Chapter 1120 – Significant Significance

“What you’re saying has some truth to it, but why did Daoist Wang hide these scriptures here? And was the dating before or after he sold the Dunhuang documents?”

This archaeology is similar to the police solving crimes, after encountering some clues, they like to reason and analyze, when after arguing a history through their own research, that sense of accomplishment is very strong.

After hearing Zhuang Rui’s analysis just now, Dr. Ren momentarily even forgot the scroll in his hand, and couldn’t wait to immediately dissect the historical truth and restore the scene at that time.

“Brother Ren, these are just my guesses, they can’t be accurate! If you ask me, Nakagawa must know something.”

The copy obtained from Nakagawa, only this picture of the Maharishi Temple and the hiding place, as for the record written by Taoist Wang himself, Nakagawa didn’t bring it to China, according to this copy, Zhuang Rui can only guess these.

“Damn, that little Japanese must know something, why don’t we turn around and let Peng Fei put some means on him?”

Dr. Ren, who had always behaved in a gentle manner in front of people, couldn’t help but burst out foul language at this moment.

Already touched the truth of history and not allowed to enter, so that Dr. Ren heart itchy, like eating three tablets of Viagra in a row, know that his wife’s aunt came, that kind of stifled feeling, so that Dr. Ren hate to pull Zhongchuan in a violent beating.

“Hey, Dr. Ren, hold that kid for a day and see if he talks.”

Zhuang Rui smiled at his words, he threw Zhongchuan out, in fact, he was already counting on him, now things are obvious, Zhongchuan traveled a long way to China, must be looking for this batch of scripture scrolls, find so that he can’t see it, Zhuang Rui doesn’t believe that Zhongchuan can hold his tongue?

“You kid ……”

Dr. Ren also reacted, but after thinking for a while, he said, “What if Nakagawa keeps refusing to say anything?”

“That’s fine, just do what you said, just let Peng Fei put some means on him, the big deal is to throw him into the quicksand when we go back.” Zhuang Rui said with a careless face.

“Don’t, I just said that, don’t ever, this is not good ……”

Ren Chunqiang was startled by Zhuang Rui, after getting along with him for so many days, he also knows that Peng Fei is not a good person, maybe he can really do this thing of destroying the body.

“Come on, Brother Ren, I’m a five good citizen, I’m just kidding with you, let’s just clean these things up first, then inform the teacher and the comrades from the Dunhuang Cultural Relics Bureau!”

Zhuang Rui laughed and shook his head, this senior brother of his is really a nerd, he can’t tell the truth from the lie, and his face went white with fear.

“You kid don’t take it seriously!” Dr. Ren glanced at Zhuang Rui suspiciously, he was aware of Zhuang Rui’s deep background, if he really wanted to make Zhongchuan disappear in the country, it didn’t have to be a difficult task.

“Of course it’s true, Xiao Jia, why are you snickering! Come over and help.”

Zhuang Rui saw that Dr. Ren still took it seriously, crying and laughing, he changed the topic, and sure enough, when Ren Chunqiang heard that he was going to start moving the scrolls out, his expression immediately became serious.

Due to the cave opening in the back of the statue of Buddha, itself there is a more than one meter high pedestal, so these scrolls, can only be passed one by one through Zhuang Rui to Xiao Jia and others, and then put on the ground.

A single tarpaulin wrapped within the scrolls of ancient books, almost more than two hundred volumes, such a scroll outward, both cumbersome and inefficient, more than an hour later, the first unwrapped tarpaulin within the scriptures is considered to be will be taken out.

“Brother Ren, this won’t work, the efficiency is too low.”

Inside this Buddha statue alone, there are thirty to forty oil paper boxes, if taken out like this, I’m afraid it will take at least two days of work, not to mention that after the scrolls are taken out from within the oil paper, it’s also unfavorable for storage.

“Then what to do? We can’t just leave it here, right? In case something goes wrong, then no one can afford it.”

Dr. Ren stopped his hand and also frowned, after thinking for a while, he said, “This road is too difficult to walk, if we notify outsiders to come in, it might be dangerous when passing through the quicksand area, we now have a total of sixteen or seventeen camels, so it’s better to think of a way to bring them out!”

“It can’t be disassembled and brought out, that would be too much damage to the scrolls.”

Zhuang Rui nodded and said, “Brother Ren you come out, let’s widen this hole a little more, I’ll go in and move it directly.”

When Dr. Ren came out, the two of them drew out quite a few more bricks from the hole, and the entire hole was ready for Zhuang Rui to enter and exit upright.

“Slow down, be careful, don’t let the oil paper open up, don’t fall.”

After Zhuang Rui walked into the belly of the Buddha statue, he directly held an oil paper package with two hands and moved it up, Dr. Ren who stood outside had a concerned look on his face, afraid that Zhuang Rui would fall …… those scriptures.

Zhuang Rui held the oil paper scripture scrolls that were wrapped into a four-square, and carefully handed it over to the Xiao Jia duo standing under the pedestal, and joked to Dr. Ren, “Ahem, Brother Ren, are you afraid of dropping me or dropping these scriptures?”

