Chapter 4: Suppressing Demons

"Maybe it's just some kind of pollution, don't worry about it, Miss Baoling is an ordinary pilgrim, no different from the tourists who flock to Tashilhunpo Monastery every day." Guan Wen explained, but the suspicion on Qu Songjian and Gesang's faces became more and more obvious, and their attitudes became more and more resolute.

"Two people died in the temple, one of them is a miracle doctor who has made great contributions to the villagers of Rikaze, although we can't find the murderer, but we have to do something. Guan Wen, you are Han Chinese, and you don't understand the rules of the Tibetans at all. We welcome only friends here, not enemies. Lebai Wangjie said.

Guan Wen asked for the flashlight held by the young man, made two slipknots into the well rope, lassoed the flashlight, and slowly fell into the well.

The well was about ten meters deep, and the walls of the well were covered with dark green moss. When the flashlight's beam of light approached the water's surface, Guan Wen couldn't believe his eyes. The water of the well fluctuated slightly, no longer a clear Tibetan spring, but turned into a muddy red blood water.

"How so?" Guan Wen asked in a low voice.

The rest of the people were lying on the railing of the well and looking down, and no one spoke, except for the sizzling of gasps in everyone's mouths.

Guan Wen carried the well rope around the wellhead and searched the wall of the well with the help of a flashlight. In fact, the wall of the well is normal, and it is only the well water that is abnormal.

Lebai Wangjie briefly answered the phone, said "ah" a few times, and then told Sù Guanwen: "Some people say that there are problems with the seven or eight spring wells in the west of Tashilhunpo Monastery, and these things are all related to the woman and the bloody case in the temple. Guan Wen, that woman is not clean, I think you better stop causing trouble, just drive her away. ”

Guan Wen raised his head and saw that the faces of several people had turned pale, and their eyes were all flashing with fear.

He retrieved the flashlight and handed it back to the young man.

"It's so late, at least let her spend the night, right? Let me say again, I was present at both murders in the temple. If it is said that the first death has something to do with Bao Ling, it is barely reasonable, as for the second time, Master Du Ji was killed in the monastic house south of the White Pagoda, and Bao Ling was still in the Maitreya Buddha Hall at that time, how could he be involved with her?" He said softly.

Le Bai Wangjie shook his hands and sighed: "Young man, are you so fascinated by beauty that you have become so stubborn?"

Guan Wen smiled: "I didn't."

Bao Ling was indeed beautiful, but he didn't bring her back because he thought about her, but just introduced her to a place to live out of morality. What's more, there are many reasons for the change of well water, and it is impossible to have anything to do with the evil devil.

Lebai Wangjie pointed to the large studio in the north: "Come with me, I'll show you something."

Guan Wen turned his head and told Sù Qu Songjian: "I use my life to vouch for Miss Baoling is a normal person."

He and Lebai Wangjie entered the spacious studio of more than 100 square meters, and on the huge pine table, a half-painted thangka was laid flat.

Lebai Wangjie walked to the table and knocked on the thangka: "Guan Wen, take a look."

It is a depicted version of the "Xizàng Demon Suppression Map", in which the witch only completes most of her body from the neck down.

"I was painting here when the well water was changing. Last year, I met the woman, she had been to Tashilhunpo Monastery several times, sometimes wandering around the major Buddhist halls in the monastery, sometimes wandering on the mountain roads and houses outside the monastery, which was absolutely different from ordinary tourists. Lebai Wangjie said.

Guan Wen didn't understand what Le Bai Wangjie was trying to express, so he could only listen quietly.

"I once discovered a strange thing, as soon as the release dog outside the temple saw the woman, he kept his tail between his legs and avoided it, looking like he was scared." Lebai Wangjie said again.

Guan Wen asked lightly, "You are following her?"

Le Bai Wangjie scratched his neck embarrassedly and sneered: "I...... I'm not stalking, it's just that it's rare to see her as a girl so outstanding, and she's single, so I'm a little curious...... Or, like you, afraid that something will happen to her who needs help......"

Forty years old, single, passable-looking, and a talented Tibetan artist, it is easy to understand this self-inflicted sentimentality.

Guan Wen nodded: "Go on."

Lebai Wangjie put away his smile: "You know, there are so many released dogs outside Tashilhunpo Monastery, some are docile, some are fierce, I am afraid that she will be attacked by vicious dogs, so I follow from afar." It was outside the wall in the southwest corner of the monastery, and she had just walked up a slope to the west, when a two-meter-long black-haired mongrel dog came rushing towards her, not barking, with its mouth open and baring its teeth, and that vicious posture made me chill when I saw it. I ran that way, picking up a rock from the ground and preparing to save the beauty heroically. ”

Guan Wen patted Le Bai Wangjie's shoulder and said with a smile: "You are a good person, I understand."

The people in the area of Ri Kaze are simple, and even those who are ignorant will stand up when others need help, and will never stand by indifferently.

Le Bai Wangjie suddenly smiled bitterly: "It's a pity, I didn't save it, the dog arrived five steps away from Baoling, suddenly screamed, rolled on the spot, and then retreated to the corner with his tail between his legs." I was stunned and watched from afar, confused, not knowing what had just happened. I know that dogs in Tibet generally have the genes of Tibetan mastiffs, they are ordinary in appearance and fierce in their bones, and they will only behave like that when they encounter particularly terrible things. However, at that time, Baoling was the only one on the slope, and the doors and windows next to it were closed. Therefore, there is only one reason why the black dog retreats, and that is that there is something hidden in Baoling's body that makes it extremely afraid-"

Guan Wen interjected and asked, "What makes it so afraid?" What is it?"

