Chapter III

Seeing that I didn't move, Kampot said again: "Yours, something, open"

I gritted my teeth and said to myself, fuck it, open it and take a look. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info then took off his gloves and held the gap in the end of the cylinder and pulled it out. The quality of brass is very good, the workmanship is also very exquisite, the tube cover and the barrel body are tightly fitted, and I used 5 percent of the force to successfully pull it out.

As I tilted the barrel, a roll of cloth slid out of the barrel.

The scroll is not as soft as expected, it has a slight hardness, and the reverse side of the canvas has been oxidized and yellowed, and it looks quite old. I slowly opened the cloth scroll, and a very brightly colored thangka painting appeared.

This kind of thangka, to be honest, I am not a stranger, my specialty is to do some graphic processing software, need to use a lot of materials, thangka as a unique type of picture, of course I can not miss, there is a period of time at the request of customers to do a plane billboard about the Buddha statue, so I consulted a large number of thangka samples, but also deliberately went to the museum to see the texture and color of the real Tibetan thangka.

It is a very original canvas thangka, using white cotton cloth as a canvas, and then brushing the canvas with a mixture of mineral powder and cow glue to facilitate the pigment coloring. The real Tibetan thangkas are colored with natural ore pigments and plant pigments, such as coral, lapis lazuli, gold, silver, turquoise, cinnabar, saffron, rhubarb and other items, some ores are quite precious, need to be imported from abroad to get, so that the color of the thangka is full and gorgeous, very endowed with a sense of mellowness, can be stored for thousands of years and is still vivid.

The main Buddha statue on the thangka is King Gesar, which I also know. King Gesar, also known as Guru Padmasambhava, is the king of all Dharma protectors in Tibetan Buddhism, the common incarnation of Manjushri, Guanyin, and Vajrapani, and one of the most common subjects in Tibetan thangkas. This Gesar King Thangka is mainly red in color, including the deity costume and the horse mount under the crotch are bright and abnormal red, surrounded by clouds of various colors in the light gold tone, the clouds surround the Pegasus, Feiluan, unicorn and other beasts, and today's Gesar King Thangka is different, the bottom of the painting is still painted with a row of Yaksha ghosts, I guess the painter must be a great lama with extremely deep painting skills, because if it is an ordinary painter, it is impossible to paint such an expressive image of ghosts. The faces of those Yaksha ghosts are very detailed, so detailed that although they are much smaller than the main body of King Gesar, it seems that the facial expressions are more expressive than the main body, it is a very special hideous state, which makes people look like they really think that this is the evil ghost crawling out of hell, this feeling can hardly be described in words, but my heart gradually began to feel a little hairy.

What should be explained here is that the reason why this thangka is special is not only that it depicts several evil ghosts, but the biggest difference is that under the mount of King Gesar, two small figures resembling children are depicted, standing on top of that row of evil ghosts, much larger and more conspicuous. The whole body is outlined and filled with lapis lazuli, and the golden Buddha light radiating around the body is depicted with heavy gold. The two boys seem to be one righteous and one evil, the solemn appearance of the right, the face is peaceful and kind, the evil is strange and ruthless, the face is very strange, especially the eyes of the two boys, after seeing it for a long time, it makes people in a trance, as if they have been sucked into the whirlpool.

Anyone who knows about the making of thangkas knows that the most important part of a thangka lies in the opening of the eyes of the Buddha statue itself, which is the meaning of painting eyes. There are some craftsmen to the Tibetan Lama Temple to get the thangka painting samples, according to their own good at the craft to imitate one-to-one, some are made into cloisonnΓ© enamel, some are embroidery, some are silk, but no matter what kind of craft, the craftsman will ask professional people to open the eyes of the thangka alone, because even if it is a one-to-one copy, the eyes are rarely able to grasp the essence, the eyes are not expressive, directly affect the quality of the whole thangka. Therefore, even the most authentic Tibetan thangka is extremely rare to draw the eyes of a person who is not the main Buddha statue to such an extent.

The reason why I describe it in such detail is because this thangka has a great connection with my future experience, and I even say that the reason why I embarked on that road of no return was completely guided by the mysterious power behind this thangka. It is said that fate is determined by heaven, maybe for a **silk like me who can't be found in the crowd, it's not a bad thing to have such a fate arrangement, which reminds me of a line in Stephen Chow's "Journey to the West": "What God arranged is not enough for you to stink!" ”

Well, I can only console myself with that.

I watched it for more than ten minutes, but my eyes didn't move. That feeling, how to describe it, is like a person who has been wandering for a long time and suddenly finds a place, it is obviously not your home, but you walk in and find that the bed is there, the chair is there, the pot is there, the stove is also there, everything is so familiar! Maybe it's really as Kampot said, this thing is mine!

"I said tribute, what is the tribute? Ah, Kampot, you ......"

I rubbed my eyes, and finally looked away from the thangka, and wanted to ask what was going on with this strange man named Kampot, who wanted to say something before he could ask, and when he raised his eyes, there was no one around!

"Kampot? Kampot?! I yelled a few times, thinking to myself, what kind of road is this? Throw me a thangka and the man ran away?

