World Tibet Bureau

Chapter 889
Never thought.

Wuxiao is far less scary than the legend says.

Things went surprisingly well.

At around six o'clock in the afternoon.

We have successfully reached the core area of ​​Wuxiao.

A magical scene appeared in front of us.

This core area turned out to be a tall and raised ridge.

If the desert is compared to a person's extremely smooth skin, the ridge is like a legless centipede lying on the skin, extending to both ends of the world with no end in sight. The sand on the ground is yellow, but the ridge is It's brown, I don't know what causes it.

Even more shocking.

The ridge was originally a single line, but a large gap appeared in the middle, as if a centipede's body had been forcibly broken in the middle.

The sun was starting to set now.

The round, red sun was directly above the large gap in the ridge and was still slowly descending.

The golden afterglow, due to the refraction caused by the ridges on both sides, suddenly sprayed out in all directions, filling the entire world, complementing the boundless yellow sand below, presenting a wonder of heaven and earth!
How to describe it?
I wonder if you have ever seen the golden wheel on the head of the Buddha's portrait?
The sight in front of me is exactly what it feels like!
I felt like I was in Western Bliss... No, I felt like there was a mysterious and majestic Buddha behind the ridge.

Everyone stared at the spectacle in front of them with their jaws agape.

Master Huiyun is even worse.

He even burst into tears and knelt down in the direction of the gap, chanting Buddhist scriptures continuously.

After a while.

Only then did everyone react from their state of complete confusion.

Cheng Fang suppressed the joy in his heart: "Move towards the gap!"

Everyone began to move towards the gap.

Wangshan ran the dead horse.

I originally thought the distance was not too far, but when we actually started walking, it took us nearly three hours to reach the gap.

The sun has set.

The moon rose.

The silver moonlight shines, and it is another scene.

If the gap under the sunlight just now was like the golden light above the head of Tathagata Maharaja, then the gap at this time is like the radiance of Guanyin in the South China Sea.

The gap is very large.

We rode in on camels, and after only half an hour of walking, Cheng Fang and others suddenly went crazy.

Because there is a large abandoned city ahead.

Strictly speaking.

It is the ruins of a city.

Because we can only see a small number of buildings exposed outside, they are not high, the highest is no more than two meters, and the short ones can only reach the knee level.

no doubt.

This is the effect of the long yellow sand.It can be inferred that most of the buildings under the yellow sand must have weathered and collapsed.

What is left exposed outside the sand is nothing more than a corner of the city walls, palaces and other tall buildings at that time.

Rao is so.

The scene is still shocking.

These few remaining buildings exposed on the sand surface are ruined, simple and vigorous, half hidden in the moonlight, half like sprouting bamboo shoots, exposed in front of us, still half-hiding their faces with a pipa, they seem like a silent old man, Quietly waiting for the arrival of our group of uninvited guests.

Cheng Fang immediately got off the camel and started running towards the ruins of the city.

The few of us couldn't get excited at all. We watched them run to the edge of the city and were extremely excited, shouting and even hugging each other. We felt indescribable bitterness in our hearts.

Because we saw the lintel of the city wall that had collapsed in half in front of us. There was a faint word "Zi" on it, but the other word "turtle" was missing. Maybe it had weathered after it broke.

Our culture!
Our treasure!
It was once so magnificent, mysterious, and charming, but then disappeared, hid, and lurked in the desert for many years, quietly waiting for us descendants to uncover its veil, explore its secrets, and enjoy its feedback...

But now.

It was actually found by Xiang Liu's people with the help of a "Notes on the Seventh Palace".

It's really sad.

Without any choice.

The few of us had no choice but to follow Cheng Fang and others who were already in a frenzy.

Seeing the dilapidated city wall that was no taller than a person, it was vaguely visible that there were many scriptures engraved on it. Under the moonlight, it exuded an ancient light.

Imagine.

Many years ago, the enthusiastic Buddhist culture enthusiast named Qigong suddenly saw people living peacefully in the Qiuci Buddhist Kingdom in the desert under the shining Buddha light, which seemed like the end of the world. How did he feel at that time!
It is also conceivable.

After the fall of Kucha, the King of Kucha went through many hardships. He led a group of monks and people to travel thousands of miles to the depths of the desert, found an oasis, and overcame all obstacles and hardships to build a true kingdom for Kucha. This is a Buddhist country outside the world for monks and people!

More precisely.

It should not be called a country.

It should be called Kucha Buddha City.

Due to the restrictions of the special environment of the desert, it has no other territory and is just a small, isolated and peaceful town.

Before we set off, Xia Xi once quoted Morgan: "The Tarim River Basin is the cradle of world culture. The key to world culture is lost in Taklimakan. If you find this key, the door to world culture will open."

at this time.

I have a deeper understanding of this sentence.

How many dazzling cultural jewels like the ancient Buddhist kingdom of Qiuci are hidden in the vast Taklimakan Desert?

Completely impossible to fathom.

Master Huiyun kept kowtowing and murmuring something unknown. Step by step, he came to the city gate, which was mostly buried under the sand. He leaned forward, his hands trembling, and he rubbed it repeatedly. With that powerful word "Zi" hanging around, his expression was extremely pious and solemn.

Xiang Liu's people are already happy now.

Cheng Fang turned around and said: "Master Huiyun, you are the top expert on Buddhism in the Western Regions. From now on, your task is to copy and translate all the exposed scriptures above!"

(End of this chapter)