Chapter 1116 – Something in the Belly (I)

The color of red copper, and the gold difference, so in the Sui and Tang dynasties and even the Ming and Qing dynasties, many people call the copper Buddha gold Buddha, or in the copper Buddha surface gilt, the external claim is the gold Buddha.

Plus, in ancient times, copper is money, especially during the war time when the society was unstable, warlords all over the world even privatized the copper to cast money, so at that time, there were quite a lot of famous temples were robbed, the reason is that they hid the golden Buddha (actually it is the copper Buddha).

“Brother Ren, you said that these Buddha statues wouldn’t be cast in copper, right? That would be enough to be called a great treasure if it was placed in ancient times.”

Zhuang Rui in a big Buddha knocked, into the ear is issued “puff” sound, can not help but laugh, said: “but a few mud Buddha, it seems that this ancient temple is not very good ah!”

Zhuang Rui once studied for a period of time in the five generations of Sui and Tang Dynasty Buddhist history, the temple will be the affluence of the impression is quite deep, in that the emperor believes in Buddhism in the era, like this scale of the establishment of the great Buddha temple, many are rich.

Dr. Ren smiled and scolded: “You kid is standing around, the early last century, copper money is still in use, this is if the copper Buddha, it is estimated that it has long been melted to cast money, and say that this seven or eight meters high Buddha, to use how much copper ah?”

“Such a big Buddha statue, it should be empty inside! Hey, I say Mr. Nakagawa, why does your face look so ugly!”

Zhuang Rui reached out and patted the Buddha statue in front of him, but his gaze was always observing Nakagawa, who, since Zhuang Rui and Dr. Ren had chatted there, hadn’t been worshipping the Buddha anymore, but had pulled Yan Translator in to listen to the conversation between the two.

“An ugly face? It won’t be ah! It’s probably because I’m tired from rushing during the day! I’m not as young as you lads, it’s late, don’t you want to sleep?”

Nakagawa translated his words through Yan Xiaowei, denied Zhuang Rui’s claim with his extreme mouth, and yawned as he stood up and prepared to pitch his tent.

“Hehe, since Mr. Nakagawa is tired, then you should rest first!”

Zhuang Rui smiled at his words and waited until Yan Xiaowei had translated his words over, then said, “Brother Ren, have you read Jin Yong’s martial arts novel, ‘The Secret of Liancheng’?”

“Lian Cheng Yi? I think I read it a long time ago, but I’ve almost forgotten the plot, it seems to be about the protagonist named Di What Yun who was falsely imprisoned and finally learned divine kung fu to avenge his death, right?”

Dr. Ren was asked by Zhuang Rui a head of paste, but people like them so big, basically read the martial arts novels of the Golden Warrior, the book is still some impression, and then asked: “Why are you asking this? There’s nothing related to archaeology in that book.”

Nakagawa on the side of the Zhuang Rui two people’s conversation looks a little nervous, although in the tent, still pulling Yan Xiaowei, so that he will two people’s conversation will be to their own hearing.

Just after hearing Zhuang Rui’s question, Nakagawa was also at a loss, although Jin Yong’s book had come out in Japanese, it was obvious that Mr. Nakagawa hadn’t read it.

Zhuang Rui was very dissatisfied with Ren Chunqiang’s reaction, and said with a slap on his thigh: ”Ahem, I said senior brother ah! That book doesn’t have an archaeological plot, but it has a treasure story!”

“Treasure? What treasure? There’s treasure in that book? Didn’t the protagonist kill all the enemies?”

Dr. Ren Chunqiang was confused, when he read that book “The Secret of Connecting Cities”, it was still in the early 1990s, this was almost twenty years later, and he had long forgotten all about the plot.

In Dr. Ren’s memory, aren’t martial arts novels all about the protagonist being bullied initially, and then finally learning a magical skill that makes him invincible? Regardless of whether it was Jin Yong Gu Long or Liang Yusheng, it seemed to be this kind of formula, right?

“Ahem, I, Brother Ren, ah! This treasure is the main line of Lian Cheng Yi, you wouldn’t have even failed to remember this, right?” Zhuang Rui said without a trace of anger, what kind of person reads a book like this?

Dr. Ren said with a straight face, “Uh, Zhuang Rui, I was still in high school at that time, my studies were so tight, I was just afraid of being told that I was outdated by others when I read the Jin Yong novels, so how could I remember so much.”

Since the mid-1980s, after the mainland broadcasted the TV series adapted from Jin Yong’s novel “Legend of the Eagle Shooting Heroes”, reading Jin Yong’s martial arts novels had become a fashion, and anyone who hadn’t read them would be despised by their classmates.

“Okay! Then I’ll tell you, the end of the book says that a treasure was hidden in the belly of a Buddha statue, and that the statue was also cast in gold, which ended up attracting a lot of people to loot it.”

When Zhuang Rui said here, he paused for a moment, his eyes aimed at Nakagawa who was urging Yan Xiaowei to translate for him, and sure enough, when he heard about the belly of the Buddha statue, Nakagawa’s face changed drastically, looking at Zhuang Rui incredulously.

“Zhuang Rui, you’re not trying to say that in the stomachs of these Buddha statues, there are rare treasures placed as well, right?”

