Chapter 482 Stone Chamber
"Be careful with your elbows and reach out." Heng Fa stretched out his hand on the edge of the stone platform to guide Zhou Zhi.
Zhou Zhi pulled the rope under the rope buckle with his left hand, tapped his toes on the stone wall, swung over, stretched out his right hand to hold Heng Fa's hand, and came to the stone platform.
This is similar to Guanyin Cliff, but the length and area of the cave are much larger.
People have also lived here. There are grooves carved on the side of the cliff, which are a rainwater collection system. The rainwater dripping from the cliff above will flow along the grooves to the large dug out side. pit.
The trench is also paved with a layer of fine pebbles, which is obviously used to protect the trench from being worn deeper by water droplets.
However, this trench has been abandoned for a long time now. It is filled with moss and ferns. The puddle at the end of the trench has even become a small pond ecosystem, filled with Spirogyra. There are even some small fish and shrimps.
Here is no place to live, but life is still creating miracles here.
“What’s abnormal?” Zhou Zhi didn’t care about admiring the wonderful scenery on the cliff, picked up his camera and asked Heng Fa.
Heng Fa pointed at the end of the cliff: "There! There seems to be a mud wall there!"
"I'll go take a look."
The cliff platform is hundreds of meters long. Zhou Zhi thought it was a rock wall before, but when he got closer, he found that it was made of weathered mud from the mountain. A mud wall, and then the wall and surrounding joints were carefully sealed with weathered mud, making it almost impossible to see any flaws.
However, there is a mark of a palm on the mud wall near the bottom of the cliff, as if to remind later generations that this is a wall, not a stone wall.
In fact, there is no need to express it so clearly. It has been a long time since the wall was sealed, and thin cracks have appeared on the edge where the wall and the stone wall touch.
Lifting up the camera, Zhou Zhi began to take detailed photos of this area.
At this time, Hengfa also received Mr. Qiao and came to Zhou Zhi: "How is it?"
"It is indeed an artificially blocked wall. There should be a stone nest behind it."
< br>"What to do now?"
"Tear it apart." Zhou Zhi said in a deep voice: "But don't make the hole too big. First take a few mud bricks and see what's going on behind the wall."
"I'll do it." Mr. Qiao took out the fixed knife from his backpack and was about to start.
"Don't move that handprint, protect it." Zhou Zhi said: "If there is something valuable behind it, it will be a very meaningful object if we win over that handprint and put it in the cultural center showroom."
"I know." Mr. Qiao drew a small hole on the bottom of the wall with the tip of a knife: "Isn't it about this big?"< br>
"Absolutely." Zhou Zhi nodded, and smiled at Heng Fa who was eager to try: "Master, you are coming too."
This is what Heng Fa was waiting for, and after hearing this, he crouched down quickly He got down and scraped off the mud seal within the small hole with Mr. Qiao. After exposing the mud bricks underneath, he began to carefully take them out.
Zhou Zhi also took photos of the two people working. These are valuable records.
The mud bricks were not big, so after the first one was taken out, the rest were easy to pick up. After a while, a cave that could accommodate one person in and out was removed.
Mr. Qiao took out the flashlight and turned it on, and was about to get in through the hole. Zhou Zhi quickly stopped: "Wait a minute, the gas inside may not be clean."
"I'm holding my breath. ! I can hold it in for a minute!" Mr. Qiao said and dove in.
After a while, Mr. Qiao came out again and shouted excitedly: "The space inside is not small! There are many bamboo boxes stacked up!"
Zhou Zhi had already lit the small alcohol stove and was waiting for Qiao The master came out and pushed the small alcohol stove in with a bamboo pole.
The alcohol stove did not go out after burning for a while. Zhou Zhi put out the alcohol stove with a lid tied to a bamboo pole and said, "You can get in!" The three of them turned on their headlights and got in through the small hole.
This is a peculiar place, a standard stone nest at the end of a semi-tunnel-type weathered cave on Danya rock wall.
