Urban Witcher

After driving for more than an hour, they finally arrived at the scenic spot. The taxi fare totaled more than two hundred, which made Ye Shaoyang very distressed.

Because it is winter, there are not many people in the scenic area, only pilgrims walking in twos and threes on the mountain road, and the two followed them up the mountain, carefully identifying them.

"It feels different from a thousand years ago." Ye Shaoyang sighed, and then felt that his words were a bit strange, as if he had lived a thousand years.

The Guoqing Temple is on the top of the mountain. It is obviously rebuilt. It is completely different from the one thousands of years ago. It has a lot of grandeur, but it has also lost its ancient charm.

Ye Shaoyang pretended to be a pilgrim, walked in, and walked all the way to the Daxiong Palace. They were still the three Buddha statues, but they looked a little different from the ones he saw yesterday. Ye Shaoyang was carefully identifying them. Daofeng pulled him and turned around. Ye Shaoyang quickly followed , came to a courtyard gate on the left, looked up, and there was a plaque hanging on the courtyard gate, which read "Tiantai Wooden Buddha Statue Cultural Relics Exhibition Hall".

Going in and looking, there are three long halls in a row. Two people enter from the leftmost one. Most of the halls are separated by red lines. There are several Buddha statues inside, both big and small. They are all wood carvings. There are Buddhas and Bodhisattvas arhat. There is a sign in front of each statue, with the name and age of the statue written, and the name and brief introduction of the creator below.

A staff member came up and introduced these wood carvings to Ye Shaoyang. Ye Shaoyang has always been ignorant of art, and it is not easy to drive people away, so he listened with a half-knowledge, and turned his head to find Daofeng standing aside, looking at a pair of propaganda calligraphy and paintings pasted on the wall.

"You..." Ye Shaoyang glanced at the explainer, in order not to scare him, he swallowed back what he wanted to say to Daofeng, and walked over to watch it pretendingly.

It is an introduction about what kind of roof woodcarving.

"What's so interesting about this?" Ye Shaoyang asked Feng in a low voice, but Daofeng didn't answer. Instead, he attracted the explainer and introduced to Ye Shaoyang: "Our woodcarving on the roof is an ancient skill, especially the woodcarving of Buddha statues. , Look at these Buddha statues, the lines are round, the color is full, and they look grand, this is the characteristic of our southern Buddha sculpture..."

Daofeng pointed to a passage on the wall and said, "Ask her if this craft has been lost."

Ye Shaoyang took a look at the passage he was referring to, it was an introduction about "dried lacquer with ramie", he didn't understand what it meant, so he asked the explainer, who said that there are still inheritors of this craft, and then this The craft is introduced.

Ye Shaoyang didn't want to hear it at first, but he heard from the lecturer that the process of making Buddha statues is to first use mud tires to shape the shape, and then dip it in special numbing lacquer—a kind of local gum, which is processed and painted on special linen cloth. On top of it, wrap it around the molded shape layer by layer, and finally form a full-bodied Buddha statue. Then paint the facial features and so on, and then take out the mud tire. The inside of the Buddha statue is hollow and can be used for a long time. Preserved, it will not be destroyed after thousands of years.

Ye Shaoyang patiently listened to this passage, and suddenly thought of the strips that the thick-browed monk tore off the Medicine Buddha's body when he traveled through time, he was very curious at the time, could it be this "dried lacquer and ramie" craft?

Even if this is the case, what does it have to do with them coming to find Tai'a Jian?

Daofeng walked straight to the adjacent exhibition hall, Ye Shaoyang followed, the two walked through the middle exhibition hall, and came to the last one directly, Daofeng pointed to a Buddha statue in the glass cabinet behind the red line, Ye Shaoyang looked over and recognized it immediately, This is the Medicine Buddha!

It's been almost a thousand years. Except that the outer layer of the Buddha statue is a little weathered, the rest is still the same.

After finding it, Ye Shaoyang felt a little relieved.

The guide sister also came over, saw them observing the Medicine Buddha, and praised them for their good eyesight, saying that this Buddha statue was made with the technique of "dried lacquer and ramie". Made by eminent monks of Kouzong, it has been placed in the middle of the Daxiong Hall of Guoqing Temple before, and it is the treasure of Zhenshan.

During the ten-year catastrophe, the monks in the monastery were afraid that the Buddha statues would be destroyed, so they hid them all. Later, after reporting, this Medicine Buddha became a key cultural relic. In this exhibition hall, it is for tourists to appreciate.

"This Buddha statue...does it cost a lot of money?" Ye Shaoyang asked.

"Trading of cultural relics is prohibited, and they are priceless treasures. However, according to expert appraisal before, this Medicine Buddha Buddha will be worth at least tens of millions if it is put on the market..."

tens of millions...

Ye Shaoyang was dumbfounded.

The guide girl smiled and said: "Cultural relics cannot be traded. If this gentleman is interested, there are many modern-made rooftop Buddha sculptures in the back exhibition hall. They are mini-sized and can be placed at home or in the car to pray for blessings and ward off evil spirits..."

As he spoke, he handed over a beautiful picture book.

No wonder they are so enthusiastic! Dare to love this is the real purpose!

Ye Shaoyang had no choice but to pretend to go to the bathroom, and fled under the contemptuous eyes of the instructor's sister.

"Tens of millions, fuck me, if you get caught, you'll have to go to jail for several years, right?"

Outside the mountain gate, Ye Shaoyang worriedly calculated with Daofeng.

"Have you seen Master Duyue's technique, the dry lacquer is sandwiched with ramie, and the Tai'a sword is hidden in it, without any trace."

"Duyue? You mean the monk with thick eyebrows?"

"I stayed here for a day yesterday. I searched for the list of their mages in the past. I found this person. He is a strong man of the venerable level and he is also the inheritor of this Buddha carving craft."

"Oh...hey, let me tell you seriously—"

"I'm also talking serious. I've always wondered before. The Tai'a sword is a nine-level light magic weapon. It was hidden on the Buddha statue in a hurry. How can it hide the breath? Even with the breath-fixing talisman, it can be avoided for a while. The spirit energy is exhausted. As long as Patriarch Styx stays in the temple, sooner or later he will find out that he used the uncovered sackcloth, painted runes on it with gold paint, and sealed it layer by layer. This will become a permanent seal. If the Buddha statue is not destroyed, there will never be any spiritual leakage.”

Ye Shaoyang was surprised that Daofeng said so many words in one breath, stared at him for a while, and asked, "Even so, what does it have to do with us stealing things?"

"It doesn't matter."

"What?"

"Some things, since you doubt it, you have to figure it out, in case there are hidden details of the success or failure of the relationship." Daofeng smiled, "It's a matter of attitude."

Ye Shaoyang thought about it carefully, and felt that what he said made sense.

"Then what should we do? It's a cultural relic, how do we do it?"

"Let's talk about it tonight."

The two walked around the mountain and found the side room of Guoqing Temple. They saw several monks walking around, and some of them had spiritual lights, indicating that they had magic power.

(End of this chapter)——