Dr. Ren laughed out loud, “This martial arts novel can be taken seriously by you, I think you simply don’t do archaeology anymore, just go and write novels, what metaphysical spirituality has been circulating on the internet lately, I’ll see that you’re into it.”

Zhuang Rui to Dr. Ren laugh at his own words completely unimpressed, also smiled and said: “Hey, senior brother, this science needs innovation, innovation requires bold imagination, in hundreds of years ago, ancient people have dared to imagine that one day you can fly to the moon, I guess these few statues of the Buddha have goods in the stomach, and there is nothing to it, is not it?”

Dr. Ren’s face finally became serious after hearing Zhuang Rui’s words, standing up and walking around the three tall Buddha statues, from time to time breaking off a little piece of mud from it that was about to fall off and surveying it.

From the mud pieces on Dr. Ren can be seen, these three Buddha statues should be the end of the middle of the Qing Dynasty built up, although not as early as the age of Dunhuang stone carvings, but after all, it is also more than a hundred years of old objects, if you listen to Zhuang Rui’s words hastily destroy it, it is also considered to be the destruction of cultural relics.

“Zhuang Rui, you can not be serious? Our archaeology and science fiction are not the same, there must be conclusive evidence, although these statues are clay, and the colorful sculptures are almost gone, but the overall structure is intact, there is still a certain research value, there is no need for us to do damage, right?”

In Dr. Ren’s opinion, if this place is developed into a tourist area, these Buddha statues will undoubtedly be the attraction for tourists, and it would be too much of a pity if they were to be destroyed.

“Hehe, if we don’t destroy it, it may not necessarily mean that others won’t destroy it as well.”

Zhuang Rui smiled broadly, glanced at the pale-faced Zhongchuan, and then said, “Let’s put it this way! Brother Ren, this mud sculpture should be a structure built with bamboo gabions inside, which is hollow, let’s pull out a hole from the back, and if there’s nothing, then fill it back in again.”

“No …… no, you …… you are committing a crime, such a precious Buddha statue, I will not allow you to destroy it.”

Dr. Ren has not yet answered, the side of the face suddenly red and white Nakagawa jumped out, the speed of speech is so fast that even Yan Xiaowei has not been able to translate it all.

Zhuang Rui sneered, reached out and pushed Nakagawa away, saying, “Not letting us destroy it? Mr. Nakagawa, do you dare to swear in the name of the Emperor of Japan that you won’t destroy these Buddha statues yourself?”

“Hm? Zhuang Rui, what’s going on?”

Dr. Ren and others also saw something wrong at this time, this thing is completely reversed ah, originally should be the protection of cultural relics Zhuang Rui, now insisted on destroying the statues, and eight pole are not hit Nakagawa, but became a firm protector of cultural relics, this thing reveals the wickedness ah!

“Nothing’s going on! I just feel that this ancient temple is poor and want to find some treasures out of the belly of this Buddha statue, this doesn’t seem to be any of Mr. Nakagawa’s business, right?”

Zhuang Rui spread his two hands and said immediately after, “Mr. Nakagawa should be an entrepreneur in Japan, not a cultural relics conservationist, your control is a bit too wide.”

Nakagawa heard Yan Xiaowei translated over the words, although suffocated old face red, but can not say a word, but the face of that unwillingness is overflowing.

“Brother Ren, don’t you feel that there is something not quite right about this little Japanese?”

Seeing that Nakagawa had shut his mouth, Zhuang Rui turned his face to look at Dr. Ren, “This Nakagawa had only kowtowed a few times at the quicksand that had swallowed up his father, but when he saw these three statues of the Buddha, it was even more intimate than when he saw his own father!”

Zhuang Rui originally did not put much stock in Zhongchuan’s action of attending and worshiping the Buddha, but just now, Zhongchuan prevented them from entering the Mahamudra to pitch their tents, which made Zhuang Rui suspicious.

Originally suspected that Zhongchuan came to the desert did not have any good intentions, just Zhuang Rui checked the entire ancient temple, did not find any particularly thick aura is located, originally has eliminated the wariness of Zhongchuan, but the other side of this unreasonable action, so that the Zhuang Rui brain suddenly light.

After using the aura to feel the three Buddha statues inside the Maharishi Treasure Hall, Zhuang Rui almost threw himself a slap, to know, Zhuang Rui first entered the temple, but the only omission, the same is still the Maharishi Treasure Hall, should be “under the lights” that phrase.

As Zhuang Rui said now, three statues of Buddha, all hollow, and inside piled up all kinds of paper ancient books, rich aura moisturized Zhuang Rui’s eyes, so that he was comfortable almost stretched out a lazy waist.

However, Zhuang Rui still had a lot of things he didn’t understand right now, that is, why did Nakagawa know that there would be artifacts present within these three Buddha statues, and what period of time were these artifacts actually from, and if he wanted to solve this mystery, then he would have to open the statues in order to find out.

“Zhuang Rui, are you saying that this Japanese, have long known that there are things inside the Buddha statues?”

Dr. Ren wasn’t stupid, after Zhuang Rui reminded him of this, he immediately reacted, and then looked at Nakagawa’s eyes, they became a bit unkind.

“Brother Ren, I wouldn’t know if there is or isn’t, but I know that this little Japanese is so concerned, there must be something fishy.”

Zhuang Rui didn’t fill his words, otherwise he wouldn’t be able to explain how he knew about the matter of the hidden object inside the Buddha statue.