Seeing that I didn't move, Mr. Xu turned his head and looked at me. A cold light flashed in his eyes, but it disappeared again in an instant.
Mr. Xu smiled slightly and said, "Young Master Hu, what's wrong?"
I also smiled and said, "Mr. Xu, even if you die, you have to at least let me be a sensible person, right?"
Mr. Xu smiled like the cunning old fox. He nodded slowly, and then thought for a while before saying: "Young Master Hu, you are right! We are going to the place where your father disappeared. Place—Zuiye Ancient City!”
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The ancient city of Suiye is a commercial castle built by the Sogdians in the 5th century AD, that is, around 400 AD.
After that, the Turks rose up in Jinshan. According to historical records, they probably occupied Suiye City in the area around the present-day Altai Mountains.
In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the Turks split into East and West Turks. The West Turks, with Suiye City as their capital, submitted to the then powerful Tang Dynasty.
In the first year of Zhenguan, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, which was 627 AD, Master Xuanzang passed through Suiye City on his westward journey and met Yehu Khan, the then Western Turkic ruler, and received his warm hospitality.
Xuanzang stayed in Suiye City for a few days and then continued westward. The Khan and his ministers sent him ten miles away.
There was nothing unusual about this, and everyone thought it was just an ordinary official meeting. However, who knew that Xuanzang wrote "Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty" after returning to the Tang Dynasty.
Such an incident was mentioned in "Journey to the West of the Tang Dynasty", which aroused countless speculations from later generations.
"Journey to the West of the Tang Dynasty" records this: "We traveled more than four hundred miles from Lingshan to Daqingchi... We traveled northwest from Qingchi for more than five hundred miles to Suiye Shuicheng. The city was six or seven miles away, and merchants and barbarians from various countries lived together. It was peaceful. Yehu Khan loved money and treasures, and showed the Buddha's secret treasure in front of the monks. The monks sighed at the surprise of the most precious treasure in the world, and then left. After traveling more than a thousand miles to the northwest, they suddenly heard a roar that resounded through the sky and the earth, wild sand filled the sky, and black clouds Covering the sun, it's like purgatory, only three days to rest! On the way back, we turned back to Suiye Water City, which was gone and in ruins. Tens of thousands of people were lying dead in the streets, it was like purgatory! The four sides of Suiye Water City were all sand dunes. , the sand is full of emeralds."
In addition, it is also recorded in "The Biography of Tripitaka Master Daci'en" that Xuanzang met Yehu Khan of the Western Turks in Suiye City and saw the secret protection of the Buddha shown by the Khan.
However, what is different from "Journey to the West of the Tang Dynasty" is that there is another thing mentioned in "The Biography of Master Tripitaka of the Great Ci'en", that is, among the people who went out of the city to the west with Master Xuanzang that day, there was another person. A young man who could understand Chinese accompanied him. According to records, on the way back, the young man found half of the Buddha's secret treasure in Suiye City, and then put it in a box and brought it back to the Tang Dynasty.
What is strange is that there is no record of this young man in all the documents of the Tang Dynasty.
It was not until more than a hundred years later, in 773, that historians accidentally saw the words "Xuan Zang's Secret Treasure" again in a document called "Nanzhao Guangzhilu".
These things were read to me by the girl named Yu'er along the way.
A black cloth bag was put over my head, and I couldn't see anything. I could only hear Yu'er's soft and sweet voice.
Yu'er paused, then cleared her throat, and continued in my ear: "The Suiye City we are going to this time is an important town established by the Tang Dynasty in the Western Region. It is the furthest fortified city in the Western Region of any Chinese dynasty. It is a border city and an important town on the Silk Road."
I smiled slightly when I heard this and said: "Western Regions... Silk Road..."
When Yu'er heard what I said, she couldn't help but stop the explanation and asked: "Master Hu, do you have any questions that you don't understand?"
I shook my head and said, "It's nothing. I'm just absolutely interesting. These are the places my grandfather told me about when I was a kid. Now it seems like I have to go there myself."
I smiled bitterly twice, and then said to Yu'er: "It's okay! I just want to express my feelings, Miss Yu'er, you continue..."
Yu'er seemed to nodded slightly, and then the soft voice sounded again.
Just listen to Yu'er say: "Suiye City, together with Qiuci, Shule, and Yutian, were called the 'Four Anxi Towns' in the Tang Dynasty. In the 14th year of Zhenguan, which is converted to the current time, which is 640 AD, the Tang Dynasty established the Anxi Protectorate The Mansion governs four towns including Suiye. In the first year of Emperor Gaozong's transfer to Lu, which was 679 AD, King Fang Yi, the governor of Anxi, re-planned and built large-scale Suiye City based on the capital Luoyang."
Before Yu'er finished speaking, an old man next to him suddenly said, "It was during this construction that Ye Hu Khan accidentally found something underground that he had never expected in his life."
The person who spoke was naturally Mr. Xu who took me into the black Mercedes-Benz business car.
Mr. Xu is very good at telling lies. When he said this, he paused deliberately, and then asked in a protracted tone: "Do you know what that is?"
