Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 313 The Broken Idol

After three hours of searching, Liang En and the others assembled a white marble slab with a length of 1m5 and a width of about 80cm.Although they only found a little more than [-]% of the fragments, they can roughly see what it is.

The image of a Buddhist monk is carved on the stone slab. This monk has a round face, slightly raised eyebrows, thin lips, and deep corners of the mouth, giving people a sense of peace and comfort.And judging from the lotus platform where he sat and the light behind him, this is probably a statue of a god.

"It feels a bit strange." Fan Meng said to Liang En looking at the damaged relief. "The white marble fragments just now are basically distributed around this hall and the surrounding buildings, and some are even hidden in the crevices of the stones."

"So it doesn't look like it was caused by a natural collapse." Joan added at this time that after this period of study, her oral English level has been able to communicate normally, but she still has problems with spelling.

"In particular, some of the quilt fragments that were stuffed in the corners and crevices were obviously done deliberately. It feels like the previous people should have smashed the relief on their own initiative, and then hid the relief."

"This is a bit abnormal." After hearing the observation results of Fan Meng and Joan of Arc, Liang En quickly fell into thinking, because this white marble plate is obviously a Buddha statue, and ordinary people in ancient times would not intentionally damage such a thing of.

More importantly, if the thing was destroyed by accident, the pieces should be disposed of properly, and if it was destroyed intentionally, it should be left in the destroyed place instead of throwing these things all over the place .

"When you were searching around just now, did you find any carrier of words, such as stone steles?" After looking at the white marble relief on the ground and confirming that there were no words on it, Liang En turned to Fan Meng and the others to inquire. up.

Because there is only one Buddha statue on this white marble marble slab, and the Buddha statues are often similar in shape, and there are no distinctive features. Therefore, if we want to find out the situation here, we must find more information.

"No, there is no stele left in this place." Fan Meng thought about it carefully, then shook his head, and then showed a thoughtful expression.

"This situation is completely abnormal, because I have seen various temples before, and there will be various steles in the temples, and even form a forest of steles, but there is not a single stone stele in this place."

"But there should be a stele." Liang En recalled the photos of the mountaintop ruins taken by the drone before, and then said.

"At least judging from the remaining foundations, there were several stele pavilions here, so naturally there should be stone steles, so I guess those stone steles were probably destroyed and hidden like this Buddha statue."

"One more thing." Joan of Arc suddenly added at this time. "I'm pretty sure the temple was abandoned after a battle."

"After the battle, do you have any evidence?" Hearing Joan of Arc's words, Liang En immediately cheered up, and then turned to look at her, because Liang En knew that she was definitely an expert in ancient warfare.

"There is a lot of evidence, such as this." Joan of Arc said as she took out a few small balls that looked like pinballs and a piece of metal the size of half a palm from her pocket.

After Liang En took it, he found that these small balls were ground out of stones or cast from lead. Although the piece of iron was severely corroded, there were a few holes on the edge of the piece of iron.

"These small balls are the projectiles used in firearms in the past." While Liang En was inspecting these small balls, Joan of Arc explained from the side. "In addition to these projectiles, there are also many traces of shelling and fire on the remaining buildings."

"The most important thing is that this piece of metal should be part of the armor." Having said that, Joan picked up the piece of metal. "And this kind of thing is not very common. It is often only equipped by the army."

"In other words, this temple was completely destroyed during the war." At this time, Liang En thought of some scattered traces of fire that he had seen after entering this ruins before.

At that time, he just thought that it was caused by the common fires in ancient wooden structures or the wildfires around the temple after it was abandoned. After all, this place is full of flammable materials, and it is not impossible to find it by yourself when the weather is dry.

However, based on what Joan of Arc discovered, the armed monastery was obviously attacked by external military forces, so it finally declined.

The reason why it is said to be military power rather than armed power is also very simple, because in ancient China private individuals could hold swords, short spears, bows and arrows, but hiding armor is definitely a big taboo.

To give the simplest example, when the dynasty rule was weakest in the last years of the Ming and Qing dynasties, civilians were allowed to hold all kinds of cold weapons and even arquebus guns, but armor was absolutely taboo, as long as it was held, it would be regarded as rebellion.

Therefore, whether these armor pieces belong to the attacker or the defender, it can only show that there is a regular army or rebels close to the regular army and a fierce battle broke out here.

After all, not everyone in the ancient army had armor, and even armor can be regarded as a symbol of elite troops, so the battles that broke out in this place were either large-scale or elite versus elite.

Obviously, this place should not be a simple temple, and it is likely that there is a secret hidden, so this kind of elite troops were used to start a battle in this place.

The local county annals found on the Internet also explained this point from the side, because there was no introduction to this temple that was not too small, let alone a war that had happened here.

But no matter the size of the temple, or such a battle that should not be small, it is enough to be recorded, and the failure to find the record can only show that someone has hidden these things.

Being able to fundamentally erase these records can only show one thing, that is, this temple is definitely facing a major event, so that even traces of this temple need to be completely erased from history.

This can also explain why the previous white marble relief Buddha statue was deliberately hidden after being smashed. Obviously, there may be something special about this Buddha statue, and it may even be called an absolute taboo.

So when the temple side realized that they could not keep the temple, they chose to destroy and hide this possibly the most important Buddha statue in the temple.

It's a pity that Liang En and the others didn't know much about Eastern religions, so they couldn't see anything wrong with this sacred-looking Buddha statue.

However, considering that this place is located in a mountainous area with inconvenient transportation, it is difficult to carry things like stone tablets, so no matter whether the temple side wants to hide or the attacking side wants to destroy, there will always be a lot around the temple.

After confirming this point, several people began to search around the Daxiong Palace as the center.

Soon, they found the stone sculpture Ba Xia that had been broken into two pieces and thrown aside five or six meters away from the original stele pavilion, but the stone stele that was supposed to be carried on it disappeared.

"I think we're close to the truth." Looking at the Baxia stone sculpture, which was obviously smashed open by humans, Liang En showed a smile on his face, "I think as long as we can find the stone tablet, we should be able to know what happened here."

(End of this chapter)