Chapter 82: The Stone Terrace
Click!
A loud bang came to my ears, and my heart suddenly tightened, and I opened my eyes, was it just a dream? Looking for prestige, I saw that the iron-cut golden lotus in the middle of the tomb door was closed, and a stone platform suddenly appeared on the ground. This stone platform is like a stone computer desk, carved from black stone, but it is not as beautiful as the two Buddha statues, and the comparison feels very rough.
Grimace Zhang Chi was stunned for a moment, walked to the outside of the stone platform, and observed the observation, frowning again.
I stood up from before receiving the Buddha and walked over to Grimace Zhang, when the black cloak, Mengya and the rest of the people also came over. Looking closely, there are a lot of unknown words written on this stone platform inexplicably, like ghost drawings.
"Kaleidoscope, come here!" Grimace whistled, and the kaleidoscope ran over when it heard the sound. "See what the words on this mean, translate it."
Kaleidoscope walked to the stone platform and looked at it, and then carefully lay on the platform and carefully searched for it, his face was gloomy for a while, he frowned, and looked at the grimace on the side: "Third brother, this is not the text of the Pala Dynasty." This is "Tocharian Rovan". ”
Tocharian languages are the language family spoken by the Tocharians of the ancient Indo-European population, a language of the Centum, the most easternly group of Indo-European races, which is now extinct. At the beginning of the 20th century, fragments of this language were found in Xinjiang, China. Later studies have suggested that such languages and fragments may have been left from the sixth to eighth centuries. The Tocharians were called Yueshi in ancient times, and they were a branch of the proto-Indo-Europeans, originating in the Ural Mountains and South Siberia, moving south into the Tarim Basin, and reaching the Hexi Corridor in the east. During the Han Dynasty, the Yue clan was defeated by the Xiongnu and moved westward, conquered Bactria and the Ganges River valley, and established the Kushan Dynasty. The Kushan Dynasty may be the age when the Buddhist statues were first formed, as detailed in the ornamentation of the Buddha Shakyamuni on the gold coins unearthed from the Kushan Dynasty.
The kaleidoscope told the history of this Tocharian and the Kushan Dynasty by himself, and we listened to it like a book from heaven, and he still wanted to say that he was intoxicated to talk about it, and his grimace was impatient, and he frowned and waved his hand: "Okay, don't show that you are knowledgeable, I don't like to listen to it." You just need to translate this text as soon as possible. ”
The kaleidoscope was interrupted by this ruthlessness, and he was helpless.
"Wait!"
Kaleidoscope was just about to translate the Tocharian script when I interrupted his work of translating the ancient text: "Uncle, you said that this is Tocharian, but the Buddha statue is in the style of the Pala Dynasty." The difference between the Kushan Dynasty and the Para Dynasty is hundreds of years. ”
The kaleidoscope was stunned when he heard it, obviously he didn't think about it so much, he only thought about the translation, he was stunned for a moment, and nodded: "Big nephew, you are right, this Kushan Dynasty was founded in 105 AD, and it perished in 250." The Para dynasty was founded in 750 AD, so how could this Tocharian be in the mausoleum of the Para dynasty? ”
I nodded, and said in my heart who is buried here, if it is a member of the royal family of the Kushan Dynasty, then it is unknown whether this Pala Buddha statue will be built in the later period. But if this mausoleum is buried by a member of the royal family of the Para Dynasty, how does the Tocharian on this stone platform explain, could it be that there are still orphans in this Kushan Dynasty?
"Could it be that this text is a variant of Para Sanskrit?" Black Cloak asked.
Kaleidoscope waved his hand: "Impossible, this Tocharian writing is not copiable, it itself extends Hindi and Arabic and many other languages, and the text on this stone platform is undoubtedly Tocharian." ”
The black cloak nodded, acquiescing to the kaleidoscope's statement. At this time, the grimace standing on the side began to be impatient again: "Okay, okay, it's useless to discuss this, don't you know who is lying here when you go in." ”
This guy is simple and rude, and what he said is true, but isn't it, don't you know who is buried when you go in? As soon as the kaleidoscope heard the reason, she continued to climb on the platform and began to study the words on it.
