"Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes!"

Professor Wang Jiawei once again pointed out the maze, Xiaojun Wang and Li Longsheng both folded their hands on camels, and Sven Hedin also drew a cross.

The camel caravan climbed to the eastern foot of Mingsha Mountain, a desert valley of yellow sand, opposite the ancient Sanwei Mountain, and a nearly dry Danquan River flowing in the middle. On the bare cliff on this side of Mingsha Mountain, there are countless caves densely distributed, like a beehive pigeon coop.

After a short period of excitement, Qin Beiyang noticed that Katya's face was terrible and he had to find a place to stay. He dismounted and led the camel, let the town's tomb beast Nine Colors lead the way, and walked up the cliff of Mogao Grottoes. The strange thing is that they passed by the door of a cave, but they saw an old Taoist priest, looking at Qin Beiyang with a suspicious gaze, especially the White Russian beauty Katya.

Wang Jiawei excitedly raised his camera and said as he walked: "In the era of Wuhu Chaohua, the monk Lezun passed through Mingsha Mountain, and the golden light was shining, like the Emperor of Ten Thousand Buddhas, and the first cave of Mogao Grottoes was dug on the rock wall. The emperors of the Northern Dynasties believed in Buddhism, and the princes and nobles competed to provide for them. In the Tang Dynasty, Dunhuang was the only way to pass through the Silk Road, and the Mogao Grottoes were very prosperous. In the Anshi Rebellion, Dunhuang was submerged into Tibet, and the late Tang Dynasty was recovered by the Guiyi Army, and it was weakened after the Western Xia and Yuan Dynasty. ”

Qin Beiyang didn't have time to listen to the professor's explanation, so he quickly picked a cave and helped Katya in.

The horse lantern illuminates the colorful statues in the Buddha shrine - the Buddha raises his right hand, touches his knee with his left hand, and sits upright in a threaded meat bun, saying the Dharma, with great compassion; The disciple Jiaye is dressed in a brocade shirt inside, and is dressed in a landscape coat on the outside, with a half-worn chest, a clear face, and a sophisticated expression; Disciple Ananda, leaning back, waist and hip slightly upward and sideways, hands in front of the abdomen, leisurely and chic, handsome and shy, beautiful young man; The statue of the Bodhisattva on both sides, the cloud bun is towering, the long eyebrows are into the temples, it seems to be smiling but not smiling, the brocade skirt with dense embroidery of the flowers, the clothes are fluttering, the ice is clear and jade, Tingting is graceful, plump and fit. The first time I saw such a beautiful Bodhisattva, the golden ratio of the head, chest, and buttocks was not much better than the three masters of the Renaissance. The outermost two statues of the Heavenly King, the Tang Dynasty Mingguang Armor, the head is tied with a high bun, the burly and majestic, the eyebrows are angry, the waist is clenched into fists, and the half-lunge spans the earth god - Buddha, disciples, Bodhisattvas, and the Heavenly King have a total of seven bodies, there are static and moving, both civil and military, and the back depicts the murals of the eight disciples, the Bodhisattvas, the eight parts of the heavenly dragon and the flying sky, like a layered stage play.

Although Qin Beiyang did not believe in religion, when he saw such a solemn appearance, he couldn't help but kneel down and fold his hands and pray silently for Katya.

This cave is warm in winter and cool in summer, leaving a thousand-year-old aura, as if entering the ancient tomb of the Tang Dynasty. Qin Beiyang spread out the blanket and let Katya, who was coughing constantly, rest. Nine colors crouched in front of the Buddha statue, like a pious hound or a fawn.

Sven Heding, Professor Wang Jiawei, Xiaojunwang, and Li Longsheng also stayed in the Mogao Grottoes, sketching and copying Buddha statues and murals.

As for Loulan Yingka, she wandered between the caves, suddenly ran back to the Mogao Grottoes, stepped on a camel, turned around and headed west.

"Inka!" Li Longsheng rushed to her camel, grabbed the camel bell and said, "I'm sorry, please forgive me!" ”

"I've forgiven you a long time ago." Yingka smiled slightly, stroking the charming man's face and eyebrows, "Han." ”

"Do you know the University of Cambridge? Would you like to come with me to the UK? ”

Yingka whipped him on the forehead, drove the camel up Mingsha Mountain, turned back and said quietly, "I only know Loulan." ”

The girl from Loulan rode a camel alone in the golden sunset and returned to her hometown on the other side of the desert.

At the foot of Mingsha Mountain, outside the Mogao Grottoes, there is still a long queue of 2,000-peaked camels, full of unknown 500 tons of Tsarist gold.

Ah You put down the banner of the Heavenly King of Bishamen, came to the cave where Qin Beiyang and Katya were, and whispered, "Brother, I'm leaving." ”

"Where to go?"

"Heavenly!"

These two words made Qin Beiyang slightly stunned, and he stopped talking......

The girl's eyes flickered faintly: "Don't you have anything to say to me?" ”

"Have a safe journey."