Lebai Wangjie whispered, "Maybe it's an evil spirit, maybe it's something dirty, maybe it's a ghost."

The wind outside suddenly tightened, and the doors and windows were stirred by the wind, and they trembled together.

Guan Wen spread his hands and shrugged: "But, she's normal, haven't you seen it all?"

Le Bai Wangjie shook his head: "We are just mortal eyes, what we see is only the surface of people, who can see through her soul?"

Guan Wen also shook his head: "Le Bai, you may have read too many Buddhist scriptures, and your brain has regressed and come out." Baoling is obviously just an ordinary worshipper, don't be suspicious, okay?"

Le Bai Wangjie was in a hurry, opened the drawer under the table, took out a picture clip, opened it with a snap, and threw it in front of Guan Wen.

Guan Wen looked down, and there were more than a dozen sketch drafts in the painting folder, and the top one was the witch lying on her back, that is, the protagonist of "Xizàng Town Demon Map". He noticed that the witch's neck and the part below were normal, but her head was different from the authentic Xizàng Demon Suppression Map. If you look closely, it turns out to be the appearance of Baoling.

Guan Wen was taken aback, and turned over the bottom, and all the witches' heads were all Baoling. In other words, in Le Bai Wangjie's conception, Baoling has been equated with the witch who was successfully suppressed by the "one king and two queens" of Tubo in the past.

"What does that mean?" He asked.

Le Bai Wangjie said word by word: "She, just, yes, demon, woman."

Guan Wen took a step back and shook his head vigorously: "Don't talk nonsense, what do you want?"

Le Bai Wangjie sniffed and repeated in a low voice: "She is a witch, I feel this way, that's why I have this sketch idea." As for this thangka, I delayed painting it for more than half a year because I couldn't paint the witch's head. As long as you put down the pen, the painting must be the appearance of Baoling's facial features. ”

Guan Wen looked at Le Bai Wangjie, his mind was chaotic, and he carefully combed it for a while before he said: "Le Bai, you think too much and go crazy." Baoling is a human being, and has nothing to do with witches. ”

Lebai Wangjie replied in a low voice: "Both of us have no evidence, and I have arranged for someone to call Guò to find out about the situation of the spring well on the mountain." If all the well water turns red, it may be the resurrection of the witch mentioned in the classics, and for Tibet, it will be a catastrophe. ”

The Tibetan legend associated with the Xizàng Demon Suppression is as follows: In the seventh century AD, Princess Wencheng of the Tang Dynasty and Princess Qizun of Nepal married the Tibetan king Songtsen Gampo and brought Buddha statues such as Shakyamuni Buddha statues from their own countries. Princess Wencheng studied and observed according to the Central Plains's "Eighty Kinds of Five Elements Calculation and Observation Method", and knew that the terrain of Xizàng was like a Rakshasa witch lying on her back, Lhasa Wotang Lake was the brainchild of the witch, the three mountains were the witch's heart and veins, Huanmuqi (Xiaozhao Temple) was the residence of the dragon god, Lupu (Chara Lupu under the eastern cliff of Yaowang Mountain) was the habitat of the black evil dragon, Dawaze was the place where ghosts and non-humans lived under the poisonous tree, and a terrain in the southeast was like an elephant going into battle, etc. So, according to the arrangement of Princess Wencheng, Princess Qizun filled Wotang Lake with goat and camel soil, built Jokhang Temple on it, and refounded the Buddha statue to suppress the witch's heart. After comprehensive management, Lhasa has been given eight auspicious appearances. Then he began to build the twelve temples of demon suppression in Weizang Siru, and suppressed the joints of the witch's limbs, which was called the "Twelve Temples", which was the "Twelve Immovable Nails" that suppressed the witch.

At the earliest, although there are many records in Tibetan historical books of the Tibetan king Songtsen Gampo building the Twelve Demon Suppression Temple, there is no image of a female demon. A few years ago, when the Cultural Relics Management Committee of Xizàng Autonomous Region was sorting out Norbulingka cultural relics, it found two thangkas of "Xizàng Town Demon Map", each 152.4 centimeters high and 73 centimeters wide. The witch in the picture is lying on her back, her right arm raised up, and her wrist hanging down; Raise your left arm up and bend your wrist above your head. There are mountains and rivers on its body, the veins are clear, and there are large and small temples marked all over the body, including the twelve town demon temples that are said to have been built in the seventh century AD.

At present, what Le Bai Wangjie painted is a copy of the above "Xizàng Demon Suppression Map".

"Le Bai, I can only tell you like this, the turn of the well water into red has nothing to do with Baoling." Guan Wen said resolutely, "As for you, it's your own business to draw the thangka of "Xizàng Demon Suppression Map", don't have anything to do with others." We are usually art peers, but that doesn't mean I'm going to blindly follow your point of view and speculate on an innocent worshipper. ”

He walked out, and three young men were rushing in.

"There are about fifteen wells that Baoling has visited, and now twelve of them have changed. There was no new news from the temple, but the people outside the temple were panicking. A young man reported.

Le Bai Wangjie stomped his feet: "Guan Wen, did you hear that?" Baoling is really a demon who doesn't know what to do, if she doesn't drive her away, something big will happen. ”

Guan Wen ignored him, walked straight out of the big studio, and returned to Qu Songjian's courtyard.

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