Beipai Tomb Raiders Notes

"Doctor Zhao, how is my grandfather?"

In the intensive care ward of Tonghui Hospital, the doctor on night shift took a look at me.

"He's fine, just tell me."

"Miss Bai, the situation is not very good. We invited experts from Beijing to come over. Even if it is targeted by radiotherapy, Bai Lao's cancer cells have already metastasized."

Bai Xiqiong bit her lower lip and asked, "Doctor Zhao, as you said last time, there is still one year left."

"Hey, we really tried our best. Judging from the current development situation, I'm afraid it will only be one to three months. But old man Bai's spirit is still good, and he can still talk."

After the doctor left, Baiyanqiong turned around and wiped her eyes with her back to me.

"Sorry." I said.

Seeing her face change, I realized that I had said the wrong thing.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Boss Bai, you don't need to mourn now."

Her eyes were slightly red, she glared at me, and pushed open the door of the intensive care unit.

There were two people in the room. An old man with gray hair and glasses was leaning on the pillow and reading a book. I saw that he had an oxygen tube in his nose.

There was also a middle-aged man in his 40s who was sitting on the sidelines.

"Dad, grandma told you to go back and rest. I will guard grandpa tonight, and you have also guarded for several days."

The middle-aged man got up and said, "That's fine, girl, take a rest and call me if you need anything."

"Dad, I'm going back then."

The old man wearing glasses concentrated on turning the pages of the book, and waved his hands without looking up.

After the middle-aged man left, Bai Xiqiong suddenly snatched the book from the old man's hand.

"Grandpa! Stop reading! Doctor Zhao told you to rest more! Reading hurts your eyes."

The old man was thin, wearing a hospital gown and said with a smile: "Xiaoxi, I will be lying in a small box in two months, just let me read for a while, hey Xiaoxi, what do you think of the star in this book?" Friday, he is really an interesting person."

Only then did I notice that the book he was reading was Robinson Crusoe, and Friday was about a wild man in the book.

"Boy...you are..."

"Grandpa, he is the person whose surname Tian told us, his name is Xiang Yunfeng."

"Hello, old man," I greeted politely first, and then asked with doubts in my heart.

The old man said he knew what I did, and he told her granddaughter not to report me.

"Young man, do you want to know what that tomb robber (Tian Sanjiu) is looking for?"

I said I wanted to know.

I'm curious, after all, Tian Sanjiu voluntarily gave up the cultural relics under Bin Pagoda.

"Little Xie, you go out first, I'll have a chat with this young man."

"Grandpa, your body..."

"It's okay. Didn't Dr. Zhao say that I can live for a month or two?"

Bai Xiqiong glanced worriedly and went out.

"Young man, sit here." The old man patted the side of the bed.

Seeing him make a gesture, I understood immediately, quickly took out a cigarette, put it in his mouth, and lit it for him again.

I said: "Bai Lao, you smoke slowly, there is still enough."

"Cough! Cough!"

The old man coughed a few times and said, "Don't get me wrong, I'm not from your industry. The man surnamed Tian and I just have a cooperative relationship. I want to help him find that thing, just to take a look at it before I die."

"Old Bai, what are you talking about?"

The old man held a cigarette in one hand, and looked at the ceiling of the ward with vicissitudes of life, as if he was lost in memories, and I didn't dare to disturb him.

After a long time, he slowly spoke three words.

"Cast Iron Buddha."

"Cast iron Buddha? What's that?"

I didn't know what it was at first, because I'm not from northern Shaanxi, I'm from Northeast China, so I haven't heard of it.

The old man seemed to be suffocated. After he finished smoking a cigarette, I immediately gave him another one so that he could pick it up.

While smoking a cigarette, he talked about the cast-iron Buddha, which is true.

There are several temples called Tiefo Temple in China, and there are several in Tiefosi Village, just like the Leifeng Pagodas all over the country.

But to say the most authentic Iron Buddha Temple, there is only one.

Lueyang County, Hanzhong, 50 miles north, Baishui Town, Tiefosi Village.

In the north of this village, there are red brick pagodas. This pagoda can be said to be the earliest Buddhist pagoda in the entire northern Shaanxi, northern Sichuan, southern Longnan, and southern Shaanxi, and it can even be said to be the earliest Buddhist pagoda in the country.

Pay attention to one word, I said "pagoda".

Buddhist pagodas are different from ancient pagodas. Ancient pagodas have existed in all dynasties, and most of them were built by royal family members, dignitaries and dignitaries for someone or something.

