Chapter 80: The Tomb Gate
The sudden brightness of the road made our eyes tingle a little, and the road moved in parallel like the stairs of the magic academy in "Harry Potter", making the sound of a machine grinding, like a Transformer. We looked around and realized that the center of the deep cave was like a bearing connecting this "geometric paradox stone staircase". It's like the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and it's spectacular.
Click!
There was only a loud bang, and the staircase suddenly stopped, and the staircase presented a straight up and down road to the ground.
Grimace didn't hesitate, waved his hand to signal us to follow, and walked down without hesitation. We walked down for about five minutes, and finally came to the bottom of the staircase, standing in front of a stone gate at the bottom.
The stone gate is carved out of brown boulders, with a height of five or six meters and a width of about three meters. It is covered with various patterns engraved and inlaid with metal materials. The top of the door is inlaid with a Lima bronze dragon-like pattern spitting water door face, and each eye is drawn into two silver eyes, which is very expressive. And the dragon's mouth spewed out two streams of iron and gold, and this iron water not only had gold cutting on it, but also surrounded the gold with silver and brass as thin as a hair, and it was colorful. In the center of the door, a flower made of alloy copper with a diameter of one meter is carved in the center, and gold, silver and various metals are inlaid on the petals. And on both sides of the door, each is separated from two black stone carvings, the standing Buddha statue with a kind face, the carving is very complicated, the surface of the stone is shiny and bright because of natural weathering, as if it has been smeared with oil, the height is two people to be high, very solemn and solemn.
I was stupid, I had never seen such a delicate iron cut gold. At that time, an auction company in Beijing once auctioned a piece of "Yuan Dynasty" with a size of only 15 centimeters. Lima Copper Nine Capricorn Head Nine Strands Vajra "used to be at a sky-high price of 1.8 million. That thing would be compared to this tomb gate. If this is placed in an international auction, it will not be sold for 100 million, thinking of this, I really have a touch of reverence for the wisdom of the ancients, I am afraid that this kind of thing is a unique product on a regular basis, it is too shocking. Not to mention this tomb gate, even the two Buddha statues on both sides can also be said to be priceless. It's a pity that I can't take it for myself, and I can't help but feel very sorry in my heart.
"What age do you see this tomb is?" Grimace walked up to me and asked.
I looked at the tomb door: "Judging from the tomb door, this tomb door should be about the Tang Dynasty, but it is not Chinese." ”
"Not Chinese? Are you sure? ”
I nodded: "Look at the craftsmanship on the door of this tomb, this iron and gold cutting is not very mature, and some places are still very shy, and the craftsmanship of the gold and silver made in Tibet, China is still a lot worse." So I think this tomb door should be from India, that is, the "Pala Dynasty". ”
The "Para dynasty" (7 AD - 1199 AD) is the 8th-12th century. In the northeast of India, the Para Dynasty was established, a location that many people are a little unfamiliar with, if you mention one of the famous temples, I believe everyone is familiar with it, this is the "Nalanda Monastery" (Nalanda Monastery). And this Nalanda Temple is the end point of Tang Xuanzang's trip to the west to learn scriptures in the four famous novels "Journey to the West". In fact, Nalanda Temple was built in the 5th century AD, when India was still under the rule of the Gupta dynasty. Nalanda Temple was destroyed at the end of the 12th century, at the end of the Para dynasty. In 1193, the Turkic Bakhetiar. Bakhtiyar Khalji invaded Nalanda Monastery, and the library of more than 9 million books burned for three months, and the essence of the great ancient Indian Buddhist civilization was destroyed. Ancient Indian Buddhism, which had been in circulation for more than a thousand years, also went into complete decline in the fierce battle between the Pala Dynasty and the Turks.
