Qin Beiyang's vest was cold.

If it weren't for herself, if it weren't for the Nine Colors, Katya wouldn't have been so sick......

Bidding farewell to the mural of the deer king Bunsen, he took the town tomb beast with him and immediately returned to Katya's side.

Unexpectedly, she sat up again, seemed to have dressed up, and smiled like a newlywed daughter-in-law.

"Qin, I've been praying in front of the Buddha for a day!"

Katya took his hand and knelt down in front of the painted statue and prayed to the Buddha, Mahakalpa, Ananda, as well as the Bodhisattvas and wharves......

Mahakalpa and Ananda, the two great disciples of the Buddha, although they were portrayed by Wu Chengen as bribe-seekers at the end of "Journey to the West", were the Venerable ones who accompanied the Buddha all the way to the end, the head of the five hundred Arhats. The white Russian beauty, with a solemn expression, stares at the young and handsome Venerable Ananda, the dream lover of countless girls in the Buddhist scriptures.

Katya, who is dying on the verge of death, is also like the modern goddess in the Buddhist scriptures - just because she has a crush on the beautiful young Ananda, she is willing to escape into the empty door and become a bhikshuni, and finally attain the right result in front of the Buddha.

Katya's body gradually softened, fell into Qin Beiyang's arms, and said softly: "Beiyang, I would like to convert to Buddhism and pray for my well-known Stantin." ”

"Okay, Katya, I'll invite a great monk for you."

Qin Beiyang couldn't cry anymore. She took Wang Daoshi's "best elixir", and it seemed to be better on the surface, but it was just a "return to the light" as the ancients said, which was actually a precursor to returning to the west.

Katya realized that she had reached the end of her life, closed her eyes, and exhaled her last breath: "Qin...... I'm envious of a person. ”

"Who?"

"You...... When you're talking in your sleep...... Frequently Mentioned ...... Anna......"

In an instant, this name evoked Qin Beiyang's tears. When the two hot tears fell on Katya's eyelids, they were already gone.

The White Russian beauty died.

When Wolf asked her before his death in Paris, and when Qin Beiyang met her for the first time at the Harbin railway station, the two were destined to embark on a long journey, breeding all kinds of evil fate-birth, old age, sickness, death, resentment, love and separation, unwantedness, and prosperity of the five aggregates......

She converted to Buddhism on her deathbed, presumably to die sooner rather than later, or to be reunited with her Well-Stantin in the Western Heavens.

Qin Beiyang hugged Katya's body that was gradually getting cold, remembering the love along the way. People are not plants and trees, how can they not know Katya's love for him? But he couldn't make her happen after all, not even for one night! Just for the other person who is far away in the world.

Is it unfair to Katya? Unfair to yourself? Qin Beiyang is unknown.

His chest hurt again, and he rushed out of the cave and gasped on the cliff face of the Mogao Grottoes. Just as Daoist Wang was passing by, he wanted to grab his Taoist robe and beat him violently, but Qin Beiyang let go of his hand and said, "Daoist, I want to go to the Tibetan Scripture Cave to sit again." ”

Although Katya's death was not mentioned, Wang Daochang had already seen the clue, and he did not accept a penny, and led him into the Tibetan scripture cave.

Nine colors followed the master step by inch, afraid that he would do something stupid when he was grief-stricken?

Sitting in the room full of scriptures, Qin Beiyang remembered that ten years ago, his father taught him the method of luck in the underground palace of Emperor Guangxu......

It seems that the monks, painters, stonemasons, donors, princes and nobles of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Five Dynasties, and the Western Xia Dynasty all gathered in the cave, whispering, talking to each other, looking at the cancer cells in his chest, looking at the true qi running all over his body, and seeing the soul hovering above his head.

When you open your eyes, all illusions disappear.

The nine-colored tomb beast of the town brought a scroll, and Qin Beiyang slowly unfolded it, and it was actually a hand-copied "Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra". The commonly seen translation of Tang Xuanzang has a total of more than 260 words, and at the end there is another paragraph written -

On December 13 of the second year of Weishi Jingyou, Zhao Xingde, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, traveled to Hexi, suitable for Shazhou. Now the edge of the foreign thieves attacked, the land is disturbed, the monks of the Dayun Temple and others moved the Bible in the Mogao Grottoes, and hid in the wall, so they set their hearts to write a volume of the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra and place it in the cave. I wish that the eight departments of the dragon and the sky, the long will be the protector, the city god will be safe, and the people will be healthy; I wish the little lady of Ganzhou, inherit this good cause, do not drown in the netherworld, and the karmic obstacles in this world will be eliminated, and the blessings will be immeasurable, and the eternal supply will be full.

Qin Beiyang read word by word, and the second year of Jingyou was the year name of Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty. And the capital of the Great Song Dynasty is Changsha, Hunan. Somehow, Zhao Xingde, a Hunan scholar, was exiled to Shazhou, thousands of miles away, that is, Dunhuang.

Pinch your fingers and count, in the second year of Jingyou of the Great Song Dynasty, the era of Li Yuanhao, the founding emperor of Western Xia, to conquer the Quartet. Doesn't the sentence "Hidden by foreign thieves, disturbed the land, and the monks of Dayun Temple moved the Bible to the Mogao Grottoes and hid them in the walls" doesn't the sentence name the source of the Tibetan scripture cave? Because of the Western Xia invasion of Dunhuang, the monks hid in the secret room of the Mogao Grottoes in order to protect the precious scriptures and documents.