If there was no water diversion system as seen before, the rainwater would continue to erode this place every time it rained, and the gaps in the Danya stone wall would continue to erode laterally to both ends.
However, now this place has become a natural stone chamber. One side is protected by a stone wall to block wind and rain, and the other side is protected by a thick mountain body to regulate temperature to ensure a constant and cool temperature.
It can be seen from the state of the neatly stacked bamboo boxes in front that this is a natural air-conditioned storage room. The temperature, humidity, and oxygen content of the air are all perfect, and the objects in the stone room are well preserved.
The stone room is quite large, almost the size of a study room. There are about fifty bamboo boxes stacked here, and there is room for movement in the free space.
Zhou Zhi reached out and took down the top bamboo box. He took a deep breath and used a straight knife to cut off the strips sealing the box above. After opening it, he took out the straw and rice paper covering the top, revealing the bottom. Neatly placed prints.
The printed matter is in the form of an album, with a bright yellow cover, and a piece of paper with a black border in the middle, which contains a line of regular script - Volume 2 of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's Original Vow Sutra.
There is also a circle with white characters on a black background at the bottom, with two regular scripts inside - Si Shi.
"Found it!" Mr. Qiao's cheers rang out in the room, and the closed space buzzed: "We have found the "Dragon Hidden Sutra"!"
"Wait a minute!" Zhou Zhi quickly stopped: "Open it. Do you know?”
“Why?”
“Because according to historical records According to the Jiachuan edition of the "Longzang Sutra", the title page is appended with the Xie En engraving printing page."
Zhou Zhi opened the book, and on the title page was an emperor's tablet that was exactly the same as the one enshrined in the Wanshou Pavilion of Fawang Temple. The engraving is like a tablet, surrounded by six dragons, and in the middle is a line of text - Long live the emperor.
The other side has the same picture, but the text in the middle has been changed. It is like the front and back of a plaque. What is written on this side is - the emperor's picture is eternal, the emperor's path is prosperous, the Buddha's sun shines brighter, and the wheel of power rotates forever.
Open the second page. The area for writing in the center of this page is larger and there are more words.
In the middle of the pattern of two dragons facing each other on the top is the solemn word "imperial control".
The following twelve words and one line contain a poem.
Liuhe Qingning, the order of seven political affairs. When the rain falls, all things will be prosperous. Billion trillions of peace and harmony, nine quiet and harmonious. They are all ranked in the Longevity Domain, and Pu cultivates blessed fields. The best is achieved, and obstacles are eliminated. Families respect loyalty and filial piety, and people love kindness. The officials are clean and the government is peaceful, and the lawsuits and punishments are simple. Transformation into vulgar beauty, Taoism and Xianheng. Everything in order will achieve positive results.
It was the eighth day of April in the thirteenth year of Emperor Yongzheng’s reign in the Qing Dynasty.
"How is it?" Hengfa was about to get anxious as Zhou Zhi studied several engravings and printed title pages carefully: "At least give me a message..."
Zhou Zhi pointed to Long Live the Emperor On the page of the tablet: "That's it! This is stamped."
"That means we found it?" Heng Fa was so excited His hands were trembling, and tears were about to come out of his eyes: "Have we found the Dragon Hidden Sutra?"
"Wait a minute!" This time it was Master Qiao's turn to raise his hand: "The Dragon Hidden Sutra? "Isn't the full title of "Qianlong Edition of the Tripitaka"? Why is the title page of this scripture "The Thirteenth Year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty"? ”
"Because this is a huge cultural project, it started in the Kangxi year, passed through Yongzheng, and was not completed until the Qianlong Dynasty. After that, a total of a hundred volumes were printed, so it was called the "Qianlong Edition of the Tripitaka."
"Then..." Hengfa was a little confused by the two little ones. Dizzy: "Did we find it or not?"
Zhou Zhi laughed: "The hard work pays off! Found it! Master Hengfa, this is the Longzang Sutra that has been lost for decades in Fawang Temple! ”
(End of this chapter)