Grimace Zhang obviously didn't know what the Pala Dynasty was, and took a puff of his cigarette: "We won't be free to go back in vain, right?" ”
I smiled jokingly: "Actually, we can go back now, if you have the strength to carry this door out, then we can earn at least eighteen million alone." ”
Grimace listened to me joking and glared at me, "Don't talk nonsense. ”
"No, the things of the Pala Dynasty on the auction are much more expensive than the Buddha statues in Tibet and the "Zhaba" in Mongolia, and if there is a superb "Pala Buddha" in it, it should be no less than the tomb door. “
Grimace Zhang nodded, and looked at the tomb door, only to realize that the main problem was the way the door was opened, which was the focus. He immediately looked at the kaleidoscope and black cloak standing behind: "Eh, you two should poke up the books that can't be sold, and tell me how this tomb door should be opened." ”
Kaleidoscope scratched his head, looked at the tomb door, and then looked at the two black stone carved Buddha statues, frowned, walked to the side of the Buddha statue, and examined it.
We all stood beside him and waited for the results of his investigation, and after a few minutes, the kaleidoscope turned around and sighed, "Do you know what kind of Buddha these two black stone Buddha statues are carved?" ”
Everyone was silent, but I smiled: "Uncle Wan, if I am not mistaken, the one on the left should be the Buddha's mother, and the one on the right should be the Buddha, right?" ”
Kaleidoscope nodded in surprise when she heard this, thinking that she could sell it, but she never thought that she would be broken by me. I smiled and said that even if Xiao Shao came, he knew that one of these two Buddhas was the mother of the Buddha and the other was the Buddha, as long as he said that he had done the business of Buddha statues, he would definitely be able to recognize it. That is, because this Jingjiumen is a tomb robbery organization, and the goods go fast, no one studies what it is, so no one recognizes it. But I thought about it again, it's impossible, Master's eyes are much more unique than mine, so why don't you say anything? I was puzzled, and I looked back, but as soon as I saw it, I shuddered with fright, and Master disappeared silently as we went down the stairs and inspected the wooden door!
"Where's Master?" I looked at Mengya with a frown and asked.
Mengya was also surprised that a big living person disappeared in front of us in front of all of us. She groped left and right, shaking her head at me.
"Could it be that it has been plundered by hostile forces?" Xu Fatzi said.
Grimace snorted coldly when he heard this: "Isn't your guy better than the fourth kidnapper?" Then why didn't they kidnap you? ”
"What is my fat man, I'm a nobody, what's the use of kidnapping me."
The black cloak waved his hand after hearing this: "Impossible, it is impossible for such a big living person to be abducted in front of us, and whoever is abducted must not scream twice." The cuttlefish has to spit out ink when it is dying, and the chick has to shake off its arms when it is dying, not to mention that it is a big living person, in my opinion, it must be acting alone. ”
I seemed to feel a lot more spacious when I heard her say this, and nodded, but I was still very worried, it must be that the master is so old, and there is no martial arts like Grimace Zhang and Tie Guan Liu. I don't know how many strange secret passages there are in this tomb, if you don't need to attack the opponent like this, I'm afraid that the master alone will be more than lucky.
"Okay, okay, Kaleidoscope, you can go on." Grimace looked impatient and waved at us.
Kaleidoscope nodded: "The nephew of Qiu Da also said just now that these two Buddha statues are the Buddha Mother and the Buddha Introduction. The shape of the Buddha statue of the Pala Dynasty is not the same as the shape of the Buddha statue in our Central Plains, not to mention the dress here. The shape of the Buddha's mother should be the left hand to the sky and the right hand to the ground, and the left foot is raised at a 45-degree angle, presenting a feeling of Tibetan "yogi". The shape of the Buddha in our Central Plains is to stand upright, with the right hand dragging the purple gold bowl on the chest and the left hand hanging down to one side. The Buddha of the Kopala Dynasty is different, and the posture should be to hold a lotus flower in both hands. As he spoke, he pointed to the two Buddha statues beside him. If you look at these two Buddha statues, first of all, the position of the feet and the position of the hands of this Buddha Mother are not the correct posture. And the Buddha on the side is even more wrong, the gesture is correct, but the lotus flower on the hand of the Buddha statue has disappeared, how to explain this? Looking at this specification, this tomb must be the mausoleum of the king of the Pala Dynasty, such a specification of the Buddha statue is not in the right posture, and it is impossible for the magic weapon to disappear. The only explanation is that it has something to do with the mechanism that opened the door. ”
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