Chapter 39: The Tomb Robbers
Sun Yang finally had to go back to the hospital, and in the face of his aunt and uncle's expectant eyes, he could only pick the part of what happened that they could understand and briefly talk about it.
The mastermind behind the scenes has been caught, and his cousin's condition should not deteriorate, but there is no way to restore him to his original state for the time being.
The aunt cried bitterly, and Sun Yang didn't even have a chance to tell her that there was actually a little bit of illusory hope.
The little uncle stood beside him, his hands clenched into fists, his face sad and angry, but he didn't know how to vent.
Sun Yang didn't know how to comfort them, he had sworn that he would solve the problem, but now, the problem was half solved, and there was nothing he could do.
The three solutions that Long Qingting told him were not the right way.
The first one doesn't need to be considered, the third one is too ethereal, but isn't the second solution difficult?
Relics can't be bought with money, and if they weren't for the truly virtuous and profound monks, there would be no relics containing aura after death. However, after the sweep of the Special Cases Administration, there was a decades-long crackdown, and there has not been a real monk in Huaxia in recent decades.
In several countries that still believe in Buddhism, Japan's suppression of various religions is even worse than that of Bactria in Japan, and several East and Southeast Asian countries with Buddhism as their main belief are in internal chaos, the country is small and the people are weak, witchcraft is rampant, and they are constantly facing the invasion of foreign religions, and it is difficult to produce monks who have cultivated to a high level.
In India and Nepal, where Buddhism was born, Buddhism has declined to the point of precariousness and has almost died out.
The only countries that have the potential to have relics in recent decades are Thailand and Bhutan, two countries where Buddhism is the state religion. But the Sangha group had extraordinary influence in both countries, and the monks who had passed away were so revered that it was impossible for them to take out the relics.
Sun Yang whispered her helplessness to Lu Xiaoling, she gently held Sun Yang's hand and said to him: "Let's go find it together, there will always be hope." ”
The two of them once missed a relic, and that relic also caused them to almost be unable to cross the hurdle.
Sun Yang nodded, shook his head slightly, and finally didn't say anything.
The task finally fell to Ma Bin.
Although Long Qingting did not punish him for borrowing documents, he was further delegated to manage the archives, and he could only face those vast documents all day long. But this gave him the opportunity to find information for Sun Yang, and the archives in the distant mountains collected many documents from the past, most of which had not been sorted out at all, and were randomly stored in file cabinets one by one, which had accumulated a thick layer of dust.
No one cared about him, so he opened the dusty document bags one by one, looking for records of temples that had been reduced to ruins in the campaign to destroy Buddha and Taoism, and for the possible burial places of monks who had once had high fame.
"Thank you......" Sun Yang felt a little uncomfortable, Ma Bin has fallen to the point where he is now, and from a certain point of view, it has a lot to do with him.
"What are you talking about?" Ma Bin laughed. "Actually, it's a lot of fun, and there are some things that I look at and forget about the time. If it weren't for the secrecy, I would have wanted to write some stories about the past by now...... It's just better than anything and a movie. By the time I retired, if I had been a little more relaxed about it, I felt that I would have become an expert in the history of the fifties, or a famous writer. ”
Lu Xiaoling smiled and wrote down the addresses he dictated one by one.
"It's a pity that there are only documents from Caiyun Province......," Ma Bin said after taking a sip of coffee. After all, information is still limited. ”
"If it's more, then you can't be crazy?" Li Li said angrily beside her.
Lu Xiaoling looked at her, then at Ma Bin, and suddenly laughed evilly.
Li Li's face turned red all of a sudden.
"What are you looking at?" She said fiercely.
"I didn't say anything, why are some people weak-hearted?" Lu Xiaoling laughed. "It's hard to do it, someone ......"
"Lu Xiaoling, you're going to die!" Li Li pounced on Lu Xiaoling, and the two made a fuss.
"What? Ready to take care of yourself? Sun Yang also asked with a smile.
Ma Bin coughed embarrassedly: "It's time to take care of yourself." ”
Sun Yang still wanted to joke with him, but Ma Bin suddenly remembered something and asked, "Sun Yang, were you in Heihezi Township, Chawengen County before?" ”
"How?" Sun Yang's smile was suddenly stopped.
It was something he had been looking for, and Master Cao thought that they might have unleashed a terrifying monster, and even speculated that it might be Chaos, one of the four evils of the ancients, but what made him powerless was that the thing seemed to disappear after escaping. Its traces were only exposed in the vicinity of Heihezi, and have not been seen since.
Of course, it may have appeared in other places, but with the abilities of Sun Yang and Cao Daoping, there is no way to know about it, and there is no way to connect them.
"I remember you once said that you had tracked down the Shangzhen Courtyard in Piling before?"
"Yes." Sun Yang nodded.
"There is a Taoist temple called Zhenyuanguan near a pine village about ten kilometers north of Wengen County, which should be a lower courtyard of Shangzhenyuan...... But I don't know if it's still there? If I'm not mistaken, it must have been built in 1956, and the thing you're tracking down must have already happened by then, right? ”
Could this be a new clue?
Sun Yang nodded, although more than fifty years have passed, and so many things have been experienced in the middle, this Taoist temple has survived, and the possibility that the people inside still remember this matter or have a relationship with it is very small, but after all, it gave him a little bit of possibility.
When everything has come to a complete standstill, even the slightest clue is precious.
"Wengen?" Lu Xiaoling said. "It just so happens that one of the addresses given to us by Ma Bin this time is in the north of Wengen County, and we can stop by to have a look."
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The address given by Ma Bin is still nowhere to be found, which was once the hometown of a famous monk in Yuanshan, who died in prison in the 60s, according to Ma Bin's records, when his family took his ashes away and buried them unknown.
But when they searched for the address, they found that the monk's family had already moved out of the area, and they had already cut off contact with the village. They tried to ask the village elders if anyone remembered where the monk was buried, but nearly fifty years later, no one remembered it.
Many people didn't even know that there was once a famous monk in the village, and they were only suspicious and wary of Sun Yang and Lu Xiaoling's visit.
"We don't have any ancient tombs here, don't use your brains......" The village chief said with a defensive expression, and even sent the young men in the village to keep an eye on them from a distance, to see if they wanted to attack those ancestral tombs in the back mountain.
Sun Yang and Lu Xiaoling could only smile bitterly.
"Let's go find that true vision." Lu Xiaoling said to Sun Yang. "It's a terrible feeling to be a grave robber."
But aren't they tomb robbers?
Tomb robbers want valuable burial goods, but they want something more important to the deceased.