I shook my head and said with a smile: "Mr. Xu, if you don't talk about storytelling, your eloquence is really in vain. I said you should stop selling it. What on earth is that chamber pot Khan digging under Suiye City? What kind of treasure happened?"
When Yu'er heard what I said, she couldn't help but laugh out loud, and said with a sweet smile: "It's Ye Hu Khan. Not some chamber pot Khan!"
I smiled and said: "Yes, yes! It's Ye Hu, not a chamber pot, not a chamber pot!"
Mr. Xu didn't talk to me. He thought for a while, and then suddenly asked me inexplicably, "Master Hu, do you know the Sifang Temple of the Western Regions?"
When I heard Mr. Xu suddenly mention the words "Sifang Temple", I was startled.
I thought for a while and then said: "What you are talking about is that since the 33rd Zangpu revitalized Buddhism, the people of Tibetan areas have made Lhasa the center of the snowy area, and at the same time, Mount Kailash, Mordo Mountain, Kampot Ri The sacred mountain and Nyenchen Tanglha Mountain are regarded as the four sacred mountains. They fit together like a palm, holding the pearl of Lhasa in the palm of the hand. The Jokhang Temple is located in the center of the old city and is the Zhengxin Temple. There is the oldest Samye Temple in the east. In the north is Chonggu Temple in Nianqing, in the west is Pabangka, and in the south is Sakya Temple. These four temples are now known as the Sifang Temple."
Mr. Xu did not interrupt. After listening to what I said, he stretched out his hands and patted them a few times, and said with slight appreciation: "Among the younger generation, the knowledge of the young master of the Hu family is really quite good. However, what you said It’s the New Sifang Temple, and I’m talking about the Old Sifang Temple.”
I asked in surprise: "Old Sifang Temple?"
Mr. Xu nodded and said: "That's right! The world only knows about the New Sifang Temple, but they don't know about the Old Sifang Temple. As you said, among the New Sifang Temples, there are Samye Temple, Chonggu Temple, Pabangka, and Sasha Temple in the south. Jia Temple, their location is due south, north, east, and west. But the real Sifang Temple is not like this."
I said in surprise: "That's not true? You mean, the old Sifang Temple is not in the right position, but in the southeast, southwest, northeast, and northwest?"
Mr. Xu sighed with satisfaction: "The children can be taught! However, the fourth child did not deviate too much from the original position. They only deviated 30° from the original position."
I asked in confusion: "But why are there no records about the Old Sifang Temple in any historical documents?"
Mr. Xu thought for a while and then said slowly: "Because when the Buddha was first exterminated in Tibetan areas, all the documents about the Old Sifang Temple were burned together with the four oldest temples, and the paragraph about them The story only remains in the mouths of Tibetan singers and poets."
Mr. Xu paused suddenly when he said this, and then coughed twice. I couldn't see what he was doing, but I could clearly hear him taking out a bottle from his arms, and then pouring out similar pills from the bottle. Take it with water.
After a while, Mr. Xu took a deep breath and said to Yu'er: "Yu'er, I'm tired, please finish what I'm going to say next!"
Yu'er responded crisply, then turned to me and said: "In fact, the Sifang Temples that have always been in the hearts of people in Tibetan areas are the four temples left on the four sides of the Holy Mountain when the Great Dharma King attained enlightenment and first preached his teachings. They are not extreme. The East Pole, the West Pole, the South Pole, and the North Pole follow the concept of geographical knowledge in the Buddhist scripture "Kalachakra" and take the folds in the ten-thousand-character cycle of reincarnation. According to the Nyingma scriptures, these four temples are called Dangra Gonpo and De. It is speculated that these four names should represent the Jiangzhen Gejie Temple in the northwest, Gesarakang Temple in the southwest, Buqu Temple in the northeast, and Seji Temple in the southeast. Lacan.”
After listening to Xue'er's words, I asked in surprise: "But what does this Sifang Temple have to do with Broken Leaf City and that chamber pot?"
Xueer said word for word: "Because when Yehu Khan renovated Broken Leaf City, what he dug out of the ground was not something, but a temple."
I was surprised when I heard this: "The chamber pot dug out a temple from the ground? Could it be that what he dug out of the ground was one of the old Sifang temples?"
Xueer said: "Binggo! What Yehu Khan dug out from under Suiye City is the real Western Temple Gesarakang. In other words, the Suiye Ancient City we are going to was actually built on the Western Temple The city above Gesarakang.”
After listening to Yu'er's words, I said slowly: "I see. In other words, you and our old man risked their lives in this so-called Suiye Ancient City just for the Buddha's secret treasure recorded in the literature, right? "
Mr. Xu sighed and said, "That's right! Not entirely right!"
I said doubtfully: "Oh? Mr. Xu, what do you mean by that?"
Mr. Xu smiled and said: "The head of the Hu family may be looking for Suiye City just for the secret treasure of the Buddha that is being taught, but we are not entirely here for the secret treasure. We are still here for something else."
I asked, "Something else? What else?"
Mr. Xu smiled and said: "Of course it's for the green gemstones recorded in the literature!"