I looked in the direction of their pilgrimage and saw that there was no one to be seen. I was a little blindsided, and I looked around again, but there was not even a ghost except for stones and stones. The wind in the mountains is still whistling, and the mountains and forests behind me are like a huge monster at this time, making a deep and terrifying cry, as if they are approaching me little by little, this feels too bad! I silently scolded my mother, tightened my jacket and ran away!

I hummed and ran forward, ran for almost a kilometer, and still did not see the pilgrimage to the mountain, at this time my heart panicked to the extreme, thinking that Kampot and I stayed in the same place for 15 to 20 minutes, according to the speed of the Tibetans to turn the mountain, it would never be possible to travel such a long distance in such a short time, and there were no forks in the road on this road, so it was impossible to chase the wrong road. Could it be that this blue sky and white day will still see the hell?!

I shouted the names of Team Li and Ma Dianzi as I ran, hoping to get a response, but I ran a few hundred meters and still couldn't see anyone! In my panic, I even thought of the story of the ghost hitting the wall that my grandmother told me when I was a child, but looking at the references around me, although they are all the same stones, meadows and trees in the previous part, they are not ****** different, which proves that I am indeed not going around in circles, so what the hell is this?!

"Team Li! Horse hairs! …… Team Lai! Where the are you, make a noise! ……”

I felt my throat on fire, my heart pounding, the altitude here was already high, such a rapid run made my body almost unbearable, my eyes were a little black, and my legs were a little weak. "Damn, Lao Tzu can't fall here, Lao Tzu's revolutionary cause has not yet succeeded!"

I gritted my teeth to cheer myself up, and just as I was about to run away, finally, two figures appeared in front of me, although I couldn't see clearly, but I still recognized them at a glance as Team Li and Ma Dianzi! Because the jackets of these two goods are red and pink, I have also laughed at how these two tall men can make such a riotous color, but when I see it again at this time, I just want to hug their jackets and kiss them, in this place full of barren black rocks, this color is too eye-catching!

I sat down on the ground with a "bang" and shouted "Huh!" with all my strength. ......" couldn't make a sound anymore, his heart was really a little overwhelmed, and he couldn't care about getting dirty, so he lay on the ground on all fours, panting heavily, and his heart finally returned to his place.

Team Li and Ma Dianzi heard the shout, and ran at a fairly fast speed, Ma Dianzi saw me lying upright, and thought that something was wrong with me, his face was a little pale, and he quickly squatted down and checked his hands up and down, panting and patting: "What's wrong?" What's going on? You're not dead, are you, brother? ……”

I closed my eyes and heard him ask, and I kicked him in anger.

"Eh, you can still stumble, it doesn't seem like a big deal!" Seeing that I was fine, Ma Qizi put his mind at ease, probably tired of running, pulled his collar and sat on the ground.

Team Li's physical fitness is much better than that of Ma Dianzi, but there is a slight panting, and when he saw that I was fine, he said, "How did you do this?" We walked back for an hour to find you, where the hell have you been? What about the two Tibetans who are with you? ”

I was still panting, and when I heard him ask the two Tibetans, I couldn't get angry: "You say that, that Kampot, that's it, that's it, that's it!" I'm still looking for him! He ......"

I didn't finish speaking, suddenly I felt that something was wrong, I opened my eyes suddenly, and a carp sat up, because it was a little fierce, and accidentally hit the jaw of the horseman, and the horsetail covered his chin for a while: "Why are you still cheating the corpse!" What about it?! ”

I didn't care about the horses, stared at Team Li, and asked stumblingly: "You say, you have been looking for me a lot, how long?!" ”

The Li team was a little baffled, but they still followed my question and said: "We followed the pilgrim Tibetans around the mountain for about an hour, and then looked back and found that you and the two Tibetans were no longer visible, we waited in place for a while, and found that you still hadn't caught up, so we returned the things to them and came back to you, but I didn't expect ......."

"What didn't you expect?" I asked anxiously.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ I didn't expect to turn back and walk for about half an hour, and I saw that Ma Mingdong's backpacks and I were placed in the middle of the road, and you and the two Tibetans were not there, I was worried that something would happen, so I sped up and walked along the road to find you, and I walked for about half an hour before I saw you......"

My brain "buzzed", and instantly the coolness rushed from the soles of my feet to the top of my head. I clearly remember the time from Kampot to give me the thangka, to the time when I looked away from the thangka, and I found that Kampot was missing and went to look for it, to when I finally saw the Li team and the horse hairs, it would not have been more than half an hour anyway! How is it that according to Team Li, two hours have passed?!

I hurriedly lifted my watch to look at the time, but found that, as the Li team said, it was already 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and according to the Tibetans we met who turned the mountain, two hours had passed!

My watch was bought to me by my father in order to reward me for being admitted to college, and it is said that there are more than 10,000 yuan, and 10,000 yuan at that time was really a lot of money! At that time, I was distressed, and my liver hurt, and I said that if you have this 10,000 yuan, how good it would be for you to give it to me directly! Dad patted me on the back of the head and scolded, "What do you kid know, watches are men's faces, you should have a decent watch when you go to college and enter society!" Later, it turned out that this watch is really expensive, there has been no problem for so many years, and I jokingly said that such a cow X watch can be passed on to my son as an heirloom in the future.

The watch can't go wrong, there is no need for Team Li to lie to me, so, is there something wrong with my feelings?