"Dragon Heaven Babu" is well known to everyone and does not need to be explained. Who is the "little lady of Ganzhou"? Ganzhou, that is, Zhangye, Gansu, an important town in the Hexi Corridor, had the Uighur Kingdom of Ganzhou in the Northern Song Dynasty, and died in Western Xia. "Little lady" in the Song Dynasty referred to a young unmarried girl. The little lady of Ganzhou may not be Han Chinese, but may be Uighurs and other ethnic groups, or even mixed-race.

Qin Beiyang boldly guessed that Zhao Xingde, a down-and-out literati from Hunan in the Great Song Dynasty, wandered on the Silk Road and met an alien beautiful girl from the Uighurs of Ganzhou. There may have been a love story, but it is a pity that since ancient times, the little lady of Ganzhou died in the war of the Western Xia to attack the Uighurs. Zhao Xingde fled to the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, and together with the monks, he hid 50,000 volumes of scriptures into this secret room, and copied the Heart Sutra by hand to pray for the blessings of his beloved woman.

Nine hundred years ago, this Hunan native inadvertently protected the common heritage of all mankind - the Tibetan Scripture Cave and the Dunhuang Testament.

Qin Beiyang pulled the small town tomb beast to kneel down and kowtowed to this volume of "Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra", to Zhao Xingde, who did not leave his name in the history books, and to the beautiful little lady of Ganzhou who was annihilated in the dust of history.

In the past, people have become a handful of loess, how can people not have the same fate today? Only history and civilization are eternal.

Zhao Xingde to the little lady in Ganzhou - the most beautiful love letter in human history.

Nine-colored, nine-colored, you can really comfort people!

Qin Beiyang was relieved in his heart, smiled faintly, returned the scriptures to history, turned over and left the scripture cave.

Back in the cave where Katya was sleeping, there was no condition to bathe and change clothes for the general body, Qin Beiyang could only wipe her face with clean water. Touching the carcass that had been tormented by the disease, he didn't shed tears anymore.

I wanted to choose a feng shui treasure for Kajia to bury, but remembering that she converted to Buddhism before her death, she was cremated according to the custom of Shimen.

Qin Beiyang took Katya down the Mogao Grottoes, bought a few bundles of firewood, and silently recited the Heart Sutra: "When contemplating the Bodhisattva of Freedom and Doing the Deep Prajnaparamita, he sees that the five aggregates are empty, and he overcomes all suffering......

A fire, but mortal dust.

burned for an hour, and the nine colors sat precariously, as if returning to the tomb of the underground palace; The sweaty horse ghost kept screaming, after all, Katya had ridden it for a long time, and the horse also loved beauty. Qin Beiyang saw that the fire was about to fall, and added a few handfuls of dry firewood to burn the White Russian beauty into a pile of charred and black dry bones. Half a day ago, she was still a fair-skinned and beautiful woman......

Life and death are just a layer of window paper.

Qin Beiyang picked up the hot bones, fearless, like holding withered petals, stuffed them into the urn with his own hands, and buried them in the cave behind the Mogao Grottoes.

Using the craftsmanship of an ancestral stonemason, he carved a small piece of tombstone, engraved in Chinese and Russian——

Tomb of Katerina Andreevna Wolfna

Year of birth and death: 1891-1920

In the early morning of this day, Qin Beiyang quietly left the Mogao Grottoes and did not say goodbye to Sven Heding, Wang Jiawei, Li Longsheng, Xiaojunwang and others, so as not to cause any more trouble.

However, Wang Daoist was like a sleepless immortal, standing on the hanging wall outside the Tibetan scripture cave, waving goodbye to Qin Beiyang.

Riding a sweaty horse and taking the town's tomb beast, Qin Beiyang Xiaoxing stayed overnight and walked through the desolate desert.

It was the middle of winter, the sky was snowing heavily, looking at the snow-capped Qilian Mountain in the south, thinking of Wang Changling's "Qinghai Changyun Dark Snow Mountain, the lonely city looking at Yumen Pass." The yellow sand wears gold armor in a hundred battles, and Loulan will not be returned if it is not broken. This time, he broke Loulan and returned to his hometown, just going against the route in the poem.

Passing through the city gate of Jiayuguan, along the remnant walls of the Great Wall of the Han Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, Qin Beiyang crossed the Hexi Corridor, passed through Suzhou in Yujiuquan, Ganzhou in Jinzhangye, and Liangzhou in Yinwuwei, and crossed the snowy Wusheling Ridge to the Loess Plateau in Longxi.

Every night, Qin Beiyang spent time in the ancient tomb. He never took the initiative to dig people's ancestral graves, and almost every ancient tomb in Shaanxi, Gansu and Gansu was full of robbery holes. He went down the thief hole into the underground palace, and spent the night next to the looted coffin, accompanying the dry bones of the tomb owner, so that he could sleep peacefully and suppress the cancer cells in his lungs.

In the tenth year of the Republic of China, on January 1, 1921, Qin Beiyang came to Lanzhou by the Yellow River.

After traveling tens of thousands of miles on the Silk Road, I finally smelled the smell of modern civilization. A large iron bridge from Germany, spanning the ice of the Yellow River, backed by Baita Mountain and facing the provincial capital of Gansu, the spire of the mosque resounded with a melodious call......

"The road is long, I will go up and down and seek."

Riding the sweaty horse "Phantom God" across the Yellow River Iron Bridge, Qin Beiyang inserted a Tang knife and a cross bow, and silently recited "Lisao" in his heart.

He was determined to go home with the nine colors of the town's tomb beast, return to the loess plateau in Guanzhong, Shaanxi, return to the long sleeping palace of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty, and return to his birthplace twenty years ago - Bailuyuan.

Go there, all the mysteries will be solved, and all the truths will be revealed.

Keep walking.