Chapter 19: The Secret Passage

Passing through the front yard of the dyeing room to the backyard, this is the processing area of the dyeing room, many pigments are packed in king-sized porcelain vats, and Bula led us to the innermost row of dyeing vats, pointed to one of the large vats with green pigment and said, "The secret passage is below, please help us to carry this dye vat." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½ā€

The dye vat is surprisingly large, and it takes three people to hold it, plus there is a small half vat of pigment inside, which weighs at least four or five hundred catties, and the surface is slippery, so it is not easy to use strength to start.

Several of us are capable people, plus the strong king of the standard, the five of us shot at the same time, and the dye vat was easily lifted, which attracted the praise of the owner of the dyeing room.

This backyard is paved with large blue bricks, but the place where the dye vat is placed is covered with a large bluestone slab, and it is obvious that the secret passage is under the big bluestone.

The big bluestone is square, the width and length are one meter away, there are two copper pull rings for people to grab, Sankla is not verbose, beckoned a strong king standard, two people rolled up their sleeves, one grabbed a pull ring, shouted, and pulled it up violently.

There is no doubt that under the combined force of these two fierce men, the bluestone slab weighing more than 300 catties was undoubtedly lifted up little by little, revealing a swarthy round hole, the hole is only a little smaller than the area of the big bluestone, perhaps because it has not been opened for too long, and a smell similar to pungent carbon monoxide wafted from the hole.

Biaozi pinched his nose and stretched out his head to take a look, and said with a little luck: "Hehe, the hole is big enough, I don't have to suffer at this time." ā€

Without further ado, we didn't stop, Sankla said a few polite words to the three members of the Bula family, and then took us down the secret passage carefully. The secret passage is only more than one meter high from the ground, and after going down, I found that the secret passage is all built with stones, with a height of more than two meters, a width of about one meter and a half, and there are devices for inserting torches along the way.

There was a thick layer of dust on the ground of the secret passage, and the air was full of damp mold smell, apparently it had not been used here for a long time, Sankra told us that the secret passage was only opened once in the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, because of the political turmoil at that time, and we opened it this time, for hundreds of years, and it was only used three times.

The sign turned on the flashlight, I looked ahead, the passage slowly extended downward, at the end of the front was a bend, along the way we encountered seven or eight bends, and then we came to the end, it was a stone staircase, about ten steps, and at the end was a stone slab that could be moved left and right.

There was no carving on the slab, it was smooth throughout, Sankra looked carefully beside the stone door, and then pressed his hand down on one of the stones embedded in the wall, and the stone sank, and then we heard a "click", and before long, the stone door in front of us slid to the right, revealing the exit.

We went out to see, here is a large meditation room, there are dozens of Buddha mats in it, is used for monks to sit on it to practice meditation into the set, of course, there are many other furnishings in the meditation room, here will not be written one by one, it is worth mentioning that most of the monks practice meditation at night, plus we are also lucky, but we did not meet a monk.

When everyone had left the secret passage, Sankra pressed a large blue brick on the stone wall behind him again, and after a while, the stone door behind him slowly moved out, completely filling the exit of the secret passage. Perhaps it has been retouched, but this side of the stone door has been carved into the shape of a large blue brick, so that when it is closed, there is nothing suspicious at all.

Sankra took off his hat and told us that the meditation room was set up in a side hall, and that no one usually came here, so we didn't have to worry about it anymore. However, the people above will come in from time to time to annoy him, and this time the eyeliner outside has found everyone's traces, so he must be suspicious, and I think I still have to pay more attention.

We walked and chatted, under the leadership of Sankra, out of the spacious meditation room, along the corridor to another side hall, and we also looked casually, and couldn't help but be shocked in our hearts, the scale of the Jokhang Temple is really huge, there are buildings everywhere, if it is for people to visit carefully, it will take at least a few days.

Along the way, we met a number of monks, all of whom saluted Sankra, showing that Sankra's status was not simple, and these monks saw the dress of several of us, especially Tom, with a hint of doubt and strangeness on their faces, but out of politeness, they did not ask us for our identities, and after a few glances, they left.

Sankla led us through several Buddhist halls, and finally stopped in front of a row of simple and modest houses, and he said, "This is for outsiders to come in and stay, although it is simple, but it is relatively quiet, and there are few people who usually come, and you have been living here for a few days." ā€

We casually entered one of the rooms and found that it was simply furnished, except for a low bed made of bricks in each corner, and only a wooden table and a few chairs in the middle. As for the walls, there are many decorations, such as huge paintings with the word "Zen" written on them, exquisite thangkas, and various portraits of the Buddha and sacred beasts.