"Eh, how can there be a fragrance." Kaleidoscope leaned on the stone platform and sniffed.
"Oh no, hurry up!" With a grimace and a roar, he took off the sword behind his back and pulled out the scabbard.
The kaleidoscope was stunned, but just as he was about to raise his head, suddenly there was a scream, and many strange insect limbs stretched out from the surface of the stone platform and grabbed his head.
Grimace Zhang didn't say a word, waved the long knife in his hand and shaved the skin of the kaleidoscope, the gap between the stone platform and his face was about five centimeters, and I saw a cold light passing through this gap, and the kaleidoscope was planted upside down from the stone platform, like a mountain of meat fell to the ground.
The grimace knife technique is really exquisite, not only is the reaction fast, but this knife can be said to have not even harmed the hair of the kaleidoscope.
Kaleidoscope wiped the sweat: "This is... Insect jade? ”
Grimace waved his hand: "This is not an insect fragrant jade, this is a Gu worm, which is fixed on this stone platform with corpse wax as nutrients, and can be used to induce the gold toucher to throw himself into the net at any time." ”
Kaleidoscope nodded: "Thank you, third brother, thank you, third brother." ”
Grimace Zhang still looked at him with disdain, without the slightest appreciation: "Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and continue to translate." ”
"Uh......" Kaleidoscope hesitated for a while, and looked at the stump of the Gu worm that was still twitching on the black stone platform. Three... Third brother, this insect is not completely dead, if I study this text on this stone platform, I'm afraid I will have to let this strange insect kill it, right? ”
Grimace snorted coldly, jumped to the front of the stone platform, took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket, lit it, took a deep breath, and spitted on the stone platform. I saw a slight "squeak" sound from the stone platform, and white maggots poked out of the cracks in the text, squirming constantly. It's like maggots on top of a carrion, and the number is also very amazing, which makes people's scalp tingle after watching it.
"Vomit ......!" As soon as Mengya covered her chest, she retched, and threw up when she ran to the side. I hurriedly followed and patted her on the back.
"Are you alright?"
Mengya waved her hand, took out a handpaper to wipe her mouth, and smiled: "It's okay." "She doesn't seem to have a very good complexion, maybe she's in a bad physical condition, and her eyes are slightly bloodshot.
I stroked her forehead and it seemed that she did not have a fever and that her temperature was normal. I smiled and looked at Mengya's graceful body: "Mengya, I always feel that you are not in good physical condition, what's wrong with you?" ”
Mengya was stunned for a moment, and then smiled, this smile seemed to be a bitter smile, and she could see that she was very bitter in her heart, and after laughing, she waved her hand again: "I'm honest, it's not so easy to fall." ”
"Isn't it... Is it because of me and the Black Cloak? I asked in a low voice, a look of shame.
Meng Ya smiled again: "I don't really mind your relationship with that woman, it must be ......" Saying this, she didn't say anything more, it seemed to be astringent.
"Definitely? What must be it? ”
"Must be ......" After thinking for a long time, Mengya sighed, seemingly very helpless. I must be your original match. ”
I smiled and nodded, this is like a louse on a bald head, it is clearly a perfunctory, but I still smiled, indeed, although she and I do not have the name of husband and wife, but how many times have we been husband and wife, although in this society, this kind of male and female things are commonplace, and even middle school students have children. But we must still be relatively conventional people.
We walked back to the stone platform, and saw that the kaleidoscope had fallen on the stone platform again, as if a blind man was touching Braille, and his face was almost attached to the stone platform. But this guy is relishing and seems to like this kind of boring work very much, is this the so-called "bookworm"?
Grimace was on the side, smoking endlessly, one after another, I really don't know how many cigarettes this guy brought over. Fortunately, this space is still quite large, and the air is still circulating, otherwise we don't need any mechanism, this guy's smoke poison can smoke us to death. Suddenly a string of advertising words popped up in my head: "I mind, no, please stop." Every day, every day, is healthy and energetic. "Your old man is happy to die, healthy, healthy and energetic, can we stand it?