Looking at the architectural styles in the city, it is indeed prosperous and varied, but they are also completely different styles, just like the Hu, Han, Tubo, Xianbei, and Uighur people gathered in the city, which belong to the situation of running in with each other but with clear boundaries, and it is rare for such a large range of cultural integration to occur.

In other words, the fusion of the buildings in front of us is no longer a natural formation, but somewhat deliberate.

Keli looked up at the building in front of him and explained to everyone: "This thing is called the Temple of Prayer, which is dedicated to the native gods of the ancient Shanshan Kingdom, as well as the foreign gods believed in by the Han people, the Tubo people, the Xianbei people, and the Uighurs. ”

"Let's go, let's go in and have a look."

After Keli finished speaking, he led them up the steps to the door of the main hall, and after stepping into it, the internal layout of the prayer temple had already appeared in front of people.

Whether it is the Hu people of the Western Regions, or the Tubo people, are the popular beliefs of the Buddha culture, the pattern in the hall is similar to the Buddha hall, the position in the middle of the north has the three-headed colored Buddha statue, the treasure is solemn, wearing colorful clothes, pinching the Dharma seal, sitting upright Shenwei.

The four sides of the main hall are painted with myths and stories about the Buddha of the Western Regions and the Tibetan Buddha, the murals are thick and colorful, the colors are intense, and the characteristics of Buddhism in the Western Regions, Han Buddhism, and Tibetan Buddhism are mixed, there are both the color and ink of Buddhism in the Western Regions, and the bizarre and bizarre of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as the golden brilliance of Han-style Buddhism, which are mixed with each other, and form a very splendid painting art on the four walls.

If you look further up, you will see a huge caisson at the top of the temple.

In order to emphasize integration, the temple of the god of prayer in Myran City naturally borrowed the structure of the caisson and used it as a decorative component on the top of the temple.

Look carefully, the whole caisson occupies two-thirds of the area of the top of the temple, the shape is like the word "back" to support the top of the temple, the overall shape of the circular caisson in the middle is to hold the fire lotus, on the top of the single lotus petal, extremely finely workmanship, drawing the patterns of the divine deer and beasts, the king of heaven and the Buddha, the noble lady, the heavenly maiden, the eight people, the eight treasures of the Buddha, the dragon and the phoenix unicorn, etc., the caisson is completely occupied.

Then look at the side hall on the left and right, you can see the strange appearance of the god statues, they can only through the modeling, they can recognize the Sanqing, Taiyi, Taishan Fu and other Han Taoist gods, as well as the folk protector gods, as for the Tubo, Xianbei, Uighur native gods, due to the age, they can no longer distinguish which gods.

What's even more strange is that no matter what the gods are, no matter how brilliant the murals are, they have gradually peeled off the skin of the paintings, and it is difficult to recognize the appearance, and some gods have been directly cut off, leaving only the table of peeling off the gods.

"No, these things are obviously still intact, how can they peel off so badly?"

Xu Xiake looked carefully, some of the murals that have not peeled off have neither faded nor cracked, which shows that the degree of damage to the murals will definitely not completely peel off and disappear, in this case, the murals on some stone walls have seemed to be peeled off The wall skin has disappeared, which shows that there is a big problem with the murals.

Song Siyuan looked at it for a moment and explained: "In Steinherin's report, there is no mention of this prayer temple, and there are no photos of the prayer temple, but according to what we have observed, it seems that many murals and god heads have been stolen here, which has formed the full damage we see at present. ”

"Wait a minute, the mural is painted on the wall, and this can be stolen directly?"

Yue Guanchao looked at the surrounding murals, and the peeling murals were indeed distributed in blocks, as if a square or rectangle had been drawn out of the murals, and the paintings were completely removed, leaving a wall full of scars.

Song Siyuan nodded: "Indeed, there is a potion for pigments and murals in the West, as long as you apply the potion, you can use adhesive tape to directly tear off the murals and preserve them.

Speaking of this, her face became serious: "This way of tearing the mural is really convenient, but the damage to the mural and cultural relics is very great, basically equivalent to destroying the mural, the cultural relics industry does not advocate extracting the mural in this way, most of them are used by some tomb robbers." ”

"As for these idols, it's easier!"