A few of us threw the baggage we were carrying on the ground, moved a chair and sat down, and the mark couldn't help but ask Sankla at first: "Big bald head, it's been a long time, do you kid miss me secretly?" By the way, since you have found the spring water, hurry up and bring it to open the eyes of our little people. ā€

"Think, definitely think, it's almost killing you." After Sankra laughed at this, his face changed slightly, and he said with some embarrassment: "Hehe, as for the spring water in this place, I just have the exact news, and I haven't got it yet, but it's almost there, just put twelve hearts." ā€

As soon as the label heard that the thing had not yet arrived, he was not happy, and said angrily: "I haven't found you and called us yet, isn't this letting us take an adventure?" Speaking of which, I have to ask you well, how did things go, why did Qin Kunlun come over so quickly, and he also sent so many people to handle here? ā€

Sankra touched his big bald head embarrassedly, and explained: "It's not because the spring water on the ** is coming, I'll tell you the truth, as soon as my news was sent, Qin Kunlun and the two professors called again and again to ask what was going on, of course I said that this matter is completely nonsense, and it is completely personal nonsense." ā€

After a pause, Sankra said a little depressedly: "But you also know that those people in the scientific research team are better than thieves, and they are not so easy to bluff at all, no matter what I say, they are very suspicious." The most strange thing is that the next afternoon, Qin Kunlun and the two professors took a large group of people to Lhasa by plane, and found me to inquire about it on the same day. ā€

"No matter how much I explain it, how much I try to argue it, the birdmen just assume that I know the eyebrows of the springs, as if they were roundworms in my belly. Since I have said the matter of the earth spring water, I naturally have eyebrows, but this matter is almost the top secret of my Nyingma sect, how can I easily reveal it. I really had no choice, so I lied to them and said that it was recorded in the Buddhist scriptures that the spring water was hidden in the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon, but the Grand Canyon is so big, who knows if it is hidden somewhere? Sankla began to talk about the day's conversation.

Qin Kunlun and the two professors were not so easy to deceive, so they asked Sankela to show the Buddhist scripture that recorded the spring water of the earth, if not, then for a long time, it means that Sankra has a problem. The record of the earth spring water in the Buddhist scriptures is real, but it is similar to what Sankra said, only saying that the earth spring water is in an underground world in the Grand Canyon, but where exactly it is, it is not pointed out.

Qin Kunlun did not give up, suspecting that there were other Buddhist scriptures that recorded the water of the earth, perhaps those Buddhist scriptures gave specific addresses. Qin Kunlun's meaning is obvious, he wants to start tinkering with all the Buddhist scriptures in the Jokhang Temple, this matter is a big problem, Sankra also knows that the paper can't hold the fire, so he told the Nyingma Living Buddha the ins and outs of the matter.

Nyingma Living Buddha and Sankra are called master and apprentice, in fact, they are like father and son in private, although they reproach him, they are still willing to help him lie to deal with Qin Kunlun's trouble. However, Qin Kunlun did not give face to the living Buddha, and insisted on flipping through the Buddha scrolls in the scripture pavilion, and this matter was carried out the next day, and a large number of people came.

However, the Nyingma Living Buddha was not flustered, he quietly told Sankra that the matter of the earth spring water is the biggest secret of the Jokhang Temple, for the sake of secrecy, his specific address will naturally not let it exist in the scriptures, and it is completely dictated by the living Buddhas of the past dynasties to the next one to know, of course, the left and right protectors also have the qualifications to know.

That is to say, in addition to the Living Buddha and the left and right protectors, the monks at the level of elders, also did not know about the earth spring water, so this time, Qin Kunlun's result was not difficult to imagine, all the scriptures were rummaged, but he couldn't find the exact location of the earth spring water. Qin Kunlun was naturally not reconciled, so the local government came forward and sent a lie detector to ask some monks in the temple, but the result was still like that, nothing was found, and he didn't give up until this moment.

Qin Kunlun and those people knew that I and Biaozi had been poisoned by corpses, so he suspected that the reason why Sankra revealed the matter of the earth spring water in ** should be to contact me and Biaozi, so he sent people to continue squatting, and he and the two professors began to go to the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon, hoping to find the legendary earth spring water.

After Qin Kunlun and the others left, Sankra finally breathed a sigh of relief, and it wasn't until he contacted us a few days ago that he began to worry again, afraid that we people would fall into the net without knowing it.

After saying this, Sankra sneered: "The Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon is so big, Qin Kunlun, a stupid hat, only relies on a little information, and wants to find the earth spring water, which is completely a fool's dream, but when he goes, we can also save our worries." (To be continued.) )