"Precious! I'll come back to you, brother. ”

Ah Yu shook his head, walked down the Mogao Grottoes, returned to the white horse, and raised the banner of the King of Bishamen again.

The gold digger Lao Jin shouted with rhythm: "I am Wu Weiyang!" ”

The long caravan headed east, with the Assassin Ah Hai and Daddy at the end. Looking at the Mogao Grottoes in the yellow sand, Ah Hai touched the scar on his cheek and said, "Does the master really want to marry that person?" ”

"Ah Hai, the master's body belongs to the master himself, how can we as slaves speculate at will?"

"And what about the master's heart?"

The dagger on his waist is decorated with a luodian pattern of "white rainbow through the sun" on the ivory handle.

As the sun sets, the moon rises over Mingsha Mountain. Two thousand camels disappeared into the Dunhuang Desert, and they were about to cross the Hexi Corridor and follow the Silk Road to the Central Plains.

This night, Qin Beiyang accompanied the seriously ill Katya to spend in the Mogao Grottoes. In the second half of the night, she woke up from freezing. But this cave is full of national treasures, and he didn't dare to make a fire to keep warm, Qin Beiyang hugged her from behind and protected Katya with his body temperature.

She turned around and pressed his chest: "Qin, I only know how uncomfortable the pain in your lungs is!" ”

Then, she kissed him on the mouth.

He didn't refuse, the high fever made her lips hot like a fire.

Early the next morning, Katya was in a semi-comatose state. Qin Beiyang was so anxious that he instructed Jiuse to protect Katya, and he rode a sweaty horse and galloped to Dunhuang City.

In the early years of the Republic of China, Dunhuang was just a small border county town in the desert, with no hospital at all, no Western medicine doctors, and only one Chinese medicine doctor had just died of illness two days ago. But I heard that the Taoist priest of Mogao Grottoes, in addition to giving people fortune-telling practices, also operated hanging pots to help the world.

Isn't it the old Taoist priest you saw yesterday?

Qin Beiyang galloped back to the Mogao Grottoes on horseback and found a Taoist priest named Wang Yuanqi. Without thinking about it, the Taoist priest asked bluntly: "This donor, if you want to enter the Tibetan Scripture Cave to watch, please pay ten silver dollars first; If you want to take the scrolls, five silver dollars per scroll. ”

"The Cave of the Scriptures? I'm not here to steal treasure! Wang Daoshi, please see a Russian lady quickly. ”

Qin Beiyang gave him ten silver dollars first, and dragged him to the cave next to him, Katya was still in a delirious high fever.

According to the Chinese medicine principle of male left and female right, Qin Beiyang grabbed Katya's right hand and asked the Taoist chief to take the pulse.

Daoist Wang's fingers took the pulse, his brows were tightly locked, and then he looked at Katya's complexion, and through Qin Beiyang's translation, he inquired about the condition, shook his head and said: "The "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" says: "The inch pulse is not closed, it is impulsive; The ulnar vein is not closed, it is yin, it is incurable, and it is dead. ”

Qin Beiyang's heart sank, he understood, but he still asked, "What do you mean?" ”

"This female benefactor is terminally ill and has no cure, so let's prepare for the future."

Wang Taoist knew that the White Russian Americans could not understand, so he also said loudly and unscrupulously.

"Do you know what the cause is?"

"Lao Tzu said: Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and all things are used as dogs." Daoist Wang twisted his beard mysteriously, "The aura of heaven and earth can kill people." ”

"What do you mean?"

"Hua Tuo is reincarnated, the gods are reborn, and the Bodhisattva descends to earth, but it will not help." Daoist Wang bowed his head to the Buddha statue in the cave, "However, I have a superb elixir here, the poor Dao has cultivated in the Dan furnace of Taishang Laojun in the Tianshan Mountain, and has cultivated for seven seven and forty-nine days, even if he can't come back to life, he can also prolong his life, if he gives it to this lady, he may be able to survive this catastrophe." ”

After that, Daoist Wang took out a red pill from the sleeve of his robe, which seemed to be rubbed out of the dirt and old mud on his body.

"This is the ultimate elixir?"

"It's not a secret, Poor Dao was born in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, the first year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, the rise and fall of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the earth-shattering Jiashen year."

"1644?" Qin Beiyang pinched his fingers in his heart, "Dao Chang is already 276 years old?" ”

"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable! The Qing soldiers entered the army, the mountains and rivers were broken, and the head was left without hair, and the hair was not left without a head. Although he was young, he couldn't bear to shave his hair, so he became a monk for more than 200 years. Introduce qi into the body, refine the qi and transform the gods, refine the gods and return to the void, survive five small heavenly tribulations, four major heavenly tribulations, and even refine the void and merge the way, and then ascend to the Taiqing Immortal Realm, the Shangqing Halal Realm, the Yuqing Holy Realm, and the Supreme Great Luo Tianpangu, and achieve the position of the heavenly immortals. ”