls.

Guan Ji first led Chen Qiong to the most famous nine-story building in Mogao Grottoes, which is commonly known as the Great Buddha Hall, Cave 96.

"This is the first big Buddha in Mogao Grottoes, commonly known as the 'Great Buddha', and it is also the largest indoor statue of Maitreya Buddha, 33 meters high, completed in the era of Wu Zetian." Guan Ji folded his hands and made a gesture towards the Buddha statue, and his voice was deliberately lowered, "This Buddha statue has a lot of female characteristics if you look closely, in order to promote that Wu Zetian is the Maitreya Buddha descended into the world, so that Wu Zetian can smoothly replace the Li Tang Dynasty to govern, and at the same time, he also ordered people to build Dayun Temple in various places, so that the temples in various states can be worshiped with the statue of Maitreya and recite the "Dayun Sutra". ”

"This seated statue of Maitreya Buddha is a product of that time."

Chen Qiong looked around, his eyes lingering slightly on the huge feet of the Buddha statue in front of him before looking up.

This giant Buddha looks dignified and gentle, with its legs hanging down and sitting instead of the common lotus seat cross-legged in Buddhism, it looks like it is sitting here to guard this side, looking up from the bottom, you can see the nostrils and eyes of the Buddha that have become two lines, as well as the pursed lips, which shows the inviolable majesty.

But it also makes people afraid, giving people the feeling that they are ants, or maybe it is just a grain of sand in the yellow sand, and the sense of oppression in the heart hits like a mountain falling.

It stretched out one hand flat, but the other hand was raised, and the palm was outward, as if it would fall down at any moment.

She thought, she finally realized the feeling that Sun Wukong was pressed down by one hand of the Buddha, the feeling of chest tightness and panic made her dare not look any further, lowered her head and blinked her eyes quickly, and a dizzy suffocation rushed towards her.

Even the sound of the ear has become a little vague and intermittent, as if it came from thousands of miles away: "The raising of the right hand of the Buddha Maitreya is to give the fearless seal, indicating the great mercy of the Buddha to help all sentient beings, so that all seating beings will no longer suffer, and the flat extension of the left hand is to give the wish seal, indicating the Buddha's compassionate heart and satisfying the wishes of sentient beings." ”

Chen Qiong, who was in a panic, hurriedly stretched out her hand to the side to grab someone, but because she was standing far away from Guan Ji at the beginning, the only few tourists also followed the tour guide to go out to see other caves, she grabbed it all the time, and couldn't catch anything, Chen Qiong, who was gradually impatient in her heart, hurriedly learned the Guan Ji in front, trembled slightly, and folded her hands to worship the Maitreya Buddha statue in front of her.

Guan Ji glanced at Chen Qiong, noticed her discomfort and slightly trembling hands, and quickly reached out to pull Chen Qiong, separated Chen Qiong's hands together, and took Chen Qiong to turn around and walk out of the nine-story building quickly.