Don’t look at these are paper books, but the middle of the shaft is made of good solid wood, the weight is really not light, so a packet is estimated to have sixty or seventy pounds, although Dr. Ren can also hold, but walking, not as steady as Zhuang Rui.

With Zhuang Rui this tireless labor, from within the statue of Buddha to take out the efficiency of the scrolls suddenly accelerated, to the time of noon, the statue of Buddha within a total of forty-three oil paper wrapped in the scriptures are taken out, neatly placed on the ground in the middle of the hall.

Zhuang Rui has aura can relieve the physical fatigue, but Xiao Jia a few of them can not, this will be long tired sitting on the ground can not get up, even Dr. Ren is also weak arms, went out and called Peng Fei over to shift carrying.

As for Nakagawa, all morning he was constantly sticking his head out to look into the temple, of course, standing at the bottom of the steps, he couldn’t see the movement in the main hall anyway.

“Zhuang Rui, I’ve called teacher, teacher booked a flight for the afternoon, and contacted the Dunhuang cultural relics department to come along then.”

Dr. Ren took Zhuang Rui’s satellite phone and ran into the main hall in a rush, just now when he was on the phone with his mentor, he could feel that Professor Meng, who was always known for his calmness and rationality, also got excited.

“Brother Ren, it’s hard for them to come in if there’s no one to lead the way, let’s just think about how to bring these things out first, right?” Zhuang Rui looked at the small mountain of scripture scrolls in front of him, and his brows wrinkled into a Chuan character.

This pack of scriptures probably weighed around sixty to seventy pounds, thirty packs would be more than two thousand pounds, and a camel could carry two to three hundred pounds of load bearing weight without affecting its normal walking, which meant that they couldn’t take all of these scrolls of scriptures out at once.

Dr. Ren also discovered this problem and spoke up, “That’s right, not to mention that there aren’t enough camels, there aren’t many back baskets, so we can’t put these scriptures on the humps, right?”

This time when they entered the desert, counting the camels of Erdan and the others, there were only six camels that were carrying supplies, each with two back baskets around them, and it was almost impossible to transport these scriptures out with just these six camels.

After Zhuang Rui thought for a while, he said, “How about this! Dr. Ren, let Brother Mangzi lead the way, you and Xiao Lei and Peng Fei will make a trip out, return to the town to meet up with the teacher, and then bring in the camel team.”

Dr. Ren shook his head and said, “It’s better for you to lead the team out! I’ll guard these scriptures.”

It’s not that Ren Chunqiang is pretentious or afraid of making this extra trip, the key is that when they go out of the desert, there will surely be countless media at home and abroad waiting for interviews, and it is estimated that the CCTV will follow up the report, which is a chance to make a big splash.

To know, this batch of Dunhuang literature came out, the sensation is no less than in the domestic science and research community dropped an atomic bomb, the importance of its degree of even far in the first Zhuang Rui found Peking Man fossil above.

Dunhuang caves in the documents, from the Eastern Han Dynasty, through the Three Kingdoms, two Jin Dynasty, Northern Wei Dynasty, Western Wei Dynasty, Sui, Tang Dynasty, Five Dynasties, Northern Song Dynasty and other more than ten dynasties, spanning more than 700 years of space and time.

Its content encompasses dozens of disciplines, covering politics, economics, military, transportation, geography, calendar, contracts, civil registry, medicine, mathematics, calligraphy, music, etc., making it a voluminous ancient library.

Although there is no exact count of the exact number of these volumes, but Zhuang Rui roughly estimated that all the documents inside the three statues should not be less than 30,000 books, which is almost two thirds more than the Dunhuang documents unearthed in the Cave of Sutras 100 years ago.

So this archaeological discovery will become a milestone in Chinese archaeology, and will definitely be remembered in the world’s archaeological history, and the names of these people within the archaeological team will also be entered into the relevant textbooks.

The archaeological team is still so, then the first person to discover these literature scrolls, of course, the honor will be even more, is why Dr. Ren will have let Zhuang Rui lead the team out of the argument, because these scrolls, originally Zhuang Rui discovered.

Zhuang Rui understood what Ren Chunqiang meant, smiled and said, “Brother Ren, I don’t need these, just by virtue of the fact that I’m the leader of this archaeological team, what should be there will be there, on the contrary, it’s you who will immediately assess the title of researcher, and very much need these.”

With Zhuang Rui’s current wealth and reputation within the antique jade and stone industry, it is true that he doesn’t really need this gimmick of discovering Dunhuang documents to gain any benefits for himself.

And as Zhuang Rui said, as the leader of the archaeological team, all the honors will have his share.

But the discovery, purely accidental gains, is not the main purpose of Zhuang Rui out of this trip, Zhuang Rui in fact still brewing in the heart of a more significant discovery, but that mind if in the eyes of others will be too ridiculous, Zhuang Rui has never said to the other members of the archaeological team it!

Zhuang Rui again looked to Xiao Jia and others, said: “By the way, you several as involved in the archaeology of the personnel, in the future is to stay in school is not difficult, can reconsider the allocation of post-graduation.”