But the pagoda is different. Only the pagoda built by disciples and believers to bury the monk and build it for a certain eminent monk can be called a pagoda.

The owner of the red brick pagoda of Tiefo Temple was an eminent monk who passed away in the 13th year of Ming Zhengde.

This person is the branch of the sixth patriarch of Zen Buddhism in the Central Plains, the great monk Yuetian of Linji sect. (Master Yuetian.)

After the great monk Yuetian passed away, ten of his disciples in the Iron Buddha Temple built a seven-story red brick pagoda for him to support his body, and at the same time cast 41 cast iron Buddhas in the temple (the book says that there may be forty statues) , No, it should be 41), the more one is the image of Monk Yuetian himself, and it is said that the blacksmith made it according to the image of Yuetian meditating.

These Buddha statues are all made of pure iron. The largest one is nearly three meters high and weighs more than ten tons. The smallest one is more than one meter long, and the smallest one is more than half a meter long.

People in our industry often say that Xuande furnace, Xuande furnace, how many furnaces were made at the beginning, and the number of different opinions, few people have seen the real Xuande furnace of this dynasty.

Compared with the Xuande furnace, the more than forty cast iron Buddhas in the Tiefo Temple were even rarer and more precious. After the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, almost no one saw them again, and they were all lost.

These cast-iron Buddhas do not even have a photo album left, which is very mysterious.

What Tian Sanjiu is looking for is this kind of cast iron Buddha, and it is very possible that it is the statue that Monk Yuetian himself looks like.

Speaking of this, some people may ask, Hanzhong is hundreds of miles away from Xianyang, even if there is such a cast iron Buddha, how come it came to Xianyang?

The real situation is that it was related to several people in Xianyang at that time.

If you have friends who grew up in Lueyang County, you may have heard from your parents that the tower in your village was originally a seven-story attic, but now it only has five floors.

It turns out that the uppermost floor of the brick tower is an iron tower brake below the upper circle, with a diameter of more than one meter and a weight of at least several hundred catties.

The spire was stolen around 1960, and according to local villagers' recollection afterwards, it should have been lost around May 1958.

At that time, a group of people stole the Tasha, and dug up a big iron Buddha about 1.3 meters high on the east side of the original temple site.

The group pulled Tasha and Iron Buddha in a carriage, and sold the two items to a local waste collection station for 30 yuan.

This year happened to be 58, and a few months later, on August 58, 8, the vigorous cultivation of gangsters began in China.

At that time, not only steel mills made steel, steel was made everywhere, and there were task targets.

At that time, Xianyang Northwest National Cotton No. 5 Factory bought a batch of scrap iron from Hanzhong area, including the Tasha and a cast iron Buddha that were stolen in May.

At that time, Bai Xiong’s grandfather, Bai Tingli, worked in the No. [-] Xianyang National Cotton Factory. The department he was working at was called the Science Popularization Committee Group. There was another man and a woman who were also members of the team. The man’s surname was Tang, and his name was Tang Xin, and the woman’s name was Wang Xiaoqin. .

When Wang Xiaoqin was in the pile of scrap iron, she recognized the Tasha and the Iron Buddha at a glance, because she is a Buddhist believer, and she knows the importance of these two things.

Grandpa Baiyan Qiong had just turned 20 years old at the time. He liked Wang Xiaoqin, but he dared not say that it was just a crush.Unfortunately, the man Wang Xiaoqin likes is Tang Xin in the group.

The three held a secret meeting, decided to save the cast iron Buddha and Tasha, and made a careful plan.

They hid the Tie Buddha and Tasha in the cotton factory first. Because of the status of the science popularization team, Grandpa Baixiong Qiong drove a cotton truck. They wrapped the Tie Buddha and Tie Sha in white cotton and prepared to secret sent to the No. [-] National Cotton Factory.

They thought things were done perfectly, but unexpectedly, a female worker in the cotton factory discovered the matter and reported it to the deputy factory manager.

.....

At this point in the story, Grandpa Baiyan Qiong suddenly stopped talking.

I was fascinated by what I heard, and hurriedly asked: "Old Bai, what happened afterwards? Where did the Iron Buddha and Tasha from Hanzhong go?"

"Old Bai?"

"Old Bai?"

The cigarette in the old man's hand was still half unburned, so I turned to look at the electrocardiogram device on the table.

I saw the wavy lines on the screen of the electrocardiogram, and the ups and downs became smaller and smaller.

Suddenly it became a straight line.

"drop……"