Song Siyuan continued: "The West likes to divide sculptures, statues and other things, form different components and then number and preserve, and after transporting back, they will be restored in the order of numbering, in this way, the cultural relics can be completely restored, so that they can be used for exhibition, I guess, these statues are separated and numbered and transported back." ”

The method they created, also known as the cultural relics sequence method, has broken down a lot of sculpture cultural relics for them, and using this method, they have decomposed the cultural relics of ancient Egypt, ancient Maya, and ancient Aztec into a sequence of cultural relics and transported them back to China.

The biggest thing they broke down was a set of Han-style courtyard houses:

A few years ago, Western cultural relics dealers once bought a palace in the capital.

This royal mansion was originally the private property of the internal affairs of the previous dynasty, and in the last years of the previous dynasty, the old queen mother directly rewarded part of the private property to these clans living in the palace.

Since then, these royal mansions belong to individuals rather than internal affairs offices, and when the Republic of China was founded, the former dynasty clan lost power and lost the support of the imperial court, they were still unwilling to open up sources and reduce expenditure, and continued to live the previous extravagant life.

Seeing that the money is spending less and less, they should know that if they are a little self-aware, they should also know that it is a pity to find a living to earn money for themselves, they are always unwilling to accept the reality, continue to squander their lives, and when they have no money, they will pawn and sell a ring, bracelet, vase, and no matter how bad it is, they can also sell a piece of private land and private house, anyway, the cub is not distressed to sell the field.

In the end, it could only go to the point of selling the palace mansions, and many of the palace houses in the capital were bought by wealthy businessmen and used as private residences.

After they bought the mansion, the people in the capital thought that they were going to live in it, and they knew that they were in accordance with the cultural relics sequence method, numbering all the components on the land of the palace, and then disassembling them one by one and transporting them back to China.

At the beginning, this matter also went to the Yamen court, and these cultural relics dealers took out the purchase contract, which successfully moved the huge palace back, and when they returned to the West, they really directly restored a whole palace according to the number, and put it on display in the museum area.

Song Siyuan said: "I think, these statues and murals were all taken away by Steinhein, he did not record the matter of the prayer temple in the inspection report, but also because this move is too immoral, the scriptures he bought in the Thousand Buddha Caves are still a sale, if the things here are taken back by him, it is a proper theft." ”

At the mention of this, her eyes lit up, and her face was full of suspicion: "I suspect that Steinhein wanted to kill Uncle Guniz in order to cover up the fact that he stole the frescoes and statues." ”

Song Siyuan obviously attached great importance to this speculation, and continued to explain: "Just now, we walked all the way, and we could see the mark left by Uncle Guniz, when he first marked it, I am afraid that Steinhein was also completely aware that it was impossible for outsiders to know about their theft of cultural relics in the Temple of Prayer. ”

"Or maybe there's another guess."

Yue Guanchao said: "When Steinhein hired Uncle Gunizi as a desert guide, he only told him that he wanted to investigate the ruins of the ancient Shanshan civilization......

With this premise, Uncle Gunizi was willing to take them to the desert, just now Keli said that he and Uncle Gunizi had been here, even if they had not entered Sha'er City, at least they knew about the existence of this place, but Stein's report did not reflect this - in his investigation report, the old thief claimed that they had come to Sha'er City by mistake.

As soon as the two circumstances were combined, this at least showed that Uncle Guniz did not tell them about the existence of Shar City at all, and it was Stanhein's team who discovered Shar City by luck, and Gunizi took them in by boat.

Guniz probably didn't know that Steinhein was an antiquities dealer who walked with the usual route markings, and it wasn't until they found the temple of prayer that the antiquities dealers revealed their true colors and began stealing these beautiful frescoes and statues.

Yue Guanchao narrowed his eyes: "At this time, Gu Nizi has already come back, since he concealed the existence of Sha'er City, he didn't want to appear in front of people in Secret Lan City, it can be seen that he has the intention of protecting the ruins, at this time, if he finds out that Stanhein aims to steal the exquisite cultural relics here, what will he do?" ”

"Resist!"

After saying this, Keli began to pay attention to the marks near the mural, and it was obvious that he could see the sword slash marks next to the mural.